Keith’s note: What are the odds that a tweet by both @ISS_CASIS and @GoldenSpikeCo – tweets that are exactly identical to each other – could be posted simultaneously using the […]
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Posted inCommercialization
Israel-Led Team Leading Google Lunar X Prize Race?
Israeli space cadets say moon shot is no fantasy, Times of Israel “SpaceIL is a nonprofit foundation, and is relying on donations to get into space, explained Margalit. So far, […]
Posted inMoon
A New Look at Old Images
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3121_H1 – Tsiolkovskiy Crater Keith’s note: This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3121_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 19 February 1967 at 19:22 […]
Posted inPolicy
Charlie Bolden's Meandering Strategic Plans
Nasa plan to ‘lasso’ asteroid the size of two buses and turn it into a ‘space station’ to orbit the moon, Daiy Mail “Nasa scientists are planning to capture a […]
Posted inAstronauts
Sally Ride Honored On The Moon
NASA’s GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride, NASA “NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut, […]
Posted inNews
And Today's Dumb UK Tabloid Headline Is …
Keith’s note: The Daily Mail is running with this absurd headline: “Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging […]
Posted inChina
If Chang'e-3 Lands, Google Lunar X Prize Drops by 25%
Summary of Rules and Requirements, Google Lunar X Prize “The competition’s grand prize is worth $20 million. To provide an extra incentive for teams to work quickly, the grand prize […]
Posted inPolicy
Space Goals Worthy of a Great Nation
The Vision for Space Exploration: After the Vision, What Next? (Part 5), Paul Spudis “Many of us working in or with NASA recognized that the 2004 Vision for Space Exploration […]
Posted inExploration
Back to the Moon (Again)?
NASA may soon unveil new manned moon missions, Space.com “The new plans have probably already been cleared with the Obama Administration but have been kept under wraps in case Republican […]
Posted inExploration
More on L2 Gateways
Gateway L-2 Mission: Opening Cislunar Space or Dead End?, Paul Spudis “A recent report by the NASA human architecture team has given us a glimpse of the agency’s thinking about […]