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Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander touched down near the lunar south pole Thursday but may have toppled during landing, jeopardizing its scientific mission. “We’re trying to evaluate exactly what happened in that last bit,” said Tim Crain, Intuitive Mac…
Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander touched down near the lunar south pole Thursday but may have toppled during landing, jeopardizing its scientific mission. “We’re trying to evaluate exactly what happened in that last bit,” said Tim Crain, Intuitive Mac…
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on the moon, making it the first private company to achieve a stable lunar landing without crashing. The craft is carrying various NASA-funded experiments, including a “vacuum to suck up m…
Watch the “Blue Ghost” lunar lander attempt its moon landing.
The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while “The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after…”
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Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this observation from space/science news blogger Robert Zimmerman:
Having now reached lunar orbit in preparation for its landing on March 2, 2025, an engineering test instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar l…
On February 22, 2024, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York updated its list of labor outcomes by major for college graduates. Surprisingly, the data revealed that aerospace engineering is the fourth most unemployed college major, beaten only by fine arts, liberal arts, and art history. Conventional thinking argues that engineering jobs are some of […]
Is the United States Losing Aerospace Engineers? was originally published on Global Security Review.
When the Ukraine war broke out, India implemented a series of policy measures that took the West by surprise. In the United Nations General Assembly, it refused to condemn the Russian invasion and, instead, along with 34 other nations, chose to abstain from the vote. That meant that 4.4 billion people, a majority of the […]
It Is Difficult to Break the Russia-India Link was originally published on Global Security Review.
Is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) a national security organization? The answer matters greatly in the division of labor between government agencies, as well as how NASA should interpret national guidance. The United States’ current National Security Strategy states that an era of “strategic competition” exists, which the recent Joint Concept for Competing […]
Is NASA a National Security Organization? was originally published on Global Security Review.
“Slabs of material from an ancient extraterrestrial planet are hidden deep within the Earth,” argues a new scientific theory (as described by CNN).
“Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions o…
The government of India said on Tuesday that it plans to put an astronaut on the moon by 2040 and build an Earth-orbiting space station by 2035. Space.com reports: On Aug. 23, India became just the fourth nation ever to soft-land a spacecraft — its Ch…