It will all end in flames

Mar 31 from https://arstechnica.com/

This is my third Orion launch, but it feels totally different

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—This will be the third time I have observed NASA’s Orion spacecraft take flight. But with this one, for the first time, am I genuinely hopeful about the future of the space agency and its plans to build a station on the surface of the Moon. The two previous flights, in 2014 and 2022, both felt hollow. NASA, an aging bureaucracy, has repeatedly sought to recapture...

Continue Reading on https://arstechnica.com/

Mar 31 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

How to track NASA’s Artemis II and Orion’s journey to the moon

Humanity is on its way back to the moon’s environs for the first time in half a century after the Artemis II mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida the evening of April 1. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to fly by the moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft — an endeavor known as Artemis II — making them the first people to travel...

Continue Reading on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

Mar 27 from https://arstechnica.com/

No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations

Most elements of a major NASA event this week that laid out spaceflight plans for the coming decade were well received: a Moon base, a focus on less talk and more action, and working with industry to streamline regulations so increased innovation can propel the United States further into space. However, one aspect of this event, named Ignition, has begun to run into serious turbulence. It...

Continue Reading on https://arstechnica.com/

Feb 26 from https://www.technologyreview.com/

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.

First, a NASA rover would land on Mars in a spot that once was potentially habitable—later determined to be Jezero Crater. It would zip about, look for layered rocks of the sort that you’d find in lakes and riverbeds, extract cores of them, and cache them in sealed containers. Then a second NASA spacecraft would land on Mars, receive the rover’s sample tubes (in one of several different ways),...

Continue Reading on https://www.technologyreview.com/

Opposing views

Other publications have chosen to cover this issue differently...

Elsewhere

  1. Substack