Want to go to Mars? NASA is recruiting. Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, consists of “simulated one-year Mars surface mission[s]” located right here on Earth, based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The upcoming mission…
Standing Up Space Force: The Road to the Nation’s Sixth Armed Service By Forrest L. Marion (Naval Institute Press, 289 pages, $82) In two much-publicized novels that envision the next world war, the United States is attacked first in space…
Thursday, March 14, 2024. This morning, as America began its morning commute, the most powerful rocket ever built is poised to hurtle skyward from Elon Musk’s Boca Chica, Texas, Starbase orbital launch platform. The integrated Starship launch system, Booster 10…
The world has rarely seen the kind of turmoil and challenges it faces today. Wars, geopolitical strife, climate change, mass immigration, the culture and politics of “hate,” and so much more shadow our day-to-day lives. It has been a disconcerting,…
“I claim the Red Planet for Red!” Those were Elon Musk’s ringing words when he set foot on Mars in 2047. Having gotten there first, Musk claimed the entire fourth planet for the Red Bloc, the conservative subdivision of the…
On Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. local time, 70 million people watched breathlessly, glued to their screens, as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft hovered over the desolate landscape of the moon’s South Pole. Like a Pac-Man character, the craft was first above the…
India has just pulled off a major scientific feat. It is evidence of what national mobilization can do. There is doubtless rejoicing in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, the site of the launch installation; in Bangalore, home of the Indian Space Research…
The indefatigable Bill Gertz of the Washington Times has a page-one story highlighting a Mitchell Institute report that warns that the United States is falling behind China in “counterspace capabilities” that will be crucial to success in any future war….
We’ve all become accustomed to the calming — almost soporific — euphemisms that arrived with space exploration back in the 1960s. The euphemisms went along with the smiling, stoic bravery of the astronauts. Everything was “nominal,” until it wasn’t. At…
