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Mark R. WhittingtonThe Hill |
If Aeolus succeeds, then look for more missions like it from a variety of companies.
Bridenstine’s education, experience and knowledge of space issues, as well as his contacts in Washington, will be important.
The Artemis III crew possesses a mix of training and experience that should help to accomplish the mission.
NASA officials expressed several reasons for making the moon base, in effect, a small city.
Along with Starlink and launch services, the company is relying on AI for near to mid-term growth.
In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet.
Artemis III will now take place in low Earth orbit.
The list is, mildly speaking, breathtaking.
The emotional response to Artemis II is to want to increase all NASA funding, not to slash it.
Only with the rise of China as a hostile space power has the third attempt to return to the moon taken off, with near universal support.
The new technology of AI paired with robotics will actually enhance human capacity to do useful things.
The mission seems to have brought the humans back on Earth together in support and awe of the first voyage to the moon in many decades.
The announcement that NASA would begin work on a lunar base in the 21st century was met with near universal acclaim.
What if Obama had taken a different tack?
It stems from the question of how to deal with the other great space power, the People’s Republic of China.
The 2026 version of the NASA authorization bill that passed out of Senate Commerce is as different from the 2010 legislation as day to night.
The return to the moon, long dreamed of, is a reality and not just an aspiration.
Musk’s vision for cities on the moon and Mars is an attempt to make science fiction a reality.
The two biggest commercial space companies are stepping up.
NASA may wind up renting space at the SpaceX lunar city for its explorers and scientists at less cost than if it built one itself.