Space Exploration

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill that commits Russia to work with China on building a moon base.

The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Wednesday that it plans to double the size of China’s Tiangong space station.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced during an ongoing visit to China on Wednesday that he had signed an agreement with Beijing that would, “sooner rather than later,” place a Venezuelan on the moon.

Russia and North Korea confirmed Thursday that communist dictator Kim Jong-un invited Vladimir Putin to visit Pyongyang, and he accepted.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Monday released a global map of Mars, compiled using images from the Tianwen-1 orbiter. The map used the names of Chinese towns and villages for 22 Martian terrain features.

Chinese Communist Party propagandists on Monday rushed to embrace the spirit of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held annually in Davos, Switzerland.

PARIS (AP) – Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe will no longer be attempting this year to send its first rover to Mars, which was to have probed whether the planet ever hosted life.

Private space company SpaceIL announced Sunday it had raised $70 million to send a second spacecraft to land on the moon, after its antecedent crash landed last year.

Jeff Bezos will be aboard for Blue Origin’s first human space flight next month.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday became the latest woman to spend the longest time in space.

TEL AVIV – The moon may have got more than it bargained for when Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crash-landed onto its surface in April, because the spacecraft was also carrying thousands of tardigrades, microscopic “water bears” that can survive almost all environments – including space, a report published Monday by Wired magazine said. 

After its next planned astronaut moon landing, NASA’s Project Artemis intends to land astronauts on Mars, explained NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

The New York Times and Washington Post used the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space flight and moon landing to push a “political knife fight,” said Robert Charles, spokesperson for the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), in a

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday quoted speculation by a Chinese aerospace expert that Beijing could put a man on the moon by 2035.

Prosecutors have reportedly uncovered almost $1.6 billion rubles ($24.6 million) lost to corruption in the Russian space program over the past five years. “There’s no end in sight, billions are stolen,” chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin ruefully declared on Wednesday.

Vice President Mike Pence promised at the Satellite 2019 Conference in Washington, D.C., this week that the first woman on the moon will be an American.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli start-up behind last week’s failed lunar landing said Thursday that it is still investigating a malfunction that caused the spacecraft to plummet to the moon’s surface.

TEL AVIV – Billionaire backer and SpaceIL chairman Morris Kahn announced over the weekend that the team would begin working immediately on Beresheet 2.0 after the first version crash landed on the moon Thursday evening, saying, “We’ll put our flag on the moon.”

Former astronaut and second man on the moon Buzz Aldrin on Thursday tweeted his condolences to the team behind the Beresheet spacecraft which crashed into the moon’s surface during its landing attempt on Thursday evening, saying the project was “inspiring.”

Seven weeks after Israeli spacecraft Beresheet (Hebrew for Genesis) soared into the night sky at Cape Canaveral, Florida, commencing an epic 6.5 million km. journey, it is poised to make history on Thursday evening when it reaches the Moon.

An Israeli team aiming to land a spacecraft on the moon in two weeks can now expect more than glory if it works. How about a cool $1 million?

A hitch in computer systems Monday evening caused an Israeli lunar spacecraft to miss a scheduled adjustment in its trajectory en route to the moon, engineers reported on Tuesday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the moon for the country’s first attempted lunar landing, following a launch Thursday night by SpaceX.

RAMAT GAN, Israel — A nonprofit Israeli consortium said Monday that it hopes to make history this week by launching the first private aircraft to land on the moon.

Sabotage by secret U.S. government forces may be the reason Iran’s satellite program is struggling, according to the country’s foreign minister.

TEL AVIV — Iran has failed its second attempt to launch a satellite into space despite a warning from the U.S. against doing so, satellite images from two different companies showed. 

TEL AVIV – Iran launched a satellite into space despite a warning from the U.S. against doing so, but it failed to reach orbit, an Iranian official said Tuesday. 

Air Force Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast has argued that China is way ahead of the United States in the race to send settlers to space, and they are currently a building a “navy in space.”

NASA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced their collaboration on a moon-orbiting spaceport project on Wednesday.

While profit and national security are key factors in our pursuit of outer space, there is also the innate human desire to strive, to seek, and to find. We are going to outer space because we are curious—and organized curiosity is about as powerful a force as there is in human nature. We are going for the reasons that inspired President Kennedy: because space is there, and because it’s cool. Indeed, those of us who will never go to space should count ourselves as lucky to be alive at a time of renewed exploratory curiosity. We are fortunate to be blessed with sturdy souls—in the public and private sectors—who are willing to take up the challenge of space-questing.

A Deputy Chief of Staff for Space position has been announced by the Air Force to be filled by a three-star general as they push to enhance the visibility of space issues in the Pentagon.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) have announced plans to colonize Mars. The ambitious aim is contained in a statement titled the “Mars 2117 Project” which at its final stage involves building the first habitable human settlement on the red planet by 2117.

SpaceX blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, marking its first return to flight since a costly and complicated launchpad explosion that destroyed Israel’s Amos-6 satellite in September.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The UN Office of Space Affairs (UNOOSA) has invited the Israel Space Agency to cooperate on civilian space matters, the Science, Technology and Space Ministry announced on Wednesday. The signature on the accord was part of Israel

Commercial spaceflight company SpaceX enjoyed a triumphal moment this evening, conducting its first-ever landing of a Falcon 9 rocket on dry land after a successful launch on Monday. Livestreams from SpaceX’s headquarters showed employees breaking into cheers as the rocket touched down

Tim Peake, the first Briton to travel to the International Space Station, blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome with Russian space veteran Yury Malenchenko and Tim Kopra of NASA for a six-month mission. Fire from the boosters of