Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of March 17th, 2025:
Human Space Exploration
- NASA Examining Options for Another Starliner Test Flight Coalition Member in the News – Boeing;
- NASA Still Mulling Options for Boeing’s Troubled Starliner Coalition Member in the News – Boeing;
- Chinese company targets crewed orbital spaceflight;
- Butch and Suni, with Nick and Alex, Are Home Coalition Members in the News – Axiom Space, Boeing;
- Former NASA Astronaut: ‘We’re a Good 15 Years Away from Going to Mars’;
- Is the Moon in America’s Future?;
- Starliner Astronauts Head Back to Earth Coalition Member in the News – Boeing;
- Fresh Crew Docks at Space Station Coalition Member in the News – Boeing;
- SpaceX to Send Starship to Mars Next Year, Elon Musk Confirms;
- Tiangong Astronauts’ Experiment with AI Robot and More to Kick Off Busy Year for Chinese Human Spaceflight;
Space Science
- The Extremely Large Telescope could sense the hints of life at Proxima Centauri in just 10 hours;
- New evidence that cosmic rays spark lightning
- Massive star explosions may have triggered two mass extinctions in Earth’s past: ‘It would be terrifying.’;
- How Will the Universe End?;
- What Were Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Contributions to Science?;
- Can Any Nearby Supernova Cause a Mass Extinction?;
- The Far Side of the Moon Was Once a Vast Magma Ocean;
- Astronomers Think They’ve Found a Reliable Biosignature. But There’s a Catch;
- Firefly Aerospace Wraps Up Successful Blue Ghost 1 Mission;
- Mars Could Have an Ocean’s Worth of Water Beneath Its Surface;
- The 1st Private Mission to Venus Comes Together Ahead of Possible 2026 Launch;
- James Webb Space Telescope Sees Four
- A Mars chopper mission over glaciers and canyons;
- NASA hails Blue Ghost 1 mission as “proof positive” of CLPS program
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Opinion
- NASA’s asteroid mission to Apophis: Key for Earth’s defense
In an op-ed, former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and Bill Nye note the asteroid Apophis will streak close by Earth on April 13, 2029. As long as a football stadium and traveling at 69,000 miles per hour, disaster would follow if it struck Earth. Calculations say it will not, but the swing by Earth offers an opportunity for a close assessment by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which took on a new mission after dropping samples of the asteroid Bennu off to Earth in September 2023. Bridenstine and Nye urge sufficient funding for the study of Apophis by OSIRIS-REx, which has been renamed OSIRIS-APEX.
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Other News
- U.S. Space Force budget trimmed in full-year continuing resolution;
- Futuristic, ‘alien-like’ nuclear fusion rockets developed in total secret could revolutionize space travel if they actually work;
- Dream Chaser Completes More Pre-Flight Milestones Coalition Member in the News – Northrop Grumman;
- Europe Funds Inflatable Satellite Drag Sail Demonstration;
- A New Company Plans to Prospect the Moon;
- Space National Guard Debate Reignited with Bipartisan Legislation;
- Senate Passes Bill to Avert Government Shutdown;
Major Space Related Activities for the Week of Feb 10th:
- The Crew-9 Crew Dragon capsule is set to depart from the ISS early on Tuesday with a splashdown and recovery planned later in the day, weather permitting.
- It is anticipated NASA will submit an Agency RIF [Reduction-in-Force] and Reorganization Plan (ARRP) this week as required by the White House in a February 11 executive order.
- Wednesday through Friday, the American Astronautical Society (AAS) will host its 2025 Goddard Space Science Symposium near the Goddard Space Flight Center.
- National Space Club’s annual Goddard Memorial Dinner will be held Friday evening in Washington D.C.
- Additionally, the U.S. House and Senate are at recess for the week, except for pro forma sessions.
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