Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter during the week of July 5, 2026:
Human Space Exploration
- From the lab to the Moon: Lunar cement alternative survives 6 months on ISS and returned stronger in some tests;
- University team proposed retractable, pressurized tunnels for missions to Mars;
- ‘That’s going to come back and bite us’: Former NASA chief questions Artemis Moon lander plans;
- Artemis II crew member Jeremy Hansen says he’s stepping down from astronaut role;
- NASA chief says agency aiding Blue Origin explosion inquiry: ‘We can’t slow down’;
- NASA releases draft RFP for ISS replacement plan;
- Russia develops ‘Moon training ground’ to train astronauts for lunar missions;
- America at 500: Where will we be in space in 2276?
Space Science
- Galaxy mergers aren’t always obvious;
- NASA’s New Horizons probe just woke up from hibernation 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto. What’s it doing out there?;
- What happens to your brain in space?;
- MIT proposes a verification method for space-based nuclear weapons;
- South Pole Telescope analysis releases new catalog of more than 7,000 galaxy clusters;
- NASA just found a planet ‘hiding’ in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein;
- NASA rover takes a closer look at organic carbon on Mars;
- Older than the Sun: Astronomers find new clues to the origin of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS;
- ‘Acceleration without fuel’: Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth’s magnetic field in 1st orbital test;
- NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope;
- First light, next steps the path forged by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter;
- Astronomers discover a potentially habitable planet just 25 light-years away. ‘This one is exciting’;
- Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe completes flyby of Torifune asteroid;
- Daring rescue mission launches to save a 3,200-pound NASA observatory from an untimely end
Coalition Member in the News – Northrop Grumman;
Other News
- With SpaceX Starship, Japan’s ispace provides ride-share to the Moon;
- Progress at the Cape: New launch pads rise for Stoke, Relativity;
- SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite;
- Astropolitics and the post-Earth economy
Coalition Members in the News – Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman; - U.S. eyes offshore spaceports with first-ever call for industry input;
- A new net-membrane could clean up some tricky space debris;
- NASA and Small Business Administration partner on funding key space technologies;
- NASA tests advanced new Mars rover prototype in the California desert (video);
Major Space-Related Activities for the Week
- Upcoming is the planned July 14th launch of Russia’s Soyuz MS-29 with two cosmonauts, Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, plus NASA astronaut Anil Menon to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a planned eight-month mission.
- In recess, the U.S. House and Senate plan to return to the Capital on July 13, with deliberations regarding a federal 2027 budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, among the priorities.
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