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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of July 17, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Pew Poll: Americans want space program to focus on asteroids and climate more than human spaceflight
- NASA plans for lunar fission power systems face fiscal challenges
- Here’s how ISS astronauts jettison old Space Station hardware (video)
- Fire-in-space experiment could soon make its way to the Moon
- Venezuela signs up to China’s Moon base initiative
- Nelson’s NASA push in South America
- Former astronaut says it’s “extremely important” to study artificial gravity
- China sets out preliminary crewed lunar landing plan
- Frank Rubio reaches day 300, heads for first U.S. year in space
- Three ongoing missions study human side of Moon and Mars missions
- These 3 Orion spacecraft will carry Artemis astronauts to the Moon (photo)
Space Science
- 2024 will probably be hotter than this year because of El Niño, NASA scientists say
- DART asteroid impact created a 10,000-kilometer debris field of boulders
- Carbon-based molecules seen just a billion years after the Big Bang
- ESA preparing for “assisted reentry” of Aeolus spacecraft
- Astronomers find mysterious, slowly pulsing star
- Did that message come from Earth or space? Now SETI researchers can be sure
- Astronomers discover hint of sibling planets sharing the same orbit
- ‘Internet apocalypse’: How NASA’s solar-storm studies could help save the web
- NASA starts building ice-hunting Moon rover
- Russia’s Luna-25 Moon lander reaches launch site for August 11 liftoff
- ‘Cannibal’ coronal mass ejection that devoured ‘dark eruption’ from sun will smash into Earth on July 18
- The summer meteor showers of 2023 could be awesome. Here’s how to see them
- Where did the interstellar object Oumuamua come from? Its speed could tell us
- Chandrayaan-3: Second orbit-raising maneuver successfully performed, says ISRO
- The Senate just lobbed a tactical nuke at NASA’s Mars Sample Return program
Opinion
- Return to Tranquility Base first
Coalition Member in the News – Lockheed Martin
SpaceNews.com (7/17): Thursday marks the 54th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing by NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Their landing site, Tranquility Base, was equatorial. NASA’s commercial and internationally partnered Artemis Program is focused on establishing a sustained human lunar presence that includes a base camp at the Moon’s south pole. The region is believed to host resources, including subsurface water ice deposits, that are of value for astronaut life support as well as for production of liquid hydrogen and oxygen rocket propellants. It might be less risky, however, if the initial Artemis landing mission with astronauts, Artemis III, returned to Tranquility, writes Walt Faulconer, a consultant and previous business area executive for civilian space at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and director of strategic planning and business development at Lockheed Martin.
Other News
- How Apollo 11 inspired record-breaking NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (exclusive)
- Space Force to add third NSSL Lane 2 provider, but limited to 7 launches
- A global call for innovation and research: Humans in Space Challenge seeks startups and researchers to pioneer human life beyond Earth
- NASA-Marshall Center Director Jody Singer to retire
- U.K. Parliament committee recommends streamlining launch licensing
- Electron launches seven smallsats in latest step towards reusability
- Industry offers wish list for commercial space legislation
- Space Force to select three providers of national security launch services
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Thursday will mark the 54th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing that delivered NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the surface, the first humans to explore the lunar terrain in person. The U.N. has declared the anniversaries as International Moon Day. A range of gatherings will mark the anniversary of the historic occasion.
- In Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate will be striving to continue efforts to formulate a budget for the 2024 fiscal year that begins October 1 and before they depart on a summer break in two weeks.
- The American Astronautical Society’s (AAS) John Glenn Memorial Symposium starts Monday in Cleveland, Ohio and run through Wednesday with a virtual participation option.