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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of September 24, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan to end record-breaking mission; Rubio: “It’s good to be home”
- Chinese astronauts may build a base inside a lunar lava tube
- NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, two cosmonauts return to Earth after U.S.-record year in space
- Lack of SLS rockets limit NASA Artemis manifest
- NASA to assist Colorado company Special Aerospace Services to develop Astronaut Maneuvering Unit
- SLS booster segments for Artemis II arrive in Florida
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 80 Onward to the stars with astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz and VASIMR
Space Science
- Japan and India plan 2025 moon mission to hunt for water near the lunar south pole
- NASA to address concerns about Mars Sample Return mission’s ‘unrealistic budget’
- Launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission slips a week due to spacecraft issue
- NASA picks museums to display OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu samples
- It’s official. No more astronomy at Arecibo
- Einstein right again: Antimatter falls “down” due to gravity like ordinary matter
- Radio telescope will launch to moon’s far side in 2025 to hunt for the cosmic Dark Ages
- This week’s harvest moon will be the last supermoon of the year
- A capsule’s fall marks the start of Asteroid Autumn
- New AI algorithm can detect signs of life with 90% accuracy. Scientists want to send it to Mars
- Gaia is now finding planets. Could it find another Earth?
- NASA’s Perseverance rover sets record for longest Martian drive without human review
- OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid sample lands in Houston (photos)
- Chandrayaan-3: Hopes of moon lander reawakening dim as India awaits signal
- Historic OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples successfully return to Earth
Other News
- How to See the `Ring of Fire’ Annular Solar Eclipse of October 14
- These solar-powered, origami-inspired robots can change shape mid-flight
- Eutelsat completes multi-orbit OneWeb merger after shareholder vote
- Rogers Demands Air Force IG Investigation of US Space Com HQ Decision
- FAA closes New Shepard mishap investigation
- Private astronaut to attempt record skydive on September 28
- Sierra Space raises $290 millions
- Space Force chief says commercial satellites may need defending
- Charity Weeden is NASA’s new policy chief
- U.S. Space Force and Astroscale to co-invest in a refueling satellite
- House Speaker introduces bill to extend commercial spaceflight regulatory learning period
- Green comet Nishimura survives its superheated slingshot around the sun. Will we get another chance to see it?
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- With the landing of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample canister with material from the asteroid Bennu in Utah on Sunday, the asteroid bounty will be flown by a U.S. Air Force C-17 from Utah to Houston’s Ellington Airport on Monday for delivery to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC). At JSC, the materials will be preserved with a curation strategy intended to prevent any Earthly contamination.
- . In Washington, much drama continues to surround the U.S. House and Senate as the October 1 start of the 2024 federal fiscal year begins with neither a budget nor a continuing resolution (CR) yet in hand. A government shutdown may loom.
- Early Wednesday, Russia’s Soyuz MS-23 is set to depart the International Space Station (ISS) to return to Earth with a parachute assisted descent into Kazakhstan with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin after an extended 371-day space mission. That is a new record for an American. On September 11, Rubio surpassed the previous 355-day record set by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei on March 30, 2022. The Soyuz MS-23 landing in Kazakhstan is planned for Wednesday at 7:17 a.m. EDT. NASA will provide live coverage over NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/nasalive beginning at 3:30 a.m. EDT, starting with the Soyuz MS-23 undocking from the ISS. Following post landing medical checks, Rubio will be flown by NASA to JSC in Houston, where he trains and lives, to reunite with his family.