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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of October 29, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- China’s Shenzhou 16 astronauts apparently landed with a ripped parachute (photo)
- ”Let’s go get this done”: Arrival of the first Space Station crew, OTD in 2000
- FAA concludes SpaceX Starship safety review, continues environmental review
- Artemis II moon astronaut says crew is ready for ambitious 2024 mission
- Watch two NASA astronauts conduct fourth-ever all-female spacewalk today
- Chinese space station crew back on Earth
- ‘Too early’ to say which astronaut will command U.K. Space Agency mission with Axiom Space
- Jeff Bezos and NASA’s administrator share a sneak peek at Blue Origin’s moon lander
- Boeing ramps up final assembly to complete Artemis II SLS core stage by year end
Space Science
- Comet H2 Lemmon brightens in early November ahead of expectations
- Astrobotic lander arrives at launch site
- Can humans reproduce in space? Mouse breakthrough on ISS a promising sign
- Scientists will soon find out whether the Lucy mission works as intended
- Did dust from the Chicxulub asteroid impact kill the dinosaurs?
- A nearby kilonova explosion could threaten all life on Earth. But don’t worry, scientists say.
- Rocket Lab plans launch of Venus mission as soon as late 2024
- China set up a tiny farm on the moon in 2019. How did it do?
- Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath the surface
- This is how we could possibly build paved roads on the moon
- New map of ice on Mars could help NASA decide where to send future astronauts
Other News
- China’s iSpace launches and lands rocket test stage
- Virgin Galactic launches researchers to suborbital space on 5th commercial flight (video)
- Senate passes orbital debris bill
- House Appropriators detail FY2024 NASA spending priorities, MSR fares better than in Senate
- Ken Mattingly, who launched to the moon on Apollo 16, dies at 87
- China’s Space Pioneer raise funding for its Falcon 9-class rocket
- Space Force assigns 21 national security missions to ULA and SpaceX
- Sign NASA’s ‘Message in a Bottle’ headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa
- New agreement enables U.S. launches from Australian spaceports
- Get serious, America, says former space agency administrator
- Intuitive Machines delays first lander mission to January
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- In Earth orbit, NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara will embark on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, the first excursion for each of them, to remove a Radio Frequency Group electronics box for future refurbishment and to replace one of 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the orbital lab’s solar power truss. The bearing assemblies enable the outstretched solar panels to track the sun for solar power generation. Delayed from October 30, NASA coverage of the spacewalk over NASA TV and streaming over www.nasa.gov/nasalive is to get underway at 6:30 a.m. EDT.
- The Beyond Earth Institute’s symposium, hosted by the American University Washington School of Law in Washington, D.C., both in person and virtually, is slated for Wednesday and Thursday. The meeting’s focus is “Low Earth Orbit to Living Beyond Earth: Policy Pathways to Space Migration.”
- Also of note, Thursday marks the 23rd anniversary of the start of the continuous human occupation of the now seven-person ISS.
- In Washington, Congress is still deliberating on a budget for the 2024 fiscal year that began on October 1. The current Continuing Resolution (CR), that keeps government agencies operating at 2023 funding levels, expires on November 17.