FPI / October 24, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher America is in danger of losing the “second race to the Moon,” a prospect apparently rejected by President Donald Trump, so National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) acting Administrator, and Transportation Department Secretary Sean Duffy, on Oct. 20 injected new competition into the U.S. Moon architecture. […]
FPI / October 17, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During the Cold War there was the perceived “bomber gap” between the United States and the former Soviet Union, followed by a “missile gap.” Decades down the road in the current United States-China Cold War, the U.S. should be planning a response to a looming potential […]
FPI / October 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher What part of America’s “race” with China back to the Moon is most important? • That the U.S. demonstrate strong leadership of the democratic coalition of space faring nations by meeting its 2027 plans to return, beating China ‘s plan to get there before 2030? • […]
FPI / October 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the 1970s China has assisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapon and nuclear missile buildup that could soon include intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) — according to the former Biden Administration that sanctioned involved Pakistani companies in December 2024. A Pakistani ICBM capability makes little sense in relation to […]
FPI / September 26, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In 2024 China exported about 1.3 million electric vehicles (EVs) or about 40 percent of the world market for EVs. One major Chinese EV manufacturer, Geely, via its subsidiary Geespace, is populating its GEESATCOM broadband-communication satellite constellation, that in an Aug. 10, 2025 press release marking […]
FPI / September 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher There is now a race involving government funded programs and universities to reach the asteroid Apophis, a 375-meter diameter asteroid only discovered in 2004 but that will reach a nearest distance of 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) from Earth on April 13, 2029. But it is also […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2025 Real World News In a reversal of a Biden-era decision, President Donald Trump on Tuesday said U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama instead of Colorado. “The U.S. Space Command headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known from […]
FPI / August 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the evening of Aug. 26, 2025 the tenth test flight for Elon Musk’s massive 5,000 ton SpaceX Starship space launch vehicle (SLV) completed a just-over an hour test flight that achieved its mission agenda, but after two delays, one mechanical on Aug. 24 and one […]
FPI / August 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On its new specially-built launch platform at the Wencheng Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island, on Aug. 15, 2024 the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) conducted the first successful static test of the first stage of the Long March-10 (LM-10) space launch vehicle (SLV) […]
FPI / August 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The second race to the Moon, this time between the United States and China, saw another step in China’s favor on Aug. 6, 2025, when a full-scale powered version of China’s manned Moon lander called Lanyue (for Embracing The Moon) reportedly achieved its first powered test. […]
