Special to WorldTribune, May 8, 2026 Real World News By Geostrategy-Direct, May 5, 2026 By Richard Fisher While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is trying to extend the retirement schedule of the International Space Station (ISS) from 2030 to September 2032, China is confirming plans to double the size of its Tiangong small […]
Special to WorldTribune, May 1, 2026 Real World News By Geostrategy-Direct, April 28, 2026 By Richard Fisher Russia and China are developing weapons for use in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), with Russia suspected of developing nuclear weapons for anti-satellite warfare, while China pursues fighting satellites. For its part, the United States is finally developing space-based […]
Special to WorldTribune, April 17, 2026 Real World News By Geostrategy-Direct, April 14, 2026 By Richard Fisher A recent Chinese engineering journal article provides more insights into China’s “Lanyue” manned Moon landing, which uses a specific Russian-inspired design that could in some circumstances prove hazardous to future residents of the lunar South Pole. This is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 16, 2026 Splashdown! After a successful nine-day mission around the Moon, including the planet’s rarely seen Far Side aka the Dark Side, the Artemis II astronauts returned to earth with a textbook landing in the Pacific Ocean just off San Diego, California. Manned Lunar spaceflight has returned! […]
Special to WorldTribune, April 10, 2026 Real World News By Geostrategy-Direct, April 7, 2026 By Richard Fisher An old Ronald Reagan Cold War joke about the Soviet Union helps to explain the current United States-China information dynamic over their respective space programs. Reagan’s joke, paraphrased, went like this: “An American tells a Russian that the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2026 Non-AI Real World News At 12:41 a.m. ET on Monday, Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, crossed into the Moon’s gravitational influence. It marked the first time for astronauts to enter lunar space in more than half a century. The crew of NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 2026 Non-AI Real World News On its mission around the moon and back to Earth, the crew of Orion spacecraft on Flight Day 4 became the first astronauts in more than 50 years to report flying in deep space. Artemis II was set to enter the moon’s gravitational influence on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2026 Non-AI Real World News America’s first manned mission to the moon since the 1970s, today sets course to swing within about 4,000 miles of the lunar surface on the far side of the Moon before being propelled back to Earth. In addition to NASA’s earlier announcement of plans to […]
Special to WorldTribune, April 3, 2026 Real World News By Geostrategy-Direct, March 31, 2026 By Richard Fisher This week the world will be transfixed by the 10-day Artemis-II lunar circumnavigation mission scheduled for launch on April 1, marking the first return of four humans to the area of the Moon in 54 years, following the […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News April 1, 2026 Four astronauts blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening on NASA’s long-awaited monumental 10-day mission to circumnavigate the moon. The rocket lifted off at 6:35 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission does not include a lunar […]
