Special to WorldTribune, March 4, 2026 Real World News By Geostrategy-Direct, March 3, 2026 By Richard Fisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Isaacman’s Feb. 27 press conference explaining adjustments in President Trump’s Artemis Moon program gave no hint of the war with Iran that started the next day, but in the struggle […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 27, 2026 Real World News By Richard Fisher for Geostrategy-Direct, February 24, 2026 To expand its strategic military reach on Earth and in space, China seeks to export space related infrastructure to advance bi-lateral space relationships, but at the same time seeks military benefits from its “commercial” space sector’s activities. Africa […]
FPI / February 20, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 11, 2026 China began its push to the Moon, testing an early version of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) Long March-10 space launch vehicle (SLV) that is expected to take Chinese astronauts to the Moon in 2029 or 2030. This was […]
FPI / February 13, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For over a decade SpaceX founder and leader Elon Musk has placed an emphatic corporate priority on developing the means — spaceships and associated habitation technology — to build permanent human settlements on Mars. As the 4-astronaut Artemis-II circumlunar mission prepares for its 10-day journey in […]
FPI / February 6, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration maneuvers to block the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) quest for hegemony on Earth — attacking its proxies Iran and Venezuela while arming Taiwan — in January 2026 is its becoming clear that the United States and China are also locked in a […]
FPI / January 30, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the twenty years since its founding in June 2006, New Zealand-born space engineer and entrepreneur Sir Peter Beck has turned his Rocket Lab company into a world-class competitive and innovative space launch provider, meeting civil and military requirements for economical medium-lift capability. An American company […]
FPI / January 23, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the potential to greatly increase the utility and value of building a permanent presence on the Moon, on Jan. 20, 2026 Chinese state media lit up with the news that Chinese scientists had discovered naturally occurring carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in lunar regolith samples returned to […]
FPI / January 16, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan. 4, 2026, Chinese state media reported that a group of 28 Chinese astronauts had conducted a training program in which smaller groups of astronauts would spend six days and five nights training in underground caves in the Chongqing Municipality in Southwest China. The purpose […]
FPI / January 9, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In August 2023 China’s major state-owned space corporation that reliably reflects the vision of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), held a conference in Beijing in which it was revealed that starting in 2020, CASC has been researching how […]
FPI / January 2, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 24, 2025, the United States Department of War issued its annual report to Congress on “China Military Power Report” (CMPR), that since 2000 has constituted the most credible description of China’s growing military produced by any government, especially that of China. The 2025 report, […]
