by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The U.S. astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station in June via Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may end up hitching a ride home with Elon Musk’s SpaceX amid concerns over whether the Boeing craft can safely return the astronauts to Earth. Although Boeing has vouched […]
FPI / August 7, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A curious article from the 2023 volume of China’s Journal of Deep Space Exploration (JDSE) appears to compare the merits of two modes of transport to the Moon, direct ascent with a super heavy space launch vehicle (SLV) versus a relay system using a small space […]
FPI / August 2, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is heating up its race with the United States to dominate the Moon by proposing to increase its “Moon coalition” and by moving ahead with its initial Moon architecture. On July 21, in coordination with the United Nations’ designation of July 20 as International Moon […]
FPI / July 23, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While the ongoing and unpredictable United States presidential campaign promises to highlight partisan political divisions on numerous issues, the last decade has seen U.S. space policy tending toward a basic consensus stressing three pillars that can be credited, two to Republicans and one to Democrats. What […]
