The SpaceX Starship has launched its second orbital test flight. Which means that America now is about to have two mega-rockets, two of the biggest rockets ever to take to the skies. One is SpaceX’s Starship. The other is NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket. How do the two stack up against each other? The Artemis Moon Rocket’s engines generate
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Wednesday morning at 8:30 am Eastern Time, India landed its first rover on the surface of the moon. It’s called Chandrayaan-3. Which means “moon craft” in Sanskrit. Fourteen hours later, the Chandrayaan-3’s rover rolled out and, said India’s space agency, “took a walk around.” But, unlike America’s rovers on Mars, which keep on trucking for up to
On August 29th, NASA is planning to launch its biggest rocket ever, its 35-story-high Space Launch System. NASA claims this is the rocket that will return Americans to the moon. “Alas,” says Howard Bloom, “that is not true.” In Boca Chica, Texas, a rocket in the testing phase will be able to take 200,000 people
By 2045, China plans on being the leading space power in the world. Yes, THE leading power. And China plans to use its space mastery to boost its position as the center of a “new world order.” A world order in which the “bully,” the United States, is sidelined. And in which China reigns supreme.
According to a leading figure in the defense community, a retired general who prefers to remain anonymous, space can save us from the next Ukraine. Here’s how. Says the general, “Imagine this. At 7:00 AM, Russia moves troops across the border into Ukraine. Fifteen minutes later a pre-loaded SpaceX starship lifts off with a payload