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☆ Andrew McConnell’s portrait of the remote steppe where astronauts fall to Earth
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-30 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago, photographer Andrew McConnell became more enraptured by astronauts’ unceremonious return to Earth. With the help of local photographers, McConnell contacted the crew that intercepts the capsules after their three-and-a-half-hour journey to Earth. A shepherd on the Kazakh Steppe, where Soyuz craft land after their journey from the Earth's thermosphere. Andrew McConnell“This little white car appeared on the horizon, and it drove up to us, weaving through these massive Russian Air Force helicopters that were sitting on the steppe,” McConnell recalled. The Russian space agency Roscosmos now operates a similar facility on its own soil, in Siberia, rendering the Baikonur Cosmodrome increasingly obsolete.

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☆ Donald Trump is clearly trying to shake things up at NASA
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementTrump's choice of NASA Administrator suggests he wants to shake up the agency's status quo. More importantly, though, he's on the cutting edge of the new commercial space age, where private companies are becoming the biggest actors in space. AdvertisementThe nomination, which still has to be confirmed by the Senate, suggests that Trump wants to shake things up at NASA. That's the slow-moving status quo that Trump might aim to shake up. In places like Alabama and Southern California, a status quo NASA fuels the work of legacy aerospace contractors like Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

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☆ Trump nominates billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Ana Altchek | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Isaacman has flown two historic, all-civilian SpaceX missions, with more planned in the future. The man who commanded multiple space missions for Elon Musk has been nominated to lead NASA. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Jared Isaacman, the billionaire and repeat SpaceX astronaut, to be NASA's administrator on Wednesday. The five-day mission took Isaacman and three others further from Earth than anyone has traveled since the Apollo moon missions. That was also a SpaceX mission, called Inspiration4, which Isaacman commanded.

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☆ Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post non-endorsement after subscribers flee and staffers resign
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Jon Passantino | Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder, wrote. “No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. High-profile Post staffers have also publicly expressed their dismay over how the situation was handled and raised questions over the reason for the eleventh-hour decision. “That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.”Hours after Post publisher Will Lewis announced the news Friday, Trump met with executives from Blue Origin, a Bezos-founded spacefaring company. Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision.

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☆ America's X-37B vs. China's Shenlong: Top space planes and their shadowy role in orbital war
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Jeremy Webster/US Air ForceX-37BA space plane is a reusable spacefaring craft that can maneuver in space independently and also fly and glide within Earth's atmosphere. The most well-known space planes are the American Space Shuttle and the Soviet Buran. The program is surrounded in such extreme secrecy that there are no known images of the space plane in its current form. Though the exact start date is unknown, academic models of a Chinese space plane were reported as far back as 2000. AdvertisementOne of the most impactful possible uses of the space planes is as anti-satellite assets.

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☆ China launched a probe to the far side of the moon, stepping up its space race with the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

China launched the Chang'e-6 probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon. AdvertisementChina on Friday launched a probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon, as it stepped up its space race against the US. The Chang'e-6 probe successfully lifted off from China's Wenchang Space Launch Center at 5.37 a.m. It will collect around two kilograms of lunar samples from the far side of the moon for analysis. "People want to know why this happened," Yi Xu, a professor at the Space Science Institute of Macau University of Science and Technology and a member of the Chang'e-6 science team told The New York Times.

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☆ ‘Cabs to get into space’: How this Indian startup wants to revolutionize satellite space travel
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Amy Gunia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But its private sector has played a limited role in space exploration, acting mostly as suppliers and vendors for its national space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). “Very few companies globally are able to make it to orbit yet.”Pawan Chandana, the co-founder of Skyroot Aerospace Skyroot Aerospace Pvt. As Indian space startups mature over the coming years, he expects the government to become a customer, enabling further growth. Many private space companies source income from governments, including Space X, which has raked in billions of dollars from US government contracts. In November 2022, Skyroot Aerospace launched India's first privately built rocket, Vikram-S. Skyroot Aerospace Pvt.

Persons: Vikram, ” Pawan Chandana, “, Pawan Chandana, Narendra Modi, ”, Susmita Mohanty, Skyroot, Chandana, ridesharing, Kari Bingen, Modi, Mohanty Organizations: CNN, Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO, Elon, SpaceX, Skyroot Aerospace, Skyroot Aerospace Skyroot Aerospace, . Ltd, McKinsey & Company, Economic, ’, LEO —, Vikram Sarabhai, Aerospace Security, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Deloitte, India’s, NASA Locations: India, United States, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Singapore

☆ Sam Altman says he thought Elon Musk would have 'more empathy' for OpenAI's big dreams because it 'wasn't that long ago Elon was crazily talking about launching rockets'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he thought his former cofounder Elon Musk would have had "more empathy" for the AI company's huge ambitions. Altman referenced Musk's spacefaring ambitions with his rocket company SpaceX, while discussing Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI. In his lawsuit, Musk accused the company of violating its nonprofit mission when it partnered with Microsoft. But Musk, Altman said, had at one point wanted to "make OpenAI into a for-profit company that he could have control of." To ClosedAI and I will drop the lawsuit — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2024Altman isn't the only one to have expressed disappointment at Musk's behaviour.

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☆ Investing in Space: Where NASA made cuts in its underwhelming budget request
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Michael Sheetz | In Michaeljsheetz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

CNBC's Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. A year ago, the space agency was seeking budgets of $27.2 billion and $27.7 billion for 2024 and 2025, respectively. Moreover, NASA's budget remains a tiny fraction (less than 0.4%!) But the branch isn't exactly enthused, with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall giving the 2025 request an "acceptable" grade. Space Force's budget has already surpassed NASA's, and the Pentagon is seeking $29.4 billion for the branch in 2025.

Persons: CNBC's Michael Sheetz, what's, Artemis, Frank Kendall, That's Organizations: House, NASA, Congress, Exploration Systems, Planetary Society, Air Force, Pentagon, Space Force, Security, NSSL

☆ The next country to land humans on the moon in the next 10 years 'sets a precedent' for who decides the rules there: US officials
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Their worries were largely directed at efforts by China to forge its own space dominance and land astronauts on the moon in the next decade. "I don't think Artemis 3, the landing mission, is at all realistically scheduled." "I think that China has a very aggressive plan," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on January 9. Its lead-up to the lunar base involves crewed flights to the moon via its Chang'e missions, which China opened to international collaboration in October 2023.

Persons: —, Frank Lucas, Artemis, Lucas, Neil Armstrong, it's, James Free, Mike Griffin, Griffin, Rich McCormick, Bill Posey, Zoe Lofgren, Bill Nelson, Jing Haipeng, Nelson Organizations: Service, Wednesday, National American Space Agency, Business, Chinese Communist Party, Technology, NASA, Artemis, China, Congressional, GOP, Republican, Democratic, Associated Press Locations: China, Oklahoma, United States, Georgia, Florida, Zoe Lofgren of California, Beijing

☆ It looks like China will leapfrog the US in the race to the moon after a fuel leak ruined a pivotal mission
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

China is gearing up to launch a lunar lander within the next few months. The news comes days after a fuel leak doomed a US space mission to the lunar surface. The Chinese mission will attempt the first-ever sample collection from the far side of the moon. AdvertisementA rendering of the Chang'e 5, China's previous lander mission to the moon, on the lunar surface. Another company, Intuitive Machines, is getting ready to launch its own NASA-backed lunar lander, IM-1, within the next few weeks.

Persons: —, Ren Junchuan, Astrobotic's, it's Organizations: Service, China National Space Agency, NASA, Staff, Getty, European Space Agency, Xinhua, Peregrine Locations: China, Xinhua, France, Italy, Sweden, Pakistani

☆ Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is moving to small monthly subscription and has 550 million users
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Among other things, Musk said the social network is "moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system" in order to combat "vast armies of bots. During the livestream, Musk also divulged some new metrics from X, claiming it now has 550 million "monthly users," who generate 100 million to 200 million posts per day there. However, Musk also used it to dispute the perception that his social network is full of hate speech and antisemitism. Before meeting with Netanyahu, Musk also accused George Soros's foundation of wanting to "destroy" western civilization. On Twitter, Musk has repeatedly disparaged trans people, federal regulators, politicians, journalists, whistleblowers, critics of his companies, and short sellers.

Persons: Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk, Netanyahu, George Soros's, Tesla, Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andrew Anglin Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, Artificial Intelligence, Twitter, Israeli, Anti Defamation League, ADL, X Corp, Open Society, Nazi Locations: Washington ,, West, Jewish, Hungarian, American, U.S

☆ See stunning footage captured by India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

... ... and here is how the Chandrayaan-3 Rover ramped down from the Lander to the Lunar surface. The Chandrayaan-3 mission touched down on the moon Wednesday, making India the fourth country to complete a successful soft landing on the lunar surface. pic.twitter.com/PseUAxAB6G — ISRO (@isro) August 24, 2023The lander and rover are expected to function for about two weeks on the moon’s surface. Before Chandrayaan-3, only the United States, the former Soviet Union and China had safely landed spacecraft on the moon. Its successful touchdown also came just days after Russia, attempting its first lunar landing since the Soviet era, crash-landed on the moon’s surface after its Luna 25 vehicle misfired.

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☆ Chandrayaan-3 landing: India could become the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —India is on the brink of a historic attempt to land its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon that could make it only the fourth nation ever to accomplish such a feat. India’s space agency will livestream the landing attempt starting at 5:20 p.m. IST (7:50 a.m. Previously, only the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have completed soft landings on the lunar surface. Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed into the moon on August 19 after its engines misfired, ending the country’s first lunar landing attempt in 47 years. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty ImagesIndia’s mission has taken on even greater significance since Russia’s failed Luna 25 landing attempt.

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☆ Elon Musk says his new AI venture could help us understand why we haven't met any aliens yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said he hopes his new AI venture will solve the Fermi paradox. Elon Musk believes AI will solve the conundrum of why we haven't made contact with aliens. This AI, he believed, would "understand the true nature of the universe" and solve mysteries regarding dark matter, dark energy, and gravity. Much of Musk's interest in the paradox lies in his "concern" that we are the only signs of intelligent life in the universe. "This is why we must preserve the light of consciousness by becoming a spacefaring civilization & extending life to other planets," Musk tweeted in 2018.

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☆ Don't let NASA fool you: The next astronauts on the moon will not be wearing black spacesuits
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA and Axiom Space revealed a new spacesuit for the Artemis moon missions last week. The spacesuit is black, but astronauts have to wear white when they're on the lunar surface. Axiom Space chief engineer Jim Stein shows off the prototype spacesuit in Houston on March 15, 2023. Astronauts can't wear black on the moonThe Apollo moon suits were white for a reason. Axiom's spacesuit prototype looks cool, but we're waiting for the version that will go to the moon.

☆ What happens if you break the law in space — and 3 times people or governments have tested the rules
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In 1967, 112 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty that laid the foundation for international space law. In 1967, more than 100 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty — essentially, the Magna Carta of space law. It also bans one nation from claiming outer space and celestial bodies. Leaders of spacefaring nations signing the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. From destructive missile tests to missing a tax deadline to go on a last-minute mission, here's how space law has been tested thus far.

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