Updates about the exploration, economic development, and scientific investigation of the Solar System, Galaxy, and Universe beyond our planet
Harvard Scientist Says Space Exploration Uplifts and Gives Meaning to Humans’ Lives May 25 (EIRNS)–In an interview with The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech, on Fox News’s “The Ben Domenech podcast,” Harvard professor Avi Loeb, a renowned theoretical physicist, former chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, and author of the book “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligence […]
China Points to Promethean Nature of Space Exploration–“To Light Up Human Civilization” May 18 (EIRNS)—At Monday’s Foreign Ministry briefing, spokesman Zhao Lijian responded to a comment about the fact that NASA and Russia had congratulated China for landing its first rover on Mars, with a report about the many congratulations it had received from many […]
April 29, 2021 (EIRNS)–With the successful launch today of the Tianhe core module of its space station, China begins to carry out the third phase of its manned space program. That series of missions was a 30-year program, culminating in the operation of an Earth-orbiting space station in 2020. The first phase had the goal […]
NASA’s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Sets New Records! April 25 (EIRNS)—NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter had a third outstanding test flight on Mars—it lifted off at about 1:30 am EDT (12:33 pm Mars Local Time), rising to an altitude of about 16 feet (5 meters), which was the same as its second flight—but then, it {really} took off! […]
April 23 (EIRNS)–The core module of China’s space station, Tianhe, has been mated to its Long March 5b rocket, and the entire stack has been moved to the launch pad at the Wenchang launch base. No date has been announced for the launch, but it will be ready to launch as soon as the rocket […]
UAE Takes Another Cosmic Step: 2022 Planned Moon Landing April 18 (EIRNS)–On April 14, mission team members announced that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Japanese space company {ispace} will collaborate to land the UAE’s robotic Rashid moon-rover on the surface of the Moon in 2022, via the HAKUTO-R lander. This will be the […]
U.S. Should Work With China in Space, Says Nominee for Number Two NASA Spot Apr. 18 (EIRNS)–The President intends to nominate former astronaut Pamela Melroy to the second spot in the space agency, Deputy Administrator, the White House announced on April 16. Melroy, who was on Biden’s transition team for NASA, was the second woman […]
Putin Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Gagarin First Human Space Flight April 13, 2021 (EIRNS)—On April 12, the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight of Yuri Gagarin and Cosmonauts Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the city of Engels and held discussions on the development of the Russian space industry. Putin was accompanied by […]
Brazil’s Monitor Mercantil Covers the Schiller Institute Statement ‘President Alberto Fernández to China, Ibero-America to Mars’ April 13, 2021 (EIRNS)—Brazil’s Monitor Mercantil, a political analysis daily widely read in leading circles in that country, yesterday published a short article headlined: “Argentina Will Sign a Belt and Road Partnership with China.” It reads: “Argentine President Alberto […]
Schiller Institute Statement: President Alberto Fernández to China; Ibero-America to Mars! April 10 (EIRNS) — {The Schiller Institute today issued the following statement in Spanish for broad circulation in Ibero-America and Spain. Below is the English-language version.} The upcoming May 2021 trip to China by Argentine President Alberto Fernández, in which he is scheduled to […]