NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has warned that China is using its space program to attempt to take over the moon, a claim the Chinese regime denies. Nelson told German outlet Bild on July 2, “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: It’s ours now and you stay out.”…
NASA Administrator Accuses China of Planning to Take Over the Moon
China Rejects NASA Accusation Over Moon Territory
Top officials from the United States and China discuss reducing tariffs over video conference—but experts say it may not be enough to help China’s trade issues. NASA issues a warning against Beijing, saying it plans to take over the moon in the coming years. But China fires back, accusing the agency of pushing a smear…
NASA Satellite Breaks From Orbit Around Earth, Heads to Moon
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again. It’s been an unusual journey already for the Capstone satellite. It was launched six days…
NASA Hopes New Zealand Launch Will Pave Way for Moon Landing
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. So it is sending up a test satellite from New Zealand. The initial stages of the launch went according to plan late Tuesday, with…
NASA Asteroid Mission on Hold Due to Late Software Delivery
NASA put an asteroid mission on hold Friday, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late delivering its software for navigation, guidance, and control—a…
Australia Launches NASA’s First Ever Mission From a Fully Commercial Spaceport
Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) saw the successful launch of the first of three NASA rockets from the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) on Sunday, marking NASA’s first-ever launch from a fully commercial spaceport and the first-ever commercial launch in Australia. Along with the other two launches scheduled for July 4 and 12, the rocket conducted astrophysics…
NASA: Give Us Back Our Moon Dust and Cockroaches
BOSTON—NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat…
NASA Fuels Moon Rocket for 1st Time in Rehearsal
NASA fueled its huge moon rocket for the first time Monday and went ahead with a critical countdown test despite a fuel line leak. This was NASA’s fourth crack at the all-important dress rehearsal, the last major milestone before the moon rocket’s long-awaited launch debut. The previous attempts in April were thwarted by a fuel…
NASA Inducts 3 Veteran Astronauts Into Hall of Fame
NASA inducted three veteran astronauts into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at a ceremony Saturday at the Kennedy Space Cpmplex in Cape Canaveral. The prestigious award went to astronauts David Leestma, Sandra Magnus and Chris Ferguson “for their outstanding accomplishments in furthering NASA’s mission of exploration and discovery,” the space agency said. Their induction…
NASA Launches New Study Tracking Clues of UFOs
NASA announced on Thursday they are putting a team together to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), commonly known as UFOs. An official promised to share full findings with the public. The move marks the latest efforts of federal agencies to identify and understand potential threats caused by objects with unexplainable propulsion. The study, focusing on…
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