Tag: space exploration

While Everyone Is Talking About Twitter, Musk Released the Most Disruptive Technology Ever Created

Elon Musk has risen to prominence and great wealth by pushing the boundaries of space exploration, satellite technology, electric cars, and now Twitter. However, his most important project is the one that is almost completely unknown: OpenAI. OpenAI is a research organization founded by Musk and Sam Altman in 2015. Their mission was to create…


Will China Shoot Down Explorers to the Moon?

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary “This is not the first time that the NASA administrator has lashed out at China in disregard of facts,” said Zhao Lijian, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, at his July 4 regular press briefing. “Some U.S. officials have spoken irresponsibly to misrepresent the normal and legitimate space endeavors of China. China firmly…


Japan Aims to Put a Person on the Moon by Late 2020s

TOKYO—Japan revised the schedule of its space exploration plans on Tuesday, aiming to put a Japanese person on the moon by the latter half of the 2020s. “Not only is space a frontier that gives people hopes and dreams but it also provides a crucial foundation to our economic society with respect to our economic…


China Plans To Build More Alien-Hunting Telescopes To Win In Space Race, Experts Says Pointless

A Chinese astronomer on Oct. 31 claimed that in 50 years, China would lead the world in space exploration with the expansion of its “Sky Eye” program, a set of telescopic instruments used to observe deep space. “Sky Eye” is a single-dish 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST) with a receiving area of around 30…


SpaceX Awarded Contract to Launch NASA Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa

HAWTHORNE, Calif.—NASA announced today it has awarded Hawthorne-based SpaceX a $178 million contract to launch the first mission aimed at conducting detailed investigations of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, including a search for potentially life-supporting water. SpaceX is expected to employ its Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the Europa Clipper mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida,…


Wally Funk’s Lifelong Journey to the Stars

Commentary Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk always wanted to fly. She had her first flying lesson when she was nine years old and grew up making wooden planes, building treehouses, riding horses, biking, hunting, and fishing. As a young girl growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, Wally recalls, “I did everything that people didn’t expect…


The Man Behind Perseverance and the Mission to Mars

Commentary I’ve been fascinated by space since my earliest childhood, when I would read comic books about Martian invasions of Earth and rockets that took humans to the far reaches of the universe. In the last year, I greatly admired Vice President Mike Pence’s leadership on America’s Moon to Mars mission plans. I reveled at…