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Now the podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvnMBm69fUo&feature=emb_imp_woyt

"China’s super-heavy-lift rocket awaits state approval, to serve in lunar manned mission around 2030: experts" ...

"Three candidate names for China's Mars rover come out after global poll" http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202103/02/WS603ddaa7a31024ad0baac2d4.html

It is worth noting that there are resources valuable to humans on the Moon. First, it is water ice that can provide the colonists with water....

That’s one reason for companies to get into the business for their own purposes. SLS will never be used for commercial purposes even if it gets used...

I think that without additional qualifications, saying the planet is terraformed makes the question unanswerable since there are too many...

SpaceX gets a $8,499,489.00 USAF Research Laboratory award, "...to refine thermal protection system manufacturing technologies to enable low-cost,...

Lynx used a car engine block as a pump ACES style. A scaled up all liquid would be easier. I wonder if anyone gave thought to rocket design based on...

No podcast this week. It it President Xi puts has support phase 4 of lunar exploration (CE6, 7, 8, and ILRS(moon base)) ...

Yesterday, 1 March, we had more than the entire average rainfall for March in one day. This is not quite as apocalyptic as it sounds as just 26.2 mm...

I was completely baffled at this point. Good thing I read the rest . . . Will you be posting Morty pictures here?

Tonight it is windy night after a day of rain and tomorrow it i going down to -29 with a wind chill in the morning, tonight sitting by the fire and...

You want a toroidal cloud in orbit, of tiny particles of a phosphor. Absorb UV and re-radiates as white light. Space launches would only be...

Watched Finding 'Ohana on Netflix last night. I enjoyed it quite a bit. A definite tribute/homage to The Goonies and the Indiana Jones franchise, as...

Morty the Moose. But it's not his fault. Around 20 years ago,we noticed that instead of the usual lighted deer, someone had a moose. That was...

China Aero & Space Weekly News Round-Up - Episode 21 (15 – 21 Feb 2021) This episode gives some insight into China's future moon base and working...

That would make a lot of sense, it would certainly help on cost and complexity, but who knows if it will happen. It could introduce other development...

This is the USGS website on aftershock forecasts; has some nice graphs of aftershocks over time from various size quakes.

The shift from "SpaceShipThree" to "SpaceShip III" is a bit odd. And they describe it as having a "modular design" and talk about it improving flight...

From the USGS glossary: And this, from the Southern California Earthquake Center (emphasis added): Here's a USGS search of earthquakes...

Okay. I see your argument but I made different assumptions. I’ve thought a bit about possible terraforming techniques, and for a planet too close...

Planetary defense experts use infamous asteroid Apophis to practice spotting dangerous space rocks. Apophis definitely won't hit Earth this month,...

Ignoring what she says about Musk, yeah, Mars is a hellhole, extremely dangerous to visit or even get to. Let robots run over it for a few decades.