Sharing an international panel with Steve Durst at IAF-ISRO GLEX 2025. The objective was to stop the countdown clock 33 seconds prior to launch, about the same time the rocket would take control of ...

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Welcome to the 250th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! 🚀🌕 One small step: About two months ago, Moon Monday crossed 10,000 subscribers. I did not announce it until now because I wanted to ...

Like last year’s overview of a happening 2024 in global lunar exploration, I present to you a comprehensive, curated, and contextualized linked rundown of lunar technology and science developments ...

This century has seen countries worldwide explore our Moon with new and varied technological capabilities. In recent years, Japan’s SLIM spacecraft achieved the world’s most precise robotic lunar ...

NASA announced that on the future crewed Artemis IV Moon landing mission, the astronauts will deploy two competitively selected scientific payloads costing $25 million each. These are: A graphic ...

A complicated question to answer for a controversial flight intended to advance India’s grand ambition of indigenously sending humans to space. Note: Shukla has become the first Indian national to ...

Seven uni-verses is a pamphlet of poems dedicated to humanity’s exploration of the universe. There’s nothing quite as bold and beautiful as committing to venturing the brutal colossal desolation that ...

Here are all notable articles and blog posts I’ve published on India’s largely successful—but also very opaque—space program, including all of its planetary missions. I keep updating any evergreen ...

The LVM3 captured by rocket photographer Dheeraj Khandelwal as it emerged out of the clouds during its launch of Chandrayaan 3. Images: Chandrayaan gallery by Dheeraj ...

A panorama from China’s Chang’e 6 lander on the Moon’s farside, showing one of its legs and the scoop sampling arm near its surface digs. Image: CNSA / CLEP Shadows of Firefly’s Blue Ghost Moon lander ...

A space mission is an immensely complex undertaking. Hundreds to thousands of experts from several distinct fields come together to build the thousands of parts and functions of a spacecraft. To ...