Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of August 19, 2024:
Human Space Exploration:
Space Science
Opinion
- The new Moon race: Assessing Chinese and U.S. strategies
The Space Review (8/19): China has essentially embraced a Cold War style approach to establish a human International Lunar Research Station on the Moon in the 2030s, while the U.S. has embraced a commercial and internationally partnered strategy with the Artemis program. Artemis faces risks, including insufficient congressional funding, commercial failures and gaps in communications and situational awareness technologies, according to an assessment from James Clay Moltz, a Naval Postgraduate School professor and author of Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space. “Fortunately, the evidence so far is that the United States is building a more powerful and enduring coalition for sharing costs and pooling capabilities, which should serve it better than China’s largely self-contained and self-funded program,” he notes.
Other News;
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Upcoming by the end of this week or early next week is a decision by NASA on how to best conclude the Boeing CST-100 Starliner CFT mission. The astronauts will either descend to Earth aboard the Starliner or remain aboard the ISS until February for a return to Earth with two SpaceX NASA Crew-9 mission astronauts.
- Billionaire Jared Isaacman’s second four-person private astronaut mission is looking to an August 26 launch for an up to five-day orbital mission that is to feature the first private astronaut mission spacewalk.
- On August 28, the Mitchell Institute will celebrate the 5th anniversary of the re-establishment of the U.S. Space Command.
- Also on August 28, NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Committee will host a virtually accessible NASA Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate discussion on the agency’s evolving Moon to Mars Strategy and Architecture.
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