Zoë Schiffer: Right. I love how you said that. Yeah, basically, if you want to potentially try and curry favor with Trump, you buy into one of these schemes, and maybe you’ll get invited to a fancy crypto dinner, which has happened before. Maybe you get something else. But even just the optics here are…
Blue Origin, led by Jeff Bezos, is gearing up for a landmark mission to Mars, set to launch NASA’s ESCAPADE probes aboard the New Glenn rocket on September 29, 2025. This will mark Blue Origin’s first interplanetary flight and is notable because it precedes any Mars-bound mission from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, whose Starship is still…
Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth on Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego, to wrap up a five-month mission to space. Strapped into SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance, commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov…
Four outgoing International Space Station crew members undocked from the lab complex Friday and set their sights on a Pacific Ocean splashdown Saturday to close out a 148-day mission. Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov bid their station crewmates farewell, floated into the SpaceX Crew…
NASA interim Administrator and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon, marking his first major policy move at NASA, Politico reported, citing internal documents. First reactor on the Moon by 2030 While NASA has long discussed the potential of nuclear energy on the lunar surface, Duffy’s…
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Right now, lawmakers in Washington, D.C. have a chance to stop billions of taxpayer dollars from funding organizations in China and Russia. China and Russia received more than $1.3 billion taxpayer dollars for various projects over a 5-year period, according to government watchdog group Open the Books — and that’s only what…
President Donald Trump’s primary Super PAC has raked in over $200 million this year, with the donations ranging from unseemly to objectively funny. Perhaps the most notable donor to the group, MAGA Inc., is Elon Musk, who gave $5 million in late June despite publicly feuding with the president ever since he left his role…
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, has called orbital refueling as the next major engineering hurdle for the company’s ambitious Starship rocket. Speaking at an event, Musk emphasized the complexity of developing a system that allows two massive spacecraft to dock in orbit and transfer propellant—something no one has achieved before. He framed the challenge as…
Nearly 4,000 employees, or more than 20% of NASA’s workforce, have applied to leave the agency, NASA confirmed to CBS News Friday. About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, NASA disclosed. The deadline for applications to the program is midnight Friday. With those deferred…
Windsurf was a rising artificial intelligence (AI) start-up – until it wasn’t. Days after OpenAI’s US$3 billion acquisition deal collapsed, Windsurf’s founders and top researchers joined Google DeepMind under a non-exclusive licensing agreement. What remained was sold to another company. Windsurf, as an independent innovator, ceased to exist. This is how many AI start-ups today…