The crew of Artemis II captured what NASA’s chief called an “absolutely stunning” photo of the moon eclipsing the sun, as the spacecraft broke Apollo 13’s 56-year-old record for the longest distance traveled by humans from Earth. “This is not AI,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday….
China’s space program has hit a number of milestones lately. In 2025, China executed over 90 orbital launches, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year. In the last five years, China returned the first samples from the far side of the Moon, completed its own low-earth orbit space station and…
Crew-11 mission astronauts wave as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building en route to launch complex LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 1, 2025. From L/R are Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, NASA astronaut and mission commander Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut…
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the US Senate as the next Administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payment processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great uncertainty under President Trump. Isaacman’s confirmation comes a little more than a year after Trump nominated…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he is re-nominating Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman to lead the country’s space agency NASA, months after withdrawing the nomination. After this there is a reversal weeks of online sniping Elon Musk and others directed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is leading…
