Book Review: Meet the Neighbors – Life on Mars and How to Find It www.leonarddavid.com/book-review-...
Workshop participants were tasked with developing concepts that would enable our nation to achieve the first human missions to the Martian surface no later than the 2030s. Read the full report at: exploremars.org/wp-content/u...
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts: New Award Winners Offer Looks Into the Future of What’s Possible www.leonarddavid.com/nasa-innovat...
Lightning Fast! April 1 Incoming Fireball Charted by Military and Civilian Satellite Sensors www.leonarddavid.com/lightning-fa...
Africa’s First Moonshot: Technology Demonstrator for Radio Astronomy www.leonarddavid.com/africas-firs...
New CAPSTONE Cislunar Mission Okayed – Supporting Moon Operations www.leonarddavid.com/new-capstone...
Curiosity Wheel Deal: Taken by Mars rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Sol 4963, July 23, 2026. Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The thirteenth flight test of the SpaceX Starship is preparing to launch today, Friday, July 24. The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 p.m. Central "Texas" Time. For live coverage, go to: www.spacex.com/launches/sta...
Africa’s Moon Mission: China to Launch Technology Demonstrator for Radio Astronomy www.leonarddavid.com/africas-moon...
NASA’s $70 Billion in Major Projects: What’s on Track—and What’s at Risk? www.leonarddavid.com/nasas-70-bil...
China launched nine satellites aboard a private commercial Gravity-1 carrier rocket from waters east of Shanghai on July 22. Go to video at: www.facebook.com/reel/1817551...
To the Black - offers behind-the-scenes access of Firefly Aerospace rocket scientist Tom Markusic through six years of setbacks, uncertainty, and hard-won victories on an improbable journey from bankruptcy to orbit. Go to video at: youtu.be/IuLpHHGfR0Y?...
Blinded by the Light: A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit would have “devastating consequences for astronomy.” Go to this new paper at: www.eso.org/public/archi...
Viking Mars Missions: Celebrating Success Five Decades Ago…and a Detective Case That Did Not Close www.leonarddavid.com/viking-mars-...
Mars Exploration, Past, Present and Future – Special Panel Presentations www.leonarddavid.com/mars-explora...
Wait-a-Minute! Viking Mars Missions, A Search for Life on the Red Planet Revisited www.leonarddavid.com/wait-a-minut...
Project Able Baker: Use of Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms for Reusable Launch www.leonarddavid.com/project-able...
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman met with Russia’s Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov for the July 14th liftoff of the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. “This was the first visit by the US space agency's leadership in eight years,” noted Roscosmos. Image credit: Roscosmos
China’s Next Moon Landing Mission: Chang’e-7 Targeted for Lunar South Pole in Hunt for Water Ice www.leonarddavid.com/chinas-next-...
