Mars Probes in the news, China Tianwen-1 and UAE Hope Probe both were insterted into the orbit of Mars this week, Submarine missile launch test seen, DARPA and large structures on the moon, NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) the foundational elements of the Gateway, ABL Space Systems will conduct a launch for Lockheed Martin from a new spaceport in the Shetland Islands, fulfilling an agreement with the British government announced in 2018, Progress 76P MS-15 cargo spacecraft undocked from ISS and performed reentry, NASA and 3 partners to search for ice deposits under Mars surface, precursor to humans landing, Did you know the first US astronaut in space, Alan Shephard, had his and his wife's ashes buried at sea, Sierra Nev Corp DreamChaser gets 1st FAA commercial re-entry site license for NASA Kennedy Space Florida, Cape Canaveral Spaceport SLF, Meteorite-crazy celebs morph into rock collectors, NASA SLS received another booster, China's Chang'e-4 and Yutu-2 activities again on the lunar surface, New space podcasts out there, Oh the things astronauts take with them to the moon. Have you heard the story about the peanut that went to the moon and back, AIRBUS gets contract to produce 3 more service modules for Orion spacecraft, Congressional staffers were briefed by the FAA on the SpaceX FAA launch license violation and more, Talk show host Heather Wade has called it quits with The Kingdom Of Nye. Wade announced her departure on her website, Col. Mark Shoemaker, commander of the 45th Operations Group at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station said that the Eastern Range is ready for quicker turnarounds between launches from Florida’s Space Coast, Newspace India Limited (NSIL) PSLV-C51 is scheduled to launch Amazonia-1 and 20 Co-passenger satellites on February 28 2021 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, NASA selects Firefly Space to deliver suite of science and technology demonstrations to the moon, NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SPHEREx Astrophysics Mission to SpaceX.
