Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released a new report assessing the scope and breadth of adversary threats in space.

Virgin Galactic announced today that the lead Spaceship of its next-generation fleet is set to fly to its operations base at Spaceport America, New Mexico on October 28.

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The SETI Institute has designed LaserSETI, technology to keep a constant watch on large parts of the sky, looking for very brief flashes of light.

When it rains space debris.

Earth’s Moon is deserved of wide-spread exploration, far beyond early robotic and human exploration of the lunar south pole – extraterrestrial real estate now within the sights of NASA’s Artemis program, as well as other nations.

It is a troublesome wait-a-minute moment in space.

Reflect Orbital continues to make progress on placing giant mirrors in Earth orbit to produce and sell sunlight after dark.

Russia’s Cosmos-2612 satellite has made a series of maneuvers that have made it almost perfectly co-planar with the radar satellite ICEYE-X36.

There is need to redefine the edge of the solar system.

Work has reached an accelerated mode in readying three Ingenuity-class helicopters for deployment at Mars by NASA’s Space Reactor‑1 Freedom spacecraft.

The suborbital Virgin Galactic’s next generation spaceship is on tap to evaluate sensor systems to collect space weather data during flights.

Late last week NASA launched its request for proposals via its “Commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Destination Contract (CLDC).”

China is planning to open the country’s space station to other countries, intended to transform the orbital facility into a global research platform.

More than 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data – some of it previously unreleased – was released today, posted to NASA’s Planetary Data System.

Hear from the Artemis II crew about impact flashes — bursts of light caused by pieces of space debris hitting the ground — that they saw while they were on the other side of the Moon, during a planned loss of comms.

Earth’s Moon is a historical landmark – a celestial body continually peppered with robotic landers shot from our home planet as well as being an in-your-face world dotted with human footprints planted there by a dozen visiting moonwalkers from 1969 to 197…

Could Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon be pushing the United States to a “Sputnik Moment” – the Cold War ‘heebie-jeebies’ stirred up when the former Soviet Union lofted Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to circle Earth in 1957?

Back on May 20, 2023, an asteroid plowed into Earth’s atmosphere over northwest Queensland, Australia.

Earth’s orbital environment is a finite resource.

As posted by SpaceX, here’s a summary of Starship’s 14th flight from launch to orbit and return to Earth: On Monday, September 28 at 7:48 a.m.

The SpaceX Starship Flight 14 onboard camera imaged an interesting, very high altitude “cloud-like” feature.

This is a wait-a-minute collection of discussion regarding finding life on Mars.

Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame and fortune advises that stronger coordination between the United States and China could avoid potential satellite collisions, one area for bilateral space cooperation.

Commercial biotech research in microgravity got another boost by the expansion of an agreement between Exobiosphere and Voyager Technologies.

No need for a quick spray of Windex to get a clear view of this situation.

The development of China’s Moon-landing spacesuit Wangyu, meaning “gazing into the cosmos,” is progressing smoothly, with dozens of key technologies now in place, said Zhang Wanxin, an expert at the Astronaut Center of China, at an aerospace medical engin…

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is examining wind-formed, long, narrow, large ripples, even performing a wheel scuff on top of an undisturbed ripple.

Moon Base inhabitants take note of a newly discovered crater formed on the lunar surface, the largest, ever found in the solar system.

SpaceX has posted an overview of the 14th flight of Starship.

Last July, there were several events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Viking missions to Mars.

This is a new documentary film that had its world premiere at the 2026 Telluride Film Festival, held September 4-7.

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In classic wait-a-minute style, the European Space Agency (ESA)has released its Space Environment Report 2026 In brief, this chilling report points out that, indeed, Earth’s orbital environment is a finite resource.

Viewed as a major breakthrough in radio astronomy, China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) has detected 156,411 neutral hydrogen sources across nearly half the sky.

Reid Wiseman, commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission in April, led humanity’s first crewed voyage beyond low Earth orbit in 53 years — a nearly 10-day journey that looped around the moon and back.

China’s Tiangong space station has upgraded its in-orbit kitchen.

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NASA is pressing forward on the plan to establish a Moon Base in the lunar South Pole region.

China is making progress on its Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return mission.

Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek by Glen E.

The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated documentarist Nanette Burstein working with co-screenwriter and editor Tal Ben-David, brings to life the story of Carl Sagan.

We are a “planet-based” species – all of us on a spin-filled Earth now housing 8.3 billion people.

Could Earth’s Moon be a witness plate, peppered with extraterrestrial material evidence of past extraterrestrial technology?

The European Space Agency’s Planetary Defense Office/Near-Earth Objects Coordination Center has published the following Imminent Imactor based on 11 observations: Imminent Impactor: CERNQ52 The Imminent Impactors page contains a list of the confirmed impa…