Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 8, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A curious article from the 2023 volume of China’s Journal of Deep Space Exploration (JDSE) appears to compare the merits of two modes of transport to the Moon, direct ascent with a super heavy space launch vehicle (SLV) versus a relay system using a small […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2024 WORDS OF LIFE Psalm 86 Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; Save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; 3 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I call to you […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 5, 2024 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 ■ New Moon (exact at 7:13 a.m. on this date EDT). ■ The T Cor Bor Watch continues. Have you been checking Corona Borealis overhead these clear evenings? The recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis could erupt to 2nd magnitude anytime this summer. Or fall. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 1, 2024 Many Google users have discovered and posted that the tech behemoth’s “Autocomplete” and search function was omitting suggested results related to the assassination attempt against Donald Trump even as a steady stream of new information about the July 13 incident that could have changed world history has been published […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 30, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is heating up its race with the United States to dominate the Moon, by proposing to increase its “Moon coalition” and by moving ahead with its initial Moon architecture. On July 21, in coordination with the United Nations’ designation of July 20 as International […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 29, 2024 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SATURDAY, JULY 27 ■ Last-quarter Moon (exact at 10:52 p.m. EDT). The Moon, in Pisces, rises around 11 or midnight tonight below the head of Andromeda and the Great Square of Pegasus. SUNDAY, JULY 28 ■ Starry Scorpius is sometimes called “the Orion of Summer” — […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 29, 2024 WORDS OF LIFE Ephesians 6 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 25, 2024 Commentary by Joe Schaeffer @Schaeff55 Though she certainly understands the advantages to be gained from the misperception, Kamala Harris does not pretend to be African American in the same way that Fauxcahontas Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) posed as Native American. For the installed vice president who now appears set […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 24, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While the ongoing and unpredictable United States presidential campaign promises to highlight partisan political divisions on numerous issues, the last decade has seen U.S. space policy tending toward a basic consensus stressing three pillars that can be credited, two to Republicans and one to Democrats. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 22, 2024 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JULY 21 ■ This evening you’ll find that the low Moon forms a huge, nearly vertical line with Altair about three fists above it and Vega the same distance above Altair, near the zenith. ■ Look a finger-width at arm’s length above Altair for its […]