Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 6, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is trying to extend the retirement schedule of the International Space Station (ISS) from 2030 to September 2032, China is confirming plans to double the size of its Tiangong small space station. Currently, the 450 metric ton […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 30, 2026 In unsettling testimony on April 28 to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. (Ret) Tara O warned: Those in South Korea who are supportive of the communist parties of China and North Korea, and who are anti-U.S., anti-ROK, anti-Japan — are trying to change the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 30, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Russia and China are developing weapons for use in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), with Russia suspected of developing nuclear weapons for anti-satellite warfare, while China pursues fighting satellites. For its part, the United States is finally developing space-based weapons as part of the Trump Administration’s […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 24, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 22 Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) revealed the names of two Pakistani pilots chosen to go to China for advanced astronaut training following on a Feb. 28, 2025 agreement between SUPARCO and the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A recent Chinese engineering journal article provides more insights into China’s “Lanyue” manned Moon landing, which uses a specific Russian-inspired design that could in some circumstances prove hazardous to future residents of the lunar South Pole. This is important because both the United States and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 8, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher An old Ronald Reagan Cold War joke about the Soviet Union helps to explain the current United States-China information dynamic over their respective space programs. Reagan’s joke, paraphrased, went like this: “An American tells a Russian that the U.S. is free because he can stand […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 2, 2026 By Geostrategy-Direct, March 31, 2026 By Richard Fisher Though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears both unwilling and unable to militarily save its ally and proxy the Iranian Islamist-terror regime from near total destruction from an American and Israeli military onslaught triggered by Iran’s nuclear weapons program, China’s propaganda […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 1, 2026 Four astronauts blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening on NASA’s long-awaited monumental 10-day mission to circumnavigate the moon. The rocket lifted off at 6:35 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission does not include a lunar landing but is intended […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 26, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher At the conclusion of his opening for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) epic March 24 morning brief on its Moon program simply titled “Ignition,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated: “This is the moment where we should all start believing again. When ideas become […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 20, 2026 [Excerpted from an analysis by Richard Fisher in the current edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com As of March 16, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs had not yet responded to Trump’s March 15 Hormuz Straits escort suggestion, telling the Financial Times, “China should help too because China gets 90% of its […]
