Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 18, 2025 Whistleblowers who said they were hired by Meta/Facebook to make the platform safer for children testified in a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the social media colossus considers it “acceptable” to engage children in conversations that are “romantic and sensual.” Dr. Jason Sattizahn, who testified he spent six years […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 15, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 ■ Altair is the bright star high towards the south in early evening. Find little Sagitta, the Arrow, barely a fist at arm’s length above it. Now imagine rotating the Arrow on its point a third of a turn counterclockwise. Its middle star […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Just before his trip to the Far East, it was revealed in the Russian media that Vladimir Putin’s space program was in a financial crisis The Russian dictator went to China to help advance its ambitions for global hegemony, at the Aug. 30-31 Shanghai Cooperation […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 27, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the evening of Aug. 26, 2025 the tenth test flight for Elon Musk’s massive 5,000 ton SpaceX Starship space launch vehicle (SLV) completed a just-over an hour test flight that achieved its mission agenda, but after two delays, one mechanical on Aug. 24 and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 11, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, AUGUST 11 ■ Venus and Jupiter shine in conjunction, just 0.9° apart, in the east during early dawn Tuesday morning the 12th. In fact, they rise about an hour before dawn even begins if you have a good flat horizon to the east-northeast. Brilliant celestial cat’s eyes […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Saying the benefits do not outweigh the risks, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is canceling 22 mRNA vaccine development projects. “We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” Kennedy said on Tuesday. Roughly $500 million will be saved […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Robert Morton, August 6, 1978 [Forty-seven years before the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a Tokyo-based correspondent visited the family and neighbors of former journalist Yuji Yokoyama and filed this report.] HIROSHIMA, Japan — Thirty-three years ago today, this city experienced hell as it had […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 31, 2025 President Donald Trump on July 23 signed an executive order banning the federal government from using woke AI systems. Trump’s order creates powerful incentives for developers to produce unbiased AI models. The path to the president’s executive order “began with a simple recognition: AI systems were being trained on […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While it could still be transferred to and operated by a consortium of “private” companies, it appears that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to end its operation of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030, and to thereafter begin operations to deorbit […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The myth that Peace-in-Space can lead to, or even influence the possibility of Peace-on-Earth rests in part on the historically brief but emotionally enduring impact of the first international mission in space, the July 17, 1975 docking of the United States-Soviet Union Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. […]
