Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 6, 2024 An alien world orbiting a star made famous as hosting Spock’s home planet of Vulcan in Star Trek was nothing but a celestial illusion, scientists say. In 2018, much to the delight of Trekkies, the discovery of the planet was first announced. It was thought to be orbiting the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 5, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Chinese and American “new race” to the Moon was advanced by two major developments in the first week of June 2024. On June 4, China’s second sample-return Moon landing probe, Chang’e-6, successfully launched its 2-kilogram (4.4 lbs) Moon sample carrying ascending stage into Lunar […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 18, 2024 A top official at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has admitted under oath that U.S. taxpayer money was used to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in the months and years ahead of the Covid pandemic. NIH principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak made the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 1, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Elon Musk’s “surprise” April 28 visit to China to meet with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, blowing off a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is a continuation of the strategy he has employed to rise above, even to survive near-violent U.S.-China strategic contest: Increase […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 24, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As President Donald Trump revealed the new flag of the United States Space Force, on May 20, 2020, Chinese state media Global Times intoned, “China upholds the ideals for peaceful use of outer space and opposes weaponizing it or seeking out a celestial sprint to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 10, 2024 Officials from 15 U.S. federal agencies were aware that, in 2018, “the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19,” Sen. Rand Paul wrote in a April 9 op-ed. Although they knew the Chinese lab was proposing to create a Covid-like virus, not one of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 10, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Two years into its war against Ukraine, Russia’s military strategy has devolved to one barbaric word: Attrition. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has revived historic strategies against Ukraine that worked against Napoleon and then Hitler: Sacrifice as many Russian soldiers as necessary to wear down the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 3, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A key determinant for future geostrategic space power will be speed, the ability to access distant destinations more rapidly than opponents. Chemical engines dependent on kerosene, methane and oxygen are very slow compared to the potential of nuclear fission propelled engines, that could halve the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 13, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Chinese officials and astronauts played their usual role touting advances in China space program during the March 6 to 10 National People’s Consultative Congress (NPC), as it serves to highlight the military-technical leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Female Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping, whose […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 24, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the burgeoning and cutthroat world of China’s “private” space launch sector, the motto of pioneering private company Landspace should be, “if you can’t beat them, join them.” In 2016 this “private,” or not state-owned but still subservient to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) company, […]
