Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 26, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, April 26 Let’s look north this evening to examine a strange star: Gamma (γ) Cassiopeiae, which sits at the central peak of the famous W in Cassiopeia the Queen. Shining at magnitude 2.2, although it is quite bright, this sun has no official name […]
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 9, 2026 NASA has shared images of the far side of the Moon from Artemis II and the Orion spacecraft as its astronauts head back to Earth. ‘Absolutely stunning’ were the words used by a lead NASA scientist to describe the images. Such words could also be used to describe AI […]
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 7, 2026 At 12:41 a.m. ET on Monday, Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, crossed into the Moon’s gravitational influence. It marked the first time for astronauts to enter lunar space in more than half a century. The crew of NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 6, 2026 On its mission around the moon and back to Earth, the crew of Orion spacecraft on Flight Day 4 became the first astronauts in more than 50 years to report flying in deep space. Artemis II was set to enter the moon’s gravitational influence on Easter Sunday. NASA astronaut […]
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 19, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rolls out five-year plans that present national objectives, sometimes vague and much of it classified; The latest is CCP’s 15th Five Year Plan (FYP, 2026-2030) that has emerged from the annual “Two Sessions” (National People’s Political Consultative Conference and National […]
