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Monday, 13 January 2025
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Two (or more) ways to get samples back from Mars
Last week, NASA announced it would study two different ways to pick up the samples the Perseverance rover is collecting on Mars and return them to Earth. Jeff Foust reports on the two approaches as well as interest by at least one company in an alternative.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Returning humans to the Moon without SLS and NRHO
There is speculation the Trump Administration may attempt to cancel the Space Launch System. Ajay Kothari offers an alternative architecture that could get humans back to the Moon without either SLS or Starship.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The civilization survival scale: A biological argument for space settlement
Some space advocates have argued that space settlement is vital to ensure the survival of humanity. Thomas Matula describes a scale for measuring the abilities of civilizations to survive that could be useful for space advocacy and for astrobiology.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Review: Manned and Unmanned Flights to the Moon
There is renewed interest in lunar exploration, including the launch this week of two commercial lunar landers. Jeff Foust reviews a book that provides an overview of the history of lunar exploration, but focuses on many missions that never attempted to go to the Moon.
Hugging Face Blog
AI Agents Are Here. What Now?