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The Competition for Space
Tory bruno, president and CEO, united launch alliance.
Kay sears, vice president and general manager, military space, lockheed martin.
Heather Wilson, Former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
Moderator: bryan bender, defense and space editor, politico.
New moon: What lunar living will look like in 100 years
A whole new moon
Lava tubes. Cave cities. Extreme sports. The next century of lunar settlement is wilder than you think.
TRUMP CELEBRATES MOON LANDING: Pres
Trump meets with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and the family of Neil Armstrong to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Building Giant Magellan, the world’s largest telescope
People have been gazing skyward at night for all of human history, studying the stars and wondering what could lie beyond them. But soon, scientists will have a powerful new tool at their disposal: the Giant Magellan Telescope, which is expected to be the world’s largest optical telescope once it’s completed.
Under the football stadium at the University of Arizona, Patrick McCarthy, the vice president and senior astronomer at the GMT project, heads the international group building the Giant Magellan.
“One of the big discoveries in astronomy in the past 20 years is that 97% of the universe, we have no idea what it is,” McCarthy said.
Rocket Rundown
Stunning payload separation footage of the UP Aerospace SL-10 rocket. One of the four payloads deployed was a test version of the Maraia Capsule, a concept that was to be used to provide the inexpensive and autonomous on-demand return of small science samples from the International Space Station. Credit: UP Aerospace.