https://www.reuters.com/world/mongolia- … 023-08-02/
Resource-rich Mongolia has extensive deposits of rare earth minerals and copper, which are critical materials in short supply as Biden looks to electrify the domestic auto market.
Oyun-Erdene, who studied in the United States, said the two countries would also sign agreements to deepen cooperation in outer space and strengthen their economic cooperation, with an eye to expanding trade.
He said direct flights between the two countries would begin in the second quarter of 2024, offering a "great opportunity" to promote trade, tourism, business and investment.
Meeting China’s Space Challenge
https://www.heritage.org/asia/report/me … -challenge
The United States faces its greatest space competitor since the dawn of the Space Age in the form of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Continuing to see great progress from NASA_Gateway. The Power & Propulsion Element, which uses highly efficient NASATechnology solar electric propulsion, is undergoing testing at NASAGlenn to characterize its performance before finalizing design.
https://twitter.com/JimFree/status/1532447970809069578
New JPL Director Faces Old JPL Directors' Cost Issues
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2022/06/n … recto.html
"Q: JPL has an incredible record of success in robotic missions. But you've had a lot of cost overruns with the Mars rovers, and we're seeing it again with Europa Clipper, which will now cost an estimated $5 billion. What steps can JPL and other centers take to stop getting surprised by cost increases?
A: You're raising an issue that is high on my agenda here. Technical performance at JPL--amazing. Cost and schedule performance, especially on cost, we have not done as well. What's behind that? Of course, the answer is, it's complicated. It can be hard to understand and write down early on all the requirements that drive cost. How do we get better at that and start to systematically look at where we are missing? I want people to know that I take it seriously, because we're spending American taxpayer dollars here. And also, there's a lot of good science to do and when missions don't meet their cost milestones, that means something else probably is getting delayed because as far as I know, there are not infinite resources."
The LockheedMartin crew module team at NASAKennedy and AirbusSpace service module team in Bremen, Germany are making great progress on #Artemis III spacecraft which will carry NASAAstronauts to land on the surface of the Moon!
https://twitter.com/NASA_Orion/status/1 … 5434491909
Biden wishes Elon Musk 'lots of luck on his trip to the moon' and touts Ford's electric vehicle program
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-wishes … 52546.html
Too many distractions
supply chain issues, ISIS and the Taliban is back, War in Ukraine, gasoline prices etc
So the Blackmail and Laptop rumors were true afterall?
Nude Hunter Biden cavorts with hooker, illegal gun in latest mess for president
https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/naked-hun … un-photos/
The Hunter Biden laptop controversy involves a laptop computer that was allegedly dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, by an unidentified person in April 2019 and never collected. The New York Post published a story stating the allegation three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election, and president Donald Trump seized on it in an attempt to engineer an "October surprise". The laptop was of unclear origin and contained emails obtained by Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and other materials relating to Hunter Biden, some of which were later confirmed as authentic. The discovery of the laptop spurred speculation as to whether it supported what became the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory, which falsely alleged then-Vice President Joe Biden acted corruptly in Ukraine to protect his son from a corruption investigation by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published an article about a purported meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden and Burisma advisor Vadym Pozharskyi. The article was based on an April 2015 email from Pozharskyi to Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, who served on the board of Burisma, thanking Hunter Biden for inviting him to meet his father in Washington, D.C. The Post claimed the email showed Joe Biden was untruthful when he claimed he had "never spoken to [his] son about his overseas business dealings" and claimed to have evidence in support of the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory regarding the reasons for the firing of Viktor Shokin. The Biden campaign denied Joe Biden had any meeting with Pozharskyi and said that if they had ever met, it would have been a brief encounter. Witnesses at the dinner where they allegedly met said Biden briefly passed by to see an old friend. The Post reported in its story that Pozharskyi declined to comment, and he didn't comment to a Politico journalist who reported extensively on the story a year later.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ … ion-515583
The anatomy of a delay: Here's a timeline of twists and turns for NASA's SLS and Orion programs
https://www.planetary.org/articles/2017 … -sls-orion
Nelson's Gay Pride Tweets
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2022/06/b … ns-pr.html
House committee questions proposed delay in NASA asteroid mission
https://spacenews.com/house-committee-q … d-mission/
Does Anyone Know Where The National Space Council Is Hiding?
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2022/06/d … l#comments
The UAG is still in limbo. If anyone knows what is going on please feel free to post in the comments section or tweet a comment.
Elon Musk Tweets "It's A Scam"
China, US Are Racing to Make Billions From Mining the Moon's Minerals
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words from Carl Sagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmamPItLdOY
'In shadow of Ukraine war, Russian astronauts install robotic arm controls on International Space Station'
https://www.wionews.com/science/in-shad … ion-471985
Biden administration turns focus to space security
https://spacenews.com/biden-administrat … -security/
At the first meeting of the Biden administration’s National Space Council Dec. 1, Vice President Kamala Harris said a top concern is keeping space safe for military, civilian and commercial operations.
Harris said efforts to establish “rules and norms for responsible behavior in space” will be one of three main priorities for the council, along with using space to help combat climate change and expanding STEM education.
The Defense Department will have a prominent role shaping the discussion over space norms, which has gained significant attention following Russia’s Nov. 15 missile strike that blew up a satellite in orbit.
DoD lacks a Senate-confirmed space policy leader at a time of heightened tensions over Russian and Chinese advances in counterspace technology. In a policy document released Dec. 1, the administration noted that foreign rivals of the United States view space as critical to modern warfare and anti-satellite weapons increasingly pose a threat to U.S. assets in orbit.
more money for weapons?
Less for the Moon and Mars??
Also more news, from the Washington Post owned by Bezos?
'Daily Attacks'
Space Force General says daily attacks on US satellites are 'Sending a Message'
https://www.spacewar.com/reports/Space_ … e_999.html
in 2019 a Russian satellite flew close to "a US national security satellite," with the Americans unsure if it was going to attack or not. However, the Russian satellite then backed away and conducted a weapons test. Still, Thompson believes it was a "message."
"It maneuvered close, it maneuvered dangerously, it maneuvered threateningly so that they were coming close enough that there was a concern of collision," he told The WaPo. "So clearly, the Russians were sending us a message."
He also voiced concerns about China, with Beijing being "well ahead" of Russia and "fielding operational systems at an incredible rate." According to his estimations, both Moscow and Beijing are working on satellites that are capable of attacking other satellites - something that could trigger an arms race in space.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/09/20 … g-1136992/
https://www.ibtimes.com/elon-musk-slams … he-3299637
Musk mocks Biden after SpaceX completes first all-civilian mission
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