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Posted September 2, 2024 Written by Claire

In 1865, Jules Verne’s book, From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes, fascinated […]

Posted August 5, 2024 Written by Claire

Even AI Understands the Space Race. And it knows the U.S. may be losing to China. An article from July […]

Things You Should Know But Don’t: Caveman in the Moon

Posted July 22, 2024 Written by Claire

In an installment of fiction becoming fact, I was fascinated by a recent report that scientists have found underground caves […]

Posted July 8, 2024 Written by Claire

On June 25, after a 53-day mission, China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft returned to Earth with five pounds of rocks and […]

Posted June 10, 2024 Written by Claire

The contest for the White House isn’t the only race that should concern the United States and, perhaps, the world. […]

The Dark Side of the Far Side

Posted May 13, 2024 Written by Claire

I was fascinated by a May 4 article by CNN reporter Ashley Strickland. In it, she writes about the competition among […]

Things You Should Know But Don’t: Space News in 2024

Posted January 8, 2024 Written by Claire

Every year we continue to see great accomplishments in space exploration and research and the upcoming year is shaping up […]

Posted August 18, 2023 Written by Britt McCormick

On August 11, 2023, Russia launched its unmanned Luna 25 mission to the moon, hoping to make a soft landing […]

Things You Should Know But Don’t: China in the Sky

Posted February 20, 2023 Written by Claire

As a novelist, I sometimes enjoy reading the diatribes of conspiracy theorists. They’re often great grist to conjure up fictional […]

Posted January 31, 2022 Written by Claire

A comment in The Economist on January 7, 2022 caught my eye. It read, “An airstrike on a UN refugee […]