China blasts off on mission that could provide 1st samples of far side of the moon

China on Friday launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. It is the latest advance in China’s increasingly sophisticated space exploration program, which is now competing with the U.S., still … Read more

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The U.S. military is considering the use of AI during warfare but researchers warn this may not be a good idea given AI’s predilection for nuclear war. In a series of international conflict simulations run by American researchers, AIs tended to escalate at random, leading to the deployment of nukes in multiple cases,… Read more… … Read more

Lunar lander issue complicates privately-led U.S. moon mission

A robotic lander built by a private company suffered a technical problem on its way to the moon on Monday, threatening to upend the first U.S. soft lunar landing in over 50 years. The issue with the lander’s propulsion system followed a successful launch of a new Vulcan rocket debuted by a joint venture of … Read more

Experience space as Jeff Bezos and William Shatner did, in Blue Origin’s rocket simulator at the Kennedy Space Centre

He was on hand last week to explain how the life-size simulator of the crew capsule works. It sits amid an array of displays and simulators from the likes of SpaceX, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others within Kennedy Space Centre (KSC)’s Gateway attraction, which is free to visitors with paid admission to the centre in … Read more