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By Howard Bloom Wednesday morning at 8:30 am Eastern Time, India landed its first rover on the surface of the moon.  It’s called Chandrayaan-3.  Which means “moon craft” in Sanskrit.  Fourteen hours later, the Chandrayaan-3’s rover rolled out and, said India’s space agency, “took a walk around.”  But, unlike America’s rovers on Mars, which keep on trucking
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By Stewart Atkinson On August 29th, NASA is planning to launch its biggest rocket ever, its 35-story-high Space Launch System.  NASA claims this is the rocket that will return Americans to the moon.  “Alas,” says Howard Bloom, “that is not true.” In Boca Chica, Texas, a rocket in the testing phase will be able to
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Three weeks ago, Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, blasted billionaires for joyriding “to space while millions go hungry on Earth.”   His spokesman reaffirmed that complaint October 13th after William Shatner’s flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from Van Horn, Texas, to the edge of space 65.8 miles high.   Guterres’ complaint was
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