NEWSNATIONNOW (Katie Pavlich) - NASA chief Jared Isaacman says agency blocked Chinese hackers amid moon race
China recently postponed a robotic lunar mission that had been set to launch.
AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Gayle King rebukes Hayden Panettiere's estranged mother over post-death remarks
CBS anchor Gayle King publicly called out Hayden Panettiere's estranged mother for using her first interview after the actress's death to assign blame, drawing a sharp contrast with the father who simply honored his daughter's memory. King addressed Lesley Vogel's comments during the Aug. 19 broadcast of "CBS Mornings," three days after Panettiere was found […] The post Gayle King rebukes Hayden Panettiere's estranged mother over post-death remarks appeared first on American Almanac .
CBS anchor Gayle King publicly called out Hayden Panettiere's estranged mother for using her first interview after the actress's death to assign blame, drawing a sharp contrast with the father who simply honored his daughter's memory. King addressed Lesley Vogel's comments during the Aug. 19 broadcast of "CBS Mornings," three days after Panettiere was found unresponsive at a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment complex. The 36-year-old actress, known for her roles in "Nashville," "Heroes," and "Remember The Titans," died on Aug. 16 . Her cause of death has not been released. Vogel, who managed Panettiere's career from infancy until the actress severed their professional relationship at age 19, gave a phone interview to NBC News on Aug.…Open
NYTIMES (Hiroko Tabuchi) - F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
HUFFPOST - Aviation Pioneer Wally Funk, Oldest Woman To Travel Into Space, Dies At 87
Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA’s all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s. But she only made it to space in 2021 aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket.
WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Wally Funk, trailblazing aviator who waited 60 years to go to space, dies at 87
A veteran pilot and air safety investigator, she dreamed of space for six decades before Jeff Bezos invited her to join him on a Blue Origin rocket.
NYTIMES (Stefano Montali) - Is Space Tourism Finally Ready for Takeoff?
Delays and rising prices have made the promise of space travel for ordinary people more elusive than ever. Will that ever change?
NYTIMES (Cade Metz) - Jeff Bezos Wants to Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’
As co-chief executive of the start-up Prometheus, the Amazon founder is using A.I. to improve how devices ranging from computers to jet engines are made.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Was the Blue Origin launch sabotaged?
Kristin Fisher, host of “The Endless Void,” comments on speculation the Blue Origin launch was sabotaged. Watch this full episode of "Unreported": https://youtu.be/f2cwRltbYs8 #BlueOrigin #spacerace #explosion
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Moon cities, space hotels, rocket explosions and the race to beat China | Unreported
Some stories make headlines. Others get ignored. On “Unreported,” Meagan Medick takes a deeper look at the unexplained through the eyes and experiences of you, the viewers. You send the mystery, we investigate. In this episode, Meagan sits down with one of the most respected voices covering America's era of exploration, Kristin Fisher, host of “The Endless Void” and the daughter of two NASA astronauts. Together they examine what NASA's lunar base plan actually looks like, what the Blue Origin explosion means for the modern space race, and why the U.S. and China's race to the moon's south pole may be the most consequential geopolitical competition of our lifetime. Fisher also breaks down why the Artemis rocket is a "Frankenstein,"…
NYTIMES (Katrina Miller) - Can NASA Really Land Astronauts on the Moon by 2028?
Experts have been hopeful, but say the agency’s lunar aspirations are largely at the whims of two billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.