Month: August 2021

China conducted its 29th orbital launch of a busy year to boost the country’s remote sensing and satellite mapping capabilities. A Long March 4B rocket lifted off from Taiyuan, north China, at 6:32 p.m. EDT August 18 (2232 GMT, 6:32 a.m. local August 18) rising into foggy skies. Insulation tiles were illuminated as they fell away from the rocket body and close to the rocket plume. U.S. space tracking data reported that the two Tianhui-2 (02) satellites into a near-polar orbit around 318 miles (511 kilometers) above the Earth. Related:…

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson addresses the crowd Aug. 24, 2021 at the 36th annual Space Symposium.   (Image credit: Space Foundation) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NASA has no plans of backing down from its moon landing goal despite recent obstacles, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said today (Aug. 24) at the 36th annual Space Symposium. Recently, NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon’s surface by 2024, found itself with even more stumbling blocks with added delays and challenges with its moon lander and spacesuits. However, despite new…

Two years ago, it was announced that Taika Waititi was going to have a go at an animated “Flash Gordon” movie for Fox/Disney, but according to a recent report in Collider, that project is now being developed as a live action film instead. The news comes as part of an interview with producer John Davis as part of Disney’s “Jungle Cruise” promotion.  “Taika is writing it. It was a movie that was a huge influence on him growing up. It is one of his favorite movies. He initially said to…

[embedded content] Whether you’d swallow the red pill or the blue pill seen in 1999’s “The Matrix,” the idea of humanity actually living inside an alien-controlled artificial simulation is unsettling at best.  Though hardly a new hypothesis debated in fringe science circles and tackled in respected international universities, the notion has been gaining serious traction over the last two decades. Conventions and lectures on the subject enjoy spirited debates and host engaging crowds eager to indulge in the idea of this inconclusive sci-fi concept. So is physical reality just an…

Image 1 of 13 The full moon rises behind the Hortiatis mountain and the city of Thessaloniki in Greece, on Aug. 22, 2021. (Image credit: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Image 2 of 13 The full moon shines over the Church of St. Catherine (left) and St Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 21, 2021. (Image credit: Peter Kovalev/TASS via Getty Images) Image 3 of 13 The Full Sturgeon Moon appears over Idlib, Syria on Aug. 21, 2021. (Image credit: Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Image 4…