November 24, 2018

Russia Promises to Check if NASA Moon Landings Really Happened (Source: Independent)
The head of Russia’s national space agency has proposed a mission to the moon to verify whether the American moon landings really took place. Dmitry Rogozin responded to a question about whether NASA’s Apollo program actually put men on the moon back in the 1960s and 1970s during a conversation with the president of Moldova, Igor Dodon. He appeared to be joking, as he smirked and shrugged while answering. But conspiracies surrounding NASA’s moon missions are common in Russia. In a video of their interaction, posted to his 815,000 Twitter followers, Mr Rogozin says: “We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they’ve been there or not”. (11/24)

Hydrogen on Mars and a Satellite Mechanic: Here is What the Future of Space May Look Like (Source: Orlando Sentinel)
Why innovate on Earth when you can innovate in space? With the commercial space industry taking off, that’s the vision several aerospace startups have adopted as they look to take a slice of the growing cosmic market. “We are the future of the space industry,” said Scott Weintraub, during a presentation of Weintraus, a company developing in-space mechanic to repair satellites, in Lake Nona last week.

More than a dozen companies in the aerospace field, some of them solely focused on space and many of them based in Florida, presented their ideas at the Aerospace Capital Forum last week hosted by Space Florida, the state’s spaceport authority. Weintraus was one of several start-ups in the private space industry hoping to get funding for its interstellar ideas.

The inaugural forum, held in part by Florida Venture Forum and Harris Corporation, was a window into the infrastructure being built around the commercialization of space — and how much of that growth is happening in Florida. Here is how the future space landscape is shaping up. Click here. (11/23)