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In season 5 of sci-fi series @ForAllMankind_, set in alternate 2012, international Happy Valley on #Mars has grown into a settlement of >5000 residents.
Here we collected hi-res screens, showing colony's exteriors and interiors without major plot reveals: humanmars.net/2026/06/mars-c…
10 years ago, in October 2016, we published the 1st version of our speculative Mars Colonization Timeline. As the timeline is regularly updated and expanded, it now differs significantly, and we thought it would be interesting to revisit the original: humanmars.net/2026/10/the-or…
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Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos arstechnica.com/space/2026/1…
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Japan’s getting really good at bringing space rocks home. If asteroid mining ever takes off, that experience could give them a serious head start.
On the 20th, they’re launching MMX on an H3 rocket to Phobos, one of Mars’ moons. The plan is to land twice, collect about 10 grams of material, and bring it back. Nobody’s ever brought samples back from the Martian system.
Hayabusa brought home the first asteroid samples. Hayabusa2 followed up at Ryugu, collecting material from multiple spots. Japan’s been building on that experience ever since.
Everyone else is racing to land on Mars or build Moon bases. Japan’s quietly getting better at one thing: bringing a piece of space home.
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NASA has opened final bidding for private space stations to replace the ISS 🛰️
The winning stations could take over from the ISS as early as 2030
NASA plans to pick two or more companies, with winners expected to be announced in spring 2027
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JUST IN: NASA says its Moon Base is running ahead of schedule, with the first element now expected to launch in December followed by near-monthly robotic missions to the lunar surface beginning in early 2027.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency expects to beat the original national-space-policy target of putting the first Moon Base elements in place by 2030.
The plan is to send infrastructure, rovers and other equipment ahead of astronauts so hardware is already operating on the surface when crews arrive.
NASA is also developing a public website that will allow people to follow construction of the lunar base as missions arrive.
“We’re leaving no doubts this time,” Isaacman said. “It’s all in HD.”
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Starship Flight 15 is expected in 4-6 weeks and will attempt to catch BOTH Booster and Ship!
SpaceX electromagnetic mass driver at Moonbase Alpha to launch into orbit Moon-made data centers. The renders in the post are from an animation which was demonstrated during @ElonMusk's #Terrafab presentation on March 22, 2026: humanmars.net/2026/09/spacex…
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Earth moon cycler orbits are interesting especially if an industrial base is set up on the moon.
What if a spacecraft could cycle between Earth and Moon orbits, performing multiple circuits of each, naturally and indefinitely, with zero propulsion?
We’ve discovered a new class of stable, prograde, low-energy cycler orbits that do just that.
Why these orbits matter:
Ballistic → fuel-free
Stable → long-term ready
Near-chaotic → agile with low ΔV
Low-energy → access to Earth/Moon, Lagrange points, Sun–Earth L1/L2, even heliocentric space
At the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Boston next week, I’ll present on a new family of ballistic Earth-Moon cycler orbits that are stable, prograde, and mission agile—unlike any cyclers in the current literature.
The example below is shown in both the Earth-Moon rotating frame and inertial frame.
Conference Paper: ross.aoe.vt.edu/papers/ross-…
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SpaceX: Geaux for Launch.
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After China formally delays Chang'e 7 into 2027, the race to the South Pole of the Moon is back on.
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Earth-Mars cycler is a specialized orbital trajectory designed to shuttle spacecraft between Earth and Mars on a regular, repeating schedule.
Here is a concept for such a cycler system with two cyclers by Maciej Rebisz @voyager212: humanmars.net/2026/08/earth-…
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Looks like a scene from Interstellar.
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The threat of China's plans to explore the Moon is about to become very, very real.
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This ship (literally😅) deserves to be put in a museum! Please, Elon, don't scrap it!
If anyone can compete with @SpaceX, it's China.
Congrats to @LandSpace_Tech team on successful recovery of an orbital class rocket booster! Take this 2nd space race to Mars!
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Lunar landers, assemble. In clean rooms across the country, commercial lunar landers are preparing for upcoming missions in support of @NASAMoonBase.
In the 9 years since season 4 of @ForAllMankind_, Happy Valley's spaceport on #Mars has been expanded and a space elevator is in construction.
Here we collected high-resolution screenshots depicting them: humanmars.net/2026/06/spacep…