A Day With Incredible Happenings In Space Flight

I am very proud of two of our readers who have made incredible contributions to space exploration recently. Dr. Robert Zubrin has just published his latest book. Its title is "The New World On Mars: What We Can Create On The Red Planet." It is available on Amazon. Here is a link for those curious: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635768802/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have my copy and have started reading it. Dr. Zubrin takes complex technical subjects and makes them understandable to we mortals without a technical education. It is a great read! Jordan Wright is known as "The Angry Astronaut." He runs a podcast that I love. He was right there with a front-row seat as the IM-1 lander made a most challenging landing on the Lunar South Pole. Here is a link to his podcast covering this momentous event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ2B2wCHdxo This is the first time in 52 years that the United States has landed a payload on the moon. Several other nations including Japan, Russia, and Israel have failed to do this. The actual landing was "a real nail-biter”. It was suspenseful to the last moment when the probe lost communication near the surface of the moon. This was not a NASA probe. It was a commercial space probe built by Intuitive Machines. What is "the big deal" about landing on the Lunar South Pole? There is a lot of water and ice there. We also have large deposits of helium 3 that will eventually power spacecraft on voyages to Mars and out to other planets and moons in the solar system