The U.S. Space Force is asking commercial companies to move faster, build more, and integrate deeper into national security missions — but its own budget keeps telling a different story. That tension sits at the center of a new Space Minds podcast interview with Col. Tim Trimailo, where the service’s industry engagement is framed as […]

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I watched it happen at a dinner in District 1 last week. Six people at the table. Three talkers, three listeners. By the end of the night, the loudest guy had been asked twice if he was “running something” and had slipped into a long conversation with another guest about partnering on a project. The […]

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There's a piece of Cold War infrastructure in the Mojave Desert that has been silent since September 16, 2025, and almost no one outside a small circle of deep space mission planners ha

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India assumed the chairmanship of a BRICS bloc that has expanded its membership and shrunk in purpose — and that contradiction is India’s problem now. New Delhi inherits the job of leading an organization whose members cannot agree on what it is, and India’s own foreign policy depends on never answering that question. The country […]

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The four astronauts assigned to fly Artemis 2 around the moon have expressed confidence in the Orion spacecraft, but the mission’s true verdict won’t come from crew praise or simulator fidelity. It will come from the heat shield. When Orion slams back into Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 25,000 miles per hour, the redesigned thermal protection […]

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The ache you feel surrounded by people isn't evidence that you're bad at socializing — it's your nervous system accurately reporting that your physical environment and your emotional environment have come apart.

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NASA has approved the Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project and contracted SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch the European Space Agency’s Mars rover in late 2028, even as the White House’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal would zero out funding for the same project. The $175.7 million launch contract, announced April 16, commits the […]

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In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Col.

NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel.