China said on Thursday that the fault lines of European security have caused the current Russian-Ukraine conflict. Moscow has insisted that one of the goals of its ongoing military campaign against Kiev is to make Ukraine declare itself a neutral country which will never join NATO. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang …
Read More »WATCH: Blue Origin completes third commercial space flight
The Jeff Bezos-founded venture’s ‘New Shepard’ spacecraft – named after the first American astronaut to reach space – lifted off from the company’s launch site in Texas. The crew capsule reached an altitude of about 350,000 feet (106 km) before a parachute-assisted descent and landing on the desert floor. The …
Read More »Blue Origin unveils futuristic sketches of orbital station as Jeff Bezos hopes to ‘reimagine living & working in space by 2030’
Bezos’ aerospace firm and its partner Sierra Space unveiled the plans on Monday in a joint press release, saying they are aiming to build “a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station” dubbed the “Orbital Reef,” which they intend to have up and running in some capacity sometime between 2025 …
Read More »If you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em: Bezos’ Blue Origin challenges NASA in court over moon lander contract with rival Musk’s SpaceX
Blue Origin filed its suit with the US Court of Federal Claims under a protective order on Monday The company’s lawyers describe it as a challenge to NASA’s “unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals submitted” under the Project Artemis call for submissions. Blue Origin’s initial $5.9 billion lunar landing system …
Read More »US House Republican report on Covid-19 origin claims ‘ample evidence’ to prove Wuhan lab leak theory – documents seen by media
Despite China’s repeated dismissals, the idea that the virus emerged from a scientific laboratory in the city – and not from a ‘wet market’ source – has been resurrected in recent months. The theory’s proponents in the US have pointed to supposedly faulty lab safety procedures and alleged Chinese government …
Read More »Billionaires’ space race: Bezos’ Blue Origin dunks on Branson’s Virgin Galactic ahead of crewed flight, saying it doesn’t count
The company of former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted a couple of infographics favorably comparing its primary craft to the one used by Virgin Galactic. “None of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name,” Blue Origin bragged, referring to the fact that its competitor’s flight altitude only constitutes …
Read More »China must allow another international probe into Covid-19 origin or face ISOLATION, Biden’s security adviser says
US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan issued a stern warning to China during an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Asked whether Biden intends to insist that a potential second probe into the origins of the virus must be an “independent” investigation, Sullivan said that …
Read More »‘We don’t know’: Months after ruling out lab leak as origin of Covid-19, US intel agencies say it’s one of two ‘likely scenarios’
“The US intelligence community does not know exactly where, when or how the Covid-19 virus was transmitted initially but has coalesced around two likely scenarios: either it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, or it was a laboratory accident,” a spokeswoman for the Office of the Director of …
Read More »Having shut down Trump’s Covid-19 origin probe, Biden now entrusts it to same spies who gave us ‘Russiagate’
In a statement released on Wednesday, President Biden said he had ordered the US spies in March to give him a report on the origins of the virus, and gave them 90 days to provide a “definitive conclusion.” Within minutes, the compliant corporate media acknowledged their marching orders, putting “redouble …
Read More »‘Can’t get it up (to orbit) lol’: Musk trolls Bezos (& his blue balls) as Blue Origin protests NASA moon contract award to SpaceX
The SpaceX CEO took to Twitter on Monday night with a swipe at Bezos, responding to a New York Times report that his aerospace company Blue Origin had filed a complaint with NASA after the space agency awarded a $2.9 billion contract to construct a moon lander to Musk’s outfit. …
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