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Don USMA list owner The first edition of TIME Space | Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.<https://view.newsletters.time.com/?qs=c5cdefa7bff7ebf7fc444bd8b59f8d5b6248f2aabb3795f64063ae800ed7e31d4bcca66bc1ece85cd491bbadb4259cf63816f746b17680c85825e4e33ee1ab48442a128cefb8ee75> [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] [Time Space Newsletter]<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd220db285d3646e00d5bba0ee62b483430813f32993185878f1af963f7afb3d4be93cafe71b8f82abc840cce359680e4e2> [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/TIME_History_Desktop_15.jpg] [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/TIME_History_Desktop_15.jpg] Dear readers, Welcome to the first edition of the TIME Space newsletter<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd2c0aa8cf0099de4616da7db4bddd6ddb91488461c2aaa252b724376c076800d6b5a3dddde8e07673147e646cabe245a97>. Every week, we'll be sending out an email analyzing the latest news in space exploration, spaceflight, and the aerospace business. We're starting now because this month marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which put the first humans on the surface of the moon. This year has also been an inflection point in aerospace, with NASA committing to send astronauts to the moon once again, government programs all around the world taking huge strides towards a new era of globalized space exploration, and upstart private companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX accomplishing technological feats many though they were incapable of. This newsletter will help you make sense of it all. [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] [US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, walking on the Moon July 20 1969. Taken during the first Lunar landing of the Apollo 11 space mission by NASA.] [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] Universal Images Group—Getty Images [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] Buzz Aldrin on his famous moonwalk in 1969. [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] Contemplating space has always been a bipolar exercise. It’s a way to think about the future—the places our spacecraft are going, the trackless worlds on which humanity may one day make its home. But to look upon space is also to plunge into the past. Even moving at 186,282 miles per second, light takes a while to cover the enormous distances beyond our world. The moon you see hovering over your house is the moon of 1.3 seconds ago. The sunlight you see traveled for 8.3 minutes through the deep freeze of space before it arrived and warmed your face. The point of light that is Pluto traveled for 4 hours and 49 minutes before it arrived in the few earthly telescopes that can make it out. And light from stars millions or billions of light years away traveled millions or billions of years to reach us. It’s a good moment to think about the push-pull of our cosmic past and future, as July 20 approaches and the world looks back at the triumphant moment 50 years ago when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, making human beings, if only fleetingly, a species of two worlds. Half a century is utterly nothing in the great sweep of cosmic time, but it is far too long for us to have gone without setting out again, without staking a more lasting claim on the moon, to say nothing of Mars—a more distant but far more promising world. But recently, NASA committed to having Americans back on the lunar surface by 2024. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have made similar promises. And China, as in all things, is making its presence known in space in general and on the moon in particular. We'll be covering all this and more in the coming weeks. We hope this is the beginning not just of a weekly report, but a weekly conversation. Let us know what you like, what we could be doing better, how we can give you more of what interests you most. Space is limitless—so is the news it produces. —Jeff Kluger ________________________________ CHART OF THE WEEK For years, the title of "most manned spaceflights" went back and forth between the U.S. and Russia. But since 2012, no U.S. craft has taken a human into space. In that same period, China has joined in as the third country in the race. [https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/manned-space-flights.png?w=560] Click here for a full-screen version of the chart.<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd29ba6e4caae29706df9144400d5131a1e08be8f2d98484701211935ca5a3c68faf2bb36403c1a8197e83b61e748e3c94c> ________________________________ WHAT WE'RE READING NASA has a need for speed. Shake ups happen in federal agencies all the time, but when the shake up in question is at NASA on the cusp of the Apollo 11 anniversary and at the moment the US has recommitted itself to returning to the moon, it gets attention. That’s what happened when NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine announced that he was reassigning director of human spaceflight William Gerstenmaier and replacing him with former astronaut and Gerstenmaier's now-former deputy, Len Bowersox. A key point of dispute between the two: testing the Space Launch System, the massive rocket intended for lunar journeys. Gerstenmaier is a go-slow guy, Bowersox favors more speed. The Gerst-Sox (as they’re known inside NASA) clash may signal more internal debates to come<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd2c59b8c193306f417fc40370c757f3dec7999f9f542bdf7a9463eb900ed15f598c71114df1a4f00ea420c865e31ad3f02>. Making the Case for the Moon. Space travel has all the allure it always did for plenty of Americans, but without a mortal enemy like the Soviet Union challenging the U.S. for primacy in space and a martyred leader like President Kennedy, whose lunar dare still hung in the air, it’s going to take a renewed lunar fever among Americans<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd2e8817af0b15121e50f8104c2e93702772220c858901e2a9e5a6660def2434182f8185b543de3085202dcee6c012a7a2e> to get a fellow countryperson to return to the moon. Russia Stumbles—Again. The U.S.S.R. built its original space center in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, then part of the great Soviet empire. With Baikonur showing its age and Kazakhstan an independent nation that now charges for the lease of its land, Russia has spent years building what was meant to be a glittery new space port in the far east of its own territory. But cost overruns and rampant corruption have meant delays<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd226a5459eaa5d7a26bfd0fe0e282717c594eac66446098028f9def30a56aed18729fd005011742cb688d783159932a3ec>, launch failures and potentially lethal danger to future crews. India Set to Score—Again: After successfully sending its Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter and impactor to the moon in 2008 and dispatching another orbiter to Mars in 2013 (for less than it cost to make the movie Gravity), the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is poised to fly again, this time with Chandrayaan-2<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd2571e031e88b6a648f194d0caa3a22f3e091f966db38d89583f1a0717e7554e85b5ef568f1e2490c5c468e24047c66f08>. The new moon ship will launch as early as July 15 and arrive as early as September 6 and will be landing in a hot new spot (actually a very cold spot): the south lunar pole, where water ice is preserved in huge deposits in permanently shadowed craters. The Man Whose Father Lost the Moon Race. America’s grand victory in the competitive sprint to the moon was the Soviet Union’s loss. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, spearheaded that charge, and his son Sergei, now 84, was by his side throughout. He recently spoke to TIME about what he saw—and how it felt<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd23a09f9fa6c2df3698ccd78dd097d1fdc0c3fd7e152a859ef106ed12681bb24c2b48d70b03a11df1d5d2257cf8a734708>. ________________________________ PHOTO OF THE WEEK [https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/iss-above-hawaii.jpg?w=560&w=560] NASA [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] An amazing view of Earth's horizon—with the moon shining brightly above it—taken from the International Space Station as it flew over the Pacific Ocean, just southeast of Hawaii, on July 5. ________________________________ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Recent polls suggest more and more Americans love NASA and want to see its funding increase<https://click.newsletters.time.com/?qs=36bca08ab55e4cd2e836590ad9c20e02277453edfa88f717b6fb8dbcd34fb88dfdc53663e1017ef22158d31a3a4997f3420e2322271f3c48>. We're curious what TIME readers think. Is the U.S. space program's funding justifiable? Should it have a larger budget? Email us at [email protected] and let us know<mailto:[email protected]>. ________________________________ [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] [https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/brian-may-goodbye.gif?w=300&w=300] [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] This is Brian May, astrophysicist and musician, not Jeff Kluger. [https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/time2014/img/newsletter/spacer.gif] Thanks for reading! 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