Posted by Maggie on March 4, 2022 in From the editors

Yep, you just gotta wonder, right?
Like a “Survivor” type show, or something.

Robert Zimmerman: The deadly impact of Russia’s Ukraine invasion on commercial space, on ISS, and beyond

Though the international ramifications of the invasion of the Ukraine by Russia in the past week will be far reaching and hard to predict, we can get a hint by reviewing the impact on Russia’s long-standing partnership on ISS as well as the effect the invasion will have on a number of commercial enterprises dependent on both Russian and Ukrainian space rocketry.

The International Space Station

All signs so far from the western partners on ISS indicate that they are guardedly hopeful that the cooperation with Russia will continue unimpeded…

Read the whole thing.

Eric Mack: Elon Musk Says SpaceX Can Keep the ISS Flying if Russia Won’t

AP: High-speed space junk expected to leave 66-foot crater in the moon

Eric Mack: Mysterious Fast Radio Burst Traced to Unlikely, Ancient Part of Deep Space … Some alien teenager blasting its rock-and-roll, no doubt.

Ed Browne: Strange Glass Balls Found on Moon Hint at Asteroid Impact: The energy release from the impact would have been enough to turn nearby rock and soil into liquid, which eventually cooled to form the balls.

Jordan Mendoza: New research says asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit Earth in the spring … Mmmkay. But the same ‘scientists’ that insist man evolved from apes don’t leave room for the rest of the animal kingdom to have also evolved their life cycles even before man’s alleged evolution was complete?

Jeffrey Kluger: Sarah Al Amiri: The Woman Who Took the U.A.E. to Mars

Amanda Kooser: NASA Rover Spots Unreal Mars ‘Flower’ Formation

Isaac Schultz: Satellite Spots Massive Asteroid Impact Crater in China

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~~Many thanks to Maggie and The Universal Spectator for reprint permission.