Bennu now within reach of PolyCam

 OSIRIS-REx is getting closer and closer to the asteroid.

Link to: "NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Asteroid Operations Campaign"

The boon of going to the moon

 Ian Whittaker  and Gareth Dorrian 

have highlighted some very good reasons
 why the moon should be first on our galactic itinerary.

Link to: "Five reasons to forget Mars for now and return to the moon"

Will the Force be with the Space Miners?

As Paul March-Russell indicates in his 16th August article for The Conversation

there are times when current politics and science fiction seem to overlap.

Link to: "Donald Trump’s Space Force plans analysed by a sci-fi expert"