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Even more concerning is community scientific documents researched specifically to serve NASA going offline in the name of DEI: https://jatan.space/scientific-documents-go-missing-from-nas...

Three issues with believing this: 1. How long does it take to undo this though even if it might be an automated screwup?

2. Why it isn’t getting banned on other social networks and only on X?

3. Didn’t X previously block Substack and Mastodon URLs?

Most introductions to RSS assume that people want to know about RSS.. and so instead here’s a more people-centric explainer: https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/

Most introductions to RSS assume that people want to know about RSS! And so here’s a more people-centric explainer instead: https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/

Thank you! It’s part of the Chinese lunar special series I’ve been doing all month. Here’s the rest of the four:

https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-175/

https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-176/

https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-177/

If anyone’s interested, I did a deep dive into the Chang’e 6 mission, including clarifying some misconceptions: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-174/

I’m an independent space exploration writer, and I love my job: https://blog.jatan.space/about

Happy to answer any related questions.

It has helped me become a globally published space exploration writer: https://blog.jatan.space/p/my-science-writing-journey

Thanks!

Now that Orion has returned safely to Earth, it feels so amazing to talk about Artemis I as the past! If its help in returning humans to our Moon deeply moved you too, you can follow the pieces of its progress via my one-of-a-kind, technical newsletter called Moon Monday: https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday

It also covers global lunar exploration, science and commercial developments to show that our return to the Moon this is truly a worldwide trend and how valuable each vertical is.

Now that Orion has returned safely to Earth, it feels so amazing to talk about Artemis I as the past! If its help in returning humans to our Moon deeply moved you too, you can follow the pieces of its progress via my one-of-a-kind, technical newsletter called Moon Monday: https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday

It also covers global lunar exploration, science and commercial developments to show that our return to the Moon this is truly a worldwide trend and how valuable each vertical is.

The lunar gateway has largely independent goals to the crewed landing missions part of Artemis. IMO only the legally mandatory use of SLS+Orion part is a screw up for Artemis but most of the rest of the hardware and infrastructure will be on commercial models extended from successful ones at LEO, including the at least two spacecraft capable of landing humans on the surface.

Related shameless plug: I've been tracking the progress of NASA's Artemis plans to return humans to the Moon on my one-of-a-kind, technical newsletter Moon Monday https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday

It also covers global lunar exploration, science and commercial developments to show that our return to the Moon this is truly worldwide and how valuable each vertical is. Thoughts?

Yes, it will be crazy unused capacity at least for the first human landing and then some more. But once the system is better tested and refined, the latter of which NASA _is_ investing in Starship for (https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-70), we will get massive returns, literally. There's also talk in the latest Planetary Science Decadal to evolve the CLPS model by setting up funding mechanisms to allow science community members to fly robotic payloads on such high-capacity Starship flights and really leverage its potential: https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-74

Except there is. NASA has already selected SpaceX to land the first Artemis astronauts on the Moon: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/as-artemis-moves-forward-...

And while there maybe delays with Starship, it's certainly not 10-15 years away.

This is yet another (most welcome) hypothesis in explaining the sheer differences in our Moon’s nearside and farside. Just last month I wrote a feature article explaining the other leading theories for what caused these nearside-farside differences if anyone’s interested: https://blog.jatan.space/p/the-two-faced-moon

The Moon is so much more interesting than most people think.

Hey, thanks!

Hi, I write popular science articles on space exploration as well as the world's only Moon exploration newsletter! https://blog.jatan.space/about

I also have a general blog for all my other interests, including blogging, tech and web, poems, science and anything else interesting enough to hit publish: https://thoughts.jatan.space/about

My blogs are my professional and personal sites, and it's so satisfying to write there. Unconstrained from the vicious control of social media.

If any of you guys at Substack can answer this, it would be great: I'm a huge fan and proponent of Substack as a professional space writer and "blogger" from the days of the old. But if there's one thing I think Substack does wrong it's the "Welcome page". Can we please get an option to disable showing the Welcome page" to people who haven't subscribed? I don't want to shove the email form in people's faces before they've read or browsed anything. I've personally seen the welcome page also being confusing to many readers, and it deters them from browsing at all—"Let me read first" isn't intuitive. It's also really annoying for people who choose to browse my articles from the Web and just don't prefer email.

The welcome page is my single biggest gripe with Substack. Sending people to the /about or /archive pages directly doesn't help because the moment people click on the logo or title to visit the homepage, the email form is shown again. If Substack is marketing the platform as being designed for "Bloggers" too (https://substack.com/for-bloggers), then you shouldn't treat publications as merely being newsletters with an email form. You acknowledge it yourself in this HN post intro that Substack is much more than a newsletter! And I agree, except it doesn't feel like it.

The new Substack app allows people to read and discover Substacks without being shown the welcome form, it only makes sense to have the Web version behave the same too. While I would understand not changing it by default but why not at least have it as an option for writers? Substack already lets writers toggle a bunch of major and minor settings to tweak their publication, why not this too?

Over the years I’ve developed a simple ”YES and NO” system that now allows me to publish ~10 quality, long articles every month as a professional writer. The binary philosophy is rude but efficient: https://personal.jatan.space/p/yes-and-no

Yeah, it's crucial to stop or limit that. Dr. Jim Green and colleagues from NASA have proposed placing a strong magnetic field at Sun-Mars L1, which in theory works. This recent The Planetary Society article on Mars terraforming covers that and comprehensive than the OP submission: https://www.planetary.org/articles/can-we-make-mars-earth-li...

Not because of being cheap but because of inadequate mission planning and lack of collaboration. The article expands on that point.

That's not right. The Chandrayaan 2 failure has nothing to do with the Chandrayaan 1 discoveries. The lander of Chandrayaan 2 failed but it was not tasked with a follow-up science of any of these water-related discoveries. That is the job of the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter.

Yes, the the prefix was removed automatically even though my submission title was "The story of how NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon." Big difference indeed.

The water in the Apollo samples have been dismissed by scientists as being contamination from Earth. Besides, the water discovery being referred to here is in orders of magnitude more quantity, at the lunar poles. The reason the discovery of lunar water is credited to Chandrayaan 1 is because it confirmed it beyond any doubt via two instruments.

That's a good question! The sources of lunar water are poorly understood.

Some of it is formed as a result of hydrogen ions in the solar radiation hitting the oxygen present in the surface and forming water, and then being transported to the permanently shadowed regions. Another source, and likely a major one, is asteroids and comets, which were impacting vigorously during the early solar system.

But to truly differentiate between the sources of water, sample are needed. This hasn't been done yet but will open a huge box of mysteries and also give insights into how the Moon formed.

Hey guys, thought I'd show you all a project my friend and I have been working on for the last 4-5 months. We call it "Rockets of Earth" - https://allrockets.space/

It is a website to browse and explore all the orbital-class rockets of the world. You can filter rockets by company, country, etc. and even see which ones are rated to carry astronauts. Once you select a rocket, its page shows information about its payload capacity, fairing size, cost, launch stats, etc.

You can even compare rockets and see how they stack against each other! And there are some really cool pictures thrown in. Hope you guys like it!

Hey guys, thought I'd show you all a project my friend and I have been working on for the last 4-5 months. We call it "Rockets of Earth" - https://allrockets.space/

It is a website to browse and explore all the orbital-class rockets of the world. You can filter rockets by company, country, etc. and even see which ones are rated to carry astronauts. Once you select a rocket, its page shows information about its payload capacity, fairing size, cost, launch stats, etc.

You can even compare rockets and see how they stack against each other! And there are some really cool pictures thrown in. Hope you guys like it!