Light Start: Artemis touches down, Microsoft gets served, Returnal has demands and SpaceX sends a rocket to the moon

Touchdown! A camera mounted on the tip of one of the Orion capsule’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon NASA It’s already been a month (or close to it) since NASA’s Orion left Earth’s atmosphere on the long-awaited Artemis mission....

Light Start: Orion chases tranquillity, Google can’t handle heat, Overwatch is finally playable and… Lego pneumatic engines?

NASA does a fly-by After months of trying (and failing) to get the Orion Rocketship out of Earth’s orbit, NASA finally managed it last week. Since then, “Orion has been performing great so far,” says NASA’s Vehicle Integration Manager, Jim Geffre. “All of the systems...

Light Start: Artemis 1 (may be) a go, TikTok goes window shopping, Ghibli and Lucasfilm, and Amazon uses AI robots

A small delay The rocket boosters for the Space Launch System that will launch Nasa’s Artemis I mission to the Moon. NASA/Kim Shiflett It’s actually happening. We hope. There’s still time for a cataclysmic event to further delay the launch of Artemis 1, NASA’s rocket...

Light Start: Twitter’s in legal trouble, Artemis 1 is back, Sticks and Drones, plus a Commordordion

“Look Ma! I’m suing Twitter” Believe us, we’re as sick of Twitter news as you are. Musk’s version of Twitter, not even two weeks old yet, already looks different from what we’ve grown accustomed to. Verification checks are sold for $8, half the staff is gone, and...