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🌙🚀 DUFFY: TRUMP WILL RETURN U.S. TO MOON BEFORE 2028. In a video obtained by Fox News Digital, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy vowed that the U.S. will return astronauts to the Moon before President Trump leaves office — and declared America will win “the second space race” against China.
"We're going back to the moon, and this time, when we plant our flag, we stay," Duffy explains in the video. "I'm committed to getting us back to the moon before President Trump leaves office."
—> 📜 HISTORICAL CONTEXT: No U.S. astronaut has walked on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The new push comes through the Artemis program, launched under Trump’s first term, which Duffy said will not only take Americans back to the lunar surface but also pave the way to Mars.
—> 🛰️ THE NEW SPACE RACE: China has its own lunar ambitions, but Duffy made clear: “China wants to get there, but we’re getting there first.” By tying Artemis to U.S. leadership in space, Duffy positioned America’s moonshot as a test of global power, echoing the Cold War race with the Soviet Union.
Duffy bets big on Artemis before Mars… slightly going against Elon Musk, who wants to go to Mars without going to the Moon:
"Our program is called Artemis," Duffy said. "And what we learn through Artemis gets us to Mars."
Sources: Fox News Digital, NASA
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SPACE
🌌🌀 ‘BIG BANG THEORY’ GETS HIT WITH A ‘BIG RING’ DENT: Astronomers now think our universe hides shapes so big they shouldn’t even exist. The newest find: the Big Ring, a twisted circle of galaxies 1.3 BILLION light-years wide. Even stranger? It sits right next to the Giant Arc, another mega-shape spotted earlier. Together, they challenge the idea that the universe should look smooth and even when viewed from far away.
—> ❓WHAT’S THE BIG RING? It’s not just galaxies scattered randomly — they seem to form a giant ring, like a cosmic hula hoop. But scientists say it may actually be a “corkscrew” seen head-on. That scale blows past what the math of the Big Bang says should be possible.
—> 🌈 WHAT’S THE GIANT ARC? Before the Big Ring, astronomers found the Giant Arc: a line of galaxies nearly three times larger. Having two monster structures right beside each other makes scientists wonder if the cosmos is playing by rules we don’t understand yet.
—> 💥 DOES THIS CHANGE THE BIG BANG THEORY? Not yet — but it rattles it. The Big Bang still explains a lot, but discoveries like these suggest the story might be incomplete. Some wild theories — like “cosmic strings” left over from the birth of time, or even endless cycles of Big Bangs — are back on the table.
—> 🔭 WHY YOU CARE: Every time telescopes get sharper, we see a universe stranger and bigger than we dreamed. We may be living inside structures so vast, they rewrite our place in the cosmos.
Sources: Earth.com, Daily Galaxy, Nature Astronomy
HEALTH // ROBOTS
🩺🤖 ROBOTS IN THE OPERATING ROOM — The market for surgical robots is exploding. It was worth $5.8 billion last year and could grow to $15.2 billion by 2033. These robots aren’t science fiction anymore: doctors are already using them to do delicate surgeries, and new AI-powered systems are learning to operate almost on their own.
—> 🧑⚕️ WHAT CAN ROBOTS DO? Right now, most surgical robots are controlled by doctors, like the Da Vinci system that helps surgeons do heart or cancer surgeries through tiny cuts. But researchers just taught a robot to remove a gallbladder by itself on test animals, step by step, like a computer version of a trainee surgeon. The goal isn’t to replace doctors, but to help in emergencies or in places where no surgeon is available.
—> 🌍 WHY YOU CARE: By 2030, the world could be short 10 million healthcare workers. Robots could take over boring or exhausting tasks in hospitals, and maybe even save lives in rural areas where doctors are scarce. History may remember surgical robots the same way we look at the first airplanes — clunky at first, but the start of something huge.
Sources: OpenPR, The Robot Report, Medscape
GEOPOLITICS
🇨🇳🚨 XI’S CREEPY PARADE — Yesterday we told you how Xi is trying to rewrite WWII history, pretending the Communist Party “won the war” instead of the USA and our allies. Now, he’s showing off scary new weapons in Beijing — missiles, drones, and even laser guns — while sitting side-by-side with Putin and Kim Jong Un. Xi calls it “history,” but it looks a lot more like a warning.
—> 💣 WHAT DID THEY SHOW? China rolled out giant anti-ship missiles, flying war drones, and a brand-new naval laser weapon. Xi wants the world to believe his military is unstoppable. But remember: these “memory parades” are less about facts and more about making him look powerful at home.
—> 🇺🇸 WHY YOU CARE: The U.S. — not China — led the fight to end WWII in the Pacific. Xi’s attempt to erase that is part of a bigger plan to spread lies and claim Taiwan. America and our allies know the truth, and history won’t be rewritten by dictators.
Sources: Naval News, ABC News, Bloomberg
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