Blue Origin Rider, Shatner Co-Astronaut, Fatality in NJ Cessna Crash

Glen de Vries, a passenger on the same Blue Origin flight that took screen legend William Shatner into low orbit, has tragically passed in an apparent accident that took place in a possible training flight in Hampton New Jersey. De Vries was accompanied by Tom Fischer, a certified flight instructor and owner of Fischer Aviation, a flight school in Essex County in a Cessna 172 that was declared missing around 15:00 on November 11. The aircraft was found about an hour later in a densely-wooded area in Bear Swamp Wildlife Management Area. Current cause is unknown. 

Some Good News, Some Bad News

NASA has released their first major timeline update for the upcoming Artemis program, the first attempt to land astronauts on the moon. After announcing another setback in the targeted date, pushing the expected landing from the initially established 2024 to at optimistic 2025 if all goes well. Recent delays were blamed on legal wrangling with commercial industry partner Blue Origin, when they exhausted every legal avenue to thwart the Artemis program's manned lander project unless they were given a prime share of the project. After a judge recently decided to uphold NASA's stance in relation to the lawsuit- that they have full discretion to select whomever they choose for a contract, regardless of previous non-b