Sunday, August 30, 2020

Saturday, August 29, 2020

My most recent appearance on The Space Show has been archived and is available for your listening pleasure.
The Asteroid Mining Corporation is a new company in the UK seeking to access the riches of those flying mountains in the solar system
A New Moon Race Features Companies Vying For The First Private Landing
Japan's New 'Lunar Cruiser' Moon Rover Is Named After the Toyota Land Cruiser
How a space company in Hungary became an upstart in the private moon industry
NASA Selects Proposals for New Space Environment Missions
Sleep Scientists Want to Cancel Daylight Saving Time
Gabriella's War (The Vampire Gabriella Book 4)
The Twist in Studying Graphene
LS2 Report: CERN’s newest accelerator awakens
'Three little pigs': Musk's Neuralink puts computer chips in animal brains

Friday, August 28, 2020

Physicists may have found a way to create traversable wormholes

For Space Show listeners, here is some further reading for your pleasure and enlightenment:

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories

Children of Apollo (3 Book Series)

A Brother on the Moon

Space articles in The Hill (1)

Space Articles in The Hill (2)

Space Articles in The Hill (3)

Parochialism, not Congress or naval history, will kill the Space Force
Peace between Israel and the UAE could spark joint Israeli-Arab space exploration
Bernie Sanders goes after the coolest capitalist of all, Elon Musk
NASA Sees Cost Rising 30% on Boeing Rocket for Moon Missions
NASA puts solicitation for commercial free-flyer station on hold
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories
NASA-sponsored moon mission will launch on a SpaceX rocket
A body swap could mess with your mind
Nuclear Diamond Batteries - a reality check

Monday, August 24, 2020

Peace between Israel and the UAE could spark joint Israeli-Arab space exploration

Israel and the UAE are also emerging space powers. The UAE recently launched a probe called Hope to Mars. After a private Israeli group made an unsuccessful attempt to land a robotic probe called the Beresheet on the lunar surface, German company OHB joined forces with Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) to attempt a moon landing in 2022 using Beresheet technology.

NASA seeks input on Artemis science goals
TRUMP’S 2ND TERM AGENDA

Of particular note: "Launch Space Force, Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon and Send the First Manned Mission to Mars'

Human presence on the moon and human mission to Mars, Mr. President. Just saying.

Fast Broadband From Orbit? New Data Says SpaceX Can Do It
SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule for next NASA astronaut launch arrives in Florida
Children of Apollo (3 Book Series)
A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VI: The Berserker Hypothesis
They Said It Wasn’t Possible to Escape the Space Shuttle. These Guys Showed It Was.

Thursday, August 20, 2020

The Right Stuff | Official Trailer | Disney+





The dialogue in this clip is awesome.
Blue Origin team delivers lunar lander mockup to NASA
“Holy Grail” Metallic Hydrogen Is Going to Change Everything
The Space Force moves to define itself and its mission
The Moon is Finally Getting the Attention It Deserves
Trump administration urges more commercial activities in space
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories
Under President Trump, America has retaken the lead in space
California Reveals That the Transition to Renewable Energy Isn’t So Simple
With Ultralight Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Electric Airplanes Could Finally Take Off

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

The Expanse Is Much More Realistic Than Democrats’ Convention Speeches
Meet Dynetics, the company racing against SpaceX and Blue Origin to return astronauts to the moon
Compatibility issue adds new wrinkle to Europa Clipper launch vehicle selection
Trump and the American Future: Solving the Great Problems of Our Time
SpaceX sends up the same recycled rocket for a record sixth time
Musk’s SpaceX Raises Almost $2 Billion in a Launch-Heavy Month
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
Entire cities could fit inside the moon's monstrous lava tubes
Does Our Sun Have a Long-Lost Twin?Does Our Sun Have a Long-Lost Twin?
In a first, astronomers spotted a space rock turning into a comet

Sunday, August 16, 2020

The Space Force moves to define itself and its mission

The United States Space Force has just published a document entitled “Spacepower” that undertakes to define its doctrine and its role in keeping the peace on the high frontier of space. The document acknowledges the truth that space has moved from being a relatively benign domain, where people and nations peacefully undertake exploration and commerce and avoid conflict, to a potentially war-fighting domain, where nations may attack one another’s space assets and defend their own.

Also: Let the Space Force define its own ranks and The Space Force plots a new course

SpaceX is building the road to the moon and Mars in Texas
To Ensure America’s Space Future, Reelect Donald Trump
NASA Perseveres Through COVID-19 Pandemic – Here’s What’s Ahead in 2020, 2021
Two galaxies collide in this majestic Hubble image
A Brother on the Moon
Entire cities could fit inside the moon's monstrous lava tubes
Fact Check: Kamala Harris’s Misleading Claim Pandemic ‘Worse in U.S. than Other Advanced Nations’
Coronavirus crisis shows less regulation is right medicine for our economy

Sunday, August 09, 2020

SpaceX is building the road to the moon and Mars in Texas

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has had an incredible week. It started with the triumphant return of Dragon astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from the International Space Station. The conclusion of their space mission was a curious combination of the modern and the retro. The Crew Dragon is a state-of-the-art spacecraft, yet it splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico dangling from parachutes just as they did during the Apollo program.

Space Force: New Service’s Future Coming into Focus
How the Army plans to use space and artificial intelligence to hit deep targets quickly
Should Pluto be promoted to a planet again?
Lava Tubes on Mars and the Moon May Be Suitable for Planetary Bases – Up to 1,000 Times Wider Than Those on Earth
Jeff Bezos Sold $3.1B Amazon Stocks to Fund Space Initiative Blue Origins; Now Left with $174 Billion Net Worth
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories
Hubble Sees Near and Far
NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into Oxygen to Mars
SpaceX's toasted Crew Dragon returns home after historic NASA astronaut splashdown

Friday, August 07, 2020

Researchers discover new electrocatalyst for turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
Mars covered in oceans: what terraformation on the Red Planet might look like
2020 Democratic Party platform endorses Trump's NASA moon program
Is the Joe Biden for President Campaign About to Collapse?
NASA's Maven observes Martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light
NASA Is About to Study Some Awfully Old Asteroids
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Reveals Jupiter’s Unusual Electrical Storms: “Shallow Lightning” and “Mushballs”
The scramble for space at Earth’s outer limits
Study Identifies Site Where Crusader King Richard the Lionheart Defeated Saladin

Monday, August 03, 2020

Is the Joe Biden for President Campaign About to Collapse?

NASA Watch has a rundown of the political reactions to the return of the Dragon astronauts. One should note the offputting way that both Joe Biden and Barack Obama pat themselves on the back. I rather prefer the statesmanlike response of Charles Bolden, Obama's NASA Administrator.

"Let’s try to resist the temptation to politicize this achievement and the realization of the dreams of thousands over many decades now. There’s enough credit to go around and success is always possible when no one cares who gets the credit! - Semper Fi! Charlie B."

Words of wisdom.

A Space Alliance Between the Quads: The United States, Japan, Australia, and India
Cultivating Ideas for Mars
NASA astronauts splash down in SpaceX capsule as historic mission returns to Earth
How Old Are The Most Distant Stars We Can See?
We Should Consider Starting Covid-19 Vaccinations Now

Sunday, August 02, 2020

2020 Democratic Party platform endorses Trump's NASA moon program

Call it a triumph of NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine’s relentless bipartisan approach to space policy. In any case, those who support the space agency’s Artemis back-to-the-moon program have found encouragement in the space plank of the Democratic Party’s draft platform for 2020.

Now Sir Francis Drake is getting canceled
Researchers at the University of Houston develop a coronavirus-killing air filter
SpaceX on track to become third most valuable private company in the world
SpaceX completes static fire of Starship prototype, will hop next
Choppering around the Titan moon
House passes spending bill with flat NASA funding
Dragonship Endeavour is flying free, on its way back to Earth