Tuesday, September 29, 2020

California needs a lot more power to mandate electric cars by 2035

Recently, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order, the hubris of which is breathtaking. He has decreed that the sale of automobiles running on the internal combustion engine will be outlawed in California starting in 2035. From that date, only vehicles that run on electricity, such as the Tesla line being manufactured by Elon Musk, will be sold in the formerly Golden State.

NASA's Bridenstine: We really are going to the lunar south pole
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Sunday, September 27, 2020

ICAM at AdventHealth Ocala

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NASA's Bridenstine: We really are going to the lunar south pole

NASA has released its plan to return to the moon. In an accompanying live stream presentation, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine put to bed a story that the space agency was contemplating sending the first woman and the next man to land on the moon to one of the Apollo landing sites. The idea got a lot of negative reactions on social media. Bridenstine stated that the next moon landing will go to the lunar South Pole, full stop.

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Sunday, September 20, 2020

Send Artemis 3 to the lost Apollo landing site of Tycho

With all due respect to Administrator Bridenstine, the first woman and the next man would have a number of better things to do than to gaze upon a decades-old Apollo landing site, with all of its jetsam of experiments and an ancient lunar module descent stage and leave a plaque. If the first human expedition to the moon since 1972 cannot reach the lunar south pole, a number of more interesting sites closer to the moon’s equator exist.

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NASA is in the market for moon rocks

If one needed positive proof that the Artemis program is not your father’s moon shot, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the space agency is interested in buying moon rocks.

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Friday, September 18, 2020

What Does China Think About NASA’s Artemis Accords?
NASA Technology Enables Precision Landing Without a Pilot
NASA human spaceflight directorate completes reorganization
China is quietly preparing for November launch of the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission
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What the future of Venus exploration could look like following major discovery
NASA mulls possible mission to Venus after recent discovery of possible life
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This is how we should build on Mars, scientists say

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

I just found out that Ed Bearss, a military historian and Marine veteran of World War II, has died. 20 years ago, he conducted a group that included my wife and myself across the Gettysburg battlefield. He had that rare skill of bringing the three days of that battle alive in such a way that one wondered if he had been there to witness the events. It will be my everlasting regret that he is no longer here to show us any other battlefields.
I have in my hand an application for a mail-in ballot for my friend Tom Wells. The problem is that he has been dead for almost these past five years, which proves President Trump’s skittishness about voting by mail.

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Just when all hope seemed to be lost, here comes South Park to save us all.
The SpaceX Starship Could be Making its Biggest Hop Yet (and a Belly-Flop) Next Month!
This is what NASA's Artemis 2024 moon lander might look like
The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper
Now That Venus Is a Candidate for Alien Life, What's Next?
Researchers have examined the burial mound where the Gokstad Viking ship was found. What they found surprised them.
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Sunday, September 13, 2020

Would becoming one of the first people to settle Mars be worth dying for?

Recently, SpaceX’s Elon Musk addressed the Humans to Mars conference, during which he waxed eloquent about how his Starship interplanetary spacecraft was proceeding along. It is no secret that Musk is building this monster spaceship to facilitate his long-held dream to establish a settlement on the planet Mars. CNBC reports that Musk has a cautionary note for people who might want to join in on the project.

“I want to emphasize that this is a very hard and dangerous, difficult thing, not for the faint of heart. Good chance you’ll die, it’s going to be tough going, but it will be pretty glorious if it works out.”

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Boeing to face independent ethics probe over lunar lander bid
Give Trump the Nobel!

The Avengers - Short Skirt, Long Jacket [Emma Peel]





RIP Emma Peel, my great crush when I was 12.
Russia makes bid to become a space power with Luna-25 mission to the moon
California can take lessons from Texas on how to fix rolling blackouts
NASA’s Juno spacecraft seeking extended mission at Jupiter
Studies on the Human Condition Take Flight Along With Piloting Investigation
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The First Members of Space Force Just Deployed to the Middle East

Tuesday, September 08, 2020

California can take lessons from Texas on how to fix rolling blackouts

The news that people living in California are being subjected to rolling blackouts has the rest of the country shaking its collective heads. That a state once known as the center of technological innovation cannot provide enough power for its citizens when the weather gets too warm seems incredible. How did this happen? And, more importantly, how can it be fixed?

NASA Enlists Commercial Partners to Fly Payloads to Moon
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Russia makes bid to become a space power with Luna-25 mission to the moon
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Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft releases object before returning to Earth
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
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Scott Adams: Trump Is The Most Successful Stand-Up Comic Ever; Democrats Want To Burn Down The Country Because They Don't Get The Joke

Sunday, September 06, 2020

Inside SpaceX’s Culture of Accountability
Russia makes bid to become a space power with Luna-25 mission to the moon

Scientific American recently reported that Russia is making progress on its long-planned-for Luna-25 moon lander. The flight is set to take place in October 2021.

Luna-25 will be the first Russian lunar lander since the mid-1970s. The lander is a joint project with the European space agency. The mission is planned as the beginning of a Russian attempt to jumpstart its space program by joining the rush to the moon.

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NASA's Europa Clipper will find out if Jupiter's icy moon is habitable
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Thursday, September 03, 2020

Starship SN6 150M Successful Hop!

One step closer to Mars! Elon Musk's SpaceX completes its SECOND Starship 'hop' sending another prototype rocket nearly 500 feet into the air
Report sees ways Artemis supports sustainable human Mars exploration
Trump offers promises for the Space Force and NASA for the second term
Musk emphasizes progress in Starship production over testing
NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to use it could make Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about the universe.
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NASA test-fires its SLS megarocket booster for future moon missions
Elon Musk to build ‘glorious’ Martian city with 1,000-starship fleet – but warns first visitors ‘will probably die’
‘Urgent’ request sent to states in push for coronavirus vaccine delivery by Nov. 1