Sunday, June 27, 2021

The Chinese-Russian Lunar Axis adopts a plan from the late Paul Spudis

Recently, a group of Russian and Chinese space officials revealed plans for what they call an “International Lunar Research Station” during a conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. The plan for the facility’s development seemed remarkably similar to one proposed by Paul Spudis, the late lunar geologist and return-to-the-moon advocate, and Tony Lavoie, at the time employed by NASA.

ELON MUSK CRITICIZES NASA, SAYS SPACESHIPS SHOULD FLY BETWEEN SPACE STATIONS
Futuristic planned tower in China would feature 99 floating islands
Bill Maher Slams 'Outrageous' Facebook and Google for Suppressing Lab Leak Theory
When the Aliens Come, Will Their Arrival Destroy Our Faith?
Space race: Inside ego-fueled competition of Bezos, Musk and Branson

“Bezos has a branding problem,” Mark R. Whittington, author of “Why is America ­Going Back to the Moon,” told The Post. “A lot of people don’t like him . . . He’s been compared to a Bond villain.”

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Jeff Bezos and the $28 million space ride triggered Bernie Sanders

"When Blue Origin, the space launch company owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, announced that someone had won an auction to ride into space on the company’s New Shepard rocket, a lot of bandwidth was expended on social media about what appeared to be a case of conspicuous consumption. The amount of money, $28 million, paid for a few minutes in space, seemed, to many, to be excessive.

Space Force set to defend deep space
Leave Jeff Bezos in space? Way-out petitions attract more than 100,000 signatures
NASA picks 3 new science experiments for commercial moon missions
Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years
We can make food from air and electricity to save land for wildlife
Congress isn’t happy about SpaceX’s lunar lander and may vent this week
Maybe the Aliens Really Are Here

Sunday, June 20, 2021

US Relationship With Vietnam Blossoms as Former Foe Opens Up Economically
For those who are interested, I'll be on The Space Show podcast Tuesday evening starting 10 PM Eastern (9 pm Central)
NASA's sudden interest in Venus is all about climate change

Recently, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that the space agency will send not one but two robotic probes to Venus under the Discovery program. The probes are DAVINCI+ and VERITAS. The two probes, which are due to be launched by the end of the 2020s, will be the first dedicated NASA missions to the second planet from the sun in decades. Why Venus and why now?

NASA 'keeping eye' on Jeff Bezos and other space astronaut billionaires
5 Things to Know About NASA's New Space Budget
NASA Struggles to Fix Failure of Hubble Space Telescope’s 1980s Computer
Buy A Brother on the Moon
US has something to learn from China about securing rare earths
American Passover
Here's What the Chinese Defector Has Reportedly Given Us About COVID...But Also on Joe and Hunter Biden

Friday, June 18, 2021

Space: The Final Frontier for Those with Disabilities?
Turkey aims to send rocket to moon in three years, land lunar rover by 2030
UAE reveals long-term Moon exploration plan at global space conference
Japan passes space resources law
A Plan to Get Divisive & Radical Theories Out of Our Schools
The 1970s moon buggies are still up there. GM and Lockheed Martin want to make new ones
Pam Melroy named next NASA Deputy Administrator
As China’s space ambitions grow, NASA tells Congress it needs more money to compete
Kill zombie programs to help balance the budget
Why Alan Shepard Carried a Dollar Bill on His Mercury Flight
How three missions to Venus could solve the planet’s biggest mysteries

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Break the Ice: Masten designs Rocket Mining System to extract lunar water
China, Russia reveal roadmap for international moon base
How a Lunar Particle Collider Could Unlock the Greatest Mysteries in Physics
Scientific American withdraws anti-Semitic op-ed
What will Elon Musk and Richard Branson do about Jeff Bezos flying into space?
China’s New Wealth-Creation Scheme: Mining the Moon
Rocket Lab wins contract to design twin Mars spacecraft for NASA
Shenzhou 12 mission docks at Chinese space station with 3 astronauts
Self-healing concrete plugs cracks with CO2 sucked from the air
McConnell: If GOP Retakes the Senate, We Will Block Biden SCOTUS Nominees
The California and Texas Greenouts
ProPublica’s Plan for a Poorer America

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Elon Musk's SpaceX Will Reportedly Send "Space Art" to the Moon, and Sell It Through Dogecoin
Federal Judge Orders Biden Administration To Halt Oil And Gas Leasing Ban
Nelson asks Senate appropriators for more HLS funding
'Moon is the first step' to a city on Mars, says top Emirati space official
Read SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell’s speech to 2021 graduates, urging US educational reforms
NASA asteroid hunter mission moves into next phase of development
See NASA's bonkers-big moon SLS rocket standing up, boosters and all
Aliens Wouldn't Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
Graphene aluminum ion batteries

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Amazon details how its warehouse robots are designed to help humans work more safely
What will Elon Musk and Richard Branson do about Jeff Bezos flying into space?

Bezos proposes to achieve several things besides fulfilling a childhood dream shared by uncounted people on planet Earth. He will prove the safety of the New Shepard rocket ship by betting his and his brother’s lives on it. The Amazon founder will change his personal brand from that of a monopolist into a private astronaut pushing back the envelope of the final frontier. Finally, Bezos will show up his rival, Elon Musk, whose rockets regularly go into orbit, but who has not yet personally flown into space. However, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson may steal a march on Bezos.

Planetary Defense: NASA Approves Continued Development Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope
SPACE IS HARD
NASA is seeking proposals for a further two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station
European Space Agency Lays Out Plans for Next 30 Years of Space Exploration
Humans will be able to reproduce on Mars because sperm can survive there for up to 200 years, a new study suggests
Blue Origin auctions seat on first spaceflight with Jeff Bezos for $28 million

Monday, June 07, 2021

Jeff Bezos is going to fly in space.
Ronald D. Moore discusses future of ‘For All Mankind’ and the ‘Outlander’ spinoff

“We’ve talked about changing life expectancy; we’ve talked about different technological changes and how they would affect society and politics and climate and all kinds of things and at a certain point, you catch up to the present, you start to exceed the present and move into what our future is too and the show becomes more and more strongly a science fiction piece the further out you go.”

Japan’s Transforming Moon Rover Gets Help From Toy Company
Gorgeous New Short Film Shows Us What an Early Lunar Colony Would Actually Look Like

NASA investigating UFO sightings, agency chief says
NASA's Juno to make the closest visit to Jupiter's biggest moon Ganymede in 20 years
The World’s Liquefied Natural Gas Market Is Roaring Back
Do Brain Differences Trigger Transgender Identity? The Science Isn't Clear

Sunday, June 06, 2021

Is the Space Force about to acquire SpaceX Starships?

Now, space transportation technology is poised to cause a similar revolution in the military’s ability to defend the United States and its allies and to inflict mayhem and death on any enemy that would propose to make war on America. The great irony is that the Starship will be used by a branch of the military that Musk once compared to Star Fleet, the fictional service depicted in the "Star Trek" television shows and movies. The thought would likely bring a smile to the franchise’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, in whatever afterlife one envisions him inhabiting.

Roland Emmerich’s ‘Moonfall’ Finally Lands A Release Date
NASA administrator details missions to moon, Mars, Venus and the agency's efforts on Earth
New ‘Master And Commander’ Movie In Works At 20th Century; Patrick Ness Penning Prequel
A Brother on the Moon
Wyoming's new nuclear power plant would be the first of its kind. What makes it different?
Trump on COVID Lab-Leak Hypothesis during NC GOP Convention: ‘China Must Pay’
‘Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven’ Review: Life and Limb in the Hereafter

Thursday, June 03, 2021

Bill Gates’ TerraPower will build its first next-gen nuclear reactor in Wyoming
Peanut the Waiter Robot Is Proof That Your Job Is Safe
NASA selects two Venus missions for Discovery program
NASA's Bill Nelson shows how sausage making will take America back to the moon
SpaceX signs bulk deal for three private Crew Dragon missions
NASA's Perseverance rover is the 1st spacecraft in years to carry fresh US plutonium. It won't be the last.
NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
Exotic Ice on Europa?
Why astronauts are printing organs in space
Children of Apollo
Cow manure and beer byproducts may replace harmful industrial pesticides while increasing yields
New 3D bio-material could help reverse arthritis
Yes, It’s Still the Economy, Stupid

Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Scammers in China Sold Bottles of ‘NASA-Certified’ Water for $160 Each I notice these flim flam artists did not claim that the "miricle water" was certified by China's space agency.
The Dirty Secret of ‘Clean’ Energy
Why is America Going Back to the Moon
NASA's Bill Nelson shows how sausage making will take America back to the moon
Should India Sign the Artemis Accords?
Russia, China hope to secure partners for moon base project
Mysterious Shining Clouds Seen Above Mars Are Both Beautiful And Unusual
Who will race SpaceX to the moon?
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
Against Shameful Accusations of Nazism and Apartheid in Israel
Wuhan Lab Theory Is a Media Warning
Correcting 1619’s Falsehoods About the American Founding