Tuesday, December 17, 2024

UAE ‘leads 5 projects’ aimed at Moon, Mars, asteroid belt
The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies: And How to Refute Them with Truth #CommissionEarned
Meet Endurance, a pioneering NASA moon rover designed to survive the frigid lunar night
Elon Musk solves Tesla and SpaceX's biggest problems in a week — and repeats that 52 times a year, Marc Andreessen says
NASA releases long-term strategy for robotic Mars exploration
KILL OBAMACARE, NOT CEOs
Trump Is Back, This Time Without Disdain
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned
Assad’s Fall Is a Chance to Back the Kurds
The Right Way for Trump to Ditch the Paris Agreement
Justin Trudeau Nears the End in Canada

Monday, December 16, 2024

New Immunotherapy Platform Better Targets Cancer Cells
Reading Actually Reshapes Your Brain — Here’s How It Changes Your Mind
MAID in the Great White North: Canadian per Capita Euthanasia Deaths Now Beat U.S. Gun Deaths
Antimatter Propulsion Is Still Far Away, But It Could Change Everything
Could deuterium be the key to finding aliens?

Patton's Third Army Is Prepared

In commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge

AI-powered blood test spots earliest breast cancer signs
It’s All a Conspiracy, Right?
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned
The Middle East Is Up for Grabs
Britain Bans Puberty Blockers
Drones and the Cost of Lost Trust

Sunday, December 15, 2024

FAA takes step to streamline launch licensing process
Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure
Jared Isaacman is a brilliant choice for NASA administrator

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire entrepreneur and private space traveler Jared Isaacman to become the next NASA administrator. It came as a surprise to many, as Isaacman was not on anyone’s short list. But, on close examination, the decision should not have come as a surprise.

To rival SpaceX’s Starship, ULA eyes Vulcan rocket upgrade
Gwynne Shotwell, the woman making SpaceX’s moonshot a reality
From Starship tests to Starliner woes, recapping the biggest spaceflight missions of 2024
Cost overruns jeopardize Artemis moon landing, threaten NASA SLS rocket's future
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Edmontonian developing 3D printer that could be 'manufacturing plant of the moon'
Republicans make inroads in state legislative elections, teeing up high-stakes 2025 races
ABC settles Trump’s defamation suit for $15M

Saturday, December 14, 2024

“A Lot of Eyerolls”: Tulsi Gabbard Face-Plants With Senate Republicans
Trump Weighing Military Action Against Iran To Stop Nuclear Weapons Program: Report
The Bloodsport of Vilifying Health Insurers Must Stop
The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space
Elon Musk claims Starbase will become its own city
NASA cancels flight-ready lunar rover
Life doesn't have to be biological
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Light-induced gene therapy disables cancer cells' mitochondria
How Israel Turned the Mideast Around
Overwhelmed by the Trump Era? Try a Different Timeline

Friday, December 13, 2024

Space Force ready for liftoff: What Trump’s second term could mean
SpaceX wants to turn its Texas launch site into a city
Red Tape Is Short-Circuiting Needed Energy Projects
De-Regulation Is the Way for DOGE To Have a Real Impact
The secret reason the USA beat the USSR to the Moon
A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
Obamacare has failed
Notre-Dame Cathedral, an American Treasure in Paris
Biden Gets Lost in Trump’s Shadow

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Major Paradigm Shifts Needed for NASA’s Future Mars Exploration Science Program
New lithium challenger zinc-sulfur EV battery gets 20% power boost for longer range
Longevity Breakthrough: New Protein Discovery Could Be the Key to Healthier Aging
NASA’s boss-to-be proclaims we’re about to enter an “age of experimentation”
A new & private race to the moon
After crashing on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years
Does Life Really Need Planets? Maybe Not
Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Brilliant Rebirth
Bernie Sanders Teases 2031 Retirement
Harris Campaign Remains in Denial
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
The Wrong Lessons From the Iraq War
Manchin and Sinema’s Gift to Workers
Trump’s NASA pick says military will inevitably put troops in space

Jared Isaacman speaks with Space Force Guardians following NASA Administ...

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
Human beta cell regeneration research moves closer to a cure for diabetes

Big Bang Theory: The Throne of Sheldon (Official Medieval Music Video)

Tom Hanks bringing 'The Moonwalkers' to Houston for US premiere in 2025
Babin Selected to Chair House Science, Space, and Technology Committee in 119th Congress
Scientists Built a Radioactive Diamond Battery That Could Last Longer Than Human Civilization
Superhot Rock Energy Could Could Provide Enough Power to Fuel the U.S. Thousands of Times Over
Promising gene therapy could transform heart failure treatment
How This Cancer Drug Could Make Radiation a Slam Dunk Therapy
Webb telescope's largest study of universe expansion confirms challenge to cosmic theory
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Insurance CEOs Aren’t the Problem
The Madness of Luigi Mangione
How Tulsi Gabbard Sees the World

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

NASA Invites Media to Panama, Austria Artemis Accords Signings Welcome to the Artemis Alliance, Austria and Panama.
Atmos Space Cargo appoints Garver as strategic adviser

I suppose this is consolation for not being Kamala Harris' NASA administrator. On the one hand, Garver knows space policy backwards and forwards and has the industry and government contacts that Atmos will find useful. On the other hand, she is a radical leftist that may prove to be a problem.

Congressmen push FAA to accelerate licensing process
The Fall of Assad's Syria Signifies that the Iranian Mullahs' Régime Will Shortly Disintegrate
ispace and Magna Petra Agree to Future Resources Exploration on the Moon’s Surface
Space Force ready for liftoff: What Trump’s second term could mean
CA lawmaker responds to Coastal Commission decision to limit SpaceX launches at Vandenberg
The moon's oldest crater is super round - and that's great news for NASA's Artemis astronauts
Carbon Capture Regulations Must Match Pace of Innovation
UnitedHealthcare and the ObamaCare Con
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
The World War II Lesson for DOGE
This Tiny Microbe Can Withstand Extreme Radiation That Would Obliterate Humans. Here’s How It Might Protect Astronauts on a Trip to Mars
How to fix the Democrats’ brand, even lefties now hate ObamaCare and other commentary

Sunday, December 08, 2024

Make Persia Great Again
The NASA-SpaceX launch to Titan sparks dreams of colonization

Recently, NASA selected the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch the Dragonfly aerial probe to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

The selection constitutes another win for Elon Musk’s launch company. It also proves SpaceX’s growing contribution to NASA’s planetary science-oriented missions to destinations such as Europa, a moon of Jupiter (launched in October) and to 16 Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid (launched in 2023).

Gladiator II Trailer - SNL

NASA has Plans for More Cargo Deliveries to the Moon
Trump's NASA pick a boon for SpaceX, but will face political challenges
What does the NASA administrator do?
Trexo’s robotic brace helps children walk more than 100 million steps
US fusion research optimizes stellarator performance to improve plasma confinement
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Brought across to undeath in the 15th Century, the Contessa Gabriella Doria has walked the night, feeding on the blood of the living. However, on occasion, she had faced foes far more formidable and certainly more evil than a vampire.

Why the Great Depression lasted so long
Breakthrough system desalinates water, produces H2, electricity to help desert farming
House GOP to choose chairs for influential committees: Who’s in the running

Saturday, December 07, 2024

My recent appearence on The Space Show podcast.
Pearl Harbor: The Horror of the Day That Lives in Infamy
Italy Begins Development of Nuclear Reactor for Lunar Settlements
Jimmy Carter 2.0: Yet another Democratic presidency ends in disaster
Has Hegseth turned a corner?
After critics decry Orion heat shield decision, NASA reviewer says agency is correct
Tim Walz admits he’s a ‘little surprised’ he, Harris lost in first interviews since Trump defeat
It appears Jared has resigned from his position as CEO of shift4
Vladimir Putin’s Nuclear Bluff
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

From Book 1: July, 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 has triumphantly returned to Earth. In this alternate history thriller, President Richard Nixon puts into a motion a scheme to ramp up the space race to pressure the Soviets into making diplomatic and military concessions. Thus begins a story of high adventure on the final frontier and of low intrigue in the corridors of power back on Earth. It will prove to be the fulfillment of a dream for Wendy Pendleton to be the first woman to walk on the moon. It will be a nightmare for Cal Lauren, a political operative determined to stop the space race at all costs to fund the social programs he holds dear.

Children of Apollo: The Space Race Gambit continues with Children of Apollo: The Hard Road to the Stars and concludes with Children of Apollo: The First Woman on the Moon

The TikTok Sale and the First Amendment
The Resurrection of Notre Dame Cathedral
Is Murdering Healthcare CEOs Justified?: Leftists on social media blame the wrong culprit for healthcare dysfunction.

Friday, December 06, 2024

Fly Me to the Moon movie now streaming on Apple TV+

I'm going to be on The Space Show podcast later today at 2 pm EST, 1 pm CST. Whatever shall we talk about?

My space policy books: Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Why is America Going Back to the Moon(How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Can anyone realistically challenge SpaceX’s launch supremacy?
Want to Invest in SpaceX? It's About to Get Easier.
Starship to Shipyards: How Space Policy Could Save U.S. Maritime Power
NASA’s Return to the Moon: Well, There’s Good News and Bad News
NASA Shares Orion Heat Shield Findings, Updates Artemis Moon Missions
Donald Trump, Environmentalist
Vladimir Putin’s Nuclear Bluff

A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned

The Propaganda War on Israel Never Stops
What Biden’s Lawfare Has Wrought
The Bitcoin Boom and Easy Money

Thursday, December 05, 2024

AI Outperforms AI-Assisted Doctors in Diagnostic Reasoning
How did the CEO of an online payments firm become the nominee to lead NASA?
Jeff Bezos is ‘very optimistic’ about Trump — and that Blue Origin will be bigger than Amazon
TerraPower Isotopes’ Chris Dunckley spearheads pursuit of ultra-rare element to trest cancer
Starships, Space Policy and Power Plays
Solar paint by Mercedes could boost electric vehicle range by 7,456 miles
Bezos not concerned about Musk’s influence on Trump administration
A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful
Walmart Says Goodbye to DEI
Trump’s unfinished business: An independent Space Force
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Voters Back Trump’s Foreign Policy of Peace Through Strength
Pete Hegseth: I’ve Faced Fire Before. I Won’t Back Down
RFK Jr.’s Race Against the Cure

Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Jared Isaacman Tapped to be Next NASA Administrator

From Scott Pace: “Excellent choice. He has the technical, management, and business skills NASA needs, plus personal spaceflight experience. He’s walked the walk. Not just talked about space.”

From Jim Bridenstine: “Jared Isaacman will be an outstanding NASA Administrator and leader of the NASA family. Jared’s vision for pushing boundaries, paired with his proven track record of success in private industry, positions him as an ideal candidate to lead NASA into a bold new era of exploration and discovery. I urge the Senate to swiftly confirm him.”

Trump picks Musk ally Jared Isaacman to head NASA
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
Shale Oil Is More Likely To Boom Than Peak
Trump May Cancel NASA's SLS Moon Rocket
What Is Primary: Mind or Matter?
Eco-friendly moos: Feeding cattle seaweed cuts methane emissions by almost 40%
Why we're heading back to the Moon - and on to Mars
Germanic warriors in the Roman era may have used drugs in battle
Landmark photosynthesis gene discovery boosts plant height, advances crop science
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
AI and the Automation of Work for Gen Z
A Trump Voter Walks Into My Office
Transgender Minors at the Supreme Court

Tuesday, December 03, 2024

The Future of Blood Stem Cell Transplants Is Here
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
SpaceX Weighs Tender Offer at Roughly Valuation $350 Billion
The next NASA administrator needs to clean house for commercial space
A New Nuclear Age
U.S. "Energy Dominance:" A Key to Trump's Peace Bid
Milton Friedman’s Revenge
How Industrial Biology Will Transform Our World
Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check
Should Offshore Oil Rigs Be Turned into Artificial Reefs?
Archaeologists May Have Found a Shipwreck From Vasco da Gama’s Final Voyage
New brain aging test aims to predict dementia risk up to 30 years before symptoms emerge
Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with extreme energy efficiency
Stimulating hypothalamus restores walking in paralyzed patients
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
The Syrian Rebels’ Lessons for Washington
Climate-Change Colonialism Keeps Poor Countries Impoverished
Trump, Biden and Hamas’s Hostages

Monday, December 02, 2024

A Vision of a Developing Lunar Frontier
Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (2 book series #CommissionEarned
Director of Cold War film ‘Red Dawn’ said movie’s success taught him lesson about liberal Hollywood
Trump, Musk Aim for Mars While Reshaping US Space Policy. Will Congress Comply?
NASA Is Seeking Ideas for Rescuing an Astronaut from the Moon
‘Shameful if Chinese astronauts on moon before US’
America needs Trump to unleash natural gas
How the UK’s austerity policies caused life expectancy to fall
Lockheed Martin unveils solar power array for Artemis program
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Something’s Burning in Trudeau’s Canada
Jay Bhattacharya and the Vindication of the ‘Fringe’ Scientists
The Syrian Civil War Erupts Again

Sunday, December 01, 2024

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

Having survived World War II and returned to America, General George S. Patton is given a new assignment by President Harry Truman. He is to travel to the British Mandate of Palestine, where a bloody war is brewing between Jews and Arabs, and give his evaluation to the President. But Patton's tendency to exceed his orders may prove a problem for the United States government. Moreover, a dark secret from his past will threaten to derail his mission entirely.

A stunning work of alternate history that places one of the 20th Century's greatest soldiers in the midst of the founding of the State of Israel.

Trump can axe entrenched DEI frameworks his first week back in the White House
Scientists discover way to deliver medicines across brain's protective barrier
The next NASA administrator needs to clean house for commercial space

NASA is in need of new leadership and guidance lest a bedrock of its programs, the increasing reliance on the commercial sector to accomplish tasks in a timely and cost-effective manner, including the Artemis program, fail.

Trump selects Kash Patel as FBI director
Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet
What would happen day by day if aliens made contact with earth, according to ex-NASA expert
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
US Special Forces to get combat robots to advance operational capability
Is Syria About to Fall?
Harris Camp Still Fundraising to Pay of $20 Million in Debt