Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
Saturday, December 13, 2025
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A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams to the International Space Station.
The journey went off without incident, but the launch left such destruction in its wake that it may well have ended Russia’s storied history of human spaceflight.
Saturday, December 06, 2025
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both Republicans of Texas, want the space shuttle Discovery to be moved to Space Center Houston from its current location at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington D.C. The proposal is, putting it mildly, controversial.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
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After a couple of scrubs and a few aggravating holds, the Blue Origin New Glenn finally rocketed into the clear, blue Florida sky.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
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Sunday, November 16, 2025
With his renomination by President Trump, billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman has won the space Game of Thrones. All he has to do is go through the confirmation process again before he assumes the Iron Throne of NASA. Let that process be done with all due speed, since Isaacman has a lot to do when he becomes head of the space agency.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Friday, November 14, 2025
President Donald Trump has renominated billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator. While Isaacman is expected to sail through confirmation, not everyone is enamored with the man. The same people who disdain space-faring billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dislike Isaacman, too.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Monday, November 10, 2025
Sunday, November 09, 2025
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has experienced a massive attitude adjustment concerning going back to the moon. Recent posts on X suggests that the space billionaire entrepreneur has started to see value in accessing Earth’s nearest neighbor after all.
