House appropriators offer support to threatened NASA missions

Your Name Could Orbit the Moon with NASA’s Artemis II

Study explains how a rare gene variant contributes to Alzheimer’s disease

Amazon’s Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch

Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars? The plot thickens

Forget the wild-haired savages. Here’s what Vikings really looked like

Qatar and the U.S. Have a Secret Deal

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

The AI-Driven Assembly Line

GOP Has a Chance in Michigan’s Senate Election

The Murder of Charlie Kirk The MAGA movement leader was known for inviting debate with opponents.

After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch

Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars?

Musk confident Starship will start launching 100 tons to orbit next year

“She Loved America”: Mother of Iryna Zarutska

Books by Mark R. Whittington

Articles by Mark R. Whittington

Charlotte train slaughter suspect should never have been free to kill Ukrainian refugee, his brother says: ‘They could have prevented it’

Are We on the Threshold of Commercial Fusion?

Apophis flyby in 2029 will be the first time a potentially hazardous asteroid has been visible to the naked eye

RFK, MAHA say how they'll confront chronic diseases in kids. Why are some disappointed?

Astronomers May Have Discovered The First Rocky Earth-Like World With An Atmosphere, Just 41 Light Years Out

The Evolution of the Human Brain Itself May Explain Why Autism is so Common

Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

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

Israel’s Surprising Economic Resilience

The CDC Can Help Those Disfigured by ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Israel Targets Hamas in Qatar

EU wants to mine the Moon for clean energy resources

SpaceX test fires next Super Heavy booster for Starship's 11th upcoming launch

Climate Zealots Must Be Stopped From Abusing Courts for Political Goals

Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?

Your Next Therapist Could be a Video Game or a Wearable and It Might Actually Work

Scientists Just Discovered a Massive Source of Drinking Water Hiding Beneath the Atlantic Ocean

New Catalyst Recycles Plastics Without Sorting. It Even Works on Dirty Trash

Mars Seems to Have a Hot, Solid Core and That’s Surprisingly Earth-Like

Trump-Style Populism Is Rising in Europe

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

The Economics of Education Reform

Who Can Save France Now?

Mamdani to ‘Discourage’ Intifada Call

Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage

Scientists discover potential way to combat deadly weight loss in cancer patients

‘Space economy is like iPhone’: NASA's Sean Duffy tosses analogy, tells ‘bright spot’ in US-Russia relation is...

This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon

The More Astronomers Watch Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, the Weirder It Gets

Brainless bodies and pig organs: does science back up Putin and Xi’s longevity claims?

The Billionaires Fueling the Quest for Longer Life

‘War Department’ Is a Good Start

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

At Long Last, Clarity on Climate

Ukrainian Missile Fuel, Made in Denmark

A Senate Confirmation Fast Lane?

Why the US is going back to the moon after 50 years

Cruz’s committee is taking China’s ‘bad moon on the rise’ seriously

The Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees NASA, recently held a hearing with the colorful title of “There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise: Why Congress and NASA Must Thwart China in the Space Race.”

As the title suggests, the committee convened to examine the possibility that China might actually be the first country back to the moon and what could be done about it.

Orson Welles Meets AI in a Restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ — and Its Lost Ending

Ten flights in, the Starship Program has had successes and failures

NASA releases details on revised next phase of commercial space station development

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Ex-Chicago Police chief: Democrats are afraid Trump will fix city crime

8 Instances Of Chinese Nationals Arrested Across US College Campuses

‘I Don’t Give A Sh*t What You Call It’: JD Vance Goes Nuclear On Leftist Influencer

Ode To Greta Thunberg - How Dare You?! (AI Parody Song)

Trump's Share-the-Wealth Retirement Plan Will Help All Americans

How the Space shuttle helped women break Nasa's glass ceiling

"Why Haven't We Gone Back to the Moon?" | Official Preview

Scientists Can Now Use Glue Gun To Repair Broken Bones

It Makes More Sense to Produce Hydrogen With Nuclear, Not Renewables

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

U.S. sending 10 fighter jets to Puerto Rico for operations targeting drug cartels

Putin Sends Trump Two More Bad Signals

Can Trump’s ‘War Department’ Win a War?

NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon

Duffy pushes back against testimony that NASA is falling behind China in lunar

Is the Left Losing Its Cultural Power?

NASA Is Testing a Nuclear Battery That Could Last 433 Years

Yesterday’s Senate hearing on Artemis: It’s all a game!

Putin, Xi Hot Mic Moment on Organ Transplants Underscores Concerns Over Organ Harvesting in China

A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Stem Cells Age Faster in Space

Britain’s Speech Police Nab Comedian Graham Linehan

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me

RFK Jr.’s Operation Warped Memory

Abbas and Macron Play Games With Oct. 7

Companies race to win ground transportation contracts for the moon

NASA names exploration official as associate administrator

Former NASA chief says United States likely to lose second lunar space race

Scientists Reprogram Blood Cells to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Fight Aging In the Brain

Florida Is About to Become One Big Health Experiment

Give Bernie the Boot

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Three Big Lies About the Israel-Hamas War

Trump’s Gunboat War on Drugs

China’s Military Parade Was a Message

Ted Cruz reminds us why NASA’s rocket is called the “Senate Launch System”

Make Space Great Again...From Huntsville

FDA approves subcutaneous Leqembi for treatment of early Alzheimer's disease

AI Co-Pilot Boosts Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface by Interpreting User Intent

World’s first thermoelectric rubber band generates electricity from body heat

The Simple Solution to Violent Crime: More Cops

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

Space Command Is Coming Home to Alabama

Israel Has Proved That Jewish Blood Is No Longer Cheap

California’s Ride-Share Stick-Up

Ted Cruz reminds us why NASA’s rocket is called the “Senate Launch System”

Trump directs U.S. Space Command move to Huntsville, reversing Biden decision

Mark Whittington -- Books

ANALYSIS: Taking the measure of NASA’s CLPS program

NASA advances lunar nuclear plan with commercial focus

NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells

Democrats run away from ‘Green New Deal’ after peddling radical plan for years

Three-minute test helps identify people at greater risk of Alzheimer’s, trial finds

Saganized: Why Scientists Frowned Upon Carl Sagan

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

Mars’s interior more like Rocky Road than Millionaire’s Shortbread

Trump’s Defining Issue: China

Why the Supreme Court Could Uphold Trump’s Tariffs

Israeli weather war machine strikes again. Gaza aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg returns to port due to storm

Scientists Turn Plastic into Hydrogen by Microwaving It

Canada's first lunar rover looks to future space exploration

SpaceX Starship, the brash giant that could redefine the plot

Starship’s heat shield appears to have performed quite well in test

NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 – choosing where is tricky

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

Private Social Security accounts offer a path to reform

Cracker Barrel furor was about more than a logo. Stop erasing America's heritage.

Doctors find drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks

Can vitamin D supplements really slow aging, as a recent study suggests?

China is poised to beat NASA to the moon, but it might not matter

The 10th test of the SpaceX Starship has been launched and by all accounts was wildly successful in meeting its objectives. What do the results tell us about the likelihood that NASA and its commercial and international partners will beat China back to the Moon?

Islamic Republic close to collapse in Iran, civil war possible after US, Israeli decimation of nuclear capabilities: experts

Victor Davis Hanson: WWII Revisionists Get It Wrong on Hitler

UK Protests Gain Steam

Buc-ee's and The Infinite American Spirit

Power play: why NASA is betting on nuclear to outpace rivals on the Moon

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

In 1944, with the world convulsed with war, the Contessa Gabriella Doria haunts the piazzas and canals of Venice. Few people know that she is not only an agent for Britain’s MI6 but that she is also a 450 year old vampire. But one SS officer, Kurt Hesselman, knows and has vowed to destroy her, using the occult powers he was born with. Their battle will rage from Gabriella’s beloved Venice to occupied France, and hence to Great Britain on the eve of the largest sea borne invasion in history. The outcome of the war and the fate of the world will hang in the balance.

NASA’s Webb Telescope just found 300 galaxies that defy explanation

Creating Affordable Housing Requires Just One Simple Legislative Change

Longtime Dem Donor Doles Out Money To Black GOP Nominee After Racist Attack

Starship’s heat shield appears to have performed quite well in test

NASA debuts new Orion mission control room for Artemis 2 astronaut flight around the moon

Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Would Sink New York Landlords

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

The Business of American Military Deterrence

Snapback Sanctions Hit Iran

Trump’s Venezuelan War Games

Books by Mark R. Whittington #CommissionEarned

Articles by Mark R. Whittington

A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding

What Happened To Tucker?

With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater

US Military Just Tested a Microwave Weapon That Instantly Zapped an Entire Swarm of Drones Out of the Sky

Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace (Taylor’s Version)

Make a STEM Connection: Artemis II Mission

What's next for SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket after Flight 10 success?

What does SpaceX’s Starship test success mean for the US-China moon race?

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

Red Tape Is the Biggest Crop on Some Farms

Taiwan Gets Serious About Deterrence

Europe Pulls the ‘Snap-Back’ Trigger on Iran

Have Drones Already Become Obsolete In Warfare?

Russian space official: “We need to stop lying to ourselves” about health of industry

A Trump Grab For Stakes In Defense Firms Could Be A Nightmare For Musk's SpaceX

How to maintain a healthy gut

10 times space missions went hilariously wrong

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

US Has New Guidelines For High Blood Pressure. Here's What That Means.

What the Iranian Regime Does Best

Lies and D.C. Crime Statistics

‘Rocky’ Found: Anthony Ippolito to Play Sylvester Stallone in Amazon MGM’s Movie Behind Making of Boxing Classic

China is making serious progress in its goal to land astronauts on the moon by 2030

Ex-SpaceX Engineers Are Building a Cheap, Portable Nuclear Reactor

Surging US LNG exports to fuel growth in shale gas production

How stupid has science been?

Latest launch of SpaceX’s Starship deploys 8 dummy satellites, then splashes down into Indian Ocean

The Romans Actually Returned to Pompeii After the Eruption for a Few Chaotic Centuries

Should We Believe the AI Doomsayers?

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

Trump’s Crime Crackdown Is a Political Winner

Sanctions Can Help Trump Beat Russia

A Politician Speaks the Unspeakable

How the Apollo missions unlocked the origins of the moon

The Moon Shooters Risky missions, geopolitical rivals, and upheaval at NASA—behind the scenes with two Texas space companies chasing untold billions on the lunar frontier.

NASA Administrator comments on future flights to the Moon

Fueling the Nuclear Future

What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?

The Unlikely Revival of Nuclear Batteries

Is Sex Binary? Eight Arguments and a Leading Nonbinary Theory Examined

Giant solar panels in space could deliver power to Earth around the clock by 2050

U.S. Mine Waste Contains Enough Critical Minerals and Rare Earths to Easily End Imports. But Tapping into These Resources Is Anything but Easy

Parked Dark-Colored Cars Are Like Mini Heat Islands That Make City Streets Several Degrees Hotter

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

Divers Pulled a Sphinx and Roman Coins From a 2,000-Year-Old Sunken City in Egypt

Why Ukraine Won’t Give Up Donetsk

A Politician Speaks the Unspeakable Germany’s Friedrich Merz says the current welfare state isn’t affordable.

Cargo Dragon to demonstrate ISS reboost

Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Citizen of the Galaxy’ Gets Animated Film Adaptation From Jay Oliva

Citizen of the Galaxy #CommissionEarned

China, Russia, and U.S. Race to Develop Lunar Nuclear Reactors

Russia Delays Moon and Venus Missions Again

NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers 300 Mysterious Objects That Shouldn’t Exist

The majority of business owners in the US are right-leaning — here’s why

How Doctors Want to Die

Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

Scientists Master the Process For Better Chocolate and It’s Not in the Beans

SpaceX scrubs crucial 10th test flight of Starship

Can AI help us reduce hiring bias? It’s possible, but it needs healthy human values around it

Frozen Wonder: Ceres May Have Cooked Up the Right Recipe for Life Billions of Years Ago

The People’s Republic of Hollywood

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

A Letter to Emmanuel Macron

How to Beat the High Cost of Cooling

Uncle Sam Shouldn’t Own Intel Stock

Trump clears the way for a commercial space revolution

Recently, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry.” Its text suggests that the real title should be “Making commercial space great again.”

False genocide charges don’t help Palestinians

Nathan Heller on E. B. White’s Paragraph About the Moon Landing

What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 10 launch today?

NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability

NASA and Google Test AI ‘Space Doctor’

NASA will announce its new astronaut class in September

Good for Trump for looking to Make the Smithsonian Great Again

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

Trump has no business taking a stake in Intel

The philosophers who predicted “ultimate” forms of consciousness

Egyptian Researchers Retrieve Artifacts From 2,000-Year-Old ‘Sunken City’ Lost To Mediterranean Sea

Race to build nuclear reactor on moon raises galaxy of legal questions

Old Space meets New Space: a decade later and beyond

China Versus US - the race to the moon

Nuclear Race To Moon: Will India Switch Sides In The Lunar Race & Join Russia & China To Challenge U.S.?

With Putin, ‘Ultimately, Trump Holds the Cards’

Why did Elon Musk call Sergio Gor, Trump's pick as US ambassador to India, ‘a snake’?

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

JD Vance Makes Friends With Britain’s ‘New Right’

California’s Train Robbery Gets Worse

Powell Flips the Fed’s ‘Framework’

Trump will appoint personnel chief Sergio Gor as ambassador to India

Gor, as you all may remember, was the Grima Wormtongue who helped to drive a rift between Trump and Elon Musk. He also persuaded the president to withdraw Jared Isaaaxman's nomination to be NASA administrator, thus throwing the space agency into chaos. Gor will have to be confirmed by the Senate. I notice that Ted Cruz, whose Senate Commerce Committee confirmed Isaacman, is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. If Cruz is willing, he could make the hearings entertaining indeed.

Climate Narrative Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

NASA needs bold leadership — or we’ll be watching on TV while Beijing lands on the moon

4,500 Marines and sailors deploy to Caribbean for anti-cartel mission

Mark Whittington -- Articles

Teflon Elon

If aliens explore space like humans do, NASA scientists know where to look for their signals

Can the U.S. Break China's Hold on Critical Minerals?

Yes, the U.S. Should Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

Scientists Master the Process For Better Chocolate and It’s Not in the Beans

Space Solar Panels Could Cut Europe’s Reliance on Land-Based Renewables by 80 Percent

Does a short nap actually boost your brain? Here’s what the science says

How to Think About Trump and Ukraine

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

Who Is a ‘Journalist’ in Gaza?

Putin’s Ukraine Summitry Was a Big Con

Letitia James Gets Trumped on Appeal

SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?

Patton, the man, the movie, and the “they just don’t write ‘em like that anymore” phenomenon

US Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane will test quantum alternative to GPS navigation

Room-temperature reactor uses electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates

NASA to Announce New Astronaut Class, Preview Artemis II Moon Mission

Scientists May Have Found a New Mineral on Mars. It Hints The Red Planet Stayed Warm Longer

Bed, Bath and Beyond California

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Trump Forces D.C. to Get Real About Homelessness

RFK Jr.’s Misguided War on mRNA

The ICC Is a Danger to Americans

World's first spinal cord transplant to take place in Israel, could allow patients to walk again

Somewhere Christopher Reeves and Charles Krauthammer smile.

Biggest losers, all of those keyboard jihadis who want to destroy the State of Israel.

Scientists Warn About Scientists’ Warnings

China eyes Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus in the hunt for habitability

China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

Finally, an Unbiased and Objective Climate Science Report

New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope

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

Solar Trees Could Save Forests From Deforestation While Generating the Same Power as Solar Farms

Zohran Mamdani Is Like a Bad Therapist

RFK Jr.’s Misguided War on mRNA

An Atheist Has Second Thoughts After Strange Experiences Caring for Dying People

Sean Duffy on NASA efforts to beat China in race back to the moon

NASA-developed printable metal can withstand extreme temperatures

An alternative to LASIK — without the lasers

Google, Kairos Power to launch small modular nuclear reactor in Tennessee

‘Skin in a Syringe’ Might be the Future of Scar Free Healing For Burn Victims

You Can Now Buy a Humanoid Robot for Under $6,000 – Here’s What It Can Do

China Conducts First Static Engine Test For Long March-10 Lunar Rocket

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Attack on mRNA Research

How the West Can Halt Putin’s Battlefield Momentum

Trump Gets Real on Ukraine’s Security

In which Eric Berger throws in the towel on the second race to the moon

NASA and Google test AI medical assistant for astronaut missions to the moon and Mars

What Should Humanity Do on the Day After an Interstellar Object is Recognized as Technological?

Getting to the Moon or Mars? Musk and Bezos Tackle Space Travel’s Refueling Problem

The Final Vacation Frontier

SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

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

The Real House Democratic Nightmare

The Phantom Patients of ObamaCare

What Kind of Peace in Ukraine?

Some People Are Immune to All Viruses. Scientists Now Want To Replicate This Ability for a Universal Antiviral

Critics shouldn’t block NASA’s nuclear path to a moon base

Sean Duffy, NASA’s interim administrator, proved that the U.S. is serious about establishing a lunar base when he announced the deployment of a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. The idea, although a sound one, is not without its critics.

NASA Probe Could Intercept Interstellar Comet, Scientists Say

Crew Sets Up Space Hardware to Make Fiber Optics and Brew Lunar Sake

Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

How Newsom’s Retaliation Against Texas Redistricting Could Backfire

To the Moon and Back: A Novel #CommissionEarned

Asteroids

China conducts first seven-engine static fire test for moon rocket

Blue Origin's 2nd New Glenn rocket launch will fly twin NASA Mars probes to space on Sep. 29

SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

Scientists may have found a powerful new space object: 'It doesn't fit comfortably into any known category'

Finally, an Unbiased and Objective Climate Science Report

Will the Democrats Go Centrist in the 2028 Election?

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommmissionEarned

In France, Sweltering Is a Climate Virtue

The Real House Democratic Nightmare

No Ukraine Cease-Fire From Putin

California rejects Elon Musk’s rocket-launch proposal

Investing in Space: All aboard the SpaceX Mars express

Intuitive Machines Submits Proposal for NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle Delivery and Operations Contract

Trump signs executive order to boost commercial space — and shift NASA's balance of power

Duffy says climate science will ‘move aside,’ with NASA only focusing on space exploration

Social Security is 90 years old. We are making it smarter, better, faster under Trump

Private Spaceflight Enters the Wild West as Trump Slashes Regulations

Brain-computer interface could decode inner speech in real time

This New Indoor Solar Cell Could Power the Entire Internet of Things Using Only the Light From Your Ceiling

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

A Man With Type 1 Diabetes Produces His Own Insulin After Receiving Millions of Gene Edited Pancreatic Cells

How Trump Can Win at the Alaska Summit

Iran Invites ‘Snap-Back’ Sanctions

'Take to the Streets!': Benjamin Netanyahu’s Message to the People of Ir...

This stock could benefit as Trump tries to put a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to Bank of America

Featherweight flyers could ‘levitate’ above Earth indefinitely

Scientists Found a Way to Turn Hair into Toothpaste That Repairs Your Teeth

Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

ENABLING COMPETITION IN THE COMMERCIAL SPACE INDUSTRY

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories

Midterm Strengths and Dangers

Trump, Chicago and No Cash Bail

Why Putin Wants All of Donetsk in Ukraine

Coming soon from Christian Davenport Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race #CommissionEarned

Vulcan Centaur rocket launches experimental military satellite on its 1st-ever national security mission

How to Build a Medieval Castle

Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist

Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: The brain is not a machine

We Need a 'Mini-Manhattan Project' for Nuclear Electric Propulsion By Jared Isaacman , Newt Gingrich

Elon Musk says he’s suing Apple for rigging App Store rankings

AI Can Hear Cancer in the Voice Before Doctors Can Detect It

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

Expand the Abraham Accords to Azerbaijan and Beyond

If the U.S. Doesn’t Set Global Tech Standards, China Will

Trump, Chicago and No Cash Bail

PM Netanyahu: Today I'm going to make an unprecedented offer to Iran.

This was made 7 years ago, but considering the current water apocalypse looming, it had a current urgency.

'Allahu Akbar and Thank God': Meet the Al Jazeera 'Journalist' the Mainstream Media Are Mourning

Mark Whittington's books #comissionearned

Mark R. Whittington articles

William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future

Yes, a Moon Base

Off-the-shelf vaccine shows promise in preventing cancers returning, study finds

Why Were Dinosaurs So Big?

Sugar Compound from Deep-Sea Bacteria Causes Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

Napoleon’s Lessons for Trump

Donald Trump, D.C. Police Commissioner

The Putin Stakes for Trump

Trump Declares War on Cartels, Maduro

Don’t trust the ‘influencers’ — Trump’s base isn’t breaking over Israel

The Dawn of a New Era in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's Treatment

The US Navy Just Tested a Laser Weapon That Could Change Warfare Forever

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

Scientists Are Finally Making Progress Against Alzheimer’s

Trump Plans to Give Your 401(k) a Boost

Cuomo Campaigns Against Cuomo

Mark R. Whittington articles

Mark Whittington's books #comissionearned

Sean Duffy is doing a great job at NASA, but it might not be enough

The naming of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as interim NASA administrator was as much of a surprise as was President Trump’s withdrawal of his nomination of Jared Isaacman to the same post.

So, how is Duffy doing, trying to bring the space agency out from its summer of discontent?

Is Gaza Starving? Searching for the Truth in an Information War.

Gina Carano Achieves Complete Victory In Disney Lawsuit Settlement Over 'Mandalorian' Firing

Trump’s first-term space policy was great, but now he’s dropping the ball

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus: Assessing the continued misrepresentations about Hamas and Gaza by Tucker Carlson and Retired Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar

Texas-based Firefly made history with its moon landing. Here’s how it’s fueling its next adventures

China completes landing and takeoff test for crewed moon lander

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars

NASA's Hubble telescope reveals most detailed photos of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS to date

Trump is returning NASA to its glory days

Hyundai to deliver nuclear power to Fermi America's 11GW AI campus in Amarillo, Texas

New research pipeline fuels the development of universal vaccines

SpaceX signs deal to fly Italian experiments to Mars on Starship's 1st commercial Red Planet flights

Republicans Push Back On OMB NASA Budget Request

Is your brain really necessary for consciousness?

Reforming NASA: A path to Mars and beyond by Jared Isaacman and Newt Gingrich

How Phil Murphy Caused New Jersey Electricity Prices to Soar

Living in Zohran Mamdani’s America

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Tom Hanks Honors Astronaut Jim Lovell, Who He Portrayed in ‘Apollo 13’: ‘God Speed You, on This Next Voyage’

James Arthur Lovell Jr., 1928-2025

Trump Is Right on ‘Debanking’

Apollo 13 - Ending Scene (HD)

Note the older gentleman who salutes Tom Hanks at 3:09 into the video.

Jim Lovell has passed. Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell

A mysterious substance on Mars might be an undiscovered mineral

RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon – a space lawyer explains why, and what the law has to say

Space Company Firefly’s Stock Zooms in Wall Street Debut

Evidence Found for Planet around Closest Sun-Like StarEvidence Found for Planet around Closest Sun-Like Star

This Common Ingredient in Chocolate May Outperform Tamiflu Against the Flu In New Drug Combo

Scientists Have a Plan to Launch a Chip-Sized, Laser-Powered Spacecraft Toward a Nearby Black Hole and Wait 100 Years for It to Send a Signal Home

AI Is Here, and a Quiet Havoc Has Begun

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

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

Democrats’ Gerrymander Flub

Lebanon’s Showdown With Hezbollah

California Homes for We, But Not Thee

DHS Turns South Park Smear of ICE Agents Into Epic Recruiting Ad

CBS host questions Trump admin plans to create moon base, warns of new 'age of colonialism'

Scientists Were Wrong: Apollo 16 Rocks Rewrite the Story of the Moon’s Exosphere

What a nuclear reactor on the Moon really means for NASA’s future

Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease?

Is Iran running out of water?

Elephants Use Dozens of Gestures to Ask for Apples and Scientists Say That’s No Accident

The Texas Walkout: All Hat, No Cattle?

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Gerrymandering and JB Pritzker’s Inferno

Kill Jews, Get Your Own State

No Alzheimer’s Drug for Old Men?

80 Years Later: The Case For Hiroshima

NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on plans for a moon-based nuclear reactor

The California Coastal Commission’s fight with Elon Musk’s SpaceX is back on

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory: the future (or end) of NASA science

Congress Passes Small Spending Cut, Republic Survives

Trump, the Working Class and Social Order

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

The Scholar Who Saw Zohran Mamdani Coming in 2003

Britain Is on the Verge of Regime Change

Kill Jews, Get Your Own State

Trump’s first-term space policy was great, but now he’s dropping the ball

Lockheed Martin targets 2028 demo of space-based missile interceptors

The Humans Where The Heroes Of Avatar All Along

Death rates from cardiovascular disease have fallen dramatically — what were the breakthroughs behind this?

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon

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

This mRNA HIV Vaccine Produces the Virus-Fighting Antibodies That Have Eluded Researchers for 40 Years

Hamas Starves Jews and Palestinians, and Israel Gets Blamed

Texas Reopens the Gerrymander Wars

Poll: Most Palestinians Say No to Peace If It Means Weakening Hamas

Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to remove quorum-breaking Texas Democrats from office

Mayo Clinic researchers find “sugar coating” cells can protect those typically destroyed in type 1 diabetes

Andrew Cuomo Can Still Save New York City

AI’s Overlooked $97 Billion Contribution to the Economy

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

Ukrainians’ Anticorruption Victory

Making a Palestinian State Less Likely

Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock

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Support for NASA returning to the moon and going to Mars is surging

A recent poll conducted by CBS News provides an encouraging look into public support for the Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon and eventually send humans to Mars.

Texas House advances newly drawn congressional map that favors GOP

Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as top DC prosecutor

Palestinian Terrorists Release Videos of Hostages Being Starved, Tormented, Digging Own Grave

Why Materialism Can't Explain the Mind: Journalist Denyse O'Leary

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

Things Worth Remembering: How P.J. O’Rourke Skewered the Swamp

Understanding the SpaceX-Era Economy

Space program funding is good news for Louisiana and Gulf Coast

The terrible Hamas lie that ‘the Jews did this’ spreads around the world

Artemis II on track for moon trip as early as February 2026

SpaceX just launched disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station

Senators raise NASA funding concerns in letter to Duffy

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Roscosmos celebrates meeting of agency leaders that NASA ignored

Sudan’s Brutal, Forgotten War

Trump’s Nuclear Submarine Message to Russia

Here is an archive of my most recent appearance on The Space Show podcast

New drug could halt Alzheimer’s

Russia's Roscosmos, NASA agree to extend ISS operations until 2028

Trump’s man in NASA

Trump’s Historic Energy Deal with Europe Proves U.S. Energy Dominance

The Space Station’s Russian Segment Won’t Stop Leaking Air

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

Lab-Grown Beef Now Has Real Muscle Fibers and It’s One Step Closer to Burgers With No Slaughter

The Rise of the Climate Right

A Nixonian Trump Offer to China?

This city could run dry ‘within weeks’ as it grapples with an acute water crisis

First thing when the Shah is restored, bring in Israeli water experts to start fixing the problem.

NASA Locked Them Up for a Year to Simulate Life on Mars. Today, They Reveal What They Did With Their Time: A Lot of PS4 Gaming

The Push For a Sustainable Lunar Economy

How the forces of militant Islam precipitated the English Civil War and changed England forever

Space Policy Edition: Are Democrats falling behind on space policy?

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How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

Abundance in Orbit—The Case for Democrats Reclaiming NASA's Bold Vision

The First Soda in Space: When NASA Got Caught Up in the Cola Wars

Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant

We’re going back to the Moon during Trump’s presidency, acting NASA administrator says

Australia’s first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff

India and US launch 'first-of-its-kind' satellite