Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Since it was launched and started operations in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered many secrets and the beauty of the universe. The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
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Jared Isaacman is a man of great accomplishment, having founded his first multibillion dollar company at the tender age of 16. He has embarked on two private spaceflights, including Inspiration4, which raised hundreds of billions for St. Jude’s Children’s Cancer Research Hospital. Polaris Dawn featured the first private spacewalk and ventured farther from Earth than any human has gone since Apollo 17.
Isaacman is on the brink of his greatest challenge. He will soon become NASA administrator with the mandate to take the space agency, the U.S., and the world to the moon, Mars and beyond.
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.
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U.S. Space Policy: The Next Frontier | Manhattan Institute
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Recently, some of the players in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program met with the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, part of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. The witnesses included representatives from NASA administration, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Astrobotic Technology, Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace.
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Now that Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are safe home on Earth, NASA and Boeing are turning to the original cause of their extended stay on the International Space Station.
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