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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

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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

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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?