Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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

Monday, August 18, 2025

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?

Sunday, August 17, 2025

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

Saturday, August 16, 2025

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

Friday, August 15, 2025

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

Thursday, August 14, 2025

'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

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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

Sunday, August 10, 2025

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

Saturday, August 09, 2025

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’

Friday, August 08, 2025

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

Thursday, August 07, 2025

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?

Wednesday, August 06, 2025

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

Tuesday, August 05, 2025

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

Sunday, August 03, 2025

Books by Mark R. Whittington
Articles by Mark R. Whittington
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

Friday, August 01, 2025

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?