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The Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act, designed to create a domestic American microchip industry, also includes the bare bones of a NASA authorization bill. The NASA part of the CHIPS Act includes several provisions, not the least of which is a strongly worded suggestion concerning the launch rate for the Space Launch System (SLS).
Thursday, July 28, 2022
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently accused China of plotting a military takeover of the moon. He noted the several successful landings the Chinese have achieved on the lunar surface. Through its English-language mouthpiece, the Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party hotly denied any such ambitions and accused the United States of “hypocrisy” and harboring imperial ambitions of its own concerning Earth’s nearest neighbor.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Addendum: There is a wild discussion over at Space Politics with the usual ranting, blathering, and clueless behavior. Here is an especially delicious gem coming from our favorite "recovered aerospace engineer," referring to Gene Cernan.
I can infer it from the clueless things he says. If someone tells me 2+2=5, I will call them out on it, and I don’t care if he was the first man to step on Mars.
Sheila Jackson Lee could not have said it better. It illustrates the arrogance and cluelessness exhibited over the years by the Internet Rocketeer club, a group of angry, little men who are about to get a cold dose of reality as adults like Olson move to reclaim the American space program.
For the record, by the way, Gene Cernan, whom Rand choose to slime, was the last man to walk on the Moon.