Friday, March 22, 2019

NASA engineer suggests settling Saturn's moon Titan

While most space visionaries are planning for settlements on the moon and eventually Mars, a NASA engineer named Janelle Wellons has an even more ambitious idea. According to Futurism, Wellons, a mission operation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, suggested recently that humans should establish a settlement on Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system, orbiting Saturn.

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Apollo 11: How millennials can grasp the greatest event ever — for now

Meanwhile, a new documentary, "Apollo 11," has recently been released on Imax and the regular big screen that may show some of the millennials why the moon landing is such a big deal. It certainly demonstrated that fact to those people who are old enough to think both Apollo and SpaceX are pretty cool.

CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE ALREADY DEVELOPING PLANS TO COMBAT THE SPACE FORCE

The first threat the Space Force must face is the United States Congress, which may or may not approve the new service branch. Presuming that the Space Force survives the legislative process, it will face several real threats to America’s space assets.

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says ‘we should be excited about automation’

“We should be excited about automation, because what it could potentially mean is more time educating ourselves, more time creating art, more time investing in and investigating the sciences, more time focused on invention, more time going to space, more time enjoying the world that we live in,”

While it is good to know that @AOC approves of space travel, it should be pointed out that THE GREEN NEW DEAL WOULD END AMERICAN SPACE TRAVEL

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