Wednesday, May 12, 2021

No green thumb required: Open-source robots can now grow a small farm for you
First All-Virtual NewSpace Business Plan Competition, with $5000 prize, won by Venture Ingredients

"Venture Ingredients is developing a closed-system that can process solid human waste into fish meal, which in turn can sustain a variety of food fish that humans generally prefer. This system, while initially designed for space experimentation, can also be expanded to add value in a very lucrative waste processing market right here on earth, adding to human food supplies at the same time."

Kendra Horn is io be new executive director of the Space Council. Big mistake, IMHO.
Ultra-Fast Air And Space Travel Just Got Closer With a Hypersonic Detonation Test
Is war in space inevitable?
Children of Apollo
A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX
Xi Jinping’s Achilles Heel
Hamas Tests Israel—and Biden

Sunday, May 09, 2021

Biden as the new FDR: It's the same old bad deal for jobs
What should NASA do about the Chinese space station?

It says a lot about the regard that the Chinese government has for the safety of others that the core stage of the Long March 5B, which launched the Tianhe module of that country’s planned space station, is due to crash back to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry. The rocket will mostly burn up on reentry, but large pieces could still bombard the Earth. If the spent rocket lands in an inhabited area, we can mark it as yet another crime committed by Beijing against the civilized world.

Elon Musk Monologue - SNL

SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites in record 10th liftoff (and landing) of reused rocket
SpaceX Really Might Change American Spaceflight Forever
The Flight of the Grey Falcon
NASA Administrator Statement on Chinese Rocket Debris
NASA Lunar Crater Radio Telescope: Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages

Replace the Arecibo radio telescope with one on the moon's far side

OK, That Was Actually Funny: Elon Musk (Joined By His Mom!) Delivers Self-Deprecating SNL Opening Monologue

Friday, May 07, 2021

Monday, May 03, 2021

Vice President Harris Swears in NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson

By choosing SpaceX, NASA proves it is serious about returning to the moon

When NASA really wants to make a statement, it does not kid around. By choosing SpaceX as the sole contractor for the lunar Human Landing System, NASA proclaimed that it is serious about returning astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in about 50 years — and the sooner, the better.

NELSON SWEARING-IN CEREMONY HIGHLIGHTS BIPARTISANSHIP AND CONTINUITY
Instead of Betelgeuse, Keep Your eye on AG Carinae, Another Star That’s About to go Supernova
NASA Makes New Plans For Ingenuity Helicopter On Mars
Will Virgin Galactic ever be successful? A new book provides insights

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Children of Apollo
Census confirms Texas and Florida are America's future
The U.S. Can Support Freedom’s Ferment in Iran
New Texas Legislation Seeks to Allow Sunday Spirit Sales

Sunday, May 02, 2021

Will Biden's NASA win the space race with China?
SpaceX's Elon Musk has become the coolest capitalist of them all

"The real reason that Musk has become the coolest, more controversial capitalist of them all stems from the fact that NASA has made SpaceX a full partner in the Artemis return to the moon program. A lunar lander version of the Starship won sole funding for the Human Landing System (HLS). NASA is forking over $2.9 billion for SpaceX to make two moon landings. The first will be an unpiloted test flight. The second will take the first astronauts to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in December 1972. Unlike Apollo, Artemis has become a true public-private partnership."

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How UAE's Emirates Lunar Mission is preparing full steam to send Rashid to the moon
China Takes Big Step Toward Independent Space Station
SpaceX may attempt to launch its Starship SN15 rocket in Texas soon
Gabriella's Holy War
White House says Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the space council
SpaceX Will Take NASA to the Moon -- Maybe
SpaceX-NASA Crew-1 astronauts returned from ISS -- here's what went down