Just a reminder, I will be on The Space Show podcast today at 12:30 p.m. EST discussing the return to the moon, space policy, recent space politics events, and no doubt a lot of related things. Click here to listen in.

Reading List: My articles in The Hill can be found here and here. Check out my Daily Caller articles here. Also, in the Washington Examiner read NASA wants to go back to the moon the hard way. Also The real reason space aliens haven’t visited Earth

During NASA ceremony, Pence promises missions to the moon and Mars

Green New Deal: "Air Travel Stops Becoming Necessary"

The High Crusade

Warrior's Heart

Colorado congressmen want to help NASA take longer missions to faraway spots

Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune

Private Moon Landers Could Help NASA's Next Giant Leap in Lunar Exploration

NASA Day of Remembrance

Lest we forget...

An award for blatant hypocrisy should go to Rep. Lizzie Fletcher:

Houston's legacy of exploration is best exemplified by the people who have set a course for outer space, to learn more about the universe and our place in it. Today, #NASARemembers, and we honor the sacrifice of those astronauts who lost their lives in this pursuit.

Nice sentiment to be sure, but it contrasts with Out of this World.

Mean Girl Democrats

Astronaut Alan Shepard's Out-Of-This-World Round Of Golf On The Moon

NASA Probe Spots China's Chang'e 4 Lander on Far Side of the Moon

Orion Shall Rise

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond

New Exhibition Highlights Story of the Richest Man Who Ever Lived

Cancer treatment at home is safe, effective, and closer to happening than you think

After making history, NASA’s tiny deep-space satellites go silent

HOW A KEY HOUSE DEMOCRAT ABANDONED SPACE EXPLORATION IN FAVOR OF CLIMATE CHANGE

When news broke that Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas) had received a seat on the House Science Committee, it raised eyebrows in the scientific and aerospace communities, which were still smarting from her attacks on science. Would she use her position to mend fences with supporters of space science, offended by her campaign’s open mocking of her opponent, John Culberson’s support for the Europa Clipper mission?

The real reason space aliens haven’t visited Earth

The problem with socialism, as the late, great Margaret Thatcher pointed out, is that, eventually, one runs out of other people’s money. We already are witnessing end-stage socialism in North Korea, where a mad tyrant lords it over a starving, parasite-ridden population, and in Venezuela, which has become a dystopia resembling that of “The Road Warrior” where the people are currently in open revolt over the lack of food, water, and medicine wrought by the Maduro regime. Imagine then, a disaster as has afflicted those two countries happening on a planetary scale?

It may well be that, if human civilization avoids the siren call of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their ilk and expands into space, future explorers will find the ruins of former civilizations which adopted some form of socialism among the stars, where survivors live lives that are nasty, brutish, and short. These alien societies will not have been destroyed by war or environmental catastrophe, but by bad public policy in pursuit of free stuff, heedless of the cost or consequences.