Space travel’s heavyweights ponder a future with antimatter rockets

Recently, two of the powerful men on the planet where space policy is concerned had an exchange on the social media platform X about antimatter. The exchange is another example of how what was once science fiction is becoming reality.

Artemis II astronauts share touching story in never-before-seen video

Trump floats intriguing Elon Musk, SpaceX plan

NASA tested a nuclear rocket engine dozens of times in the 1960s, proved it could work, then shelved it before it ever flew — and now the same basic idea is being revived because it could make the trip to Mars far shorter than chemical rockets allow.

Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

Trump touts American exceptionalism and condemns communism in July 4 speech

Will the socialist revolution come for Kamala Harris?

Canada’s Jew-hatred problem

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NASA launches rescue mission to save Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth's atmosphere

Citizen Vigilante Aims Wildly Popular Punisher Genre At Migrant Invaders

America’s Next 250 Years Are Ours to Build

How the Declaration of Independence Spawned Free Markets

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

NASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian Honeycomb”

Life in Colonial America Was Plagued by Pain, Sickness, and Itch

Repair Bio advances plaque regression program with FDA nod

Happy 250th birthday, America!

Mamdani Gives 250th Anniversary Speech, and Boy, Does This Guy Hate America

Newsom’s wealth tax: Target Musk and Bezos, hand the moon to China

Recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) proposed a national wealth tax. The idea is that it is a bad thing that a few billionaires (and one trillionaire) possess all of those riches that they acquired by building things and providing needed services. So, Newsom took to X (owned by Elon Musk, one of his targets) and proposed that a certain percentage (unspecified) of rich people’s wealth should be seized by the government every year.

Yes, Europe’s heat waves are deadlier than American gun violence

Europe’s Deadly Aversion to Air Conditioning

Russia’s economy is ‘sputtering,’ and Putin’s wartime spending model has pushed the country to an ‘economic, political, and military abyss’

Elon Musk is in the rabid left’s crosshairs — but he’s not the true target

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe

Scientists Turned Human Cells into Tiny Biological Computers

South Korea to Launch Lunar Lander by 2030, Target 70 Trillion Aerospace Industry

You Can Dream While You’re Still Awake and Scientists Finally Saw It Happen

America’s Earnestness Is Even Cooler Than Air Conditioning

Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

AI and the English Language

The Socialist Threat Is Real

The Great ObamaCare Escape

New Water-Harvesting Jacket Pulls up to 30 Ounces of Drinking Water From the Air Daily

Short sellers boost bets against SpaceX and it's already costing them

Don't Worry, The U.S. Is Not Going the Way of Socialism

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing’s Starliner will now be a decade late

Thank You, Judith Curry

Blood test spots hidden pancreatic cancer after treatment

This Jellyfish Can Heal Wounds in Minutes Without Scars and Scientists Think They’ve Found Its Secret

Are frozen and canned vegetables as good as the fresh ones? Here’s what you need to know

The AI Race Pushes India Toward the West

NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure

New Nonsurgical Knee Treatment Delivers Lasting Pain Relief

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Me, Myself and AI

Abraham Lincoln Remade the Fourth of July

The Military Danger of the Anti-Israel Panic

Majority of Russians Think the Economy is Getting Worse

Rice grown on the moon? Air-to-fertilizer technology helps rice grow in lunar soil simulant

NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities

Nasa says Blue Origin remains its ‘plan A’ for Moon return despite rocket explosion

NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit

NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon

NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again?

Contra Jennifer Harris, the Force Hollowing Out the Economy Isn't AI

Lab-Grown Retinal Cells Show Promise for New Eye Therapies

Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin

A Divided Country Celebrates Its Anniversary—Again

The Founders Wouldn’t Back a ‘Billionaire Tax’

The ‘Christian’ Putin’s Alliance With the Taliban

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Women’s Sports Win at the Supreme Court

Political Speech Wins Again at the Supreme Court

Blaming U.S. Air Conditioning for French Weather

'Titan is actually a very reasonable destination for humans': Scientists start mapping out crewed mission to huge Saturn moon

Robotic Servicing Spacecraft Will Soon Blast into Orbit, to Try to Save a 1.5-Ton NASA Satellite From Reentry

What Laws Have to Do With It: Thirty Years of Lessons on What Makes Charter Schools Thrive

America’s economic engine is outperforming this century’s expectations — whether the Dems like it or not

Are We Afraid of Aliens, or Are We Afraid of Ourselves?

Study Reveals How Leukemia Cells Enter and Damage Lungs

Scientists say Earth Impacts May Have Delivered Microbes to the Clouds of Venus

Hundreds of Thousands of Chickens Die as France Suffers Its Hottest Day on Record

The Communism Debate at CNN

What Real Diversity Looks Like

Public Interest in Space: Revealing New Survey

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

The Russian Reckoning

Air Conditioning, Scourge of the French Left

Rubio Holds the Line on Hezbollah

NASA Identifies More Than 40 Space Technologies for Collaboration

Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium

NASA Launches Daring Mission to Save Telescope

Energy Abundance Key To Our National Security

Even Einstein Admitted He Was Wrong. We Apparently Can’t Expect as Much From Al Gore.

Could future astronauts use oysters as water filters? Here's why one company thinks so

What capitalism will look like in space

Newly Discovered Notebook Written By 22-Year-Old Mozart Contains New Music And Shows How He Taught A Young Harpist

NASA Rover Finds Most Complex Organic Chemistry Ever Detected on Mars. But Can It Reveal Whether Life Ever Existed There?

Why Being ‘Progressive’ Is No Longer Enough on the Left

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Graham Platner and the David Duke Precedent

Only a Few Democrats Fight Back Against the Socialists

The Socialist Wave, West Coast Version

Intuitive Machines posts record revenue and $1.1B backlog amid lunar economy surge post-SpaceX IPO

Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide

This would have put my old Middle East studies professor in a bit of a quandry. On the one hand, he was no fan of the State of Israel. On the other hand, he suffered professionally at the hands of the Turkish governmemt for pointing out the Armenian Holocaust.

Before Donald Quataert annoyed the Turkish government, he was my Middle Eastern studies professor

Scientists mull controversial plan to steer hurricanes

NASA extends its commercial partnerships to Mars

Recently, NASA extended the idea of private-public partnerships to Mars. The space agency has struck a deal with Relativity Space to send an orbital probe to the Red Planet, with a launch date no earlier than 2028.

Tit-for-Tat in Strait of Hormuz; UPDATE: Iran Attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraqi Government Upheaval

SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for jobs in the space economy hasn’t

In a First, a Scientist Regrew a Human Lung in a Bioreactor. Is This the Dawn of Rebuilding Humans Piece by Piece?

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

NASA awards, ‘unicorns’ and the biggest IPO ever: A new commercial space boom is underway

NASA used a drone to deliver a human kidney. Is this the future of transplant transport?

I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life.

Mark R, Whittington articles

Mark R. Whittington books

Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival

NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes

NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope before it falls from space. Is it worth it?

Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

Cognition Therapeutics plans Phase 3 trial after drug slows dementia psychosis by 89%

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Join A First Mover in AI Robotics Who's Unlocking Mass-Market Growth

A Senate Advance on Cheaper Weapons

All of Gavin Newsom’s Donors

The Cruelty in Government-Run Medicine

Report to Congress on Returning Humans to the Moon

SpaceX plans to build 'Starpipe' natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets

NASA’s Swift Boost mission readies for launch

How NASA Taught Four Astronauts to Read the Moon

Iran Didn’t Win the War

China’s Private Space Industry Must Not Be Underestimated

'A huge step forward': This strange Antarctic creature could spark a cancer breakthrough, say scientists

A Response to the Opponents of Space-Based Interceptors in Golden Dome

The US and China are planning Moon bases. It could help improve life on Earth

Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy: "Comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam"

What Happens When You Throw a Paper Plane From Space? These Physicists Found Out

The Tartan Army Takes America

Britain’s Prime Minister Problem

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

No Air Conditioning, Please, We’re French

Democrats Just Say No to the Military

SpaceX employees got rich off stock options. Ex-Blue Origin workers say theirs are worthless.