Thursday, June 30, 2022

This bacteria can make jet biofuel powerful enough to launch rockets into space
Ramirez: Best part of all? Starship is being built in Brownsville, Texas
Chinese posed as local Texans online to target rare earth producer
It’s time for NASA to cancel the Lunar Gateway
China tests engine for new crewed moon rocket
NASA's Artemis mission inches closer to bringing Americans back to moon
Why is America Going Back to the Moon #CommissionEarned
SETI’s search for alien life has entered a new era
NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears
NATO Gets a Military Upgrade With Finland and Sweden

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Advances in Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease and Emerging Treatment Targets
It’s time for NASA to cancel the Lunar Gateway

"A recently leaked NASA document shows there is bad news and some good news for the Artemis return to the moon program, according to a recent article in Ars Technica. The bad news is, largely because of costs associated with building the Lunar Gateway, the pace of Artemis missions to the moon slows to an unsustainable crawl, with years between flights and the establishment of a lunar base pushed off to the 2030s. The good news is that many of these problems might be solved by canceling the Lunar Gateway."

Trump takes victory lap on Supreme Court's Roe ruling at Illinois rally
A mass exodus from the Democrats' America
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
These Failed Missions to the Moon Remind Us That Space Is Hard
NASA Hopes to Launch a Very Special Microwave-Sized Satellite on Monday
NASA eyeing late August for launch of Artemis 1 moon mission
Trump told Jan. 6 filmmaker he was scared after getting COVID

Friday, June 24, 2022

How Ellen’s Presidency Impacts For All Mankind Season 3

"The real-life Clinton administration did not prioritize America's space program during its tenure from 1993-2001. Despite his public support for "a continued, aggressive exploration of space in ways that are high quality, cost-effective and that will benefit us here on Earth," Clinton actually reduced NASA's budget. Still, he emphasized the importance of global collaboration in space through the International Space Station. It goes without saying that For All Mankind's Ellen Wilson champions space exploration more than her opponent. During a debate, Clinton argues that the money dedicated to launching NASA's Mars mission two years earlier could be better serviced toward putting food on the table for Americans. Thus, Ellen's victorious presidential campaign in For All Mankind season 3 illustrates how the prolonged space race shifted the public's valuation of off-Earth affairs."

Former NASA official says a Russian designer famously inspired Elon Musk to launch SpaceX by spitting on his shoes
NASA will unveil the James Webb Space Telescope's 1st science photos in July. Here's how to watch
Why is America Going Back to the Moon #CommissionEarned
NASA declares Artemis 1 moon mission test successful, begins prepping for launch
What a 1904 War Can Teach Vladimir Putin
A Biden Retreat Could Lower Gas Prices

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Former NASA deputy head details toxic culture, internal feuds over space policy during Obama administration

Some of the stuff that Lori Garver describes is pretty horrific, including at least one threat of sexual assault that should have gotten the perpetrator arrested and charged. I would be interested to hear from other women at NASA if they had similer experiences and how they delt with it. As for being yelled at by politicians, Jim Bridenstine has had similer experiences.

‘Get your boy Elon in line’: NASA tell-all recounts turmoil over private space race

"Garver, who joined NASA in 1996 and held a series of increasingly senior posts, accuses her former boss, Charles Bolden, the first Black NASA administrator, of multiple leadership failures — from presiding over declining diversity in the astronaut corps to doing the bidding of entrenched interests and their backers in Congress."

Here’s what it’s like to drive on the moon
National Space Interests Demand Continued Policy Support
Dem ‘show trial’ undermines case against Trump
The Gabriella Novels #CommissionEarned
NASA Announces Artemis Concept Awards for Nuclear Power on Moon
Team Biden’s Endless Campaign to Make Energy Expensive
How to Stop Russia’s Plan for Global Food Chaos

Monday, June 20, 2022

Virginia is about to 3D-print an entire neighborhood of homes — and it’s cheaper than you think
An incredibly detailed map of Psyche shows the asteroid has a very eventful history
For $40, Ukraine Will Write Anything You Want on an Artillery Shell and fire it at the Russians
How Donald Trump Saved the GOP
SpaceX launches and lands 3rd rocket in 36 hours
Why I Busted Joe Biden’s Elderly Ass on Father’s Day Weekend
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
China finds signs of water in moon's 'Ocean of Storms'
Scott Adams: Trump Can Do More Good Than Any Politician If He Fixes The News Instead Of Running For President Again
UCI neuroscientists create maps of the brain after traumatic brain injury

Sunday, June 19, 2022

China’s space-based solar power project could be a clean energy game-changer

The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) plans to begin experiments in space-based solar power technology be a clean energy game-changer, according to Space News. It could also prove to be a potent tool for China’s effort to spread its power and influence throughout the world.

NASA Will Spend $35 Million On A New Mission To Probe The Moon’s Mysterious Volcanoes
4th Country To Land On Moon – Triumphing Chandrayaan-3, Will UAE Beat India In Race To Lunar Surface?
PENTAGON EXPLORES USING SPACEX FOR ROCKET-DEPLOYED QUICK REACTION FORCE
The Moon Mars and Beyond #Commission Earned
NASA tries again to complete moon rocket’s practice countdown
Game of Thrones: Jon Snow Spinoff News Has Fans Calling for an Arya Stark Series
Nuclear Is Back on the Table for a Green Future

Thursday, June 16, 2022

How the Space Industry Will Save Coal
NASA says its ready for a fourth attempt to fuel the massive SLS rocket
Artemis 1 rocket faces huge test this weekend as NASA preps for launch around the moon
Polaris Dawn crew training for epic private SpaceX mission this fall
Under Republican Leadership, Expect Lower Global Emissions and Increased Energy Independence
Did China just detect signals from an alien civilization?
The Gabriella Novels #CommissionEarned
Israel’s Shadow War With Iran Goes Nonnuclear
The Republican Who Flipped South Texas
World's first ultra-fast photonic computing processor using polarization

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Scientists find novel antibiotics in ocean plastic pollution
Musk: I'm leaning toward DeSantis in 2024
Sierra Space to start astronaut training program
Starlink and OneWeb reach spectrum coordination plan
Will space suits delay NASA’s return to the moon until 2026?
SpaceX's Starship will be ready for 1st orbital flight in July, Elon Musk says
Launch of NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat moon mission delayed again, to June 25
Google's AI is not sentient. Not even slightly
Children of Apollo #CommissionEarned
Biden loses control of inflation, and the trust of American people
3 Blood Tests To Ask For If You Want To Track Your Longevity, From An MD
Nanoparticle sensor can distinguish between viral and bacterial pneumonia

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Chinese university completes space-based solar power ground test facility
FAA environmental review to allow Starship orbital launches after changes
A New Biogel Claims to Repair Heart Attack Damage
Vitamin D Supplements Linked to Slower Epigenetic Aging
NASA Should Just Say It: We’re Looking for Goddamn Aliens
NASA will fly your name around the moon on historic mission. Here’s how to sign up
Carbon dioxide removal is suddenly obtaining credibility and support
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
Climate-Change Censorship: Phase Two
Amazon’s troubled drone delivery project is finally taking off
Is AOC Thinking About Running For President In 2024?

Sunday, June 12, 2022

I just watched the first episode of the third season of For All Mankind. Some thoughts follow with some minor spoilers.

We have mining colonies on the moon, space hotels, flat screen TVs and computers, electric cars, and fusion power in 1992 and yet people are still listening to music on LPs. What’s up with that?

Gary Hart serves two terms as president. Then. Bill Clinton is running for president against – a closeted lesbian Republican senator from Texas. This could be fun.

Will space suits delay NASA’s return to the moon until 2026?

The news that NASA has contracted two companies, Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, to provide spacesuit services was quite welcome. The planned Artemis Program return to the moon would be pointless unless astronauts are able to get outside their spacecraft and walk around, doing useful work. Even if America were not leading much of the world to go back to the moon, new extra-vehicular activity (EVA) suits are long overdue.

A once and future Mars: Finding the space history in 'For All Mankind' season 3
US general says Elon Musk's Starlink has 'totally destroyed Putin's information campaign'
The Moon Mars and Beyond #CommissionEarned
GM and Lockheed are expanding their moon buggy into a whole lunar lineup
NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter
Why Cursing Is Actually Beneficial for Your Mental Health

Friday, June 10, 2022

Shot: Putin compares himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back Russian lands

Chaser: What would Peter the Great say to Putin about space power?

NASA audit reveals massive overruns in SLS mobile launch platform
Pentagon Aims to Demo a Nuclear Spacecraft Within 5 Years
NASA to figure out how to get data on unexplained objects in the sky
'Top Gun' Tells The Whole Story of China and Hollywood
Why is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon #CommissionEarned
The Uncredible Jan. 6 Committee
Stem cell research reveals detailed genetic roadmap of glaucoma
Samples of the asteroid Ryugu are scientists’ purest pieces of the solar system

Thursday, June 09, 2022

With New Tactics, Ukraine Can Break Russia’s Black Sea Grain Blockade
NASA to Set Up Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
To Make Commercial Fusion a Reality, MIT Is Joining Forces With a Bill Gates-Backed Startup
China aims for space-based solar power test in LEO in 2028, GEO in 2030
Be part of bringing plasmapheresis to trial
SpaceX's Starship will deploy next-gen Starlink satellites Pez-dispenser style
Mars Base 101: How astronauts could make the most of a 30-day Red Planet stay
The Gabriella Novels #CommissionEarned
Beto’s Classless Uvalde Political Calculation
Why Energy Companies Won’t Produce
Moderna says Omicron-containing booster outperforms current vaccine

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Season 3 of For All Mankind draws nigh and Vanity Fair has an advanced review of the Mars-centric story arc. I am fascinated by the idea that global warming has been solved, not by a bunch of Green New Deal socialists, but by the sort of high tech billionaire they despise who develops commercial lunar helium 3 fueled fusion energy. Mind. I don't think the transition would happen so quickly that hordes of oil and gas workers are thrown into the unemployment line. However, the take on the issue is good enough to be subversive.
NASA to launch three rockets from private spaceport in Australia
FAA Overregulation Threatens America’s Future in Commercial Space
The Small Businesses Behind CAPSTONE Are Paving Our Path to the Moon
NASA Completes Main Body of Europa Clipper Spacecraft – Will Search for Life on Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Bizarre Spikes on Mars
James Webb Space Telescope will study two strange 'super-Earths'
Artificial Intelligence Offers Significant Rate of Remission for Type 2 Diabetes Compared to Standard Care

Tuesday, June 07, 2022

France to sign U.S.-led moon exploration agreement -sources

Vive La France! Vive l'Alliance Artemis!

This is not your grandfather’s Tom Swift
Will SpaceX and NASA make 2022 the year of the heavy-lift rocket?
Comparison With SpaceX Reveals That Rocket Lab Is A Long-Term Buy
Small NASA lunar probe to hitch ride on commercial moon mission
Don’t grovel abroad, President Biden: Drill at home
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
International Space Station ‘should become a museum 500 miles above Earth’
China's Population Is Set to Start Shrinking, With Huge Consequences
Biden’s Green-Energy Industrial Policy

Monday, June 06, 2022

Japan to trial new deep-sea turbines that could cover over half of its energy needs
NASA’s SLS moon rocket returning to launch pad today for more testing
Shenzhou-14 crewed mission arrives at Chinese space station
Moon bricks, space sutures and more: Meet the science SpaceX is flying to the space station this week
Nasa says it will investigate mysterious mounds on moon in Artemis mission
NASA’s SLS moon rocket returning to launch pad today for more testing
The Moon Mars and Beyond #CommissionEarned
Biden vs. Musk? Bet on the guy who speaks full sentences regardless of what he smokes
With the right molecular signal, a cancer drug works in every patient
How Biden Can Prepare for a Midterm Election Bruising

Sunday, June 05, 2022

Will SpaceX and NASA make 2022 the year of the heavy-lift rocket?

If the stars align right, SpaceX and NASA may make 2022 the year of the heavy-lift rocket. The Starship/Superheavy and the Space Launch System (SLS) are two different launch vehicles, the first pushing the envelope of rocket design, the latter hearkening back to the past. Both are designed to, at long last, open the moon, then Mars, then beyond, to human exploration.

Politics as the leisure of the theory class
An Oxford case study explains why SpaceX is more efficient than NASA
NASA probably won't need Russia to send more astronauts to the ISS
Why is America Going Back to the Moon #CommissionEarned
NASA will study a volcanic planet similar to Mustafar from the Star Wars Universe
NASA’s DAVINCI Space Probe To Plunge Through Hellish Atmosphere of Venus
Jupiter is a whirling world in stunning (and woozy) footage from Juno spacecraft

Saturday, June 04, 2022

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is America’s Cry for Help in which the author stumbles upon the remarkable insight that after being told how rotten we are for years by the cultural elite, we Americans would prefer to feel good about ourselves.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe | Official Trailer | Paramount +

Roving Packs of Robot Dogs Are Coming to the Moon
Uranus should be a top target for NASA and SpaceX missions. Here's why
Biden wishes Elon Musk ‘lots of luck’ on Moon trip that NASA is funding
Israel Builds a Laser Weapon to Zap Threats Out of the Sky
‘Ghost heart’ grown with scaffolding from a PIG’S ORGAN and patient’s own cells may soon be used in human transplants
Why is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon #CommissionEarned
Post-Ukraine Climate Realism
Can a Common-Sense Liberal Save Los Angeles?
America’s Troubling Lesson From Midway

Friday, June 03, 2022

Biden to Elon Musk "Lots of luck on his trip to the moon."

Slow Joe doesn't realize that it's NASA's trip to the moon called Project Artemis.

"Still, advocates for space exploration shouldn’t fool themselves. They have made great progress in shifting public opinion over the years, but they will continue to have their work cut out for them for the foreseeable future."

Do Americans Care About Space?

Going back to the moon for science

Returning to the moon for rocket fuel and clean energy

Returning to the moon to gain soft political power

LA Gas Stove Ban is Racist Against Asian Americans
NASA just bought the rest of the space station crew flights from SpaceX
NASA's DAVINCI mission to take the plunge through massive atmosphere of Venus
The Gabriella Novels #CommissionEarned
Could We All Be Martians?
NASA’s Perseverance rover begins key search for life on Mars
The Governing Style of Ron DeSantis: Create the Public Polling Results, Don't Follow Them

Thursday, June 02, 2022

What Is Chondroitin Sulfate and What Are Its Effects?
A new underwater greenhouse could reveal the future of agriculture
Israeli prime minister: Laser air defense to cost $2 per missile interception
Elon Musk advises Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to party less, work more
Asteroid mining startup founded by ex-SpaceX and Virgin Orbit engineers books first test mission with SpaceX
NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft will plot course for a lunar space station
NASA just picked these 2 companies to build next-gen spacesuits for the moon, space station
Civilizations Don’t Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
Fighting Alzheimer’s Disease with Increased Autophagy
Queen Elizabeth II’s Reign of Dignity
‘Top Gun’ Culture and Reality