Monday, May 29, 2023

How Emotionally Intelligent People Use the ‘Winston Churchill Rule’ to Become Exceptionally Persuasive
China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, another step in what looks like a new space race
How Many People Can Fit Into SpaceX's Starship?
Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans for space. Its astronauts on SpaceX's private Ax-2 mission are just the start, official says
NASA, Boeing Provide Update on Starliner Flight Test Readiness
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories
NASA Forges Ahead in Crucial Test Series: Moon Rocket Engine Hot Fire
What was the longest-lasting civilization?
US ‘ready to fight in space if we have to’, says military official

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Now that Blue Origin has ‘landed’ its second lunar contract, what’s next?

NASA recently announced that the “national team,” led by Blue Origin and including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics, will construct and operate the second human landing system (HLS), according to Ars Technica. The Blue Moon, as the new HLS is called, is slated to serve on the Artemis V mission, scheduled for the late 2020s or early 2030s.

Iranian and Taliban forces engage in shootout on border over water dispute
Why Japan’s Private Lunar Lander Crashed on Moon
McCarthy gets debt-ceiling deal -- with work requirements
DeSantis Rule Shields Musk's SpaceX From Liability
SpaceX investment in Starship approaches $5 billion
NASA Pursues Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services for Artemis Missions
10 everyday NASA inventions and spin-offs you can find in your home
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond
NASA and Boeing say preparations continue for July Starliner test flight
Texas House votes to impeach AG Ken Paxton
Here’s what’s in the deal to raise the debt ceiling

Friday, May 26, 2023

Electricity prices in Finland flipped negative — a huge oversupply of clean, hydroelectric power meant suppliers were almost giving it away
Elon Musk's Neuralink says it has FDA approval for study of brain implants in humans
How I Dealt with the Covid Pandemic While Legally Blind
American companies building lunar landers, ready to commercialize moon
Intuitive Machines Lunar Landing Site Moves to South Pole
ExxonMobil Dips Its Oily Toe Into Lithium
NASA safety panel skeptical of Starliner readiness for crewed flight
Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis Enter the Race
Tim Scott and the Politics of Forgiveness
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?
A Texas-Sized Property Tax Cut
A Clean Water Landmark for Liberty at the Supreme Court
These tiny, medical robots could one day travel through your body

Thursday, May 25, 2023

At long last, the glorious future we were promised in space is on the way
Exploration Upper Stage Unveiled: Revolutionary Leap in Crew Safety, Cargo Capacity, and Deep Space Power
160-Plus Retired Military Brass Urge Congress To Root Out DOD’s Poisonous ‘Diversity’ And ‘Equity’ Programs
Florida bill protects SpaceX, other space companies from accident liability
Danish astronaut flying on SpaceX shuttle warns Europe not to fall behind in space
President DeSantis?
NASA’s VIPER is leading the way for the next generation of moon rovers
Is the Universe a quantum fluctuation?
Dark Hunt
Remembering Tina Turner, a Fierce and Seductive Rock and Soul-Music Icon
The World Economy Needs to Get Its Growth Back
The Ron DeSantis Challenge

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

FDA approves first gene-edited sausages
No one should be surprised Virgin Orbit failed—it had a terrible business plan
How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Official Trailer | Paramount+

Moon crash site found! NASA orbiter spots grave of private Japanese lander
NASA return to the Moon could be imperiled by politics
What is NASA working on?
Dark Sanction
A Mission to Uranus Could Help Find Planet 9
SETI SCIENTISTS TO DEVISE PLAN FOR LUNAR LISTENING STATION
Bakhmut and the Battle of Moscow

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

How Space Companies Plan to Build Roads and Bases on the Moon
The Moon Has a Hidden Resource That Could Sustain Billions of Humans for 100,000 Years
SpaceX making progress toward next Starship test flights
Sending astronauts to Mars by 2040 is 'an audacious goal' but NASA is trying anyway
NASA has sights set on Mars with help from a nuclear rocket engine
A Brother on the Moon
Tim Scott’s Pitch for American Revival
Earliest evidence of wine consumption in the Americas found in Caribbean
Space Force’s New Mission Statement: Time To Inform and Inspire

Keeping in mind that the Space Force’s current mission statement lacks clarity, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman is crowd-sourcing ideas among the service’s guardians to develop a new Space Force mission statement that more clearly defines why the service branch exists.

Monday, May 22, 2023

SpaceX set to join FAA to fight environmental lawsuit that could delay Starship work
Ray Stevenson, Actor in ‘Punisher: War Zone,’ ‘RRR’ and ‘Thor’ Films, Dies at 58

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NASA Budget Uncertainty Deepens Amid Headwinds
Black astronaut says lunar mission will be ‘major accomplishment’ in American history
“OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER SEE SNOW”
SpaceX Sells Starlink Terminals to Unipol for Italy Flood Relief
SpaceX launches veteran NASA astronaut, three rookies on private Axiom mission to ISS
NASA seeks to shore up congressional support for Artemis
Deep Sleep May Be the Best Defense Against Alzheimer’s
Elon Musk Is Right About George Soros—and Not Anti-Semitic
Escape From New York, Etc.
Children of Apollo: What if we never stopped going to the moon?
What the 14th Amendment Really Says
World’s first house made with nappy-blended concrete
JWST spots biggest water plume yet spewing from a moon of Saturn

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Vast and SpaceX are heating up the growing commercial space station race

Besides landing astronauts on the lunar surface in a few years, NASA is faced with the problem of how to replace the International Space Station once it reaches the end of its operational life around 2030. Toward that end, the space agency has signed funded Space Act Agreements with three companies, Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and Voyager Space, to start design work on commercial space stations. NASA has made an agreement with a fourth company, Axiom Space, to install commercial modules on the ISS as a precursor to its own orbiting space facility.

But now a fifth company, called Vast, has stolen a march on its competitors and has signed an agreement with SpaceX to launch a single-module commercial space station by August 2025, according to Space News. Vast is getting no direct help from NASA.

JWST spots biggest water plume yet spewing from a moon of Saturn
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Italy's Unipol join forces to help Italians hit by flooding
NASA swoops by an erupting volcano world and snaps jaw-dropping images
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories
5 potential paths to a fusion energy breakthrough
Ukraine’s path to victory
China’s $220 Billion Biotech Initiative Is Struggling to Take Off

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Last night I watched Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which is still at the theaters, is live streaming on Paramount +, and will be on Blue Ray and DVD at the end of the month. I enjoyed the film immensely, not only for its action and suspense, with all the great tropes of the fantasy genre, but of the depiction of the hero’s journey (though perhaps anti-hero’s journey may be a better description) of Edgin, played by the great action hero Chris Pine. It also stars Michelle Rodriquez as his barbarian warrior sidekick/friend and Hugh Grant as the smarmy villain. I cannot recommend the film enough.
Watch SpaceX blast a new Starship launch pad plate with rocket fire
Senate Republicans criticize NASA for its climate change and diversity efforts
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond
What a Real, Fully Capitalist Energy Transition Would Look Like
The Reagan Lesson for the Trumpian Right on Ukraine and China
At Last, F-16 Jets for Ukraine

Friday, May 19, 2023

Once again, NASA leans into the future by picking an innovative lunar lander
Henry Kissinger Turns 100
'Do what scares you:' 3 tips to succeed from Artemis 2 moon astronaut Christina Koch
CAPSTONE Takes Moon Shot, Successfully Tests Navigation Technology
DeSantis gets bill to protect SpaceX, other firms from accident liability
Flanked by moon mission astronauts, Kelly calls NASA the ‘Dolly Parton’ of government
What are the odds of a successful space launch?
How will we react when the aliens arrive?
Spaceplanes Will Revolutionize Earthly Logistics, Not Space Travel
Chef Defends Right to Cook with Gas
Why is America Going Back to the Moon
The EPA Threatens to Turn Out the Lights
Competing With China in the Pacific
Montana says 1st-in-nation TikTok ban protects people. TikTok says it violates their rights

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Reflections on a death, and life on the final frontier
Archaeologists find 1,700-year-old Roman sandal in melting ice in Norway
Future space food could be made from astronaut breath
Mad Men’s Don Draper weighs in on woke beer
Can NASA's Artemis moon missions count on using lunar water ice?
SpaceX Sets Possible Dates For Starship’s Second Orbital Test Launch
NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet
Huge Review Finds No Evidence for Gender Bias in Academic Science
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?
Hydrogen’s Scalability Essential to Meet Energy Demand
The Right Targets Corporations
Trump Set Up DeSantis’s Good Weekend

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

These AI imaginings of golden-era Hollywood stars as superheroes is actually epic
New York Times Warps History To Affirm Queen Cleopatra’s ‘Cultural Blackness’
Are Earth and Venus the only volcanic planets? Not anymore.
NASA’s Artemis program may face a budget crunch as costs continue to rise
Texas Children's Hospital lied about stopping gender care
Long-Serving Space Settlement Advocate Mark Hopkins Passes On
Republican senators claim NASA being distracted by climate change and diversity initiatives
Will environmentalists derail the Artemis’ return to the moon?
Apollo: How Moon missions changed the modern world
NASA’s Victor Glover on his love for space, preparing the generation of astronauts and his upcoming mission to the moon
Elon Musk's SpaceX Seeks FCC Permission For Second Launch Of Starship
Former NASA Human Spaceflight Chief Kathy Lueders Might Be What SpaceX Needs Right Now
Elon Musk's SpaceX explosion should bring oversight, not halt to spaceflight
Private servicing mission could extend life of NASA's Chandra space telescope
Twitter is still vital for the space community. A former NASA astronaut explains why
NASA is Getting Serious About Building and Assembling Future Missions… in Space
Gabriella's Holy War
This Soft Robot Unfurls Inside the Skull
Russia Sows Far-Reaching Chaos Using Crimea as a Base
Why the Durham Report Matters to Democracy

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Mad Men’s Don Draper weighs in on woke beer
Resilient Space: A Defense in Depth
Why is STEM Education a National Imperative and How Are We Wasting Our Precious Human Resource?
Hypersonic Missiles are Just Misunderstood
My knowledge of advertising begins and ends with old episodes of Mad Men. But I can see Don Draper, looking at the disaster of first Bud Light and now Miller Light, taking a drag from a cigarette and then asking, "What?"
The Countdown to Wealth Has Begun
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission is 'go' for May 21 launch
NASA's Juno mission nears Jupiter's moon Io
A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s last “Great Observatory”
Is Betelgeuse getting ready to explode?
Gabriella's War
Biden’s Bleak Story About Race in America Is False
Macron Calls for a Green ‘Pause’
A rare mutation helped one man stave off Alzheimer’s for decades

Monday, May 15, 2023

SpaceX hires former NASA human spaceflight official Kathy Lueders to help with Starship

In my opinion, a home run hire. Lueders made commercial space work at NASA and is one of the three people who convinced me that the concept had evolved from hype to reality.

Some background: Kathy Lueders quietly made history at NASA — now she’s retiring

Astroscale and Momentus offer concept for reboosting Hubble
Late-stage capitalism? No, we’re plagued by late-stage progressivism
What will replace the International Space Station?
Black Holes Might be Defects in Spacetime
Did Noah's flood really happen?
A Brother on the Moon: What if Robert Henry Lawrence had lived?
Are Conservatives Winning the Debate on Transgenderism?
Countering China’s Economic Coercion
DeSantis’s Legislative Record

Sunday, May 14, 2023

TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness
Will environmentalists derail the Artemis’ return to the moon?

Along with the technical challenges SpaceX’s Elon Musk faces getting his Starship rocket operational, he has to deal with the environmental regulators who must approve everything, since the Starbase launch facility sits in the middle of a wildlife preserve. Recently, the Federal Aviation Administration finally granted SpaceX a launch license.

Now, after the first test of the Starship, a coalition of environmental organizations has sued the FAA in a Washington D.C, district court to stop any subsequent launch tests, pending a full-scale environmental impact study, according to Ars Technica.

Democrats’ Nightmares–African Americans See Racism in Democrat Attacks on Clarence Thomas
Private moon lander's launch with SpaceX delayed to this fall
Was SpaceX's first attempt to launch its Starship rocket a failure?
Children of Apollo: What if we had never stopped going to the Moon?
NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 2 Briefings, Events, Broadcast
Scientists criticise Nasa for scaling back mission to explore beyond Pluto
How CNN gave Trump his best campaign moment so far

Friday, May 12, 2023

Scientists find microbes that can digest plastic at cold temperatures
Scientists discover solar cell material that could revolutionize medical imaging
First Intuitive Machine lunar lander mission slips to the third quarter
Israeli startup WeSpace aims to launch robotic 'moon hopper' by 2026
Intuitive Machines prepares for first lunar mission, faces challenge to NASA contract win
After 15 Year Journey, NASA Suddenly Redirecting Deep Space Mission to New Target
Humanity can beat Alzheimer’s
US Shale Drillers See Natural Gas Price Rebound in 2024 After Short-Lived Pain
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
Ukraine claims it has routed a Russian brigade near Bakhmut
A messy black hole may have just triggered the largest explosion in the universe
The EPA’s Latest Power Grab
Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian River

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Redwire reports record revenue as it seeks profitability
Will SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation make Earth more detectable to aliens?
A Shiny, Steamy Surprise: NASA’s Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious Planet
Vast says it will launch its first space station in 2025 on a Falcon 9
What if Titan Dragonfly had a Fusion Engine?
It’s Time to Take Quantum Biology Research Seriously
Donald Trump’s CNN Town Hall live updates: Liberal journalists, AOC blast network over event: ‘Lost total contol’
Why is America Going Back to the Moon
Biden’s Border Bungling Is a Gift to Trump
The Biden Family Business
The new human pangenome could help unveil the biology of everyone

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

‘Babylon 5: The Road Home’ Voice Cast Unveiled
Vast says it will launch its first space station in 2025 on a Falcon 9
Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’
Bidens Used Web of Shell Companies to Conceal Foreign Cash, Bank Records Obtained by House GOP Revea Also Did the CIA collude with the Biden campaign to interfere in 2020 election?
Nicolas Cage reprises his role as gunrunner Yuri Orlov in Lord of War sequel and will star alongside Bill Skarsgard
McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib's Anti-Semitic Congressional Event
SpaceX Bets Steel Plates Will Keep Launchpad From Blowing Up
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission will grow 1st stem cells in space
Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics, NASA says
Could We Turn the Moon Into a Giant Power Plant?
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?
Latest Tucker Leak: “If you’ve got pronouns in your Twitter bio, you shouldn’t work here because we can’t trust you because you’re on the other side” Also Tucker Taking His Show To Twitter
Biden’s Border Bungling Is a Gift to Trump
The Deep State Is All Too Real

Tuesday, May 09, 2023

AI tool can predict pancreatic cancer up to three years in advance, says study
Currently reading When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
NASA discovers the perfect cave for humans to live in on the moon
Author Ashlee Vance on the commercialization of space and the land grab that ensued
NASA Isn't Giving Up on Troubled Water-Hunting Moon Cubesat
Why “super-Earth” exoplanets are a scientific catastrophe
Artificial intelligence identifies anti-aging drug candidates targeting 'zombie' cells
Venture Capitalists Should Bet on America: Washington can cooperate with the private sector. Elon Musk’s SpaceX showed the way.
California May Bill You for Slavery
T Cells Can Activate Themselves to Fight Tumors
THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE REVEALS FOMALHAUT'S DISK IN UNPRECEDENTED DETAIL

Monday, May 08, 2023

Former head of Roscosmos now thinks NASA did not land on the Moon
DeSantis's biggest accomplishments of the 2023 legislative session
SHOCK POLL: Trump Crushing Biden By 7 Points in New ABC/Washington Post Survey
Vintage Apollo data shows Moon has a solid inner core
A Lack of Alien Signals Actually Tells Us a Lot
Revealed: modern humans needed three tries – and 12,000 years – to colonise Europe
Ignore the Hysteria on AI and Jobs
The ‘Gilded Age’ Myth, Then and Now
Eli Lilly says new Alzheimer's drug donanemab slows early stages of disease by 35%

Sunday, May 07, 2023

Artemis 2 will use lasers to beam high-definition video from the moon
Americans agree on something: returning to the Moon and shooting for Mars

What do Americans think about going back to the moon and on to Mars? A recent YouGov poll has some very good news for supporters of expanding human civilization to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Homer Hickam and Kevin Sizemore talk about new project ‘December Sky’ on Studio 3
ISRO's missions to moon, sun likely to take place in July
What will the Artemis moon base look like?
See the moon in epic detail in stunning images taken by South Korea's lunar orbiter
More evidence found showing the moon's inner core is solid, like Earth's
Children of Apollo
When could the SpaceX Starship launch again?
Hubble Views Striking Starry Tendrils Of The Jellyfish Galaxy, JO175
NASA developing snake-like robot to slither over one of Saturn’s 83 moons

Friday, May 05, 2023

CAN BIOELECTRICITY REGROW LIMBS AND ORGANS?
To Praise Cultural Appropriation, Not to Bury It
Scientists say they have found more moons with oceans in the Solar System
How SpaceX set off a new race to commercialise space
Colonizing the moon: NASA's plans for lunar base under Artemis
SpaceX vs. the birds: Environmental activists sue FAA over Texas rocket launch
NASA Is Sending a Snake Robot to Search for Life on Saturn's Moon
Debate rages about future of New Horizons
Fusion and the Holy Grail
The Moon, Mars and Beyond: Tales of the Coming Space Age
Joe Manchin, Unleashed
Indiana Sets the School Voucher Pace
White House rolls out plan to promote ethical AI

Thursday, May 04, 2023

Besides “For All Mankind” what other books depict an alternate space program?
Certain Medications Appear to Improve Aging Biomarkers
China to launch 1st-ever sample return mission to moon's far side in 2024
How SpaceX set off a new race to commercialise space
NASA Selects 12 Companies to Innovate on Key Moon and Mars Technology
NASA squeezed oxygen from mock moon dust. It could help astronauts breathe easy one day.
A fiery end? How the ISS will end its life in orbit
The long-awaited mission that could transform our understanding of Mars
Gordon Lightfoot, a Great Canadian
Why is America Going Back to the Moon?: After over 50 years, human beings are returning to the moon. How did that happen?
Ukraine Can Point the Pentagon Toward a New Way of War
Poland Is the Indispensable NATO Ally
Researchers capture elusive missing step in the final act of photosynthesis

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Environmentalist Lawsuit Could Delay SpaceX's Starship Launches for Years
NASA Welcomes Czech Foreign Minister for Artemis Accords Signing

Dune: Part Two | Official Trailer

The secret Babylon 5 project is... an animated movie
Russia: How dare the country we invaded attack our capital?
A New Study Says Gray Hair May Be Reversible
Plutonium availability constrains plans for future planetary missions
These 5 Secret Warplanes Will Blow Russia and China Away
Rare Views of Moon's Shadowed Craters Reveal Possible Locations of Water Ice
SpaceX should be ready to launch Starship again in 6 to 8 weeks, Elon Musk says
BIDEN IS COMMITTED TO NASA’S ARTEMIS PROGRAM FOR THE MOON AND BEYOND
Breathing Moon Dust: NASA’s Breakthrough in Lunar Oxygen Extraction
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?
Airbus Designs a Space Station With Artificial Gravity
No Labels May Re-Elect Donald Trump
Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain

Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Forbidden Evil Things - Chapter One (abridged)

Who turned the lights out? Joe Biden
RIP Gordon Lightfoot

The plan to build a telescope the size of Washington, D.C., on the moon
The FAA is being sued because of Elon Musk
Did NASA Forget How to Put People on the Moon?
Gabriella's Holy War: The Vampire Gabriella rises from the ruins of the World Trade Center to do battle in the War on Terror.
Trump Could Win if People Vote Their Pocketbooks
A Welcome Supreme Court Review of Chevron Deference
Astronomers discover two super-Earths orbiting nearby star

Monday, May 01, 2023

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Mars Exploration and Alien Life
Turning Back the Clock: Genetic Engineers Rewire Cells for an 82% Increase in Lifespan
Inside the Secretive Life-Extension Clinic
The Costs of Net-Zero Electricity
Artemis II to use ShadowCam in first-ever journey to lunar South Pole
Curiosity rover on Mars gets a brain boost to think (and move) faster
Sherlock Diverts the Fire Hose
A Repository of American Classics
Gabriella's War: Vampire vs Nazi vampire hunter
Don’t Count Ron DeSantis Out
Women in Science Are Doing All Right
ChatGPT Will See You Now: Doctors Using AI to Answer Patient Questions