Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
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Two recent events illustrated how Project Artemis has become an instrument of international diplomacy for the United States and how China is trying to do the same for its own lunar efforts.
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Yet, just over a year after the Rice University speech, JFK tried to stop the moon race in an address before the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 1963. He questioned if the journey should be “a matter of national competition” and why preparation for the U.S. and Soviet Union involved “immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure.”
Saturday, September 16, 2023
However, Romney has another legacy, one that will not redound to his credit. One night, during a primary debate, he single-handedly delayed a return to the moon program by at least four years, a full presidential term.
Friday, September 15, 2023
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For those who are wondering, yes I do.
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Sunday, September 10, 2023
Of the various efforts to conceive and/or build a commercial space station by the end of this decade, a SpaceX commercial space station has the most likelihood of succeeding. The track record amassed by Elon Musk’s company, if nothing else, suggests that will be the case.
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Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, has singlehandedly revolutionized space travel.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets have lowered the cost of launching people and cargo into space by orders of magnitude. Its Starship, the massive spaceship currently in development, promises to open the moon, Mars and beyond to human activity. Thus, Musk has come to dominate commercial space in ways no other entrepreneur has ever done.
However, what most people might consider a good thing, others find to be a problem. Indeed, some people in the federal government want Elon Musk to be taken down a peg.
Ia Anstoot and Greg Abbott could not be more different from one another. Anstoot is an 18-year-old Swedish girl, an acolyte of Greta Thunberg , and a climate activist. Abbott is the conservative Republican governor of Texas.
But both Anstoot and Abbott have concluded that nuclear power is the solution for problems afflicting the world. For Anstoot, that problem is climate change. For Abbott, that problem is the periodic shortfalls of electrical energy that have cropped up recently for the Texas power grid.