Friday, September 29, 2023

Love Songs: introducing Detective Lola Cat and her new series of Cat Tails.
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
Florida Takes the Classic Learning Test: Could this be a first step in breaking the SAT and ACT duopoly?
Germany and Venezuela have been chosen for teams in the US-China space race

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.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

World War 3.1: A Novel of the Axis of Time (The Axis of Time Reloaded Book 1) by the great John Birmingham

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Monday, September 18, 2023

My favorite aunt has passed. My heart is on the ground.

Sunday, September 17, 2023

The time JFK tried to make the space race a partnership

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.”

Why is America Going Back to the Moon?
That time Mitt Romney delayed the return to the moon by four years

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.

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Gingrich's 'moon colony' challenged

One reason I am happy to see the back end of Mitt Romney.

I just found out that my Aunt Janet passed this morning. Flights of angels speed her to her rest.

Sunday, September 10, 2023

SpaceX is the best bet for the commercial space station Earth needs

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.

The thing that jumps out about the CNN poll is not that Trump is a point ahead of Biden or that DeSantis is tied, but that Nikki Haley is six points ahead.
India's Chandrayaan-3 landed on the south pole of the moon − a space policy expert explains what this means for India and the global race to the moon
Russia's massive brain drain is ravaging the economy - these stunning figures show why it will soon be smaller than Indonesia's

Sunday, September 03, 2023

Elon Musk dominates commercial space. Some think that’s a problem.

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.

Nuclear power may be the solution to Texas’s electric grid woes

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.