Monday, October 30, 2023
Sunday, October 29, 2023
India’s 2040 moon landing could make it a space superpower
The Indian government has announced a long-term plan for its space program. It includes a Venus orbiter, a Mars lander, a crewed space station by 2035 and a crewed lunar landing by 2040. India also plans to launch a crewed spacecraft dubbed the Gaganyaan by 2025.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Has Noah's Ark been found? Archaeologists reveal 'ruins' found in Turkey's boat-shaped mound date back 5,000 years ago - the same period as the Biblical flood
Friday, October 27, 2023
‘South Park’ Skewers Lucasfilm Boss Kathleen Kennedy In ‘Panderverse’ Special The special is a hoot. Without revealing too much, Kathleen Kennedy comes off better than one might expect.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Sen Ted Cruz was kind enough to repost my article on SpaceX and the regulators on the social network formerly known as Twitter.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Ted Cruz comes to the defense of SpaceX against the regulators
Recently, the Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science held a hearing about human commercial space flights . During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bill Gerstenmaier, formerly at NASA and now vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, had an exchange concerning the regulatory delays that are holding up the second test launch of the Starship. Starship is the massive rocket ship SpaceX is developing that promises to revolutionize spaceflight, take people back to the lunar surface, and fulfill CEO Elon Musk’s dream of establishing a city on Mars.
Monday, October 23, 2023
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Is Elon Musk’s SpaceX the rocket company to rule them all?
Recently, there has been musing that SpaceX has become an “accidental monopoly” in the space launch business. Elon Musk has dominated the launching of things and even people into space, and some people think it’s a problem. But the situation may be temporary.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Why NASA’s return to the Moon will likely succeed this time
Eric's analysis is first rate, at usual, but he does neglect Jim Bridenstine's relentless selling of the Artemis project to both sides of the aisle in Congress, which I describe in Why is America Going Back to the moon #ad. Congress now supports going back to the moon where it did not before during the last two attemps, which I also describe in Why is it so Hard to Go Back to the Moon #ad.
Friday, October 20, 2023
Is It Wrong to Cure Blindness?
As someone who has been blind in one eye from birth who is married to a woman who is legally blind and works with blind people for the State of Texas, as would reply. "Hell no!"
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
It’s possible that frozen worlds with subterranean oceans are incubators of organic life. But then how did life get here?
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Monday, October 16, 2023
NASA’s Psyche Mission Proves Awesomeness Still Exists in a Horrible World
The news from around the world has been especially horrible of late. Between wars in Ukraine and Israel, a U.S. border crisis and more than the usual amount of political bickering, one would be forgiven for thinking that the world is spiraling into the abyss.
But occasionally, something happens that reminds us that human beings are still capable of doing awesome things. As Space News notes, NASA has launched the Psyche mission to an asteroid by the same name on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The Psyche probe will spend five years and 10 months voyaging to the asteroid, using a gravity assist maneuver at Mars, before settling into orbit around its destination within the main asteroid belt for about two years to study its secrets.
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Exploring a metal-rich asteroid could launch the start of space mining
NASA has launched a probe in the direction of a great metal asteroid called Psyche, located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid is of great interest to both scientists and people interested in accessing the abundant resources of the solar system.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Friday, October 13, 2023
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series)
Brought across to undeath in the 15th Century, the Contessa Gabriella Doria has walked the night, feeding on the blood of the living. However, on occasion, she had faced foes far more formidable and certainly more evil than a vampire.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
A Brother on the Moon
On a December day in 1967, a pilot whose jet fighter is in the process of cracking up ejects a moment sooner and therefore lives when he otherwise might have died. A life that would have ended on the tarmac at Edwards Air Force Base continues on. Six years later, Major Robert Lawrence, United States Air Force, becomes the first black American to walk on the Moon.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Monday, October 09, 2023
“He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May Hashem cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
Amen."
Sunday, October 08, 2023
Has the James Webb Space Telescope found signs of life on Europa?
Recently, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide at a specific location on Europa’s icy surface in a disrupted “chaos terrain” called the Tara Regio. The discovery has great implications for the possibility of life on the moon of Jupiter.
Saturday, October 07, 2023
The Totalitarian Heart of Hillary Clinton
It is clear that we dodged a bullet by not electing that evil woman president.
Netanyahu tells Israel ‘We are at war’ after Hamas kills at least 22 in an unprecedented attack
Also: Joe Biden Faces Fury Over Iran Deal as Israel Attacked
All prayers for the people of Israel and may God defend the right!
Friday, October 06, 2023
Thursday, October 05, 2023
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
I'm still in the middle of reading this biography of one of the most fascinating and important men of the 21st Century. Highly recommended.
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Monday, October 02, 2023
Sunday, October 01, 2023
What would China’s collapse mean for the race to the moon?
One of the more significant developments of the current decade had been the second race to the moon. While NASA and a coalition of nations and commercial companies have started Project Artemis, China has begun its own lunar effort. The prize is not so much the bragging rights for the side who gets to the moon first but which side accesses the abundant resources of Earth’s nearest neighbor.
But geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan has a prediction that could throw the idea of a moon race between two superpowers in doubt. Zeihan believes that China has at most 10 years before it collapses.