Sunday, September 29, 2024

Heading into the vice presidential debate, Tim Walz is fighting nerves
America should welcome India’s rise as a space power

The U.S. can and should aid India’s rise as a space power by sharing data derived from NASA planetary missions in exchange for data from Indian missions, such as the Venus Orbital Mission and the Chandrayaan-4. NASA can also include more Indian astronauts on tours of the International Space Station and, later, future commercial stations. It could also include at least one Indian astronaut on an Artemis mission to the lunar surface.

Mother Jones Editor Makes a Fool of Herself
How Israel Tricked Hezbollah's Leadership And Sent Them to Their Deaths
NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Boosts Human Health Research in Space
China is ready with lunar spacesuit in latest step towards 2030 moon landing
Mars quest: President Trump and Elon Musk’s grand vision
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
‘Takes Two To Tango’: Zelensky Meets With Trump, Who Says Two Have ‘Very Good Relationship’
Vance learned his cat story from Obama
JD Vance Reacts After Reportedly Being Barred From Greeting Supporters In Pennsylvania Restaurant

Friday, September 27, 2024

Vietnam Says SpaceX’s Starlink Plans $1.5 Billion Investment
NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover
Trump has a plan for economic prosperity, Harris does not
The Extremely Large Telescope is astronomy’s next big thing
Alien Phone Calls Could Be Quantum, And We're Not Ready to Hear Them
A New Rover Design Could Crawl Across the Moon for Decades Harvesting Water
Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
NASA’s bold new mission is our best chance of finding aliens. Here's why
Juice spacecraft detects life’s building blocks on Earth, prepares to do the same for Jupiter’s icy Moons
NASA is ready to start buying Vulcan rockets from United Launch Alliance
The war of words between SpaceX and the FAA keeps escalating
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
Humanoid Robots Are the Next Threat From China
Ukraine Defends Kharkiv by Going on Offense
Harris’s Economic Plan Is Bidenomics II

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Spanish Galleon Attacks London in the Most Unexpected Way

SpaceX's Elon Musk calls on FAA chief to resign
In the room where it happened: When NASA nearly gave Boeing all the crew funding
Weird striped rock 'unlike any seen on Mars' found by Perseverance rover. Here's why NASA's excited
Wealth Inequality Is a Result of Prosperity
Engineers apply new tech to model deadly brain tumors: Bioprinted blood vessels could speed testing of treatments for cancer
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
India Gives China the Cold Shoulder
How Biden Keeps Helping Trump
If Green Energy Is the Future, Bring a Fire Extinguisher

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Self-driving wheelchairs at Sea-Tac Airport whisk mobility challenged travelers to their gates
FAA administrator claims SpaceX wasn’t following regulations; SpaceX says that’s false
Israel Derangement Syndrome
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age by Eric Berger #CommissionEarned
The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon
Musk's rhetoric doesn't threaten SpaceX and NASA relationship, agency head says
This GMO golden lettuce has 30 times more vitamins. Would you eat it?
A yeast from Argentina’s Patagonia could usher in a beer revolution
How X-rays from Nuclear Blasts Could Save Earth from a Killer Asteroid
The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Saving Is for Suckers Under Harris’s Plan
Iran Is Waiting for a President Harris
China Pushes on a Stimulus String

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Russian Test of 'Satan II' ICBM Fails Spectacularly
From Eric Berger, the author of Liftoff, Rentry, which continues the story of SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the opening of the high frontier of space.
Governor Abbott Opens Grant Applications For Space Exploration, Aeronautics Research Fund
Novel probiotics discovered in traditional Brazilian cheeses
Low gravity in space travel found to weaken and disrupt normal rhythm in heart muscle cells
Biden Leaves His Successor a World of Disorder
Ryan Routh’s Political Motives
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
The Biden Manufacturing Boom That Isn’t
What if Israelis could vote in U.S. elections?
As space czar, Kamala Harris never took flight

Monday, September 23, 2024

What Should the Israelis Blow Up Next? We Have a Few Suggestions.
A Chinese rocket narrowly missed a landing on Sunday—the video is amazing
Kamala Harrs and The art of vacuity
SpaceX practices for epic Starship booster catch attempt
Elon Musk wants to send SpaceX Starships to Mars in two years
Europe's Hera probe to launch Oct. 7 to inspect asteroid NASA smacked in 2022
‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?
Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
FDA Approves Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine for Self- or Caregiver-Administration
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) $CommissionEarned
Israel’s War Makes Gazans Less Radical
Behind Microsoft’s AI Power Deal
How Freedom Has Faded on Biden’s Watch

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Scots could soon live on the MOON as SNP minister sets sights on Elon Musk’s plan to colonise space
Polaris Dawn is as much about art as it is about science

For the Polaris Dawn mission, the iconic image is that of two of the astronauts: first Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur who paid for the flight, then Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer, emerging half out the hatch with the distant Earth as a backdrop.

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX began a new ‘Space Race’ unlike any other
New Horizons Team Detects Evidence of Unexpected Population of Kuiper Belt Objects
Waymo Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It’ll Soon Be More.
Could the Nation’s Nuclear Power Plant Sites Support New Reactor Builds?
Scientists invent nanorobots that can repair brain aneurysms
From Cancer to Brain Health: A New Alzheimer’s Treatment Emerges
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2024
Who could be in Harris’s Cabinet? Let the chatter begin
Trump Cabinet 2.0: Who’s in the running for top spots

Friday, September 20, 2024

One company appears to be thriving as part of NASA’s return to the Moon
Undiscovered Mozart music found in German library
I Used to Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us) by Kat Timpf #CommissionEarned
Scientist says human consciousness comes from another dimension
SpaceX letter criticizes FAA for “systemic challenges” in launch licensing
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Says Anyone Can Go To Mars With SpaceX But Journey Would Be Like A 'Long Sea Voyage In Centuries Past'
NASA's Europa Clipper on track for Oct. 10 launch to Jupiter's icy moon despite radiation worries
California Courts Rule Gig Workers Can Remain Independent
Overturning Chevron Is a Major Victory
Coca-Cola Has Done Opponents of DEI and ESG a Huge Favor
Federal plans to open up the desert for massive solar farms has angered environmentalists
Plants Would Still Grow Well Under Alien Skies
Tiny nuclear battery promises decades of uninterrupted power in sea, space
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
The Case for Trump’s Tariffs
Ukraine’s Lessons for the Pentagon
Why Are Hezbollah’s Pagers Off-Limits?

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Revolutionary Catalyst Uses Sunlight To Turn Greenhouse Gases Into Valuable Chemicals
Neuralink gets FDA breakthrough device nod for vision-restoring implant
Nelson demille has passed away. Here are some of his books. #CommissionEarned
I Want to Be Perfectly Clear Here: Kamala Harris Is a Monster
India approves moon sample return, Venus orbiter, space station module and reusable launcher
NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s Scientific Mission aboard Space Station
WILL BIDEN AND KAMALA FINALLY CONGRATULATE THE SPACEX POLARIS DAWN TEAM?
Musk's Neuralink gets FDA's breakthrough device tag for 'Blindsight' implant
Putin is becoming entangled in his own discredited red lines
Obamacare Is Still Wrecking Our Health-Care System
The Coming Nuclear Space Race
A key NASA commercial partner faces severe financial challenges
Why Is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? asks Scientific American
Earth Might Have Had a Ring System Like Saturn Millions of Years Ago
Matt Walsh’s Hilarious New Film Asks: ‘Am I Racist?’
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
The Political Scientific American
The Twilight of Justin Trudeau
Hezbollah Gets a Pager Message

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Hundreds of Hezbollah Operatives’ Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
The Seven Most Interesting Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Saturn
OH Gov. DeWine: Springfield Bomb Threats Were All Hoaxes Originating Overseas
Scientists discover a 'third state' beyond life and death - in breakthrough that could 'redefine legal death'
Newly Registered Pennsylvania Voter Motivated by Economic Circumstances
55 Years Ago: Space Task Group Proposes Post-Apollo Plan to President Nixon
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training
Watchdog group sues for NASA emails with ‘Space Czar’ Harris, Boeing as astronauts linger in orbit
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
Trump blames Democrats’ rhetoric for latest apparent assassination attempt
Designing a better water filter
Bureaucrat Who Threatened To Censor X Announces Resignation on X

Monday, September 16, 2024

A new way to reprogram immune cells and direct them toward anti-tumor immunity
Where Is the Hype For Polaris Dawn?

Snow Woke VS Deadpool

China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035
Bezos takes on Musk in battle 300 miles above Britain
New Video Shows How Tiny Spacecraft Will “Swarm” Proxima Centauri
'Space trash' will lead us to intelligent aliens, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
If Taylor Swift Had Endorsed Donald Trump
Crimea Shows What Ukraine Can Do
Donald Trump in the Cross-Hairs Again

Sunday, September 15, 2024

How a Trump-Musk government efficiency commission might affect NASA

Former President Trump’s suggestion that a government efficiency commission be formed to examine the workings of every part of the federal government is a brilliant one. The idea that SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk be in charge of the commission would seem to be a no-brainer.

Such a commission would be the perfect vehicle for looking at NASA, an agency with a storied history beset with a slew of problems.

Swift endorsement turns more voters from Harris than it attracts: poll
NEO Surveyor: NASA’s Next Leap in Asteroid Defense
Cislunar Space Competition With China
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
SpaceX capsule splashes down after history-making Polaris Dawn mission
First Israeli woman astronaut? Innovation minister pushes for historic NASA training
NASA prepares to head back to the moon.

Friday, September 13, 2024

Just when you thought that things could not get more cringe in the Kamala for President effort, Women of Star Trek for Kamala emceed by "President of Earth" Stacey Abrams.

HARMONY OF RESILIENCE (Violin cover) by Sarah Gillis | Rey's Theme by Jo...

How JD Vance Responded to the Media's Meltdown Over the Haitians Eating Pets Story in Ohio Was Masterful
Yes, Tim Walz Just Called Kamala Harris a Prostitute (Sort of)
Trump announces new plan to end overtime taxes
Liz Cheney Has It Backward: Never-Trumpers Would Have Hated Reagan, Too
Dear Kamala, We Want To Go Back. And So Should Everyone Else
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
Cosmology is at a tipping point – we may be on the verge of discovering new physics
Hyperloop Company Has Successfully Propelled a Vessel Through a Tube, Reviving Faded Dream
The Left’s Assault on the Constitution

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Ice-hunting Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2 nearly ready for January 2025 launch
Two private astronauts took a spacewalk Thursday morning—yes, it was historic
Why Trump won the debate
The worst debate in the history of presidential debates
9 phenomena NASA astronauts will encounter at Moon's south pole
Japan's ispace aims for December launch of second moon landing mission
SpaceX Polaris Dawn private spacewalk mission: Live updates
Report highlights severe infrastructure challenges at NASA
Who Won the Trump-Harris Debate?
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Welfare Is What’s Eating the Budget
Why Trump Is the Abortion Moderate
Harris Tells a Fracking Howler

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Polaris Dawn crew flies higher than 1966 Gemini 11 orbital record
The future of Boeing’s crewed spaceflight program is muddy after Starliner’s return
Critical report warns NASA is underfunded and its future is at risk
SpaceX says regulators will keep Starship grounded until at least November
Human Brain May Store 10 Times More Information Than Previously Thought
NASA okays mission to search for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
The Biden-Harris Rule Trump Appointees Should Repeal First
Who Won the Trump-Harris Debate?
Trump Lets Harris Off the Debate Hook

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

I Used to Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us) by Kat Timpf #CommissionEarned
ABC News and its pass/fail test
SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn mission, which will attempt the first private spacewalk
NASA's Europa Clipper probe to icy Jupiter moon takes big step toward its Oct. 10 launch
Using A Space Elevator To Get Resources Off the Queen of the Asteroid Belt
Astronauts would have been fine on Boeing's Starliner during landing, NASA says
World’s first whole-eye transplant: the innovations that made it possible
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
Dick Cheney’s Bad Timing
You Would Pay Harris’s Wealth Tax
The Long Shadow of Biden’s Afghan Withdrawal Debacle

Sunday, September 08, 2024

Robert Reich wants the US to cut ties with SpaceX

Robert Reich, former Labor secretary under President Bill Clinton and current public policy professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is angry with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Reich has written a column in the UK Guardian explaining why he finds Musk obnoxious and what should be done about it.

Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Chinese astronauts will test sample bricks for moon research base
SpaceX’s Tim Hughes says firm ready to invest, offer services in Vietnam
NASA delays ESCAPADE Mars launch on Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket to 2025 to avoid potential cost overruns
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Reagan the Wizard
SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says
George W. Bush not endorsing in 2024 presidential election

Friday, September 06, 2024

Tiny magnetic nanorobots show promise for treating brain aneurysms
Faced with a tight deadline, NASA and Blue Origin agree to delay New Glenn debut
No, Winston Churchill Was Not the ‘Chief Villain’ of the Second World War
Trump rips ‘deeply sick’ Dems for sympathizing with terrorists during virtual Republican Jewish Coalition appearance
A huge asteroid crash permanently altered Jupiter's biggest moon Ganymede
After another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missions
Nuclear Power Construction Is a Rare Bipartisan Issue on Capitol Hill

LIVE: Donald Trump reveals economic plan in New York

Kamala Harris’s ‘unrealized gains tax’ — so dumb it’s truly historic
Biden Confesses To A Big Lie, And Nobody Notices … Not Even Joe
More water worlds than we thought might support life
China’s Chang’e 5 finds evidence of recent volcanism on the Moon
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
The Conservative Case for Trump’s IVF Policy
Berkeley’s Gas Stove Tax
Kamala Harris Dons a Capital-Gains Tax Disguise

Thursday, September 05, 2024

First there was Space Cadets For Harris. Now there is Geeks and Nerds for Harris. Apparently Lynda Carter, famed for playing Wonder Woman some decades ago, is the moving force behind this effort. I don't think that this will help Kamala Harris' efforts to become President as it suggests a lack of seriousness. On the other hand, Vladimir Putin has joined White Dudes for Harris.
Electric Car Battery Charges in Under Five Minutes: Goodbye Range Anxiety?
Neuralink’s First Patient is Learning French and Japanese Using “The Link” Brain Chip Interface
The Kamala Ducks Trump Debate Live Blog
Nature's Bounty Fish Oil, Supports Heart Health, 1200 Mg, 360 Mg Omega-3, Rapid Release Softgels, 200 Ct #CommissionEarned
Nature's Bounty Vitamin D, Immune Support, Vitamin Supplement, 2000 IU, 50 mcg, Softgels, 350 Ct #CommissionEarned
Liz Cheney, who called Harris ‘a radical liberal’ in 2020, now endorses her
Should we regulate the moon? Scientists call for international plan to share lunar water and resources
SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission set to launch early Friday
NASA clears Europa Clipper mission for Oct. 10 launch despite Jupiter radiation worries
'There was some tension in the room', NASA says of decision to bring Boeing's Starliner spacecraft home without astronauts
Kamala Harris lacks the minimum skills set to be president
Natural Gas Can Help Get California to Net Zero
After Starliner, NASA has another big human spaceflight decision to make
Nine Mythical Places Archaeologists Think May Have Actually Existed
This Surprising Trick Could Make Your Lithium-Ion Batteries Last 50% Longer
Nano Delivery of Drug Combo Shrinks Pancreatic Cancer Tumors in Mice
X doubles down on video with a new TV app
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
New York Times Discovers That Democrats Aren’t Always Truthful
Who’s Winning the Campaign Air and Ground War?
The Future of Warfare Is Electronic

Tuesday, September 03, 2024

J.R.R. Tolkien Returns With Army Of The Dead To Destroy Everyone Trying To Make 'Lord Of The Rings' Woke
Statue of 'Teacher-in-Space' Christa McAuliffe unveiled at NH capitol
NASA moving ahead with Europa Clipper launch in October
Artemis 3 astronauts will walk on the moon with 4G-equipped spacesuits
There They Go Again: 'Reagan' Stalls at Box Office?
The pieces of NASA's next 3 Artemis moon missions head to Florida launch site
Belief in Alien Visits Is Spiralling Out of Control
James Darren, Teen Idol Actor in ‘Gidget,’ Singer and Director, Dies at 88: Also Time Tunnel and DS9
The Case for Life on Mars
New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
Why Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitic
Welcome to Canada, the Doctor Will Kill You Now
Judges Say You Can’t Build That

Sunday, September 01, 2024

Space policy could become partisan in the 2024 election

One of the bright spots in American politics has been that space policy has avoided becoming a partisan political issue. The Biden administration has adopted wholesale from the preceding Trump administration both the Space Force and the Artemis mission to return to the moon. The continuity of space policy between the two very different presidencies has been both surprising and gratifying.

However, the nonpartisan nature of space policy may be about to change.

Bodies of 6 hostages, murdered by Hamas just days ago, found in Rafah – IDF
Space Scientists Invent Futuristic VR Simulations For Moon Astronauts
SpaceX: Polaris Dawn launch still on hold because of poor splashdown weather near Florida
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Over 2 million pounds of space debris caused by NASA mission may create first human-made meteor shower
Can Elon Musk rescue America’s failing space program?
Harris Attempt To Attack Trump’s Arlington Visit Backfires Horribly When Gold Star Families Respond