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Books by Mark R. Whittington

Articles by Mark R. Whittington

Malaysia and the Philippines sign Artemis Accords

NASA's Space Launch System rocket for moon-bound Artemis II mission fully stacked at Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX Starlink internet isn't fast enough for Ukraine's combat robots

Sean Duffy irks White House as drama over top job at NASA seeps into public view

How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer

2 No-Brainer Nuclear Energy Stocks to Buy With $2,000 Right Now

Did Science Just Confirm 1950s UFO Visits?

Mars May Have Microbes Frozen In Its Icy Surfaces

Is your ultra-HD TV worth it? Scientists measure the resolution limit of the human eye

U.S. Department of Energy and AMD cut a $1 billion deal for two AI supercomputers — pairing has already birthed the two fastest machines on ...

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

Asia Gets the Trump Treatment

It’s the Worst Time to Be a Jewel Thief

Argentina’s Milei Gets a Second Wind

Europe’s deep-sea telescope on a hunt for the origins of the universe

NASA’s trailblazing generation

ExxonMobil sues California over climate disclosure laws

Two arrested over theft of jewels at Louvre museum in Paris

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

America Can Give Refuge to British Jews

The Left Attacks the Rule of Law

The Y’all Street Tax Plan for Texas

Scientists Create “Velcro Bomb” That Enables Immune Cells to Attack Solid Cancer Tumors

Despite bleak predictions, humanity’s search for interstellar life persists Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or ...

Musk Stumbles on the Way to the Moon

I helped design rocket engines for NASA’s space shuttles. Here’s why businesses need AI as trustworthy as aerospace tech

A vote for Mamdani is a vote for LITERALLY more criminals on NYC streets

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy stirs Jews in New York – and beyond

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

The Left’s Never-Ending Outrage Machine

Calm Down, No One Cares About the White House Renovation

The Democrats Have a Nazi Problem

Interstellar visitor now hurtling toward NASA spacecraft's path in a once-in-a-lifetime encounter

Nasa, we have a problem

What Would an Extraterrestrial Think of Popular Media?

Solar-Powered Eye Implant Restores Reading Vision

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

The real killer of Napoleon’s army revealed by DNA testing

The Anti-tail of 3I/ATLAS Turned to a Tail!

Trump Says the Road to Gaza Ran Through Tehran

NYC mayoral debate exposed Zohran Mamdani as man who has never dealt with reality

Living in giant moon glass spheres could be our future

California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime

Bizarre Crystals in Titan's Lakes Could Break a Fundamental Rule of Chemistry

Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole

Going Gray May Have a Hidden Health Benefit

Alzheimer’s disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells

U.S. Mine Waste Contains Enough Critical Minerals and Rare Earths to Easily End Imports. But Tapping into These Resources Is Anything but Ea...

Astronomers Just Found a Nearby Super-Earth That Could Have the Right Conditions for Life

A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned

Vikings really did reach North America a thousand years ago — and now we know exactly when

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Ballroom

Putting the Oil Squeeze on Putin

White House Aides Losing Patience With Transportation Secretary Duffy For Stoking Feud With Elon Musk

Hungary signs Artemis Accords

Why woke women make terrible leaders

Abandoned NASA nominee may find new life

How the 'Space Race 2.0' Can Benefit Main Street

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research

Smart Drug Shrinks Tumors in Cancer Patients With No Options Left

Snakes Pee Solid Crystals and Their Strange Waste Could Help Humans Fight Painful Kidney Stones

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Zohran Mamdani Pushes to Defund the Gifted

The University Elite, Reconsidered

Trump Strikes a Good Rare-Earth Deal

The lunar mining gold rush is coming – and success requires bridging two worlds

Parkinson's Discovery Suggests We May Have an FDA-Approved Treatment Already

Articles by Mark R. Whittington

Books by Mark Whittington

Bridenstine on DoD’s Cislunar Goals, CLPS, and Returning to the Moon

Renominate Jated Isaacman for NASA --- A petition

Rep. Balderson's New ARC Energy Security Act Is Smart Legislation

Depending on China for rare-earths is one of our dumbest mistakes — and must be corrected PRONTO

Canada: A Socialist Paradise Lost

JWST detects building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way

China Brought Something Unexpected Back From The Far Side of The Moon

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Scientists Build Smallest Engine Ever, Hotter Than the Sun and Powered by Randomness

Why Trump Won in Portland

A Mamdani Mayoralty Threatens New York’s Jews

Elon Musk just declared war on NASA’s acting administrator, apparently

ObamaCare Premiums Are Doubling? Don’t Believe It

The Robots That Handle Your Amazon Orders

Zohran Mamdani and the Democrats

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

The Power Struggle Over Who Will Run NASA Is Turning Ugly

Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration

Scientists Discover Antibody that Blocks 98% of HIV Strains

Breakthrough Vitamin K Compounds May Reverse Alzheimer’s Damage

Why did NASA’s chief just shake up the agency’s plans to land on the Moon?

Transportation Secretary Duffy says Musk’s SpaceX is behind on moon trip and he will reopen contracts Related: America needs a ‘Plan B’ to ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission Breaks Lunar Depth Record with Innovative LISTER Instrument

Seven Potential Signs of a Brain Tumor

Do Moonquakes Pose a Threat to Artemis Astronauts and their Habitats?

Racial Gerrymandering Is a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Gone

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

A Napoleonic Smash-and-Grab

An English City Bars Israeli Soccer Fans

You Can Now Walk the Secret Tunnel Used by Roman Emperors at the Colosseum

The First New Commercial Banana In 75 Years Is Coming To The Market Next Year

How NASA, SpaceX and America can still win the race to the moon Nevertheless, the path ahead for SpaceX to develop a Starship that can get ...

Gantz: ‘All options must be on the table’ after Hamas violated ceasefire

Nuclear Hype Is Building - TVA Plans to Buy In

No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum

What Sasha Stone believes will save the film industry from progressive ideology

Chandrayaan-2 makes first ever observation of Sun's impact on Moon, says ISRO

Why Blue Origin will one day be bigger than Amazon

NASA Scientist Proposes Theory of Alien Civilizations Throughout Milky Way

Say Goodbye to Normal Tire, NASA’s Airless ‘Superelastic Tire’ for Personal Vehicles Soon

$20 million NASA mission to visit 'God of Chaos' asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

The Simple Steps That Can Prevent Dementia

Gingrich: Trump Has A Real Shot At Becoming Number 3 In The Pantheon Of American Presidents

How Trump’s advent and the internet killed the media’s agenda-setting power