NASA Invitation for Public Nominations of U.S. Citizens for Potential Service on the National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group “NASA announces an invitation for public nominations of U.S. citizens to […]
2017
Posted inCommercialization
The First Falcon Heavy Awaits Its Sports Car Payload
Falcon Heavy at the Cape pic.twitter.com/hizfDVsU7X — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2017
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The International Space Station Is The Undiscovered Country
Why The International Space Station Is The Single Best Thing We Did, Wired: “The International Space Station is one of the few nonstellar things up there that we can see […]
Posted inNews
Bigelow Aerospace Had a Secret DoD UFO Study Contract (Update)
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program, New York Times “Contracts obtained by The Times show a congressional appropriation of just under $22 million beginning in late […]
Posted inCulture
Waiting For The NASA Science Word Police
CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity, Washington Post “The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven […]
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Thinking Of Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Thinking Of Sir Arthur C. Clarke On His 100th Birthday “Today would have been Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s 100th birthday. Arthur C. Clarke has had more influence on me as […]
Posted inAstronauts
Apollo 1 Memorial To Be Placed at Arlington National Cemetery
Keith’s note: Last week President Trump signed the H.R.2810 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 into law. Included in this legislation is a provision that calls for […]
Posted inISS News
NASA Still Has No Clear Idea How To Use the International Space Station
Keith’s note: After spending decades and tens of billions of dollars NASA still cannot implement a strategic plan for the use of the ISS or explain how it plans to […]
Posted inExploration
George Abbey: Let's Go Back To The Moon
Former NASA Flight Director Says A Return To The Moon Is Necessary Before Heading To Mars “But what about plans for a return to the moon? “”First, you go to […]
Posted inAstronomy
Artificial Intelligence is Now Helping Kepler Find Planets
Artificial Intelligence Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star “The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg and trained a computer to learn how to identify […]