Keith’s update: I got another response from Barton Bollfrass at Opifex Global and their commercial astronaut training company in response to questions I submitted after they contacted me about doing […]
2019
Posted inCommercialization
JSC Is Not Very Excited About NASA's Economic Impact on Texas (Update)
NASA: A Texas Institution with a Large Economic Impact, Texas Comptroller “The Johnson Space Center (JSC) makes a $4.7 billion annual impact on the Texas economy and supports more than […]
Posted inCulture
Saralyn Mark Responds To Marsha Ivins' Gender Diversity Op Ed
Keith’s note: Several weeks ago I posted some commentary “Marsha Ivins Opines On Gender Diversity At NASA: “Enough Already!“ With regard to an opinion piece in Time magazine by former […]
Posted inMilitary Space
Selling The Space Force Thing With "Red Moon" Scare Tactics
Is the Senate ready to protect American interests in space?, Op Ed, The Hill “And that’s a dangerous place to be. Nobody wants to be on record as having been […]
Posted inHistory
Bad News From Earth
11 September 2001: Bad news from Earth, SpaceRef “The news from Earth that morning wasn’t good. Frank Culbertson would soon find that some of the day’s pre-planned routine would be […]
Posted inHistory
9-11: Old Flags, Sheer Terror, and Red Begonias
Keith’s note: I have lived in the Metro Washington DC area for 33 years – more than half my life. When I first moved to DC to work at NASA […]
Posted inArtemis
JSC Goes Out Of Its Way To Hide Good News (Update)
Cruz’s test: how to keep Houston central to space flight [Editorial] “But the flesh-and-blood part of the techno-wizardry of the Space program has always run first through Houston. Not Huntsville, […]
Posted inCommercialization
DoD Seems To Be More Interested In Space Futures Than NASA Is
Report: The Future of Space 2060 and Implications for U.S. Strategy: Report on the Space Futures Workshop, Air Force Space Command 5 September 2019 “Key conclusions reached were: – The […]
Posted inEarth Science
Rewriting Weather History With A Sharpie (Update)
Statement from NOAA “From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that […]
Posted inMilitary Space
Space Force Is Worried About Being Called Silly Names
What will we call the men and women of the Space Force?, The Hill “In the shorter term, Space Force personnel may conduct operations beyond Earth orbits in the near- […]