Keith’s note: according to a new NASA report: “NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, investments in […]
2022
Posted inAstrobiology, News
NASA’s Astrobiology Program Still Ignores Its Own Cool Stuff
Keith’s note: NASA funds some really cool stuff – especially in the area of Astrobiology – the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Yet the NASA Astrobiology program has […]
Posted inCulture, News
NASA Does A Stealth Announcement Of Its New UAP/UFO/FlyingSaucer/ Committee
Keith’s note: Late last Friday NASA posted an item on NASA.gov. Unlike all other releases and media advisories NASA did not send this out to the regular email ist. As […]
Posted inArtemis, China, News
NASAWatch and APSCO on CGTN: International Space Cooperation
Keith’s note: I was just on CGTN World Insight with Tian Wei (Beijing) with Xu Yansong, Director General of Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) talking about international space cooperation. Audio […]
Posted inAstronomy, News
When Space Images Literally Talk To You
Keith’s note: Sometimes my background back in the day when I was a Sign Language Interpreter really grabs hold of me – such as seeing this new Webb pic of […]
Posted inCulture, News
Dear NASA: Half Of Humanity Does Not Do The Halloween Thing
Keith’s note: FWIW the @NASA Twitter account has 64.5 million followers. Other NASA accounts probably double that. While its fun to play with Twitter handles for Halloween etc (NASA Ghoul-dard […]
Posted inArtemis, News, SLS and Orion
A Cheaper Way To Fly SLS? Sure. Just Send Money.
Keith’s note: You have to read this solicitation to believe it. To build SLS NASA used existing Shuttle hardware to save money and then went off and reinvented everything that […]
Posted inAstronauts, News, Personnel News
Jim McDivitt
Former NASA astronaut Jim McDivitt, who led Gemini and Apollo missions, dies at 93, NPR — “Jim McDivitt, an astronaut who played a key role in making America’s first spacewalk […]
Posted inNews, Space & Planetary Science
NASAWatch On Al Jazeera: Punching Asteroids
Keith’s note: I was on Al Jazeera Arabic again – this time doing a follow-up on the DART mission news and explaining the value of both detecting and deflecting potentially […]
Posted inCulture, Education, News
NASA Branding In A Ukrainian War Zone
Keith’s note: If you go to this Reddit post “People greeting Ukrainian soldiers in deoccupied town” on r/UkraineWarVideoReport you will see a video of Ukrainians greeting liberators. At the 00:57 […]