Keith’s note: Some people are feeling rather big right now. Others feel rather small. Let’s recalibrate. Wherever you are on the political spectrum just put all of that aside for […]
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Is NASA Losing The Space Memes Race?
Keith’s note: I am posting this piece by Fredrik Jonsson (video link below) as an example of what millions of people can now do with tools on their personal computers. […]
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Beati pacifici
Keith’s note: As was to be expected, the right wing, 50+ year-old, white male space bro fringe chooses the death of President Jimmy Carter to post up manner of insulting jabs […]
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James Dean
Keith’s note: the archetype for NASA outreach – beyond space enthusiasts – was the original NASA Art Program during Apollo. It expressed in images what math and physics could not. […]
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NASA Has A New Bumper Sticker Elevator Speech Thing
Keith’s note: Well you knew it was inevitable. When things get tough at NASA – announce some sort of reinvention or new direction and then come up with a motto, […]
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NASAWatch On Scripps: The Future of Space
Keith’s Note: I did an interview on Scripps news tonight about the politics of space. Here’s the audio. Funny thing – as they were setting up the piece I heard […]
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Personal Things On Board Odysseus – Resting On The Moon
Keith’s note: A few weeks ago a robotic explorer named Odysseus completed a journey – one not unlike its mythological human namesake undertook – and struggled ashore at the south […]
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The Dream Is Indeed Alive: Space Exploration For Everyone – Everywhere
Keith’s note: The popularity of space exploration – both real and imagined – is something that those of us in the developed and throughly wired developed world take for granted. […]
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Post Flight Re-write?
Keithâs note: In 2021 I posted a book review of “Not Necessarily Rocket Science – A Beginners Guide To Life In The Space Age” by Kellie Gerardi – who just […]
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Interstellar +9
Keith’s note: Nine years ago – on 7 November 2014 – I had a chance to visit a large scale model of the “Ranger” Spacecraft used in the filming of […]