The Air Force’s $10000 toilet cover, Washington Post “Loren Thompson, a defense consultant who works for the Lexington Institute, a think tank that gets funding from defense contractors, said he […]
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NASA Has No Contingency Plan For Uninterrupted Human Access To Space
GAO: NASA Commercial Crew Program: Plan Needed to Ensure Uninterrupted Access to the International Space Station, GAO “Further delays are likely as the Commercial Crew Program’s schedule risk analysis shows […]
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Boeing's Creepy Petition Wants To Track Your Online Activity
Keith’s note: A month ago I mentioned the Facebook advertsing that Boeing has been doing (see “Boeing’s Imaginary Space Program“). Well, they are at it again. I just saw this […]
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Boeing's Imaginary Space Program
Keith’s note: This appears at the bottom of the newsletter that Boeing pays Politico to put out weekly: “A message from The Boeing Company: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg asserted, “It’s […]
Posted inExploration
Going To Mars: Old Space Vs New Space
Do it — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2018
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Boeing's Misleading Anti-SpaceX Pro-SLS Facebook Ad Campaign
Keith’s note: We’ve all heard about those misleading campaign ads on Facebook. Well, while the campaign ads are under scrutiny big aerospace companies are quietly luring people to websites that […]
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Will Terrestrial Politics Soon Have An Offworld Impact? (Update)
Putin Says Space Exploration With U.S. Will Go On Amid Sanctions “Russia wants to continue international cooperation in space and won’t break off programs with the U.S. in retaliation for […]
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PoliticoBoeing Now Has Their Own Space Newsletter Thing
“With such a flurry of activity–from Elon Musk and Space X to the Administration’s vow to send Americans to the moon and Mars–we see an opportunity to take advantage of […]
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Big Aerospace Contribution Recipient Complains About Imaginary SpaceX Monopoly
For some reason, Ron Paul has taken to Fox News to skewer SpaceX, Ars Technica “Three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul has written an opinion piece for Fox News that comes […]
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Commercial Crew Flights in 2018?
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Target Flight Dates “The next generation of American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station are nearing the final stages of […]