Paul Spudis now has a crater on the Moon named after him. Let's go visit Paul. He's easy to find – he's right next door to Shackleton. https://t.co/Pz9o2sejzJ pic.twitter.com/gJZ67pbrIY — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 1, 2021

The Most Famous Person To Die In 2018, According To Data Science, Huffington Post “What this graph doesn’t tell us, however, is who specifically was the most famous person to die in 2018. To calculate this, we need a means to measure an individual’s level of fame. And this is where we can borrow a trick from Google. The search engine ranks results by counting the number of pages linking […]

Keith’s note: I am not even sure where to start. I knew Paul for 30 years. He was truly the “man in the moon”. I am not sure that there was any one person left among us who had that Apollo-era sort of knowledge of the Moon – its geology, its resources, and its untapped potential. He was an unrelenting advocate for lunar exploration and he will be truly missed. […]

Discarding Shuttle: The Hidden Cost, Paul Spudis, Air & Space “On February 15, 2011 a symposium entitled “U.S. Human Spaceflight: Continuity and Stability” was held at Rice University’s James A. Baker Institute of Public Policy. Organized by George Abbey, the resident space expert at the Baker Institute, one might have suspected that it would be Shuttle-centric and indeed, it was. Many pertinent points relevant to the current discussion about NASA’s […]

Keith’s 14 Nov note: Word has it that NASA JSC has a stealth “Project M” underway whereby it would place a lander on the Moon in 1,000 days – once approved. Meanwhile, word has it that NASA is now looking to match Google’s $30 million pledge to the Google Lunar X Prize – and that Google may up their ante as well. Conversations are being held directly between X Prize […]