It’s Monday morning at the Space Force’s Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center — and it’s official. NASA has given up all hope of launching its “mega moon rocket” anytime soon and has begun the laborious process of…
Good news! NASA-funded technology, intended to develop a fabric that helps regulate temperatures in space gloves, is now being touted as an effective counter to the hot flashes, heavy sweating, and subsequent chills that frequently plague menopausal women. The phase-based…
It’s 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 4, 2022, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida — and a tried-and-true SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket stands ready at Space Launch Complex-40. The rocket (B152) already has five successful launches to…
On Dec. 2, 2020, a respected Israeli newspaper published a startling interview with Israel’s former space security chief, the retired general and respected author and academician Haim Eshed, in which Eshed claimed that space aliens were real. Seven months later,…
Monday at 1:06 p.m. EDT, the SpaceX spacecraft Crew Dragon Endeavor splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico with its international crew of four private astronauts. Yep. Private — as in Private Pay. Axiom Vice President, former NASA astronaut, and…
Biden-era lockdowns, quarantines, and supply chain shortages blamed on COVID have transmogrified into runaway inflation, soaring prices, and a looming recession. Some blame the Chinese, some blame President Trump, and some blame Vladimir Putin. Personally, I blame Biden, and it’s…
Ho hum. It’s Thursday, April 21, and around 2:00 p.m. EST, booster B1060 — the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 mission — thundered skywards from Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Two and a half minutes…
With gas prices breaking $5 and even $6 per gallon, weekly runs to the supermarket have become pricey and painful propositions. At least it’s easier to find parking spots. The bad news is that shelves are emptier, selections limited, and…
My great-grandpa John Jacob Howard (1846–1931) returned from the war in 1865, married Sarah Amanda Coldiron in Bell County, Kentucky, and raised eight kids — five boys and three girls. To all accounts, Great-Grandma Howard (1848–1924) had a knack for…
An old English proverb recorded by John Heywood in 1546 (and who may or not have been a distant relative of mine) has it that: “It is indeed an ill-wind that blows no one good.” The ill wind that blew…