On or about March 4, some experts believe that part of a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX is going to crash its 8,000 pounds of force into the moon at about 5,500 miles per hour. We don’t…
Last Saturday, Military.com broke a major story: “Space Force CO Who Got Holiday Call from Trump Fired Over Comments Decrying Marxism in the Military.” A boilerplate statement released by Space Force Public Affairs, attributed to “a Space Force spokesman,” announced,…
On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 — 60 years to the day after astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. launched aboard Freedom 7 atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space — SpaceX hit it out of the park, ushering…
The bad news is that it took the Biden–Harris administration 100 days to begin reconciling their preoccupation with climate change, face masks, racial and gender “equity,” and free money for the masses with their supposed support for America’s space program….
Last year, hedging its bets against the remote possibility of a Biden–Harris victory, NASA began framing the Artemis Moon to Mars program in terms of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon. Against all odds, the Biden–Harris ticket…
So you want to be an astronaut. You’re not making your decision in a vacuum. NASA is in the middle of an unprecedented promotion campaign, with press conferences, media availabilities, YouTube videos, press releases, and pull-out-all-the-stops outreach to students, from…
Wednesday, March 24, 2021: Kamala Harris, in her role as “first female vice president,” wokes the International Space Station (ISS) with a video teleconference to female astronauts Kate Rubins and Shannon Walker. It is still Women’s History Month after all,…
Last week NASA announced that they had signed a Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement with Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) to help regulate low-Earth orbit traffic patterns and enhance the safety of NASA spacecraft as they attempt to launch through the…
Good news from NASA. The Thursday, March 18, 2021, Green Run hot fire test of the Artemis Space Launch System (SLS) core rocket was everything they needed it to be, and more. And it needed to be everything they it…
