Life is what happens while you’re trying not to get hit on the head by a Soviet spaceship. For as long as I can remember, countless pieces of communist space junk have been crashing back to Earth — either because…
Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Kerianne Flynn, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Gayle King claim to have made a groundbreaking achievement — after spending 11 minutes as passengers on a Blue Origin space flight. (READ MORE: Katy Perry Went to Space….
Ten minutes and 21 seconds. That’s how long Katy Perry and her all-female crew of self-proclaimed “astronauts” spent in the air during their trip to outer space. Despite the fact that the trip took as much time as it takes…
The stock market panicked at the end of January on news that the Chinese start-up DeepSeek had made an artificial intelligence model that is more efficient than anything American companies have produced thus far. In response, former presidential candidate Vivek…
America must create the law that will govern the colonization of space. In his inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump said: The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory,…
I saw a t-shirt the other day that gave me a chuckle. It read: “I may be old, but I saw America before it went to sh**.” My amusement passed quickly. As I thought about the differences between the 20th…
Elon Musk is many things: mega-billionaire, electric car mogul, meme poster. With such a tsunami of descriptors, it can be easy to overlook a simple question: What does Mr. X want? The answer, anticlimactic as it is, is hiding in…
Boeing’s very public series of embarrassing malfunctions have been analyzed and debated at length and explained quite comprehensively by individuals with far more expertise in the airplane business than me. But one need not know anything about aeronautics to understand…
I was a freshman in college in the Boston area in the spring of 1970, and a solar eclipse was coming to Nantucket Island. A bunch of us guys piled into my friend George’s beat-up Plymouth convertible early in the…
