A Return to Space?
By Robert Farrow CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: NASA counted down to the launch of space shuttle Discovery on Saturday, hoping to fly a crucial mission and knowing that failure could ground the shuttle fleet...
View ArticleThe Mission To Mars
We all know that the Global Warming zealots are a crazy bunch, they would destroy whole economies because of a .00010 increase in temperature. Now they want to torpedo the man mission to Mars: A...
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Happy Moon Day
Being somewhat of a space junkie I could not let this day go by without referencing the fact that 38 years ago today man walked on the moon for the first time. And it’s been 35 years since we last...
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Perspective
Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Telescope cross in front of the sun in this image captured by Thierry Legault Enlarged section added to show greater detail. The shuttle was traveling at 15,534 mph....
View ArticleObama Set To Kill Manned Space Exploration
Any surprise that Obama’s mediocrity rears its ugly head once again. This time by moving to kill the Constellation program, the program to get man on the moon…permanently, and then to mars…..how does...
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Barack Obama’s NASA saves America! [Reader Post]
Sometimes it’s helpful to take a step back and get some perspective in order to be able to evaluate something that is right in front of you today. Sometimes that perspective goes back 40 years...
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When Politicians Intervene: NASA’s Budget Refocusing Ends US Space...
Some number of years ago, over twenty as I remember, the late (and IMHO great) Paul Harvey said that for every dollar spent at NASA, the return was seven dollars. So with that quote in my mind, the...
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It’s time to put NASA out of its misery
I was absolutely thrilled by the advent of manned space exploration. It was an exciting time. I followed the program in minute detail. I still know the names of every Mercury astronaut and most of the...
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Hubris brings down another spacecraft
Virgin Galactic joins the club. The United States has suffered the loss of two orbiters and crews- Challenger and Columbia. Both were most likely avoidable. The Challenger was lost in 1987 when...
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