Jeff Foust has a good summary of the current state of planetary defense.

Jeff Foust has a good summary of the current state of planetary defense.

Jeff Foust has a good summary of the current state of planetary defense.

Current schedule seems to be 4 PM Pacific (that means this evening for us (current) east coasters).

Alan Henderson has some thoughts about sunspots, climate change, and space colonization. I have to say, though, that I don’t think it’s an urgent issue.

Or so says Elon Musk.

Here’s hoping for a badly needed success.

Former Congressional space staffer David Goldston has a piece over at Nature about the grid-locked and paralytic state of space policy. He also describes the ongoing ignorance of much of the Congress, the media, and the public on the subject:

…the story one hears now from most members of Congress, and some in the media, is that the president made a speech about going to Mars in 2004, got nothing but grief for it, and the proposal went nowhere. This is, of course, almost entirely wrong.

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Former Congressional space staffer David Goldston has a piece over at Nature about the grid-locked and paralytic state of space policy. He also describes the ongoing ignorance of much of the Congress, the media, and the public on the subject:

…the story one hears now from most members of Congress, and some in the media, is that the president made a speech about going to Mars in 2004, got nothing but grief for it, and the proposal went nowhere. This is, of course, almost entirely wrong.

Continue reading Thoughts On Mike’s Thoughts →

Former Congressional space staffer David Goldston has a piece over at Nature about the grid-locked and paralytic state of space policy. He also describes the ongoing ignorance of much of the Congress, the media, and the public on the subject:

…the story one hears now from most members of Congress, and some in the media, is that the president made a speech about going to Mars in 2004, got nothing but grief for it, and the proposal went nowhere. This is, of course, almost entirely wrong.

Continue reading Thoughts On Mike’s Thoughts →

There’s a lot of interesting discussion over at Space Politics about NASA’s budget dilemma. Al Fansome makes a very interesting point, that needs to be turned into a policy paper:

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