I don’t have time to comment, but it looks like Jared is winning over the Senate.
Agree this is a significant & extremely positive development. Looks like the combo of @NASAAdmin's credibility, willingness to go public with existing program's shortcomings & crafting a plan giving SLS a chance to improve, while allowing competition worked! Promising indeed! https://t.co/xm9ecQaO8e
— Lori Garver (@Lori_Garver) March 4, 2026
Not as good as a cancellation of SLS, but it’s a redirection toward some semblance of programmatic sanity.
NASA just announced a MAJOR overhaul of the Artemis program. Here’s what’s changed, according to @NASAAdmin @rookisaacman:
— Kristin Fisher (@KristinFisher) February 27, 2026
NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 – docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or…
[Update a couple minutes later]
Eric Berger has the story.
And, of course, Boeing continues the lies: ” “The SLS core stage remains the world’s most powerful rocket stage, and the only one that can carry American astronauts directly to the moon and beyond in a single launch.”
[Update a while later]
Northrop Grumman watching EUS die while their SRBs keeping losing nozzles https://t.co/lNfxd8qA1K pic.twitter.com/aYm2PFk8PP
— Space Koala (@SpaceKoala) February 27, 2026
Why Xi wants Gavin.
Jared responds to Eric Berger:
I will just say we are leaning forward with transparency, sharing the blemishes and the successes, because for a program as costly and important to national security as Artemis, the public is entitled to the facts.
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) February 14, 2026
– The confidence test related to the seals we repaired and…
He remains hostage to the politics, until Starship has shown its mettle. Also…
Thoughts from Peter Hague.
As someone who has never cared much about Mars, I’m very happy to see this.
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How they destroyed practical adult education.
Congratulations, California.
The Sunset Strip is dying.
I’ve never habituated the place, though I’ve often driven down it in the daytime on the way to somewhere else. I haven’t done it in a while. Probably a lot less business for the “Sunset pigs” that Joni Mitchell sung about in her song California.
Why who we allow to immigrate into the country matters:
When I first came to the U.S. to finish school, a professor told us to take an exam at home and simply said, “Don’t use Google or open your books.”
— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) January 6, 2026
As someone who grew up in the Middle East, I couldn’t believe it. What kind of society trusts people like that?
But over time, I…
This would appear to be both a message to Maduro, and the Mullahs… https://t.co/HyTmYyNY6f
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) January 3, 2026
[Saturday-afternoon update]
Eclectic food for thought, from Blake Powers.
[Monday-morning update]
Trump, Maduro, and what’s next?
I just hope they have a better plan than Bush and Cheney did after removing Saddam. It wouldn’t be hard.
[Tuesday-morning update]
How snatching Maduro screws up everyone else’s plans.
This is the most assertive foreign policy against evil since Reagan. Dubya thought he was fighting the “axis of evil,” but he was far too soft on Islam.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
The argument going around the Internet is that Cuba, Venezuela and probably Iran soon are no threat because they have completely collapsed with no power, no food, no water. Hence any actions against them are pure cruelty. If anything the rich capitalists should bail them out.…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 6, 2026