Posts Tagged ‘nasa’
“The Right Stuff”
For all of the unemployed in this country, of which there are a lot, you will be happy to know that today, the federal government has announced job openings…at NASA… for astronauts.
Read MoreABC News totally distorts Bush administration space policy
This post has nothing to do with United States space policy or budget dollars, it has to do with ABC News totally distorting the facts when it comes to the Bush administration’s space policy after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
Read MoreThat’s it – Space Shuttle lifts off for the last time, Atlantis heading for Space Station
The last Space Shuttle just took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission – crewed by NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (commander), Doug Hurley (pilot), and mission specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus – will “deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station.”
Read MoreHouston, we have a problem
Those words were not good news for those who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. They may have been spoken in other space flights, but, the dilemma of Apollo 13 comes to mind as the most urgent.
Read MoreNASA’s new mission: make Muslims feel good about themselves
Hopefully its not a five year mission. Charles Bolden, in an interview with Al Jezeera TV, let’s the cat out of the bag and it is almost laughable. No, I take that back. It is laughable.
Read MoreAtlantis scheduled to rehab Hubble telescope
There have been a couple of NASA missions to rehab the Hubble telescope that has provided some pretty amazing images over the past few years. Seven astronauts are heading up this afternoon, for what is being described as a pretty dangerous mission. I had not heard this, but the mission has a back up team…
Read MoreSpace Shuttle Challenger, 23 years ago today
Twenty three years ago today, at 11:39 a.m. ET, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart and disintegrated off the central coast of Florida during ascent. An o-ring seal failed, and disaster incurred. Ronald Reagan’s address to the nation a few hours after the disaster was one of his most remembered and eloquent. Ladies and gentlemen,…
Read MoreNASA science – climate change numbers don’t add up
The United Nations relies on four data sources for it’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One of them is NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), headed up by Dr. James Hansen who some consider to be the scientific leader of global warming hysteria, and a good buddy of Al Gore. Other scientists – who…
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