“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.

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Houston, 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.

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Atlantis 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…

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Space 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,…

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NASA 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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