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Ted Cruz Overseeing NASA? It Hasn't Looked This Bad Since 2013, Except For 1993, 1973 And 1959

... Picture this scenario: A politician is appointed to run NASA who thinks its budget is too high and then half its money and a third of ... Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has control of NASA, if you read science media (and then whatever Huffington Post and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 3 2022 - 3:45pm - 0 attachments

EPA Scales Back Its Flawed Ethanol Mandate

... Lacey Act the teeth to stop illegal logging. (3) NASA's Constellation and No Child Left Behind are two obvious examples - he has ... end up where No Child Left Behind and all those unemployed NASA people did. (4) And they played that brilliantly. Outgoing House ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 20 2021 - 2:20pm - 0 attachments

Will First Mars Astronauts Stay In Orbit - Tele-operating Sterile Rovers - To Protect Earth And Mars From Colliding Biospheres?

... And if the more optimistic projections of Elon Musk, some NASA enthusiasts, and Bill Nye and others are fulfilled, then this encounter ... then, we have to protect Earth from Martian microbes. NASA hope to return small samples from Mars in the 2030s. But we are no longer ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 1 2021 - 1:50pm - 0 attachments

Can Astronauts Spend Years In Space - And How Quickly Can They Recover On Return To Earth?

... the first long duration spaceflights for some time. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Mikhail ... moustache on the left. On the launch day he pranked the NASA admins by turning up to watch the launch with his moustache shaved off - ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 9 2021 - 11:07pm - 0 attachments

Let's Make Sure Astronauts Won't Extinguish Native Mars Life - To Jupiter's Callisto, Saturn's Titan And Beyond - Op Ed

Lisa Pratt, the new planetary protection officer for NASA takes up her job at a challenging time for astrobiology. We are ... instance, amongst many honours, he received the 2013 NASA Group Achievement Award as member of the Curiosity Rover " for exceptional ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 5 2021 - 9:20pm - 0 attachments

Value Of Titan As Base For Humans In Saturn System - Surprisingly - Once There - Easier For Settlement Than Mars Or The Moon

... of the work there might be automated in that way. NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay put it like this when he was interviewed by ... and you had to make an emergency landing, go to Titan," NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay told Space.com. ...If you lived on Titan, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 5 2021 - 9:19pm - 0 attachments

Will Anyone Ever Own Their Own Land In Space - And May We Get Wars In Space In The Future?

... it before you start operations. Robert Hoyt's new WRANGLER NASA study (June 4 2014) will look into a method for doing this with a ... this new inflatable heat shield called HIAD developed by NASA which may be available soon. It's already been tested and found to survive ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 3 2021 - 9:49pm - 0 attachments

Will We Build Colonies That Float Over Venus Like Buckminster Fuller's "Cloud Nine"?

... Interplanetary Super Highway - Artist's impression - NASA - if you are in no hurry, then by use of gravity assists you can send ... where the guests raised examples of magical thinking by NASA itself. The Space Show Classroom with Drs. Jurist&Logan, Monday, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 14 2020 - 2:07pm - 0 attachments

Alice In Wonderland Sanctioning In Wikipedia - Blocked For Covering NASA's Science Goal To Search For Habitats For Life On Mars‽

... astrobiologists. It's now one of the top science goals of NASA and ESA to search for potential habitats like this and investigate them to ... on Mars to search for present day life is objective B of NASA's first science goal in Mars Science Goals, Objectives, Investigations, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jun 9 2020 - 8:40am - 0 attachments

Projects To Get To Space As Easily As We Cross Oceans - A Million Flights A Year Perhaps - Will We Be Ready?

... DC-X and it flew three times successfully in 1993. NASA took the project on after funding ran out in 1995, rebuilding it as the ... to build a new one to continue the tests. That’s when NASA chose to cancel the project. McDonnell Douglas DC-X Their eventual ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 18 2020 - 1:13pm - 0 attachments