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In what’s fast becoming a space-age rerun of Gilligan’s Island, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are marooned in orbit. It turns out their Boeing spaceship has more in common with the S.S. Minnow than a reliable spacecraft. This is a friggin’ PR disaster. Technical problems forced NASA to abort this mission at the… Read more.
If anyone still needed any reason, events playing out in Ukraine since February 24 have given us many reasons to thank God America won the Cold War. But the event that played out in space yesterday threw even those reasons into clarifying relief. America planning to save Earth, Russia threatening to destroy it America demonstrated… Read more.
Listening to scientists wax euphoric about images from this James Webb telescope, you’d be forgiven for thinking that science has suddenly become all about the evidence of things not seen. Because the disconnect between the nothingness these images show and the being these scientist are raving about smacks of Donald Trump telling his MAGA supporters… Read more.
Given the national jubilation that attended NASA landing a robotic spacecraft on Mars yesterday, you’d think it was as novel as man landing on the moon … for the first time. Yet the most daring part of this mission was avoiding not just landing on paths its spacecrafts already blazed on eight (8) previous missions,… Read more.
