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With the comedian Steven Colbert winning the write-in contest to name the new space station module, NASA should really take notice. The vast majority of the public sees NASA as a bloated agency that wastes money on large useless projects. Some believe the Apollo moon landings were faked. How can you blame them? The space shuttle, the space station, now the new Apollo 2.0. Billions continue to be wasted while other, less costly but more effective projects continue to get sidelined. One can only h… Continue

Knowing years in advance that the space shuttle would be retired and the U.S. would not have the capability to transport humans to space, the President and Congress did nothing to provide the right resources to change this. Now with the Shuttle just 2 years away from concluding operations, the "new" NASA Constellation human access to space program is being delayed to 2014 and beyond.
Will the latest situation with Russia finally provide the incentive Congress and the new President needs to adequ… Continue

It is curious that the latest event of the military announcing that it will launch a conventional navy missile to bring down the malfunctioning spy satellite comes at a time where Russia and China are trying to get the US to ban weapons in space. If the US had a more sophisticated way of bringing down the satellite through some of the classified programs over the years such as a laser, I would imagine they would do this in secret and not even be telling the public about it. Is the public announc… Continue

The recent news that Barak Obama would delay NASA's current Human Moon missions by a few years came as good news to me. While I would rather he said he would just cancel the program outright, this move would hopefully end the program although I don't see Congressmen who represent Florida, Alabama, and Texas, letting him delay or cancel the program. Obviously it is not that I see this news as positive because I don't want us to get back to the Moon, rather it is because I don't see the current Ap… Continue

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Anyone heard anything about this? With solar power on Earth making great inroads recently, beaming it from large stations directly from Space may finally be taken seriously as signficant investments in such a system seem close.