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NASA is going to begin the second space age exactly 50 years after the first one ended. At the end of 1972 Apollo 17 returned from the Moon and 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary of humankind NOT exploring space. We are going to correct that mistake. As actor William Shatner announced in a recentContinue reading “Half a Century Later”

NASA and Boeing look ahead to long-term SLS production “If you buy one SLS rocket, the price is really high. If you buy two, the price goes down significantly, and if you buy the three it keeps going down,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said-” It is not one launch every six months that should beContinue reading “Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth”

By Gary Michael Church Op-ed | Living off the land: Lunar water is key to crewed space exploration “These unlit regions within craters, referred to as permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs, are now known to host vast quantities of water ice that have been lying in perfect isolation for hundreds of millions of years. AlthoughContinue reading “Living off the land- Lunar water is key”

By Gary Michael Church “June 15, 1940 – Using the Berkeley cyclotron, researchers demonstrate that neutrons captured by uranium 238 lead to the creation of element 94, plutonium.”                                (In 1941 the Manhattan Project begins) http://www.atomicarchive.com/Timeline/Time1940.shtml “In January 1950, President TrumanContinue reading “GEMOHOSA and Quartilects”

Several space terms and concepts are abused by NewSpace supporters and used as deceptive P.R. devices. A recent comment from Australia needs to be addressed; “-(also as far as I aware there’s nothing wrong with calling a Bernal Sphere a space station).” That’s no space station, it’s a moon. An artificial moon. Let us startContinue reading “Space Station vs. Habitat”

I posted a comment on YouTube today and Donald Brent asked me to explain why I believe Musk has set space exploration back a decade. I have explained this a couple dozen times on popular space blog forums in previous years, before I was banned from all of them. The story starts in 2008 withContinue reading “Ten Years Gone, and Counting”

The penultimate disruption to a nation is the threat of destruction, one such specific threat being invasion by a genocidal enemy. The modern example of this is the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941. Russians had already suffered from revolution and then civil war, famine, and purges under Stalin that killed millions in theContinue reading “The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory”

“God has granted to me to make friends with two of the people here: one is Orlov, and the other and principal one is Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov. He is a librarian at the Rumyantsev Library… He has devised a plan for a common task for humanity, the aim of which is the bodily resurrection ofContinue reading “Russian Cosmism and the Real Left”

I envy this YouTube personality with half a million viewers…I really do. So I will try not to let any bitter resentment show too much in my own humble blog offering concerning his space-themed videos. I will try but since nobody visits my blog I might have to just vent a little. Sorry Joe. OfContinue reading “Joe Scott’s Half a Million”

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/ Along with the small-satellite-constellation-space-junk-horror-movie this is proof we are doomed as a species. We seem to be contaminating our environment while we destroy it with climate change. It is perhaps a dead pool among aliens which will do us in first, a dinosaur killer, a volcanic epic, a pandemic, or a nuclear-winter-pandemic-cannibal-apocalypse brought onContinue reading “Absolute Greed”