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Image by Lucy Wiley https://www.pinterest.com/lucywiley1946/ NASA mission to track near Earth objects takes shape “This mission would answer a fundamental question: Are there asteroids or comets out there that can cause harm to the Earth over the next century?” I can answer that question right now. Yes. The first space age lasted four years andContinue reading “Space Force and NEO’s”

By Gary Michael Church https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/nasa-boeing-commercial-crew/603970/ The “dramatic error in American spaceflight” is just one more on the list. The first mistake was not making Project Orion and Nuclear Pulse Propulsion part of the NASA charter in 1958. It must have been obvious even then that lighting off hundreds of bombs in the atmosphere was notContinue reading “The List of Errors”

https://www.livescience.com/age-when-life-has-most-meaning.html According to this article my search for meaning was important to me in my 20’s and is now at it’s lowest point while my sense that life has meaning was low then and is now at it’s highest. Statistically across a number of individuals. Of course I have to be the unhappy exception. IContinue reading “Meaning around 60”

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”