Shuttle, a Day Late, Lands Smoothly

Source: The New York Times The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth on Tuesday with a fiery dawn plunge across the heartland of America, closing out a complex space station resupply mission with a smooth Florida landing. The space shuttle Discovery landed at...

Why NewSpace equals NoSpace

Source: The Examiner.com There is an old saying – talk is cheap. However, it would appear that talk is about to get a whole lot more expensive. The Obama Administration has turned away from NASA and its family of contractors and toward the new, private companies that...

Asteroid angst should guide space role

Source: The Orlando Sentinel Folks here should quit whining about President Obama whacking our boondoggle moon trip and get with the new space program: saving planet Earth from certain destruction. That gig could keep us fat in NASA pork for decades to come. Forget...

Words, Words, Words … NASA, NASA, NASA

Source: The Huffington Post Share Comments 22 “Words, words, words” – that’s what the cartoon character Butthead used to mumble when adults were speaking to him, and it all sounded like one big blur. It leapt to mind again, when I was trying to...