Afterburner: Reservoirs

Pajamasmedia YouTube 1/18/2013

America once dreamed of colonizing the Moon and putting a man on the planet Mars. Now it appears as though the United States has abandoned those dreams, in addition to those policies that create prosperity. Don’t fret. Bill Whittle sees promise on the horizon, like the abundance of natural gas and promise […]

Godspeed, Neil Armstrong

25 August 2012

 

 

NASA: Family Statement Regarding the Death of Neil Armstrong

H/T Babalú Blog

 

 

New York Times page H/T Legal Insurrection from an article in which Professor Jacobson records his memories of 20 July 1969.

 

 

Update: An obituary from The Times of London and a […]

President Obama cheers Mars rover landing by agency whose planetary exploration budget he slashed

Michelle Malkin 8/6/2012

Just last month, NASA supporters and scientists resorted to bake sales and carwash fund-raisers to make up for robotic planetary exploration program funds slashed by President Obama. Flashback:

Scientists are trading telescopes for aprons this week to sell Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake, and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies in an effort to […]

Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut, dies at 61

23 July 2012

 

This NASA file photo dated June 1983 shows America’s first woman astronaut Sally Ride, as she communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during the six-day space mission of the Challenger. (NASA/AFP/GettyImages) Click on the image to enlarge.

 

WASHINGTON — Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit […]

July 20, 1969

The Blacksphere (Kevin Jackson) Facebook 7/20/2012

On May 25, 1961 before a joint session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy stated that the United States of America should set as a goal the “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth” by the end of the decade. On this day […]

A celebration of American exceptionalism

20 February 2012

On 20 February 1962 Col. John Glenn orbited the Earth in Friendship 7. From Wikipedia:

…In April 1959, despite the fact that Glenn had not earned the required college degree, he was assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as one of the original group of seven astronauts chosen for […]

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