Year: 2012
Sierra Nevada is moving its mini-shuttle, Dream Chaser, into its own facility.
Sierra Nevada is moving its mini-shuttle, Dream Chaser, into its own facility.
This article isn’t really as positive as I’d like. For one, they haven’t even signed the lease for the building. Instead, it appears that the company is using this announcement, and the subsequent media coverage, to pressure the local city council to provide them subsidies. For another, the article mentions that drop tests of Dream Chaser will occur next spring, a significant delay from previous announcements. Both points make things appear far more tenuous than they should be.
“We don’t hire for table manners.”
We ain’t going away
An evening pause: I posted this video song the evening of election, 2010. I think its point remains the same today, the eve of election day 2012. The people do not go away, no matter how much the elite leadership of society wishes they might. Even in a dictatorship they hover over everything.
The Sun takes a plunge
The latest monthly update the ongoing sunspot cycle of the Sun has been published today by NOAA. Once again, the trend suggests that the Sun’s ability to produce sunspots is fading, and fading fast.
I have posted this latest graph, covering the month of October, below the fold, with additional analysis.
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Genesis now available on Kindle
It took Amazon a bit longer than everyone else, but the ebook edition of Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 is now available for Kindle at amazon.com.
And of course, it can also be purchased at all other ebook bookstores, as well as here at Behind the Black.
Update: My Tuesday appearance on John Batchelor has been moved up to tonight (Monday) from 11 to 11:30 pm, during which we will be discussing Genesis, the election, and some space news of the day,
Why the polls will be wrong.
It is very simple: the electorate is no longer tilted Democratic. Sadly, too many pollsters — and liberal pundits — refuse to recognize this fact.
How our bitter election will end
How our bitter election will end.
We hope.
“We don’t want you unless you’re part of the union.”
Look for the union label: “We don’t want you unless you’re part of the union.”
The result: no power for people in New York and New Jersey for far longer.
“Comet Hergenrother is splitting apart.”
Paul Brady – The Lakes of Pontchartrain
An evening pause: From a 1977 live performance.
The next launch of the X-37B has been delayed again.
The next launch of the X-37B has been delayed again.
Schiller – Miles and miles
An evening pause:
Curiosity has found evidence showing how Mars lost its atmosphere.
Curiosity has found evidence showing how Mars lost its atmosphere.
The most distant supernova ever found.
Meteorite hunters in Poland have found Eastern Europe’s larges meteorite weighing almost 700 pounds.
Meteorite hunters in Poland have found Eastern Europe’s larges meteorite, weighing almost 700 pounds.
A New Jersey town tells a volunteer utility crew from Alabama to go home — because they are non-union.
A New Jersey town tells a volunteer utility crew from Alabama to go home — because they are non-union.
“The U.S. is currently in an extended and intense hurricane ‘drought.'”
Rolling in the Deep on a traditional Chinese zither
An evening pause: Not quite how Adele sings it, but striking nonetheless.
A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that a Catholic-owned private business does not have to comply with the Obama administrations contraceptive mandate.
We’ve only just begun: A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that a Catholic-owned private business does not have to comply with the Obama administrations contraceptive mandate.