The first Cygnus capsule has been de-orbited, burning up in the atmosphere.
A 100% success. The U.S. now has two different ways to get cargo to low Earth orbit. Soon, if all goes as it should, we shall have multiple ways to put humans there as well.
You don’t get to keep your plan: The number of health insurance cancellations is snowballing into the millions.
But hey, Obama’s your friend! He is doing everything he can to make sure Obamacare stays the law, even if his statement that “if you like your plan you can keep it” was a complete lie.
The Obama administration is now considering delaying the Obamacare mandate.
Wasn’t that the evil Republican proposal only a few weeks ago that was so evil the Obama administration shut the government down rather than agree to it?
A new image of Titan’s northern lakes.
Spring is moving to summer on Titan, and as the season changes scientists are expecting the number of storms in the northern latitudes to increase, thereby filling these lakes.
The definitive guide to how Obamacare is destroying American lives.
The author asked people to write him, describing to him the consequences of Obamacare. This article provides us those stories, and they are not good. In fact, they are routinely horrible. As he says:
This is about people who can no longer afford their health coverage, their mortgages, their lifesaving medication. This is about doctors and nurses leaving medicine behind, driven away by destructive bureaucratic interference. This is about moms and dads losing their jobs so that their employers can compensate for the financial burden of Obamacare. This is about people without insurance because of Obamacare, now being fined for not having insurance because of Obamacare. This is about business owners driven to the edge of bankruptcy. This is real. We heard a lot of fantasies about what Obamacare was “supposed” to accomplish, now it’s time to talk about what it’s actually doing.
So when they say you are “heartless” for opposing Obamacare, show them why it’s heartless to support it.
But don’t worry! Those Democrats will save you all from those evil Republicans who want to delay or repeal Obamacare.
Victory for freedom: A federal court has ruled that police must have a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to your car.
That this ruling took several appeals depresses me. The language of the Constitution on this issue couldn’t be more plain. The government must have probably cause and a warrant before it can do these kinds of things.
What baffles me even more is that the police had probable cause in the specific case above. Why they didn’t bother to simply get a warrant makes no sense.
A D.C. businessman faces two years in jail because he happens to own guns and stores them legally in Virginia.
The story also describes a SWAT team raid on the man’s home, which included barging in on his 16 year old son while he was taking a shower.
Read the whole thing. You will discover what it is like to live in a fascist state, where an unelected official can make your life hell, merely because he doesn’t like you.
Not finding out what’s in it: An Iowan man became Iowa’s first Obamacare enrollee, after only 100-plus attempts to sign in at the Obamacare website.
Hey, you ask the DMV to run healthcare, you get this mess.
But the Democrats have your back! Obamacare is going through no matter what!
In an engineering test, LADEE successfully used a laser to beam information back from the Moon this past weekend.
Lasers could enhance space communications and lead to radical changes in spacecraft design. Today’s spacecraft communicate with radio, but radiofrequency wavelengths are so long that they require large dishes to capture the signals. Laser wavelengths are 10,000 times shorter than radio, the upshot being that a spacecraft could deliver much more data then even the best modern radio system. For scale, NASA says that the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft that’s carrying this laser experiment would take 639 hours to download an average-length HD movie using ordinary S-band communications. LLCD could download the film in less than eight minutes.
A civilian business jet has set a new world record for circling the globe.
The next Dragon flight has now been scheduled for no earlier than February 11.
The next flight of SpaceX’s Dragon has been realigned to a February 11, 2014 NET (No Earlier Than) launch date. The launch will mark Dragon’s first ride on the upgraded Falcon 9 v.1.1 rocket, potentially sporting landing legs, as Elon Musk plans his next attempt at proving the rocket’s ability to return its stages back to Earth for reuse.
SpaceX must first launch two commercial satellites with the upgraded Falcon 9 before its NASA flight. Also, 2014 will be a very business year for the rocket, as it is scheduled to send three cargo missions to ISS plus launch eight commercial satellites.
An engineer describes how he and four other engineers debugged a fully fueled Saturn 5 rocket while it was the launchpad.
The Saturn V was more noisy and ghostly than I had ever expected and it had grown much taller and certainly more threatening since last week. The venting fuel made loud hissing sounds when relief valves popped or opened up suddenly. It was very easy to let your imagination infect your brain. This is a very dangerous place and everything seems to be moving in the heavy foggy mist. There was no way to talk to each other, heck, we could barely see each other and…we hadn’t thought of this problem so we held onto each others yellow protective clothing like kindergartners crossing the street. We all wore safety helmets but they just did not make you feel like you were really safe.
This was also the first test launch of the Saturn 5, so the unknowns were significantly magnified.
