Orbital Sciences has set May 6 as the launch date for its next Cygnus cargo mission to ISS.
Orbital Sciences has set May 6 as the launch date for its next Cygnus cargo mission to ISS.
Year: 2014
Before and after images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered the formation of a new gully on Mars sometime between November 2010 and May 2013.
Before and after images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered the formation of a new gully on Mars sometime between November 2010 and May 2013.
The winding gully seems to have poured out from an existing ribbon channel in a crater in Mars’ Terra Sirenum region. The leading hypothesis on how the gully formed is that debris flowed downslope from an alcove and eroded a new channel. Though it looks water-carved, the gully is much more likely to have been formed when carbon dioxide frost accumulated on the slope and grew heavy enough to avalanche down and drag material down with it.
A Michigan union contract requires a school district to discriminate against Christians and whites.
Liberal fairness: A Michigan union contract requires a school district to discriminate against Christians and whites.
In a truly fair society, ethnicity, religion, or race would not be considered at all in deciding who to hire. Obviously, that is not what this union wants.
Obamacare worked so well some Senators want to do the same for the real estate industry.
Obamacare worked so well some Senators want to do the same thing for the real estate industry.
Top Senate Banking Committee members released plans this week to wind down mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and replace them with a complicated apparatus disturbingly similar to Obamacare. While the proposal by Senators Tim Johnson (D-SD), the chairman, and Mike Crapo (R-ID), the ranking member, was announced with great fanfare, it simply follows the outlines of another bipartisan bill, offered last year by Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Mark Warner (D-VA). The idea is to get rid of the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that provide mortgage financing today for most American homes and replace them with a system of private lending with securities explicitly backed by the federal government.
In going through contortions to reinvent the housing finance system, the senators have avoided the obvious solution: keep the basic platform that has generally served American homeowners well but reform it to reduce risks. Instead, Johnson and the others have come up with a contraption that resembles the Affordable Care Act in its convolutions and its potential for unintended consequences.
Health insurance premiums are expected to double in some parts of the country because of Obamacare.
Finding out what’s in it: Health insurance premiums are expected to double or triple in some parts of the country because of Obamacare.
These increases will begin appearing this year, before the November elections, as insurance companies assess the damage the law has done to their businesses.
“There were women and children inside our retail establishment when the (ATF) agents came in with guns drawn.”
Fascist thugs: “There were women and children inside our retail establishment when the (ATF) agents came in with guns drawn.”
The ATF raid was also in defiance of a court-ordered temporary restraining order against the ATF, telling them to leave the business alone. But hey, they’re the government, it’s up to them to decide what laws to enforce!
The Obama administration unilaterally rewrote parts of the Freedom of Information Act in order to suppress access to documents.
The law is such an inconvenient thing: The Obama administration unilaterally rewrote parts of the Freedom of Information Act in order to suppress access to documents.
According to an audit, the former chief financial officer of the Mojave Air and Space Port provided 24 straight months of inaccurate accounting reports.
According to an audit, the former chief financial officer of the Mojave Air and Space Port provided 24 straight months of inaccurate accounting reports.
That officer also resigned abruptly the morning this audit began, and had “cleared out her apartment” just beforehand. Still, there is no hint yet of any theft or loss of funds, only incompetence.
The leftwing feminist professor who thought she had the right to use violent force to steal a anti-abortion protestor’s sign and destroy it has now been charged with vandalism, battery, and robbery.
Leftwing civility: The leftwing feminist professor who thought she had the right to use violent force to steal a anti-abortion protestor’s sign and destroy it has now been charged with vandalism, battery, and robbery.
Video below the fold. The teacher even admits on camera that she is a “thief.” Somehow, she thinks that because she disagrees with these protestors it gives her the right to do anything she wants.
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According to the former CEO of Arianespace, now head of the French space agency, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 costs significantly less to launch than the Ariane 5
According to the former CEO of Arianespace, now head of the French space agency, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 costs significantly less to launch than the Ariane 5.
How big is the difference? Jean-Yves Le Gall, who until mid-2013 was chief executive of Evry, France-based Arianespace and is now president of the French space agency, CNES, addressed the point in Feb. 25 testimony to the French Senate. According to Le Gall, launching a satellite on an Ariane 5 costs around 100 million euros ($137 million). After subtracting the amount of European Space Agency subsidies to Arianespace, the per-satellite cost drops to about $100 million, he said.
Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX, he said, would charge $60 million to $70 million to launch the same satellite aboard the Falcon 9. In fact SpaceX has charged even less than that to its first few commercial customers.
It is for this reason that Arianespace is struggling to decide how to build its next generation rocket. They have find a way to do it cheaper, something that is very difficult for this multi-headed European conglomerate to do.
Want to explore the Moon’s north pole? You now can, from your home, using an interactive mosaic of images taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Want to explore the Moon’s north pole? You now can, from your home, using an interactive mosaic of images taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Some of the country’s best cancer hospitals are excluded from every Obamacare policy.
More lies, according to Harry Reid: Some of the country’s best cancer hospitals are excluded from every Obamacare policy.
“There’s no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.”
“There’s no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.”
From a pastor who has discovered at the last moment that the insurance under Obamacare did not cover his life-saving chemo treatments, putting him $50,000 in debt.
But since we know that this pastor is lying, according to Harry Reid, he must be ignored.
And then there’s this liar: Obamacare leaves Las Vegas man owing $407,000 in doctor bills.
What is Harry Reid going to do with all these liars hanging around making up stories about Obamacare?
Putting a spacecraft back in the orbit it was intended, thirty-one years later.
Putting a spacecraft back in the orbit it was intended, thirty-one years later.
The spacecraft, ISEE-3, was intended to study the solar wind and the connection between the Sun and the Earth. In 1986 it was diverted instead to take a look at Halley’s Comet. Now there is an opportunity to return it to its original task, assuming engineers can wake it up after three decades.
Using images from Cassini scientists think they have made their first detection of waves on a lake on Titan
Using images from Cassini scientists think they have made their first detection of waves on a lake on Titan.
Scientists think they have detected active volcanoes on Venus.
Scientists think they have detected active volcanoes on Venus.
We should hear more about this story in the next couple of days, after the scientists give their presentation at a science conference today. Note too that this result would only confirm other data, such as the fluctuating levels of sulfur in Venus’s atmosphere, that have suggested active volcanoes hidden under that planet’s thick cloud cover.
A U.S. college professor demands that skeptics of global warming be imprisoned.
A U.S. college professor demands that skeptics of global warming be imprisoned.
But hey, they’re the tolerant ones, the ones who believe in free speech and consider “dissent the highest form of patriotism.” That is, they believe these things as long as you agree with them. Should you disagree, even slightly, then off with your head!
The first test flight of NASA’s Orion capsule has been delayed from September to December.
The first test flight of NASA’s Orion capsule has been delayed from September to December.
The supposed reason is to allow a military launch to get the best launch opportunity first. I find this excuse to be quite lame, and instead suspect that the NASA program needed more time but did not want to admit this publicly.
The delay moves the launch until after the November elections. Watch the political pressure continue to build to end this expensive, bloated, and not-very-useful boondoggle.
Mercury, the incredible shrinking planet.
Mercury, the incredible shrinking planet.
Swiss Space Systems (S3) is planning to offer zero gravity airplane rides at the Kennedy Space Center in direct competition with Zero Gravity Corp.
The competition heats up: Swiss Space Systems (S3) is planning to offer zero gravity airplane rides at the Kennedy Space Center in direct competition with Zero Gravity Corp.