July 29, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Video of Falcon 9 first stage landing at Vandenberg
Though the tweet congratulates SpaceX for the 300th reuse of a Falcon 9 first stage this past weekend, the video (which is quite excellent) is of a landing earlier this year.
- On this day in 1958 President Eisenhower signed legislation that created NASA
The agency was created out of an older government agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Eisenhower had not been enthused by this idea (seeing it as another example of the military-industrial complex teaming up with the federal bureaucracy for their own crony deals), but the politics of the Cold War forced it upon him.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Video of Falcon 9 first stage landing at Vandenberg
Though the tweet congratulates SpaceX for the 300th reuse of a Falcon 9 first stage this past weekend, the video (which is quite excellent) is of a landing earlier this year.
- On this day in 1958 President Eisenhower signed legislation that created NASA
The agency was created out of an older government agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Eisenhower had not been enthused by this idea (seeing it as another example of the military-industrial complex teaming up with the federal bureaucracy for their own crony deals), but the politics of the Cold War forced it upon him.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
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3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
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Eisenhower’s (Complete) Farewell Adress
January 17, 1961
https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU
(16:14)
I had thought that all Falcon 9 first stages landed on a barge in the ocean. Hadn’t realized that they were doing landings on land. Has to make life a touch easier for SpaceX.
I didn’t like Ike, sorry.
Now, he was right to question the military industrial complex–meaning LeMay of the USAF and Rickover or the USN.
But space was starved by those two as well.
Ike wanted to throttle what he could do took it out on spaceflight.
But spaceflight deserved the big budgets denied it–because spaceflight can have civilian uses.
Ike kept us from fighting Egypt’s Nasser.
NASA good
Nasser bombing–bad.