May 2, 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.
- NASA administrator Nelson begs Congress for more money
You could record his testimony and play it again for every budget hearing now and into the far future. NASA administrators, no matter which party appointed them, always beg for more money at budget hearings.
- NASA unhappy that others are reviewing its Artemis program
Good analysis by Eric Berger, though I think he gives the IG and other review agencies that look over NASA’s shoulders too much credit. Quite often in the past two decades these review agencies have couched their reports in ways that helped NASA hide the problems at Artemis. It is good they exist, but the press should be looking over their shoulders as well.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the 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. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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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.
- NASA administrator Nelson begs Congress for more money
You could record his testimony and play it again for every budget hearing now and into the far future. NASA administrators, no matter which party appointed them, always beg for more money at budget hearings.
- NASA unhappy that others are reviewing its Artemis program
Good analysis by Eric Berger, though I think he gives the IG and other review agencies that look over NASA’s shoulders too much credit. Quite often in the past two decades these review agencies have couched their reports in ways that helped NASA hide the problems at Artemis. It is good they exist, but the press should be looking over their shoulders as well.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the 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. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five 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.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation:
5. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.
“Why everyone’s wearing NASA-branded clothes”
“By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business
July 23, 2022”
“New York
CNN Business”
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“On any given day, a thirty minute walk around New York City can yield at least a few NASA logo sightings. They’re on backpacks, t-shirts, sneakers, hats, sweatshirts, phone cases, tote bags and jackets.
Some of the latest sales boom can be traced back to a surprising place: American luxury fashion house Coach, which debuted a line of NASA-branded apparel in 2017, Ulrich told CNN Business.
After the line of Coach apparel came out, things blew up.
‘Before 2017, we did five or 10 [logo approvals] a week. It’s now come to the point that we get out on average 225 a week,’ Ulrich said.
Last year, there were ‘over 11,000 requests,’ he said — an all-time high.
Not all of those requests get approved, Ulrich added. But the reason there’s so much interest in slapping NASA logos on everything from Vans sneakers to trucker hats may have something to do with the fact that these companies don’t have to license the logo. It’s all free of charge, and NASA doesn’t make a dime off it.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/tech/nasa-apparel-popularity-space/index.html
People feel ownership over their NASA, unlike public housing which many trash
NASA is looking for a Director of Space Sustainability! Yay!
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/789088900
Maybe that’ll be on one of the shirts.