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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
“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.