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Posts Discovery and Mapping of Here Today Cave, Part 1, Met Grotto News Discovery and Mapping of Here Today Cave, Part 2 Met Grotto News Kingston Delaware Mine, Survey and Map, Met Grotto News Beyond The End, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver A Course in Caving Single Rope Techniques, Met Grotto News Dark Passage A Short Stroll to Asia Dome, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver A Journey into Dreamland, Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver The Geology of Brown’s Depression: Predicting a Cave Discovery, Met Grotto News Czechoslovakia on the Hudson New York’s War Against the Vans Street Performers and the Social Contract Saying Yes Three’s a Crowd Finding a Job The Lightweight Simple Knots System, Nylon Highway Shelf Lives and Videotape Shelf Lives and Videotape A Level Playing Field Computer Ear Our Own Mad Clockwork Stellar Vision No Place Like Home By Any Means Necessary? The Sun Factor Circle Games Five Million Years of Solitude Polaris, the Code-Blue Star The Hubble Inconstant Harvest Moon The Shadow Boxer Telescopic Vision First Light Beautiful Streamers The World in a Jar Flood in McFails Cave, New York , The Northeastern Caver The Rainbow’s Not Enough Stormy Weather When Neutron Stars Collide An Accomodating Comet Moon Rivers Galactic Garbos Lost in Space Cover Story: The Search for the Heliosphere Just Say Nyet! Twinkle, Twinkle Next Stop: Saturn and the Moon Sahel of a Trip Explorers of the Unknown Silent Springs How to Fly Without a Plane On a Clear Day you Can See Forever Hard Rain Are the Russians out to Launch or out to Lunch? Log Flume Cover story: Into the Malstrom: a Visit to the Crab Nebula Martian Invasion More Delays Likely for International Space Station Photo Finish Bathtub in the Sky Mashed Potatoes and Ice Cream Sundaes Cover Story: Sun Up, the Coming Solar Maximum This is the Way the World Ended When Disaster Strikes There She Blows, co-winner of the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism A Historic Review of the First Cassell Cave Survey, , The Potomac Caver Scoping out a Monster Star: Eta Carinae Speed Matters NEAR Arrives Right on Target Part I: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies Part II: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies Lost City, the archaeology on Jamestown Island Telstar and the Birth of the Communications Satellite Escape from the Iroquois Cover story: Seeing with X-Ray Eyes: Chandra’s First Discoveries NEAR-Shoemaker Scores a Touchdown Cover story: Inside-Out Cosmology: the Astronomy of Physics A Square Dance in Space: the center of a globular cluster Cover story: Heart of Darkness: the Center of the Milky Way Cover Story: Docking in Space: How the Gemini Astronauts Made It Happen Cover story: Launching a Caravan to Mars: America’s aggressive Mars exploration program (Update Magazine) Cover Story: Final Descent, NEAR’s Mission to Eros Weightlessness! To the Moon and Back: the Flight of Apollo 11 More Light, the Story Behind Today’s Monster Telescopes Growing Pains: Agriculture in Space Op-Ed: Say no to NASA, yes to private companies Deep Impressions: The Core of the Earth No-Fly Zone: Birds in Space Web Interview: May 19, 2004 posting of Sciscoop Interview Seeking Other Earths: the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets 2005 Annual Issue, The High Energy Zoo: A Tour of Killer Objects in Space More Bad Culture at NASA? Op-ed at Astronomy.com. Cover story: The Looming Death of the Hubble Space Telescope? Shuttle’s Safe Return Illusory Big or Small NASA Space Vision? NASA Does New Thing the Old Way Congress Impedes NASA Prizes The Discovery of Pearl Harbor Passage in Memorial Day Cave, The Potomac Speleology Club website Congress Restricts Private Space O’Keefe’s Exit May Save Hubble Space and the Willingness to Die Scientists and Engineers at War Brave New World? Bush 43 vs. Bush 41 in Space The Outlook for 2005 Cooperation’s Failure at ISS The Russians are Coming Turf War Heating Up A Promising NASA Budget? Saving Hubble, Defeating Fear Private Space, More Rules An Oasis on the Moon? Backing a Bad Hubble Decision Going to Mars in Earth Orbit Spacefaring by Bureaucrats NASA Impeded by Science Lobby Part 1: A Cultural Change at NASA? Part 2: How Politics Drives NASA The Right Man for the Job? Is There Life After Hubble? New Openness at NASA? The Engineering Crisis Redux The New Colonial Movement A Shrinking, Timid Industry Signs of a Renaissance History’s Moment of Truth Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Unraveled The Man Who Doubled the Sky: John Herschel’s Survey of the Heavens Witness to Cosmic Collisions The Swift Telescope Helps Unlock the Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Bursts What Makes Mira Tick? Web essay, May 25, 2008 posting Cover story: The Life and Death of Super Suns: the secrets of Wolf-Rayet stars Taking Venus by Storm: The results from Venus Express Understanding Beta Lyrae: A Very Messy Star Seen for the First Time Cosmic Cataclysms: The Merger of Supermassive Black Holes Light from the Unknown Sun’s Behavior Flummoxes Solar Scientists Biologists Struggle to Solve Bat Deaths The Cassell Cave Project, Monograph #3 of the West Virginia Speleological Survey cover story, What is Wrong With the Sun? Epsilon Aurigae: Astronomy’s longest-running mystery show Become a Super Amateur: Amateurs astronomers do original research Looking Way Out There From Way Out There: The Future of Space Astronomy How astronomers probe weather on exoplanets Mr. Fix-it: the Story of Frank Cepollina and Servicing in Space Hayabusa, Deep Impact, India/TMT Climate Change and the Black List Obama administration’s new space policy Space War between Congress and the President Ikaros is activated Dragon and Falcon 9 fall to Earth First image of extrasolar planet confirmed The view from Opportunity in the deserts of Mars Flood in McFails Cave, New York Thaad Missile Defense test Behind the Black Dawn spacecraft reaction wheel problem Detailed followup on Opportunity progress Space War between Congress and Obama: Apparently Not So Hot A quick analysis of the new Obama Space Policy Ocean Conveyor Belt theory questioned The Final Tanks Klaven and Gore streaks in shuttle engine plume dates for last two shuttle flights extends program into 2011 More images of Ikaros New Horizons course correction to Pluto why I never use Wikipedia why I remain skeptical about global warming Julie Andrews singing Burlington Bertie from Star! Another Climategate Whitewash astronaut photography Press Release Journalism Kepler detects extrasolar earthquakes Docking at ISS of Progress freighter fails Space war continues Redundancy is all Want to know how big the Sun is? Co-hosting the John Batchelor Show tonight Finding underground water on Mars July 4, 1776, Hatching an Egg Progress successfully docks, July 4, 2010 A July 4th Weekend A complete survey of nearby sunlike stars Avalanches on Mars the press finally notices the absurdities of Obama’s new space policy Minute particles found in Hayabusa capsule Big Peace Bolden interview with al-Jazeera Bob Hope singing “Buttons and Bows” Government and the impending shortage of helium Bolden’s al-Jazeera interview, part 2 Another climategate whitewash? The law and Obama at Yucca Mountain Tim Conway and the Elephant First photos from inside Hayabusa capsule NASA layoffs Lockheed buyouts Orion capsule passes first review Cernan calls for Bolden resignation The sun remains quiet upcoming Ares I solid rocket test Another climategate whitewash Lonesome Polecat from 7 Brides for 7 Brothers East Anglia violated FOI rules Anniversary of the discovery of chocolate More Layoffs at NASA Rocketplane goes bust More particles discovered in Hayabusa capsule Solar powered plane flies for over 24 hours Orbital’s COTS capsule taking shape Both for and against the Obama plan Vitter slams Obama plan Largest hoard of Roman coins found in England Senate deal on NASA budget Water found around carbon star; Bok globule Problems on ISS More info on Senate compromise More questions about climategate inquiry Rosetta approaches asteroid Benny and Blanc on Carson Webcast of Rosetta flyby of 21 Lutetia Climategate whitewash A dark and stormy night Rosetta flyby results Caving July 10, 2010 overruns at JWST Fired for his beliefs Space War continues Julie and Dick at Covent Garden Ikaros successfully accelerated by the Sun Jeff Foust analysis of the New Space business The space war continues The state of the polar ice caps, June 2010 Death sentence for suggesting a cartoon Scientists complain about Obama government Space War continues Boulder tracks on Mars Wyatt Earp goes dancing Administration denies Bolden’s claim of Muslim outreach India launches five satellites in one heave WhiteKnightTwo trip logs Astronomy near the North Pole There simply is no money for NASA Caves on the Moon Arrested for handing out Bibles Greenland icecap is not melting Draft version of Senate NASA budget released Toyota cars did not have a sudden acceleration problem White Heat- I gotta get out Bolden pushback against White House Obama’s poll problems Lunar conference at Ames Clive Cook’s take on climategate whitewashes You’ve got to play the game Judy Garland singing Trolley Song The space war continues. Now some astronauts chime in. White House deal? The failure of the political class Why I don’t watch television news The loss of freedom compromise approved by Senate panel More cave images from the Moon The solar minimum and the Earth’s upper atmosphere Military technology to spot mines and caves Senate deal for NASA Galaxy Song from Monty Python New plan from the Senate Genetically modified mosquito developed that can’t carry malaria Gender politics at NASA More on firing of Cathelic teacher AP reports 25,000 new asteroids found by Wise Scientists measure the rise and fall of lakes on Titan The invention of the CD player Knowledge or Certainty Some weekend cave exploration Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli Vera-Ellen dancing to the Ocarina SpaceShipTwo carries its first crew WISE telescope first survey almost complete Loss of floating ice? 73,000 blogs shut down on orders of the Federal government Goons in action Metals in the inner galaxy Plugging the oil leak A quick note on the past weekend caving John Glenn meets with Obama Images of Boeing’s crew capsule Modern media journalism at its worst Russians laugh at Obama goals Life as it should be House releases their text of NASA budget Elite bigotry in college admissions Goons in action part 2 U.S. government suspends funding to East Anglia University More climategate whitewash The space war heats up Journolist evidence, part 1 RICO lawsuits against BP NAACP leader arrested trying to attend school board meeting Footage of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon SpaceShipTwo’s first glide flight by the fall Russia to build new spaceport very big stars Supercheap satellites Mars Odyssey in safe mode Journolist, part 2 Bigelow’s plans An update on the Dept of Energy’s hold on monies to East Anglia Julie Andrews and Cass Eliot medley Senate moves towards House NASA plan The British sign space deal with Russians Runaway star from the galaxy’s center More Journolist material: Palin Robbery at Russian space center White House investigates those making FOIA requests Wes Skiles dies during dive Exploring Mars from Earth Update on teacher fired for Catholic beliefs Russians reveal new spacecraft House committee adds extra shuttle flight Tell me on a Sunday Journolist scandal-Tucker Carlson editorial Swallowing a planet Space war update Impact crater in Egypt New currency symbol for India Worries about JWST Sunset on the Moon Spudis on caves An ice-free Arctic in 10 years? Solar powered plane flies for two weeks Jackie Gleason and Frank Fontaine Comet hit Neptune 200 years ago ISS and Chinese satellite debris NASA’s ISS Twitter feed hacked Whisper of the heart Exploring virgin cave passage Mann and the press Chamberlain’s speech from movie Gettysburg Deniers of science Kepler finds more than 100 Earthlike planets Single Rope Techinque — on the Moon Scientist uncover fossil of biggest rat ever Poker face, by geeks GAO rules layoffs legal Russian astronauts lose tools during spacewalk Asteroid impact threat Lichens in space Solar sail conference Pipe Dream by Animusic Wolf says NASA budget passage bleak Layoff notices in Florida Images show water ice? Themis satellites transferred to Moon Your Show of Shows: the clock skit Poor leadership by Obama on NASA Opportunity sees its first dust devil Foust reports on space war Eddi Reader singing Willie Stewart The non-face on Mars Hayabusa on display House bill stalled? Steny Hoyer and taxes Paperwork nightmare of healthcare Who are the racists? Rube Goldberg machine, part 1 Muppets: Playing the Sax Spirit appears dead The winds of Titan Burt Rutan on future of space Undersea adventure by robots Cooling system failure on ISS China launches 5th satellite in its own GPS system Elites vs everyone else A New Colonial Age Farewell song from Davy Crockett CME heading to Earth ISS cooling system failure Closing out debate on climate Largest known Roman canal discovered Met office report NASA shuts down website ABBA performing Dancing Queen The failure of the past and a hint of the future Frog counts flawed? Repair spacewalk scheduled Newsweek sale summary Muslim outreach by NASA Two predictions of the next solar maximum Picture of the day from Mars Lost British ship found in Arctic after almost 150 years Open water at the North Pole Duck Amuck Northern light show WhiteKnightTwo test flight on Twitter Newest ice core in Greenland hits bedrock The August monthly sunspot graph Tunnel and tombs in Mexico A ground-based telescope matches the Hubble Space Telescope-NOT Obama Healthcare mandate rejected The great disconnect Delays in Orbital Sciences COTS rocket The disconnect between Israelis and elites The Moon and I Saturn’s ring shadow widens AO goes positive Animal mummies NOAA hurricane prediction update First spacewalk to replace pump module delayed Second test of Ares solid rocket scheduled Moon is dry SpaceX outlines its plans for beyond Earth orbit Seven year old’s lemonade shut down by inspector Melting Ice on Mars? Superman – The Underground World Texas responds to EPA’s effort to regulate CO2 Senate passes NASA budget Japan importing missile system For the First Time Ever, Scientists Watch an Atom’s Electrons Moving in Real Time Camden, NJ, threatens to close libraries Social Security in red Boeing cutting metal on its new capsule The unemployment situation, August 2010 Bat extinctions Ohio officials try to silence blogger Russian accuses U.S. of causing heat wave Scientists have plans to go to killer asteroid Funnel cloud over Kennedy Space Center Kate Rusby – Polly PG police kill another dog Boeing’s private space plans First spacewalk to replace pump module Mapping daylight at the Moon’s South Pole Moody Blues – For My Lady 3rd spacewalk planned to finish repairs August 8 WhiteKnightTwo test flight Aqua tracks carbon monoxide over Russia from wildfires ISS tour, part 1 Robot to explore Egyptian pyramid Details on the spacewalk yesterday The Sun’s oxygen content does match the galaxy’s Spacewalk repair delaying robot repair African Space Agency being proposed Griffin’s take on the Obama space plan Why no one trusts the press Kevin Branagh – Henry V Repair strategy for Wednesday spacewalk Iridium profits up Historians identify early English scribes Plane crash in Alaska, Stevens, O’Keefe on board Democratic official attacks videographer Interview with Elon Musk We don’t have a deficit problem State Department: The Taliban is not a terrorist organization Update on plane crash: O’Keefe and son survive Protesters arrested on Texas campus during Obama visit ISS tour, part 2 SpaceX readies Dragon for first flight More details about tomorrow’s planned spacewalk Hubble image of face-on galaxy Diversifying your research portfolio California budget a billion over in first month National anthem forbidden at Lincoln Memorial Rebuilding the American space program — the right way NASA narrows asteroids to visit to three Spacewalk a complete success, old pump removed Camino del Rey Japanese approval for Hayabusa 2 Obamas’ vacation in DC Fourth spacewalk anticipated for coolant repairs Reporter arrested for discussing politics Perseid meteor shower tonight and tomorrow Volunteers discover pulsar Doubts about GISS data in the Himalayas Is it a planet or not? A possible cause of extended solar minimum proposed ISS tour continues, part 3 Webb costs threaten space science Astronomers announce their recommendations for the next decade Sloppy journalism from the BBC A Man for All Seasons Tour of ISS, part 4 Falling Hare (1943) Japanese planning upgrades to HTV The plans for the next spacewalks on ISS are announced More on Boeing’s cargo/crew capsule More questions raised about Mann’s hockey stick graph Old Media, Old News First solar radiation storm of solar cycle 24 Spacewalk update A great space station, a terrible spaceship Why SpaceX is winning the race Tax breaks for space proposed Forbidden Planet Spacewalk report Ray Bradbury tells it like it is Beck told he can’t pray at Kennedy Center China’s first unmanned space module assembled Johnny Carson and Doc talk about Thanksgiving Zimmerman on vacation NASA ex-worker pleads guilty to stealing Sally Ride’s spacesuit Chocolate lowers heart risk Becoming a highly successful dog owner Strange coins of the world Not a black hole? Jeff Dunham and Achmed the dead Terrorist A day spent in Paradise Astronauts lose about half their muscle power on long space flights Dragon capsule drop test Obama’s traffic jam Mud volcanoes on Mars Obama bans gun sales Plastic pollution down Stan Rogers — Northwest Passage Station cooling system up and running Eclipsing a neutron star Shrinking moon Landing gear collapses on WhiteKnightTwo during test flight Earth and Moon, the double planet A cloudy day in Paradise TSA humilates passenger Commando Daffy Space war breakthrough? More details about SpaceX Dragon drop test Paradise Valley and Lakes Harvard researcher admits to research misconduct No sunspots, for the first time in months Cinema Paradiso Fort Hood massacre was “Workplace Violence”? Mount St. Helens FAA starts planning the regulation of private space travel Modern science The Muppets again: Mahna Mahna Trapped Chilean miners face weeks long rescue effort The desert below Mt. St. Helens Testing of Orion capsule proceeds Another Jupiter fireball The Time Machine More on the new Jupiter impact X-37B spotted by amateurs Danes set to launch private suborbital rocket The high country above Mt. St. Helens How can I keep from singing? New exoplanets X-37B changes orbit Analysis of Hayabusa material extended Middle school football coach fired for criticizing Obama EPA considering ban on lead in bullets Mount Huashan Chile asks NASA for advice on keeping trapped miners alive Russia to begin construction of new spaceport New sunspots end short blank period on Sun 3 million seniors will be forced to change health plans next year how to repeal the first amendment Kepler discovers possible Earth-sized planet The influence of the Sun’s solar cycle on the atmosphere Bill Staines – Sweet Wyoming Home Laser tag replaces air pistol in 2012 Olympic games Last refuge of a liberal Laura Petrie and Alan Brady – the toupee EPA backs down on ammo ban Living underground for months Japan and Europe consider cargo/crew return capabilities Angel Falls The Columbia River Gorge Stars Wars as told with lego “Going Home” from The Snake Pit SpaceX sets Oct 23 as next Falcon 9 launch date India announces instruments for its second Moon probe Active volcanoes on Venus? NASA team heads for Chile Chilean miners get Play Stations Republicans lead by 10 in Gallup generic poll Paper extolling the benefits from interstellar spaceflight Engineering in the Columbia River Gorge Bugs Bunny — Water Water Every Hare Chinese rendezvous test? Second test of Ares I IPCC needs reform Nobel Laureates chime in on NASA Leash law for cats? Man threatens to shoot pro-life demonstrators Lawrence of Arabia NASA and Islam “It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t.” South Korea in conflict with Russia over rocket Congressman sues veterans group for opposing him No cigarettes or wine for Chilean miners Totoro IPCC fail Scientist fired at UCLA because research politically incorrect Chilean miner, wife, and mistress Marriage break up scene in Best Years of Our Lives The limbo of the extra shuttle flight Spacewalk on ISS deferred Life on Mars? Danish test flight set for tomorrow Notre Dame fires employee The best Johnny Carson show ever Kittens on vacuum Danish launch scrubbed Bart Gordon responds to Nobel laureates Cannibalism survivors talk to Chilean miners Singing in the Rain More evidence that the solar cycle is changing Sweep for Republicans in 2010? Two asteroids to fly past Earth The melt rate of the icecaps is half what was previously predicted Shooter to the Olympics Award denied cosmonaut Natural Bridge, on the Moon Ares I first stage test firing Hair dryer scrubs Danish launch Worldwide military spending Water main break at KSC Shuttle launchpad to close Scientists develop tractor beam Senate to hold hearings on gun regulation The September monthly sunspot graph Opportunity’s journey continues Deep Impact gets its first look at next comet target Campus administrator shuts down conservative group Robinson Crusoe on Mars Danish cartoonist honored The magnetic field flips Pakistan floods ease Atlantic hurricanes? A question for the baby boomers Mike Griffin speaks out again As imagined by SF authors: the Celestial Spiral Someone in a tree Philadelphia police steal citizens’ guns China’s next lunar probe Mapping extrasolar planets The last journey of Discovery begins Boeing and Space Adventures team up John Wilcox dies Amateur detection of Jupiter impact The variability of stars according to Kepler Our Debt Is More Than All the Money in the World The Sun is blank again Corny Concerto September 11, 2001 More on the natural bridge on the Moon The Westerner shuttle variation alive? ISS’s life expectancy WhiteKnightTwo back in the air Dawn’s status as it heads to Vesta Saturn from above The Argument Clinic 14 objects discovered beyond Neptune The pain of spacesuit gloves More data suggests ocean conveyor belt more complex than expected Scientists predict when the first Earthlike planet will be discovered UCLA backs off firing politically incorrect professor Space Makes Polymers Hard Water that smells bad might be toxic Government high speed railroad and elections Knife’s Edge trail on Mount Katahdin Say goodbye to sunspots? NASA extends Boeing’s station operations contract NJ Transit worker fired for burning pages of Koran Impact possibility of Apophis increased Building a lunar vegetable garden on Earth How blind cave fish find food Chile’s Trapped Miners Get 1,000 Job Offers The Space War, in a nutshell Ohio Town forbids Tea Party to Celebrate U.S. Constitution in Town Square Mirror, Mirror Judge overrules local town over Constitution Day rally China continues satellite maneuvers First spacecraft to use Earth-Moon L2 point Artist goes into hiding Europe to the Moon Arctic icecap reaches 2010 minimum Another summary of the space war Global topography of the Moon Second Falcon 9 rocket passes fuel test Earliest Kodak color tests White House tries rebranding global warming Microbes survive 553 days attached to ISS You do not have to answer any questions at the airport The day the Constitution was ratified An update on SpaceX’s Falcon 9, with pictures For the fifth time in two years Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has had computer problems. Lawmakers Curb Spending on Defense Weather Satellites Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain A look at the Washington Post’s take on the space war My Friday night travels Orion testing goes on Rube Goldberg music video NASA outreach to the Arab world Bolden cleared by IG of ethical violations Something is recycling the methane on Mars A real cat burgler Photo gallery of Discovery’s last rollout The United States, as seen from the Moon Something’s coming, something good More caves on the Moon The English language is dead Lady of Shalott sung by Loreena McKennitt NASA budget stalled until lame duck session Opossums overrun Brooklyn Government and journalists cower at threats to cartoonist Spring on Titan brings sunshine and patchy clouds Kibo prices too high for business Too Much Water on the Moon? Arianespace Heading Toward an Unprofitable 2010 Internal combustion engine wins fuel efficiency contest! Holst’s Jupiter movement from The Planets Federal spending is out of control and NASA’s gonna get what it wants? SpaceX delays next Falcon 9 launch until November Houston-area schools brace for impact of NASA layoffs The $500 satellite First tests of beer in zero gravity Pressure mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as IPCC head Muslims defend free speech The moons of Saturn The sun influences the climate, admit the powers-that-be House compromise NASA budget The double vortex at Venus’s south pole is gone Field of gold played by Sungha Jung Soyuz undocking at ISS delayed Birthplace of the Sun? Medical insurance plans shut down Bolden’s trip to Saudia Arabia House breaks without dealing with NASA bill Slot Canyon Soyuz lands safely after 24 hour delay Neo-Nazi couple discover they are Jewish Yankee Doodle Daffy new details about Chilean miner rescue UN to appoint astrophysicist to negotiate with aliens The sad state of the economy Now it’s “global cooling”! Stairway to heaven Hawaii A scientist’s ten commandments Virgin Galactic begins offering flights in 18 months Venezuela Election Islam nations looking to squelch criticism The crumbling cliffs of Mars Bolden to China Glacier ice loss less than thought Modern journalism Dangerous asteroid discovered by new telescope Fort Apache (1948) A November wipe-out House will vote on Senate NASA plan Handing out the Bible is legal in Deerborn Volcanic activity in Saudia Arabia Lost footage of Armstrong’s first step found Launch of China’s next lunar probe as soon as Friday Lying Congressman Charges dismissed against Maryland man who taped traffic stop James Hansen arrested protesting against mining UN denies plan to name ‘ambassador’ to aliens New speed record for lawnmower Hand Dance – Up & Over It Violence by Democrat Party activists One third of so-called extinct species have turned up alive Russia to launch commercial space station by 2016 Only one step short of tyranny Hoyer says Americans are “conflicted” 11 Predictions About 2010 That the Simpsons Got Right Results from Hayabusa delayed till next year European plans to develop advance return vehicle More info on next Falcon 9 launch Iranian blogger sentenced to 20 years The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter Saudia Arabia celebrates anniversary of their first astronaut’s flight First planet discovered that might harbor life! NASA authorization passes House This NASA bill is nothing more than pork Michoud declares end of external tank production ATK to lay off 426 employees today New York forced to replace 250,000 street signs by the federal government Dancing robots The state of the Sun, September 30, 2010 China launches 2nd Moon mission More layoffs in Florida Images of asteroid by Rosetta Layoffs in Houston New standards on car mpg The view from Opportunity, September 16, 2010 Playing catch with a cat Astronaut sues over use of his image in NASA photo EPA fines SpaceX Listen to the sound of Babylonia Watch out for those toxic paper clips! Signals from Gliese 581? Modern climate models can’t predict sudden climate change Antarctic increase in sea ice since 1970 cannot be explained by ozone hole Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling Zenyatta wins again The layoffs at NASA Virgin Galactic’s launching system in doubt The single most powerful political force in the nation Life in the Chilean mine To duck or not to duck Remembering Willie Ley NASA privacy suit to go to Supreme Court Saudia Arabia and NASA sign two deals Rocket pieces fall in China The wind-blown dunes of Mars Liquid on Titan Lutetia covered with deep regolith NASA Confusion Reverberates Throughout Globe Lunar X Prize award set at $30 million It’s okay to kill suffering children says UK journalist Sputnik Archeologists discover a sealed stone age home Russian meteorologists predict very cold winter The ruins above Machu Picchu NASA technology chief: We’ll decide what rocket we want to build Space tourism from the island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles Solar panels return to the White House Wilders facing prison for speech Bolden in Saudia Arabia Soyuz capsule shipping container damaged WISE telescope moves into final phase of mission Murder for the sake of climate idealogy Gallup’s astonishing numbers 13 Stunning Photos From 10-Year Sea Census Muppets: “I don’t want to live on the Moon” Hayabusa brought back extraterrestrial matter Four Chinese lunar landers? Treasury Inspector General to Investigate White House Disclosure of Confidential Taxpayer Data of Political Opponent EPA’s Own Estimates Say Greenhouse Gas Regs Could ‘Slow Construction Nationwide for Years’ — and Take a Century to Reduce Temperature 0.0015 Degrees If you do this in an email, I hate you The October 2010 sunspot graph Geert Wilder’s words make Muslims uncomfortable No active volcanoes on Mars The atmosphere of Venus is 60% less dense at its poles Pluto’s ice: 97% nitrogen, 3% methane Engineer spice It’s only a seltzer moon
Plumes from Saturn’s Enceladus may be carbonated Apollo 11 original television footage unveiled Chang’e 2 arrives in lunar orbit Layoffs Continue as NASA Slows Constellation Spending Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery The Sun was brighter when it was dimmer? Bolden’s trip his idea, not the White House’s Bigelow about to announce big news ESA struggles to fund returnable module White House arbitrarily gives healthcare law waivers to some companies The basic ingredients of life might exist in Titan’s atmosphere Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Heart like a wheel Soyuz launches with three astronauts, headed to ISS Federal government spending rose 9% in 2010 JPL scientists demand correction of White House statements before Supreme Court Global hurricane activity at 33-year low Dingel trails in Detroit A Tea Party in Maryland Saudis arrest Filipino Catholics for practicing their Catholic religion Preliminary rescue date for Chilean miners set Asteroids of note Chile miners should be reached ‘within hours’ The Sci-Fi Airshow A Night to Remember An engineer’s guide to cats Physicist resigns for American Physical Society over climategate SpaceShipTwo makes its first solo flight and landing December Soyuz flight to ISS delayed due to damage Hayabusa particles mostly rocky Bolden ignores Congress with trip to China Sunspots return to the Sun Chilean miners are arguing about who should be the last to exit Kitten massage therapy Rescue shaft breaks through to Chilean miners Mars’ geology suggests it once had rich carbon dioxide atmosphere Footage of SpaceShipTwo’s first solo flight Shutting Up Business X-37B goes missing. Archeologists find 400,000 year old spears in coal mine Using ISS as a launching platform to get to the Moon The central organization of the religion of peace declares war on the US Why ObamaCare killed child-only health plans Classic tribute to Genesis: Afterglow Obama signs the NASA authorization bill Asteroid to zip past Earth on Tuesday Five Chilean miners ‘originally formed breakway group’ The state of NASA’s commercial crew program A lost Michelangelo painting found in Buffalo, NY home The 500th extrasolar planet about to be discovered The possibilities for China’s Chang’e 2 lunar probe The first trapped miner about to hauled free The World’s First Everything-Proof Underground Luxury Community Habitable exoplanet might not exist The first powered flight of SpaceShipTwo could come before year’s end Hayseed Dixie: she was skinny When I met her More details of the Chilean mine rescue APS responds to Harold Lewis’s resignation letter EPA Funnels Taxpayer Money to Dozens of Liberal Community Activist Groups Media mayhem mars family’s joy at Chile mine rescue Democrats face 60 to 70 seat loss, according to leftwing press More details of SpaceShipTwo’s test flight from pilot ObamaCare will result in increased out-of-pocket costs for seniors MTV Denies That Obama Telecast Is Political We won’t release our contributors because the adminstration will then harass them Most Incredible Volcano Footage Ever Last Chilean miner reaches the surface safely Hubble tracks the aftermath of a possible asteroid collision Competing interests could spell a troubled future for NASA South Carolina man ordered by the government to remove religious signs from his property Upsets in northern California? Soaring Hoover Dam bypass bridge finally complete Climate Talks in China Limp Toward Deadlock X-37b spotted again A wish list of spectacular future planetary missions World record 3200 model rockets launched simultaneously Two Democratic candidates try to silence their opposition Prosecutors recommend acquital on all charges for Wilders The color of a wind turbine can attract bugs Recent landslide on Mars Charles Lollar vs Steny Hoyer The Streets of New York The New York Mets 1969 Bolden in trouble? Chicago mainstream reporters threaten reporter asking tough questions of Emanuel Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland US may outsource lightweight satellite launches to India Dried up lake beds on Mars? DRAGON SPACE
International Crews for Shenzhou? Two German radar mapping satellites to produce three-dimensional imagery of Earth More criticism of Bolden emerges as he heads to China Miller security guards handcuff journalist IPCC meeting ends with few changes or reforms Was T. Rex a cannibal? Have global warming scientists admitted that carbon dioxide is not the main greenhouse gas? Dems find careers threatened by Obamacare votes Beating the European ban on 75 watt bulbs Swiss engineers break through the last stretch of rock to create the world’s longest tunnel Zenyatta Fuel leak on Discovery One way trips to Mars? Halfway to Pluto Bankrupty for TerreStar? Republicans weaseling out already? Bigelow Aerospace Begins Testing Life Support Systems with Crew Dead Sea scrolls going digital on Internet It’s the out of control spending, stupid! Fuel leak on Discovery plugged Hubble marches on: Pinwheel of star formation Loch Lomond Chinese embargo of rare earth minerals expands Damaged Soyuz descent module being replaced Bigelow has made deals with six nations to provide orbital station modules Engineers to replace seals on shuttle Father of fractals dies Closing caves for the convenience and power of the government Most distant galaxy ever seen Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain 2007 Arianespace in trouble TerreStar files for bankruptcy The Continuing Controversy of the Mars Meteorite Canadian company that makes robot arm might be for sale again Orbital posts good third quarter results the Moon Stinks of Gunpowder New Zealand might lose $700 million in movie business due to union Clinton misplaced the nuclear codes twice Steny Hoyer Knuckle-Punched GOP Opponent in the Back It’s Cold and Wet at the Moon’s South Pole Machu Picchu from above The tenth anniversary of full time human existence in space Last shuttle mission could be delayed until fall of 2011 Juan Williams firing by NPR A Bronze Age burial site has been uncovered at the planned location of the Highlands’ first Asda supermarket Bulgarian Archaeologist Comes Across Ancient Rock Stove League of Woman Voters moderator at Congressional debate offended by Pledge of Allegiance New Study Says Cost of Health Reform Subsidies Could Far Exceed Previous Estimates The Virgin Galactic flight test program for SpaceShipTwo Space law blocks lunar and space exploration Atmospheric scientists say space tourism will cause global warming The Juan Williams firing, in his own words Judges in Geert Wilders’ Free Speech Case Removed from Trial Mark Steyn lecture squelched by Islamists and wimpy bureaucrats New technology might allow airline passengers to keep their shoes on Union Fires Stage Hand for Wearing Bush Hat and Shirt We’re a couple of swells… Bugs Bunny – Buccaneer Bunny (1948) Virgin Galactic plans to compete in the upcoming race to develop orbital space vehicles Evidence of active volcanoes on Venus SpaceX now targeting Nov. 18 for first COTS demo flight Wikipedia bans global warming propagandist The once and future Moon The calla lillies are in bloom again Last flight for Discovery set for Monday Google Lunar X Prize Nowhere Man NASA’s commercial crew program moves forward Space tourism ticket prices could drop Another European on trial for reporting the facts about Islam Why this election is important ISS to dodge space junk The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts To Mars Bloomberg supports term limits for everyone else but himself Obama takes the money and runs Tsunami and volcano hit Indonesia Spaceport dedication in New Mexico Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future New Kepler results! Date set for zero gravity beer drinking test Toronto elects conservative mayor by a surprising margin Tax Official Threatens to Shut Down Kids‘ Pumpkin Stand For Lacking ’Proper Permit’ To fly UN treaty language threatens to ban all “climate-related geoengineering” Virus jumps from monkey to scientist Digging into the pockets of billionaires for interstellar travel Bigelow factory expansion China plans space station by 2020 First ticket issued for deadly butter Will the Republicans actually cut spending? John Denver: Annie’s song Buckyballs discovered in another galaxy The most massive neutron star ever discovered Advertise during the zero gravity beer test Demonstration on October 30 to protest the trial of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff Another moderator from the League of Women Voters resists saying the pledge of allegiance Sea Launch Exits Bankruptcy Under Russian Ownership SpaceX’s Dragon capsule cleared for launch but not landing by FAA Evidence of subsurface water found by Mars rover Spirit Charlie the Unicorn ISS has now passed Mir’s record for the longest continuous occupancy NASA’s budget remains under threat The first complete early sauropod dinosaur skeleton found University of Virginia elminates all speech codes New leaks discovered on Discovery, on launchpad SpaceShipTwo completes second free flight test Gore leaves engine idling for entire speech Squeal like a pig A “man-caused disaster” averted Brother, can you spare a dime? Spirited Away The telescope that ate astronomy The suborbital commercial industry responds to smog accusations Shuttle launch now set for Wednesday The Haunting UN conference passes broad ban on “geoengineering” Poll numbers suggest largest Republican victory in generations Poll warden denies a policeman in uniform the right to vote because he is wearing a gun Opportunity’s journey continues Massacre by Islamic terrorists at Iraqi Christian church Fifty-eight percent of population favors repeal of Obamacare Anti-American propaganda from the National Endowment for the Humanities Another Iceland volcano eruption pending? Democrat supporters rip up signs on private property, curse Tea party protestors Saving NASA From The Obama Science Fair Just Jesse New regulations by EPA threatens to reduce the electrical grid capacity by 7.2% Gliese 581g does exist, according to another scientist Overhaul of NASA’s Deep Space communication system completed Dollar could lose 20% of its value in next few years Astronauts on ISS vote from space Electrical problem on Discovery could delay launch We ain’t goin’ away The updated monthly sunspot graph, as of November 2, 2010 Space and the election results Destroy Earth from home The Making of a Mind-Blowing DIY Sun Photo Pro Cap & Trade Democrats slaughtered in elections California Dreamin’ Weather causes shuttle launch to be scrubbed Baikonur allows its first feature film Florida Today calls for more NASA spending from new Congress Watching the Deep Impact flyby of Hartley 2 Statement from new chairman of House Science and Technology Committee More info on Deep Impact flyby of Comet Hartley 2 NASA could be in budget limbo for months after Tuesday’s election An Early Warning System for Asteroid Impact Discovery launch scrubbed due to hydrogen leak Burt Rutan retiring AARP raises employee premiums because of Obamacare The first images of Deep Impact’s flyby of Comet Hartley 2 Showing how the country is polarized . . . with a t-shirt A NASA surprise security drill causes one employee to call the police EPA policy chief steps down Bankruptcy of U.S. government “mathematical certainty” says banker California – the Coming Collapse Thor’s well Discovery’s launch is postponed until no sooner than November 30 Volcano eruption in Indonesia Cassini goes into safe mode Election Result Could Increase Pressure on NASA Budget The Great Dictator Update on Mount Merapi eruption ACLU suing NJ Transit for firing worker who burned Koran at protest A high school production of To Kill a Mockingbird cancelled due to political correctness 1776: He plays the violin Undefeated youth football team banned from playoffs for being too good Indonesian eruption volcano continues Cable subscribers flee to internet Global warming scientists to start campaign against skeptics Schelmish performing Chaos Gore’s climate exchange flops China releases first photos from Chang’e 2 European plans to boost biofuels will hurt environment, say environmentalists AGU denies its climate science campaign is an attack on skeptics Warrentless raids and arrests at Florida barbershops SpaceX Falcon 9 launch delayed until December 7 Driscoll Middle School trick play Federal Budget Rollback Could Slash NIH Grant Success Rates Crack in fuel tank foam NPR chief fears defunding UN panel calls for more taxes in the name of climate change Mystery rocket launch off of California coast The space program is dead, long live the space industry! Leftist cartoonist calls for armed revolution against the right Pluto might be larger than Eris after all Flash flood Triceratops never existed? Mystery missile an optical illusion? The state of the Iranian space program Cassini to be back in operation by November 24 Eat a Bagel, Lose Your Baby Highest point on the Moon New airport security checks causing protests EPA sued over ethanol increases in gasoline Pat Condell on the death of free speech in Europe Deficit panel is recommending eliminating NASA funds to private space I’m a denier! James Webb Space Telescope in trouble, again More cracks found on Discovery’s external tank Orbital Sciences tests the first stage engine of its Taurus II rocket Senate to hold hearings on NASA’s budget China releases Chang’e 2 images of its proposed lunar landing sites Outrage over TSA “naked scans” grows The Bashing of American Exceptionalism Less Than Half of American Muslims Support the Ground Zero Mosque Commercial space advocates fight proposed spending cut Leaking vent line attachment disassembled, apparent seal problem found NPR says it’s ‘imperative’ that its federal funding not be cut NOW Calls On President Obama To Reject
NOW Calls On President Obama To Reject Fiscal Commission’s Assault On Social Security In Flanders Fields Vase earns record auction price Facts and ideology, science and politics Sinkholes on Mars British bureaucrats offended by “gingerbread man”, rename him “gingerbread person” The private race to build space stations Big Sis Forced To Respond To Nationwide Revolt Against TSA Is the Mars rover Spirit dead? School Reverses Course After Ordering Student to Remove American Flag From Bike F Troop Workout at the gym The comet is carbonated People are awesome Third crack found on Discovery’s external tank shell More TSA abuse The coming train wreck for Commercial Human Spaceflight Breaking the Ice in Antarctica Video from Chang’e 2 Tycho Brahe’s body exhumed Abolish the TSA New Castle councilman calls cops on boys’ cupcake sale Continuing resolution likely into 2011 National Opt-Out day suggests wearing kilts as well Oklahoma-Many a new day Russians complete spacewalk Shades of foam and failed o-rings? Chinese female astronaut identified Hayabusa captured asteroid dust Go to sleep for science and space exploration TSA to investigate man who refused body scan Allan Sandage, 1926-2010 TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers’ Pants Paul Zerdin ventriloquist A ten foot wide asteroid will zip by the Earth tonight Why a hypersonic test vehicle disappeared last April Is the TSA backing down? Stars merging Penn at airport threatens to press charges against TSA for assault Kazakhstan security summit forces astronauts to return early from ISS the problems of human waste management in space Lawsuits filed against TSA Climategate’s one year anniversary Don’t be terrorized Man shoots TV over Bristol Palin appearance Senate hearing on NASA’s future postponed European Budget Snafu Could Delay Progress on Fusion Reactor Sea Life Flourishes in the Gulf Hailstorm in Oklahoma, May 16, 2010 Scientists succeed in trapping atoms of anti-matter for the first time The dying stars that look like jellyfish Reviewing the flight rationale for Discovery’s launch TSA allowed to unionize despite law forbidding such action Orlando airport dumps TSA Sharpton wants FCC to threaten stations that carry Limbaugh How to properly fight terrorism California prosecutors say they’ll charge TSA agents if pat-downs are inappropriate Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park A snowstorm in space The climategate email anniversary Brian Marsden dies Johnny Carson Lie Detector Politician Shuttle launch no earlier than December 3 SpaceShipTwo completes its third glide flight How the U.S. Snoops on Russian Nukes From Space What Obama Fails to Understand NPR funds approved by Democrats, rejected by Republicans “She put her full hand on my breast and said, ‘What is this?’. The Climate Coincidence A gas explosion in New Zealand coal mine, trapping 27 It came from another galaxy Sightseeing on Mars Wind and solar energy bankrupt Former Shuttle Manager Decries NASA’s Commercial Crew Safety Regs A glimpse at the universe before the Big Bang? Future tests of SpaceShipTwo will be even more challenging Pluto a planet? TSA stupidity of the day Another TSA stupidity of the day Virgin and KLM – the new space race? Simon’s cat, lunch break X-34s moved from storage TSA agents hate pat downs TSA management loves the pat downs Winter overnight hike Update on trapped New Zealand mine rescue TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine TSA Confiscates Camera of Woman filming man stripped to underwear Gettysburg Address recited by Jeff Daniels Office shooting range On the road FAA issues license to SpaceX to allow it to land its Dragon capsule 500th exoplanet found NASA solar sail reaches orbit TSA apologizes to man whose pat down caused him to be drenched in urine Gore admits that ethanol was bad policy Saving NASA’s astrophysics budget and Webb Nuclear engines for Russia’s space program Judy Garland on television – Somewhere over the rainbow X-37B mission almost complete? ISS next expedition main, backup crews to begin exam Brian Marsden, 1937-2010 Update of Discovery’s launch status The administrator of TSA speaks George Winston – Thanksgiving Discovery’s launch delayed until December 17 at the earliest Cassini back in operation Jupiter’s stripe is coming back. Lockheed plans test flight of Orion capsule Climate change will destroy Thanksgiving Obama administration plans to establish 187,000 square mile polar bear reserve Airport scanners barely used on day before Thanksgiving Woman wears bikini to go through security at airport Johnny Cash sings a Thanksgiving Prayer ISS crew land safely in Kazakhstan Saturn moon has thin oxygen and carbon dioxide atmosphere Motes, beams and the University of East Anglia Second test flight of hypersonic vehicle pending The Montana Supreme Court Friday sided with a Butte High valedictorian who was barred from speaking Why NASA recently pulled the X-34 out of storage What pilots think of the TSA Woman arrested for threatening shoppers with gun Met Office admits global warming has slowed down over the past 10 years Six arrested after melee at anti-violence rally in northern NJ Animal rights terrorists make death threats against scientist Black Friday madness Driving vs flying Palin and NASA Mumford & sons Laid off NASA workers can’t find comparable paying jobs in Florida A billion people will lose their homes due to climate change Killing bats to save them! 12 Ridiculous Regulations That Are Almost Too Bizarre To Believe Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun ELISABETH SABADITSCH-WOLFF’s November 23 court hearing Speech from Scent of a Woman Leslie Nielsen Dead at 84 Two TSA Agents Steal Pizza & Assault A Store Clerk Travelers shifting to charter jets and rental cars to avoid airport security Why Hayabusa failed to fire its projectile at asteroid The radiation risks from the TSA scanners Deficit commission rewrites its recommendation, but keeps it Cuts in military budget would hit North Texas programs No hurricane landfalls in US for second year in a row Martian stream gullies Wheelchair-bound nun searched by TSA Obamacare forces union to drop insurance for children Superman – The Mad Scientist The unimaginative Union of Concerned Scientists does it again How One Astronomer Became the Unofficial Exoplanet Record Keeper TSA security harasses a mother over her breast milk New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally A hint that the Republicans might be wimping out again Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System Deficit panel divided National Space Society demands Congress give NASA the money NASA engineers struggle to analyze cause of cracks in tank First Orion Space Capsule Could Ride Delta 4 Heavy In 2013 University of Colorado and NASA Research Center to Study Sun’s Effects on Earth’s Climate The IPCC and the UN is planning to re-engineer the Earth to save it Karan Casey – Ballad of accounting X-37B returning to Earth as early as Friday Second Falcon 9 test launch set for December 7 Branson says Virgin Galactic could be flying tourists within a year Cassini Finds Warm Cracks on Enceladus NASA’s human spaceflight program is ‘adrift’ Google Earth reveals Star of David on roof of Iran Air HQ Links fixed! Scientists pinpoint where Venus’s sulphuric acid clouds come from House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error Debt Commission Agrees to postpone report Amtrak lifts ban on guns Citizen Journalists Forcibly Removed From Van Jones “Open To The Public” Event Deficit commission’s draft report released Church Groups Harass Clyde’s Sport Shop – Plan Protest Demonstration Shooting scene from To Kill a Mockingbird Congress, Obama, and NASA fiddle while manned space burns A Steamy Super-Earth? Three times more stars exist than previously thought Airplane telescope flies its first observation mission Sierra Nevada Studying X-34 As Rocket Testbed When journalism runs wild… The EPA’s And Enron’s End-Runs Of Congress Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks Woman Strips Down to Her Lingerie, Gets TSA Pat Down Anyway—Twice The next to go — astronauts! Hang gliding in upstate New York More caves on Mars X-37B has returned successful to earth Root cause of shuttle external tank cracks still not clear A Croatian space mission to the Moon? More info on man in prison in NJ for owning legal guns SpaceX to offer NASA its own plans for a heavy-lift rocket CNN Reporter Put On Watch List After Criticizing TSA Discovery launch delayed until February Power from poop? Build a warning system for asteroids Deficit commission fails to pass its recommendations Congress passes bill to lower volume of television commercials White House wants transfer authority on appropriations? Snowbound England Islamic cleric offers reward to kill Christian woman Photos of X-37B After Landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base Animator vs Animation Falcon 9 first stage test firing aborted NASA Plans to Put Nonprofit In Charge Of ISS Experiments New Biggest Volcano in the Solar System? Orlando Sentinel calls for more NASA funding ‘A million climate change deaths each year’ Yellowstone caldara rise has slowed SpaceX static test a success Activists force Spanish cardinal to cancel lecture Tinkering with the atmosphere to prevent climate change gains ground in Cancun SpaceShipTwo flies again Paul Simon – American Tune Cancún climate talks in danger of collapse over Kyoto continuation Wikileaks and the IPCC Proton launch failure dooms Glonass navigation satellites Meteor compilation For the past 15 years, global warming has stopped Britain, Brazil to seek end to Kyoto climate impasse ‘Akatsuki’ probe set to try and enter Venus’s orbit Northern blaze delights many in the Arab world Largest ever tuna caught Programming caused Russian rocket failure Al Gore’s climate group shrinking What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate Catastrophe Reporting Hunting as Jeff Foxworthy sees it An update of the Chinese manned space program Falcon 9/Dragon launch likely delayed to at least Thursday NASA’s arsenic biology discovery slammed Orbital status of Akatsuki at Venus uncertain The sad fate of the first 747 Waivers to Obamacare continue to pile up FCC push to regulate news draws fire Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Trains Airport Screeners Falcon 9 set for Wednesday launch Millions of research money stolen in Mali The military’s perspective on X-37B NASA sold computers with sensitive data, report says The list of companies receiving healthcare waivers TSA regulations end shipment of any package to US weighing more than a pound The attack on Pearl Harbor, as seen at the time ‘No climate talks in future if Cancun fails’ Climate models used by IPCC fail to predict past climate patterns The November sunspot graph – still low and below expectations NASA budget details Deorbiting the International Space Station The Crab Nebula burps! Japan’s Venus probe fails to enter orbit Falcon 9 launch a success. Dragon capsule returns successfully Firestorm over arsenic microbe continues to grow “Gore effect” strikes Cancun Climate Conference 3 days in a row Deep Space 9 – The Quickening Eight Hebrew books stolen from Indiana University Library and thrown in toilets and urinated on Wind Group Warns of Job Losses Without Grants First carbon-rich exoplanet discovered More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the old “dihydrogen monoxide” petition as well as signing up to cripple the U.S. Economy Orlando airport Considers Dumping TSA Screeners Corn ethanol tax credits on the way out? WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Worst Fears of Climate Skeptics Dragon’s secret payload top NASA scientist says that all global warming models are too gloomy Waltzing Matilda scene from On the Beach Rosie O’Donnell thinks John Edwards has suffered more than his wife Almost half of all doctors plan to retire due to Obamacare Clouding the climate picture NASA Satellite Sees An Early Meteorological Winter In US Midwest Riots of tuition fees in Great Britain Cancun blog South Africa launches its own space agency Venus Has a Moon? Obama climate cash pledge in doubt ABBA – I have a dream Man arrested after bringing boat flying foreign flag with Arabic lettering into restricted area of Cape Canaveral Caterpillars Can Whistle India “outraged” over TSA patdown of ambassador the illegal imprisonment of Joel Rosenberg Will there be earmarks in the next Congress? Court to rule on ObamaCare constitutionality Monday Kyoto Protocol is dead, long live the climate fund George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra Christmas Jihad in Stockholm EPA Delays Job-Killing Emissions Regulations A car that runs on air Recent volcanism on Venus The rise and fall of rocketplane NASA solar sail lost Will GOP take the P out of NPR? American flag banned from condo complex Social Security advocates fear payroll tax cut Tommy Makem – Will you go Lassie go the violent origin of Saturn’s rings First data back from X-37B flight Railgun sets record Brazil successfully launches and recovers rocket to test micro-gravity experiments New poll says more people want repeal of Obamacare than ever before 8 Observations From The Cancun Climate Conference Judge rules Obamacare mandate unconstitutional Christians fleeing Iraq An astronomer is suing the University of Kentucky, claiming he was denied a job running its observatory because of his Christian faith Highlights from today’s ruling against Obamacare EPA regulations to go into effect says court NASA Picks New Chief Scientist Archaeologists find 2,400 year-old bowl of soup in China Facing the facts The leaning tower leans less Orbital Sciences and Virgin Galactic team up to propose orbital craft Lockheed wins NASA contract to pack cargo for ISS Voyager 1 sees evidence it is about to enter interstellar space The last remant of a supernova Global Eruption Rocks the Sun Boeing Submits Proposal for 2nd Round of NASA Commercial Crew Development Program “He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs,” Earthquake swarm in Arkansas puzzles scientists Library of Congress Posts Civil War Portrait Collection to Flickr Study shows post-9/11 security zones blight landscape Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano on Saturn Moon Violence erupts in Rome after Berlusconi wins vote Longest zip line ride in the world First inspection of Hayabusa’s inner chamber reveals no asteroid particles The largest commercial antenna reflector ever flown in space has successfully unfurled Ikaros still operating DeMint wants to have the omnibus read Doctors say avoid full body scanners Cyclone lasting more than 5 years is detected on Saturn The greed for power, or why it is always better to do without government help A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off today with next ISS crew 2005 Big Sandy Shoot Kepler glitch stops science observations for 13 hours Air Force agrees to Share data on the Meteorites its surveillance satellites detect Newspace, NASA and the nature of risk Fraud, Abuse Found in NASA Research Funding to Small Companies Amino acids found on meteorite that crashed in the Sudan Government May Shut Down Amid Standoff on Pork-Filled Spending Bill ISRO: Indian agency set to launch heaviest satellite The flight of Falcon 9/Dragon: Doing it right The FCC commissioner wants to regulate on the airwaves List of senators and the number of earmarks they placed in Omnibus spending bill Chicago Tea Party Gets a Bomb Scare for their Christmas Party More evidence that the rim of Shackleton crater is valuable real estate Two Danish citizens on trial for criticizing Islam Virgin Galactic to Join NASA Submissions for Orbital Spaceflights. FBI accused of planting backdoor in OpenBSD IPSEC stack U.K.: Red Cross offices remove Christmas decorations to avoid offending Muslims DC subway police to begin random bag checks EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees Scientist makes the first measurements of the magnetic field at the Earth’s core Beethoven’s Fur Eliese Russian mission control loses communications with ISS for three hours ‘Human-rating’ document hits the Web with new name Kepler data now available for anyone to study The omnibus 2000 page trillion dollar budget bill is dead Tank tests today for cause of cracks in shuttle external tank Federal examiners Force Oklahoma Bank To Remove Crosses and Bible Verse TSA’s airport security a failure Republicans showing more earmark restraint than Democrats Peter Paul & Mary – The first time I ever saw your face Cracked nozzled was possible cause of Japanese Venus probe failure Soyuz capsule docks with International Space Station Shuttle Tank test yields no initial clues to fuel tank cracks Fed Reverses Ban on Christian Symbols, Verses at Oklahoma Bank Good Samaritans Face Fine After Rescuing Deer From Icy Water Academics reject the qualifications of a scientist because of his faith Drop test of 15-percent scale model of private reusable spacecraft Monty Python – The dead parrot sketch A Few Words In Praise of Fear Continuing problems with Boeing’s new airplane Looking into a lunar cave Speedflying The Sun is blank Valve Leak Prompts ISRO To Delay Satellite Launch Radar data from the European satellite has been used to make a map of ocean circulation across the Arctic basin. A team of explorers and scientists have today completed the first there-and-back crossing of Antarctica in wheeled vehicles. Subsidies have no effect on Spanish cinema productivity Electricity from wind plant so expensive no one will buy it A Dalton Minimum Repeat is Shaping Up Bat fungus more deadly that first thought Automakers suing EPA over higher ethanol mix gas Continuing resolution in the Senate freezes NASA at 2010 numbers Tom Seaver tribute Christie commutes sentence of man serving seven years for possessing legal guns in N.J. A Law student at Syracuse University is facing possible expulsion for “harassment,” but he doesn’t know who his accusers are or even why he’s in trouble.
Syracuse University law student faces explusion without know why Last night’s lunar eclipse Federal paychecks one third higher than private pay TSA Worker Avoids Prison After Stealing Travelers’ Laptops Christmas Sweater Club Punished At Local High School Twenty Of The Craziest Things The U.S. Government Is Spending Money On Eight former park superintendents are pressing the U.S. and Canadian governments to expand government control over lands adjacent to Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park. Obama administration to review all health insurance rate increases There’s a mini ice age coming, says man who beats weather experts FCC Votes 3-2 to Regulate Internet via Net Neutrality Automakers Sue EPA Over E15 Fuel Blend Flight to test the taste of beer in microgravity delayed until February How Obamacare is Hastening the bankruptcy of state governments Ten Years On the way to Pluto So What Happens When California Goes Bankrupt New Scientist story: Expect Earth’s twin planet NASA Might Merge its Exploration and Operations Directorates Giant Mars Pits Revealed in Sharp Detail Winter Solstice in the Arctic Congress freezes NASA’s budget until March How Close to the Sun could we get? Solar Sail Flotilla Could Divert Possibly Dangerous Asteroid Avoiding the facts in the climate debate Scientists complete IceCube observatory in Antarctica How to play in the desert SS2 Glide Tests Exceed Expected Progress Government liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010 A Martian eclipse Did the Martian methane signal come from Earth? Big tax hike in Oregon results in substantially less revenue pilot exposes airport security flaws, gets threatened by TSA Alabama Town’s Failed Pension Is a Warning The sun found to vary in unexpected ways SDO has experienced a disk controller failure Urban caving in Berlin’s underground bunkers Sacramento-area pilot punished for YouTube video EPA takes over Texas pollution permits An asteroid discovered more than 100 years ago is actually an extinct comet coming back to life Maryland uses prisoners, some with fraud and theft convictions, to process Social Security numbers and other personal information Funding Puts NASA At Square One Again Katie Melua – Have yourself a merry little Christmas rape-survivor arrested for refusing an enhanced pat-down at airport Opportunity takes a rest stop at a crater Scientists Rail Against Senator Who Belittled Research The Space Show China Matches U.S. Space Launches for First Time Flying on empty to a comet Christmas in Bethlehem: the cross banished from souvenirs Sharpton says it is arrogance to let people say whatever they want How Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve San Francisco bookshop owner to close over ADA lawsuit So You Lost Your Election India’s geosynchronous rocket fails at launch “Nuts!” A Christmas Carol (1951) Hawaii’s earmark funding spigot appears to go dry New research using DNA kills mites that are killing bees Funeral processions should be banned The joy of stats The Lawless Obama Administration NASA’s Ares rocket dead, but Congress lets you pay $500 million more for it Astronauts4hire taking applications The just ended 111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined Texas goes to war with the EPA over carbon-emission rules ObamaCare plans for high-risk patients attracting fewer, costing more than expected Support for ObamaCare Repeal At 60% Mike Oldfield – Music of the Spheres 1931 vs 2010 Jib Jab – So long to ya 2010 SOHO Spacecraft Discovers Its 2,000th Comet Vast Storm Rampages Across Saturn Buy a Batmobile Hilarious Error Messages (31 pics) The Sun is no longer blank Pilot who angered TSA with YouTube video goes public Pearl Harbor – Tennessee Piano and Orchestra Russian space officials fired over satellite crash ‘Zombie’ Satellite Comes Back to Life OKLAHOMA! OK! – Hugh Jackman 1999 NASA Wraps Up X-ray Scans of external tank Astronaut Buzz Aldrin sues Topps for using his likeness in trading cards Brazil joins the European Southern Observatory Heading towards a Maunder Minimum Christians Are Casualties of 10 Baghdad Attacks Maine seeks exemption from Obamacare Andre Rieu playing Auld Lang Syne Snapped connectors led to Indian rocket failure Appeals court blocks EPA’s Texas takeover How The Cleveland Browns Told Off Annoying Fans In 1974 Wisconsin State Workers Fret as G.O.P. Takes Over China has unveiled the world’s longest sea bridge “The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,” This winter is the Stalingrad in the ‘Climate War’ Dan Fogelberg – Leader of the Band The 97% “Consensus” is only 75 Self-Selected Climatologists China to explore Mars with Russia this year Skyscrapers 2010 – The World’s Tallest Buildings G.O.P. Vows to Cut Spending and Roll Back Health Care Bill TSA scanners in use “Ninety Years Ago Today: The First Religious Broadcast Message” Can We Find Trees on Other Planets? Discovery tank repairs ongoing US, Germany developing secret spy satellites Dead fish cover 20-miles of Arkansas River Why Most Published Research Findings are False Father Christmas banned at children’s center after Muslim family complained Denying the Jihad Against Christians Ultimate luck compilation New edition of Mark Twain to remove racial slurs Music group wants to play music in space Republican healthcare repeal bill available online Ten year old Canadian girl youngest person to discover a supernova Engineers considering repairs to shuttle tank A Clear Danger to Free Speech Obamacare Ends Construction of Doctor-Owned Hospitals Firefox takes top browser spot in Europe Naked bodies and a new Messiah Viking Found Organics on Mars, Experiment Confirms Arianespace Needs Aid To Avoid Loss in 2010 Tumbleweeds The Playboy pin-up who went to the moon and back
The Playboy pin-up who went to the moon and back
the-playboy-pin-up-who-went-to-the-moon-and-back Flightless prehistoric bird used its wing bones to clobber rivals House to vote Thursday on 5 percent cut to office expenses The 10 Most Underreported Stories for 2010 A plunge in solar activity in December Opportunity at Santa Maria Crater, as seen from space Vulture tagged by Israeli scientists flies into Saudi Arabia and is arrested for being a spy Andromeda’s once and future stars Root cause of tank cracks possibly found Japan may make second try at Akatsuki-Venus rendezvous one year earlier than planned amateur-astronomer-discovers-four-new-planets-from-his-office-at-home-and-he-doesnt-even-own-a-telescope Long-term space flight may be a problem for human reproduction Muslim scholars praise killer of Pakistan governor Manipulative cats fake illness when upset Reorganization at NASA: More Smoke and Mirrors Charles Bolden has come out of hiding Christie actually shutters a government agency Large Hadron Rap Amateur astronomer takes photo of solar eclipse with ISS Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts Peer-reviewed journal article a “Fraud” University of Virginia resists releasing climate documents City contractor mistakenly demolishes Pittsburgh man’s home Republicans kill global warming committee TSA bans bikini woman for ‘unusual contour’ around buttocks Two old unused Soviet Almaz space stations sold to private company NPR Boss Who Fired Juan Williams Resigns Egypt Muslims to act as “human shields” at Coptic Christmas Eve mass Using Apollo data, scientists detect Moon’s molten core Launch Date Set For First Orbital Sciences COTS Demo Popeye – The Man on the Flying Trapeze The recovery of the Lunar Orbiter images from the 1960s Employment update NASA rules out early February launch for shuttle Discovery A private science mission to an asteroid? A nation choking on endless laws TSA: Living on Borrowed Time? Who Is Your Real Friend? Has The TSA Gone From Touching Your Junk To STEALING IT? Why the sun’s atmosphere is hotter than its surface the real hijackers of Islam House approves rules for debating the healthcare reform repeal bill Two House bills introduced to eliminate funding for NPR Speech codes for the year of 2010 and for January 2011 House Budget Chairman: Spending bills will include no money ObamaCare Thousands of Egyptian Muslims act as “human shields” Some squeals from the right: Don’t cut defense Congress’s inability to pass any full-year spending bills for 2011 will likely delay the launch of two civilian weather satellites by more than a year Angels Landing hike – Zion National Park, Utah The climate has been cooling since 2003, according to ocean data A freelance writer and journalism graduate of Columbia University was caught fabricating sources Imaging the ground under the Greenland ice sheet The Corrs – No Frontiers The Tucson shootings A look at the U.S. government’s planned budget for climate research Russian scientists about to drill into Lake Vostok a Colossal Failure of Journalism Peter Kogler computer animation in museum Space flight by Giffords’ husband may be in doubt The Nonsense, and Danger, in Blaming Sarah Palin The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010 Three to four Billion Barrels of Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana Kepler’s most recent discovery: A rocky Earthlike planet! Electric cars are wonderful — except no ones buying Hanny’s Voorwerp: evidence of a quasar that has turned off Preliminary findings suggest that the Arkansas birds died from impact trauma How the left blogosphere has toned down the rhetoric Bigelow and his international customers My Blackberry is not working Fermi detects beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth “We’re better than this. We must do better.” NASA expands work to boost tank strength Nelson suggests NASA might not get third shuttle flight Russia’s plans in space for 2011 A collection of death threats to Sarah Palin on Twitter Pure McCarthyism Eruptions from Krakatau have forced the evacuation of tens of thousands residents Media Pivots To Blame Gun Laws, Sloppy Reporting, Punditry Ensues New discoveries by Planck A partial list of incidents where the press blamed the right incorrectly Hollywood’s repeated hateful attacks on the right New results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey The touchdown that shook the Earth “What ever you do, don’t ‘shut up.'” Democrat Congressman who called for GOP Governor to be shot now pleads for civility Russia allocates $3.8 bln for space programs in 2011 NASA sets date for Discovery’s launch, Feb 24, confident tank problems are solved The climax to The Roaring Twenties NASA submits its Heavy Lift rocket proposal to Congress Treasury Secretary Geithner says in letter to Congress US may go into default Which Democrats objected to the use of mass murder as a vehicle for disseminating propaganda? Washington’s top five most ridiculous reactions to the Arizona shooting Facebook Group “I Hate It When I Wake Up & Sarah Palin Is Still Alive” Passes 2,000 Members It’s time the left toned down its rhetoric The uncertainty of astronomical science A new deal to fly tourists to ISS using Russian Soyuz capsules Penguin tracking bands do harm Giant black holes The Ultimate Showdown Fifteen violent hateful quotes Death Threats Against Sarah Palin at ‘Unprecedented Level,’ Aides Say Bad news for NASA, good news for private space They can’t go anywhere without me and I wasn’t going anywhere without you Computer to take on Jeopardy! champs for $1 million Half the states now suing the federal government over Obamacare TSA Pays Off In Breast Exposure Suit New TSA Scanner Procedure Is Dumb in a New Way The future Nemesis from space Almost three quarters of the public opposes raising the country’s debt limit Vulture arrested by Saudis Was Third Israeli Bird Held Since 1975 Lindy Hop showdown NPR Launches Offensive Against Congressman Trying to Cut Its Funding NASA Names Backup Commander for Mark Kelly’s Shuttle Mission Tucson shooting victim blames Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Sharron Angle More battles in space war Walk to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa Linda Ronstadt – You tell me that I’m falling down The sun was blank today Shooting rampage victim arrested at ABC-TV town hall meeting What does it take to end a political career? Climate of hate Astronaut Tim Kopra, member of next shuttle crew, injured in bike mishap Looking for a missing poster sized Lunar Orbiter “Earthrise” image from 1966 NASA needs billions to get Lockheed Martin’s Orion into space William Byrd Suite as transcribed by Gordon Jacob Engineering the world’s largest telescope Man faces charges for defying TSA agents 2010 Sea Level: Largest drop ever recorded? Diner scene from Five Easy Pieces Advertising Could Pay for a Mission to Mars, Scientist Says Due to a leak from Wikileaks the head of the European GPS program has been fired A Private Space Shuttle Replacement “If a lie does live, then of course your career is over and your reputation is thrashed.” Court rules that a cat summoned for jury duty must serve Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years Confessions of a Greenpeace founder NASA’s safety panel warns of space policy confusion How Hackers Can Use Smart Keys To Steal Cars Gates proposes using cell phone technology to register every birth on the planet Arrest of tomb raider reveals location of Caligula’s tomb The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Live, 1964) Sheila Jackson Lee says that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution Nearly 3000 doctors surveyed believe ObamaCare will hurt care quality and doctor pay What Congress Should Cut Univ. of Kentucky settles lawsuit from astronomer over academic religious bigotry New Study Finds No Sign of ‘First Habitable Exoplanet’ Judge rules against California ammunition law GOP spending cuts would affect millions of people Mark Kelly to decide in few weeks on shuttle command Astronauts4hire is still looking for astronauts The state of Virgin Galactic 200 Economists Ask Lawmakers to Repeal Obamacare Text of Obamacare repeal Union Protesters Overwhelm Security and Barge Into Banking Meeting Injured astronaut replaced for next shuttle flight A Mars Map app for Android phones By a vote of 245-189, with three Democrats joining all 242 Republicans, ObamaCare repealed in House Climate change study had ‘significant error’: experts Congressman says that Congress has the right to force people to buy insurance Is NanoSail-D alive? Only your ham radio operator will know! Joe Cocker – The moon’s a harsh mistress Reagan inspired Mongolia’s president to seek democracy The solar maximum keep shrinking How to book a trip on Virgin Galactic GOP set to roll out $2.5 trillion in cuts over next 10 years Liberals’ Civility Test Frogs across Australia and the US may be recovering from a fungal disease Republicans say there will be no bailout for the states Ship of fools The most powerful rocket launch ever from the West Coast Ham radio amateurs hear NanoSail-D’s signal NASA sets final space shuttle mission for June 28 The difficulties of doing business in the socialist state of Berkeley Cars of dreams Verizon challenges FCC’s net neutrality rules SpaceX’s plans leading to manned flight Wayne Hale nails NASA’s biggest spaceflight problem Liberal civility towards conservative women Journalistic spin for the sake of disaster Johnny Carson and Betty White Cat, I’m a kitty cat! Michael Buble – I just haven’t met you yet Some rock climbing Chicago update Flooding in Australia NASA offers cash prizes for amateur pictures of NanoSail-D For rent: Kennedy Space Center facilities, launch pads Mars Express Buzzes Martian Moon Phobos US removes Indian firms from Entity List NASA TV to Show Russian Space Station Cargo Ship Arrival How Giants Conquered the Earth Japan’s IKAROS Solar Sail Mission Extended for a Year International Space Station Could Get Private Inflatable Room Hubble detects what may be oldest, most distant object ever seen Congressional Budget office says Social Security Now Officially Broke NYC Lawmaker Proposes Ban On Talking And Walking I’m back Nora the piano cat ObamaCare Waivers Jump from 222 to 729 Covering 2.2 Million Employees Ikaros takes a picture of Venus Japan’s second robot cargo vehicle successfully docks at ISS Man Acquitted of refusing to give his id to police or TSA Ex-state official who illegally searched “Joe the Plumber’s” private records gets county job New research finds that the Himalayan glaciers are not melting Night-Shining Clouds are Getting Brighter A Fizzy Ocean on Enceladus Happy anniversary Arab world shaken by power of Twitter and Facebook Japan on alert after volcano’s biggest eruption in 50 years Challenger, 25 years later Dilbert today Egyptians brace for Friday protests as internet, messaging disrupted Electric cars and their cold-weather shortcomings NASA’s Overbudget Mars Rover in Need of Another Cash Infusion Student sues University of Idaho over firearms ban Using skateboards to test prototype lunar lander Challenger accident, 25 years ago Renegade Star Rips Through Space TSA shuts door on private airport screening program Jack Benny vs Groucho Another freighter docks with ISS White House quietly exempts friends from Obamacare Loreena McKennitt – The Old Ways Bigelow signs agreement with Dubai and United Arab Emirates The chimp that took America into space Teenager builds ‘death-ray’ which can burn through almost anything As Egypt goes offline US Congress gets internet ‘kill switch’ bill ready US judge to rule on Obamacare today Poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans from both parties want politicians to heed the ‘tea party’ Obama Administration Has Given Obamacare Waivers to 28 Union Locals that Spent $673,309 to Get Obama Elected Hollywood: land of intolerance A look back at the V2 rocket GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data Florida Judge Rules Against Health Law. The Sky Is Falling … More Than We Thought Air Force’s second X-37B space plane nears launch Looser gun laws proposed in Arizona “This is the kind of ‘civil debate’ the left wants to have after Tucson?” Don Slepian – Next Time A proposal to bypass the effort of Egypt (or any government) to shut down the internet Discovery rolls out to launch pad again Using fishing nets to catch space junk Senate vote to repeal Obamacare could come this week Georgia Lawmaker Proposes Doing Away With Driver’s Licenses Planned Parenthood caught on tape covering up underage sex trafficking finding out what’s politically correct Russia loses contact with new military satellite Fossil female pterosaur found with preserved egg WISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets More McCarthyism, from the left FEMA considers, than cancels spending a billion on MREs Remembering Columbia White nose confirmed on Indiana bats Vapor trails Remembering Boris Yeltsin Russia regains contact with missing military satellite Israeli team enters Google Lunar X Prize competition Crew of simulated Mars mission “arrives on Red Planet” Stardust refines its flight path towards comet Tempel Harry Reid confronted in supermarket over lack of Obamacare repeal vote Senate May Vote Today On Health Repeal Japan’s Mount Shinmoe erupts again Kepler finds 68 Earthsized planets natural gas leak prompts the evacuation of several buildings at Kennedy Space Center today Study finds no consumer demand for Obama’s electric cars Senate Rejects Full ObamaCare Repeal but Votes To Kill ‘1099’ Provision Half the Earth covered in snow Bob Hope to the troops The space war between China and the U.S. Judge holds Interior Department in contempt over offshore oil drilling moratorium After Video sting Planned Parenthood Fires Employee Federal and NASA agents raid the home of two former USA employees. Contractor proposes taking over two shuttles and flying them for NASA through 2017 Leftwing protesters call for lynching of their opponents Evidence of significant changes to northern martian sand dunes EPA decides to regulate rocket fuel chemical GOP offers $32B budget cut Scientists discover treasure trove of fossils in limestone layer in China Glenn Miller Orchestra – Chattanooga Choo Choo Some details on the GOP’s proposed budget cuts Should the U.S. agree to the European code of conduct in space? More layoffs in the shuttle program Mark Kelly, Giffords’ astronaut husband, will fly shuttle mission Paul Says Republicans ‘Aren’t Maybe Brave Enough’ to Tackle Deficit Liberal theater group imagines the joy of killing conservatives Bernanke headlines a day of grim warnings about the nation’s fiscal standing Taking a Soyuz capsule around the moon More secrets of the Soviet N1 Moon rocket Ode to Forgetfulness A Roman super-highway built 1,900 years ago has been uncovered in England While NASA retreats to capsule, two companies push commercial spaceplane concepts Very Small Asteroid Makes record close Earth Approach on February 4, 2011 Former NASA employee is being investigated for stealing and selling shuttle tiles on eBay A Muslim community launches campaign expressing loyalty to US The Beatles – Happy Birthday Dextre does its first work on ISS Palin speech honoring service members canceled due to liberal hate Falcon 9 signed to launch Google Lunar X prize competitor The first 360 degree view of the sun Reagan tells Soviet jokes NBC employee who distributed “What is the internet?” video fired House committee to review NASA budget Iran plans to launch several home-built satellites by March 2012 Democrats Rally Lobbyists to fight Upcoming Spending cuts Sand dunes and dry ice on Mars Democratic senators from New Jersey propose new rail tunnel plan Effort to drill into ancient lake under Antarctica icecap fall short Japanese Volcano Filled to the Brim Poll: almost 70% of all Americans Dissatisfied With the Size and Power of Government DLC to fold Twenty-one governors tell Obama Administration how Obamacare will cripple their states Opening Up The X-37B Falkirk Wheel The bigotry among social psychologists Companies team up on new rocket Which Exoplanet to Visit? The top five Obama regulations that American businesses hate most Are Health-Care Waivers Unconstitutional? The underground Moon Obama to call for $53 billion in spending for high-speed rail Republicans in House want to shift NASA’S climate funds back to Manned Spaceflight House to vote next week to block health funds The Singing, Ringing Tree Obama’s “tough budget cuts” in pictures A fresh perspective from the new chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Commerce What Is Asteroid Apophis? The Sun’s continuing wimpiness Ten Pro-ObamaCare Senators in trouble In 2012 House Spending Plan cuts billions from federal research agencies Giant Ring of Black Holes Susan Rice warns GOP against U.N. cuts Great Moments In Government “Investment” Biden Vows to Jump Canyon by Amtrak An Anomalous SETI Signal Low-income groups challenge California climate law The administration has now clarified its position on Egypt Concealed carry grows as critics’ fears of ‘bloodbath’ proven wrong Cutting the military budget Bryn Terfel sings two classic folk songs A budgetary haircut ahead for NASA? NASA Checks Shuttle Discovery for Damage From Dropped Tool Trees from space More details on Ares/Ariane hybrid rocket How to make long distance calls to aliens Freshman GOP to leadership: Business as usual is over House Panel to Take Second Bite Out of Science Budgets Cities of the future The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Teenage Dirtbag CBO Director Says Obamacare Would Reduce Employment by 800,000 15 Ancient Mysteries That Aren’t So Mysterious Cutting the Full $100 Billion Los Angeles gets tough with political protesters SpaceX puts Dragon 9 space capsule on display in D.C. Stay Classy, TSA Orion spacecraft shipped to Lockheed’s Jeffco facility. New Congress lets expire a decades-old $2.4 billion pork program Music in space Counterfeit climbing gear White nose found in North Caroina Tea Party freshmen may rue $100B in cuts How engineers entertain their dog Station Partners Mull Extraordinary Photo Opp Boeing and Indian Space Agency discussing possible Manned Mission SpaceX Announces Restructuring, Layoffs At Local Facility Man scolded by local government for cleaning up trash on private properties Walmart fires Layton guards for disarming shoplifter Internet: 13,483,282 Newspaper: 0 House GOP releases FY 2011 spending bill Frazil ice House Republicans propose even deeper NASA cuts JPL proposes a joint US-India unmanned moon probe Bernanke to Congress: We’re Much Closer to Total Destruction Than You Think Tuba Solo Fnugg Blue, played by Øystein Baadsvik Obama’s new budget promises $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over next decade Astronauts simulate Mars landing Debt now equals total U.S. economy Obama sends Congress $3.73 trillion budget A victory for aerospace pork NASA Probe Set for Big Valentine’s Day Date With a Comet A clarification of the Obama NASA manned space budget How to Watch NASA’s Comet Tempel 1 Flyby Obama’s Spending Spree By the Numbers My Valentine In his new budget, Obama kicks the can one more time First images from Stardust of Comet Tempel 1 Science an Early Budget Winner … But Fight Has Just Begun A retraction NPR thanks Obama for budget ‘vote of confidence’ Tough-talking Chris Christie plans D.C. rollout In Jeopardy!’s Man Vs Machine the first round is a tie The chances of a government shutdown increase USA Today calls Obama’s budget cuts lame Sun releases most powerful solar flare in four years Congressman condemns Obama’s NASA budget for not sticking to authorization Austrian Court fines speaker for describing Islam accurately How bad journalism works Stardust’s images of Comet Tempel 1 Pelosi says that GOP budget puts ‘women and children last’ Researchers discover a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the south Pacific Senate Democrats reject amendment that would prevent TSA workers from unionizing Left livid over Obama budget cuts Healthcare Reform Law Requires New IRS Army Of 1,054 Two girls and a box Stardust images of comet locate crater from Deep Impact’s impact The launch of Europe’s freighter to ISS delayed one day The squealing of Wall Street regulators GOP bill zeroes out programs, puts curbs on Obama initiatives 2 Repubican Utah state lawmakers get threat letter Liberal journalist trashes raped CBS reporter because he doesn’t like her politics Democrats join GOP criticism of Obama’s budget proposal Study predicts one meter sea level rise by 2010 Computer Crushes the Competition on ‘Jeopardy!’ Debunking gun myths Australian space beer ready for micro-gravity test “All of you are white. Go to hell!” BBC – Walk on the Wild Side White House Ignores Interest Payments in Claiming to Control Debt Florida Governor Joins Two More in Rejecting Federal High-Speed Rail Spending New Jersey Governor Christie slams Democrats and Republicans over spending The great wind scam Democratic Congressman says Republicans want kids to get asthma The delay in the launch of the European cargo ship could delay the next Shuttle launch The next flight of the Chinese manned spacecraft could last three weeks Why more railroad subsidies make no sense The federal government shuts down 83,990 websites by mistake Europe’s ISS freighter launches successfully Russian spacewalk finishes early House votes to move money from NASA to local law enforcement Thousands of previously unknown tombs in Saudi Desert spotted from space Democrats campaign to save funding for public television Two TSA agents busted at JFK for stealing $160,000 from checked bags He should get rid of as many of them as possible. ‘Watson’ the computer creams human ‘Jeopardy!’ champs Google Lunar X Prize has announced the final roster of teams competing for its $30 Million prize Obama’s energy secretary squeals. Arsenic, silicon, and alien life Dick Durbin Is Stealing Your Free Checking! Showdown in Wisconsin more voters view cutting spending rather than investing as the best way to do so Democrat congresswoman seeking to defund Army sponsorship of NASCAR Democrats flee to avoid participating in Wisconsin budget vote A Private Space Shuttle Replacement The historical illiteracy of the Wisconsin union protesters Tennessee bill targets teacher collective bargaining rights A potential landing site for next Mars rover Union protesters fill Ohio Statehouse Squeals from the media Ventana Canyon The future ups and downs of government spending in space The Great Moonbuggy Race How hibernating bears could help man get to Mars To be a Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin means facing threats of violence Boehner says spending must be cut, but Senate Dems won’t budge U.S. military turns to private sector for its satellite communications needs More Webb budget troubles Federal judge lowers the boom on the Obama administration on drilling permits How to follow the events in Wisconsin “Couldn’t he pretend he’s president?” Robot arm on ISS shifts Japanese freighter to different port to clear path for shuttle Holdren of the Obama administration: Gliese 581g: Alive or Dead? According to ACLU, you can be Christian as long as you don’t follow your beliefs House pulls plug on health law funds Hey Apple House rejects extra $22 billion in additional cuts Repealing ObamaCare to Reduce Gross Spending By $1.4 Trillion Over Next Decade Judge gives states deadline to respond to White House over Obamacare lawsuit More quakes in Arkansas, including a 4.3 Update in Wisconsin Final liftoff for Discovery set for Thursday, Feb 24 Proposed $18.7 Billion NASA Budget Draws Early Fire from Capitol Hill Science budget map The uncertainty of climate science U.S. House Votes to Cut $61 Billion in Government Spending The memoir of a substitute teacher during a teachers strike Who will buy? House cuts off funds to IPCC Tea Party protesters vs Union protesters in Wisconsin today Wheelchair bound wounded vet jeered, heckled, and laughed at by university students Twitter death threats against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker Annual U.S. government waste estimated at $125 billion Jansen’s Strandbeests The Wisconsin protests as seen by a self-described “independent” From both the Washington Times and Washington Post: No pet projects are safe! The second X-37B has arrived in Florida China’s first probe to Mars is set for a November launch Want to go to space? Come to the Isle of Man Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight The Earth’s shifting magnetic pole The consequences of issuing fake doctors’ notes Thousands flee as Philippine volcano erupts The Worst Generation’s war in Wisconsin The blunder in Wisconsin How leftwing journalists lie The Massive February 15, 2011 X Flare on the Sun The high priests of science and how they bar the door to skeptics Armed TSA agent gets through TSA airport body scanner Death Toll From Quake In New Zealand May Top 200 Police arrest 11-year-old over ‘inappropriate’ stick figure drawing Miracle on ice, February 22, 1980 Christians sue Dearborn officials and police who arrested them for preaching to Muslims ‘The Heretic’: A Play About Global Warming Skepticism Glory in the sky Does dark energy and dark matter exist, or is it our theories of gravity? Clinton-appointed judge says Commerce Clause covers ‘mental activity’ Dem Congressman tells unions that they “need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody” State reviewing complaints over doctors’ excuse notes to protesters Why the Democrats might be making the wrong assumptions about a government shutdown “Thunder-thighs” dinosaur discovered Gingrich questioned about his extramartial affairs Scientists Steer Car With the Power of Thought Indiana attorney general fires deputy over ‘live ammunition’ tweets aimed at Wisconsin protestors SNL A very British movie Glory launch postponed until early Friday The European Kepler freighter is set to dock with the space station tonight “Hell yeah, shut down the government if you have to.” E.P.A. Scales Back Emission Rules More on New Zealand quake Watch Discovery’s launch today from your virtual yacht on your Playstation 3 game machine Europe’s Kepler cargo vehicle has docked with ISS The shuttle Discovery has lifted off Launch of Glory postponed again Makem and Clancy – Get Drunk Pan-Starrs Telescope discovers 19 near-earth asteroids in one night To be called a violent teabagger while you’re being assaulted Obamacare “has already yielded profound, destructive changes that will not be undone by repeal or defunding alone.” U.S. Conference of Mayors attack House spending cuts The squealing of a former Bush science administrator Researchers have uncovered the oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in northern North America at a site in central Alaska Space tourism poised to blast off in the next two years Man who advocated jury nullification indicted for doing so Another climategate whitewash Bugs Bunny – Haredevil Hare (1948) Senate Democrats express support for the most recent House Republican proposal A round-up of state efforts to balance their overdrawn budgets Detector Array Deterioration Poses New Problem for JWST Two High-priority Climate Missions Dropped from NASA’s Budget Plans A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon The caves of Copernicus Northern Lights Shuttle Discovery docks with space station for 13th and final time NASA’s chief technologist admits it will be a decade before Orion flies A private space station by 2016 Some enchanted evening The Beer has Landed: Astronauts4Hire Completes Space Beer Microgravity Test Amateur images of ISS and the shuttle Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Leif J. Robinson, Editor in Chief of Sky & Telescope magazine for 20 years, passed away Sunday The sponge-like Saturn moon India’s space agency gets a 35% hike for 2011 Scientists buy tickets on Virgin Galactic Robotic arm breakdown adds spacewalk drama Democratic lawmaker threatens female Republican lawmaker: “You Are F***king Dead!” For 50 Straight Weeks, the Majority Has Supported Repeal As the 14 Wisconsin Democrats run, meet the numerous Illinois Tea Party activists giving chase Interior Secretary Salazar issues first Gulf of Mexico drilling permit since oil spill Cover story: Astronomy’s Crystal Ball The Survey of Cass Cave, Monograph #4 of the West Virginia Speleological Survey John Denver – Back Home Again Station photo op cancelled Some thoughts on a government shutdown and NASA 29 Teams, One Purchased Ride, and One Mystery for The Google Lunar X Prize X-37B launch set for March 4 Traffic and more roads Leonardo cargo module installed on ISS Russia lacks enough rockets to fulfill 2011 launch plans Some unusual commercial caves Cutting the federal budget two weeks at a time Matterhorn Glacier Express Images of an exoplanet More press release journalism, Judge gives Obama administration seven days to appeal or Obamacare is dead Sheriff deputies find live ammunition outside Wisconsin capitol building Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (live @ kcrw) The secrets of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space project Water and ice at the bottom of the Antarctic Ice Sheet The elongated craters of Mars Glory satellite falls to Earth after launch failure Five hundred customers into space in the first year of operation TSA wants to expand its jurisdiction to searching people on sidewalks FAA Seeks Funding for New Space Prize Britain slashes spending to UN Senate Republicans introduce bill to defund public radio and television House Republicans attempt to impose a national ID card Fraud in drug studies investigated Biden leaving in middle of budget talks Democrat state lawmakers want to ban photography at accident sites Weather scrubs X-37B launch Allan Sherman – Hail to thee, Fat Persons! NASA to announce future museum homes of shuttles on April 12 Former MIT Researcher Convicted of Fraud The future of NASA’s planetary program does not look good Walker notifies unions of layoffs, but gives Democrats 15 days to reverse move Texas Legislation Proposes Felony Charges for TSA Agents Has a NASA scientist discovered alien fossils in several meteorites? Los Angeles suburb fires almost half its government workforce Drillers will stop injections for fear of earthquakes in Arkansas Ohio GOP State Senator faces nasty threats from union officials and members on both Facebook and in restaurant Obama administration appeals oil drilling ruling The second X-37b is in orbit More questions about today’s alien fossil story Flying car TSA planned secret body scans of pedestrians Alfred E. Obama: What, Me Worry? Shackleton’s Antarctica in colour, 1915 How Los Angeles’s community colleges wasted millions on green energy construction Tommy Emmanuel – Guitar boogie Some interesting comments about NASA’s future from Clark Lindsey America must protect funding of Huntsville NASA facilities according to lawmakers Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000 Orrin Hatch, Mark Udall back anti-appropriations committee in Senate Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children Senate science budget proposals Palin’s parents fear death threats Government posts biggest monthly deficit ever Amtrak police chief bars TSA from some security operations NASA Statement on Astrobiology Paper by Richard Hoover Jewish student sues UC Berkeley for not protecting her Anna Russell – The Ring Cycle explained Planetary scientists reject meteorite fossil paper — without reading it China Details Ambitious Space Station Goals Senate budget for NASA cuts the program, though less than the House A lean future for U.S. planetary missions Discovery has undocked from ISS, for the last time. Obama administration: No new drilling permits, but we’ll tap into our oil reserve NASA scientists in row over ‘alien microbes’ A hint of what is inside X-37b Enceladus’s hotspot is far hotter than predicted Islamic killer motivated by US antiwar film The future of Obamacare: bureaucracy and pulling strings Stealth unionization “We would be better off in the long-run without federal funding.” More evidence Penn State’s investigation of Mann was a whitewash Some detailed analysis by scientists of meteorite fossil paper Chaos in aerospace Save the cowboy poets Hoyer Says Federal Budget May Not Be Balanced for 20 Years How to make Hot Ice Climate science hearing changes nothing “They Prostitute Themselves for Money” Obama administration appeals judge’s ruling on Obamacare 148,221,665 Things to Know About Space Shuttle Discovery The icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica: are they melting? The entire state of Maine is given a waiver from Obamacare NPR fires its CEO Vivian Schiller GOP Senator Lugar reverses course to support House Republican spending cuts Discovery has landed, for the last time Tiny Cuts, Big Complaints Surprise: New NPR interim CEO a Democratic political contributor Mature galaxy cluster found in young universe The journal Science joins the cover-up The secret world of doomsday shelters O’Keefe says he has more videos of NPR Maiden flight of the space shuttle Discovery An image of Apophis An update on Wisconsin The Sun shows some signs of life Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts with greater fury The left’s war on democracy in Wisconsin Half of Capitol Controlled by Protesters, “No One Is Safe.” Wisconsin Republican receives detailed death threat for union vote Violence in Wisconsin More death threats Russian Satellite Nearly Collided with Korean Weather Satellite What the academic community must do to bring tolerance back to colleges What’s Next in Wisconsin Why public sector unions are losing – and can’t stop it if they tried Senators defend NPR funding Bill would set aside $60 million to develop in-vehicle alcohol detectors New NPR video L.A. Community College District fires building program chief David Lanz & Paul Speer – Ode to a Dark Star Putting ISS to use Panic buying as Hawaii and Pacific islands braced for killer waves to strike across thousands of miles of ocean 235 Years Later, the Invisible Hand Still Matters Homeland Security claims it has the authority to routinely strip-search air travelers No, the “supermoon” didn’t cause the Japanese earthquake Space Duct Tape Could Confuse Mars Rover Virgin Galactic surpasses $10 million in ticket sales The table saw that cannot cut fingers Two NASA climate missions face one year schedule slip Fixing the Webb telescope Japanese quake disrupts space station operations Japan’s Third Disaster Earthquake update Japan to fill leaking nuke reactor with sea water Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth’s axis Random variations are still too large for climate models Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant David Horowitz Takes on Muslim Students at Brooklyn College 3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony TSA to retest airport body scanners for radiation Second nuclear meltdown likely under way in Japan, official says Protest to reinstate Pluto as a planet Is water flowing on Mars? Sergei Korolev: the rocket genius behind Yuri Gagarin ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC and NPR Ignore Death Threats to Wisconsin Republicans Richard Feynman: “Take the world from another point of view” A detailed explanation of what has happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant The newest budget continuing resolution and the funding of Obamacare Soyuz TMA-M ballistic return possible SpaceX inks deal to launch SES satellite Russia Delays Launch of Soyuz Capsule to Space Station Space Shuttle Worker Dies in Fall at Launch Pad First results from the Hayabusa asteroid samples How the White House Bullies the Press “Our worst crisis since World War Two” Russians raise the ticket price on a Soyuz again, from $56 to $63 million per ride Skeeter Davis — The End Of The World, recorded 1965 Union-Controlled National Labor Relations Board approves union violence in union election Please save Sticky the kitten Intelsat signs MDA to perform in-space refueling of its communications satellites Fear the Media Meltdown, Not the Nuclear One Two Dogs Defy the Wave A college student who was arrested for stripping down at airport security to reveal the Fourth Amendment written across his chest is now suing the U.S. government for violating his rights. Time to stop nuke hysteria The nation was left reeling yesterday by the revelation that the presidential election of 2008 was a hoax. Violence and unions: It’s in their blood Julius Caesar (1953) – Mark Antony speech The X-37B – what its first two flights have been about Winning the future 3 weeks at a time: Obama endorses House spending bill with $6 billion in cuts The strange link between samurai swords and Japan’s nuclear reactors A boxing gym fighting state’s eminent domain proceedings gets its day in court The strange tale of the Lebanese space race Three astronauts return safely to Earth in Soyuz capsule In special vote voters oust Miami-Dade mayor for raising taxes Mandatory Spending to Exceed all Federal Revenues — 50 Years Ahead of Schedule Hiking the Manitou Incline in Colorado Springs, CO D.C. GOP HQ Windows Shattered By Small Caliber Pellets Satellite Builders express contempt for MDA’s refueling plans for Intelsat A real scientist shows why the “hide the decline” crowd are frauds It’s okay to murder Jews Two Democrat leaders Charged in Tea Party Election Fraud Messenger probe set to orbit Mercury The Wisconsin Assembly’s Bold Leap The spring rains (of methane) have arrived on Titan EPA vote postponed in Senate as Reid struggles to get Democrat votes Clancy Brothers & Robbie O’Connell- Finnegan’s Wake Messenger has successfully entered orbit around Mercury Wisconsin Republican Lawmaker cancels meetings due to vandalism, death threats Iran claims it has build a flying saucer Funding for new unmanned planetary missions under threat Treasures of the Soviet Union’s space industry The shame of ignoring Death Threats to Wisconsin Politicians The recall vote in Miami Japan raises nuclear alert level A profile of the man who threatened the Altmans Judge blocks Wisconsin union law Man Paid $15K After Police Challenged Gun In Park The situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant continues to stabilize 20 Days of Left-Wing Thuggery in Wisconsin: When Will Obama, Democrats, and MSM Call for Civility? European Space Missions to Go It Alone After NASA Yanks Support Mine Fire Threatens Physics Laboratory The first spacewalk Two stars caught fusing into one The first death in space New Horizons passes the orbit of Uranus on its way to Pluto Subsidies to Ariane to keep it afloat “Are you wearing a bulletproof vest?” Fifty mortars fired into Israel from Gaza, injuring two; Israeli military responses Power reconnected to Japanese reactor site Jasmine Flower The real disaster in Japan IRS specifically targeted the political enemies of Clinton Madrigals – Shenandoah The savage barbaric murders of Jewish children by Islamic killers Dawn Opens its Eyes, Checks its Instruments Power has been restored at all six Fukushima reactors The Hanson Sisters – Shenandoah Russians set date for next Soyuz launch to ISS Democrats Split on Social Security Lockstep Liberalism Boeing’s biggest-ever plane makes maiden flight Lockheed Martin unveils Orion spacecraft and test center The leftwing roots of that judge in Wisconsin The death panels of Obamacare The meltdown that wasn’t Mining and jobs versus radio astronomy Hamas protests UN plans to teach Gazans about the Holocaust Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars Hoyer Calls $100 Billion in Cuts to $3.7 Trillion Budget ‘A Meat-Axe Approach’ Roman cities and aqueducts Sony Shuts More Plants, Toyota Extends Production Halts as Recession Looms Texas Cites EPA Error in Testing of Wells Messenger confirmed in orbit House Prices Will Drop Another 20% Industry report reveals that consumers may be paying billions of dollars more in out-of-pocket health care expenses due to Obamacare Kepler out of commission for six days Top 10 Failures of ObamaCare After One Year Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie Hideaki Akaiwa: Badass of the week Orbital Science facility at Wallops opens No Vision = No Innovation A new Russian rocket A modern journalist, disconnected from reality Just when you think they finally get it Egypt Air removes Israel from map X-ray stripes in the expanding remnant of a supernova explosion McIntyre finds more fraud by Mann and Jones Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Talk to me of Mendocino Thousands of Christians Displaced in Ethiopia After Muslims torch churches and homes Stardust to end its mission after twelve years Human-caused climate change – then and now Send the space-bureaucrats to Mars Quarter-mile diameter asteroid to pass only 200,000 miles from the Earth on November 8, 2011 Snow Move on from Sunday in the Park with George The NASA space war mess Japan Reopens Space Station Control Room After Quake Johannesburg University Ends Research With Israeli School Russia and Israel agree on cooperation in outer space Five anti-hunger organization leaders plan open-ended fasts to protest proposed cuts Budget negotiations — and the possibility of a shutdown — are coming to a head A statistical study says big quakes don’t trigger others far away For the birds Frenzy in Washington grows over nation’s debt The MSM Kills the ‘Kill Team’ Story The incremental approach is working More on the NASA space war Senate Democrats and the White House offer $20B more in cuts “Worldwide-temperature increase has not produced acceleration of global sea level over the past 100 years” The brightest supernovae yet found Tiny church discovers it owns an original King James Bible Loreena McKennitt – The Dark Night Of The Soul Operator of dam in Australia ‘invented’ rain data to justify release of water Wisconsin Republican legislators threatened at their homes Secret X-37B Space Plane Spotted Again by Amateurs Japan’s unmanned freighter undocks from ISS DOD, DOT slam FCC over GPS interference concerns Decommissioning of Discovery has started How the IRS harasses and oppresses 114 Pictures Of The Past Meeting The Present University Protects Student Who Issued Jihadist Death Threats Against Conservatives and Jews Seven topics Americans can’t have an adult conversations about Congress to NASA: follow the authorization act Senator Schumer: “I always use the word extreme. . . That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.” NASA To Make Last Effort To Communicate With Mars Rover ‘Spirit’ Death threat video attacking black conservative German electric airplane completes first flight Congressmen rack up unpaid parking tickets Louisiana is the ninth state to seek a waiver from Obamacare Cheap flights The first image from Mercury orbit Bill Maher: Using offensive insults against Palin and Bachmann was not wrong When is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? Reid suggests that the Democrats might compromise in budget talks Which near-Earth asteroids are ripe for a visit? Geert Wilders: Time to Unmask Muhammad University in Argentina to give Hugo Chavez a journalism award A quick summary of the situation in Wisconsin Messenger in orbit around Mercury Mister Sandman – cover by Pomplamoose Going Broke: Treasury Down to $58.6B in Cash, $130.5B Borrowing Authority Ancient Books Uncovered in Jordan May Date to Start of Christianity A new private commercial jet flew at 489 mph on a test flight March 11 Now CNN reports a deal in Congress for $73 billion in cuts for this year Dreamliner: a nightmare for Boeing AARP’s Billion Dollar ObamaCare Windfall Looking inside red giant stars Homeland Security: Witness tampering, political manipulation of FOIA requests, attempted theft of Congressional committee documents A telescope a square kilometer in size Adventures in Federal Budget Cutting Hail storm hits Endeavour on launchpad Delays in NASA heavy-lift rocket plan stir skeptics a giant potato in space Comparing the Earth, as seen by Russian and American satellites The ripples in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter were caused by comets that hit them decades ago Shipwreck of 60-foot, single-masted sloop, c1830, found in Lake Michigan “These Aren’t Serious People.” GOP budget would kill 70,000 children New Species of Freshwater Stingray Found Woman charged for sending email death threats in Wisconsin Muppets – Java More on the storms hitting Endeavour launchpad Nearly $2 billion already paid to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations under Obamacare Soyuz launch site in French Guiana finally ready Ohio and New Hampshire follow Wisconsin, passing laws limiting union power Neighbouring volcanoes on Mars China’s second lunar orbiter, Chang’e 2: still in operation after 180 days Two beheaded and eight others murdered in protest against Koran burning April Fools’ Roundup The first permanent building at the South Pole, built in the mid-1950s, has been destroyed The annual spaghetti crop Southwest cancels 300 flights to inspect planes after fuselage cracks open on Sacramento-bound flight EPA Whistleblower Criticizes Global Warming Science and Policy in New Peer-Reviewed Study “The tyrannies are doomed.” Investigators look into additional threats allegedly emailed by Cross Plains woman FDA issues new Obamacare regulations requiring calorie counts on menus A Pakistani actress smacks down a mullah Playing with mercury More waivers to Obamacare Defiant Japanese boat captain rode out tsunami 321 people in 26 terror attacks in just 7 days Winners of 18th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race GOP 2012 budget to make $4 trillion-plus in cuts The London Rioters and Their Targets More leftwing death threats, this time to New York state lawmakers Ultralights! ATK pushes to build private Ares I NASA Endeavour Shuttle Launch Delayed Exploring the floor of Copernicus Russia’s western spaceport to be ready for first launch by 2015 Record loss of ozone over Arctic Toyota says it will shut North American plants Beach Boys – Sloop John B Astronauts head to ISS on spaceship Gagarin Will EPA Lose Control of Greenhouse Gas Rules? Boehner digs in on spending cuts, saying $33B is ‘not enough’ Supreme court decision today on school choice reveals much about their position on Obamacare The “Pioneer Anomaly”: Case Closed Federal workers in shutdown limbo For Some Entrepreneurs, Moon Is Money House GOP introduces one-week stopgap with $12B in spending cuts Russia Speeds Up Moon, Mars Plans as U.S. May Cut Spending Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System Ryan proposes $6.2 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years SpaceX Unveils Plan for World’s Most Powerful Private Rocket Ann Barnhardt vs Lindsey Graham NASA human space-flight programme lost in transition Astronauts take cover as debris drifts toward International Space Station Obama Rejects Latest Republican budget A Koran, and Free Speech, In Flames Martian Mud Volcanoes Evidence that liquid water once existed on a comet Bill Staines – River GOP Budget Proposal: ‘Not a Penny’ for Obamacare Hot time on the ol’ Sun tonight! Caving in Druid Cave, Cheat Canyon, West Virginia Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World A galaxy eats a star Newly discovered asteroid orbits in union with Earth Russian Spaceship ‘Gagarin’ Arrives at Space Station Kepler tracks the tiny light variations and oscillations of 500 stars Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze Lettuce alone The strange fluctuating polar vortex over Venus’s pole Picking the landing spot for the next Mars rover is down to four finalists Spaceship Lands at San Francisco Airport Conservative judge wins in Wisconsin Two Americas: Public vs. Private Employees NASA backs out of space gravitational wave mission NASA braces for possible government shutdown Let’s dump trash at Boehner’s pad 6 Pages of Obamacare Equals 429 Pages of Regulations Celtic Woman – Danny Boy ISS Plans Week-Long Simulated Mars Mission Government Shutdown Would Idle All but 500 NASA Workers Government shutdown averted as congressional leaders reach agreement on budget deal Virgin Galactic Hiring SpaceShip Pilots Escher´s waterfall Stagnation fears haunt Russian space program Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don’t Give Up Fine print of spending deal ’still under negotiation’ 12 Girls Band TSA agent gropes 6-year old, preventing nothing Details on the $38 billion budget deal Town Bans political signs in Public Park to silence Tea Party protest ‘Hope Sarah Palin Dies’ Page Is Still Up and Running on Facebook The 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s spaceflight Fifty years ago today Catching up with the future of the U.S. space program “Afterwards she broke down with crying because she really didn’t understand what she’d done wrong.” Soviet space capsule sold for $2.9M at NYC auction Obama to call for tax increases in tonight’s speech Support for health care law drops again Three Little Kittens Budget deal cuts this year’s deficit by just $352 million, not $38 billion Boeing moves forward on its commercial manned capsule Experiment fails to find dark matter Budget problems might delay JWST until 2018 The squeals at NOAA The Obama adminstration in 8 charts Marvel ends publication of Fantastic Four comic Taxing the rich will not solve the problem A revolt on the right over budget deal? House approves 2011 budget deal in 260-167 bipartisan vote NASA Faces Awkward, Unfortunate Spaceflight Gap The WISE space telescope results go online Liquefaction Battery powered Chevy Volt produces more CO2 than an ordinary gasoline engine An asteroid that winks Why Houston Did Not Get A Shuttle The Ford Model T No Future For X-37B? Congress removes wolf from endangered list Air Force and NRO ink deal with SpaceX Useful idiot hanged by Palestinians No deal Federal funding for IPCC back in budget “Our current unfunded entitlement liabilities run about $100 trillion.” SWAT Team Sent In to Confiscate 13-Year-Old Over Unneeded Medication TSA security looks at people who complain about … TSA security China finds SpaceX’s launch prices challenging Bolden says Orion to be scaled back Every Picture of Abraham Lincoln Known to Exist Always Forgetting Passwords? I’m With the Government, and I’m Here to Help David Bowie — Space Oddity (1969) Grey Eye Glances — Angel The UN loses the 50 million climate refugees that they predicted in 2005 would exist by 2010 “Wear a headscarf or we will kill you.” The real disaster in Japan Christian protesters in France destroy “Piss Christ” and other anti-christian art Eddi Reader – Leezie Lindsay NASA Awards Next Set Of Commercial Crew Development Agreements India’s problems in space Could black trees blossom in a world with two suns? Medicine in space does not have the right stuff “You have the right not to pray.” State agency spends $73,000 giving out “6,000 red superhero capes” to the unemployed Orion Program Shrinking To Save Money, Time Exploring London’s abandoned Mail Rail subway system Met Office chief says he has received death threats from climate change skeptics Pluto’s atmosphere is expanding, and scientists don’t know why Stop action video of the painting of photo realistic cat Sift through Kepler data and find exoplanets Global warming advocate discovers that anti-nuclear activists lie! Barack Obama at the Pearly Gates University of Iowa Professor Tells College Republicans to “F” Off India launches three satellites on single rocket Saturn and Enceladus linked by electricity Flute duet on Earth and in Space Budget chaos at NASA causes ESA to halt work on its own Mars orbiter and rover Government Cash Handouts Now Top Tax Revenues Obama will attend last Endeavour launch; Rep. Giffords also expected “Space beer,” one giant leap for mankind “We need to protect our authority.” Dearborn denies permit, says Quran-burning minister could face arrest NLRB dictates Boeing operational plans Investigation of doctors who issued fake sick notes in Wisconsin goes forward Federal Borrowing on Pace to Hit Debt Limit in Less Than Week “Our conclusion was there is no benefit to the environment of oxo-degradable plastics.” Some details behind Blue Origin’s manned spacecraft Funding for final shuttle flight assured More Democrats Join Threat to Hold Up Debt Ceiling Vote Without Spending Cuts Des Moines paper publishes over 5,000 names of gun permit holders Scientists find previously unknown deposits of CO2 on Mars Pachelbel’s Canon in D played at 3 am SDO’S best Images from its first year Harvard Researcher Banned From Teaching Next Year Russians say “Nyet” to Dragon docking on its next flight Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter Earth Day predictions from 1970 Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Makes its Longest Test Flight Yet JK Wedding Entrance Dance Pastor Terry Jones imprisoned to prevent Detroit Koran protest NJ Transit worker fired for burning Koran gets his job back, plus $25,000 award “We’re going all the way to Mars, I think… best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years.” Will fewer humans in space lead to more robot explorers? U.S. border guards seize Easter eggs Muslim policemen shouting “Allahu akbar” open fire on Jews praying at Joseph’s Tomb George Carlin Baseball vs Football Observations of Comet Hale-Bopp at 30 AU NASA puts spacecraft above rockets in its commercial funding U.S. Forest Service closes more caves Shell abandons oil drilling plans in Alaska after EPA ruling Past House GOP Tactic Proves Useless to Democrats World’s smelliest flower opens for the first time in 75 years Good grammar equals white oppression Japan’s tsunami waves top historic heights The Hudson River School SETI suspends operations One of the largest statues of an Egyptian pharaoh unearthed in Luxor A hotel carved out of a mountain China looking to public to name space station Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors John Browning Confirmed: one of two tickets for lunar flyby has been sold The countdown for Endeavour’s last launch has begun More details, including images, of China’s proposed space station. The $23-Million Textbook The little solar sail that could! Muslim actress poses for Playboy and is threatened with death Nazi bomb found near North Sea oil pipeline Are astronomers finally going to push for a replacement for Hubble? John Browning, part 2 Fed chairman Bernanke goes on record: US deficit “not sustainable” Budget Crisis Forces Detroit to Cancel Half Its Murders Hubble and Swift show that asteroid debris came from collision John Browning, part 3 Putin sacks the head of the Russian space agency The world’s ten creepiest abandoned cities Technical problem delays US shuttle launch 48 hours Climate change is a serious problem, but the solutions are a joke John Browning, part 4 Sondheim – Finishing the hat Endeavour launch delayed by NASA until May 8 at the earliest Scaled Composites Ramps Up SS2 Test Rate Introducing the book bin Laden killed by U.S. military More info on the asteroid “flyby” of Earth this coming November 8 Jeff Zwart in a Porsche GT3 Cup runs Pikes Peak Did Apollo 12 bring back a microbe from Surveyor 3? Shuttle launch slips to at least May 10, possibly later Dream Chaser drop tests planned for 2012 using WhiteKnightTwo Canada’s Conservatives score massive election win Using lasers instead of spark plugs in your car US a net exporter of fuel for the first time for nearly 20 years White House modifies Osama bin Laden account Indian scientists about to start drilling five mile deep borehole ObamaCare Subsidies Won’t Keep Up With Premiums Dawn has begun its final if slow approach to the asteroid Vesta Last shuttle launch date may shift due to Endeavour launch delay Mock Soyuz countdown under way at Kourou, French Guiana The Oh of Pleasure – Ray Lynch Why is the Meathook Galaxy lopsided? Amateur grabs images of solar sail Nanosail-D The story behind China’s planned space station begins to emerge A Dragon to Mars The Sun in April – Steady as she goes! According to Rasmussen poll, the Ryan Plan is losing support nationally SpaceShipTwo’s First “Feathered” Flight Inside the heart of the volcano El Condor Pasa – Chinese E-Wu and Flute w/ Peruvian flute Endeavour launch could be as late as May 13 Elon Musk defends his vision and success How space technology helped kill Osama bin Laden Finding anti-matter from ISS FAA wants your opinion about commercial space rules Dark matter: light or heavy? How shall Europe’s ATV freighter to ISS be upgraded? A subsurface ocean of water on Titan Space Adventures and tourists to the Moon Fifty years ago: Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight Air Forces moves to open up rocket purchases to competition U.N. Forces from Nepal introduced cholera to Haiti Dark matter mysteries Mars Express sees deep fractures on Mars Duo Minasov – Quick Change Julia Sweeney – “Sex Ed” monologue Shuttle launch slips to at least May 16 Soviet Spacesuit sold for $242,000 in NY auction The Soyuz launchsite in French Guiana has been declared ready for its first flight Gentaro Takada – Concierto De Aranjuez Muslim rampage against Christians in Egypt continues, now 12 dead, 232 wounded Were Neandertals and Modern Humans Just Ships in the Night? New craters on Mars. Endeavour’s launch now set for 8:56 am May 16 The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger NASA, Stanford websites hit by search engine scammers NASA management moves to combine SpaceX’s next two test flights of Dragon FAA slow to ramp up its role in regulating human space travel “Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt-limit increase.” Quake shifted Japan; towns now flood at high tide Since 2003, the sea level ceased rising Final shuttle mission unlikely to fly until mid-July Path of destruction Pakistan cuts off nine foreign satellite news channels Data leaks from particle hunters raise questions about controlling scientific secrecy First Soyuz launch from French Guiana set for October White House Takes Dim View of Boehner Debt Plan Stardust’s images show that Deep Impact burst underground bubbles on Comet Tempel 1 Placido Domingo & John Denver – Perhaps Love Judge orders Obama administration to act on offshore drilling permits State Department report on religious freedom in Afghanistan: Deteriorating After 100 orbits, an overview of Messenger’s survey of Mercury Earn $100K to $200K as a California lifeguard! We don’t know. Did a fungal infection kill forty percent of the world’s amphibians? Nine Androids You Can Actually Own Dawn Captures First Image of Asteroid Vesta Vesuvius: Europe’s ticking volcano time bomb An 8th grade project to build a Rube Goldberg device to turn on a light The Crab Nebula erupts with flares six days India designing reusable spacecraft The first tourist in space, a woman from Britain NASA wants to turn Congress’s heavy-lift rocket into a shuttle-derived rocket The regulations are “overly prescriptive, operationally burdensome, and the incentives are too difficult to achieve to make this voluntary program attractive.” The science remains uncertain Climate scientist banned from Saudi Arabia for showing picture of dog with Saudi dress House GOP abandons pledge to force agency-by-agency budgeting The finale from 42nd Street The strange egg-shaped dwarf planet Haumea is apparently also covered with ice One of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors did suffer a nuclear meltdown Another successful test flight of SpaceShipTwo Americans Oppose Raising Debt Ceiling, 47% to 19% GOP senators focus on entitlement cuts GOP denies TSA money to buy more body scanners Countdown begins for Monday shuttle launch Another sign of tight NASA budgets ahead Social Security and Medicare running out of funds sooner than expected Lisa Minnelli – “Losing my mind” Refueling the empty tanks of communication satellites IPCC announces reforms for next report White House Issues Another 200 ObamaCare Waivers world’s first mobility scooter display team to attempt to set a new world 24-hour distance record this weekend. On the way to the Cape Bill Clinton calls for government agency to discredit political arguments and quash Internet rumors Boeing’s Takeoff Torture Test for 747 The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse made its maiden international flight on Friday A review of India’s GSLV rocket puts a hold on its next moon probe Google closes blog, cuts off people who criticize Google Taliban recruiting nine-year-old suicide bombers Former “alarmist” scientist says human-caused global warming is based on false science Senate Democrats: Where is your budget? Apollo 11 launch, July 16, 1969 At Space View Park The launch If you schedule a launch they will come The first space shuttle launch, April 12, 1981 Twenty percent of the new waivers to ObamaCare are in Pelosi’s district AIDS cured? Government reaches debt limit, borrows against federal pension funds Philly Police Harass, Threaten to Shoot Man Legally Carrying Gun How The Year 2000 Was Envisioned in 1910 Replacements for 100 watt incandescent bulbs cost $50 each Private citizen commits $25 million for Giant Magellan Telescope Osama’s killing was not only legal, it was morally right Is Gliese 581d habitable? Maybe Napolitano: “Very, very, very few” people get TSA patdowns Astronomers, Kepler, and SETI@home team up to find exoplanets Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven White House shuts out Herald scribe Netflix now uses 29.7 percent of the peak internet traffic in North America Social Security deficits now “permanent” Testing beer in zero gravity Endeavour has docked with ISS First feathered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Gouges and dings found on the tiles on Endeavour’s belly Using a black hole as your starship engine Test drive a Peugeot, win a trip to space A 135-year-old scab launches a smallpox scare at a Virginia museum “The mood was less than cordial.” Archaeologists uncover oldest mine in the Americas Senate Democrats reject Republican bill to expand and speed up offshore drilling NOAA predicts an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season Diagram of Titanic used during 1912 official inquiry to be sold at auction Obama and ignoring the War Powers Act TSA does a security drill, and forget to tell the police New data provides further confirmation of dark energy EPA has given millions to environmentalist activist groups Three Reasons That Obama’s Speech Will Worry the Jewish Community Fleet Foxes – Mykonos A storm ten times bigger than Earth Seeing the Planets for the Trees The next Moon probe Love and hate in Florida Reid rejects Boehner proposal for $2 trillion in spending cuts Recent college grads sour on Obama, surveys say AARP the latest to receive Obamacare break Shell gas plant to be biggest floating object ever Climate cleansing: Google to censor skeptics? Dear Congress: Your credit application has been turned down Family Facing $4 Million in Fines for Selling Bunnies Harry Reid says it would be “Foolish” for the Democrats to offer budget plan Last shuttle launch scheduled for July 8 Spacesuit Glitch shortens spacewalk at ISS Hamas TV praises jihadi suicide bombers and encourages young men to seek jihad martyrdom by killing Jews The real Obama and gun control Fleetwood Mac – Dreams Chinese Journalists Barred From Shuttle Launch Damaged shuttle tile to get closer look Departing Soyuz crew to snap space station portrait NASA sting nets woman offering moon rock for $1.7M Local authorities warn gun owners that they will be “inconvenienced” if they carry unconcealed handguns legally in Philadelphia Images of Robert Bigelow’s ambitious private space station plans Iceland’s most active volcano erupts “I cannot imagine someone hanging out their underwear and having it immortalized.” Analysis shows damaged tile no threat to re-entry No restrooms at 9/11 Memorial and Museum An excellent analysis of Obama’s Middle East speech “It seems like politics, and the federal government is picking winners and losers out of all of this.” Repent! The End of Keynesian Economics Is At Hand! No decline in polar bear population Want to go to an asteroid? New results from Kepler Pawlenty calls for phasing out ethanol subsidies — in Iowa Peter, Paul, and Mary — I have a song to sing o More on the new Kepler results: Lots of multiple planet systems Satellite monitoring of new Iceland volcano eruption A hint at what the Soyuz images of the station and shuttle UK Skylon spaceplane passes key review Soyuz TMA-20 lands safely in Kazakhstan Another Soyuz upgrade in the works Gasoline Prices by County Is it a blimp? Is it a plane? It’s both! “[Until] you see the whole thing, you don’t realize how cumbersome it is.” Republicans propose cutting 12 percent of FDA’s budget Obama signed the guestbook at Westminister Abbey with the wrong year. Mars Science Lab Hardware Damaged Evidence mounts for liquid water on Enceladus NASA announces Orion program will continue Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress Kennedy’s Moon speech, May 25, 1961 NASA to abandon trapped rover Spirit Mars Science Lab Seems OK After Mishap Pawlenty calls for Medicare and Social Security reform — in Florida “We stand for freedom.” Rep. Ryan agrees that his plan played a role in Democrats’ special-election win Orion must wait for heavy-lift rocket Asteroid sample return mission on slate for 2016 The Spitzer photo atlas of galactic “train wrecks” The most distant explosion ever seen MSNBC suspends Schultz for calling Ingraham a ‘slut’ Italy to put earthquake scientists on trial for failing to predict an earthquake Provincial official in Algeria orders churches to close Obama budget receives zero votes in Senate Did Quiet Sun Cause Little Ice Age After All? False Fire Alarm Blares Out At Space Station Astronomical Deficit Forces Downsizing of U.S. Telescope Projects GOP Senators to WH: Better start planning for a $2.6 trillion budget The secret lives of cats New data suggests the water content of lunar magma is 100 times higher than previously thought Go for launch time lapse movie of shuttle assembly and launch The world’s worst PowerPoint slides Court throws out Dearborn leaflet ban Hi-Fidelity as a Star Trek Barbershop Quartet Riding a Soyuz back to Earth Fincke Sets New U.S. Space Endurance Record Opportunity spots an outcrop Pharmacist fired by Walgreens for using his gun to defend himself and customers from robbers Robot exploration in the Great Pyramid at Giza Axis of Awesome — Every pop song ever written Five People Arrested in D.C. for Dancing At U.S. Monument Cats in a row Republicans still firmly against raising debt ceiling without big cuts Battleground (1949) The underground city beneath Jerusalem Four spectacular waterspouts off the coast of Australia today USDA ‘Rabbit Police’ Stalking Magicians China’s largest inland lake has disappeared in the worst drought in more than half a century. New York Metropolitan Opera stars, fearing radiation, skip Japan tour Vote on “clean” debt ceiling increase set for tonight A Southern California high school has banned frog dissections in biology classrooms, using software instead Planetary scientists push for Enceladus mission to search for alien life The scientific battle over arsenic life goes on Dancing Telescopes House torpedoes unconditional hike to $14.3 trillion debt ceiling Fossil fuels to the rescue Endeavour lands safely Bigelow expands its space station factory Atlantis is rolled out to the launchpad Russian greenhouse on ISS ungoes upgrade You could have heard a pin drop Reverend Jim’s driving test from Taxi Subterranean worms from hell Progress in the study of the algae Didymo NASA lunar lander test sparked a grass fire First sale for quantum computing Endeavour not expected to arrive in L.A. until late 2012 Alaskans push for changes in TSA screening California’s gold-mining environmental rules cost five times what they earn in fees Student prohibited from graduation for Facebook comments A bureaucratic fight stalls oil drilling in Alaska The costs of space cargo Former astronaut calls for the dismantling of NASA Why the Endangered Species act doesn’t work EPA gave $1.29 Million to China TSA testing non-contact system to detect terrorists before they act Moody threatens to lower the US credit rating if there is no progress on debt ceiling negotiations soon Cinderella – Julie Andrews singing “Impossible” Obama solicitor general says if you don’t like the Obamacare mandate, you can earn less money Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony Opportunity Passes Small Crater and Big Milestone Texas TSA pat down ban may be back Oil money in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Venezuela fueling modest space dreams Mars 500 mission passes one year Facebook tells Tea Party no more organizing Copenhagen Suborbitals’ first test launch Social Sciences Face Uphill Battle Proving Their Worth to Congress House Trims Homeland Security Science Spending A federal appeals court has lifted a ban on public prayer at a Texas high school graduation All new cars starting in June will have a mandatory black box Monty Python: Defending yourself against a banana Endeavour — Crime-fighter! Melanoma Drug Combo Shows Promise in Early Trial The photography of the first clown in space Homeowner forecloses on bank What an astronaut’s camera sees Webb telescope disaster destroys NASA astrophysics budget Police yesterday shut the Jefferson Memorial to clear out a crowd challenging a ban on dancing inside the monument. Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs Physicists have captured atoms of antimatter now for more than 15 minutes Spectacular images of Chilean volcano eruption CBO hires Obamacare advocate to provide ‘objective’ health care budget numbers Density of forests increasing 3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms Supernova flares in M51 Thirty percent of all companies plan to drop health coverage when Obamacare goes into effect fully D-Day Scientists cheer election of socialist president in Peru Students in space! The federal government’s total unfunded financial obligations now exceed $60 trillion. New poll: Romney 49, Obama 46 Comic Chris Titus hints at assassinating Palin ‘if she gets elected president’ Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security ‘revenge’ nightmare Obamacare waivers weren’t in original law Iranian Atomic Bomb May Be 8 Weeks Away NASA Finally Releases Photos of Endeavour Docked at ISS Democrats never resign, no matter what the scandal After a burst the Sun quiets down again Chile volcano ash cloud disrupts airline flights The Sun has a blast The Most Extreme Migration on Earth When galaxies collide Endeavour Caught Fire During Landing Crew heading to station on Soyuz Newark TSA Supervisor Sentenced for Bribery and aiding thefts from passengers Arizona wildfire grows to cover 389,000 acres Market research firm predicts over 1,600 satellites worth $250 billion will be launched in the next fifteen years Whistle-blower claims his accusations cost him his job Dept. of Education SWAT team breaks down man’s door NASA Inspector General notes continuing worries about the Mars Science Lab Delta charged returning GIs $2,800 in bags fees The remnant of supernova 1987a Lights Up A press conference of my very own Pink Floyd tribute in classical style Human bones taken to ISS for long space flight experiments. Opportunity Heads Toward ‘Spirit Point’ Space weather expert downplays threat to Earth from solar flare Camera being added to the last shuttle external tank Ohio restaurant referenced by Obama is closing How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me Anti-Education Magnetic bubbles at the edge of the solar system Looking for life with the god of death Second X-51 hypersonic flight scheduled for week of June 13 China’s lunar probe leaves lunar orbit Special Needs Son Harassed by TSA at Detroit Metropolitan Airport House Panel Slams Obama’s Decision to Shut Yucca Mountain Scientists may have licked the allergy to cats Israeli rocket victims sue Gaza flotilla organizers is preparing for large crowds next week as the Legislature begins the process of approving the governor’s budget Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead Apollo spacesuits head to the museum Utility decides to close five coal plants to comply with EPA regulations SpaceShipTwo’s test program ramps up Climate satellite launched to survey the saltiness of the Earth’s oceans “The moment of truth is about to arrive.” A new study finds that more than 80 percent of the mosques in the United States feature Islamic literature advocating violence. Legislation to stop huge legal fee payments to environmental litigation factories Fires in Arizona: more than one UK eliminates all but two climate-change projects to balance books. A galaxy with two central supermassive black holes Back from the dead: Astonishing pictures show Japan before and after tsunami Balancing act Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting Israeli group threatens legal action against Inmarsat for aiding Gaza flotilla ESA lifting body entry vehicle about to get final approval Sifting through garbage from the end of the Ice Age Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake Windows XP error music Inspector General report condemns NRC chief over his attempts to shut Yucca Mountain In North Carolina, government jobs untouched by the great recession Obama to announce plans to cut government waste Twelve of the most beautiful lakes in the world Where’s the warming? Tea Party blogger roughed up by Republican official at Indiana rally Vesta begins to come into focus as Dawn approaches Cartels using Arizona mountaintops and caves to spy on border SpaceX gets another contract for its Falcon 9 Luckiest people alive Two lawyers explain why Obamacare is losing in the courts Robot refueling test of satellites to be launched on last shuttle flight The recent history of botched SWAT raids Republican presidential candidates debate space program’s future at New Hampshire debate Obamacare doesn’t stop Medigap providers, AARP partners from discriminating against seniors Solar scientists predict a major decline in sunspot activity Fire at Carlsbad Caverns National Park causes its closure Memo Marks Official End of Constellation Europe Downscales Monster Telescope to Save Money Loretta Lynn and the Muppets – One’s on the way Wisconsin courts rule union law legal Probe clears five SWAT-raid officers in Arizona Hezbollah takes over Lebanon’s government Shuttle’s end leaves NASA with a half billion dollar pension bill Negotiations over debt limit and budget still appear deadlocked The world’s oldest functioning light bulb: 110 years old The progenitor of the May supernova in M51 identified An X-ray deep field over six weeks by Chandra finds massive black holes common in early universe SpaceShipTwo completes two glide test flights within twenty-four hours Ten congressmen and a law professor sue to stop the war in Libya TSA blocks private airport screeners SDO – March 30, 2010 Solar Eruption Second X-51 hypersonic flight crashes prematurely A tanking test for the last shuttle flight encounters problems Iran launched a satellite into orbit today ESA controllers buy time to solve problems on comet probe Rosetta How pasta became the world’s favourite food San Francisco’s Animal Control and Welfare Commission is recommending that the City ban the sale of goldfish, tropical fish and guppies in its borders Vandals who spray-painted an historic cave in Oregon in April have been caught National Speleological Society responds to the demand that all caves be closed to protect bats Republicans refuse to cut farm and ethanol subsidies, cut international food aid instead IPCC in trouble again over using Greenpeace employee for energy report Why Are Taxpayers Paying for Wine Tasting? Sheila Jackson Lee Likens Islamic Radicals to ‘Christian Militants’ in U.S. Milk changing color – cool science experiment Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall Ray Stevens – Obama budget plan An update from Messenger The Pan-STARRS Telescope has found comet that might provide a show in 2013 SpaceX Sues Expert Who Questioned Safety of Falcon 9 Rocket The debate over arsenic-based life continues Poland joins the European Space Agency NASA about to decide on its shuttle heavy-lift replacement Some bats seem to be surviving white nose fungus Research Center Under Fire for ‘Adjusted’ Sea-Level Data Daley can’t defend Obama’s ‘indefensible’ economic policies Deep well inspection Unmanned sail prototype prepares for launch The cost of rare earth metals has soared as China limits supplies Hadrian built his country estate with the buildings aligned with the sun How the recently dissolved California Space Authority wasted millions of dollars in federal earmarks and grants House panel tells Dept of Energy to cull underperforming research grants Cool images from Mars and Mercury Companies Leaving California in Record Numbers The legal store of stolen objects The battle between global warming and the sun A gladiator’s tombstone tells tale of death NJ Senate passes public employee benefits bill Theft by TSA employees of passenger valuables a nationwide problem The failed predictions of global warming activists Flying over Mars Mann and company write more science fiction Energia not to produce Soyuz spaceship for space tourists ATHEISTS WANT SIGN HONORING 9-11 FIREFIGHTERS REMOVED King County, Washington, requires life vests for swimmers President Barack Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts Conservative lawmakers push for pledge cutting spending across the board, capping government spending, and requires a balanced budget amendment. Joe Hisaishi Live – Summer ( from Kikujiro ) Astronaut Mark Kelly retires The first Soyuz launch from French Guiana is set for October 20, 2011 ATV burns up, Progress launched Cryosat releases its first map of the thickness of the Arctic icecap Help pick the Kuiper Belt targets of New Horizons after it flies past Pluto Shaved bat wings show sensory hairs help manage flight Tear-drop shaped islands on Mars suggest ancient oceans Online prices soar for space shuttle Atlantis launch tickets James Hansen sued for failing failed to comply with ethics rules and financial disclosures regarding substantial compensation he earned outside his $180,000 taxpayer-paid position California legislators: No budget, no pay Branson says Virgin Galactic will fly a suborbital flight within a year Cassini directly samples the plumes from Enceladus and finds an ocean-like Spray Democrats call for new spending in US debt deal Cockpit view of 747 takeoff Orbital Science rocket engine sustains damage in test Gale Crater now leads the list for Curiosity’s landing site on Mars Arizona sheriff confirms that Coronado wildfire was probably started by illegal trade CBO: The national debt will exceed the size of the entire U.S. economy by 2021 Texas anti-groping bill moving ahead despite TSA changes the cost of solar energy is crashing down Rochester woman arrested for filming police from her own property Another error in Obamacare will allow middle class retirees to get Medicaid Dutch populist Geert Wilders acquitted of hate speech Senate Republicans pull out of Biden debt limit negotiations TSA Airport Screeners Vote to Join Union Want to send a probe to another planet? Cut costs! From a modern Muslim Cleric: “There Is A Beating Etiquette” Archaeologists begin unburying ancient Egyptian ritual ship New Texas Giant roller-coaster Underground Physics Lab to Cost U.S. Energy Department at Least $1.2 Billion More money troubles in NASA’s climate and astronomy programs The faces of Vesta NASA faces subpoena on heavy-lift rocket work Vietnam veteran threatened with legal action for the American flag outside his home Another TSA worker arrested on suspicion of stealing New Mexico judge orders man to take down abortion billboard We hated Reagan Global Bankruptcy Months Away? NASA planes to fly low over the Baltimore/Washington region to monitor air quality How to watch a shuttle launch Obama to directly intervene in the debt limit negotiations Reporters arrested by Park Police for taking photos at public Taxicab Commission meeting Supreme skeptics Fermilab confirms Japanese particle physics results that could explain lack of antimatter in the universe “Unable to pass its immigration agenda through legislation, the Administration is now implementing it through agency policy.” DNA from Madagascar coconuts has revealed two separate waves of settlement, several ancient trade routes, and the source of the coconuts in the New World. An engineer’s guide to cat yodeling Dolores Keane singing Caledonia At House hearing head of NOAA challenged on ignoring Congressional law Another private space plane moves forward Asteroid to Pass Extremely Close By Earth On Monday Mary Black – A song for Ireland Infrasonic detection of a near-Earth object impact over Indonesia on 8 October 2009 Plans to adjust frequency variations on electric grid could break appliances Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search Micro-camera takes first images of sealed Mayan tomb The shocking true size of our nation’s debt Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism A New Mexico wildfire has prompted the closure of Los Alamos The EPA has given $100M to foreign governments and groups in last decade Idaho could follow Texas in pushing anti-TSA groping bill Ray Lynch – Celestial Soda Pop First photos of the asteroid that buzzed the Earth today TSA ‘ignored warnings’ on radiation dangers Sunspots and the danger of crying wolf Rocket launch on Tuesday at Wallops will be visible for most of Mid-Atlantic Astronauts retreated to Soyuz lifeboats early today as debris zipped 1000 feet past the station Biologist spared jail for grant fraud Texas lawmakers pass watered-down airport groping bill Glenn Beck and his family harassed during outdoor movie night in New York park. Charges against woman videotaping police from her front yard have been dropped VA cemetery director accused of censoring religious speech The Obama administration versus the lumber industry Desert View at the Grand Canyon Tim Pawlenty goes from advocate of global warming to skeptic Wallops launch delayed until Wednesday China buys three Earth observations satellites from UK firm EPA approves 15% ethanol gasoline despite the risk of engine damage AAAS campaigns to stop attacks on global warming advocates Appeals Court in Ohio Upholds Health Law Biosphere 2 gets a new owner and a boost in funding Richard Feynman talks about light Using the law against Hamas and their flotilla allies Stop the Lying Obama and Republicans in agreement: Senate should cancel next week’s vacation NASA Funding Mired In Budget Politics The most distant quasar ever found Obama’s proposal to end the tax break for corporate jet owners would reduce the deficit by less than one-tenth of 1 percent. A massive Windows botnet “almost indestructible,” say researchers Judge orders Obama administration to meet legal timeline for oil and gas leases Man boards flight without a valid passport or ID Congressman Poe calls for the firing of VA cemetery director for denying mourners their 1st amendment rights Discovering the original colors of fossils Another billion in free money for homeowners who can’t pay their mortgage An new Harvard study finds a political congruence between patriotism promoted on Fourth of July and the values associated with the Republican party. Obama administration gave an almost $80,000 grant to the largest branch of a renamed ACORN, despite a Congressional prohibition. Obama’s blast at corporate tax breaks for private jets was created in his stimulus package The Japanese solar sail Ikaros continues to function, more than 100 million miles from Earth Cassini looks past one Saturn moon to another Quebe Sisters – It’s a sin to tell a lie NASA sues Apollo 14 astronaut over camera ownership ‘Dirty hack’ restores Cluster mission from near loss Mysterious Light Burst Captured by Hawaii Telescope Breathtaking view of the central peak of Tycho Crater NJ legislature passes ban on fracking, while NY considers lifting its ban LightSquared report shows widespread GPS interference In a poll Jamaicans overwhelming long for the return of British colonial rule An independent panel of scientists has found that a $1.4 billion plan put forth by environmentalists to save the salmon of the northwest by destroying four hydroelectric dams and restricting water use was based on junk science. Computer chess program stripped of its four titles and its programmer banned Starting in 2014, Obamacare will punish those who work and those who are married Rockfall and avalanche at Mt. Rainier caught on video Everything Bad is Good For You The families of the Challenger astronauts come out in favor of commercial private manned spaceflight World’s longest sea bridge opens in China NASA Foresees 2-Year Final Shuttle Retirement Phase U.S. National Parks’ Cultural and Natural Resources Threatened Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to Chrome, Firefox, others Tim Minchin – Some people have it worse than I More delays for the James Webb Space Telescope? Astronaut Mark Kelly says he won’t run for political office A look inside NASA’s “Skunk Works” The history of the space shuttle in photos Minnesota government shuts down over budget and taxes Schumer confirms White House considering ignoring debt limit Man Who Refused To Hand Over Arrest Video Acquitted A Fourth of July seder July 2, 1776 – The vote for independency Are we finally seeing a sea change in the war between the right and left? Wisconsin union law saves school district Secret Treasure Found in Temple in India Could Be Worth $10 Billion Dawn’s approach to Vesta continues First ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit New Mayor takes office, immediately asks for concessions from the unions the Plight of Muslim Women and the left’s indifference New York City business owners sick over ObamaCare It’s too late to apologize Getting rare-earth elements from ocean floor mud Mining the moon for water and nuclear fuel Launch Complex 37B: Level by Level “The level of enrollment shows they’ve analyzed the problem incorrectly, they don’t have a clue about health care, and they don’t have good solutions.” Republicans May Take ‘Mini’ Debt-Ceiling Deal Texas Court tells Clerk to remove Pledge and Prayer from records; Clerk says Hell No! Hunting meteorites in the medieval Middle East and getting imprisoned because of it Statue honoring Ronald Reagan unveiled in London Messages in a bottle U.S. Space Walk of Fame in Titusville needs volunteers John Adams – the vote Florida divers find new treasure, including emerald ring worth $500,000, from Spanish wreck Global warming scientists blame coal use increase in China for recent cooling More info on that Indian temple treasure trove, now estimated at $22 billion Former NASA administrator frets about future lack of leaders to run small planetary missions Woman thrown off US Airways plane for taking photo of rude employee Questions raised about the safety of China’s new bridge “It sounds as if the package is going to be all spending cuts with a few symbolic revenue increases.” New NOAA commercial fishing regulations favor large businesses, destroy small family-owned operations Prime real estate Hubble Makes its One Millionth Science Observation The launch of China’s first space station module is set for September The wimpy maximum continues The Dam Busters – first dam The wreckage from the March 11 Japanese earthquake and tsunami is expected to reach the U.S. by 2013 Serious coolant leak puts the Subaru Telescope out of commission LightSquared raises new capital as it awaits FCC approval despite evidence it interferes with GPS equipment Auto companies condemn 15% ethanol, say using it will void warranties Cassini captures a truly huge storm on Saturn. House proposes to drop NASA’s budget to 2008 levels, eliminate Webb Telescope House Spending Panel Flatlines NSF Ron Paul calls for the abolition of the TSA Another Iceland volcano appears about to erupt House proposes cutting NOAA by $103 million Why some space junk is impossible to track Pomplamoose – Another day More stupidity from the Center for Biological Diversity Private company hires former NASA engineers and astronauts The billion pixel camera of Gaia The painful transition to private space David Byne – “Don’t Fence Me In” A new image of Vesta from Dawn TSA agent accused of pilfering from passengers Highest Water in a Decade Expected at Lake Powell More evidence the debt crisis is about to go critical Watching the last shuttle launch on your computer Where to find life in the Milky Way galaxy The Senate canceled its July 4th Break to deal with the debt and literally did nothing The last space shuttle has reached orbit Obama’s Stimulus Waste: $7 million per House on Internet Access More evidence dinosaurs were warm-blooded Washington’s Never-Ending Scam of Fake Spending Cuts The government’s war on cameras and free speech Thomas Dolby’s “She blinded me with science” as performed by the Muppets NASA continues to stall on heavy-lift rocket Carp Attack Mount Etna eruption closes airports and causes clocks to run 15 minutes fast A senator’s flying violation causes him to introduce legislation to change FAA The space shuttle docks with ISS, for the last time Confessions of a moon rock thief Bill would let federal health researchers ban certain chemicals Kate Bush – Running up that hill TSA agents pat down 6-year-old twice Standing up for your rights with the police when they ask for id Ethane lakes in a red haze: Titan’s uncanny moonscape “We’re building spacecraft, not bizjets.” Global warming — or not Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean 3D printing First International Planetary Caves Workshop Shuttle mission extended one day House Budget Bill Would Leave it to NASA To Apportion Bulks of Cuts “Some of them seem to believe that the government can simply keep spending beyond its means forever with no negative consequences.” Obama administration imposes new gun regulations, NRA will sue The First Rule of Liberalism: Government failure always justifies more government. Public debt and the peril of Obamacare wings in space Gore Announces New Campaign and Worldwide Event to Re-energize Global Warming Hysteria Neptune Completes Its First Circuit Around The Sun Since Its Discovery House spending panel cuts John Holdren’s science office budget by 55% Skeleton May Help Solve Mystery of Doomed Franklin Expedition Arab journalists demand the blacklisting of a Israeli journalist The TS&A The competing extinction theories battle it out China launched second data relay satellite, expanding space communications network before first docking attempt SpaceX about to break ground on launchpad and hanger for Falcon Heavy Dawn nears Vesta Jailbreak White dwarf stars in a dance of death Second ARTEMIS space probe about to enter lunar orbit NASA awards a key piece of ISS management to Florida NASA stalls, Texas lawmakers fume Astronomers have found two new brown dwarf stars only 15 and 18 light years away Being tone deaf is not a good way to fund a government space program Long, cramped road trips ahead for US astronauts Another fuzzy Dawn image? Base jumping with a wingsuit Bad news for climate modelers Cats cause global warming US might lose its top credit rating even if debt limit agreement is reached Police close girls’ lemonade stand SpaceX has broken ground on its Falcon Heavy launch site Environmental terrorists destroy genetically modified test plots of wheat and potatoes Lost for 87 years, the Bornean rainbow toad has been rediscovered New Jersey Township threatens to fine diner owner if he doesn’t remove American flag banners Bill Nye the Science Guy explains caves “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.” Obama Administration granted 39 new waivers last month from Obamacare, bringing the total to just shy of 1,500 Eric Idle – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Wither the Arctic Icecap? “Re-election is the farthest thing from my mind.” Colorado woman who refused TSA groping accused of groping TSA agent Dawn enters orbit around Vesta Nearly one-fourth of the people polled asserted that they would give up sex if it meant that they could avoid a PowerPoint presentation. Connie Dover – No come again The U.S. and the rising Russian space program Obama’s National Relations Labor Board prosecutes a dead person for not responding Why Hasn’t The Earth Warmed In Nearly 15 Years? NASA to announce on Friday the landing site of Curiousity, the next Mars rover Ten signs that Americans have begun freaking out about the state of the economy Vesta, sharp and clear More than 400 companies in the medical industry are demanding repeal of excise tax imposed by Obamacare Russia vows not to exploit manned space flight monopoly Fry and Laurie – Tricky Linguistics Japanese tsunami set record at 132.5 feet high The space shuttle has undocked from the space station for the last time The dying NASA astrophysics program Opportunity’s journey on Mars tops 20 miles Grand Canyon Flash Flood All charges dropped on woman who groped a TSA agent The Republican-controlled House today passed legislation raising the debt ceiling and cutting federal spending by $6 trillion Hubble has discovered a fourth moon orbiting Pluto Triumph and tragedy: 30 years of the Space Shuttle A flag in the dust Obama plans birthday bash costing almost $40k per ticket on default day Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society’s Moral Character NYU Professor Catches 20% Of His Students Cheating, and the school punishes him for it Hoyer says Balanced Budget Amendment would “Make it virtually impossible to raise” taxes Planning dates set for first Dragon cargo mission to ISS Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears A new study finds that just looking at the American flag makes one more prone to support the Republican Party The sun, climate change, and censorship Private sector job creation stopped almost instantly after Obamacare passed The shuttle Atlantis has landed, ending the shuttle program Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs” Perry and other lawmakers blast Obama over shuttle retirement A new image from Dawn The journal Science finally admits things have not gotten warmer in the past decade The budget battle over resuming production of nuclear fuel for unmanned space missions heats up New Taurus II/Cygnus launch schedule announced The next Mars rover will land at Gale Crater The Democrats in the Senate reject the House Republican debt ceiling plan The universe’s oldest water In color from Mercury The fourth video showing Medicare fraud released A good summary of the present American manned space situation More on the Taurus 2/Cygnus schedule A massive meteorite found in China Boehner ends negotiations with Obama NASA changes its contract arranged for commercial space Hiking the Subway in Zion National Park Four Democrat Votes Away From Ending Debt Crisis Public test of privately built moon lander delayed by gyro An Obamacare provision appears to force middle-class families to either buy unaffordable healthcare or pay a penalty “This is Obama at his most sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant.” FAA goes into a partial shutdown and nobody notices. Or they do, because they pay less in taxes! Quadriga Consort — Cliffs of Dooneen The Russian orbiting radio telescope has unfurled its 10 meter dish The emptiness of the Democratic debt ceiling “plans” Junk journalism Candid Camera demonstrates the power of conformity “With the Obama administration, it just seems to be relentless.” Opportunity closes in on Endeavour Crater Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications Did Obama refuse a bipartisan deal on the debt ceiling? CERN collider sees tantalizing hint of Higgs particle Thank the Gods for Climategate China readies its first space station Driving cross country in four minutes Volcanoes on the far side of the moon The periodic table of irrational nonsense Enceladus rains water onto Saturn A conservative sensitivity class for liberals. Mom faces prison for jaywalking during drunk hit-and-run that killed son while the drunk driver only served 6 months Conservatives bridle at trillions in ‘phony’ cuts Baby Talk Downgrade could come as soon as Friday Some background on Rick Perry Better constants in science Conservative revolt in the House over GOP plan The Muppets – Movin’ right along The next Jupiter probe heads to the launchpad White House Wants To Close NASA Data Centers ISS partners discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for missions beyond low Earth orbit. What Democrats did wrong on the debt ceiling in 2010 Texas Lawmaker Calls for Probe Into Ban of Prayers at Military Funerals ISS to be deorbited in 2020 A look at the Chinese space program Why the Republicans revolted against their own leader’s proposed debt ceiling plan we have no option but to have the Zionist regime wiped off the map. the single most expensive environmental regulation in U.S. history One in eight small businesses have stopped providing health insurance since Obamacare was passed Jaywalking mom gets probation but opts for new trial Connie Dover – Where shall I go? Astronomers identify Earth’s first Trojan asteroid Two NASA managers take jobs at RPI New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism What should spaceships look like? Senate Issues Subpoena to NASA for SLS Materials U.S. will pay for half of all health care costs by 2020 Those Dancing Days – Home Sweet Home A dark and stormy night, 2011 Opportunity is now about 1500 feet from the rim of Endeavour Crater The Painted Desert of Mars Tiangong-1 is not a space station hub A problem like Pelosi 3-D Printer Passes Zero Gravity Test to Make Space Tools Summer break for testing of SpaceShipTwo Tea Party Members ‘Bloody and Beaten,’ But Still in ‘No’ Column Busting Posse Comitatus The GOP is putting “a gun to the head of 310 million people” How High Would Taxes Have to Be to Close the Budget Gap This Year? Moving Graffiti Senate kills Boehner debt ceiling plan Could weird lunar crater be the crash site for Lunar Orbiter 2? Senate Republicans reject Reid debt limit plan John Marburger: The passing of a scientific gentleman Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer live in Central Park Has DB Cooper been nabbed at last? Outlines of debt ceiling deal leaked to press 10 years after concealed weapons law, the fearful claims of opponents turn out false The story of Hayabusa inspires three major movie releases Catherine Destivelle – solo climb in Mali How the end of NASA affects national security A day in the life of a gun owner Why Obama should be re-elected Reactions to the debt deal: almost all unhappy Six of the most ridiculous scientific studies ever commissioned Guess what happened to that Obama recovery? Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check from lawyers Dawn begins science operations in orbit around Vesta Oxygen molecules detected in star-forming region Tea Partiers like “terrorists.” Judy Garland – Pretty girl milking her cow The state of the new commercial manned space efforts The drought has uncovered a possible part of shuttle Columbia in Texas lake A look at the more than 450 tourists who have paid a deposit to Virgin Galactic to fly in space Dow dives below 12,000 “To Hell with You People” Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams Lack of U.S. government interest in commercial refueling mission causes problems Getting to know the Atlas 5 Israeli doctors protest their working conditions Did the Earth once have two moons? And did they collide? Downhill mountain biking in southern Utah Cost issues might force Europe to downsize its 2016 Mars mission Two Russians complete spacewalk at ISS Gun groups to sue over new Obama gun regulations in the southwest border states The importance of a large moon to a habitable planet Five insurers cancel their healthcare coverage in Indiana due to Obamacare regulations The Government War On Kid-Run Concession Stands It’s the coverup, not the crime Boeing confirms that it has chosen the Atlas 5 rocket to launch is manned capsule More evidence that there are active flows of water on Mars “Total fear.” Getting closer to Vesta A Bell for Adano A truck 400 feet long with 192 wheels crosses California to Utah Stand by for space weather TSA Confiscates Pregnant Woman’s Insulin, Ice Packs The north pole of Mars in summer The Jupiter probe Juno has lifted off Opportunity now less than 400 feet from the rim of Endeavour Crater John Cleese – How to irritate people by being considerate Cosmonaut Titov becomes the first man to fly in space more than 24 hours New NASA moon rocket could cost $38 billion Virgin Galactic’s suborbital shuttle: Sydney to London in 4 hours A thin belt of antimatter particles enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time. Half of Earth’s Heat from Radioactive Decay Nebraska rare earth mineral discovery to challenge China’s monopoly Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills – Opera parody Harvesting icebergs for water and profit Boeing rolls out 787 Dreamliner after years of delay Hypocrisy, irony, and the New Civility The hockey stick graphs of Obama Life after the downgrade A Department of Innovation logo that can’t work TSA apologizes for confiscating diabetic pregnant woman’s insulin Battle over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver Japan Tsunami Broke Huge Icebergs Off Antarctica Waivermania hits Dept of Education John Sebastian – Darling be home soon Treasury Adds Another $20 Billion In Debt Overnight, Just $160 Billion Below Revised Ceiling Federal payments required by Obamacare understate the cost by as much as $50 billion Endeavour Crater at last! Why the media always gets it wrong about guns Trying to grow arsenic-based life Lying for Politicians Restaurants Brace for Job-Killing Obamacare Regulations Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery Sun unleashes its largest solar flare in years Wisconsin Republicans hold off Democrats in recall elections Kansas becomes the second state to return a large federal grant awarded to them by Obamacare. 2012 is gonna be nasty Bat stowaway forces airplane to return to airport The very slow ramp up to maximum Making hard choices Danielle “ate the sandwich” Anderson – Things we have in common The state of the Himalayan glaciers Astonishing underwater pictures from a maze carved inside a glacier TSA lawyers argued yesterday they did nothing wrong in arresting a protester who removed his shirt and pants at a security checkpoint 500 billion new reasons to repeal Obamacare A government that kills 83% of Obamacare Grants Awarded to States That Supported Obama in 2008 Japan revises its tsunami warning system following March earthquake/tsunami Hubble captures a necklace in space Contact quickly lost during third test flight of hypersonic plane “The left is going to have to compromise and cut some domestic welfare spending, and the right is going to have to compromise and cut some military spending.” Joe Wilson was right when he accused Obama of lying Legal rabbit farm raided and destroyed Ray Lynch – The True Spirit of Mom and Dad Some questions about today’s hypersonic test flight How Iron Age people decorated their homes Who’s the real reporter? The mystery of Vesta’s south pole depression Appeals court rules against Obama healthcare law Fifty years ago tomorrow the Berlin Wall went up Thirty years ago IBM introduced its first pc A living room electon microscope America’s first jet A blank sun during solar maximum St. Olaf Chapel Choir – John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music Russian space chief suggests a shift away from manned space for Russia Saving a failed orbiting satellite with engineering Questions raised about an endangered species listing by EPA According to Russian space officials, the next Soyuz tourist flight will be in 2014 A map of the core region of the Milky Way Linda Ronstadt – Long long time Russians to display new rocket and manned spacecraft at international air show today All systems go on Juno Guns permitted, crimes drop “You may first beat them repeatedly with a tire iron.” Obama’s clash with a Tea party activist during bus tour Strange craters on Vesta Quadriga Consort – Pulling the sea-dulse The search for alien life saved by private donations American manned space: dependent on the Russians in more ways than you think What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn’s moon Titan? Ohio Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union, Police Investigating Two stories about a possible tourist flight around the moon Using a solar sail to deflect an earth-destroying asteroid “He takes more vacations than any human being I’ve ever seen.” Tennessee Woman Told to Remove American Flag Outside Her Optometry Office Another cave found on Mars Hope and Crosby – The Road to Morocco Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea Justice Department has begun an investigation of Standard & Poor Russia has lost contact with a major new telecommunications satellite hours after its launch into orbit Russian company has unveiled its own space hotel The American Eclipse of 2017 Rats didn’t spread the Black Death Citizen Journalism Stops a Liberal media lie In Its Tracks Family of Marine Killed in Arizona SWAT Raid has sued Pima County for $20 Million Town shuts down yard sale of woman trying to raise money for medical expenses A Chinese launch failure today The job boom for government regulators under Obama Government makes a Smartphone app tell outdoor workers it is hot Angst Archeologists reap treasures from a newly-discovered POW camp from the Civil War EPA arbitrarily declares a couple’s property a wetland A reporter finds out the uselessness of Obama’s advice to call the USDA for help Why Americans hate modern economics The Pioneer anomaly is fading Some results from the HTV-2 hypersonic flight Two planes to Martha’s Vineyard The Obama administration has issued more waivers to Obamacare “Freedom Dies With Each Paper Cut” New images from Opportunity Hugh Jackman – O what a beautiful morning 66 Percent of CEOs Plan to Freeze or Downsize Workforce Size A reindeer herder in Russia’s Arctic has stumbled on the pre-historic remains of a baby woolly mammoth Chicago police must pay 330k for killing dog in home raid Did Obamacare cause the economic collapse The real inventor of the telegraph Europe and Russia talk of joint manned mission to Mars Researchers have found what could be the oldest microbial fossils yet, discovered in 3.4-billion-year-old Australian rocks The new commercial space companies question NASA contracting policies Frank Sinatra – High Hopes One man’s response to Obama’s demand that taxes on the rich be raised Social Security disability on verge of insolvency Bringing the Delta 2 back to launch unmanned science probes Early hints of the Higgs boson fade with fresh data. “He’s a moron.” NASA announces awards for three technology demonstration space missions NASA pushes for funds to save the James Webb Space Telescope University shutters manned sub research program after forty years Craters, craters, everywhere FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine Super-Earth spotted on the edge of habitable zone Compliation of news fails 2011 Federal debt increased $4 trillion under Obama, the most under any president Another Al Gore doomsday prediction bites the dust Egyptians Protest Outside Israeli Embassy With Swastika Sign Saying “The Gas Chambers Are Ready” The first earthrise “How dare this lawfare organization use lawfare against our boat.” Crime rate drops in Virginia bars after concealed carry is allowed Bigelow in negotiations to supply privately-built modules to ISS Earthquake in Virginia Blue Origin to do a test flight tomorrow 2010 Hostile Winds Buses vs high speed trains: the buses win NASA’s costs estimates too low for Congress’s heavy-lift rocket Another IPCC prediction fails Budget Office: this year’s deficit to hit $1.28 Trillion Top 10 Most Wonderful Canyons in the World The geology behind the Virginia earthquake of August 23 Progress freighter launch fails Watching a black hole devour a star, 3.9 billion light years away Cops confiscate cameras at Ohio Republican congressman’s town hall Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin The Alarming Significance of Culture Stars as cold as the human body Capturing an asteroid into Earth orbit Many businesses are considering dropping healthcare when Obamacare goes into effect in 2014 The immediate consequences of the Progress freighter failure Divers have recovered the telegraph and some of the steering equipment from the Lusitania, a liner sunk off Ireland by a German submarine in 1915. Astronomers discover planet made of diamond Starbucks CEO calls for business boycott of campaign contributions until debt is solved When dust, pebbles, rocks, and boulders act like liquid Asteroid dust from Hayabusa prove origin of the most common meteorites Preparing for Hurricane Irene The closest supernovae in almost 25 years William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium Police beat and arrest a man for handing out pro-life flyers at a church event The rebellion by the states against Obamacare The government’s war on guitars and musicians Russia plans two unmanned test launches of Soyuz rockets before using them to deliver crews to the ISS NSF hires Russian Icebreaker for Antarctic station Comets Elenin & Garradd Now Showing in Night Sky Sponge in space Both the FAA and European regulators have certified Boeing’s 787 for its first commercial flight Archeologists may have found King Arthur’s round table in Scotland The Mean Kitty Song Massachusetts State Police Shutdown Twelve-Year-Old’s Green Tea Stand The sun, cosmic rays, and the politics of climate change Residents Overturn Township’s Plan for New $1.5 Million Office Gibson guitar Republican donar while its competitor – never raided – donates to Democrats Jetman flight at the Grand Canyon West may 2011 Hunkering down during the hurricane Space station could be abandoned in November Al Gore calls for treating climate skeptics like racists Big Sky Country – A Montana night sky time lapse Power still out An overview of the space war situation by Clark Lindsey New EPA regulations will shut down 8 percent of U.S. power generation capability Russians delay next manned launch to ISS Al Gore and the silencing of debate Alison Krauss and Yo Yo Ma – Slumber my darling A preliminary cause for the Russian launch failure has been found Indiana school vouchers prompt thousands to flee public schools National Labor Relations Board tells a church university it’s not religious If ISS becomes unmanned, the first test of Dragon will also be delayed New San Francisco Bay Bridge nears completion Police confiscate a woman’s legal guns, refuse to return them Ground controllers replace a failed circuit box on ISS, using the robot Dextre More information on why the Soyuz-U rocket failed NASA Names Astrophysics Fellowship For Nancy Roman, one of the key people behind the Hubble Space Telescope Star goes boom, telescopes zoom G-Male by Google Juno looks back and sees the Earth and the Moon 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To Hit The Big Red Panic Button Federal government prosecutes a man for shooting a bear to protect his family The Hubble Space Telescope: Movie camera! Russians are considering reducing their participation in ISS Orbital Sciences gets its launch license for first test of Taurus 2 rocket Phil and John Cunningham plus others The space shuttle program officially ended on Wednesday Adjusting the flight manifest to ISS a Special Space and Aviation Artifacts Auction A new Florida state law will fine local governments for enforcing any local gun restrictions After tax hike Illinois loses more jobs than any other state Wisconsin teachers retire in droves New California law will require workers’ compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for…babysitters Don’t you dare touch my space junk! Judy Collins – Danny Boy British company tests engine of for commercial space plane China delays launch of its first space station Chang’e 2 has reached L2 almost a million miles from Earth NASA to ask future lunar explorers to avoid Apollo landing sites Bo Jackson running Amazon Chief’s Spaceship Misfires The Riddle of Ancient Roman Concrete Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage John Denver – Wild Montana Skies Connie Dover – I am going to the west Japan to ignite engine of failed Venus probe in anticipation of another try at Venus orbit China’s space station will launch in late September Awakening a science satellite dead for decades Some suggestions for keeping ISS occupied New images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon Kepler team pushes for mission extension The uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted Republican in the lead in special congressional election in New York Baby Star Found on Earth’s Doorstep Annie Lennox – Into the West “everything went completely crazy. . . . It turned out it was very, very sensitive to say these things already at that time.” Archeologists have located lost tunnel from the Great Escape POW camp A laser so powerful that astronauts could see it, all for under $300 Sticker shock over Congressionally designed rocket World’s first commercial spaceport almost complete Station astronauts optimistic station will not be evacuated in November Obscure editor resigns from minor journal: why you should care The dangerous environment of space The sun’s weak maximum continues Israel security forces foil multiple terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, arrest dozens of Hamas militants A film about religious tolerance in Indonesia has been pulled from a major TV network after an Islamist group warned the film could trigger nationwide violence. The Moral High Ground The Westerner Nearest supernova in a quarter century now visible with binoculars A Dutch university fires social psychologist over faked data Virgin Galactic hosts an industry day at New Mexico spaceport Gold from space The seven ton climate satellite, UARS, is set to fall to earth sometime in the next month Japan has successfully test fired the engine on Akatsuki Today’s launch of GRAIL has been scrubbed, rescheduled for tomorrow ATK test fires the five segment solid rocket for Ares 1 More Progress freighter crash investigation results The via ferrata in the Italian Dolomites GRAIL launch delayed again until Saturday Senators lambast Administration for SLS budget numbers Newly released data links Saudi family, now living in Saudi Arabia, with 9/11 hijackers The EPA is using taxpayer money to encourage environmentalist groups to sue … the EPA Unknown objects in space New poll shows Republican leading in New York special congressional election TSA using personal medical records to deny Canadians entrance to US Senate approves a flat budget for the Department of Energy Holistic ER ATK and NASA to announce a new commercial space agreement SpaceX Acknowledges Falcon 9 Engine Anomaly Symphony of Science A day to express the value of justice Twin GRAIL gravity probes on the way to the moon $18 billion for one test launch House proposes trimming budget of FAA’s commercial space office Andrews Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B Does Mars’ atmosphere contain methane, and does this suggest life on Mars? A giant storm on a distant star A slew of exoplanets Manfred Mann – Blinded by the Light Speculation on what the ATK/NASA announcement later today will be about How the Palestinian Authority trains children to hate Russia announces October and November dates for next Progress and Soyuz launches NASA and ATK sign new launch development agreement One man’s 9/11 idea to rescue people from high-rise buildings Arrests in union violence in Washington Demi Lovato – Skyscraper Brooklyn goes Republican Astronomers take one last close look at 1999 RQ36 before sending mission there September 11 memorial says nothing about what happened on September 11 NASA to unveil its heavy-lift rocket design The increasing possibility that the Higgs Boson does not exist Washington staffers fear pay cuts, layoffs, loss of perks Jack Benny meets Twilight Zone Senate reinserts money for the James Webb Space Telescope More bad budget reporting Nobel prize winner resigns from the American Physical Society over its support of global warming Private Japanese weather company to launch satellite to track Arctic Ice Virgin Galactic aims for its first launch of SpaceShipTwo within a year Has Dark Matter been detected? The story behind the Italian prosecution of six scientists and one government official over an earthquake prediction Another look at the cost of building NASA’s heavy lift rocket Questions about White House pressure for campaign donor in GPS controversy A planet with two suns “If you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill!” Ponzi! Ponzi! Ponzi! Walking on water Soyuz crew returns safely to Earth, despite radio problems Akatsuki’s engine too damaged to put the probe into Venus orbit in 2015 An ocean inside Pluto? Video from Dawn Koch threatens to campaign against Obama in Florida Poll suggests Feinstein in trouble in California Washington union held in contempt for terminal violence A Smartphone ap to weigh galaxies Bigelow and Boeing do airbag drop tests on Boeing manned capsule Update on the repairs to the Subaru Telescope A Yellow Supergiant Progenitor of a Massive Star Supernova in M51 The reconnaissance satellite Big Bird on display Spelling negus Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy Webb Telescope budget continues to grow UARS to hit Earth in a week Bjork – It’s oh so quiet China launches communications satellite Surviving the end of the shuttle problem: how some companies are doing it Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new taxes Largest dam removal in U.S. history begins in Washington White House Emails Reveal Major Obamacare Accounting Fraud One of the judges who ruled in the Kelo property case has apologized to the owner Another ObamaCare glitch could result in some businesses being exempt from fines for not providing their workers with health insurance. Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle New exoplanets make astronomers long for a telescope to see them WISE telescope raises questions about asteroid that is thought to have killed dinosaurs Times Atlas shows ice free areas of Greenland that are not ice free The Spaceship Company has opened its final assembly factor in Mohave John McDermott – Voyage Senate appropriations committee has capped Webb Telescope budget Muslim students on trial for shouting during Israeli diplomat’s speech Blurred vision a risk for astronauts who spend months in space China to launch unmanned space module Sept. 27-30 NASA astronauts to spend three days underwater XCOR Aerospace and Space Expedition Curacao Sign Contract Europe’s first Mars lander mission threatened by budget woes Bigotry and hate in a Massachusetts University Final preparations begin on the first Soyuz rocket launch from French Guiana A labor strike today has canceled an Ariane 5 rocket launch Farmers flee as Indonesia’s Mount Tambora volcano rumbles Indiana Supreme Court has reaffirmed its earlier ruling saying that citizens have no right to resist a police officer making an illegal entry to their home Senate panel trims NIH budget Clark Jaman – a song from Shakespeare China’s second moon orbiter Chang’e-2 sends data from a million miles away Air Force official suggests they would be willing to sacrifice the X-37 in budget negotiations UARS crash prediction Police give ticket to citizen for directing traffic Starting in December all GM cars with OnStar will record all data unless owners opt out WikiLeaks chief memoir published, against his will New survey shows employers will drop coverage under Obamacare Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – Follow the Fleet Proposed changes in hardware specifications may make it impossible to run free operating systems such as Linux on computers. With the Kyoto treaty expiring in 2012, Australia and Norway propose extending it until 2015 House unexpectedly defeats spending bill Philadelphia City Council looks to regulate satellite dish placement A new poll shows black support for Obama slipping The rover Opportunity as seen from Mars orbit Archaeologists uncover evidence of large ancient shipyard near Rome UARS re-entry update I could hear Andrey saying it was like an American amusement park High school student suspended for saying “I’m a Christian. I think being a homosexual is wrong.” Lost Arkansas moon rock found among Governor Bill Clinton archives a new study shows that 790,000 Ohioans will lose their private health insurance and premiums will rise 55%-85% when Obamacare takes full effect in 2014 An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light Times Atlas has backed down on its Greenland map and issued an apology Moody Blues – Forever Autumn Astronomers argue about the legitimacy of the first exoplanet to be directly imaged The first global map of the ocean’s saltiness Couple hit with fines for holding a Bible study in their home A second large satellite will rain debris down in October Update on UARS reentry Senate rejects House funding bill; shutdown looms Monty Python – The Cheese Shop sketch UARS crash updated Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns Obamacare rule demands all medical records be made available to the federal government Muslim students found guilty of conspiring to disrupt Israeli ambassador meeting Another UARS update FCC: Your Internet belongs to us UARS falls in ocean Obama’s EPA To Shut Down 20% of Coal Plants in 2012 New York Mets – September 24, 1969 Sea Launch returns to flight Cats – Gus the theater cat Faster than light? EPA admits regulating CO2 is impossible; will go ahead anyway Obama: “You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change.” Petition to repeal Obamacare on White House website Senate agrees to short term budget deal Pu’u Kalena on Oahu Video from inside the Washington Monument during the August 23, 2011 5.8 magnitude earthquake Iran just months from completing its first nuclear bomb Doctors rejecting the AMA over its support of Obamacare Veterans Administration Settles with Veteran’s Groups at Houston National Cemetery Anthropologists have uncovered what appears to be the first and only evidence of preserved flesh from an early pre-human ancestor nearly 2 million years old No House Democrat will sponsor Obama’s job bill, preventing it from being introduced A visual tour of Boeing’s new 787 Russians still oppose allowing Dragon to berth with ISS on its January test flight Virtual monkeys typing Shakespeare Sunspot 1302 Continues to Turn Toward Earth Democratic governor suggests the next Congressional election should be suspended Obamacare sent health premiums up 9% Loreena McKennitt – The Stolen Child Facing possible inquiry, OnStar drops ‘Big Brother’ plans Christian pastor in Iran has been ordered to recant his faith in court or face execution The Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy Might Be Illusions NASA science administrator Ed Weiler is retiring after 33 years Orbital Sciences has launch success NASA proposes major reconstruction of its launch facility at the Kennedy Space Center The coming blindness of astronomy A new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General has said that EPA violated its own peer review process in determining that greenhouse gases endanger “the public health and welfare.” Energy Department approves $737 million solar loan guarantee Exploring an abandoned mine in Nevada Fueling has begun for today’s launch of China’s first space station module SpaceX suspends production of its Falcon 1 rocket New York’s plans for shuttle display very unsettled Rather than follow through on $200 billion of cuts proposed by GAO, the Senate cuts GAO China’s first space lab module Tiangong-1 blasts off “A Soviet-style power grab.” “You’re not coming in this house without a warrant.” Mercury is weirder than scientists thought. Tiangong 1 reaches orbit NASA has identified ninety percent of the largest near-Earth asteroids House proposes a budget increase for NIH Yanni – Nostalgia China uses “America the Beautiful” as background music for animation of Tiangong 1 launch Bigelow lays off half its workforce Reality always wins Orbital Sciences restarts engine testing for its Taurus 2 rocket Scientists push for monitoring network to collect environmental and socioeconomic data from around the world Bigelow lays off half its workforce Mars atmosphere has more water vapor than predicted Autumn Story – chalkboard animation NASA now claims it can launch a manned mission to lunar orbit by 2019 Obama administration considering eliminating the ATF An engineer’s take on Elon Musk’s proposal to make Falcon 9 reusable Hope and Crosby – The Road to Zanzibar Verizon sues to overturn FCC’s attempt to regulate the internet American scientist trapped in China Texas Congressmen try again to grab shuttle from New York Five myths about China’s space effort Science, Lies, and Videotape A Rational Fear of Islamism Russia launches its first Soyuz rocket since the failure in August Santa Catalina Mountains – hike to Romero Pools Arctic ozone loss at record level Scientist proposes that the superluminal neutrinos are merely measuring the true speed of light Test flights of SpaceShipTwo resume The world’s largest radio telescope has opened its eyes The red cliffs of Mars Dawn begins close-up orbit observations The strange hollows on the mountain tops of Mercury The Obama administration by the numbers An update on the ongoing X-37B mission For an extraterrestrial skiing experience, Enceladus is the place to go. Shawn Colvin – I don’t know why The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded A Virgin Galactic customer gets a refund NASA awards $1.35M to creators after their electric plane flies 200 miles Crime rates plummet in Chicago and Washington after gun laws were ruled unconstitutional A global map of Titan, in color The Ten Tenors – Bohemian Rhapsody Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Researcher Fired Amidst New Controversy A new Arianespace rocket Judge rules that NASA has the right to sue for camera given to former astronaut CBS News Reporter Says White House Screamed, Swore at Her Over allowing thousands of guns to illegally go to Mexico The Taj Mahal in danger of collapse A summary of Messenger’s first six months in orbit around Mercury The sun’s activity goes boom Aden Meinel, astronomer and innovator, has passed away Want to become an astronaut? NASA insists you speak Russian Beethoven — second movement, Fifth Symphony, performed by NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini Astronomers have found a dozen supernovae taking place closer to the Big Bang than ever detected. Water from comets Steve Jobs has passed away “A good scientist is a humble and listening scientist and not one that is sure 100 percent in what he read in the textbooks.” 1.6 million hand-signed petitions handed to Congress demanding Obamacare be repealed before it can be fully implemented Tracing the Canals of Mars Venus has an ozone layer too More on making the X-37B an ISS supply and crew ferry Neil Diamond – Coming to America Astronauts on ISS conduct eye exams in connection with recent eye problems caused by long term weightlessness A shutdown of a satellite today cut communications in Canada for thousands The first “basic essential health package,” as determined by the federal government under Obamacare, were released today. Pat Condell: The great Palestinian lie The moon contains a vast resource of titanium Russia drops plans to build a replacement for Soyuz rocket If all goes well, 2012 will be a busy year at ISS for both Dragon and Cygnus Fighting forest fires, with water balloons Five truths about climate change Anik F2 communications satellite back in operation Russia puts off building space lab Internal NASA documents portray a dysfunctional, political agency Obama Supporters Crash St. Louis Tea Party – Call Black Candidate “Ni**er”, “Uncle Tom”, Cuss In Front of Children For the third year in a row the federal government runs a deficit exceeding $1.3 billion Chain reaction The new hockey stick The Wave in the Paria Vanyon Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Arizona Eco-friendly festival closes down due to lack of attendence Richard Kiley – The Impossible Dream How to build a Soyuz A new report has found that Big Ben in London is leaning just under a half a meter off the perpendicular Getting to the right orbit, the hard way Britain faces a mini-ice age. Louisiana Man Wins $1.7 Million From EPA For Malicious Prosecution New cave discoveries in the western Caucasus of Russia I am going to the west The story of Columbus’s voyage, in Lego animation Rough Terrain The remaining assets of Rocketplane Kistler are to be auctioned off November 11 The strange rubbing boulders of Chile Climategaters running a science session at geology conference The space police of Baikonur London to Tokyo in 90 minutes, via space No Jews allowed at Jewish holy site in Egypt An update on the launchpad work for the first test flight of Taurus 2 Finding out if neutrinos actually can move faster than light. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Red Clay Halo Gilad Shalit freed: Israel agrees to swap a thousand Palestinian prisoners for him The Democratic Senate rejects Obama’s jobs plan A UN report says that nearly one billion people are hungry because of biofuels such as ethanol from corn Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser to get its first test flight in the summer of 2012 A giant lava basin on Mars appears to have instead once been a lake of water ROSAT predicted to re-enter the atmosphere October 20 to October 25 India puts four satellites in orbit with one rocket Space News suggests Congress use the billions for NASA’s heavy-lift rocket to fund JWST Placido Domingo – Furusato (My Country Home) Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . . Amateur astronomers discover near Earth asteroid An archeology discovery in Africa suggests that Stone Age humans had an understanding of basic chemistry Robot Gas Attendants Could Keep Old Satellites Chugging Twenty-three Indian Ocean nations test their own tsumani warning system The man who created Unix, Dennis Richie, has died Europe has invited Russia to join the US/ESA ExoMars mission as full partner The scattered remains of Comet Elenin will pass the Earth on Sunday, 22 million miles away Ancient Greek ships shipped more than just wine Obama administration has pulled the plug on one part of Obamacare after admiting it cannot work The Look of Love NASA contracts two research flights using Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman – Time To Say Goodbye The designer of spy satellite finally reveals his life’s work Three Redneck Tenors – Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony North Cliffs collapse in Cornwall More details about SpaceShipTwo’s last test flight Gilad Shalit released for 1000 Palestinians Russians look at lunar caves for their lunar bases Russians plan to stick with ISS through 2028. Gerry & The Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey “After completing this study, we know less about dark matter than we did before.” GAO and SpaceX blast military’s plans to spend $15 billion for all its launches through 2018 in one purchase How NASA’s bureaucracy intends to maintain control over space exploration Boeing’s private space capsule passes its wind tunnel tests Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Home Astronomers snap a picture of a exoplanet as cool as the Earth First Soyuz rocket launch from South America scrubbed Elon Musk and the forgotten word NASA has given its okay to SpaceX’s Dragon abort system design Delays in prepping the launchpad force Orbital to delay the first test flight of its Taurus 2 rocket A baby star surrounded by “oceans of water” Beauty and the Beast – Tale as Old as Time An independent study of climate suggests the climate has warmed 0.9 degrees Celsius since 1950 A successful first launch of a Russian rocket outside of the old Soviet Union Orbital Sciences had its profits rise in the third quarter of 2011 World on fire Orbital announces revised schedule for its initial Taurus 2 and Cygnus flights House Panel Lays Out Spending Preferences for science programs Having topped 21 miles on its odometer, Opportunity is beginning its preparation for another winter on Mars NASA satellite falls on car The Republican presidential candidate we’ve all been waiting for Six northeast senators introduce legislation making it a felony to sell fake maple syrup ROSAT expected to fall to Earth this weekend More money troubles for Webb telescope Plagiarism at Politico Kate Rusby – Let me be ROSAT has crashed to Earth, but no one knows where as yet NASA negotiating an extension of its deal with the Russians to fly astronauts to ISS NASA Is Considering Fuel Depots in the Skies Round house in Brazil The highest balloon airship in the world Tea Party in Space argues for more money for commercial space NASA steals moon rock given to widow of NASA engineer Living in the Heavenly Palace VAB to be opened to tourists for the first time in years Ultimate caption fail Eradicating polio: not this year The Hastings College Choir – Home on the Range Russia’s next attempt to return to Mars is set for a November 9 launch Comet Elenin is no more Has dark matter been identified? NASA has ended its underwater mission early due to an approaching hurricane The battle in Congress of the EPA’s effort to regulate dust The cause of white nose, the killer of bats Eris, twin of Pluto Britain’s Royal Society has made its archive freely accessible online Virgin Galactic has hired its first astronaut pilot Catching an avalanche on Mars, as it happens Doubts on Display from Congress during hearing on Private Space A really big Tesla coil An international research team has diagnosed the oldest known case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt and the second oldest case in the world. According to Zubrin, Obama about to terminate all NASA science A Random Collection Of Awesome Things We are Now Enemies of the State Dismantling the last U.S. hydrogen bomb House votes to restrict healthcare law, with White House support “It’s not a rubble pile, it’s a solid block of rock.” Two hacker attacks of American climate satellites in the past four years The Grateful Dead – Mountains of the Moon Obama Administration Pushing for Solar Projects on Public Lands The race to mine the Moon Astronomers have proposed that the cloud of dust that surrounds about 50% of the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies comes from destroyed planets NASA Inspector General Paul Martin Is Not Going to Comment About An Abused Elderly Woman in Botched Moon Rock Sting LHC’s first year’s hunt for the Higgs is ending Chile’s powerful Cerro Hudson volcano is threatening to erupt Automakers are developing technology to let cars drive themselves US debt to surpass GDP on Halloween Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (mountains beyond mountains) Progress freighter undocks from ISS Mars500 crew prepare to open the hatch Apollo astronaut has been forced to return camera to NASA A giant sequoia has fallen in Giant Sequoia National Monument in California Humans do it quickly Explorers appear to have found the wrecks from Sir Francis Drake’s last voyage The Beatles performing Shakespeare Russians successfully put Progress freighter into orbit Another global warming scientist is accused of hiding the decline Herman Cain speaks out about NASA and space They should Occupy Prison Shirley Bassey – Two songs The long minimum continues Boeing leases shuttle hanger from NASA for its CST-100 manned ferry operations The Haunting China launches unmanned spacecraft to do a rendezvous and docking test with its first space station Kepler scientists propose extending the space telescope’s mission An investigation has concluded that a fired Dutch researcher falsified data on dozens of papers Appropriations bill promising $1 billion cut will increase spending by more than $9 billion according to one senator The Piano Wildlife Biologist Found Guilty of Attempting to Poison Feral Cats A series of technical problems have forced engineers to temporarily halt science operations on Mars Express Senate approves NASA budget The Viking Sunstone Revealed? Excalibur Almaz joins commercial crew program Three giant ground telescopes fight for funding Astronomers prepare for an asteroid fly-by on November 8, using the Earth as the spacecraft Progress freighter has docked at ISS The offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s issue. China has successfully done its first docking in space A National Research Council panel today proposed creating a massive data network using the private health records of patients. TSA and federal government ignored cancer concerns associated with airport X-ray scanners Gene Pitney – Looking Through The Eyes Of Love “Unfortunately, it’s worse than it looks.” White House officials held talks with China over technology, despite a law banning such talks Sailing to Mars General Electric, whose CEO is a strong Obama backer, gets no flack from the NLRB for building an aircraft factory in a right-to-work state. A new study has been released detailing the vision problems experienced by astronauts on space flights longer than six months Finding ET by looking for their city lights The global output of atmospheric carbon dioxide jumped in 2010 by the biggest amount on record, according to the U.S. Department of Energy For the first time in a half-century, Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell real estate openly The Obama administration has failed to meet more than half the deadlines in its own healthcare law The largest sunspot in years appears on the sun Robot obstacle course A NASA senior review of all planetary missions? The Mars rover Opportunity has spotted a geological formation not previously seen anywhere on Mars. Vintage leather football helmets are often as protective as modern hard football helmets The 520-day simulated mission to Mars has been completed Get ready for another government shutdown battle Russia heads for Mars The first in orbit tests of Robonaut halted because the robot did not carry out its commands as expected. Occupying vs. Tea Partying Brian Malow – Nobel, Edison & the Speed of Light The largest sunspot in years released the largest flare in years on Thursday An inside look at NASA bureaucratic madness Iranian officials have been pressuring a jailed pastor to return to Islam as he waits for the nation’s supreme leader to decide whether he should be executed for converting to Christianity Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly Rather than gliding, the first flying bats used their wings to flutter down on their prey Finally some substance in the Presidential campaign An international team of astronauts recently completed a six day underground cave mission A fragment of human jaw unearthed in a prehistoric cave in Torquay is the earliest evidence of modern humans in north-west Europe Sports images of the 20th century Federal agency has ruled that thousands of lakefront homes in Missouri must be removed, despite being built legally and having been in place for decades Watch asteroid 2005 YU buzz the Earth tomorrow with your backyard telescope Before and after pictures in Japan, six months after the March 11 tsunami New conservative website: Not Mitt Romney A breathtaking view of the Apollo 15 landing site NASA’s Deep Space Network has captured a radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 Judi Dench – Send in the Clowns DARPA has launched a program to use airplanes as the launchpad for putting satellites in orbit We’re still not cutting A gallery of Occupy Wall Street hatred NASA moves first flight test of Orion capsule up three years to 2014 Mars Express takes a close look at the Mars volcano Tharsis Tholus Scientists are considering breaking free from the solar year in how they synchronous their atomic clocks Jibjab – Time for some campaigning Phobos-Grunt appears to be in trouble in Earth orbit A fired up Sun More info on the failure of Phobos-Grunt Russia has two weeks to save Phobos-Grunt Escape from Berlin NASA successfully test-fired today the upper stage engine of its heavy-lift rocket Lightning! No, TSA, I will not lift my skirt for you. Taming lightning Disgraced Dutch Pyschologist Returns Doctoral Degree The New Madrid fault might be turning off Violence and hatred in the Occupy “Whatever” movement How much does the internet weigh? NASA picks the Delta 4 Heavy to launch Orion into orbit on its first test flight Man shot and killed “near” Occupy Oakland camp It looks bad for Phobos-Grunt New data suggests that the asteroid Lutetia is a Rare Survivor from the Birth of the Earth Astronomers find clouds of primordial gas from the early universe The fastest spinning normal star Supercommittee to the rescue Are cows magnetic? Fired Penn State president had a habit of squelching embarassing investigations The manufacturer of artificial hips and knees will cut its workforce by five percent next year to reduce costs in the face of new fees required by Obamacare New data says scientists must look underground for life on Mars Supernova may have kicked off solar system Toxic Russian Mars probe aims for Earth From Here to Eternity – Reverly Scientists have released a new 28 frame movie of asteroid 2005 YU55 A millionaire has purchased two tickets on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and is looking for a woman to join him Gallup reports that since Obamacare became law 4.5 million Americans have lost their employer sponsored health insurance. Mary Black – The Moon And St.Christopher The environmental regulations or actions of the Obama administration has destroyed more than 2.6 million jobs First manned Soyuz launch set for Sunday night NASA halting work on its J-2X rocket engine Occupy Portland protesters prepare to confront police Deborah Harry – The Tide is High Police clear out Occupy protesters in Portland, arresting fifty Soyuz rocket successfully launches three astronauts into orbit A first glimpse inside Fukushima since the March 11 earthquake Scheduling the next Dragon flight, the first to dock with ISS Russian space agency head says there is still a chance to save Phobos-Grunt A Singaporean businessman, his wife and two children have paid $1 million to become the first Asian family to fly together on SpaceShipTwo The Chinese have completed a second docking at their space station The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the challenge to Obamacare during this term NASA, the federal budget, and common sense Shifou Mountain Footpath Construction Voyager 2 has switched to backup thrusters in an effort to extend the spacecraft’s life Gold plated interstellar clouds, sprayed by supernovae NASA budget compromise The Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere Bronze artifact found in Alaska NASA extends Messenger mission at Mercury one year Firing Incompetent Employees ‘Would Harm The Agency’s Work,’ SEC Chief Says The Wisconsin doctors who issued fake sick notes during the protests earlier this year will face the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board on Wednesday Government inspector forces private citizens in a private house to pour bleach on home-grown food Congress has slashed the budget of John Holdren’s White House Science Office Ray Lynch – The Vanished Gardens of Cordoba The Winds of Mars Is Newt Gingrich America’s Churchill? Another ObamaCare Glitch Soyuz capsule had docked with ISS Curing cancer using DNA and drugs Is shooting down Phobos-Grunt an option? Obama administration pushes to limit gun use on pubic lands Scientists have found evidence of a great lake below the surface of Europa Testimony at a House hearing yesterday suggests OMB plans to end NASA’s planetary program are true The Arrogant Worms – Rocks and Trees Obamacare threatens to cripple the American medical device industry Shenzhou 8 has returned successfully to Earth after completing its docking and rendezvous mission with China’s first space station Daffy Duck – The Great Piggy Bank Robbery The giant storm on Saturn An analysis of the sun’s past solar cycles suggests that the sun might not be going into a prolonged minimum The CERN experiment that appeared to see faster-than-light neutrinos has repeated its results, except that not everyone on the team agrees Shenzhou for Dummies Ninja Cat light posting European Union bureaucrats forbid bottled water companies from advertising that their product prevents dehydration Charles Laughton – The Gettysburg Address from Ruggles of Red Gap Canada is about to repeal its oppressive hate law An engineering prize to rival the Nobel Some historical context in discussing the federal debt Occupy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel BLM backs off its attempt to ban shooting on public lands FBI statistics show an increase in anti-semitism, not islamophobia Uncertainty rules the day The Moody Blues – I´m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band) The hunt for the “God Particle” enters the final stretch A 70-million-year-old nest of fifteen baby dinosaurs has been found James Hansen and the corruption of science The case against SpaceX NASA’s next chief scientist: an former astronaut The man behind the cameras on Mars The Pilgrims arrive in New England Soyuz with three astronauts undocks from ISS Japanese engineers aim Akatsuki for a second attempt at orbiting Venus in 2015 Figuring out the diet of an extinct lion subspecies Supercommittee gives up Russian Soyuz capsule lands safely with three astronauts Russia is considering shifting its planetary research from Mars to the Moon, following the failure of Phobos-Grunt You see, they aren’t really cuts; they are a slowdown in the budget increases. A new batch of hacked climategate emails have been released Climategate 2 ‘Perfect black’ coating can render a 3D object flat, raises intriguing dark veil possibility in astronomy An especially dark and pessimistic interpretation of Obama Space Show 2011 fundraising campaign The Kennedy assassination Debris from destroyed satellite may force ISS astronauts to take shelter A team of Italian scientists have reviewed the earlier faster-than-light neutrino results and have rejected them. Illegal immigrants from Mexico are believed responsible for more than one-third of human-ignited wildfires in Arizona since 2006 Rest in Peace: Anne McCaffrey, 85 An ESA tracking station in Australia has made contact with Phobos-Grunt Training space tourists for their suborbital flight India pushes for a sharing of intellectual property rights at Durban climate talks Violence and oppression from the left ESA antenna contacts Phobos-Grunt again, this time downloading telemetry data Four times a year 80 Chinese children walk to school by scaling 1000 ft cliffs and fording swollen rivers This time the turkey wins An update on the efforts to save Phobos-Grunt Evidence from a cave in Australia suggests that humans were doing deep sea fishing more than 40,000 years ago Gingrich’s presidential campaign has gotten him no endorsements from Republican lawmakers George Winston – Thanksgiving ESA tracking station loses contact with Phobos-Grunt A preview of the new Mars unmanned rover Curiousity, set for launch on Saturday The best research paper abstract, evar! One scientist’s perspective on the new Climategate emails A very compelling case for life Another carbon trading scheme is failing, this time in Alberta Canada New data suggests the global climate is not as sensitive to changes in carbon dioxide as predicted by past climate models Einstein explains E=mc² Building Boeing’s CST-100 manned capsule, the smart way SpaceX is expanding its Florida operations “Perpetuating rubbish”: a detailed analysis of one part of the new climategate emails The ozone hole, in context Now the European carbon market is crashing Curiousity has launched Memo to the Occupy protesters: Ten things we evil capitalists really think Before Thanksgiving, the big holiday this week was Evacuation Day David Lanz and Paul Speer – Behind the waterfall/Desert rain medley Russian President Dmitry Medvedev raised the prospect of criminal prosecution for recent space failures Obama nixes UN $100 billion climate fund ‘Jet Man’ Flies In Formation Over Swiss Alps Occupy Wall Street protester arrested for threatening to kill the Republican governor of South Carolina A searchable database of the climategate emails Newt Gingrich snags top New Hampshire newspaper endorsement Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton – Can’t Find My Way Home How Richard Branson started Virgin Atlantic Shilling for climate cash Scientists have figured out how to make the perfect foam Why Climategate 2 is important: a close look at a full email thread, and how it tried to squelch knowledge Airport worker fired for standing up to abuse by Muslim employees Further analysis of the climategate 2 emails: Hiding the decline by Michael Mann Senate bill would allow the military to arrest and hold US citizens at home or abroad indefinitely Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party complained about the city government’s double standard about protests and demanded a refund for its costs, they received a letter that they are being audited. The New York Times and the BBC: Global warming activists Michael Crawford – The Music of the Night “What the hell are we paying you for?” American Airlines files for bankruptcy The astronomical logbooks of David H. Levy, now online Lame-duck Barney Frank joins effort to repeal Obamacare “death panels” The landing date of the X-37B remains a mystery, even as it nears a record mission length The 1960s space race: The US orbits its first living animal, Enos the chimpanzee Outcry over possible cuts to the European Union’s science budget Senate passes bill allowing military to hold US citizens indefinitely, even within the US borders New discoveries at Stonehenge are suggesting the site is far older than previously believed Nanosail-D has sailed home, burning up in the atmosphere on September 17 An ISS status report confirms that NASA has combined the next two Dragon test missions into one flight Video: The competing worldviews of the Tea Party and OWS Pictures of London’s Tower Bridge, taken during construction in the 1890s, discovered Despite earmark ban, some lawmakers continue to try to give money to hundreds of pet projects Canada has joined the United States in raising objections to a planned $100-billion a year climate fund Signals transmitted to Phobos-Grunt this week have failed to raise its orbit Some further information on the flight of the X-37B What Do Democrats Really Stand For Today? The collapse of the solar power industry How a Chinese cave got listed on the U.S. stock market Weather, not climate A new Rasmussen national poll: Gingrich 45% Obama 43% The first observations of a star, just prior to going supernova New evidence suggests the Earth’s early atmosphere was not what scientists have up-to-now expected Uncovering China’s vast network of nuclear weapon tunnels Boeing and union settle NLRB suit over South Carolina plant NASA confiscates stolen rocket engine that had been put up for sale on ebay “Can we go again?” German authorities ask 45,000 people to evacuate their town this weekend while bomb experts defuse a just discovered World War II bomb The meltdown at Fukushima in Japan came within a foot of breaching the reactor Over-the-counter osteoporosis drug appears to keep astronauts from losing bone density on long space flights Diederik Stapel, the Dutch social psychologist who admitted to faking data in numerous published papers, has retracted his first paper Strange red galaxies What Tim Tebow Can’t Do NORAD is ready to track Santa’s flight More budget battles in Europe over $16 billion fusion reactor project Dawn soars over Vesta in 3D Fleetwood Mac – Albatross Mitt vs. Newt Mountains and buried ice on Mars A crab that grows its own food The Eiffel Tower could be transformed into a giant green “jungle” covered in 600,000 plants as part of an environmental scheme. Europe has ceased its effort to contact Phobos-Grunt Mysterious Metal Object Crashes Through Roof of Warehouse How to build a washing machine for interplanetary travel Teenager forced to miss flight because the TSA was terrified of the gun design on her purse Eighteen new exoplanets found by the Keck ground-based telescope Huntsman accepts invitation from Gingrich to a one-on-one long form debate Uganda’s suborbital spaceplane, under construction in the backyard of the designer’s mother Martha Raye – No Time At All Nature: Political science in Durbin Electric car company shuts down “I was bleeding like a pig.” Two climate papers of interest The X-37B: what is it for? The March 11 earthquake off the coast of Japan shifted the seabed 165 feet and raised it 33 feet, the largest shift ever recorded Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile Multiple dark matter experiments produce multiple results Occupy Richmond stands up for the Richmond Tea Party Boston Bans E-Cigarettes, Just Because Business shuts down because of Obamacare and other federal regulation German bomb experts successfully defuse WW II bomb after evacuating 45,000 Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reach new high Teddy Bear the porcupine India’s satellite television channels face blackouts due to the unreliability of an aging satellite. New data throws doubt on last year’s discovery of a bacteria that used arsenic as one of the basic elements of life A collection of pertinent emails from Climategate 2 Astronomers have found a star that is spinning a million times per hour World War II: After the war, in photos U.S. military has rescinded its policy that banned bibles at Walter Reed hospital From Kepler: Dozens of Earths in the habitable zone Voyager 1 at the edge Planets of diamond Two newly discovered supermassive black holes weigh in as the heaviest known The DB Cooper hijacking case might finally be solved. The National Health Service of the UK is making its patient database available to researchers Family reluctantly gives up its hold on Santa Rosa Island Harve Presnell – They Call The Wind Maria Colorful Vesta “It’s degrading. It’s like someone raped you.” Strange streets The next test flight of Falcon 9/Dragon has slipped again The Hubble Space Telescope has now been used as a reference in more than 10,000 science papers The explosive Kilauea volcano Paypal shuts down charity The Pathetic State Of Science Journalism From the AGU: All softballs for James Hansen Will it blend? – cyalume sticks Cannonball fired in Mythbusters stunt goes through nearby home Phobos-Grunt now appears to be breaking up Rumors of Higgs An experiment designed to mimic the dynamo at the Earth’s core is about to be turned on. Ramping way up! Names of China’s second class of astronauts revealed by stamp collectible “That’s not my signature.” On the way to its winter haven, Opportunity found more evidence of water on Mars Casablanca – “I bet they are asleep in New York. I bet they’re asleep all over America.” The year long mega storms of Saturn The first female astronaut from Russia in decades might fly to ISS in 2013 NASA looks to 3D printing to create spare parts and tools in ISS City lights seen from space show the evolution and development of countries over time Recent results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found no evidence of dark matter, a result in some conflict with data obtained from several underground research detectors. Final results show the number of Atlantic hurricanes in 2011 was average, far less than predicted The trial of seven Italian earthquake experts facing manslaughter charges for not correctly predicting an earthquake continued this week. An update on the climate treaty talks in Durban An audit by NASA’s inspector general finds that NASA can’t keep track of its moon rocks Sons of the Pioneers – Tumbling Tumble Weeds Hole for rent LightSquared touts new tests prove its internet service will not interfere with GPS “Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were.” Higgs announcement from CERN on December 13 6 Insane Early Drafts of Iconic Buildings A new poll shows a record high anti-incumbent sentiment toward Congress Corzine: I didn’t tell my company to use customer dollars, and if I did, I didn’t mean it. Why Washington is shocked, shocked by Newt Gingrich’s rise over Mitt Romney Phobos-Grunt now predicted to fall back to Earth in early January NASA has announced a February 7 launch date for SpaceX’s next test flight of Falcon 9 and Dragon Panning for gold on the streets of New York The draft treaty being proposed in Durban A college mate of Obama describes the President’s political beliefs Your orbital trip on a Boeing spaceship The Air Forces has awarded contracts to Andrews Space, Boeing and Lockheed Martin to develop a reusable first stage booster LightSquared actually disrupted 75% of the GPS receivers used during government testing Mining the Moon for fun and profit Durban climate negotiations in overtime Lily at trailside Deal struck at Durban The enormous bones of what is believed to be the biggest dinosaur in the U.S. have been unveiled by university researchers. The CEO of LightSquared might face SEC fraud charges Paul McCartney and Wings – Band on the Run A thoughtful analysis as to why tea party supporters are breaking to Gingrich Doug Ross notes the fawning lack of any real questions to President Obama during an interview by a CBS journalist. Orbital Sciences has renamed its Taurus II rocket the Antares rocket Long faces in Durban Canada is expected to pull out of Kyoto on Monday New poll shows the same thing as 83 previous polls: a solid majority wants Obamacare repealed Dawn has now lowered its orbit to 130 miles above the asteroid Vesta Quadriga Consort – Carolan’s Cup / The Two William Davises “For a moment, Newt Gingrich succeeded in making me feel sorry for President Obama.” Deal reached on Defense authorization bill that had included language allowing the military to hold U.S. citizen indefinitely CERN announces an update on the search for the Higgs Boson Rifts in the Congressional Black Caucus over the investigation of Fast and Furious and the calls for Holder to resign Sir David Attenborough admits to shooting fake polar bear footage for a BBC documentary Hurricane predictors admit they can’t predict hurricanes A Maryland post office bans Christmas carolers Southwest orders 208 Boeing 737s valued at $19 billion An open letter to Eric Holder from an ATF agent in Mexico The European Space Agency will make two more attempts to contact Phobos-Grunt Environmental scientist caught agreeing to ignore her own data and to make up new claims State Department meeting with Islamists to discuss free speech restrictions Chained and in tears: Children found in basement as police raid Islamic school thought to be a “Taliban training centre” Obamacare to kill 100,000 jobs in January President Obama is trailing against both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in 12 swing states that Obama won in 2008, according to a poll released today. Rutan, Allen, Musk, Griffin team up to develop an air-launch rocket system to fire hardware and humans into orbit. Walking through a doorway does make you forget what you were doing Mark “Indy” Kochte – West Virginia Nights 2011 Scientists have built the world’s smallest steam engine, only a few thousandths of a millimeter wide. Testimony at a Senate hearing about the theft of customer funds at MF Global revealed today the Jon Corzine did know of the theft, contrary to his own testimony before Congress. Russian space designer Boris Chertok dies at 99 Explaining Newt The Gingrich gamble A University of Denver professor plans to teach the same course next spring that, because of two anonymous complaints, caused him to be suspended for more than 100 days. The $600,000 toad statue your tax dollars paid for and you will never see in person The supernova of a generation LightSquared outraged at leaked GPS test report Germany’s space chief sees big battles in Europe over funding for ISS and Ariane Astronomers have discovered a gas cloud on a collision course with the galaxy’s central black hole Scientists have discovered how hummingbirds manage to fly like insects despite the limitations of their bird skeletons. One congressman’s take on climate change and climategate A big sideways slip on Mars Climategate: the failure of scientific integrity in climate science Archaeologists announced yesterday that they have dug to the very core of Mexico’s tallest pyramid and found what may be the original ceremonial offering placed on the site prior to construction Climate theatre of the absurd Walking through the new American Amundsen Scott South Pole station The IPCC scientist working group has decided that Freedom of Information Act laws do not apply to its work Johnson Space Center goes to backup power after a truck crashes into utility tower The lost decade UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England Phobos-Grunt: what’s in a name? Tiangong-1 orbiter starts planned cabin checks against toxic gas The stimulus was not a one time expense, it was built into the baseline Wisconsin teachers union are harassing a teacher who did a commercial in support of Governor Scott Walker FAA tests find that LightSquared’s broadband system interferes “with a flight safety system designed to warn pilots of approaching terrain.” NASA has decided to stick with the same contracting arrangement it used for the COTS contracts Alan Boyle describes the details behind NASA’s decision to go with simpler contracting for future commercial rocket contracts Another ObamaCare program goes bankrupt The Obama Justice Department is going after climategate whistleblowers The first debris from the March 11 Japanese earthquake/tsunami has reached the shores of the northwest U.S. A Russian scientist has found large amounts of methane being released in the atmosphere in the Arctic The Cowsills – Hair Jon Corzine Was Served Papers from one of MF Global’s customers During His Hearing Recess “He can’t run on his record. What’s he going to say – ’Vote for me because of the failed stimulus, all those deficits I piled up and a health care bill you hate?’” Rider on the Storm Joe Simon, the creator of Captain America, has died at 98 Scientists have found microbes inside a lava tube that can thrive in the freezing cold and low oxygen environment of Mars. NIH and DOE in the proposed budget deal Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 The Fukushima nuclear reactor has reached the state of cold shutdown Budget deal cuts EPA by three percent Russia’s space agency has banned its employees from any foreign travel Climategate: Did the Department of Energy help Phil Jones hide climate data? An elementary school program which includes the singing of “Silent Night” will go on after Alabama school officials decided to ignore a complaint filed by a group that called the song “unconstitutional.” A voter’s guide to Republicans Obama’s Watergate Tea Party Patriots leader arrested at airport for checking in lawful pistol. GetOut NASA Faces Further Cuts in Last-minute Spending Package Russia announces it supports Canada’s decision to pull out of the Kyoto accords Hey, they still let us drive Solar scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center up their prediction for the next solar maximum Comet Lovejoy lost its tail in skimming through the Sun’s atmosphere Russian rocket completes its second launch from French Guiana Richard Branson talks to the Wall Street Journal A slap on the wrist for the Wisconsin doctors who handed out fake sick notes. “We Didn’t Know What The Hell Was Going On” Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams Europe to test fly a suborbital space plane in 2014 The Battle of the Bulge in photos The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, now online Using the spacecraft’s last drops of fuel, engineers are attempting to aim Deep Impact toward a rendezvous with near Earth asteroid 2002 GT. A Spanish company has announced it will build a space hotel by 2012 Virginia residents oppose preparations for climate-related sea-level rise Vaclav Havel has passed away at 75. A Christmas Miracle. The Great Spending Betrayal Deficit may be biggest threat to ObamaCare Egyptian Islamists have been accused of kidnaping Christian girls and forcing them to convert to Islam under threat of rape. Festive Mechanized Holiday Cat Accessories The astonishing collapse of MF Global North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died The states have shed thousands of public employees since the beginning of the recession Seven predictions for the year 2011 from 1931 The bar at the center of the Milky Way Former astronaut John Grunsfeld is to take over NASA’s science post from Ed Weiler EPA ponders expanding its regulatory power in the name of “sustainable development” A new kind of metal in the deep Earth Five ridiculous gun myths promoted by movies The Supreme Court sets the dates for hearing arguments for and against Obamacare Russia’s GPS system, Glonass, has reached full operational capability for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union A telescope to go where no telescope has gone before “It’s the Obama, stupid” Swallowed pen still works 25 years later Scientists have located one of the quarries used by the builders of Stonehenge Harvard Faculty Fires Economics Professor over Political Article Published in India Bugs Bunny – Racketeer Rabbit LightSquared is running out of cash Why Are Indian Reservations So Poor? FBI sees drop in violent and property crimes in every region of the U.S. Another Obamacare surprise: As of January 1, 2012, the government will begin sharing your Medicare data with others, unless you opt out. Using Hubble astronomers have found evidence that complex molecules lie on the surface of Pluto. The spread of anti-semitism and censorship at European universities. First Earth-sized planets found For as yet unexplained reasons, scientists have been finding isolated colonies of little brown bats — once the most common bat species in the region and the hardest hit by white nose syndrome — surviving and healthy. Government spending at its stupidest. Miniatur Wunderland – largest model railway in the world Obamacare: 2011 in review Global warming is good for you! Russia launches three astronauts to ISS A Sun-like Star with Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets and Two Earth-size Candidates Obamacare abominations Giant tsunami-shaped clouds in Alabama Focusing in on the theft of customer funds at MF Global At last, a close look at Vesta Putting the chill on global warming skeptics Volcano boarding in Nicaragua Bigotry on campus The NASA shuttle simulator for training astronauts is going to at Texas A&M Bringing an asteroid home in a bag. “No big plane will ever be taken that way again, because the passengers will fight back.” The end of LightSquared Mystery space ball drops on Namibia More bad news for the anti-energy, green greed brigade A career employee in the Voting Section of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has confessed to committing perjury. The view of Comet Lovejoy from ISS Andrea McArdle sings “Tomorrow” at an Annie Workshop Four New York Democrats plead guilty to voter fraud Underground exploring today Mall Santa Musical Another Russian launch failure today Fragments from the failed Russian launch crash onto “Cosmonaut Street” in Siberia One of its lead authors has quit the IPCC. A man dressed up as a Christmas tree to protest the Christmas decoration ban at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal TSA agent confiscated a cupcake. Why Did I Have To Go To Pravda To Get My Op-Ed About TSA Rape Published? The Rainmaker Obama campaign: “$40 a month adds up to roughly $1000 a year The man who invented the Erector set Scottish couple unearth mysterious stone head in their garden, a spitting image of Homer Simpson As the Pope calls for peace, Nigerian Islamists murder Catholics Military Wives – Wherever you are The story of the men and women who built Hexagon Sleeves’ Christmas song Israel to send medical aid after Nigeria attacks Scientists last week published a paper claiming that the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown caused 14,000 U.S. deaths. Engineers say the mysterious sphere that crashed in Africa is a hydrazine tank from a rocket A country in denial about its fiscal future Montanans have launched a recall campaign against their senators for voting for unlimited military detention Santa Claus Arrested Following Joint Investigation by IRS, INS, and FWS Lugar may be in jeopardy in primary from Tea Party challenger The Leaning Towers from around the world Why the establishment fears Newt Gingrich Russia scrubs launch of Proton rocket due to “technical problems.” Ron Paul as seen by a former staffer Several of China’s biggest borrowers have been given permission to delay loan payments A day made of glass A family struggles to complete a Knoxville to Nashville trip using an electric car Newfound treasures at an archeological dig in Panama have provided scientists with the best clues yet about an unnamed tribal culture that had trived in the centuries just prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. A paralympic athlete, paralyzed from the waist down since she was thirteen, has regained her ability to walk after a collision with a bicycle, and now wants to compete in the 2016 Olympics. Slow news The Music Man – Till there was you Tarzan’s chimp co-star Cheetah has died at his Palm Harbor sanctuary. The chief operating officer of MF Global, the man who lost $1.2 billion, happens to also be the chairman of the EPA’s financial advisory board Doh! Top Science Journal Retractions of 2011 The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that refusing to open your door does not allow the police to enter without a warrant China has activated its own GPS satellite system The strange deep-sea creatures at a volcanic vent Arizona’s ethnic studies program have been ruled illegal The Obama Nation: Even More Debt And Even More Store Closings Holder laments the murders caused by the use of illegal guns Lurie and Atkinson – writing Shakespeare Soyuz rocket successfully launched six satellites into orbit today “The USA is officially the most charitable nation in the world.” Samoa will skip Friday to flip across the international dateline to be in synch with its major trading partners in Asia A Russian minister has threatened dire consequences after a group of Russian bloggers were able to wander freely through a rocket plant for literally days. China issues a white paper on space, outlining its future goals Top 10 Worst Federal Rules of 2011 New Rasmussen poll shows Romney beating Obama 45%-39% Unfit to Print The terraced slopes of Aristarchus Egypt raids the offices of seventeen human rights organizations Fired employee goes on rampage The South Pole had its warmest day on record on Christmas Day this year Volcanic activity in the Red Sea is producing a new island An eruption today of the very remote Cleveland volcano in the Aleutian Islands has caused an air traffic alert. The trends in worldwide energy use Six tired arguments the energy sector needs to stop using Want to see an asteroid eclipse a star? How to self-destruct your company with just a few measly emails Democratic Party and Obama fundraiser has been convicted of a $21 million bank fraud scheme Congress has ended the corn ethanol tax subsidy Jib Jab – 2011, Buh-Bye! The spenders won 2011 Why are so many offended by Tim Tebow’s faith? The first of two Grail space probes has entered lunar orbit Eddi Reader – Auld Lang Syne Occupy Albany protesters threaten a police officer and his family At the end of 2011, America, like much of the rest of the Western world, has dug deeper into a cocoon of denial. Iran claimed today that it has produced first nuclear fuel rod The second Grail space probe has entered lunar orbit Trinity University’s winning lateral play vs Millsaps Olympic VIPs will get 4000 BMWs and their own private traffic lanes in what the Olympics bill as the “green Games.” The top 10 tech ‘fails’ of 2011 A Saudi woman has been beheaded for “witchcraft and sorcery.” The new Arctic ozone hole Fun with dry ice Top 10 Ways Hollywood Can Win Its Audience Back How to deal with the leftwing press Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals Presenting 2011’s Top 10 Most Corrupt American Politicians The quasicrystal from outer space The tiny thrusters that could. Space exploration and the unexpected consequences of government decisions Robert Goulet – If ever I would leave you Iowa caucus results The United States closed 2011 with a record $15.22 trillion Debt that was officially 100.3% of GDP and only $14 billion from breaching the debt ceiling The Quadrantids meteor shower on tonight The National Science Foundation has declined until 2020 to commit to funding a giant American-built ground-based telescope Ecliptic, the company that puts cameras on rockets What is this stuff? Democrats regulating the dead EPA Terrorizes Couple Over Their Dream Home The sounds of the stars The Sun calms down in December A NASA inquiry into the ownership of a variety of space artifacts, including Jim Lovell’s Apollo 13 checklist, has halted their sale at auction. Obama to make a recess appointment, even though Congress is not in recess Is the Senate in recess? The Constitution says no. Clark Jaman – I’ll Meet You There Cassini’s top ten images for 2011 They laughed at him. Is the Air Force using the X-37B to spy on China’s first space station? Why Best Buy is Going out of Business…Gradually ArianeSpace will make a profit in 2011, the first time in three years New research suggests that a body-snatching parasitic fly might be the culbrit in the decline of the honeybee population in the U.S. Contempt for Congress A fitting memorial Nine of the top ten worst nations for religious persecution are Islamic, with North Korea being the only exception. Perry, Perry, Quite Contrary Dancing on Strings – Song of India Playing Politics with the Constitution and the Law India moves ahead with the construction of its own reusable space plane Underground again today Four Strings – Let it Rain An Antiques Roadshow memento has provided new evidence behind the loss of the plane during World War II that carried band leader Glenn Miller. New eruptions from Mount Etna in Italy Labor unions get the bulk of Obamacare waivers Why the Doctor Won’t See You Studying the Moon by starlight Tucson school system loses $5 million in funding because it has refused to dump ethnic studies A U.S.-Canadian partnership to re-establish migrating cranes has been halted by the FAA because it doesn’t meet its regulations. Shawn Colvin – Hold On A different perspective of last year’s shootings in Tucson, by one of its victims Riding a zip line in Alaska Is there profit in outer space? The new rules on naming and describing plants now allow scientists to do so in English instead of Latin. Australian aircraft engineers have called for the grounding of the Airbus A380 – the world’s biggest passenger aircraft – after Singapore Airlines and Qantas found cracks in the wings of several planes. The national debt now equals the entire U.S. economy “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” The Obama administration announced a federal ban Monday on new mining claims affecting a million acres near the Grand Canyon. In a new poll Americans fear Obama’s reelection by a ratio of 2:1 Fred and Ned, the cats with an astonishing 54 toes between them. NASA administrator Bolden met with former Apollo astronauts today to smooth over his agency’s attempt to prevent their ability to sell artifacts from their missions. Researchers in California have produced a cheap plastic capable of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air. Not All Who Wander Are Lost FAA grants exemption, allowing ultra-light plane to resume whooping crane escort flight After 16 years in space, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has been shut down Philip Sparke – Hymn of the Highlands, Dundonnell – Brass Band München The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Monday it will close nearly 260 offices nationwide. Homeland Security is monitoring journalists A Hubble Space Telescope study of massive galaxies two to three billion years after the Big Bang has challenged the widely accepted theory that major mergers are how galaxies grow Phobos-Grunt is now expected to fall to Earth sometime around January 16 The New Authoritarianism The six weirdest cities people actually live in An iPad survives a fall from 100,000 feet and still works NASA in negotiations with ESA to have them provide the service module for Orion Tebow riots begin Cesar Espinoza – Unchained Melody The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has renamed the thirty-one year old Very Large Array (VLA) after Karl Jansky, the man who invented radio astronomy. Two TSA workers who pleaded guilty to stealing $40,000 from a drug mule’s luggage were each sentenced to six months in prison today. The Supreme Court looks hard at the EPA and doesn’t like what it sees Obama Gets Only 82% of Democrat Vote in New Hampshire – Running Unopposed Hubble takes a close up of the double nucleus of the Andromedea galaxy The most distant supernova discovered so far. New data suggests that the crash of two white dwarf stars caused the nearest supernovae in 25 years Astronomers have concluded that the stars in the Milky Way must average at least one planet per star. Kepler finds more planets orbiting double star systems Democratic dead people receive ballots to vote in New Hampshire primary “the EPA touches on the lives of every single American every single day.” “Who wouldn’t firing these people?” The EPA is fining companies millions because they didn’t use a fuel that doesn’t exist Another space tourism company moves forward with flight plans this year A solar system in miniature How it’s made – Bubble gum Man charged after baby was found abandoned in an Occupy DC tent “I’d hoped for something different.” SpaceX outlines its new design goals for Falcon 9 Looking for Beagle 2 Phobos-Grunt’s reentry this weekend The University of Connecticut has found the chief of its biology lab — an expert on the health benefits of drinking wine — guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications. 25 Cats Who Sleep Funny The EPA punishes refineries for not using a non-existent fuel New Hampshire’s attorney general has opened an investigation of voter fraud, prompted by the O’Keefe videos showing how easy it is there for dead people to vote X-Prize offers $10 million prize for anyone who can build McCoy’s tricorder The Obama State Department has rejected the European code of conduct for space LightSquared seeks an investigation into one of the GPS advisory board members that said their system interferes with GPS So how peripheral was Dipak Das’ work on the health benefits of wine? Fishing under ice I Know Him So Well – Judy Kuhn & Sissel Engineers have gone to a back up radio system on Cassini after a primary unit did not respond as expected in late December. The computer system of the Japanese space agency has been attacked by hackers. A totally drug-resistant tuberculosis strain has emerged in India. Obama asks for more power to consolidate government agencies The child suicide bombers of Islam Panda escape NASA awards $42m for new Langley cafeteria and conference center A private organization is now taking the White House to court over the president’s decision to install three new members on the National Board Relations board without Senate approval. NASA is soliciting private aerospace companies to bid on building their designs for rocket upper stage that will send the Orion capsule beyond Earth orbit. Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin NASA to mothball two wind tunnels at Langley Six Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters Phobos-Grunt due to crash to Earth anytime in the next ten hours Phobos-Grunt has crashed into the Pacific Ocean Fauré – Pie Jesu Volunteers wanted to search for exoplanets Scientists have found that the structure of Titan’s atmosphere appears to change daily and seasonally, much like the Earth’s. Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills — fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947. Seattle salts its streets Occupy Wall Street Thugs Confiscate Man’s Home Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into a dormant volcano in Oregon this summer to demonstrate a new way to generate electricity. SpaceX has delayed its February 7 launch of Dragon to ISS George Harrison – Here comes the Sun Private-sector experience? Oh, no! Russia is now claiming that a U.S. military radar might have disabled Phobos-Grunt. House Republicans try to rescind a $100 billion European bailout fund created by the Democrats and Obama in 2009 The ten Most Hated Companies in America The satellite communications company Intelsat has backed out of a deal to have a robot refuel some of itsr orbiting satellites. Some of Darwin’s fossil samples have been rediscovered, hidden in plain sight at the British Geological Survey. Piano Guys – Without you The Obama administration formally announced today that it is joining Europe in writing an international code of conduct for space. A class of fourth-grade students have renamed NASA’s two Grail lunar probes “Ebb” and “Flow”. It looks like there will be no manned Soyuz missions launched from South America. In a visit to Pope Benedict last month, Britain’s chief rabbi spoke out against the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries, and defended the free market values of Judeo-Christian culture. Listening online to the sounds at the ocean floor On Tuesday the Treasury Department began using pension funds to keep the federal debt below the debt limit. Skyscrapers As Spaceships The Supreme Court has refused to block a court suit against the San Francisco cops who entered a home and killed a resident without a warrant Orbital Sciences has once again delayed its first launch of Antares, the rocket that will lift its Cygnus cargo capsule to ISS. Rapping flight attendant In a break from standard practice, U.S. military has removed the links to its tracking data of Phobos-Grunt. A stat to embolden skeptics of NASA and the government Drilling in Antarctica The Japanese release more details about the hacking of their computers The hi-tech home of a British soccer star has become a threat to radio astronomy. The Russian commission investigating the failure of Phobos-Grunt has concluded that the spacecraft failed because of Russian engineering errors, not U.S. sabotage. Obamacare’s 34 pilot programs designed to save money will have no effect or will increase costs, according to a Congressional Budget Office report yesterday. One hundred tea party leaders to announce support for Newt tomorrow The TSA has admitted that its agents made a mistake when they strip-searched two elderly women last fall. A meteorite that fell to Earth last July in Morocco has proven to be a rare chunk of Mars. More cracks found in the wings of the Airbus A380 A science journal for failed experiments Catching the death of a comet The modern liberal press, described in one paragraph After the annual visit to Edgar Allen Poe’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the “Poe Toaster” failed to occur this year for the third straight time, it appears the tradition has ended forever. Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves A Woman “I will blast Britain’s Got Talent winner into space.” Scientists have postponed until 2015 the decision on whether clocks should be linked to the Earth’s rotation around the Sun. Several Republicans in Congress expressed concern yesterday about the Obama administration’s decision earlier this week to negotiate a space code of conduct with Europe and others. Useless college degrees The defense strategy of Democratic party officials under arrest for voter fraud: “Voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections.” The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona has refused to testify to Congress about the Obama administration’s policy of allowing guns to be illegally smuggled to Mexican drug lords. Scientists have agreed to a sixty day voluntary pause in their research into the transmissibility of avian influenza, commonly called bird flu. The Dragon/Falcon 9 test flight is now set for no earlier than late March European safety officials are about to order safety checks on the Airbus A380 jumbo jet after two different inspections found cracks in the plane’s wings. A group of researchers have failed to reproduce the earlier NASA result that suggested arsenic-based life was possible. Some details on the cause of the Dragon/Falcon 9 launch delay Reaching the summit of K2 Stratolaunch announced yesterday the groundbreaking of its facility at Mohave Bankrupt and owing the taxpayers half a billion dollars, Solyndra has been caught destroying brand new parts John Cleese on The Muppets Show Hear the Roar and Pay Attention Former Obama staffer arrested in false ID scheme Want to know who leads in the Republican candidate delegate count? Go here. Egyptian Islamists Torch Homes and Businesses in Coptic Village Lou Reed – Perfect Day Rasmussen: Gingrich polls nine points ahead of Romney in Florida U.S. Senator Rand Paul has been detained by the TSA for refusing a patdown Woman skier becomes the first person to ski solo across Antarctica under her own power. The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that police must have a warrant before they can attach a GPS tracker to anyone’s vehicle. The dunes of Titan The deadline to apply for NASA’s next astronaut class is Friday. This year’s hunt for meteorites in Antarctica bagged more than 300. Gingrich plans ‘visionary’ speech on space this week in Florida The biggest solar storm to be aimed at the Earth in seven years is expected to reach us by Tuesday. Cavers in West Virginia return a stalagmite to its original cave home after nearly fifty years The Producers A 33,000-year-old dog skull found in a Siberian cave, when compared with other ancient dog remains found in a Belgium cave, suggest to scientists that the domestication of dogs took place separately in many different places. The Panama Canal is expanding Romney and Gingrich offer contrasting space policy views in Florida debate Members of the Democratic Congressional Black Caucus on Monday charged that voter ID laws are aimed at preventing black voters and specifically aimed at defeating Barack Obama. 15 Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican It doesn’t exist Possible aurora tonight A new superconducting detector might supersede CCDs for astronomy 1,000 days without a budget Melissa Venema – Il Silenzio Newtzilla conquers all? What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case? A Japanese whistleblower is using the web and YouTube to document scientific fraud by a prominent Japanese researcher. Scouring the Aegean Sea for the world’s oldest shipwrecks. “My message is simple.” Rating the reading grade level of all State of the Union speeches. Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out Roughly half of Vesta is cold enough for water ice to survive below the surface A wiretap could exonerate the six seismologists on trial for manslaughter in Italy for not properly warning the public of an earthquake. Romney advisor: Come on, ObamaCare won’t ever be repealed in its entirety Going in circles Gingrich pledges a moon base by his second term Energy.gov: Where information goes to die Gingrich’s speech on space The Kepler team today announced the discovery of eleven new solar systems holding twenty-six planets. Another green company, backed with federal grants from both the Bush and Obama administrations, has gone bankrupt. “The implication that Mr. Cunningham may have engaged in criminal conduct with respect to Fast and Furious is a major escalation of the Department’s culpability.” Pigeon: Impossible Getting to know Dream Chaser The full Gingrich speech on space Because of technical problems with the Soyuz spacecraft it appears the Russians are going to postpone the next two manned launches to ISS. The Soviet Union’s gigantic nuclear equipped Ekranoplane DNA research suggests that “Native Americans” actually came from a tiny mountain region in Siberia. The Vintage Computer Festival Persecution for the sake of global warming The North Star may be wasting away A cargo ship with rocket parts crashed into a bridge in Kentucky yesterday “This re-entry capsule now cannot be used for manned spaceflight.” Robert Goulet and Julie Andrews – My cup runneth over Romney puts forth his space plans at a rally in Florida Why is the answer always a new law? Guns N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine Data issued last week without fanfare by both the UK’s Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit has confirmed that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997. National Park officials are considering plans to limit the number of hikers per day on the Half Dome hike in Yosemite. How crayons are made Investigators now think that MF Global, the company run by Jon Corzine, Obama adviser and fundraiser, lost its customers’ money in “a labyrinth of shady trading and raids.” Global warming activists seek to purge ‘deniers’ among local weathermen. The government will have no rivals It’s not about Newt “We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law.” Identifying our galaxy’s next supernova Newt and Scientists: A Long, Complicated Love Affair Six former and current employees have sued the FDA agency under the Obama administration over its secret surveillance of their private emails. New York to get new … typewriters! A Republican has announced he is running for the Congressional seat in Arizona being vacated by Gabrielle Gifford. The highway is the tenant … and actually pays rent. The Dearborn, Michigan Christians who were arrested for handing out Christian literature at a Muslim event have won a $100,000 settlement from the city. Mean Mary James – I’ve Been Down West Virginia sheriff falsified ballots in close election The Russians now say the next manned flight to ISS will be delayed a month, until the end of April, due to defects found in the Soyuz capsule. The crash of the Rosat last fall might have landed on Beijing instead, had the spacecraft remained aloft a mere seven minutes longer. The CBO has projected another trillion plus deficit for 2012, the fourth year in a row the U.S. government has produced such a deficit. White nose syndrome has been found in bats in Europe Could this be the actual violin that played the last song on the Titantic? The Russians have announced that the loss of Phobos-Grunt was due to the failure of an onboard computer to be properly hardened against cosmic rays. The Great Moonbuggy Race Five of the biggest unsolved mysteries of physics California’s controller announced today that the state will run out of cash in March, three months before the end of its fiscal year. Laser-guided bullets Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons A NASA spacecraft has directly detected atoms from outside Solar System and found that the region is depleted in oxygen. The Japanese government has given the final go-ahead for a new Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission, set for launch in 2014. A U.S. government panel today unanimously recommended that scientists limit publication of results relating to bird flu. The NY Times reported today that the investigation into MF Global’s bankrucpty has located most of the missing $1.2 billion of customer money A boycott against Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scientific journals, has quickly gathered the support of more than 2,400 scientists. Will we go back to the Moon? The face in space Russia announces plans to launch Phobos-Grunt 2 in 2018 Ebb returns its first video of the far side of the moon Bastard Keith – Pincus the Peddler SpaceX successfully test fired today an upgraded engine to be used in the Dragon capsule in case of a launch abort. Space Adventures has set the date, before February 2017, for its circumlunar tourist flight. The Orion test capsule arrived in Alabama for tests, covered in fan signatures. The House has voted to freeze all congressional and federal pay for another year, through 2013. By a significant majority the House has voted to repeal part of Obamacare. A report tonight at the Daily Caller says that at least two Justice Department prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted but never arrested or prosecuted. The Palestinians in Gaza fired seven rockets into Israel on Wednesday. The head of Russia’s space agency makes news again The scale of the universe Six charts from the Congressional Budget Office that will scare the bejeebers out of you Lobbying to save commercial space Another superEarth has been found orbiting a star in the habitable zone. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music For A Found Harmonium “This issue isn’t going away for the president; it too clearly reveals his indifference to those he thinks he doesn’t need.” New dates, March 20 and May 15 respectively, have been set for the ISS launches of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule and the next manned Soyuz capsule. Union membership dropped by 16,000 last year in Wisconsin. More than 40 non-Catholic religious organizations, including both Jews and Protestants, have declared their “solidarity” with the Catholics against the Obama administrations new health regulations. Dog vs leaves Virgin Galactic hopes to begin the first powered flight tests of SpaceShipTwo this coming summer. Iran’s state media today announced that the country had used its own rocket to put into orbit a small weather/Earth observation microsat, On Sunday the Army acted to silence its chaplains from reading the Catholic letter condemning the Obama administration’s requirement that churches pay for abortions and contraception in violation of their religious principles. Arizona State University (ASU) blocks access to a petition-hosting site right after university officials discover the site includes a petition calling for lower ASU tuitions. R.I.P: Roger Boisjoly, 73, has died. For the last five days there has been no contact with the Russian scientists drilling down more than two miles to Lake Vostok in Antarctica. President Obama versus religious liberty Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music Attack of the blobs More and more the Atlas V appears to be “the vehicle of choice for manned missions.” More than 6,000 people submitted their applications to NASA last week to become astronauts, the most since 1978. Birthday bleg Space technology at the Super Bowl Dilbert – The Knack Obamacare vs. the Catholics Studying fire in space Using images taken by its lunar probe Chang’e 2, China today published a high resolution global map of the Moon. Nine unique and unusual travel spots Mars Express has found more evidence that Mars once had oceans. Why is the NASA Astronaut Office Censoring Astronaut Don Pettit’s Blog? Unconfirmed reports in the Russian press today claim that the drilling team in Antarctica has successfully reached Lake Vostok more than two miles under the icecap. All the arguments used against Israel for taking a preemptive strike against a nuclear Iran are wrong. Danny Macaskill – Industrial Revolutions All NASA funding for the European ExoMars mission appears to have been cut by the Obama administration. The Russians have left Lake Vostok The final report admits that it was a programming error that doomed Phobos-Grunt, not cosmic radiation or U.S. radar. A fire has damaged Russia’s most productive heavy ion accelerator in Moscow. A rehash of the available data has narrowed the search for the Higgs particle. Scientists have identified the oldest living thing on Earth, a patch of seagrass growing underwater in the Mediterranean. A rabbi speaks out in defense of the Catholic Church and against the Obama administration. Twenty pictures to help you appreciate the beauty and awesomeness of nature The worldwide Islamic war on Christians Using heat to speed up computer hard drives. A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted into an 83-year-old woman’s face. Two more global warming scientists turn skeptics The DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver song Another Airbus jumbo jet found with cracks in its wings There is simply no time in American history we can recall where nearly the entire body of American Catholic bishops and priests have united to speak against a sitting president by name, and promised civil disobedience. The Russians have confirmed that their scientists have successfully drilled into Lake Vostok in Antartica. “It is unacceptable that HHS fails to maintain accurate financial records and fails to adhere to federal law designed to protect taxpayer dollars from mismanagement and waste.” Is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way eating asteroids? Based on computer models a team of scientists have concluded that the world’s continents are slowly forming the next supercontinent, which will coalesce over the North Pole in 50 to 200 million years “Speakers will be physically assaulted, not just verbally confronted.” The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows An Islamic mob destroyed Buddhist statues yesterday in the national museum of the Maldives. The Sun goes bust Bryson Andres busking – Soul Sister The Martian meteorite that was recovered in Morocco in July is now thought to contain pockets of trapped Martian atmosphere. “I feel duped.” Two Christian leaders said today that they’d go to jail rather than comply with the new Obamacare regulations. According to scientists, Obama’s proposed budget — to be announced on Monday — will cut the planetary program severely. The boycott of science journal publisher Elsevier has grown now to almost 5,000 scientists. The eviction and theft by Muslims of Christian homes in Egypt. “We only have two or three years before we get into a very ugly debt-crisis austerity mode.” Ed Weiler quit NASA over Mars planetary program cuts to be announced Monday Several Catholic lay organizations have now filed suit against the new Obamacare regulations requiring them to provide contraception services in violation of their religious beliefs. FAA regulations have forced a volunteer pilot program in Alaska to cancel its support of the Yukon Quest International Dog Race. John Fogerty – Have You Ever Seen The Rain? Is Venus’s day getting longer? The Dragon/Falcon 9 test flight to ISS has been delayed again, until late April, in order to complete additional software tests. Japan’s space agency is lobbying its government for the funds to develop its own manned space capsule capability. The link between sunspots and climate A woman was denied access to her flight because there was no female TSA agent to pat her down. Clark Lindsey has posted a quick summary of the proposed NASA budget to be released by the Obama Administration on Monday. The White House has confirmed that the Obama budget to be announced on Monday will predict a $1.3 trillion deficit for 2012. The reaction from religious organizations to Obama’s proposed heathcare rule compromise: Monty Python – Lumberjack Song The chief architect of Obamacare now admits — in complete contradiction to what he claimed before the law was passed — that Obamacare will cause medical insurance premiums to rise. “The villain of the piece.” For its second attempt to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, NASA has finally decided to dump Orbital Sciences’ Taurus XL rocket, the same rocket that failed on two previous launch attempts. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Saturday that the nation will reveal “several major achievements in the nuclear domain” within days, state media reported. Boney M – Belfast Eleven months after the earthquake/tsunami in Japan, a collection of amazing and inspiring before and after pictures. “The longer we go in this presidency, the less relation MSM headlines have to reality.” Want to buy a former NASA radio dish? All you need is $4.2 million. Abraham Lincoln – A tribute to the song Ashokan Farewell Europe’s new Vega rocket successfully put nine satellites into orbit this morning on its first flight. Finding the Higgs: what’s next A transitional budget Cyndi Lauper – True Colors The Russians celebrate drilling into Lake Vostok. A thought experiment: Imagining the Republican majority in the House ran things in Washington. “This is about freedom, full stop.” California: Running out of other people’s money Oklahoma – All ‘er nothing The FCC moved Tuesday to finally reject LightSquared’s broadband service license request. Great Scott A new study released Tuesday has found that snowfall in the Sierra Nevada has remained consistent for 130 years, despite increased global temperatures. Cats as fonts The volume of U.S. air traffic hit a ten year low last year. Detroit: the triumph of progressive public policy. Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man The decision by China to launch their next Shenzhou manned capsule unnamed has made at least one China space expert worried. Obama administration has decided that volunteering will work to forgive a student loan, as long as that volunteer work is not for a religious organization Famous Paintings Improved By Cats Has a British archeologist discovered the lost treasure mine of the Queen of Sheba? The manslaughter trial of six scientists and one government official continued yesterday in Italy over their reassurances to the public prior to a deadly earthquake in 2009. Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish leaders all testified at a Congressional hearing today that they would go to prison rather than obey the Obamacare mandates being imposed by the Obama administration. A new study in China has found that electric cars are more harmful to public health per kilometer traveled than conventional vehicles. “Even if Congress were to enact this budget we would still be left with–in the outer decades as millions of Americans retire–what are still unsustainable commitments in Medicare and Medicaid.” Making buildings invisible to earthquakes 3D printing in concrete A weak maximum now expected A burst of aurora for reasons that are “unclear.” government by presidential fiat China’s next launch of its Shenzhou capsule will be manned The White House chart that illustrates the irresponsible nature of Obama’s proposed budget. Perspective Why things break in space Cathy Rigby – Never Never Land Facebook and the CIA Preston Reed – Ladies Night ISS to finally get an experimental centrifuge India’s second lunar probe, Chandrayaan-2, faces possible launch delays “Occupy Wall Street protesters have been occupying federal property for months, but when we kneel in prayer, the police are called in and we are arrested.” New evidence for recent earthquakes on Mars Mapping the surface of an extrasolar planet light years away. A look at the universe’s dark side Obama’s war on religious liberty Ancient computers still in use today, including punch cards, mainframes, and the first PCs. A transistor made from a single atom Afghan government this past weekend rescued 41 children, aged 6 to 11, who were being smuggled into Pakistan to be trained as suicide bombers. John Glenn – the first American in orbit A world made of water Uncovering the underwater remains of HMS Investigator and the sailors who survived its loss in the Arctic ice to discover the Northwest Passage Orbital Sciences has delayed until late June the first test launch of its Antares rocket, which in turn will delay until late August the first flight of its Cygnus cargo freighter to ISS. More than 2500 religious leaders released a letter yesterday condemning the Obama administration’s healthcare mandate as ““a severe blow” to religious liberty. The streets of Rome — in Jerusalem Russian scientists have resurrected a plant from 30,000 years ago, using fruit tissues that had been frozen in the Arctic. Parahawking A New Hampshire man was arrested for firing his gun into the ground in order to catch a suspected burglar. An inherited comic book collection is expected to fetch $2M at auction tomorrow. On the way to Albuquerque Documents show Obama’s FCC used regulatory muscle to destroy LightSquared’s competition One private religious company explains why it can’t go along with the Obama administration’s mandate on contraceptives. A Jewish congregation’s letter to George Washington welcoming him to Rhode Island in 1790. GOP front-runner Mitt Romney said Tuesday that cutting government spending would hurt the economy. Buckyballs in space Peter Gleick’s “truly flabbergasting” lapse of judgement. Scientists have found an iron-based crystal that can superconduct electricity at a new record high temperature of 48 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero. A motorized skateboard you operate with your feet Islamic protesters throw eggs at a speaker in an attempt to silence him during a lecture on freedom of speech. A fourteen year old girl has been swamped with death threats after testifying before the Maryland state legislature in opposition to gay marriage. In its final decision an Iranian court has sentenced a Christian pastor to death for leaving Islam. A comic book collection sold for $3.5 million at an auction today in New York. The fundamental design flaw of all of Tesla Motors’ electric cars. What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space? David McCullough – on George Washington Two possible errors have been identified that might explain the faster than light neutrino results from last fall. A federal judge has struck down a Washington state law that required pharmacists to sell contraceptives Tracking the debris washed out to sea by last year’s tsunami in Japan. A Baptist college has joined a growing list of schools and other organizations to sue the federal government over Obama’s healthcare mandates. The many moods of Titan Fifteen questions the press would ask Barack Obama if he were a Republican The Great Gibson Guitar Raid … Months later, still no charges How to delete your Google browsing history in three simple steps Scientists have found a way to produce an anti-corresion coating made of graphene only one atom thick. Germany’s $130B Solar Experiment Delays Global Warming by 23 hours! Golf Brooks – Senior Moments Seven states filed a lawsuit today seeking to overturn Obama’s contraceptive mandate. Orbital Sciences hopes to put its Antares rocket on the launchpad in five weeks. Recent Democrat Party legislative and legal actions opposing Obamacare or significant portions thereof. Fakegate: Global warmists try to hide their decline “Science in the service of politics.” A supernova twenty-five years later. Lessons from the floating coffin Muslim Admits to Attacking Atheist; Muslim Judge Dismisses Case The sky is falling. Hubble takes its best image yet of Eta Carina The 3D printer that can build a house How environmentalists are losing the climate change war Elbow – One Day Like This After spending $2.6 million to find and recover gold from a 1804 shipwreck, a U.S. salvage company has now been forced to return the money to Spain by the U.S. courts.. Charges have been dropped against New Hampshire man who fired into the ground to stop a burglar. Democratic Congresswoman booed at a townhall meeting by her New York constituents over the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. Massachusett has proposed a 500-plus percent increase in vending machine license fees in order to meet new regulations imposed by Obamacare. A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors “Well, basically, we’re not looking to the Constitution on that aspect of it.” The perversion of rights Aladdin – A Whole New World The state of Orion’s construction, including a scheduled parachute drop test this Wednesday The Pennsylvania atheist — assaulted by a Muslim man because he was ridiculing Mohammad — has received almost 500 death threats since the judge dismissed the assault charges against the Muslim. A new poll show that Obamacare continues to be a major political problem for Obama. Investigators have decided that it was sloppy bookkeeping rather than criminal activity that caused MF Global to illegally misuse and then lose more than a $1 billion of customer funds. The Astros remove a picture of a Colt revolver from their original baseball jerseys. The problems of making both wind and solar power practical sources of electrical power on the grid. New evidence suggests that Stone Age hunters from Europe reached the New World ten thousand years before their Asian counterparts. New technology for astronomy Charlie Puth & Emily Luther – Break Again Government officials threatened a church with fines and forced them to cease giving away free water during the Mardi Gras parade. Astronomers have discovered a five hundred foot wide asteroid that has a 1 in 600 chance of hitting the Earth in 2040. Iran is developing techniques and technologies needed to turn weapons-grade uranium into an atomic bomb. “We hope to have the rocket motor in the spaceship later this year and start powered flight testing.” According to Orbital Sciences’ CEO, problems in launchpad construction have been the primary reason the first launch of Antares rocket/Cygnus capsule has been delayed. Coming soon to your neighborhood: A surveillance camera that can fly to heights of almost 200 feet. Durable goods orders fall 4% in January, the worst drop in three years and four times what was expected. Another thousand exoplanets from Kepler Why I am so rude to Warmists “This judge needs to be out of office.” The Zombie Mohammad judge defends his actions. Pentatonix – Somebody that I used to know A DNA autopsy of the Stone Age Iceman found in the Alps in 1991 has now told us something of his health and where his ancestors came from. Great Heights Reached with Gaffer Tape The first industrial railgun has begun firing tests at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Virginia. ATK prepares for another test firing of its five-segment solid rocket motor. JPL has issued a press release “reality check” on the impact possibilities of asteroid 2011 AG5 in 2040. Santorum talked himself out of the nomination An update on Stratolaunch New results from the Large Hadron Collider suggest that matter and anti-matter really are different. Davy Jones of The Monkees has died Dissecting the bad arguments on both sides of the climate debate. The Page Turner A $35 computer What is the International Space Station’s weakest link? Falcon 9 is on the launchpad in Florida, being prepared for a countdown and fuel test tomorrow. Using its Space Launch System and Orion capsule, NASA is aiming for an unmanned test flight around the Moon in December 2017. Comparing all the global warming climate models for the past twenty years with the actual data. “My only purpose today is that this event is shut down.” At a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, NASA’s inspector general outlined more than five thousand security lapses at the agency in 2010 and 2011, including the theft of a laptop with the control codes for ISS. Seven Republicans demand increased NASA supervision of the new commercial launch companies. Andrew Breitbart, 43, has died What if Catholic bishops aren’t bluffing? Saving one of the world’s largest insects, thought extinct for 80 years. Twitter Hate: The Left’s Breitbart Memorial Cover story: Finding the Sun’s lost nursery Senate Democrats reject religious exemption in Obamacare. For the fourth year in a row, President Obama has defied a law that demands he take action on Medicare. A commercial project to refuel and repair communication satellites with an unmanned robot, recently killed due to lack of interest from the U.S. government, might get the needed additional funding from DARPA. SpaceX’s dress rehearsal countdown and fuel test of the Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral today was a complete success. Solar scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center have once again adjusted their prediction for the upcoming solar maximum. Stanley Brothers – It Takes A Worried Man A liberal describes the tolerant liberal world. A Canadian man filed suit in January claiming ownership of the entire solar system. Construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the world’s tallest structure, was completed on Wednesday. NASA successfully completed parachute drop tests of its Orion capsule on Wednesday. Not only did NASA lose a laptop with the control codes of ISS, the agency’s inspector general also reported that hackers had seized control of the computers at JPL in November. A new roller coaster, dubbed “the Swarm,” is so intense it ripped the arms and legs off of its crash dummies during testing. Lying for power After spending $130 billion on solar power subsidizes, Germany has found the effort to be a monumental waste of money. Under Pressure – David Bowie and Annie Lennox rehearsal The March 9 launch of Europe’s cargo freighter to ISS has been delayed two weeks so that engineers can climb inside and tighted two straps holding two cargo containers in place. The cracks that have been found on the wings of the new Airbus A380 jumbo jet have now been traced to a company in the United Kingdom. A federal judge has ruled that an elderly couple can sue police and federal agents over an illegal house raid in which $200,000 disappeared. Because of Obamacare, child-only health plans have been discontinued nationwide. The Coming Persecution The U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops is issuing a flyer to be distributed at Masses over the March 3-4 weekend that asks their congregation to voice their opposition to the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. Under Pressure – David Bowie and Annie Lennox live performance Why do cats run the internet? We should all cheer SpaceX’s success The Iranian government today executed a Christian pastor because he refused to renounce his religion and convert to Islam. A massive fireball was seen by countless observers yesterday as it streaked across the United Kingdom. How did Jon Corzine’s MF Global company lose $1.2 billion in customer money? This tale of how another investment company misused investor funds might give a clue. Mirusia Louwerse and André Rieu – Ave Maria One of the many reasons I am no longer in the movie business. Leftwing protesters try to shut down Santorum rally while ripping up the signs of his supporters. What next for the X-37B? Clouds inside a room. Gagarin was first. Here’s why. 2011 was the first year since 1984 in which no new banks were chartered in the U.S. Boycotting the boycotters. The last transit of Venus across the face of the Sun for the next century is only three months away. Play offense Pendulum waves The X-37B marks one year in orbit Scientists: Know your budget process! In Honor Of Andrew Breitbart, 20 Examples Of Liberal Hatred On Display Ronald Jenkees – The Fast Song “Six minutes of terror.” Explaining the limits of the Congressionally mandated Space Launch System The delayed launch of Europe’s cargo freighter to ISS is now targeted for March 23. The Utah legislature is about to pass a law demanding the federal government release to the state almost fifty percent of the state’s federal land. The rail gun: a cheap solution for getting payloads into orbit quickly. The Left’s assault on free speech “Everybody from Texas is ignorant rednecks.” A call to Impeach Pennsylvania’s Sharia Judge The USS Monitor gives up the faces of its dead the slow revival of US nuclear power Robotic refueling demo begins today on ISS The sun yesterday emitted the second biggest flare since 2006, with two coronal mass ejections heading for the Earth Numerous death threats posted against Rush Limbaugh Dicken with Milah and Korben – Everything Counts An analysis of the most recent Kepler data suggests that Earthlike planets in orbits like our own are extremely rare Chinese physicists have discovered a key measurement that helps explain why and how can neutrinos magically oscillate between three different states. When a solar storm slammed into both the Earth and Mars in January 2008, scientists were able to directly measure the importance of the Earth’s magnetic field in protecting our atmosphere from oxygen loss. An incumbent eight year Republican Congresswoman lost to a tea party favorite in Tuesday’s Ohio primary. Consistently hostile and opposed to Judeo-Christian religious beliefs. The U.S. debt, graphed to show how it rose or fell since 1981, based on who controlled Congress and the White House. The solar storm hit the Earth today, and has so far caused no damage. The federal government recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February. pA man was arrested and now faces 60 days in jail and a $500 fine for holding up a protest sign on the public plaza outside the Supreme Court in Washington. Can You Judge A President by His Jew-Hating Friends? Chicken Chicken Chicken Santorum and Freedom In a letter to NASA, House appropriators have challenged the Obama administration’s decision to shut down the agency’s Mars planetary program. Two engineers propose using a thousand mile long magnetic track to accelerate passengers into space. smaller planets are preferentially found in low-eccentricity orbits. Researchers have completed the first comprehensive map of the entire ocean floor debris field of the Titanic. “Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it’s broken.” The detailed look at the robotic satellite refueling demo that is taking place on ISS this week. Rather than bow to political correctness, the Houston Astros have decided to use their original Colt uniform — with revolver — on the uniforms the team will wear in celebrating its fifieth anniversary this April. The Senate’s tea party caucus has introduced a budget plan aimed at balancing the federal budget by 2017. Ave Maria University has now sued the Obama administration over its mandate that the university provide contraceptives at no charge to its employees. Two Democratic senators have introduced legislation that would repeal the indefinite detention of Americans authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 that was passed in November. In the Oklahoma primary last week Barack Obama only garnered 57% of the vote, and actually lost in 15 counties, 12 to a pro-life activist and 3 to a state’s Democratic senate candidate from 2010. The blacklisting of Meatloaf, merely because he is a Republican. “Western nations appear to have fallen out of love with free speech.” A look at China’s rocket engine development program Dominic Boudreault – The City Limits (music by Hans Zimmers) A new bill in Congress would clarify the rights of 1960s astronauts to the space-flown artifacts they took home after their flight. The spaceship companies in Mohave are hiring Miss Fluke goes to Washington Cat walking upside down under the bed A Thank You From Japan The head of the Russian space agency has been hospitalized. Playing hardball “Hey, remember when NBC thought calling someone a ‘slut’ was hilarious?” With video. Les Paul and Mary Ford – How high the Moon On March 6, film director and deep water diver James Cameron grabbed the record for the deepest solo dive ever, 26791 feet or more than five miles. An up and down Sun Dextre has successfully completed its first round of operations in its satellite refueling demonstration. Was a evangelical Christian fired from his job at JPL because of his religious beliefs? A court case beginning Monday might tell us. Lord Monckton tries to educate a college professor and his students. The Hush Rush syndrome Venus Express was blinded for four days after being hit by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun. The blistering hot exoplanet where it snows Rockwell Retro Encabulator Research on ISS has found that prolonged spaceflight causes vision problems and might even damage the human eye. SpaceX gets another launch contract, this time to put up four satellites for an Asian/Central American communications partnership. JPL lawyers want media limits during ‘intelligent design’ trial Russia’s space agency has proposed a space exploration plan through 2030, including missions to the Moon and Mars. The IRS decided last year that it can require licenses from tax preparers, even though no law gives the tax agency that power. More video showing how easy it is to vote illegally, this time in Vermont. New numbers released today from the Congressional Budget Office estimate that the cost of Obamacare over the next decade will be $1.76 trillion, not $940 billion as predicted by the Democrats who passed it. Kevin Olusola on cello A man in Georgia was ticketed and threatened with jail after he refused to remove an American flag that’s been flying outside his business for more than thirty years. NBC’s Al Sharpton trashing “homos,” “Chinamen,” “crackers,” and “niggers.” Opening arguments in the JPL Intelligent Design court suit. An artist’s conception of Martian weather. Comedian Chris Rock physically attacked a camerawoman when he was asked about his own comments calling the tea party was “insane” and “crazy”. A major airport in Florida has decided to evict the TSA and go with a private company to screen passengers The report by the Congressional Budget Office, released earlier this week, states that by 2016 Obamacare will cause 4 million people to lose their employer health insurance coverage. Rather than investigate the potential voter fraud exposed by James O’Keefe, the Vermont Secretary of State wants to investigate James O’Keefe for exposing the fraud. Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind The New York Times has refused to publish a full page anti-Islam ad, despite publishing a similar anti-Catholic ad less than a week earlier. A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from various environmental groups that was trying to overturn Congressional legislation that removed the wolf from the endangered species list. ObamaCare: If Possible, The News Is Getting Worse A prototype of the new space junk radar system has successfully demonstrated it can track objects smaller than an inch across. The judge in the JPL intelligent design lawsuit has ruled against JPL and that the press will be allowed to observe and report on the testimony. SpaceX has now set April 30 as the target launch date for its Falcon 9/Dragon capsule test flight to ISS. It appears that the reason the head of Russia’s space agency was hospitalized last week was because he got into a fight at a party over a woman. The three big network nightly news shows all failed to mention the Congressional Budget Office report that says the cost of Obamacare will be twice what was predicted, and that millions will lose their healthplans because of it. A Filmmaker’s Second Thoughts On Hating Israel Have researchers found Leonardo da Vinci’s lost “The Battle of Anghiari” fresco, hidden for the past six centuries behind a wall? Cleopatra enters Rome Europe, dumped by NASA, has teamed up with Russia to build its ExoMars orbiter and lander. The orbit of a 150 foot wide asteroid that zipped past the Earth in February, has an orbit so much like the Earth’s that astronomer’s expect it back next year. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, aiming to complete a record-setting 120,000 foot dive from edge of space, successfully completed a 71,581 foot practice dive today. Breitbart is here Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers are seeking a partnership with a private company to make and sell the self-guided bullet they developed. Nine incredible places on Earth. With pictures. Environmentalist organizations have once again petitioned the EPA to ban ammunition using lead. New budget estimates by the Congressional Budget Office say that the proposed 2013 Obama budget will increase the federal debt by $3.5 trillion. A different experiment at CERN has found that, in contradiction to the OPERA results last year, neutrinos travel at the speed of light, and no faster. Russia has been forced to extend the application period for those who wish to become cosmonauts due to of a lack of response. Aviation Week looks at the launch challenges facing SpaceX over the next two years. Dakuwaqa’s Garden – Underwater footage from Fiji Mary Black – Thorn Upon The Rose The FAA has issued a draft environmental impact statement required before the agency will allow SpaceShipTwo to be launched from the Mohave Air and Space Port. A private company has proposed salvaging a stranded communications satellite and use it to provide communications to Antarctica. Mitch & Mickey – A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow The TSA at work A business in Missouri has become the first secular and private company to bring a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s contraception mandate. Bristol Palin: “Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?” Is Obama’s fundraising this campaign a flop? “I couldn’t believe someone could have been such a monster to leave this doggy inside this cage to die.” If there is water ice on the Moon, scientists have found that the bombardment from interstellar cosmic rays has likely caused chemical reactions that “can create complex carbon chains similar to those that help form the foundations of biological structures.” The boycott by scientists of Elsevier, the publisher of science journals, has paid off. Scientists have published the first complete global geological map of the Jupiter moon Io. “The Grasshopper and the Ants” – Disney’s Silly Symphony (1934) The Met Office in the UK has issued an updated temperature record for the past 150 years, suggesting that the climate has warmed 0.75 degrees Celsius since 1900. The federal debt has increased more during Obama’s three years in office than it did during Bush’s eight year presidency. Scientists have found more evidence that the streaks on Martian hillsides that darken in warm weather are caused by melting groundwater flowing downhill. The testimony of the fired JPL employee who is claiming religious discrimination continued on Monday. “If you’re looking for free stuff you don’t have to pay for, vote for the other guy.” New measurements suggest that Venice continues to sink, and is even listing as it goes down. The five most spectacular spots on Earth that want to murder you. In testimony before Congress today, the Eisenhower family expressed strong opposition to the design of the Dwight Eisenhower monument. Will Israel hit Iran’s nuclear facilities with a preemptive strike? This expert outlines why he thinks the possibility is getting more likely. The official in charge of the FAA’s commercial space office told Congress today that he expects the first space tourism flights to occur within two years. Private space station builder Bigelow is hiring again. Kitaro – Cosmic Love With the help of Google Earth, a lost section of the Great Wall of China has been discovered in the Gobi Desert outside of present-day China. NASA is considering doing a simulated 500 day Mars mission on ISS. “Like them or not, they’re not going away, no matter who wins in November.” Cat purrs prevent heart attacks Want to go hiking? You can now hike some of the country’s best trail, from the comfort of your home! A former NASA scientist was sentenced today to thirteen years in prison for trying to sell classified military satellite information to Israel. After one year in orbit around Mercury, Messenger’s scientists have concluded that Mercury is not only dense but odd. A 2010 expedition has now released some spectacular new images of the wreck of the Titanic. Anne Postic – Celtic Harp at Lorient in 2008 The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously in favor of the landowners whose property was essentially stolen by the EPA because the agency had declared it contained a wetland. New close-up photos of the asteroid Vesta from Dawn have discovered numerous bright spots scattered across the face of the asteroid Vesta. Twenty-four First World problems solved. Russia’s deputy prime minister today blasted the Russian space agency and one space contractor for the scandals and public backbiting involving both. An astronaut answers hundreds of questions about his flight to ISS on Reddit. What was then is now again. The friends of Barack Obama. A new device that replaces the wheelchair. Only after a Democrat crook wins an election do Democrats want him gone. Chicago freedom: “Your first amendment rights can be terminated.” Celtic Harp Orchestra – Morrison’s Jig Astronomers think they have identified the star that went supernova last week in the galaxy M95 33 million light years away. X-37B: The Air Force admits it has a fleet of two, does not plan on increasing the size of that fleet, and has plans for many more missions for both spacecraft. The Department of Energy has scrapped plans to build a neutrino experiment, costing $1.5 billion, in the now-closed Homestake gold mine in South Dakota. Stupidity on display The reckoning Europe successfully launched its third unmanned freighter to ISS early this morning. “The only thing the Democrats misjudged about Obamacare was everything.” In discussions the last two days managers for the space programs of Europe and China began laying the groundwork for a Chinese docking at ISS. Blasting away a mountaintop to look at the stars. Now we know: Jon Corzine gave “direct instructions” to illegally transfer customer funds to pay off MF Global’s debt. The story of the only man to escape from a North Korean prison camp. Mysterious cloud spotted on Mars by amateur astronomers. Chet Atkins – Mr. Sandman The six astronauts on ISS will take shelter in their Soyuz capsules tonight because a piece of space junk will to pass close to the station at around 2:30 am (Eastern). “We have to be prepared to go to jail.” A Japanese fishing boat, washed away in March by the tsunami, has been found floating about 150 nautical miles off the coast of British Columbia. Last night a piece of space junk missed ISS, but not by much. “This is a stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself when there is absolutely no mention of it in the statute.” The four best legal arguments against Obamacare. Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe and theme from Cinema Paradiso New research shows that the Medieval Warm Period was a global event, reaching all the way to Antarctica. “‘Suddenly’ is about to show up.” The effort of a private company to salvage a communications satellite stranded in the wrong orbit has been rejected by the company that owns it. Instead, the satellite will be de-orbted today, buring up over the Pacific. A new chemical analysis of lunar rocks from the Apollo missions has cast doubt on the theory that the Moon was formed when the Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object about 4.5 billion years ago. Wrecking Crew Orchestra James Cameron has set a new record for the deepest solo dive, a depth of 35,756 feet.1James Cameron has set a new record for the deepest solo dive, a depth of 35,756 feet. Boeing vs Boeing. Cameron has safely returned to the surface Liveblogging the Supreme Court’s Obamacare hearings. “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” Want a job designing and building spaceships? Scaled Composites is holding a jobs fair and open house at the Mohave Air and Space Port. The first Russian weather satellite, launched in 1969, is about to burn up in the atmosphere. Crossing the Wabash Cannonball Bridge A toy company has designed building blocks that make it possible to combine multiple brands, from Legos to Tinkertoys. Pick a destination already! “a train wreck for the Obama administration.” Global warming models wrong again Win an Ipad by delving into the Hubble archive to discover a “hidden treasure.” Two new skyscrapers being built in Milan are designed to allow trees to grow on the outside of every floor. The first look at the ocean’s deepest bottom. A computer simulation suggests that the Earth normally has several asteroid-sized smaller moons in temporary orbit around it. The Obama administration today announced strict new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The EPA loses another court case, badly. “I’m very disappointed in the growing trend of students and others unwilling to engage in meaningful discussion,” How to make a potato gun A strange lunar crater Ringed clouds at the edge of space. Based on discoveries already made, astronomers now estimate there are probably more than a hundred habitable superEarths within 30 light years of the Sun. An incandescent light bulb, stored in a time capsule for one hundred years, still worked “It may also be a plane wreck.” An expedition financed by Jeff Bezos, the founder of amazon.com, has found the rocket engines of the Apollo 11 Saturn 5 rocket. Europe’s ATV freighter has successfully docked with ISS. The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall The Russians are building nuclear powered engines for long range space travel, and announced today that they expect to have the first engine ready by 2017. A solar tornado five times the size of the Earth. The House today rejected Obama’s proposed budget 414 to 0. “Mr Kouzaris has written to President Obama on three separate occasions and is yet to even receive the courtesy of a reply.” What’s the Earth really made of? The House today passed the Republican 2013 budget, 228-191. The French trial of a CERN physicist for associating with terrorists began today. Enceladus’s gushing geysers, as seen by Cassini. Richard Feynman – The beauty of a flower from a scientist’s perspective Not-So-Smooth Operator “They evidently spent two years putting their fingers in their ears and singing, ‘La la la, I’m not listening’ whenever the conservative argument was being advanced.” Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus? Geologists have uncovered a variable in the amount of uranium in rocks that will as increase the margin of error for dating events hundreds of millions of years ago. Blowing in the wind More details unveiled describing the charges against the CERN scientist on trial in France. The report of an 80-year-old former U.S. Marine has provided the Chinese a clue to the whereabouts of the missing bones of Peking Man. The Buzz Lightyear toy that flew on space shuttle has been donated to the Smithsonian. The Black Stallion The science leaders on the team that announced faster-than-light neutrinos at CERN last year have stepped down. The NASA administrator, Charles Bolden, has balked at the Europe-China negotiations for docking a Chinese manned craft at ISS. The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody Muslim Teens Recount Thrilling Spring Break Trip to End of Driveway April Fools – Math Class Shadow French engineers have designed a tiny ion motor that nano-satellites could use as a thruster to adjust their orbits. Ten amazing treetop walkways from around the world. Europe has shut down the production line producing their ATV cargo craft for ISS. The universe as seen by astronauts on ISS. The chief of the General Services Administration has resigned and two of her top deputies have been fired for organizing an excessively expensive training conference at a luxury hotel. Edwin McCain – I’ll Be “I am a simple Muslim.” The world’s largest solar power project, recipient of the second largest ever Department of Energy loan guarantee, has filed for bankruptcy. According to Indian officials, Russia and India are near agreement on a preliminary design for the joint development of a hypersonic cruise missile. “In opposing Obamacare, we were serious the whole time.” Want to study the more than 2000 exoplanets so far discovered by Kepler? There’s now an app to do it! A radio telescope 5,000 miles wide. Chinese workers put finishing touches on the world’s highest and longest suspension bridge. Candide: Make Our Garden Grow: Bernstein at 70 Boeing today successfully completed an 11,000 foot parachute drop test of its CST-100 reusable manned capsule. A new study calls for the U.S. to create a framework for recognizing private property claims in space. NASA management yesterday extended funding for almost all of its on-going astrophysics missions, including Hubble, Kepler, Chandra, and Fermi. Decision day for the SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon test flight will be April 16. Four Indiana Democratic officials were charged with election fraud in 2008 presidential race. Paleontologists in China have unearthed fossils of the largest feathered creature ever found, a 1.4 ton dinosaur that was an early cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex. Japanese Dragon Painter The Giant Magellan Telescope project has decided it will not participate in a funding competition offered by the National Science Foundation. The poster child of the Democratic Party: Marion Barry. The world’s quietest room. Despite lacking a magnetic field of its own, scientists have discovered magnetic storms surrounding Venus.1 The U.S. Coast Guard announced plans today to sink the tsunami-drifting derelict Japanese ship recently spotted off the coast of Alaska. “The bear population is not in crisis as people believed.” The Obama administrations Treasury Secretary admitted Wednesday that the federal government’s debt is “unsustainable,” but then added that solving the problem shouldn’t be a top priority, because the government still needs to “do things.” How to make water float on oil. Henry Dagg – Somewhere over the rainbow Is that an elephant on Mars? U.S. credit rating downgraded again The actual cost to launch Twenty doctors disciplined for giving out fake sick notes at Wisconsin demonstrations last year Passover Boney M – Rivers of Babylon Issy Emeney – Appalachian Flatfooting What happens when you put a koosh ball in liquid nitrogen? Passover 2 The virtual aircraft museum The collapse of traditional journalism and why that is good news Something new found on the Sun SpaceX is planning its own spaceport about three miles north of Mexico at the southern tip of Texas. Mathilda’s solo Clues to North Korea’s rocket program Another volcano in Iceland shows signs of coming to life. Despite protests from the U.S. and South Korea, North Korea is continuing preparations for the launch an Earth observation satellite. Lava tubes on Mars. “Moon will be in the focus of our activity this decade.” Fifty top NASA experts, including astronauts, scientists, and engineers, have issued a letter demanding that NASA stop making global warming claims in press releases and websites. Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart The world’s largest stone forest Mars: dry with only periodic short bursts of wetness. The world’s eight most unique paths. Editors representing almost two dozen journals have publicly asked for an investigation into almost two hundred papers authored by anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii. Astronomers have identified two of the oldest known stars, about 12 billion years old, both only a hundred light years away. The Little Mermaid – Part of That World Virgin Galactic has been cleared by the State Department to fly foreign tourists without obtaining an export license. Orbital Sciences has rolled the first stage of its commercial Antares rocket to the launchpad for tests. The ring and planets of Formalhaut Assuming it gets the necessary funds, Boeing anticipates flight tests of its CST-100 reusable manned capsule in 2016. A monolith on Mars? Russia commits to a twenty year space program, including building a new spaceport to replace Baikonur. Gagarin’s almost fatal landing. “Because it sucked there.” The 100-year march of technology in one graph. Why the mainstream media hates new media, Alabama edition. Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s graveyard of wrecked race cars. European subsidies have put Arianespace in the black. New data suggests that a microscopic creature called a tardigrade, along with its eggs, could survive an interplanetary trip. An up and down Sun, for real this time A new study suggests that building wind turbines is a far greater problem to birds than actually operating them. Russian flash mob – Putting on the Ritz North Korea’s attempt to put its first satellite into orbit today was a failure, breaking up less than two minutes after liftoff. Europe’s primary Earth-observation satellite has gone silent. The world’s biggest atlas: Yours for only $100K. ISS’s robot arm has now been moved into position in preparation for the Dragon berthing flight, scheduled for April 30. Piff the Magic Dragon Want to own a cave? Now you can buy one, and even move it and install it wherever you want! Satellite photos have revealed that there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than scientists had predicted. Some wisdom from Pravda: “Humans explore space only for profit.” ULA, NASA’s prime contractor for operating the space shuttle, on Friday laid off nine percent of its work force. The bodies in Ben Franklin’s basement Researchers have found that they cannot reproduce the results of 89 percent of 53 “landmark” cancer research papers. A new record for the longest Rube Goldberg machine George Washington has been declared the greatest military foe Great Britain ever faced. Rod McKuen – Jean The uncertainty of science: Scientists have found a large region in Tibet where glaciers are growing. Indian scientists, using data from their lunar probe Chandrayaan-1, have found evidence for past volcanic activity on the central peak of the crater Tycho. More video proof from Project Veritas that voter fraud in Washington DC is easy to do. Last week’s 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Mexico apparently caused a miniature tsunami in a spring pool near Las Vegas, 1,700 miles away. Strange Charm: A Song about Quarks The trial of an ex-JPL computer specialist who claims he was fired for his Christian beliefs ended today. Coming and going New simulations suggest that the magnitude of tsunamis predicted to hit Japan have previously been underestimated. New government regulations will likely end the ability of teenagers to get summer jobs on farms. Mexico has raised their volcano alert level in response to increased activity of Popocatepetl volcano, southeast of Mexico City. A mathematical journal has retracted a paper because “the article contains no scientific content.” Puffer fish chases laser Senate panel proposes major NASA/NOAA budget changes Eleven ancient buildings built on a cliff’s edge. Dark matter disappears A bacteria, naturally resistant to all antibiotics, has been found in Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico. “Our spaceships to fly from here to Abu Dhabi to New Mexico in no more than an hour.” “Two scandals could hurt Obama’s reelection lead.” Two seniors “lose” $300 in cash going through TSA security checkpoint. Harp music of Paraguay, played by the Japanese Dawn’s mission at Vesta has been extended for forty days, while still allowing the spacecraft to reach Ceres as scheduled. Senate Democrats don’t even bother to show up for a budget meeting called by their own leader. The first stage of the Antares rocket is now vertical on the launchpad at Wallops Island in preparations for launch tests. “It is just utterly stupid.” That Mexican volcano near Mexico City is now spewing ash a half mile into the sky. House panel proposes giving commercial space $500 million. The shot heard round the world Is asteroid mining about to begin? New data from a neutrino telescope in Antarctica had found that cosmic rays don’t come from gamma ray bursts, as had been believed by astronomers. The death of the double click A new launch schedule for Cygnus It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law! Brilliant or dumb? Data now suggests that the bats are showing signs of recovery in the first caves hit by white nose syndrome in New York. Jon Corzine, whose company MF Global illegally used and lost more than a billion in customer funds, is still listed as a fund-raiser for the Obama campaign. DARPA has released some details about last summer’s HTV-2 hypersonic test flight. Henri The battle of the bulges, 1940s style The Piano Guys – Cello Wars The world’s worst investor Want to get a jumpstart on tomorrow’s asteroid-mining announcement by Planetary Resources? Read this NASA report, released April 2. The Space Launch System is a threat to JSC, Texas jobs Bob Newhart – air traffic control SpaceX has delayed the launch of its Dragon test mission to ISS, with the launch now scheduled sometime between May 3 and May 7. Scientists studying Cassini images have spotted the trails of objects as they punch through one of Saturn’s rings. No announcement yet, but of the many stories available this Wired article and this Yahoo article appear to provide the best overview of the asteroid mining plans of Planetary Resources. The global warming advocate who invented the concept of “Gaia” now admits he was wrong about global warming. Two weeks of protests are being planned for this summer over the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandates. The Great Lakes are not drying up, as predicted by global warming advocates. A new official analysis announced yesterday predicts that Social Security will run out of money three years earlier than previously predicted. “The suspect is not cooperating.” The Air Force moves forward with the plans to develop a reusable first stage rocket. Cryosat has released its first seasonal variation map, tracking the growth of the Arctic icecap for the winter of 2010-2011. SpaceX and NASA have now set May 7 as the planned launch date for the Dragon test flight to ISS. The amazing Skidboot To mine the asteroids, first build small cheap space telescopes. More problems for Dark Matter A very merry unbirthday to you! New data suggests that the giant ancient asteroid barrage during the early solar system may have lasted much longer than previously thought. Four TSA screeners have been charged with accepting cash in exchange for allowing drug smugglers pass through security. Five things you didn’t know about Silly Putty. Three new Earthlike exoplanets, orbiting M dwarf stars in the habitable zone, have been identified by astronomers using Kepler data. Want to give your property away? Post on Facebook, Google or a number of other social media websites. India yesterday successfully launched its own all-weather imaging satellite. Killing private space Watch a video of a single glacier’s terminus, covering eight years of retreat. Celtic Thunder – Atmos, Druids, Deus Meus & Dulaman from Voyage A condo association threatened a woman with fines for following her religion and placing a Jewish mezuzah on her doorpost. An underground military bunker, all your own! Coiling lava on Mars Three astronauts have returned safely to Earth in their Soyuz capsule after spending 165 days on ISS. Engineers in Great Britain have begun testing a new hybrid engine for lifting a spaceplane into orbit. The Labor Department has abandoned its effort to ban kids from working on farms. Another breathtaking Hubble image of the Egg Nebula. Liam Clancy – A Place in the Choir The Monkees reunion – Daydream Believer Want to watch the launch of Falcon 9/Dragon? Here’s the low down. In closing down its ATV cargo freighter assembly line, Europe considers its next manned space project. Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada have successfully completed wind tunnel tests of their commercial manned spaceships. A political squabble between Russia and Kazakhstan has delayed the launch of a European weather satellite. On Wednesday Obama announced he would overide Congress and release of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority, with no strings attached. Andrea Glass – North Wind MIT students last week turned a whole building into huge game of Tetris. A microscopic algae-eater that lives in a Norway lake has now been identified as one of the Earth’s oldest living organisms. The construction of Freedom Tower will today finally exceed the Empire State Building, making it the tallest building in New York. Brooklyn memories SpaceX’s static fire test of the Falcon 9 still set for 3 pm today. SEC documents have revealed that the total development costs for Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket have increased to $472 million, $184 million more than what NASA is paying them. Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time Private companies have the right to mine the asteroids, established by precedent. An Australian billionaire is building a full scale replica of the Titanic. “Amid shouts of ‘What about free speech?’ from the audience, the Allegan Police Department ordered the event shut-down.” Some reasonable and unreasonable theories for what the X-37B is doing in orbit A Lego replicate of the Antikythera Mechanism Republic of fear The test flight of Falcon 9/Dragon to ISS will almost certainly not launch on May 7. Europe considers building its own reusable suborbital space plane. A new study has found that the trends of stream temperatures have no correlation with climate trends. The world’s oldest blood cells A search engine that intentionally skips the top million results. The battle to simplify and ease the United State”s international trade laws heats up. The destruction of a star by a black hole, seen by astronomers for the first time. Europe has decided to build a probe, dubbed JUICE, to study Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, Jupiter’s big icy moons. The Department of Energy has approved the start of detailed engineering for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. A special issue from Nature: Peopling the planet. Starland Vocal Band – Afternoon Delight Scientists have discovered that the half life of one of their key isotopes for dating the solar system is 30% shorter than previously believed. Last week the federal government abandoned more than a century of precedent to declare it holds senior water rights across much of Arizona’s San Pedro River riparian watershed. Boeing’s CST-100 commercial manned capsule successfully completed its second parachute drop test from 14,000 feet on Wednesday. A new study has found that the glaciers of Greenland are not behaving as predicted. The five men arrested for planning to blow up a bridge in Ohio turn out to all be active Occupy Wall Street activists. The art of flight – extreme snowboarding The CERN physicist who plotted with Islamic terrorists has been sentenced to five years in prison. The left’s Founding Fathers Using the Moon as a mirror Aerojet successfully completed a hot-fire test yesterday of its AJ26 engine to be used in Orbital Sciences Antares rocket. Carol Burnett and Robin Williams – The Funeral Shanthi the elephant plays the harmonica. SpaceX launch to ISS has now been rescheduled for May 19. Antonin Dvorak – From the New World, Symphony #9, 2nd movement Scientists have found that a solar Grand Minimum 2800 years ago might have caused a period of cooling in Europe Massachusetts state officials are restricting the kinds of foods that can be sold at bake sales. Astronomers now believe that Type 1a supernovae — used to discover dark energy — can be produced in two different ways. The Sun fizzles in April Richard Rogers – Edelweiss A space tug to bring secondary commercial payloads to different orbits. A trio of twisters captured on Mars in a single image. Dogs feel your pain One astronomer has found that the habitable zone around some smaller stars is smaller than first calculated because of tidal heating. The twenty-five coolest garages in the world. -Air Force officials declare the on-going X-37B mission, now over 400 days long, “a spectacular success.” The White House today threatened to veto the House budget because of NOAA and NASA trims. Curiosity takes a picture of itself on its way to Mars. Tony Banks – The waters of Lethe A trend, not a fluke: Indiana Republicans dump Senator Richard Lugar for a tea party favorite. Photos of East Berlin, taken in 1990 and today. A Japanese astronomy professor has been found murdered in Chile. An Indian tribe has sued and three researchers have countersued over possession of two 10,000-year-old skeletons unearthed during construction in San Diego. A bad day for Obama and the Democrats. The Chronicle of Higher Education has fired a blogger merely for criticizing black studies programs. Israel’s new coalition government: Why this new political deal happened and how it will change Israel. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found that some dunes on Mars move and change as much as those on Earth. Chopin’s Etude in Gb Major ATK today announced that it is building its own manned capsule for its Liberty solid rocket. Winter on Mars has finally ended, and Opportunity is on the move again. A University of Arizona law student has won a trip into space in the Seattle Space Needle’s “Space Race,” beating out 50,000 other contestants. The first solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in two decades will occur on May 20. The ten scariest DMV horror stories. A star not even as hot as Venus. Sierra Nevada outlines its test flight plans for Dream Chaser, its reusable manned mini-shuttle. Republican space socialism update. Bigelow and SpaceX announced today that they are teaming up to offer manned flights to space. Massachusetts’ House yesterday overturned the ban on bake sales imposed by its Department of Public Health. Twenty-two awesome pictures from history. “How I learned not to deny climate change.” From the Dawn science team: The battered failed planet Vesta. Virgil Thomson – Finale, The River Muslims are exempt from Obamacare’s insurance mandate. The Democrats and the President publicly target a private citizen, merely for supporting Romney. Obama’s Justice Department last week requested the right to access the location information in all cellphones, without a warrant. Almost sixty years after it was reported missing, a World War II RAF fighter, which crash-landed in a remote part of the Egyptian desert in 1942, has been discovered almost intact. SpaceShipTwo to resume flight tests in June after a nine month hiatus. “The closest thing on Earth to interplanetary exploration.” Why Lugar lost The federal government is liable for approximately $850 billion in student loans, and the number of borrowers defaulting on these loans is on the rise. My Music Cube The government does a study of a study about studies. The McCarthyism of the left Engineers destroying stuff. In a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers studying an icecore drilled in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet have found strong evidence of the 16th century Little Ice Age in the southern hemisphere. Dueling Banjos The assembly of the first test vehicle of XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital craft has begun. California officials have confisicated two stuffed animals from a local bar, after being on display for about a half century. Twenty-five everyday things and the words for them that no one ever uses. Art Of Noise – Robinson Crusoe An engineer has proposed in great detail building the USS Enterprise for the purpose of exploring the solar system. How the predictions for the year 2000 changed throughout the 20th century. Faced with high prices and a near monopoly by China, the mining of rare Earth metals is once again rising worldwide. Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) on Monday attacked the House version of NASA’s budget that required the agency to make a quick decision on its commercial manned launch company. LightSquared has filed for bankruptcy Canadian Brass performing live in China The Russians last night launched a new crew to ISS. A Tennessee policeman takes $22,000 cash from a driver, because he wants to. “Hate in the name of love, bullying in the name of tolerance.” A Catholic University has dropped its health coverage for students due to Obamacare and the contraceptive mandate. Building a spaceship engine fueled by antimatter. More voter fraud documented in North Carolina, including a professor who applauds it. Go west, young Russian In a poll of one congressional district in Arkansas, Obama receives support from just 45% of Democratic Party voters, and is only seven points ahead of his unknown primary challenger. An overview of what will happen on Dragon’s first flight to ISS next week. Antonio Breschi – Jig in the Castle “The Eagle has crashed.” Shut it down “This is legalized theft.” The new top dog Don’t throw away your broken electronics! There’s money to be made from them on ebay. The Senate today rejected President Obama’s proposed budget 99-0. North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has begun an investigation into the voter fraud exposed in the most recent Project Veritas videotapes. Based on further analysis of the data from WISE, the infrared space telescope, astronomers have now made a better estimate of the population of potentially hazardous asteroids A judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of the part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that allows for indefinite military detention of American citizens. Phil Collins -In the air tonight The Soyuz spacecraft has docked successfully with ISS. More information on the annular solar eclipse coming to the southwest U.S. this Sunday. New research suggests that the “good” cholesterol isn’t as good as previously believed. “I have never felt more like a nerd in my life.” Only 65% of the political class and only 61% of Democrats are aware that federal spending has gone up in the past ten years. A second Catholic University is now considering eliminating their student health plans because of Obamacare and the contraceptive mandate. Japan today launched its first commercial satellite. Toaster purse Falcon 9 is now upright on launchpad WhiteKnightTwo made its 80th flight yesterday. Duct tape suspension bridge built by the students of Dublin High School Engineering and Design Academy in California Is there a drone in your neighborhood? Falcon 9 aborted its launch tonight at 4:55 am (Eastern) at T minus zero seconds. Some thoughts on the scrub “The system itself is corrupt, but worse, it’s utterly corrupting.” A planet turning to dust SpaceX has reported that they have found the cause of the Falcon 9 launch abort this morning. The world’s most dangerous bridge? Bridge Day rappel “The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel.” SpaceX is set to begin the countdown tonight for a May 22nd launch of Falcon 9/Dragon. Boeing has unveiled a design to put small satellites into orbit for as little as $300,000 per launch. The federal judges in the Ninth Circuit plan to hold a conference in Hawaii this August that could cost $1 million or more, and will include a golf tournament, a tennis tournament, an ice cream social, a garden tour, sport fishing, yoga, surfing lessons, and Zumba dancing lessons. Forty-three Catholic institutions today filed suit over the Obamacare mandate requiring them to pay for contraceptives. Wisconsin police demand that a family bring cash to bail their son out of jail, and then confiscate the cash. The Falcon 9 launch tonight is a go, with weather 80 percent favorable The town of Tewksbury, Massachusetts has teamed up with the federal government in an attempt to seize a private hotel, sell it, and give 80 percent of the proceeds to the local police department. An eco-terrorist was arrested in Great Britain on Sunday for breaking into an agricultural research facility and trying to destroy a test crop of genetically modified wheat. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has published another spectacular oblique image of Tycho crater. Bee Gees – I Started a Joke The countdown has begun Falcon 9 has cleared the tower One step closer to a robust competitive space industry Russia is considering ending its joint commercial program with the Ukraine and Kazakhstan to launch satellites using its Dnepr rocket. “If the quality of the Administration’s economic analysis hadn’t already proven to be nearly worthless the discrepancy here would be stunning.” The world’s tallest tower opened to tourists today in Tokyo. The Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee have approved raising the airline security fees to fund the TSA. A rocket launch pushes Congress towards free enterprise R.I.P. Eugene Polley, inventor of the television remote control.. A conservative blogger and his family have been forced into hiding for revealing the criminal past of a leftwing activist. Killer microbes from the edge of space? Iran is expected to launch its first maneuverable satellite tomorrow. Based on new calculations, an astronomer has proposed the existence of an unseen planet four times the size of Earth lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. Olivia Newton John – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina “I think it was a missed opportunity of tremendous proportions that the Republicans didn’t embrace what they said they believed in during those times.” Obama only gets 58 percent of the vote in the Kentucky primary today, with “uncommitted” getting 42 percent. “the Obama camp looks ominously like a cult of personality that tolerates no dissent.” At a conference in Washington DC yesterday both Russia and Japan announced the Moon as their next primary space exploration goal. How a leftist activist/convicted bomber is working to destroy the lives of several bloggers. The National Academy holds a panel of past and present presidential science advisers, and invites only Democrats. Scientists who published a study last month that said they could find no evidence of dark matter in nearby interstellar space, have re-analyzed their data and found that the dark matter is apparently there. Four Princeton physicists received over $1.5 million in lodging subsidies from the Department of Energy while on “temporary” assignment to other labs, even after living at that assigment for as much as 14 years. Dragon has been approved to approach within one mile of ISS tonight in its first rendezvous test. Cousin Jake, Uncle Josh, Earl Scruggs – Nobody’s business “[Christians and Jews] are inferior and smaller, more cowardly and despised.” The University of Arkansas has been forced by the Obama Justice Department to allow a male student permanent access to female bathrooms. More information on the leftwing activist, Brett Kimberlin, who is trying to destroy bloggers who criticize him. Engineers at MIT have developed a coating for the inside of food bottles that will allow all the food to flow out. Dragon’s test rendezvous with ISS tonight has begun. Dragon’s dress rehearsal rendezvou last night was a success, and the spacecraft has been cleared to proceed with berthing tomorrow morning. The conflict between exploration and history Using the budget balancing rules Congress imposed on private companies, the federal deficit turns out to be five times greater than the official but fake numbers Congress normally publishes. Why Obama’s poor primary performances matter. Check out the National Speed Trap Exchange. Spectacular video of a volcano eruption in Japan yesterday. The Lunar Orbiter image of Copernicus Crater, taken forty-six years ago, has been re-released after significant refurbishing.. Destroying polio: only three nations left to go. Forecasting hurricanes Climategate continues Antonio Breschi – from Bach to Ireland on the piano The television as envisioned by dreamers — before it existed. The scientists building a space probe to go to asteroid 1999 RQ36 have better pinpointed its orbit. Cronies ‘R’ us The number of searches on Google for the phrase “bank run” has just hit an all-time high. Dragon has been captured and now is being docked with ISS “A Dragon by the tail.” The campaign of political terrorism by the left. Six fires that changed the world The Democrat mayor of a New Jersey town and his son have been arrested for hacking into the website run by an organization trying to get him recalled from office. Two Democrats joined Republicans yesterday on a Senate committee to block the U.S. military from increasing its use of alternatives fossil fuels. Europe ponders choosing the design of the next generation Ariane rocket. The entrepreneur man who squatted at AOL headquarters for two months while he created his startup. The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow The TSA has decided to no longer require the elderly to remove their jackets, belts, and shoes when going through airport security. Renovations at a Los Angeles restaurant in February uncovered a neon light, hidden inside a wall, that had been was switched on in 1935 and left burning for 77 years. “We’re going to put a bullet in your head. We know where you and your family live.” It appears that the floating debris from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year is reaching North America sooner than expected. So how’s that old Arab Spring going? Joe Hisaishi – theme from My Neighbor Totoro Modern intellectualism: “Lie to the public.” A summary of all the lives lost climbing Mount Everest. A graveyard of ships in the desert “This is the most despicable violation of religious liberty that this nation has ever seen.” Patti LuPone – Sleepy Man A side-by-side comparison of the mission controls of NASA and SpaceX Another right wing blogger has had the police called to his house because of a fake report of a shooting at his house. Excalibur Almaz announced plans on Sunday to use its refurbished Soviet-era space station modules and capsules for commercial flights to the lunar orbit. The head of the National Weather Service stepped down on Friday in response to an inspector general’s report that accused the National Weather Service of misappropriating $43 million. Twelve amazing confluences from around the world. The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, will be played on a German church organ this Wednesday. Rediscovered photos of Greenland reveal that the ice retreat in the 1930s was as drastic as today. The Stratolaunch system has entered system design review. “If nothing happens, this means people can misuse customer funds and have no criminal liability.” China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members have proposed giving the UN more control over the governance and operation of the internet. The rise of leftist eco-terrorism. Volvo road tests a system on Spanish highways where one driver in a lead truck controls a train of cars following behind him. Banned from using heavy equipment by the Forest Service to repair their water supply, Tombstone residents are planning a “Shovel Brigade” in June. A failed public works project — from the year 1350 AD An angry mob set fire to the headquarters of one of the Egyptian presidential candidates today. A Japanese dentist has invented a self-stirring cookpot that also saves energy. The world’s smallest V-12 engine This ain’t good: The most common college grade is an “A”. Computer researchers have found that the microprocessor used by the U.S. military but made in China contains secret remote access capability. Here’s a bit more information on the Excalibur Almaz proposal to launch commercial tourist flights to the Moon using refurbished Soviet-era space stations and capsules. Kazakhstan is blocking three upcoming Russian satellite launches from its spaceport in Baikonur because of a dispute over where rocket debris will fall. The BBC used a fictional UN logo from a video game instead of the real UN logo during a news broadcast. SpaceX has gotten its first contract, with Intelsat, for its not-yet-built Falcon Heavy rocket. The radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear power meltdown in Japan last year will cause almost no cases of cancer according to two separate reports. The Dead Sea is getting a bounce. According to one professor, the government should require people to exercise in order to control their weight. Carole King – Tapestry Dream Chaser underwent its first flight test today Blogger arrested today in Maryland — for blogging How scientists can author as many as 700 papers without even reading what they have written. The top GSA official involved in the extravagant Las Vegas conference has returned to work. From a past SpaceX critic: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy could wipe its launch competition. The FAA has granted Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic a launch permit to begin rocket-powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo. A U.S. senator has demanded the NIH explain how it could give a $2 million grant to a researcher previously punished for not reporting financial conflicts of interest who is also under investigation by the Department of Justice. A college has been forced to double the healthcare fees charged to its students, and lays the blame solely on Obamacare. A black former Democrat Congressman who also gave the seconding speech for Obama’s nomination in 2008 has decided to switch parties and become a Republican. A truck transporting a NASA balloon telescope worth millions has disappeared in Dallas in route from Minnesota to Texas. Antonio Breschi – Language of the Land The Whitewater-Baldy wildfire in New Mexico is now the largest in that state’s history, covering 266 square miles. The high school football star who was imprisoned for six years on a false rape charge now has four auditions with NFL teams. Ten science fiction episodes that changed television. The hatch is closed and Dragon is ready for its return to Earth tomorrow morning. The Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Egypt: “[Christians] need to know that conquest is coming, and Egypt will be Islamic, and that they must pay jizya [tribute] or emigrate.” “They are essentially accountable to no one. That is a very dangerous combination for anything.” Dragon has undocked from ISS. The missing truck carrying a NASA balloon space telescope has been located. Dragon has successfully fired its engines. A government study has found that the more educated in science and math an American is the more likely they will be skeptical of the dangers of global warming. Dragon has successfully splashed down. A county government in California, rather than buy private property through eminent domain, is using zoning regulations to force owners out so the county doesn’t have to pay any compensation. The FDA has rejected changing the name of high fructose corn syrup to corn sugar. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have determined that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course, and will meet head on in 4 billion years. How a trucking company employee solved the mystery of the missing NASA telescope. Kate Wolf – Eyes of a Painter The trial of seven earthquake scientists in Italy on charges of manslaughter for not correctly predicting the earthquake in L’Aquila continued yesterday with each of the defendants testifying. Images from Messenger now appear to support past radio telescope observations that suggested there was water-ice in the permanently shadowed craters of Mercury. What is the current state of the six American flags planted on the Moon by Apollo astronauts? One NASA engineer takes a look. Sea Launch successfully put an Intelsat communications satellite into orbit today from its floating launch platform in the Pacific. One entrepreneur and investor asks: Why isn’t Jon Corzine being prosecuted? Not good: The Labor Department announced today that the U.S. economy only added 69 thousand jobs in May, the fewest in a year. Environmental activists have launched a petition drive to stop SpaceX from building a commercial spaceport in Brownsville, Texas. Longplayer Intelsat has reported a delay in deploying one of the solar panels of its new communications satellite launched earlier today. The New York Mets get their first no-hitter after fifty years. The scientist suing JPL because he thinks he was fired due to his religious beliefs wants $1.36 million, according to court papers filed early last month. SpaceX has tentatively scheduled its first operational cargo flight to ISS for September 24. Florida has decided to continue to purge its election rolls of illegal and ineligible voters, in defiance of the Obama administration’s demand that it stop. Iran is finishing construction on a new space launch facility. The head of the World Bank warned that Europe is heading for an economic “danger zone” as bad as 2008. Amelia Earhart found? Roman Architecture Ninety-five federal workers have racked up $750,000 in travel expenses, while working at home. An economy built to stall How to bake bread in space. A targeted SETI observation of Gliese 581, the nearest star with exoplanets in the habitable zone, has found no evidence of alien communications. An Israeli company has discovered a giant off-shore oil and gas field within Israeli territorial waters. A new gun range in Texas plans to offer itself for kids’ birthday parties. The day of reckoning looms: A bank run by an Obama bundler has gotten an Republican-led House committee to exempt that bank from provisions of the Frank-Dodd act, saving the bank $300 million. The Muppets – The Martians discover a telephone Something caused the Earth to bombarded with cosmic rays in 775 AD but scientists have no idea what. Using video game software, Surrey Satellite has devised a way for nanosatellites to seek each other out and then dock to form a larger satellite. Blackballing Nat Hentoff The man tapped to head Romney’s transition team should he win the election favors implementing Obamacare on the state level. A fascinating look at the space race and what the future held, written in 1959. The transit of Venus tomorrow. Some details and photos of Sierra Nevada’s captive carry test flight last week of Dream Chaser. Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister paid a call at that country’s under-construction Vostochny spaceport today, enthusing about its possibilities. Landlady rejects renting an apartment to a man because he was a veteran who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. More colleges have announced plans to drop their student healthplans due costs imposed by Obamacare. The military has given NASA two Cold War era spy space telescopes with mirrors comparable to Hubble’s. Fifteen picturesque shipwrecks from around the world. Astronomers think they have discovered a distant supermassive black hole that is being ejected from its galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour. Shuttle prototype Enterprise was damaged on Sunday while being transported by barge to its New York City museum home. Due to cost overruns, NASA has cancelled the GEM X-ray telescope. Doc Watson – Windy and Warm The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has asked the Utah state legislature for permission to scan the license plates of all cars driving on Interstate 15. Taking a look at the test flight planning for Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo capsule. The surest sign that the Democrats will lose the recall vote there today: “Mainstream media escapes from Wisconsin.” According to a new poll, the number of voters who consider themselves independents is now the highest in seventy-five years. The debt of the federal government is projected to be nearly twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2037, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced Tuesday. The trustee of the customers whose money was stolen by MF Global has indicated in a report that he might sue Jon Corzine for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. In order to do a fifteen minute campaign photo-op on Memorial Day, Obama shut down the Vietnam Memorial down to everyone, including veterans, for seven hours. Tone deaf: The union representing maintenance crews at Belmont is threatening to go on strike on Friday, just prior to the Belmont Stakes where the horse “I’ll Have Another” has a chance to win the Triple Crown. Watching the transit of Venus – from Saturn Want to own your own island? Now you can have it built, and put it wherever you want! Congressional investigators now have documents that prove senior officials in Eric Holder’s Department of Justice approved Operation Fast and Furious, whereby the DOJ allowed guns to be purchased illegally and then smuggled back to Mexico. “So come and get me if you must, Mr. President. I will not bow to your wicked regulation.” Watch the Venus transit live Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) has backed down and modified the language he had inserted in the NASA budget bill that would have limited the number of commercial space companies NASA could subsidize. Bryn Terfel – Turtle Dove Scott Walker wins big in Wisconsin “I will kill Walker myself.” Off to Nevada Solar Dynamic Observatory successfully imaged Venus’s atmosphere during yesterday’s transit Ray Bradbury has died. Sammy Davis, Jr. – Mr. Bojangles On the road Making diamonds with only an acetylene torch. First day caving in Nevada Don McLean – American pie Loudon Wainwright – One-man Guy Caving in Nevada 20,000 bottle rockets Blondie – Dreaming & Heart Of Glass On the way home Construction of the world’s largest ground-based telescope has been approved by the European Southern Observatory. Penn & Teller – Blast Off One of the window’s of the observation cupola on ISS has been hit by a micrometeorite and is now shuttered until engineers can evaluate the damage. Orbital Sciences successfully launched NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope this morning. Unless they can find a buyer the United Kingdom will close down its 3.8 meter infrared UKIRT telescope on Mauna Kea in 2013. NASA has released more information about the two space telescopes the National Reconnaissance Office has donated to them. The X-37b in orbit for the past fifteen months is set to land this week, possibly even today. Have two physicists created solid metallic hydrogen in the lab? Scientists fight it out. The North Carolina legislature has passed a bill that requires its coastal planning commission to ignore the accelerated sea level rise predictions of global warming scientists and instead use more conservative numbers. Cave exploration in the western mountains Mars Odyssey put itself into safe mode on Friday when it detected problems with one of the three reaction wheels used to orient the spacecraft. A global view of Vesta Vaughan Williams – Sea Songs More lakes on Titan Scientists have developed a genetically altered mosquito that does not transmit malaria to humans. China is in its final preparations for the launch of its next manned mission. Watch an asteroid a third of a mile across zip past the Earth tonight. A new poll in Nevada repeats what was found in North Carolina: Obama appears to be losing a significant percentage of the black vote. Has Voyager 1 finally left the solar system? The real estate crash: We’ve only just begun A painted red disk of cave art has now been dated at 40,800 years old, making it the oldest known art that might even have been painted by the Neanderthals. Billy Joel – Piano Man Copenhagen Suborbitals: The crazy DIY spaceflight project that just might work. Engineers have successfully tested a spare reaction wheel on Mars Odyssey in their effort to bring the spacecraft back into full operation. “The latest data indicate that we are clearly in a new region where things are changing more quickly. It is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system’s frontier.” A UCLA professor who exposed corruption while also challenging the legitimacy of certain California fuel regulations, has sued the university for firing him. China’s next manned mission, with one female astronaut aboard, will launch Saturday. The IRS’s budget has grown by almost a billion dollars due to Obamacare. The nightmare of being a conservative on a modern college campus. The EPA will propose today stricter standards for the release of soot by factories and power plants. The Sun’s fizzle continues The federal government is on a pace to exceed its $16.394 trillion debt limit sooner than expected, by October, just before the election. Scientists have concluded that a 460 foot diameter asteroid only has a 1 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2040. Orbital Sciences has delayed the first testing firing of its Antares rocket until late July or early August. On exhibit in New York: A mock mission to Mars, built by an artist using, among other things, duct tape. Geologists think they have finally identified the volcano that in 1258 AD produced the largest eruption in 7,000 years — an event that was completely unnoticed by humanity at the time. Vertical Video Syndrome – a PSA Despite the continuing lack of an agreement, Kazakhstan today gave Russia permission to resume launches from the Baikonur spaceport. SONNY & CHER – I Got You Babe China has successfully put into orbit its first three person crew, including its first female astronaut, on its first manned space docking mission. The X-37b that has been in orbit for the past 15 months successfully returned to Earth in a runway landing today. Dancing Birds China’s Shenzhou-9 capsule successfully docked with Tiengong-1 and the crew has entered the space module. An IBM supercomputer today became the fastest in the world. The TSA has tentatively approved a plan to allow private companies to screen passengers in Orlando. The terrorist training that Gaza gives to kindergarten children. With pictures. The Moon: a desert after all? A school bus used by a church to drive anti-abortion protesters to a local abortion clinic was firebombed Friday night. “[W]ith few exceptions, climate models not only fail to do better than random numbers, in some cases they are actually worse.” The FAA and NASA have worked out their differences concerning their regulation of private commercial space. A Wyoming think tank is suing the Federal Election Commission in behalf of three Wyoming residents who were denied the right to run a political ad hostile to Barack Obama. Global warming: Second thoughts by an environmentalist. The Beatles – All You Need Is Love Want to invest in a spacesuit company? Now you can! Spending money on silliness at the NSF and NIH A Virginia dog receives a voter registration form in the mail, asking him to register to vote. Adults heckle and shout down kindergarten students singing “God Bless the USA” at a graduation ceremony in Brooklyn. NBC has been caught again, for the third time this year, of selectively editing news footage to create a false scenario. The pork of Obamacare According to FBI statistics released last week, violent crime has declined for the fifth year in a row, the 18th time in the last 20 years. Bugs Bunny – Hare Tonic Mars Odyssey is out of safe mode and should be back in full operation by next week. A new company has announced plans to use the Gemini capsule design from the 1960s to provide crew and cargo capability to orbit. The first manually flown docking by Chinese astronauts is now scheduled for June 24. Memo to NBC: What the hell is wrong with you? Congress has pulled all funding for the Eisenhower memorial, the design of which is strongly opposed by the Eisenhower family. How to make potato chips that look like translucent shards of glass. Excalibur Almaz has announced plans for a privately funded trip to the Moon. SpaceShipTwo was in the air on Friday, as WhiteKnightTwo did a 1.5 hour test flight with the ship attached to its belly. The high school teacher who thought it is a crime to criticize the president and threatened students for doing so will keep her job. President Obama today invoked executive privilege in order to withhold documents demanded by a House committee investigating the “Fast and Furious” gun scandal. The number of available job openings in April showed biggest drop in nearly 4 years. Eric Holder has retracted his false claim that the Bush administration had started the program allowing guns to be smuggled illegally to Mexico. New data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton Crater, located on the moon’s south pole. The uncertainty of science: New data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton Crater, located on the moon’s south pole. The House panel investigating the scandal has now voted to place Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.Fast and Furious again: The House panel investigating the scandal has now voted to place Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. Excalibur Almaz has signed a deal to use Xcor’s Lynx suborbital craft to train its astronauts. The House yesterday proposed a spending bill that would cut the EPA’s budget to $7 billion, 17% less than what it received in 2012. The empty bench of the Democratic Party. Joe Hisaishi – The Path of the Wind from My Neighbor Totoro Astronomers have videotaped the fly-by of a 23-foot-wide asteroid as it zipped past the Earth on May 29 at a distance of only about 12,000 miles. The TSA’s security checkpoint of the future. “And ask yourself this, if they’re that egregious at lying on that issue, what else are they lying about?” According to this article, the water-ice discovered at Shackleton Crater is insufficient for human settlement. Test firing of SpaceShipTwo’s rocket motor has begun. “Every word out of their mouth was, ‘we don’t care,'” The Obama administration spent $10 billion dollars to create 355 renewable energy jobs, according to testimony to Congress on Tuesday. New data from Martian meteorites suggests that the interior of Mars has about the same amount of water as the Earth. The second phase in the robotic satellite refueling demo on ISS has gotten underway. Two exoplanets in a tight orbital dance. New data from Antarctica suggests that the south pole icecap is not warming, as predicted by climate models. The Senate has passed that pork-filled farm bill, with 16 Republicans and 46 Democrats voting for it. A walk across the Brooklyn Bridge An asteroid that was discovered only four days before it flew by the Earth on June 14 has turned out to be much bigger than first thought. The first complete view of Earth as a globe — looking down from above the north pole. The Social Security Trust Fund will start losing value in 2013. The IPCC has decided that it is too difficult to purge non-peer-reviewed envionmental activist press releases from its next report. Glass jewellery believed to have been made by Roman craftsmen has been found in an ancient tomb in Japan. Passacaglia – Chedeville Forbidden by the Forest Service from using powered equipment, a shovel brigade of 60 people last weekend made temporary repairs to Tombstone’s water line. NASA has delayed the first test flight of Orion’s launch abort system by two years to 2017. Figuring out how to launch a mini-shuttle, Dream Chaser, on an Atlas rocket. The Obama campaign demanded photo IDs from anyone who wanted to attend a recent rally in Ohio. The Dodd-Frank downgrade. A Dad’s secret high school graduation present to his daughter — that took thirteen years to make. NBC News struggles with significant ratings decline. Charting the relative economic strength of the world’s most powerful countries over the past 2000 years. THE BANGLES- MANIC MONDAY What if Walmart sold 2,500 guns illegally, walked them into Mexico, and hid the documentation from Congress? A three man crew took a Chinese submersible to a depth of 22,800 feet in the Mariana Trench earlier this week, the record for that nation. What the hell is Matt 2012? China’s astronauts successfully undocked, backed away from their space station, and then completed a manual docking early today. The second phase of NASA’s robotic refueling demo on ISS has successfully proven that a robot can remove a satellite fuel cap not designed for refueling. A human-powered helicopter was successfully flown for 50 seconds on June 21, setting a new world record. A Dallas cop arrests a motorcyclist on a false made-up charge in order to confiscate his helmet camera. Not only will the North Carolina high school teacher who thought it is a crime to criticize the president and threatened students for doing so keep her job, the student who exposed her ignorance is being harassed by the school. Because a TSA agent failed to notice his metal detector was unplugged, hundreds of passengers at JFK Airport in New York had to go back and be rescreened, including those already on two planes on the runway, causing hours of delays. NBC has once again been caught deceptively editing videtape material, and this time it might be used by Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers to get him a mistrial. Obamacare: 0-98 More fraud in the social psychology field: A psychologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam has resigned, with two of his papers now retracted. SpaceX has successfully tested an upgraded version of its Merlin rocket engine. Shortly after the peace order against him was partially stayed — restoring his right to criticize leftwing activist and convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin — blogger Aaron Walker and his family were SWAT-ted, whereby a crank call triggered a SWAT team attack on his home. Drive recklessly. It appears the Easter Island statues did walk the eleven miles from the quarry where they were carved. More details on both SpaceX’s Merlin engine test yesterday as well as Orbital Sciences’ test firing of its Antares AJ-26 rocket engine on Monday. Using WhiteKnightTwo to launch cargo and an update on revisions to SpaceShipTwo’s design. The Stoning of Christians — in Michigan The full story about last night’s swatting of a blogger critical of leftwing activist and convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin. A TSA agent in Florida spilled the cremated remains of a man’s grandfather on the floor after illegally opening the jar to finger the ashes. Astronomers watch as the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way begins to eat a giant gas cloud. Boeing has successfully tested the thruster it plans to use on its CST-100 crew/cargo capsule. Enya – Only Time A German court has declared the practice of Judaism a crime. China has spent $6 billion since 1992 on its manned space program. Stockton, California, has filed for bankruptcy, making it the largest bankruptcy of any U.S. city in history. More than thirty thousand people have been ordered to flee the growing wildfire in Colorado. The scientific stupidity of the TSA’s security rules. Brookhaven Labs has achieved the hottest man-made temperature ever, 4 trillion degrees Celsius. The bloody and corrupt scandal of Obama’s Fast-and-Furious gun-smuggling operation: a summary. Both Russia and the United States have developed a “pain ray” weapon for dispersing protestors. Scientists have found a previously unknown mineral embedded in a meteorite that crashed to Earth in 1969. Marilyn Monroe – Heat Wave SpaceShipTwo resumed flight tests yesterday. Solar scientists think they have found out what heats the Sun’s atmosphere: Giant solar tornadoes thousands of miles high. A private organization focused on preventing asteroids from impacting the Earth today announced its plans to build and launch an infrared space telescope by 2017. Data of the tidal fluxes on Titan by the Cassini spacecraft now suggest that there is a liquid ocean below Titan’s icy crust. The new X-ray telescope NuSTAR has opened its eye and taken its first images. Astronomers think they have found the fastest moving pulsar yet found, flying through space at between 5 to 6 million miles per hour. Extreme Sports Doggy China’s Shenzhou 9 spacecraft has landed safely, and all three astronauts have exited the capsule in good health. A skeptic takes an educated look at alternative energy. While thousands protest the restarting of any nuclear power plants in Japan following last year’s earthquake, some scientists have questions about one particular plant. A Modest Proposal The IRS has announced that it will increase its investigations of tax-exempt political groups. “It’s all up to the voters now.” Scientists have identified the oldest known impact crater on Earth, three billion years old. The most powerful rocket presently in service, the Delta-4 Heavy, successfully launched a U.S. surveillance satellite this morning. Clark Lindsey posted today this interesting cost comparison between the Falcon 9 and the Russian-built Proton rocket. Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister said today that his country needs to expand its commercial space services and grab market share from the United States and Europe. The journal Science once again excuses scientific fraud The sex life of a living rock. Henri part 3 – The Vet Wiretap applications by Eric Holder’s Justice Department are now providing evidence that top officials, including Holder, knew about the Fast-and-Furious program and its smuggling of guns illegally into Mexico long before the murder of border agent Brian Terry by one of those guns. “All these whistleblowers have axes to grind. ATF needs to f—k these guys.” A SWAT team in Indiana broke down the unlocked front door, tossed in stun grenade, and then stormed into … (wait for it) … the wrong house. The stuck solar panel on Intelsat 19, launched June 1, has finally deployed. Kate Wolf – Looking Back At You Three astronauts have safely returned from ISS in a Soyuz capsule after 193 days in orbit. Second Anniversary Bleg Feist – 1234 & Mushaboom Take a gander at these cool images from SpaceShipTwo’s most recent test flights. Retired astronaut Alan Poindexter has been killed in a jet ski accident. Iran plans to attack U.S. commercial planes should an attack occur on its nuclear program. The stink bug, first seen in the east, has now invaded 38 states including the Pacific coast. Obamacare: the final battle. The Secret Service shut down a “Fire Holder” rally this morning in front of the White House. The U.S.-based physicists announced today that their data suggests that the Higgs boson exists. A investigation has found that Japanese anesthesiologist, Yoshitaka Fujii, fabricated a 172 scientific papers over the past 19 years. A newly discovered fossil of a very early dinosaur strongly suggests that all dinosaurs had some form of plumage. Rufus Wainwright – Albatross NASA today unveiled for the press the Orion capsule scheduled for the program’s first test flight in 2014. A Tea Party event today in Tucson Boeing and Lockheed Martin are both considering hiring the Russia aerospace company Energia to build components for the CST-100 and Orion manned capsules. A nice summary of the scientific results so far returned by Messenger. Hope and dispair for American bats: New results on the fungus that is killing them. A report released on Monday states that U.S. state and local governments have more than $2 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities. “If you want to give a vegetarian diet to a pet, get a rabbit, not a dog or a cat.” Though an engineering success, the world’s tallest building in Dubai has also turned out to be a financial flop. A Dearborn Muslim has been charged with nine counts of attempted murder for trying to run down a crowd of Christian protesters with his car. Since 2006 carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. has plunged, almost reaching 1991 levels. New research has found that from 20,000 to 7,000 years ago Great Britain was surrounded by a vast area of dry land that reached as far as Denmark. A brief history of rock n’ roll in 100 riffs On the Space Show tonight The map that named the New World From CERN: The experiments have observed a “particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson.” Happy Independence Day! The link to last night’s Space Show interview Whitney Houston – National Anthem – Super Bowl XXV Inexplicably, a dust disk detected around a star about 460 light years away has vanished in the last two years. The United States of winners Astronomers have found four different binary star systems with the stars orbiting so close to each other that they complete their orbits in less than four hours, orbits that astronomers had previously believed “impossible.” ATK’s push to build its Liberty launch system. How the Higgs boson explains the universe. A new set of Democrats backed out this week from attending the Democratic Convention or endorsing Obama for President. How well does your Congressman uphold his oath to uphold the Constitution? The new Freedom Index will tell you! “There’s already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they’re not even done yet.” How fireworks work It ain’t easy creating your own nation, and here’s the history to prove it. Opportunity’s view from Mars, a panorama taken during the rover’s most recent winter stopover. Just for Laughs Jesus pranks Six patients are suing one of the world’s largest stem cell companies, accusing it of fraud. A European Space Agency (ESA) working group has recommended the agency focus its next manned space project on redesigning its now abandoned ATV cargo ship as a service module for the U.S.’s Orion capsule. The only program surveying the southern sky for dangerous asteroids has lost its funding and will end this month. An Israeli company has developed a medical marijuana strain that doesn’t make you high. Another dismal jobs report. Scientists can now use neutron detectors at the south pole to warn astronauts on ISS of incoming dangerous radiation. A study has found that Americans and Europeans give directions differently. Is the U.S. government reading your emails? The answer appear to be “Maybe.” Vice President Paul Ryan? A Phoenix man has been jailed for hold Bible study sessions in his own home. AARON LEWIS – Country Boy For a second year in a row the U.S. has negotiated a deal with a Russian company to provide icebreaker service to Antarctica during the winter. The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $1.4 billion cut in the budget of EPA, also including 31 additional riders limited the agency’s regulatory powers. Tomoyasu Hotei – Battle without Honor or Humanity Cool images of the opening of the floodgates of a Chinese dam. National Park Service is proposing the removal of several historic bridges in Yosemite because they interfere with water flow, according to environmentalists. Daffy Duck – What makes Daffy Duck? Human ingenuity at its best. New research has apparently disproven the Mono Lake research that suggested that arsenic might replace phosphorus as one of the basic building blocks of life. New research suggests that — despite its known bad effects — weightlessness might actually slow the aging process. “Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth.” Life before air conditioning. The fizzle continues A hotel for stargazers Cassini has shifted its orbit so that it can look down on Saturn and its rings. A survey of doctors nationwide has found that 83% have considered abandoning the practice of medicine due to Obamacare. I’m farming and I grow it A student experiment that was successfully flown up and down to ISS by Dragon is apparently a failure because no one on ISS ever turned it on. The Russian company building that country’s Glonass GPS system is under investigation by the police for the embezzlement of more than a half billion rubles. A campaign in England to reform that country’s libel laws. The rise and fall of Germany’s solar power industry. The glaciers of the Karakoram Range in the Himalayas are not shrinking as predicted, according to satellite data. The number of Democrats in the House willing to join the Republicans to vote for repeal of Obamacare appears to be growing. An indoor climbing wall that never ends. The Democratic candidate for Secretary of State of Missouri claims that no Jews were killed on 9/11, while also suggesting that Jews were involved in the attack itself. Cassini has now seen the beginnings of a vortex over Titan’s south pole, the first sign that winter is coming to the planet’s southern hemisphere. India is in the process of biometrically identifying every one of it 1.2 billion citizens. Suzi Quatro – Can The Can Another California city, San Bernardino, has decided to declare bankruptcy. Five rifles for the end of times. Hubble has discovered a fifth moon orbiting Pluto. From Virgin Galactic come two announcements today Scientists find out what makes a stinky rock stink. “It’s the spending, stupid.” The Internet Cat Video Film Festival. With each new estimate, the cost of Obamacare has risen. See chart below the fold. Five Democrats joined 239 Republicans in the House to repeal Obamacare today. Sierra Nevada has successfully completed testing of the nose landing gear for its Dream Chaser manned reusable spacecraft. The Virginia spaceport at Wallops Island is on schedule to hand control of its launchpad sometime this month so that Orbital Sciences can begin ground tests of its Antares rocket. It seems that more than one experiment was not turned on during their stay on ISS this past month, and an investigation has begun as to why. Lulu – To Sir With Love At least 80 House Republicans have signed a letter demanding that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) block any further funding of Obamacare. Researchers have concluded that the dust on the Moon’s surface there pose serious health risks for lunar colonists. “Systematically and in all sorts of ways, old people are doing everything possible to rob you [today’s youth] of your money, your future, your dignity, and your freedom.” The Sun has emitted a big flare, and a coronal mass ejection from this is expected to hit the Earth on Saturday. Another psychologist has resigned amid questions over the validity of his research. An new material has claimed the record as the world’s lightest solid. The Obama administration has decided to waive the work requirements under the 1996 welfare reform law, even though the law does not give the executive branch that right. Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry – “Your name, sir?” “The worst attack on Jewish life since the Holocaust.” “There’s this reign of terror going on in the Republican Party” The worst logo fails ever. Poland has been accepted as a member of the European Space Agency. Against the advice of almost every farm organization the USDA is proceeding with regulations that will require farmers to individually tag every chicken and cow. Laurie Anderson – O Superman Bad training of the astronauts led to the failure of the student experiments recently on ISS. ESA is revamping how it builds rockets in order to compete with SpaceX. Why the Presidential race looks so close: Too many pollsters are oversampling Democrats. Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz Mars Odyssey went into safe mode on Wednesday for about 21 hours. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved a record-setting laser shot with a peak power of 500 trillion-watts to a target of just two millimeters in diameter. The weird and tone deaf political analysis of the left. The EPA is attempting to enforce a regulation requiring ships to use low-sulfur fuel, despite the fact that the regulation has not yet been voted on by Congress. The Obama administration has backed off and is giving Florida access to a database of noncitizens so the state can check for illegal voters. Things in slow motion: a compilation Three astronauts successfully lifted off on a Soyuz rocket earlier today, headed to ISS. A new study suggests that the glaciers in the Himalayas are shrinking, with different regions shrinking much faster than others. Obama’s left wing civility Glenn Miller – In the Mood Has Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser been picked as one of two finalists in NASA’s competition to ferry crew and cargo to ISS? Democrats in Congress proposed on Friday creating a federal program to develop and implement “forensic science standards.” The Obama administration has been caught tracking the emails of a group of scientists critical of certain FDA actions. The field of clinical psychology is in an uproar over the resignation of two members of the group revising the field’s basic manual for diagnosing mental disorders. A review by the IPCC of its earlier reports has admitted to serious problems and fundamental biases. Florida police shoot and kill the wrong man after knocking on the wrong door. Cat photos taken at just the right moment. The cost of launch Julie Andrews – Feed the Birds Building the first laptops. Video of a 71-year-old man using his concealed carry pistol to shoot two armed robbers. Because of a single complaint a retirement home has forbidden its residents from praying.in common areas. The preliminary plans for rebuilding the Titanic were released today. Scientists think they have found the cause of the inexplicable slow down in the speed of the two Pioneer spacecraft, and it isn’t due to some previously unknown force of nature. Gilbert & Sullivan – I am the Monarch of the Sea In Columbia County, Georgia that means a law enforcement official can enter your home without permission, bang on your bedroom door, wake you up, and yell at you about it. A Virginia police officer shot a family’s pet dog as he arrived to tell a family that their son had been murdered. Outlining the optimal military tactics for taking the Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle. Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanet smaller than Earth. Scientists have failed to detect one of the leading theoretical candidates for dark matter. sNASA’s Space Launch System is costing 320 times more than NASA’s commercial space program. British police have closed their investigation trying to find out who leaked the climategate emails. “He stands there at the front of the mob, in his shirt sleeves, swinging that government hammer, exhorting the crowd to use its votes and take what it wants.” Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have found the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. Cassini has photographed daytime lightning on Saturn. The ten tallest skyscrapers now under construction A proposal by three Republican senators to avoid a “lame-duck looting session” after the November election. How Americans sound to British people NASA successfully completed today a parachute drop test of its Orion capsule. Despite a court order one year ago requiring them to “promptly” hold public hearings on the use of x-ray scanners, the TSA still refuses to comply. The TSA allowed 25 illegal aliens to attend a flight school owned by an illegal alien. Orbital Sciences has announced an updated schedule for testing and flying its Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule to ISS. Russia is considering shortening the time it takes for its Progress and Soyuz capsules to reach ISS after launch, from 50 hours to 6. Russia has announced it has begun construction on a lunar lander, set for its first unmanned test flight in 2015. Much has been made in the past few days of this NYT/CBS poll that found the Presidential race to be a dead heat. The lawsuits fighting the Obama administration mandate that religious organizations fund contraceptives against their religious beliefs has now risen to more than 20 separate cases and nearly 60 individual plaintiffs, What would happen if a fastball pitcher could throw a baseball at 90% speed of light? The TSA protester who stripped naked when TSA agents demanded he submit to a more detailed body search has won his case in court. A Texas woman did not want a smart meter installed in her home, and when the power company employee would not take no for an answer she stopped him — by showing him her legal gun. Check out this incredible image of a storm last week that took place over New York City, taken by an amateur photographer. Beauty and the Beast – Little Town This year there will be more cases of whooping cough in fifty years. The next Russian manned capsule and rocket? The IRS and Labor Department have started investigations into the finances of a Romney campaign contributor who was also named number one on Obama’s enemies list. Water on the Moon? The battle continues Some spectacular pictures inside the caves of eastern Austria. Mitchell and Webb – Moon Landing sketch Archimedes – Marble Roller Coaster “You didn’t build that.” Commemorating the victims in Colorado. Some spectacular images of galaxies from the new Discovery Channel Telescope. The oldest known color videotape recording: President Eisenhower in 1958 If you own that art, it’s not yours. The IRS owns it instead. David Lanz – Water from the Moon “The suspicions that the system is rigged in favor of the largest banks and their elites, so they play by their own set of rules to the disfavor of the taxpayers who funded their bailout, are true.” A new study has found strong evidence that compact fluorescent bulbs can harm the skin. Ten hotels made of weird things. Watching a big asteroid zip past the earth, live The Obama administration has approved a deal between Space Systems/Loral and a Chinese satellite company, even though this is the same company that leaked crucial satellite technology to China in the past. Because of a new federal regulation, passengers who use US Airways for only part of their flight will have to check their bags and go through security again when they switch airlines. House Democrats are not paying their dues to the party’s central committee. NASA successfully tested a new inflatable heat shield today. Mumford & Sons – The Cave Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, has died. A test redocking of a new automatic docking system on a Russian Progress freighter was aborted last night when the system did not work as planned. According to a new survey of businesses, 1 in 10 will drop health coverage for their employees when Obamacare goes into full effect. The world’s fastest everything Mars Odyssey has successfully adjusted its orbit so as to provide up-to-the-minute communications when Curiosity lands on August 5. One of Kepler’s reaction wheels — used to orient the space telescope — has failed. Skydiver Felix Baumgartner has successfully completed an 18 mile dive in preparation for a record 23 mile dive next month. Solar Impulse has successfully completed the first intercontinental roundtrip powered only by solar power. The Democrats in the Senate have passed their tax plan. Twelve Girls Band On the road Bermuda Cliff Jumping The U.S. military is developing plans to recycle orbiting space junk into workable satellites. A New Hampshire businessman who appeared in a Romney ad has gone to the police to report the phone threats he has since received. An Oregon man faces 30 days in jail for collecting rainwater on his property. Local government officials shut down a kid’s hot dog stand — before it even opens. Researchers think they’ve found a German U-boat buried in the sand in a Canadian river almost 100 miles inland. July 28 has now been set for the next docking attempt by a Progress freighter to ISS using Russia’s new docking system. A Colorado judge has issued an injunction preventing the Obama administration from enforcing its contraceptive drug mandate against a private company because the mandate might violate that company’s religious rights. A Democrat election judge has said he will not enforce the Pennsylvania law that requires identification in order to vote. Tesla Turret Opera (Cara Mia Addio) New analysis of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images suggests that most of the American flags planted at the Apollo landing sites are still standing. A new comparison by scientists of polygon-shaped formations on both the Earth and Mars suggests that both were formed underwater, providing further evidence that Mars once had oceans. The Marines have put in an order for 12,000 M1911 pistols, the iconic 45 caliber pistol designed by John Browning more than a 100 years ago and used by the American military for most of the first half of the 20th century. Super Mario as surreal art The Russians today successfully redocked their unmanned Progress freighter to ISS, using a new docking system. Doing everything but the job of President. After using his truck without his permission in a botched sting operation, the U.S. government is now refusing to compensate the owner for the truck’s destruction. The Roman Colosseum has been found to be leaning about sixteen inches to the south. Kitaro – Mercury performed live most of the weather stations in the US are so poorly sited that their temperature data is unreliable. The landslides of Iapetus: longer and more frequent than anywhere else in the solar system. Water Ice in Shackleton Crater? Election fraud, at the NAACP and elsewhere. An Obamacare tax on medical devices has caused one company to cancel plans to build five new factories. Trying to buy tickets to the London Olympics: A soul-destroying experience. “This extended 180-month period of non-warming was not predicted by a single global climate model – nada, zilch, zero.” Two Democrats have introduced legislation to restrict the sale of ammunition to ordinary Americans. Enya – My! My! Time Flies! China has announced plans to land an unmanned probe on the Moon next year, the first such planned landing since the 1970s. A journalist takes objective look at global warming A new budget report released by the Obama Administration on Friday projects the federal debt to rise to $16.2 trillion by the end of the year and $25.4 trillion by 2022. “Is the City Council going to set up a ‘Council Committee on Un-Chicagoan Activities’ and call those of us who are suspect to appear before it?” Happy birthday Milton Friedman A Connecticut man is arrested and has his guns confiscated because he fired his doctor and demanded that doctor provide him copies of all his lab tests. The connection between a child rapist and climategate. John Williams — The Cowboys Overture The Republican establishment choice for Texas senator was resoundingly defeated today by the tea party candidate. The perspective of one man A tranquil spiral galaxy, home to supernovae. The decision on NASA’s manned commercial crew contract will be made this week, according to new rumors. A scientific analysis of a database of over a million songs produced since 1955 has found that modern popular music is louder and has less variety or range than the popular music of the past. “Get the [expletive] Jews out of my pool!” Another set of pro-Obama polls that oversample Democrats. The disappearance of the old-fashioned chemistry set. on the air tonight How the federal government has persecuted a scientist for whistling at a whale. Why are liberals so intolerant? a Progress freighter, launched today, will test a new rendezvous route that takes only 6 hours to reach the station instead of the normal 48. The house of the future, as predicted in 1957 NASA will announce the winners of the commercial crew contracts on Friday. The Russians have successfully docked their Progress freighter to ISS, using a fast route that took only 6 hours. On the air revised Fooling the media A new report predicts that the demand for suborbital spaceflight, both manned and unmanned, will rise by one third in the next ten years. A federal appeals court has now ordered the TSA to explain by August 30 why it has defied an earlier court ruling on the use of the backscatter x-ray scanners. A pro-life Catholic group announced today it will openly defy the new pro-abortion mandate imposed by the Obama administration. The TSA has agreed to allow its workers to unionize. The just released Pew poll which shows Obama with a 10 point lead oversampled Democrats by 19 points. Liz Callaway – It might as well be spring Alan Boyle at NBC tonight reports that Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada are the winning companies in the competition to provide human ferrying services to ISS. What one supernovae looks like after the boom. Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada the winners of NASA’s commercial crew contracts. Curiosity’s journey and upcoming landing, a summary. New computer models suggest that the Moon was created when a Mars-sized asteroid hit the Earth in a head-on collision at high speed, not a glancing blow at relatively slow speeds, as previously thought. A Chick-Fil-A was covered with graffiti last night reading “Tastes like Hate” in anticipation of the gay community’s “National Same-Sex Kiss Day.” When asked in a survey if they would discriminate against conservatives, the academic community freely admitted that it would gladly do so. Liberals are calling for the murder of a 6-year-old, star of youtube video entitled “6-Year-Old Gives 10 Reasons NOT to Vote for Obama!” Launching a beer can into space. Archeologists are disputing the age of a jawbone found in a cave in England. Have astronomers found a future supernova? More signs that the Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to enter interstellar space. Attack of the Cookie Monsters. Making fire using only Ikea products A visual tour of the leftist paradise of Berkeley. India’s government has okayed the launch of an unmanned probe to Mars. Ry Cooder – He’ll Have To Go – Live 1977 The new Mars rover… Arizona — in corporation with the federal government — has now joined Utah, California and Texas in scanning and recording the license plates of cars near the Mexican border Jackson Browne – Fountain of sorrow – Live Curiosity has landed safely on Mars. First high resolution image from Curiosity Gibson Guitars has struck a deal with the federal government to avoid prosecution for the use of banned wood. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last night captured a spectacular image of Curiosity descending by parachute to the surface of Mars. “I hope that someone someday shoot your whole familly” Eagles – Hotel California – New Zealand (Live 1995) The Muslim leader who was heading an “Tolerance in Islam” conference in Turkey was attacked by one of the attendees. A Russian Proton rocket has failed to put two satellites into their proper orbit. R.I.P. Astronomer Bernard Lowell. SpaceShipTwo has resumed glide tests. The first science images from Curiosity, including nearby Mt. Sharp. An Obama-backed Muslim Group is now blaming Congresswoman Michell Bachmann for Sikh shooting this past weekend. “Washington may have the healthiest economy of any major metropolitan area in the country.” New evidence suggests that Al Frankel (D-Minnesota) won his senate seat almost certainly due to voter fraud. A Nigerian Muslim terrorist group is demanding that nation’s Christian President convert to Islam in order to stop the terrorist attacks. The Sun continues to fizzle On the air R.I.P. composer Marvin Hamlisch. The first color image from Curiosity. Emails by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and others in the Obama administration now show that, under the GM bailout, they purposely terminated the pensions of 20,000 retirees solely because they were not union members, and then lied to Congress about this. “The ABC News product increasingly ceases to be journalism. It is sensationalism. It is reprehensible. It’s time to let ABC News feel the sting of public disapproval.” Alvino Rey – St. Louis Blues The price of pizza is set to rise because of Obamacare. In celebration of the European Southern Observatory’s fiftieth anniversary, they are holding two competitions One of the teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize has signed a launch contract with China. The scramble in Congress to head the House committee on Space, Science, and Technology after November’s election has begun. Using today’s most advanced climate models Indian meteorologists were still unable to correctly predict this year’s monsoon rainfall. Democratic Congressman Peter Stark (D-California) reportedly threatened the family of another California politician after learning that politician was endorsing Stark’s primary opponent. Documents obtained from the Obama administration have revealed that the administration ordered law enforcement officers to “stand down” and not enforce the law against the Occupy movement. Curiosity views its surroundings. A Virginia county zoning board has fined a farmer five thousand dollars for hosting child’s birthday party on her property. Band of Horses – The Funeral Neil Armstrong was recovering today from heart bypass surgery. A failed fuel line in the upper stage has been pinpointed as the probably cause of the Russian Proton rocket failure on Tuesday. The leading team in the Google Lunar X-Price contest last week successfully tested by remote control the astronomical telescope they intend to include with their lunar lander. The myth that rice tossed out at weddings might harm the birds who eat it has now been debunked by science students at the University of Kentucky. The actual debt of the U.S. federal government has now grown to $222 trillion. Landslide on the horizon. An absolutely breathtaking view of the Milky Way as seen from Mars Despite a 3x increase in the use of gasoline and diesel fuel since the 1960s, the amount of vehicle-related pollution in the Los Angeles area has declined by 98 percent during that same time. Divers have discovered a Roman shipwreck off the Italian coast so well preserved that they think the food cargo in 200 amphoras might still be intact. A new report proves the candidate fed a 20-month-old baby to crocodiles! A privately built NASA unmanned lunar lander crashed during a test flight today in Florida. Where was Mitt the night JonBenét Ramsey was murdered? After mandating the sale of 15% ethanol gasoline — that can damage engines and lower fuel efficiency — the EPA is now going to require that you buy at least 4 gallons in order to reduce the damage. Borrow $164 million, pay back $1.25 billion. The Sonic Boom A UCLA scientist is proposing that the largest canyon on Mars was formed by plate tectonics The Earth destroyed repeatedly, in the name of science. Iran now has enough enriched uranium to build six nuclear bombs. The tread of Curiosity’s tires will leave behind the imprint of JPL, written in Morse code. Quasicrystals from space. How Curiosity’s nuclear power plant works. “Ignore the political prophets of doom – this is a golden age for the world.” The police raid the wrong house, kill the family’s dog, handcuff the children and make them sit next to the carcass, ransack the house, and then arrest the father for possession of a handgun found in the illegal search. The boy whose hot dog stand was shut down by a local government ten minutes after it opened is now homeless. Tomorrow will mark 1200 days since the Senate, led by the Democrats, passed a budget. Dawn has begun its slow departure from Vesta in anticipation of its journey to the solar system’s largest asteroid, Ceres. Using Google Earth, an archeologist in North Carolina thinks she has discovered two lost pyramid sites in Egypt. The CIA has now declassified the story behind their effort in 1971 and 1972 to recover a satellite film canister from 16,400 feet below sea level in the Pacific. Watch the first test flight live this weekend of Copenhagen Suborbitals manned capsule. Adele – Rolling In The Deep It appears that tomorrow Mitt Romney will name is vice presidential pick, and the rumors are saying its Paul Ryan. It’s Ryan Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds live Politicians who don’t want to do their job “Are they prepared to listen to reasoned arguments articulated by Ryan about the need for entitlement reform, or will they succumb to simplistic liberal cant about pushing grandma over the cliff?” Genki Sudo [World Order] – Aquarius Mitt Romney once ran a Nazi torture cult! With its most recent glide test on Saturday it appears SpaceShipTwo has successfully fulfilled its glide engineering goals. Headphones for cats. The reason an environmental polar bear scientist has been suspended and under investigation is because while tasked to review and approve research proposals he played favorites, helping to write and revise the government proposal while working against a proposal from private oil companies. The outfitting of the first Orion capsule, scheduled to take seventeen months, has begun. A third Chick-fil-A has now been vandalized. A federal court has ruled that the EPA violated the law when it rejected a Texas permitting program for refineries and other industrial sites. The very predictable Democratic playbook against Paul Ryan: July’s violence against pro-live protesters. The Wall “Obama lauds NASA for Mars landing, pledges continued investment.” One of Dawn’s reaction wheels, used to orient the spacecraft, shut down last week. Stereo has spotted the fastest coronal mass ejection on record. Archeologists line up to condemn the false assumptions behind the Paleo Diet An Obama campaign stop costs a vender $25,000 in lost sales. The Obamacare Quagmire First video from Curiosity – Life on Mars? An update on Dawn’s reaction wheel failure. The test of Coperhagen Suborbital’s capsule launch abort system failed spectacularly on Sunday. The science of cute The European Southern Observatory today released a spectacular image of the Pipe Nebula. “I’ll just tell you the truth.” Obamacare increases demand, but locks the price, resulting in a shortage in supply. The result: long waits.Another reason to repeal: Obamacare increases demand, but locks the price, resulting in a shortage in supply. The result: long waits. “inadequate oversight, lax bookkeeping, sloppy paperwork, haphazard performance agreements and missing financial documentation.” The mysterious dark streaks on Vesta Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected helium in the Moon’s tenuous atmosphere. Contrasting Paul Ryan with Barack Obama. A test flight of an Air Force hypersonic aircraft failed yesterday when it went out of control before its experimental scramjet engine could be started It now appears confirmed that the man arrested for shooting a guard at the Family Research Council in DC apparently did so because he disagreed with the Council’s conservative positions. A routine engine firing to raise the orbit of the International Space Station failed to come off today. Bob Dylan – Just like a woman The Russians have pinpointed the cause On the Road It appears the Obama Justice Department is not going to prosecute Obama fundraiser and former Democratic Governor Jon Corzine for the embezzlement of customer funds at MF Global. Scientists using Solar Dynamics Observatory have found that the Sun is possibly the roundest object every measured, far rounder than predicted by theory. Obama press chief said today that they have no plans to take John McCain’s advice and replace Joe Biden as vice president. Hummingbird Aerodynamics Carbon emissions have reached a twenty year low in the United States More on the the premature engine cut off during the attempt to boost ISS’s orbit earlier this week. The Russian Prime Minister has given the Russian launch industry until September to figure out how to improve its quality control. A Texas policeman has been accused of shooting a woman’s pet dog, while the dog was still on its leash. New data now suggests that in swing states there has been a significant decline in Democratic registration NASA has granted $45 million to Ball Aerospace to develop a “green” propellent to hydrazine, the toxic fuel used in by rockets, satellites, and even manned spacecraft. A Philadelphia woman faces a $600 per day fine for feeding hungry children The gap between mainstream America and official Washington The promised land: where Curiosity is headed. Facing tight budgets, a National Science Foundation panel has recommended the shuttering of five major ground-based telescopes. Flight Of The Conchords – Jenny An elderly leftwing protester spit in the face of at Romney supporter at a campaign event today. A dinosaur footprint has been found on the Goddard Space Flight Center grounds in Maryland. Curiosity’s travel plans tentatively outlined. 400 economic experts have signed a petition supporting Romney’s economic plans. A modern intellectual looks at the Syrian revolt and immediately concludes it was global warming that caused it The Washington, D.C. bubble. Cyndi Lauper – Girls just wanna have fun One businessman’s comment on Barack Obama A federal court has thrown out a lawsuit by an automobile industry consortium that wanted to prevent the EPA from approving the use of 15% ethanol in gasoline. The modern leftwing disconnect from reality. The failed predictions of the last half century of scientific doomsayers. This Ohio newspaper editorial about the Presidential race and the choices it offers us might be the most forcefully blunt I have ever read. The Russian owned Sea Launch successfully launched an Intelsat communications satellite today. Earth spacecraft on Mars fires its laser for the first time. A detailed, fact-based look at the successes and failures of the Obama administration. Faced with small crowds at their campaign events, the Obama campaign is now claiming that they are intentionally limiting crowd size at rallies to save money on security. The door to hell. More cool slow motion The 1006 AD supernova, thought to be the brightest in recorded history, apparently left no star behind. Todd Akin, the Republican running for the senate in Missouri, tried to explain his opposition to all abortion, even in instances of rape, by saying that “legitimate rape” rarely leads to pregnancy. The man who invented the first programmable computer. A new poll of registered voters in Cook County, Illinois has Obama leading by only 7 percent, 49 to 36. Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a robot hand that costs less than $10,000. A sofa that doubles as a cat tower. A man was arrested in Toronto on Saturday for walking his dog in a public park, because the dog offended some Islamic demonstrators. On August 13, 2012, Voyager 2 became the longest-operating spacecraft in history, finally topping Pioneer 6, which was launched on Dec. 16, 1965, and sent its last signal back on Dec. 8, 2000. Scaled Composites has posted the results of its latest test firing of the rocket motor for SpaceShipTwo. NASA has announced its next planetary mission, a lander to Mars that will drill down thirty feet into the planet’s surface Astronomers have now confirmed 41 new exoplanets, first pinpointed by the Kepler space telescope Curiosity flexed its robot arm today for the first time. Astronomers have found what they believe is the first evidence of a planet consumed by its star as the star expanded and aged. Flying over America Massachusetts has passed a law that places the state in control of every doctor and everything they do. An $8,000 personal satellite. Monday’s successful spacewalk by two Russian astronauts preps ISS for the arrival of a new Russian module. A masked man attempting to rob a Las Vegas Dairy Queen with a 3-foot-long samurai sword was shot and killed by the restaurant clerk. Criminal charges have been filed against a German rabbi for performing circumcisions. Shao Rong – A song of lilies The atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation has threatened to sue 151 Mississippi schools if they allow students to pray using public address systems during athletic events. One of Curiosity’s two wind sensors has been found to be damaged and is inoperable. New research has now proven that cats don’t cause cancer. Getting ready for the first Antares launch in October at Wallops Island. What do you do with a giant space station when its lifespan is over? NASA can put a man on the Moon and a rover on Mars, but somehow it can’t comply with a Freedom of Information document request. NASA scientists in a battle with astronomers over who gets to name things on Vesta and Mars. The Congressional Budget Office yesterday projected this year’s deficit will be $1.1 trillion dollars, making it the fourth year in a row that the deficit has broken the trillion dollar ceiling A thank you letter to President Obama. Of thee I sigh: Baby boomers bust. Are the glaciers in the Himalayas shrinking? A third paper published today falls between one study that said no and another that said yes. Michael Mann threatens to sue a conservative magazine. Their answer: “Get lost.” A Florida university has broken ground on a new hurricane simulation machine capable of recreating category 5 hurricanes in three dimensions. A 5-year-old Oklahoma kindergarten student was banned from wearing a University of Michigan t-shirt because it violated a state law banning any apparel that didn’t support the state’s college teams. Curiosity has made its first test drive, moving about fifteen feet. Police are preparing for significant violence at next week’s Republican convention in Tampa, based on threats by a number of leftwing groups. Lisa Gerrard – Sanvean The European cargo ship docked at ISS today successfully fired its engines to raise the station’s orbit. A new AIDS-like disease has appeared, attacking about 100 Asians since 2004. Sunspots and climate Phosphorus and the origins of life on Earth. Why “chemical-free” organic food is impossible, and why journalists should know better. Hundreds of Homeland Security employees arrested last year. The first Earthrise picture taken from the Moon, 46 years ago today. A Connecticut gay man has pleaded guilty to sending hundreds of threatening letters, including death threats, to the director of a conservative organization opposed to same-sex marriage. A Virginia veteran who was arrested because of writings on Facebook has been ordered released by a judge. In a paper published today in Science, astronomers show that Type 1a supernovae, the kind used to measure the expansion rate of the universe, can be caused in more than one way, something not previously expected. More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under Obamacare for how they decide to treat patients. New ice core data from Antarctica suggests in the past 10,000 years temperatures have often been higher than today, and that the rise in temperatures during the past 100 years is also not unprecedented. Progress on the commercial space front Romney’s energy policy proposal announced today would redirect science funding towards basic research. Coeur de Pirate – Wood & Wires Session The Friday launch of two NASA satellites designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts was scrubbed at least 24 hours because of the failure of ground tracking equipment needed during launch. Seven ways Star Trek changed the world. “Where people are encouraged to think that solving society’s ills is primarily a job for government, charity tends to evaporate.” Todd Akin, whose stupid comments about rape have practically destroyed his campaign, is receiving death threats to himself, his family, and his staff. NASA today announced that recent research on ISS into bone loss due to weightlessness has found that proper exercise and diet can stabilize bone loss. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary The artist who sculpted a secret message in code — in plain view in the courtyard of CIA headquarters and unsolved now for twenty years — has now provided codebreakers a tiny clue to its solution. The Russians are once again pushing for a one year long mission on ISS, while NASA once again appears unenthusiastic. The launch of two satellites to study the Van Allen radiation belts has been delayed again, this time due to weather. The war on children One of the longest bridges in northern China collapsed on Friday, just nine months after it opened. R.I.P. Neil Armstrong “My healthcare plan I put in place in my state has everyone insured.” Neil Armstrong The world’s most complex borders. Science Bob’s Crazy Foam Experiment On the air Armstrong and the world Bob is a Racist Orbital Sciences gets ready for its first cargo mission to ISS. An aide to Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren threatened and pushed a reporter this weekend, knocking his video camera to the ground. Why a New York Times’ science columnist is bad for science. Two more evangelical colleges have joined the lawsuit against the Obama administrations’ contraceptive drug mandate under Obamacare. One reason why Neil Armstrong got the job Robot cavers in space. Images from Curiosity have spotted some unexpected geology in Gale Crater. Russian authorities struggle to contain the spread of African swine fever, a deadly virus that attacks pigs. The photo legacy of Neil Armstrong. A special Iowahawk guest commentary by Barack Obama, stargazer-in-chief. Cave exploration the astronaut way Bigelow Aerospace has expanded its workforce as well doubled its factory space in response to the commercial contracts NASA recently awarded. Russian officials today announced that they will hold additional open cosmonaut recruitment drives, similar to the first held earlier this year, but with revisions. Peter, Paul and Mary – Puff The Magic Dragon A solar system with two suns. More rumors about a year-long mission on ISS The ex-Marine, arrested and placed in a psychiatric ward because government officials didn’t like his Facebook postings, has announced he is suing the officials involved. What every home needs: A home-built fire-breathing flying dragon. Nine substances that only exist in science fiction. A scale that can measure the weight of a single molecule. Romney, the Republicans, and Space The first five minutes in Marine boot camp. Curiosity heads east 52 feet on the first leg of its exploration of Gale Crater.The journey begins: Curiosity heads east 52 feet on the first leg of its exploration of Gale Crater. An analysis of the survey data produced by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has uncovered literally millions of black hole candidates as well as a thousand of the brightest galaxies yet found. The first open source plane you build at home. NASA successfully completed another test of the parachute system for the Orion capsule on Tuesday. Astronomers have detected molecules of sugar in the gas cloud surrounding a young binary star about 400 light years away. It’s the ideology, stupid. “Ann Romney needs to die.” At 4:05 am last night the two Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts, were successfully placed in orbit by an Atlas 5 rocket. Ryan’s speech The long term credit rating of the United States was lowered today by Standard and Poors. A bright super bubble in space A previously unknown tick-borne virus has been identified from samples taken from two infected farmers in Missouri. Two astronauts completed an eight hour spacewalk today, extended because of problems with several stuck bolts. The makers of a documentary critical of the Occupy Wall Street movement have received threats of violence against themselves and their families Let’s dance Scientists have determined that the shape of a beer glass can influence how much beer you drink. Police once again raid the wrong house and kill a pet dog. “While partisan activists tune in when their team’s big show is on the air, most unaffiliated voters view the conventions as a waste of time and money.” Have three little photons broken theoretical physics? Congress wonders why NASA is sending “50 or more” employees to a conference in Italy. New Horizons — on its way to Pluto — will take a look at a different Kuiper Belt object in January 2015. Dawn’s farewell tour of the giant asteroid Vesta On Friday SpaceX successfully completed a launch pad dress rehearsal for the next Falcon 9 launch to ISS. Henri the cat and the videos about him has won the Golden Kitty, first place at the Internet Cat Film Festival in Minnesota. Speed Flying down from Mont Blanc Have scientists found an oral drug that can cure all strains of malaria? Eleven incredible navigable aqueducts. “Healthy Ridicule.” Bugs Bunny – Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944) A California engineer and World War II veteran has developed a bat and bird safe wind turbine. The head of the Russian space center that built the upper stage that failed on two recent Proton launches has been fired. The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an incredible video of an August 31 eruption on the Sun. A family car for space. The Forest Products Laboratory of the U.S. Forest Service has opened a $1.7 million pilot plant for the production of cellulose nanocrystals, which have the potential to be stronger, stiffer, and lighter than Kevlar or carbon fibers. And they call this a maximum? “Often wrong but never in doubt.” The Democratic and Republican conventions received $136 million in taxpayer subsidies. A new study of the Earth’s past climates has revealed that during warming periods the number of species multiplied. Dizzi – River Flow How alcohol gets you drunk. Another planet has been found in the habitable zone Surgery in weightlessness? To get the space shuttle Endeavour to its new home in Los Angeles city officials have decided to cut down about 400 trees along the route. Russia has decided to delay the rest of its military launches this year, pending a full review of the upper stage problems of the Proton rocket. “[Medical] services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.” Do you want to name an asteroid that might hit the Earth? NASA has a contest for students to do just that. Two Russian companies have announced a joint plan to build a suborbital spacecraft for tourism. The debt of the federal government officially exceeded $16 trillion on Tuesday. In another attempt to win the $250,000 AHS Sikorsky Prize, the Gamera II human-powered helicopter successfully flew for more than sixty seconds Because of the failure to replace a power unit during last week’s spacewalk, the U.S. portion of ISS is now in a brown-out, with a 25% reduction in power. The Democratic Party platform’s position on space and NASA is one sentence long. Gorillaz – Melancholy Hill A public memorial service for Neil Armstrong has been scheduled for September 13 in Washington, D.C. NASA engineers had postponed a planned midcourse maneuver of its Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft We have a choice Science vs organic food. Science wins. In a spacewalk today astronaut successfully overcame a stuck bolt to install a replacement power unit. Engineers have now confirmed that Dawn has left the gravitational sphere of Vesta and is officially on its way to Ceres. SpaceShipTwo is being readied for its first powered flights before the end of the year. A psychological guide to your dog Andre Rieu – Annie’s Song Delegates today booed the reinsertion of language into the Democratic platform supporting Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as well as the words “God-given.” FAA officials in Seattle have been accused of pressuring employees to vote for Democratic candidates in the November election Climate changes on Mars are driven by the Sun. SpaceX’s first official cargo flight to ISS could occur as early as October 5. According to a family spokesman, Neil Armstrong is to be buried at sea. A reporter asks delegates if we should ban profits. A delayed but higher prediction for the solar maximum? A judge has ruled that ten gold coins possibly worth as much as $80 million and in the possession of a family for more than seventy years can be seized by the federal government without compensation. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team today released a set of images showing Curiosity’s recent travel on Mars, as well as some fascinating closeups of the spacecraft’s heat shield, parachute, and descent stage. Buddy Rich – Impossible Drum Solo A Democratic Hawaii state lawmaker threatened to file criminal charges against a newspaper for publishing a letter critical of the lawmaker. There is a shortage of launch-pads available for the number of rocket launches planned. ATK and ULA yesterday successfully tested the solid rocket strap-on motor that is used by their Delta 4 rocket. The history of Dream Chaser and its lifting body shape. For the 31st time in the past three years the Obama administration warned the public “not to read too much” into this month’s poor job numbers. Clint Eastwood explains the background behind his Republican convention speech. Canada today severed all diplomatic ties with Iran, shutting down its embassy in Iran while ordering all Iranian diplomats out of Canada. Sign the LunarCOTS petition. Children are refusing to eat the Obama administration’s lower calorie school lunches. The Obama administration has extended the power of the ATF to “seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled-substance abuses.” Fun with 9 volt batteries The Obama administration will miss the legal deadline — from a law he signed only less than a month ago — to provide details on implementing the required budget cuts under sequestration. Joe Hisaishi – Asia Dream Song Iran has finally released a Christian pastor who had been threatened with execution for not renouncing his religion. God To Democrats: ‘‘That’s okay, you’re not on my ‘platform,’ either’’ India’s space agency celebrated its 100th launch today. Five words and two numbers Hand shadow performance Mars’ clay minerals might have been formed by volcanic processes, not standing liquid water as generally believed. Three super weird homes “That’s a direct attack and a smear on my reputation as a reporter.” “What the ‘blank’ could possibly go wrong?” New computer models now suggest that the the habitable zone for life is far larger than previously estimated. Journalism’s summer of sin: marked by plagiarism, fabrication, obfuscation. There’s a Light – We Choose to go to the Moon Under just released language, the federal government required 18 pages of regulations to define the term “full time employee.” The view of Vesta in Dawn’s rear view mirror. Astronomers have measured the most powerful magnetic field ever found around a star. Amateurs astronomers have once again captured images of an impact of something on Jupiter. The Japanese solar sail experiment IKAROS is apparently still alive, years after launch. The Russian space agency has ordered the recall and inspection of every Briz-M upper stage used in their Proton rocket. T-shirts being sold at a union event celebrate the future death of Margaret Thatcher. The media’s one-sided coverage. Under the Obama administration regulations have increased by 7.4%, totaling 11,327 pages of new rules. Obama, too busy to attend half his daily intelligence briefings — has made up for it by missing all of his daily economic briefings. The federal budget deficit has exceeded one trillion dollars for the fourth year in a row. Cairo protesters today scaled the U.S. Embassy wall in Egypt and pulled down the American flag to protest a film they say is insulting to the prophet Mohammad. The view of New York City from ISS on September 11, 2001. Dry ice snow falls on Mars. The U.S. Embassy in Egypt, response to the attack by Islamic protestors today, has apologized to them. A U.S. consulate in Libya was attacked and set on fire today. Boatlift The White House has disavowed the apology to the Muslim protesters issued by its embassy in Egypt. “Progressive thinking and the rise of the anti-science left.” Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells. Whiskey in space? An experimental vertical take-off and landing rocket crashed during its most recent test on Tuesday. “We choose to go to the Moon.” A dispute over launch pricing between ArianeSpace, the launch company, and Globalstar, the satellite company. Kseniya Simonova – sand art At the AIAA meeting this week in Pasadena, NASA officials admitted that the Space Launch System (SLS) will likely cost half a billion dollars per launch The private company Hobby Lobby has sued the Obama administration over the Obamacare mandate requiring them to pay for their employee’s contraceptives SpaceX today signed a contract to launch three satellites for the European company SES. Not only has Barack Obama not attended an intelligence briefing since Sept 5, he canceled the briefing yesterday, the day after the attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya. A new and very large study now suggests that — even though no one really knows why — acupuncture might actually be effective. A short but cogent summary of Obama’s response to the embassy attacks. An American professor of religious studies has called for the arrest of a filmmaker because his film insults Islam. Using space junk and 3D printers to build spaceships in space. Watch 127,141 Dominoes fall The murder of four Americans in Libya, including the ambassador, appears to have been the result of failed security. Scaled Composites has successfully performed another test of the rocket motor that will be used on SpaceShipTwo. “These are not acts of senseless violence. These are acts of war.” A federal judge has permanently blocked use of the indefinite detention authority given to the President in the NDAA law passed by Congress last year. Scaled Composites, having finished glide tests of SpaceShipTwo, is now installing the rocket motor for powered flight tests. 149,597,870,700 meters. Americans say goodbye to Neil Armstrong. “Those who produced the movie should be tried and killed.” For seventeen days Facebook approved and allowed a “Kill Mitt Romney” webpage to exist. Friday in the Muslim world Germany announced yesterday that it has approved funding for the design of an in-orbit test of a robot satellite servicing mission. It appears that Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and Georgia are all competing to be the location of SpaceX’s proposed private commercial spaceport. The science cuts from sequestration The eight dumbest things said about free speech this week. The U.S. government’s credit rating has been downgraded again. Jeb Corliss – Grinding The Crack The first results from the two GRAIL space probes have revealed the Moon has a much thinner crust than previously believed. Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanets to be found inside an open star cluster. The scientists who took the first image of single molecule in 2009 have improved the resolution of their images. Disgrace in Benghazi. Neil Armstrong’s ashes were buried at sea today. Prices, Demand, and SpaceX Blame the movie The Obama administration has delayed deployment of 50 Marines to protect its embassy in Khartoum because of objections of the Sudanese government. Patty Cake Obama cracks down on free speech. “I demand to be arrested.” Weird Planet fractals “Sequestration would come at ‘great cost’ to NASA.” National Media Museum in Great Britain has restored the first color movie images, shot in 1901-1902. Three astronauts have safely returned to Earth from ISS. Pluto has another moon! The absurd oversampling of Democrats in most recent polls, as illustrated in one graph. Congress is on a pace this year to pass the fewest laws in a single year since World War II. A mother was arrested and jailed because a neighbor complained that she was allowing her kids to play outside. A Justice department official today refused to rule out the possibility of passing a law that would criminalize speech against any religion. “I go in the Oval Office, pretend I’m going to work, and then I switch on ‘Homeland.’ ” Another college has filed suit against Obamacare and the Obama administration’s mandate forcing them to buy contraceptives in violation of their religious beliefs. The Beatles – A Day In The Life On the air Astronaut Sunita Williams completed first simulated triathlon in space this past weekend on ISS. A Florida family now faces fines for hosting weekly Bible study sessions in their home. “A manufactured political narrative that bears little resemblance to reality.” The French magazine whose offices were firebombed last year after publishing an issue ridiculing Mohammad is about to do it again. Curiosity snaps a Martian lunar eclipse. A four pound meteorite originally from the Moon is up for auction and is expected to sell for more than that $340K. The automatic budget cuts triggered by sequestration appear increasingly likely according to two defense analysts. Yasuto Tanaka – The Swan After postponing Juno’s second midcourse correction burn, engineers have now successfully completed that burn. A mural in Oregon. The rocket that will launch the next flight of the X-37B, and the first to return to space, has been assembled. Eight strange rock islets from around the world. The French prepare for a vibrant debate on free speech from the members of its Islamic community. The White House press secretary today “question[ed] the judgment” of someone publishing cartoons critical of Mohammad and Islam. Hundreds of peer-reviewed papers in the field of anaesthesiology are about to be retracted because their data was fabricated. Obamacare: a program in disarray. Rowan Atkinson – A Warm Welcome “Obama observes ‘International Talk Like a Pirate Day.'” The cost of regulations is 80 times higher than OMB’s estimate, according to the estimates of each individual government agency. A Texas school district has banned the use of religious signs at football games, even if created entirely and freely by the students. Newly released results from Dawn have found evidence of hydrogen on the surface of Vesta October 7 is now set as the launch date for the first operational cargo flight of Dragon to ISS. David Garrett – November Rain The Non-Leadership Act Eleven construction workers sit on a girder eating lunch, 800 feet above the ground: The story behind the 1932 picture. Butch Cassidy’s Colt 45 revolver will be auctioned off later this month. France and Germany in the European Space Agency are at loggerheads about the best way to compete in the launch market. This year’s Ig Noble Awards have been announced. Luciano Pavarotti and Queen – Too much love will kill you An avionics unit in the Soyuz capsule to be used to fly three astronauts to ISS later this month had problems in testing which required its replacement. “Bias” is no longer a suitable description of the character of the media establishment. “Partisan toadies” may be a better one. Boeing and the fear of competition Rod Stewart & Amy Belle – I Dont Want To Talk About It Insane Clown Posse – Miracles More than a thousand pastors have resolved to defy the IRS and preach politics from the pulpit before the election. Astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have found that the Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of hot gas.The uncertainty of science: Astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have found that the Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of hot gas. “A pompous, self-absorbed, often-in-error-but-never-in-doubt blowhard impervious to facts and logic.” Curiosity has zapped its first rock and moved on. The fastest snooker break ever The next great comet? Seething midwest explodes over Lombardi cartoons “It’s my in-kind contribution to the Mondale campaign.” The Hubble Space Telescope has taken its deepest image yet. Scaled Composites successfully completed a 45 second burn of the engine for SpaceShipTwo last Thursday. The prosecutor in the Italian trial of seven earthquake experts has requested four year jail sentences for their failure to properly warn the public about the possibility of an earthquake According to a poll of small business owners, more than 60% will either drop their employee healthcare plans or make their employees pay far higher fees when Obamacare goes into effect in 2014 A toy train in space A voter watchdog group has uncovered voter fraud in New York and Florida. A computer glitch prevented the undocking of the European ATV-3 cargo vehicle from ISS today. The Martian weather, as recorded by the Curiosity weather station. Singer Sarah Brightman appears slated to be the next tourist to fly to ISS. The troughs of Vesta: evidence of a failed planet. A Texas court has ruled that the owners of a wrongfully killed pet can recover “sentimental” or “intrinsic” damages. The sharpest ever ground-based image of Pluto and its moon Charon. More films about Mohammad in the works. Kate Wolf – Two Way Waltz The federal government spent $1.4 billion on the Obama family last year. The solar maximum has already occurred in the Sun’s northern hemisphere, according to new observations. A new federal law has now confirmed the ownership by astronauts of their souvenirs. The failed undocking of Europe’s ATV cargo craft from ISS earlier this week occurred because the astronauts used the wrong computer code. R.I.P. Actor Herbert Lom. It now appears that Democratic Senator candidate Elizabeth Warren practiced law in Massachusetts without a Massachusetts license. Scientists are proposing that Europe send a probe to Titan and sail it on that planet’s methane lakes. It appears that Curiosity is traveling across an ancient streambed on Mars. James Hansen’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies has once again been caught changing its past climate temperature data without explanation. Annie Haslam – Wildest Dreams Why I spent $50 at a political fundraiser today The head of Russia’s space agency said today that they need to reorganize their industry in order to compete. The undocking of Europe’s ATV cargo freighter from ISS has been delayed again. The rollout to the launchpad of the first stage of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket has been delayed until Saturday. A convicted former TSA agent admits that theft is “commonplace” in the TSA. Schiller – Sleepy Storm Lawson – You didn’t tell me The Fixx – Red Skies On the road Europe’s ATV cargo freighter finally undocked successfully from ISS on Friday. The Great Galactic Travelers The first stage of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket was rolled to the launchpad today. The weather in Gale Crater on Mars: warmer than expected. Loreena McKennitt – The Bonny Swans A college professor, offended by comments on a free speech wall, forces the students to take it down. Light posting Polar bear fraud Diederik Stapel, the psychologist who had fabricated his results in numerous published papers and has since resigned, is now under investigation by Dutch prosecutors. Felix Baumgartner has set October 8 as the day he will attempt his record-setting sky-dive from almost 23 miles high. John Williams & Richard Harvey – Jig True the Vote has found more examples of voters voting in more than one state, this time in New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Florida.Vote early and often! True the Vote has found more examples of voters voting in more than one state, this time in New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Florida. The head of Russia’s manned program said today that the first yearlong mission on ISS will begin in March 2015. The new Milky Way A vehicle powered by cheese has set a speed record for its class. An elderly couple in California have received death threats and their property vandalized because they put a Romney sign on their front lawn. Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope astronomers have narrowed the universe’s rate of expansion to about 74.3 kilometers per second per megaparsec. New research has now documented the widespread bigotry of liberals in the academic community against conservatives. The Obama administration’s promise to reimburse any fines issued to employers who violate the law is the equivalent to a “mini-coup” according to one senator. Astronomers have identified the same kind of minerals found in comets in the dusty disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris. First Kids – Ghosts In order to get a seat on a Soyuz capsule Sarah Brightman outbid NASA, bumping its astronaut out and thus forcing the U.S. agency to finally agree to a year long mission. The Dragon capsule has been attached to the Falcon 9 rocket in preparation for Sunday’s launch. George Zimmerman is suing NBC over its false edit of an audiotape that made him appear racist. A high school teacher threatened a student last Friday for wearing a Romney t-shirt on dress-down day. A new study has found that scientific misconduct and fraud is on the rise. The Mexican government has confirmed that three of the guns used to massacre 15 teenagers were obtained by the killers under the Obama administrations’ Fast-and-Furious operation. Why it costs so much to buy WiFi on an airplane. Astronomers have discovered a star that circles the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way in only 11.5 years. Deep Impact fired its engines today to adjust its orbit, giving it the option of visiting a near Earth asteroid in the future. Graham Chapman’s funeral An update on Sierra Nevada’s effort to build its reusable shuttle Dream Chaser. How private funding has and will drive exploration. Answerable to no one. Painting in the Skies NASA and the Russians have agreed to fly a two-person year long mission on ISS beginning in the spring of 2015. A star has gone supernova and astronomers get to see it from the very beginning, and even earlier! A Reddit user posts a picture of woman, trying to humiliate her for having facial hair, and she responds so effectively that the poster apologizes. Bernadette Peters – No one is alone How ABC News destroyed a company with false allegations, and is now being sued for $1.2 billion because of it. 25 Amazing Images With An Electron Microscope Dragon is in orbit One engine of the Falcon 9 failed during launch. A GAO investigation into fraudulent and foreign campaign donations has discovered that the Obama.com website is owned and managed by a man in China with ties to the Chinese government. The Obama administration had declared that a company whose sole business is to publish Bibles is not religious enough for an exemption to the HHS contraceptive mandate. An update on the Falcon 9 engine problems. The world’s second largest infrared telescope on Mauna Kea is for sale. The solar maximum continues to fizzle Crushing a 55 gallon steel drum with icecubes Resurrecting the chestnut tree. A competitor has debuted its full-size prototype rover designed to hunt for water in the craters of the Moon. Islamic medical students are refusing to learn how to treat female patients because “they believe it is wrong to touch women to whom they are not married or related.” Attacking the church of the Left To avoid the cost of Obamacare, companies are reducing their full time stuff and switching as many employees to part-time as possible. Curiosity takes its first scoop Has Voyager 1 already left the solar system? A dying woman, refused a private screening at a TSA checkpoint, was patted down in public and forced to remove her bandages. Two Baptist-affiliated colleges today sued the Obama administration over its contraceptive mandate. Heavenly Appeals At 9:04 am (Eastern) the Dragon capsule completed a hard docking with ISS. “There is no statistical case to be made for a global temperature increase in the past 15 years.” An Obama campaign staffer has been caught on video helping a voter vote twice. Science vs religion Conspiratorial Media Incest Ten incredible rock pillar landscapes. A gallery of planetary nebula. The astronauts on ISS have opened the hatch to Dragon one day early. “The end of the media’s infatuation with Obama may be the greatest casualty of the debate.” Mayumana – four man hand dance A new survey of 13,575 physicians had found that doctors are fleeing the field. Singer Sarah Brightman has purchased a ticket to fly to ISS in a Soyuz capsule.It’s official: Singer Sarah Brightman has purchased a ticket to fly to ISS in a Soyuz capsule. A super Earth, made of diamonds Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting skydive of 23 miles has been postponed until Sunday due to weather concerns. “A profound disdain for the Constitution.” Wheels on Mars Bouncing on Titan Neville Dickie – Boogie Woogie by Pinetop Smith The Orbcomm communications satellite put in a wrong orbit in the Falcon 9 launch has fallen to Earth. Scientists studying a meteorite thought to come from the asteroid Vesta have concluded that it contains evidence that the asteroid once had a magnetic field. Telescopes of the future The new ebook edition of Genesis The flight of Christians from persecution in Egypt. Blood, Trucks, and Beer – Christopher Columbus “This is not a fact.” This year’s Walter Duranty Prize for dishonest and corrupt journalism. Christopher Cross – Sailing Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive has begun. You can watch it live here. Toto – I’ll be Over You The new blacklist It now appears to be illegal to drive around in Dearborn, Michigan displaying Israeli flags on your vehicle. Baumgartner broke the sound barrier in his skydive The models are wrong Scientists have found the source of the water on the Moon and Mercury: the solar wind. Just two months after the failure of its second stage during launch, Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put a communications satellite into orbit yesterday. Government pension plans have about $1.2 trillion of unfunded liabilities. A planet with four suns, found by amateurs. Enya – Wild Child The Cuban government announced today that it will allow its citizens to freely visit other countries for the first time in over a half century. A review of the extraterrestrial solar systems found by Kepler shows that most are like our own, “flatter than pancakes.” Faced with stiff competition in the launch market, Europe struggles to come up with a competitive replacement for Ariane 5 Astronomers have discovered that the nearest star to the Earth, Alpha Centauri, has an exoplanet only slightly heavier than the Earth. Kepler reveals our Sun might be more variable than we imagine Laura Branigan – Forever Young Astronomers now have the technology to observe Io’s volcanoes erupt, from Earth. Threats to assassinate Mitt Romney exploded after last night’s debate Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies The science team for New Horizons is considering shifting the spacecraft’s Pluto flyby away from the planet to avoid orbital debris. Blue Origin has successfully tested its new hydrogen/oxygen rocket engine. The modern pathology of liberalism. A Texas judge is expected to rule today on whether cheerleaders have the right to quote the bible at high school football games. The federal government has spent $27 million teaching Moroccans how to make pottery. Ahmadinejad: “How long can a government with a $16 trillion foreign debt remain a world power?” The mysterious shiny particles uncovered by Curiosity’s scoop are from Mars, not the rover. “This is the election where black folk sit down and say ‘NO MORE!’ and we stay home.” Animusic – Resonant Chamber Orbital Sciences has delayed the first demo launch of its Cygnus cargo capsule until March 2013 at the earliest. The first analysis of the water from Lake Vostok, buried deep under the Antarctic icecap, has shown no evidence of life. Engine problems on a Delta 4 rocket launch two weeks ago could delay the launch of the Atlas 5 rocket scheduled to lift the X-37B on its next mission. Running on empty Pumpkin carving with a 1911 The Four Quarters – Pachelbel’s Canon in D Hexaflexagons Virgin Galactic has begun the installation of SpaceShipTwo’s engine in preparation for its first powered test flights. The first piece of a meteor that fell over San Francisco on Wednesday has been found. The unreality of the past four years. The filmmaker who made the anti-Islamic movie falsely blamed by the Obama administration for the Libya attack has now been in jail for a month. An Italian court has convicted seven earthquake scientists of manslaughter for their failure to properly warn the public prior to the L’Aquila earthquake. A Christian group has been banned at Tufts University for demanding its members believe in Christianity. Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love On Friday Blue Origin successfully tested the launch abort system for its New Shepard manned capsule. The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is about to get a snack. Using modern technology scientists think they have a chance of decoding the oldest known undeciphered writing. Early today a Soyuz rocket successfully lifted ISS’s next crew into orbit. The death threats against Mitt Romney continue to pour out from Twitter. An ode to the beauty of nature in 23 images. The first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope has been completed. This is the first time since 1988 that climate hasn’t been mentioned in the presidential debate cycle The TSA is pulling its invasive X-ray scanners from the country’s busiest airports. The comet that vanished Kat Edmonson – Lucky The rock found on Sunday is not part of the meteor that fell over San Francisco last week. Reactions to the Italian conviction of seven earthquake scientists Singing sand dunes The son of a Democratic Congressman in Virginia has been caught on video helping to facilitate voter fraud. Judy Garland – But not for me On Wednesday Richard Branson told an audience of students in Poland that the first paid tourist flight of SpaceShipTwo is at least 12 to 18 months away. Stratolaunch has officially opened its production facility in Mojave. The Air Force has released its investigation into the failure of the August test flight of the X-51a hypersonic scramjet. The after effects of the giant storm on Saturn. on the road The Idea Of North – Fields of Gold “We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.” With a successful Soyuz docking today, ISS is back to a full six person crew. The FAA has issued an experimental permit to SpaceX to test fly its Grasshopper reusable rocket booster. the stage exploded in mid-October and the debris is now a threat to ISS and other satellites. A new study suggests that the exoplanet orbiting the star Formalhaut that was supposedly imaged and then later theorized to be nothing more than a dust cloud might be a planet after all. Firing paintballs at an asteroid to prevent it from hitting the Earth. Meteorite experts now think the rock that hit a pastor’s house could be a piece from last week’s San Francisco fireball. Michael Mann’s claim that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has now been denied by the Nobel committee. Sugru: the story of the invention of this ultimate repair tool. Hurricane Sandy has forced Orbital Sciences to suspend the engine tests of the Antares rocket. A spacewalk November 1 will attempt to find and repair a coolant leak that could force a power reduction at the station. Celine Dion – My heart will go on Why did the chicken cross the road? “He is incompetent, dishonest and not interested in the actual work of governing.” Dragon has undocked from ISS and is on its way back to Earth Poison in Halloween candy? It has never happened. Liam O’Maonlai & Eddi Reader – Across The Universe The marshes of Mexico and their similarities to Gale Crater. An openly gay volunteer for a Republican running for Congress in Wisconsin was severely beaten in his home after receiving threatening and obscene messages from the husband of the Democratic candidate. Serena Ryder – Sing Sing A new rocket enters the field It appears that NASA is at the moment unconcerned should the investigation into the Falcon 9 engine failure on October 7 cause a delay in the next Dragon supply mission to ISS. More strange patterns have been discovered in the Gobi desert of China using Google Earth. The protective housing for the shuttle prototype Enterprise collapsed yesterday due to Hurricane Sandy. A house-sized asteroid will zip past the Earth in February at a distance less than 14,000 miles. Religious liberty explained in sixteen seconds. The first results from Curiosity’s soil samples have come back. Dragon and its cargo have arrived in California for processing. It appears that Facebook has censored a post by the Navy Seals merely because it was critical of President Obama. The President’s insulting campaign. The Swell Season – When your mind’s made up A Russian ship carrying 700 tons of gold is missing off Russia’s eastern coast. Weirdness at the edge of the solar system. For the second time, a Progress freighter has launched and, after only four orbits, docked with ISS. One of the major backers has pulled out of a solar energy power plant plan for Africa and the Middle East. The B612 foundation has signed its first contract for building Sentinel, its private infrared space telescope designed to find asteroids that might impact the Earth. The twenty most bizarre scientific experiments of all time. Facebook has apologized and reinstated the anti-Obama posts it had previously censored. The proposed IRS tax form every American will have to fill out when Obamacare goes into effect. Nightmare before Christmas – This is Halloween Realtime coverage of today’s spacewalk on ISS. More evidence of past glaciers on Mars. A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that a Catholic-owned private business does not have to comply with the Obama administrations contraceptive mandate. Rolling in the Deep on a traditional Chinese zither “The U.S. is currently in an extended and intense hurricane ‘drought.'” A New Jersey town tells a volunteer utility crew from Alabama to go home — because they are non-union. Meteorite hunters in Poland have found Eastern Europe’s larges meteorite weighing almost 700 pounds. The most distant supernova ever found. Curiosity has found evidence showing how Mars lost its atmosphere. Schiller – Miles and miles The next launch of the X-37B has been delayed again. Paul Brady – The Lakes of Pontchartrain “Comet Hergenrother is splitting apart.” “We don’t want you unless you’re part of the union.” How our bitter election will end Why the polls will be wrong. Genesis now available on Kindle The Sun takes a plunge We ain’t going away “We don’t hire for table manners.” Sierra Nevada is moving its mini-shuttle, Dream Chaser, into its own facility. Is GM headed for bankruptcy again? The tragedy of Eritrea A federal judge has approved the installation of surveillance cameras by the police — on private property without a warrant. The federal government is expected to hit its debt ceiling before the end of the year. Schoolhouse Rock – No more Kings Bankruptcy Five big stories the media will ‘discover’ after the election Boeing to cut 30 percent of its management ranks. Sea Launch is considering moving its base of operations out of the United States. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot continues to shrink. The maker of “Innocence of Muslims” has been sentenced to a year in prison for parole violation. Nataly Dawn – Leslie Astronomers have found a super-earth exoplanet inside its star’s habitable zone. Wall Street stocks plummeted today for the second day in a row. Betty Boop – Poor Cinderella Harry Reid said Thursday that the Democrats intend to raise the debt limit another $2.4 trillion. “It’s gotta be shut down.” The coming shrinkage in the healthcare industry because of Obamacare. An older rover releases a picture James Taylor – Fire and Rain Obamacare is still vulnerable. A space plane from China? The Hunchback of Notre Dame – God Help the Outcasts China’s 2013 missions: another manned flight and a lunar landing. Katherine Jenkins – Hymn to the Fallen on the road The orbital debris from the exploded upper stage of the failed Proton launch in August now totals over 100 pieces. SpaceOps is looking for funding to build its private spacecraft modeled after the American Gemini capsule. Celtic Thunder – Caledonia Engineers have switched Mars Odyssey to its backup navigation equipment in order to save the failing primary system. The discovery of volcanoes on Io The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Orange Blossom The accidental cutting of a communications cable has cut off Russia’s mission control from ISS and many of its satellites. A planet without a star, only 100 light years away. Vanishing water Scientists have found that the method used by the IPCC to measure droughts has significantly overestimated their number during the the past 60 years. The Russians have repaired the severed cable that had cut off their communications with ISS and space. The Higgs boson has once again been confirmed with new data, and the scientists are disappointed! The Subaru telescope in Hawaii has taken an image of an exoplanet. SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket has made its highest leap yet, almost 20 feet. An exhumation of the body of Danish astronomy Tycho Brahe has proven he was not murdered. The Democratic senator seeking the chairmanship of the Senate Budget Committee has refused to promise to write a budget next year. ENYA – Book of Days The pie crusts of Mercury. More on why that communications cable was cut at Russian mission control. Dust devils and radiation in Gale Crater. Five ways to protect yourself from Obamacare. Hostess Brands — already in bankruptcy — has decided to shut down because one of its unions refused to end a strike. Governor Bobby Jindal’s letter rejecting Obamacare implementation California now has the highest poverty rate in the nation. A new audit has found that the Federal Housing Administration has a deficit of $13.5 billion for the fiscal year ending in September. TorQ Percussion Quartet – Stinkin’ Garbage by E. Argenziano Lorrie Morgan – Something In Red Fry & Laurie – Chicken Three astronauts safely returned to Earth today after a 125-day stay on ISS. SpaceX’s launch manifest for 2013 included three commercial launches in addition to its cargo flights to ISS. The head of the company building Russia’s version of GPS has been fired. “The majority of state governors are Republicans, and they have the power to disarm the health-care law.” Even the cows are fleeing California’s regulatory climate. “Long-term budget pressures on NASA mount.” Korean folk song – Arirang The Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate suffered its third loss in court on Friday. A tour of the escape bunker under the Apollo launchpad. The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2011. Our country’s road to bankruptcy, in one chart. Cracking the 250 year old code of a secret society. Rod Stewart – Maggie May The next flight of the X-37b has been delayed again, with the new launch set for December 11. In meetings today the European Space Agency has decided to upgrade Ariane 5 rather than immediately build a new Ariane 6 rocket. Has Curiosity made a big discovery? Mundy & Shannon – Galway Girl Cracks have been found in the first Orion capsule intended to fly in space. Sources in Russia indicated that the contract for Sarah Brightman’s space tourist flight has not yet been signed. NASA is downplaying the hype about a big discovery by Curiosity. Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land A Pennsylvania college has cut the work hours of all instructors to avoid the costs of Obamacare. A service module to nowhere The sun has a split personality. 2000 pingpong balls and 30 teachers in zero gravity A new world speed record for a sailing vessel was set today at more than 75 miles per hour. The arrival of the legal dictator. Penn & Teller on Fool Us – Young & Strange Don’t you dare call it default! Boeing indicated today that it is considering increasing its investment in its CST-100 manned capsule in order to accelerate its development. Olivia Newton and Andy Gibb – Rest Your Love On Me When you go for your annual physical — free under Obamace — the doctor cannot treat you for, or even answer questions about, any new ailments. A Russian Proton rocket, scheduled for launch in late December, is being replaced because of damage sustained during transport from its factory. The willingness of a small union to bankrupt Hostess will help do the same for many other companies. The requirement in Obamacare that restaurants list calories on their menus will cost billions. Pac Man in orbit around Saturn. Russia and the U.S. have named the two astronauts who will spend a year in space beginning in 2015. “Please stop watching it … Please stop filling your head with filth.” Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand – You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Impressive radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8 were taken during its recent fly-by of Earth. Echostar signs a multi-satellite deal using the Ariane 5 rocket. Los Alamos engineers have successfully tested a simple fission nuclear reactor for generating electricity in space. The Russians today announced a reorganization of their space industry. Why state regulation is better than federal regulation NASA is soliciting ideas on how to use the two Cold War era telescopes given to the space agency by the military. SpaceX and Stratolaunch have parted ways. The waterfalls of Iceland Photo Op meets red tape. Red tape wins. Twenty places that you should try to visit before you die. Space tourism — in a balloon. The federal government’s debt ceiling will be reached no later than the end of February, and possibly sooner. 52 Nobel Peace Prize winners have called for the boycott of Israel for its recent attacks in Gaza. The biggest black hole yet found, 17 billion times the mass of our sun. On the road Ralph Stanley and Patty Loveless – Pretty Polly Cassini has taken some spectacular new images of the gigantic hexagonal vortex on Saturn’s north pole. South Korea scrubbed the launch of its own homemade rocket last night. The sad state of modern science Messenger has found new and “compelling” evidence that there is water ice locked in the permanently shadowed craters of Mercury. Two more states have decided not to set up health exchanges, a key component of Obamacare. “1,200 days and $5 trillion in new debt since Senate Democrats passed a budget.” A federal court has issued a temporary injunction halting enforcement by the federal government of the contraceptive mandate under Obamacare. Gordon Lightfoot – Song for a winter’s night A North Carolina elementary school removed the word “God” from a poem written by one its students because one student’s parents complained. The overall debt from student loans now exceeds $1 trillion, with defaults skyrocking. The solution from one Democratic Congressman: a $1 trillion bailout. Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound The ATF has taken action against the agents involved in running the illegal gun-running operation dubbed “Fast-and-Furious.” William Butler Yeats – The Second Coming Microwaving Ivory Soap North Korea has placed the first stage of its own rocket on the launchpad in preparation for a test flight later this month. Changes in the levels of sulphur dioxide since Venus Express arrived in orbit around Venus in 2006 now suggest strongly that the spacecraft has detected volcanic activity on the planet. Rachel Carson was wrong. Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, will be eliminating healthcare coverage to its parttime employees due to Obamacare. The head of the Interior Department has ordered the shutdown of a century-old California oyster company. The Sun’s weak sunspot maximum continues Loreena McKennitt – Snow New data suggests that the icy crust of Titan is twice as thick as previously estimated. The press lets Curiosity get the better of them “It will be very costly.” Urban shooting techniques Andromeda wants you! NASA announced yesterday plans to launch by 2020 a twin rover of Curiosity to Mars. The Pentagon has decided to buy its launch services from more than just Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The real fiscal cliff A federal appeals court today expressed strong reservations about Obama’s non-recess recess appointments in January. The toughest bridge in the world The GAO is concerned about the future budget and schedule of the James Webb Space Telescope. Looking at the Earth from space at night. Lacking focus If you and a friend happen to have $1.4 billion, the new private company Golden Spike wants to take you to the Moon. Celtic Harp Orchestra – Miranda and the Tempest A tour of the impact craters that Curiosity created when it landed on Mars. It now appears that the next launch of the X-37B is set for Tuesday, December 11. Katherine Jenkins – Requiem for a Soldier Gullies on Vesta? A fuel leak has now been pinpointed as the cause of the Delta 4 rocket launch problem in October. During a launch yesterday the upper stage of Russia’s Proton rocket failed to put the satellite into its proper orbit. North Korea has halted preparations for its planned rocket launch. R.I.P. Patrick Moore (1932-2012). A look at some modern animals, drawn with the same limited fossil record we have for the dinosaurs. Yann Frisch Kazakhstan is considering cancelling the lease that allows Russia to use the launch facilities in Baikonur. Glide tests of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser shuttle are now scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2013. On the air Vi Hart – What was up with Pythagoras? A design problem in Curiosity’s drill makes it a threat for shorting out the electronics of the entire rover at some point in the future. North Korea, having postponed the launch for technical reasons, has apparently begun removing the rocket from the launchpad. The awesomeness of camping and hiking, in pictures. Democratic senators (who voted for it) have joined Republicans to call for the delay or cancellation of an Obamacare tax on medical equipment. A Democratic state representative threatened violence on the Michigan House floor today over the passage of a right-to-work law in their state. Climate models still fail to predict mid- and long-term trends in the climate.The uncertainty of science: Climate models still fail to predict mid- and long-term trends in the climate. The solar scientists change their prediction again Watch a three mile wide asteroid fly past the Earth – live tonight from 5 to 11 pm (Eastern)! The first X-37B to fly in space was successfully placed in orbit today for the second time. Kseniya Simonova – To Norway The teamster boss today predicted a “civil war” in Michigan if the union doesn’t get what it wants. North Korea launched its rocket today, despite indications earlier in the week that they were delaying the launch due to technical problems. Photos of the union thug who punched Steven Crowder today in Michigan: Do you know who he is? A new New York skyscraper — the largest residential building in the world — has won the top award for 2011 for its unusual undulating facade. The nine most important archeological and paleontological discoveries in 2012. A river on Titan. The first galaxies? SpaceX has pinpointed the cause of the Falcon 9 engine shutdown during its October 7 Dragon launch. Union thugs yesterday also destroyed the hot dog cart of an innocent vendor, calling him “N*gger” and “Uncle Tom” while they did it. Of Monsters And Men – Mountain Sound The satellite that North Korea launched early Wednesday appears to be tumbling out of control, according to unnamed U.S. officials. “Work like a Third World dictator and just put all these guys in jail.” Mountain Man – Play It Right Sequestration and NASA Climate experts are now calling for an end to the regularly scheduled mega-climate summits. Lianne La Havas – No Room for Doubt Mt Nimbus Via Ferrata China’s Chang’e 2 lunar probe, now out of lunar orbit, did a fly-by of the 3 mile wide asteroid Toutatis as it zipped past the Earth last week, resulting in some spectacular images. Will it blend: World’s Largest Gummy Bear NASA used Orbital Sciences’ Taurus 2 rocket for the failed launch of its Glory climate satellite in 2011, even though the agency knew the company had not fixed the problem that caused the loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory in 2009. An attempt to drill down into another buried lake in Antarctica, this time by Great Britain, has encountered serious technical problems because of a failed boiler. A preliminary copy of the next IPCC report has been leaked. Orbital Sciences has begun testing the loading and unloading of fuel for the first stage of its Antares rocket at Wallops Island, Maryland. NASA has named the impact site where the two GRAIL spacecraft hit the Moon today after American astronaut Sally Ride. Sharon Shannon & Natali McMasters – Celtic electric Facebook’s Instagram has updated its terms and conditions so that it now claims “perpetual” ownership to all photographs posted by users. “I want Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick.” The science team for Cassini has released a spectacular mosiac of Saturn and its rings, backlit by the Sun. One small dish for man Another Earth just twelve light years away? Instagram has said it will withdraw language from its terms and conditions that would have given it ownership rights to users’ photography. The bar at the center of the Milky Way. Russia today successfully launched a new three man crew toward ISS. In coordinated attacks, Taliban terrorists in Pakistan murdered one man and five women, whose only job was to administer polio vaccines. Robert Bork, 1927-2012 A laser defense system capable of destroying missiles from a distance. Hurricane Sandy relief funding turns into Porkfest 2012 An American pastor — a convert from Islam — has been imprisoned without notice of charges while visiting his family in Iran. SpaceShipTwo has successfully completed its first glide test flight with its rocket motor attached. A petition to have the U.S. withdraw from the United Nations Outer Space Treaty has been submitted to the White House. Eddi Reader – Charlie is my darlin Another three polio workers were killed in Pakistan today. The recent youtube video showing an eagle swooping down to grab a toddler was faked. The state where this past weekend’s mass murder occurred is considered to have the fifth strongest gun laws in the nation. An meteorite that crashed in the Sierra Nevadas in April was traveling at the fastest speed on record, almost 18 miles per second. More details on Virgin Galactic’s first glide test of SpaceShipTwo with its rocket motor attached. “We are not going to do anything.” Not only have the models failed to predict temperature, they also have failed to predict the amount of methane in the atmosphere. A new dataset of global hurricanes since 1970 shows absolutely no trend, up or down. Sinéad O’Connor – Danny Boy Two teams competing for the Google Lunar X-Prize have now merged. A zoning board and the LAPD have shut down a thirty-year-old successful burger stand, apparently because they think it attracts crime. NASA successfully completed a set of tests of the parachutes for the Orion capsule on Thursday. The Soyuz capsule with ISS’s new crew of three astronauts has successfully docked with the station. Seven charts that outline the true and terrible state of the economy. New data has confirmed that asteroid 2011 AG5 will not hit the Earth in 2040. The twelve best solar events in 2012 The Philadelphia high school student who was ridiculed by a teacher for wearing a Romney t-shirt is suing the teacher and the school district. The most interesting comment threads of December Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music Judy Garland – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas What the future was supposed to be like SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket successfully did a vertical take off and landing to a height of 130 feet last week. Obama’s proposal to avoid sequestration would increase spending 55 percent over the next decade. Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The Little Drummer Boy / Peace An atheist billboard opposing religion was ripped to shreds on Sunday in New Jersey. The investigation into the failure of the Proton rocket’s Briz-M upper stage on December 8 has pinpointed the failure to a turbopump. Complaints about compliance with Freedom of Information requests jumped 28 percent during the Obama adminstration’s first term. Half the facts you know are wrong. Mean Mary James – Ding Dong Day The federal government will hit the debt ceiling on December 31. The CEO of Aetna says that Obamacare will double health care premiums Mnozil Brass – At the Movies A United Kingdom effort to drill down almost two miles to reach buired Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica has been abandoned. Russia has announced a commitment to spend $70 billion over the next seven years on their aerospace industry. Such Great Heights Why history professor Erik Loomis should be fired. It appears that SpaceX and Orbcomm have finalized their launch agreement. Hobby Lobby appears willing to face fines rather than bow to the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. An ion test engine has set a new record for continuous operation. The most intolerant religion, persecuting all others. Orbital Sciences will do a hot fire launchpad test of its Antares rocket in January, followed by a test launch to orbit in February, and a first flight of the Cygnus capsule in April. Thank You, David Gregory A very impressive bike ride “2012 was the worst year for fabrication and plagiarism since I began collecting data in 2005.” The twelve most useless research papers of 2012. Is the recently discovered Imperial tomb in China too dangerous to enter? The Seven Samurai – Kyûzô the Swordsman Skeeter Davis – the End of the World Another federal judge has ruled that a private company does not have to follow the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. Julie Andrews – Auld Lang Syne The federal government has reached its debt limit today. New research suggests that the high radiation experienced by astronauts on interplanetary journeys could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer’s. Six of the most isolated places on Earth. Neil Diamond – I Am, I Said The House passed legislation Monday proposing to rename the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Man on Fire Using data from a solar system detected by the Kepler space telescope, astronomers now extrapolate that there are at least as many planets as stars in our galaxy. The deindustrialization of America. The good, bad, and (mostly) ugly of the fiscal deal. Astronomers have discovered that a large number of dwarf galaxies are orbiting Andromedea in a flat plane, like our solar system, contrary to all predictions. The origin of the dark material on Vesta. Swift demonstrates what a small 11-inch telescope can do in space with an spectacular gallery of images. To avoid Obamacare, companies are turning more employees into part-timers while also cutting back on hires. The Byrds – Turn. Turn. Turn. “I am not your peasant.” Curiosity spots a Martian “flower.” 10 Most Common New Year’s Resolutions as Illustrated by Cats Alan Grayson returns to Congress and immediately calls Republicans terrorists. What happens when you set fire to 2,500 ping pong balls? A survey of 9 million students over the past 47 years has found that modern students consider themselves above average in education, self-confidence, and determination, despite test scores showing an actual drop in these skills. On Wednesday Apophis will pass the Earth at a distance of 9 million miles, allowing astronomers to gather more data about this asteroid’s orbit and composition. A close and realistic look at SpaceX’s schedule for 2013. The future of the social security program is worse than you think. Health premiums to double under Obamacare. How to make an indestructible snow fort. The Sun crashes Police say union workers “almost certainly” torched an under-construction Quaker meetinghouse in northwest Philadelphia four days before Christmas. Fifteen more exoplanets found orbiting their stars in the habitable zone. The Kepler science team today revealed an additional 461 candidate exoplanets, with four being less than twice Earth’s size and in the habitable zone. Bank of America arbitrarily froze the account of a firearms manufacturer because, in their words “We believe you should not be selling guns and parts on the Internet.” Henri 4 The coming of private space stations Democratic Party civility in New York A hoax article about a war that never happened stayed up on Wikipedia for five years. “The toll collectors on the road to serfdom.” Under Obamacare health insurance rates for young adults will skyrocket 40 percent next year, according to a new study. Crowd laughs and applauds the Chicago Teachers Union president after she joked about killing the rich. An Omaha-based chain of fast food restauants has decided to cut the hours of all non-management employees workers’ hours to part time in order to avoid the costs of Obamacare. Scientists now think it is possible for there to be floating methane ice on the lakes of Titan. Want to learn something of the geology of the Grand Canyon? Tracking the orbit of the exoplanet in Fomalhaut’s debris disk The Dillards – The Whole World Round A new National Research Council report honestly admits the possibility that the Sun might be an important factor in climate change. How to watch the asteroid Apophis as it makes its not-so-close approach to Earth today. New data from the Herschel Space Telescope suggests that the asteroid Apophis is bigger and less reflective than previous believed. An official of SpaceX announced today that the company plans on its first manned launch by 2015, and that the astronauts will be its employees, not NASA’s. Idea of North – But not for me New radar data of Apophis now indicates that its chances of the asteroid hitting the Earth in 2036 is zero. The reason why NASA’s planetary probes still use black and white photography. Our government’s modern scientific method: The largest known spiral galaxy. Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling In Love State lawmakers in Wyoming have proposed a law that would make it a felony to enforce a gun ban on semi-automatics or large capacity magazines. The demo mission of robotic refueling of satellites on ISS goes forward this month. Spectacular footage from the two GRAIL spacecraft just prior to their lunar impact. The Russians have recovered their first sample from Lake Vostok, buried 2.5 miles below the Antarctic icecap. David Gregory will not be prosecuted. Cirque Du Soleil Researcher have found that the best way to protect the gothic cathedrals of Europe from air pollution might be to coat them with olive oil. A zip line in Haiti How the Bigelow module added to ISS will change the space equation. Pretend gun control! King’s Island – The Beast Roller Coaster A wildfire has damaged an astronomical observatory in Australia. A gun owner’s home listed on a map published by a New York paper has been targeted for robbery. An American ice-drilling team has reached Lake Whillans in Antarctica after a 600 mile journey. Why Are You Opposed To Ending Violence? For the first time a giant squid has been filmed in its natural habitat. The last 36 pictures ever taken using Kodachrome. Sissel – Shenandoah New Year’s resolutions for believers in freedom. The mass murder that didn’t happen. A (new) Mexican standoff at the old spaceport. Volunteers are needed to analyze images from Mars. Scientists are going to use Hubble to take six more deep field images. Sinéad O’Connor – She moved through the Fair Some beautiful color images from World War II America. A Japanese airline has grounded all of its 787 Dreamliners due following an emergency landing. According the the inspector general, the Post Office will go out of business this year unless Congress bails it out. A new study has found that five Gulf Coast states have so many vague environmental laws that anyone who does anything outdoors can be found guilty of something.The rise of facism: A new study has found that five Gulf Coast states have so many vague environmental laws that anyone who does anything outdoors can be found guilty of something. A man who expressed strong agreement with many leftwing causes has been arrested at the Wisconsin state capitol with a Molotov cocktail in his backpack. Some more details have been revealed about Bigelow’s deal with NASA to send one of its modules to ISS. Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Joan Baez – Turtle Dove James Hansen, activist global warming scientist, teams up with leftwing Occupy Wall Street. A software issue has forced a delay in the robot refueling experiment on ISS. An expensive Frankenstein in space A new video game allows players to murder the NRA president. A Pennsylvania hospital has decided to stop delivering babies because of Obamacare. New images of a dry river on Mars. A close-minded reporter opens her mind to guns. A gold nugget wearing more than 11 pounds has been found in Australia. Another local sheriff, this time in Alabama, says he will not enforce any gun regulations that he thinks violate the second amendment. Another house, listed by the Journal News in upstate New York as a gun owner, has been targeted by burglars. Handel – Harp Concerto in B flat Some incredible frozen waterfalls worldwide. The TSA is going to remove all of the airport backscatter body scanners made by one company. In rushing through a new gun law in New York making illegal high capacity magazines, the legislature failed to exempt the police. Jim Croce – I Got a Name What happens when you play tennis with a flaming tennis ball? John Denver – Rocky Mountain High The comet of the century? Kepler shut down for ten days to save the mission. Not all is golden in commercial space: The failure of the Oklahoma spaceport deal. Data from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter now suggests that a lake in a Martian crater had filled from groundwater coming up from below. New and better quality images of the asteroid Toutatis from the Chang’e 2 fly-by have been released. College adjunct professors crushed by Obamacare. The judge who sentenced seven earthquake scientists/officials in Italy to prison has released a detailed explanation for his verdict. Electronic medical records — required by Obamacare — are costing doctors time while taking them away from their patients. Another asteroid mining company will announce its plans tomorrow, Tuesday. Even as the Kepler mission struggles to survive, the science team has released its entire database of exoplanets candidates to the public. Michael Kamen – Quintet Orbital Sciences has published an updated schedule for its Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo capsule. A new infrared image of Betelgeuse suggests the star and its winds will smash into the interstellar medium in only a few thousand years. A NASA engineering team is restarting the agency’s 1960s research into nuclear powered engines for deep space missions. The plans and proposed launch schedule of the new asteroid mining company, Deep Space Industries. After a short delay due to software issues, the satellite servicing demo on ISS has begun. A nine-year-old in Scotland who forced changes in her school lunches with her blog has been silenced. Another sheriff, this time in Missouri, has told the Obama administration that he will not enforce any regulations that violate the second amendment. Archeologists have now found the earliest evidence of chocolate in Utah, suggesting that trade with the tropics was going on as early as 800 AD. Major exhibitors are pulling out of a outdoor trade show because the organizer decided to ban some weapons. A balloon sent above Antarctica to study cosmic rays has set a new record for the longest flight. A Jet Ski Jet Pack A Colorado county government, joining twelve other state governments and numerous local sheriffs, has passed a resolution supporting the second amendment and pledging not to enforce any federal laws that violate it. The Democratic Party leaders in New Mexico have announced that an agreement over spaceport liability has been reached with Virgin Galactic. Planetary Resources has released a video showing off the prototype of their Arkyd-100 space telescope. An update on the Chinese manned program. February 23, 2013: A day of resistance. Ed Thompson – Solo Trumpet duet Russia is now threatening to abandon its Baikonur launch site due to restrictions demanded by the Kazakhstan government. NASA has now agreed to contribute equipment and researchers to a European dark energy mission. The entire NRA has converted to Islam to stymie the Obama administration’s effort to take their guns. Now a Mississippi sheriff has vowed not to enforce any federal gun control laws that violate the second amendment. The boycott against the organizer of an outdoor trade show that tried to ban rifles has forced them to postpone the show. Happy 10th anniversary to the Opportunity rover on Mars! Engineers at Lockheed Martin are adding structural braces to fix the cracks found in the first Orion capsule. A research plane has crashed in a remote area of Antarctica, stranding three. Polio virus from Pakistan has been found in Egypt. “We’re now in a society of violating one another.” The seasons change on Mars. Horrible Histories – William Shakespeare Song NASA engineers today test fired a major component of a refurbished Saturn 5 engine. The Russian foreign minister today denied that there is any friction between Kazakhstan and Russia over the use of the Baikonur spaceport. An appeals court has unanimously decided that Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he tried to make appointments to the NLRB when the Senate was not in recess. A Texas Congressman has introduced a law to repeal “Gun-Free School Zones Act” of 1990. DARPA’s project to harvest parts from abandoned geosynchronous satellites. Blondie – Shayla (1979) Shakespeare – The Wind and the Rain, music Ben Toth The first nighttime photos from Mars. The robotic refueling demo on ISS successfully did a simulated refueling on Friday. Sarah McLachlan – Song for a Winter’s Night No survivors in Antarctica airplane crash An American team has successfully obtained samples from Lake Whillans, buried half a mile under the Antarctic icecap. Norwegian scientists admit that the climate has shown no warming since 2000. Iran today claimed it has successfully flown a monkey on a suborbital rocket flight. Enya – Amarantine Virgin Galactic has begun paying rent — under protest — for its use of a New Mexico spaceport. Resistance to a new gun control law in New York appears to be rising. A NASA experiment should produce a light show for those on the east coast tonight. Cailyn Lloyd – Nocturne Kepler is back in operation after a ten day rest to safe the mission. Off to Israel Sheena Easton – For Your Eyes Only Stuck in Atlanta South Korea successfully launched its first satellite, using its own rocket, on Wednesday. SpaceX has signed a contract to launch an Israeli satellite. Sierra Nevada hires Lockheed Martin Mathieu Bich fools Penn & Teller In Israel The Swingle Singers – Lady Madonna An engine shutdown shortly after the lift off of a Sea Launch rocket destroyed an Intelsat satellite on Friday. Staying in the West Bank Idan Raichel Project – Mimaamakim (Out of the depth) ABBA – The Winner Takes It All (1980) An image mismatch raises questions about Iran’s monkey in space An asteroid will miss the Earth by 15,000 miles on Friday Elton John and Billy Joel – Piano Man live Boeing has sued Sea Launch for $350 million Curiosity has drilled its first hole. the first detailed look at the criteria the Obama administration uses to judge if it can legally kill American citizens traveling abroad without the benefit of due process. Iran could have the bomb within six months New York gun owners have now sued the state over its new gun law. Seven million to lose their health insurance under Obamacare Judy Garland – Somewhere Over The Rainbow Obama walks away from a room of journalists, refusing to answer questions about his new kill policy 270 sheriffs and 8 state sheriff associations have said they will not enforce any unconstitutional gun bans. Shannon Hurley – Sunrise Mary Duff – Going Home Back from Israel An American team who grabbed a sample from buried Lake Whillans in Antarctica last month now claim their work obtained the first evidence of microbial life in subglacial Antarctic waters. Hitchhiking and supermarkets in the occupied territory The weak solar maximum continues Life as it should be The leaders of Russia and Kazakhstan have announced that an agreement has been reached regarding Russia’s lease for the Baikonur spaceport. The founder of the green movement sees the light. Curiosity has obtained its first drill sample. Bonnie Raitt – Love has no pride The hotfire engine test of the first stage of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket has now been scheduled for February 12. Kodak’s test footage of some of its earliest full color Kodachrome film, shot in 1922. Alison Krauss – When You Say Nothing At All Help name two of Pluto’s five moons! The HOAs of Israel Comparing the price of Falcon 9 with the Atlas 4. Osborne Brothers – Rocky Top A Russian Progress freighter successfully docked with ISS yesterday only six hours after launch. North Korea successfully set off an underground nuclear explosion today. “The bishops have made it very clear that the institutions for which we’re responsible will simply not cooperate.”We’ve only just begun: “The bishops have made it very clear that the institutions for which we’re responsible will simply not cooperate.” The newly released “ObamaCare Survival Guide” has rocketed to the No. 2 spot on The New York Times’ bestseller list for advice-giving paperbacks. Bigotry in Israel Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday On a Tuesday drop test engineers successfully demonstrated that the Orion capsule could land safely if one of its three parachutes failed. Russian investigators, having pinpointed the cause of a December 2012 launch failure, have cleared the Proton rocket to resume commercial launches in March. A boycott by firearms companies against states that pass gun control laws appears to be growing. Some details have been released about that deal between Russia and Kazakhstan over the Baikonur spaceport. Under the weather The hot fire test of the first stage of the Antares rocket has been rescheduled to tonight. If it’s the government it’s okay to steal your property. Liz Callaway – Nothing To Lose (But Your Heart) The hot fire test of the Antares first stage tonight was aborted at the last second. A 150 foot wide asteroid will buzz the Earth tomorrow at a distance of only 17,000 miles. Building a real Peace Forest in Israel William Shatner proposes naming Pluto’s two unnamed moons Romulus and Vulcan. Asteroid 2012 DA14 might experience seismic activity when it zips pass the Earth tomorrow. The next flight of Dragon to ISS has been set for March 1. Scientists now believe they have found evidence proving that the unknown origin of cosmic rays are supernova explosions. A Bit of Fry and Laurie – Celebrities A group of California scientists have proposed a system to vaporize asteroids that threaten Earth. An unexpected meteorite shower yesterday across three regions of Russia has reportedly caused more than 400 people to seek medical help. How to watch asteroid 2012 DA14 zip past the Earth today. An outline of the cuts NASA would do if sequestration occurs on March 1 includes shutting down commercial crew while leaving the Space Launch System untouched. Largest in a century. Notorious Folk – Romanian Train Song Lena Leclaire – Call Me Maybe A planet evaporates. Suzanne Vega – Small Blue Thing Russian scientists have identified the first fragments from Friday’s meteorite in Chelyabinsk. Mercury, in full color. “Doomsday never arrived, apparently.” The abandoned calibration targets used by surveillance satellites of the 1960s. Emmylou Harris – Wayfaring Stranger A gun control bill introduced in Washington includes a provision that allows the police to conduct yearly house searches, without a warrant, of any gun owner’s home. Some thoughts by Alan Stern on a better way to name exoplanets. The hotfire test of Antares’ first stage has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 21. Another day, another crack in Obamacare. NASA mission control in Houston has lost all communications with ISS. Two days ago the Congressional Budget Office increased its projection for the cost of Obamacare by 29 percent, while also saying that seven million workers will lose their health insurance due to the law, almost twice as many as previously estimated. After a three hour outage NASA has regained communications with ISS. A new poll of Earth scientists has found that a majority are skeptical of human-caused global warming. Outtakes from pet interviews Scientists have released some results from their look at asteroid 2012 DA14 during its fly-by last week. The microfilmed miniature bibles that flew to the moon during Apollo have become the center of a custody dispute between the state of Texas and the author who wrote their history. There will be hot fire tests on Friday of both the Antares and Falcon 9 rockets. The anti-choice left’s disarming of the American woman. In an effort to save money and protect the environment, the U.S. Navy has decided to move away from fossil fuels and back to non-toxic and environmentally friendly wind power. The TSA detained a wheelchair-bound three-year-old girl, took away her stuffed doll, and refused to allow the parents to videotape the child’s pat down. Using Kepler scientists have discovered a three planet solar system with one planet slightly larger than our Moon. How to see Comet PANSTARRS, expected to be visible to the naked eye in the evening sky in March. Sarah Brightman – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina “Whose side are you on?” In an interview in Australia, the head of the IPCC has admitted that the climate has stopped warming now for the past seventeen years. New data has allowed scientists to lower the chance that the asteroid Apophis will hit the Earth in a future orbit. R.I.P. Dr. David S. McKay: 1936-2013 A new U.N. report states that Iran has moved one step closer to building its own nuclear weapon. An update on Boeing’s CST-100 capsule. The head of the Transportation Department threatens long delays if the sequestration cuts take place March 1. Because of the cost of Obamacare, employers are dropping healthcare coverage for spouses. Falcon 9 static fire test is now set for Monday. A new poll finds that the public opposes cuts to virtually all types of spending. George Washington’s Farewell Address The Antares hot fire test of the rocket’s first stage was successfully completed tonight. A jetpack that takes off like a plane. The number of gun companies who have decided to stop selling to anti-second amendment state governments has grown to 44. Don Henley – Talking to the Moon William Travis’ letter of defiance returns to the Alamo. “All you need to know to get on a plane these days is the color of your house.” Mammoth Cave is now officially longer than 400 miles. The world’s smallest optical space telescopes to launch on Monday. Twenty-three terrifying airport runways. The man who taught the air forces of the world how to fly. Public pressure is now being applied to gun manufacturers who are trying to wheezle out of the boycott against gun-banning states. Meatloaf and Patti Russo – I’d do anything for love “It is big media institutions who are identifiably more liberal to left-leaning who will shut you down, stab you and kill you, fire you, if they perceive that you are not telling the story in the way that they want it told.” Beretta has threatened to leave Maryland over the state’s proposed new gun bans. Jihad or Criminality? India successfully launched seven satellites into orbit today on a single launch. “Vulcan” and “Cerberus” win the poll to name Pluto’s two unnamed moons. “the worst test” – an engineering flash mob SpaceX has reported that its static fire test today of the Falcon 9 rocket was a success. Homeland Security seizes a man’s boat because they made an error on his custom’s paperwork. The House yesterday voted to rename the Dryden Flight Research Center after Neil Armstrong. Hamas breaks truce and fires rocket from Gaza into Israel. A newly discovered comet has an orbit that might collide with Mars in October 2014. Even as Democratic lawmakers scream for more gun control laws, the enforcement of the current laws by the Obama administration has declined by 40 percent. The world’s largest panoramic image. A new GAO report says that Obamacare will increase the federal government’s long term debt by $6.2 trillion. Scientists are considering revising the guidelines for heart risk as determined by your cholesterol levels. Richard Feynman explains the scientific method. An investigation of the Sea Launch launch failure on February 2 has pinpointed the failure to faulty parts made in the Ukraine. The meteorite that landed in Russia on February 15 has now been traced to the Apollo family of near Earth asteroids. Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) in Vietnam Dennis Tito, the world’s first space tourist, announced a private effort today to fly the first-ever manned flight around Mars and do it by 2018. Bob Woodward said today that a senior White House official threatened him for his critical reporting of Obama concerning sequestration. A wonderful montage of people refusing to answer questions at Border Patrol checkpoints. A bill in Congress would strip the Constitutional rights from any Americans being prosecuted by an American Indian tribe under Indian law. Proof that cats have been walking on important stuff for basically forever. Another liberal reporter describes getting obscene and threatening emails from the White House. China’s next manned mission is now set for this summer. Two probes named after James Van Allen and designed to study the two Van Allen radiation belts have discovered there is a third intermittent belt. “This is the biggest meteorite found in East Antarctica for 25 years.” Yo-Yo Ma – The Swan by Saint-Saens After successfully reaching orbit, there appears to be a problem with the Dragon capsule. Hail Armageddon Corrupt memory in Curiosity’s A computer system has forced engineers to switch to the rover’s back-up computer. Dragon’s docking with ISS will not happen on Saturday as originally scheduled due to the problems with the capsule’s thrusters. SpaceX has announced that they now have all of Dragon’s thrusters operating and are go for docking with ISS. Bryan Berg – builder of the largest house of cards on record The boycott by gun and ammo manufacturers of anti-gun states has now grown to over 100. The Democratically controlled Senate is about to mark up its first budget in four years! The Obama administration today released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement parts of Obamacare. An environmental report by the Obama administration has admitted that the Keystone oil pipeline would do little environmental damage. The Band with Eric Clapton – The Weight SpaceX has been given the go-ahead to have the Dragon capsule rendezvous with ISS on Sunday. After reviwing the results from the Antares hot fire on February 22, Orbital Sciences is now planning the first launch of the Antares rocket in April. Dragon has been successfully berthed with ISS. The censoring of Google maps, by Google and governments. A major manufacturer of gun magazines says it will leave Colorado if the state legislature passes a law banning high capacity magazines. The sequester in one chart. Manfred Mann – Blinded by the Light More reporters admit to being threatened by the White House. Another chance at killing Obamacare in the Supreme Court? A newly discovered asteroid will pass within the Moon’s orbit on Wednesday. New research concludes that it was a static electric spark that set fire to the Hindenberg in 1937. Homeland Security has purchased almost 3000 armored vehicles and has had them retrofitted for use on the American streets. Republican John Boehner, Speaker of the House, agrees to consider any gun control bill passed by the Senate. The true national debt. A new poll finds that support for Obamacare continues to drop. We don’t need no solar maximum “Investigate them.” Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall Curiosity is easing out of safe mode as engineers switch computers. One week before the sequester cuts took effect, the TSA issued a $50 million contract for new uniforms. The CEO of a major health insurance company warned that rates will likely go up 20% to 100% next year because of Obamacare The search to find and understand the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Touching the underground ocean of Europa, from Earth. Scaled Composites has done its first test firing of SpaceShipTwo’s engine. An email from the Obama administration confirms their effort to make the sequester cuts as painful as possible, even if it isn’t necessary. Will The Circle Be Unbroken For the past two years NASA and JPL have been under heavy hacker attack from China, according to NASA’s inspector general. A sunstone, used by mariners to judge the position of the Sun when it is cloudy, has been found at a 16th century shipwreck. The great ammunition myth. Rand Paul has begun athe filibuster today in response to the suggestion by both Attorney General Eric Holder and CIA nominee John Brennan that the White House has the right to kill Americans on American soil, Mr. Smith goes to Washington filibuster Rand Paul’s proposed non-binding resolution on the use of drones that the Senate Democrats refuse to bring to a vote. As a precaution engineers have shut Curiosity down to protect it from an oncoming solar flare. Rand Paul’s moment of glory. An anti-semite who also wants to see 9/11 repeated yearly has been chosen by the Obama administration to receive an “International Women of Courage Award.” The Russians have announced that their samples from Lake Vostok, buried deep under the Antarctic icecap contains life, one of which is new. Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas – The Boxer The Crab Nebula has flared again. A Michigan elementary school confiscated a third-grader’s batch of homemade cupcakes because they were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers. The TSA screeners at Newark Airport allowed a federal agent with a fake bomb to pass through security. Eight of the world’s most incredible swimming pools. South Dakota has passed a law to train teachers to wear guns and provide security. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Obama administration does not have the right to search or seize a person’s electronic devices when they cross the border. Sand that is always dry Comet Pan-STARRS will likely be its brightest for northern hemisphere viewers this weekend. A small Russian satellite has been struck and damaged by space junk created from a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test. The TSA issued security badges to at least eleven airport employees with criminal backgrounds. Some US communities are trying to make gun ownership mandatory. The Federal Reserve reports that Obamacare is causing layoffs and a slowdown in hiring. Grasshopper flies again, but even higher. Frank Vignola – Tico Tico The Russians now say that they have not found any previously unknown life forms in the sample from Lake Vostok. “A lot of what we do is make believe.” What Obama won’t cut: Calligraphers, 77,000 empty buildings, junkets, and robot squirrels. Islamic militants threaten and beat parents in Pakistan for having their children vaccinated against polio. A Philadelphia girl was searched and ridiculed for having a gun made of paper at school. New computer models find that the tropical rain forests will not be harmed by increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Seven sound recordings made before Thomas Edison. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Satellite of Love The dirty little secret of electric cars. How to see Comet Pan-STARRS. Four asteroids buzzed the Earth this past week. The Democrats in the Senate are about to introduce their legally required annual budget — for the first time in four years. According to conservatives sources in the House, the Republican leadership killed a measure to defund Obamacare. North Korea has pulled out of its U.N. armistice agreement. WISE has uncovered a binary brown dwarf star system only 6.5 light years away The radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant failure in Japan has turned out to be less of a problem than predicted. Alon Goldstein – Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Astronomers discover a trinary — of quasars. The budget battle at NASA New Obamacare regulations produce a stack of regulations seven feet high. Curiosity’s first drilling sample has found that the ancient watery conditions in Gale Crater were especially suitable for life. Teller fools us Hoyer told employees at the Goddard Space Flight Center yesterday that sequester might force some layoffs there. Boeing is considering building a civilian version of the X-37B mini-shuttle. America – A horse with no name Computer simulations suggest that Pluto might have as many as ten undiscovered additional moons. NASA has clamped down on travel expenses, reducing it by 30 percent in the past year. Physicians fight back against Obamacare. China says it will by 2015 do a re-entry test of the spacecraft it will use to return a lunar sample from the Moon by 2020.. Astronomers today celebrate the official turning-on of ALMA, the world’s largest telescope. Europe today inked a partnership deal with Russia for its two spacecraft ExoMars mission, planned to launch in 2016 and 2018. The top ten organizations slashing jobs and hours in order to deal with Obamacare. For the first time in 25 years the U.S. has begun producing plutonium, to be used in future planetary space missions. Sierra Hull – Tell Me Tomorrow Water and carbon monoxide detected in the atmosphere of a super-sized exoplanet 129 light years away. The first Democratic Party budget from the Senate in four years calls for a 62% increase in federal spending over the next ten years. The return today of three astronauts from ISS has been delayed due to an ice storm in Russia. “[We] don’t think there’s a problem.” A federal judge has ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate imposed by the Obama administration on private businesses. Visiting a nuclear missile silo Paul Speer – Gobi Cinque Terre Judy Garland – It’s a Great Day for the Irish Building a lunar base by baking lunar dust and shaping it with a 3D printer. Sarah Brightman’s visit to ISS in doubt. Orbital Sciences has now set April 16-18 as the launch window for its first test launch of its new Antares rocket Sooner or later progressives will get around to you The 6 most ridiculous science experiments ever funded The space junk collision in January never happened. Curiosity takes a panorama of Mount Sharp. Google Street View now includes views from four of the world’s seven largest mountain peaks. More fraud in climate science Sinead O’Connor – Thank You For Hearing Me According to a federal report, businesses nationwide remain reluctant to hire because of Obamacare. Another computer glitch has put Curiosity back in safe mode. A Chinese scientist who worked as a contractor for NASA was arrested yesterday on a plane about to leave for China. Out of Ideas, Governments Try a Bank Heist Having lost its earmarked government funding in 2011, the Pan-STARRS telescope has now replaced those funds with a private donation. The Democrat mayor of Philadelphia has demanded an investigation against a local magazine because he doesn’t like what they wrote. A new model of the origin of asteroids suggests that in the beginning they weren’t rubble piles but “churning balls of mud.” Without a warrant New Jersey police raided the home of a firearms instructor, demanding the right to inventory his guns, after he posted a Facebook photo of his son holding a rifle. The Tuttles and AJ Lee – Endless Ocean After 35 years of travel, Voyager 1 has finally left the solar system. ILS, the company that launches the Russian Proton rocket, has lowered its prices. An expedition financed by Jeff Bezos has recovered two Saturn 5 F-1 engines from the ocean bottom. New results show that the effectiveness of a new malaria vaccine fades after a period of years. Für Elise – Beethoven for Piano & Orchestra Curiosity is out of safe mode and will be resuming full science operations by next week. A congressional report, issued by Republicans in the House and Senate, says that Obamacare will increase healthcare costs by 200 percent. Homeland Security has proposed a plan to scan the private emails of anyone connected with defense work. Implosion of the Marble Falls Bridge in Texas Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has reversed course and will allow a tough gun bill to be introduced in the Senate. How big will the Stratolaunch first stage aircraft be? Big. Very big. Obamacare may cost small business as much as 65% of their profits. NASA has suspended all spending for education and public outreach. Meatloaf and Patti Russo – Couldn’t have said better The top ten horror stories caused by Obamacare. In two different court decisions yesterday the courts ruled in favor of professors who had been punished by their university because of their opinions. NASA has issued a clarification specifically excluding its press announcements from the suspension of all public outreach efforts. The Democrats in the Senate passed their first budget in four years yesterday. British scientists have located the underwater remains of one of the man-made Mulberry harbours built by the British to support the D-Day Normandy invasion. Hiking to the Window in Ventana Canyon Virgin Galactic reports that the recent tests of the engine for SpaceShipTwo have been a complete success. Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry – Librarian Sketch We made it. Curiosity marks the return to full science operations by producing a new panorama. “I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.” The strange polar vortexes of Venus. Cyprus has agreed to confiscate a percentage of the savings of large depositors in order to satisfy demands from the European Union creditors.. Comet ISON is not brightening as much as expected, suggesting it will not be as spectacular as some had hoped. After a day delay due to bad weather, Dragon’s return from space has been scheduled for Tuesday. A Democratic voter discovers he’s actually a tea party racist. Eric Clapton – Danny Boy A new type of supernova. Dragon has unberthed from ISS and is on its way back to Earth. The illegal view from the top of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. To show support for the New Jersey family that had been threatened by the government for posting a picture of their son holding a rifle, hundreds of parents post pictures of their own gun-toting kids. The Obamas have taken more than a vacation per month in 2013. Dragon has splashed down. The Highwaymen – Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans On the air A Proton rocket has successfully launched a Mexican communications satellite today. Steve Goodman – The Dutchman Science and sequestration in context Elon Musk confirms that on future Falcon 9 launches they will do tests of a powered return of the first stage. There astronauts were successfully launched today from Russia and are expected to dock with ISS later tonight. Rachel Barton Pine – Molly on the Shore by Percy Grainger After a fast four orbit/six hour flight a Soyuz capsule carrying there astronauts has successfully docked with ISS. India has successfully tested a homebuilt engine to be used in its more powerful geosynchronous launch rocket, set for launch in July. “The fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted.” One very good sign that North Korea’s recent warlike threats are merely posturing. “We’re just not interested in continuing to support bureaucracies and talkfests.” The collapse of household income since 2009. Riverdance – violins What it feels like to have your life savings stolen by the global elite. A boycott of Colorado because of its new gun restrictions appears to building among hunters. Connie Dover – I am going to the west At a cave rescue course Debbie Reynolds – Tammy Astronomers searching the WISE infrared data archive think they might find a Jupiter-sized planet lurking near the Oort Cloud. Are your indoor tomato plants probable cause for an armed raid? Homeland Security has been claiming that it has the authority to inspect private safety deposit boxes without warrants. James Hansen is retiring from NASA and will dedicate his time to global warming activism. Bernadette Peters & Stephen Sondheim – Send In the Clowns Cover story: Exploring Caves in Space Astronomers watch the central supermassive black hole of a galaxy eat something, either a planet or a brown dwarf. An audit of California’s fiscal state has found it to be $127 billion in the red. New computer simulations suggest that the spiral arms of galaxies are not only a natural phenomenon but that they are a persistent one. 10 More Amazing Science Stunts North Korea on Wednesday closed access to the Kaesong Industrial Park, a joint factory zone with South Korea. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on ISS has detected a surplus of positrons, anti-matter electrons, that physicists believe are caused by the existence of dark matter. “The SLS program should be canceled now to free up approximately $10 billion programmed for this decade.” Want to own and drive a car faster than 265 miles per hour? You can! States dominated by conservatives are more likely to have lower unemployment, while in liberally dominated states are more likely to have higher unemployment. “You’d probably be dead anyway.” The roll out of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket to the launchpad will occur on Saturday, with the test first launch scheduled between April 17-19. Legislatures in New Mexico and Texas move forward with bills clarifying future spaceport legalities. North Korea says it has authorized plans for nuclear strikes against the United States. Dido – White Flag More successful glide tests today for SpaceShipTwo, now with its engine attached. Austria goes to Mars. Hubble sees the most distant supernova ever. The Cranberries – Dreams The scientists who attempted to re-invent Michael Mann’s hockey stick global warming graph and were caught fudging their data have admitted their data is worthless Using Hubble astronomers have confirmed that it was a yellow supergiant star that was the progenitor for the nearest supernovae in decades that occurred in 2011. Was a meteorite found in Africa in 2012 originally from Mercury? India has delayed the first test flight of its human-rated GSLV Mark 3 rocket until the spring of 2014. The location of the volcanoes on Titan are not where scientists had expected them to be. Nude crashing stars spark radiation bursts. Hiring lifeguards who can’t swim in the name of diversity. Antares is on the launchpad, being readied for its first launch in about 10 days. World’s Roundest Object! The coming Obamacare chaos The first launch of Antares has now been scheduled for April 17. NASA has indicated that the first manned launch using a commercial space carrier has slipped by a year. Is this meteorite from Mercury? Some scientists now say no. New data from Curiosity has further confirmed that the atmosphere of Mars was once much thicker, and that the remaining atmosphere is still dynamic. R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013). The weak solar maximum continues Doctors driven to bankruptcy The words of NASA’s chief: “NASA is not going to the Moon with a human as a primary project probably in my lifetime.” Global warming: time to rein back on doom and gloom? On the air Boeing is about to begin wind tunnel tests of its CST-100 manned capsule. India is looking to privatize its commercial launch vehicles. Margaret Thatcher’s nineteen most badass moments. A Catholic university has banned a Catholic group because it is Catholic. North Korea has completed preparations for a mid-range rocket launch tomorrow. Riots and “Thatcher death parties” celebrating her passing. Canada’s first earth observation radar satellite, Radarsat-1, went into safe mode more than a week ago and is not expected to recover. Lockheed Martin will begin intensive stress tests on its Orion capsule on April 22. Bonnie Raitt – I can’t make you love me Speaking of the cracks on the first Orion capsule, here’s a story on the capsule’s state of construction. Boeing this week revealed a new line of small satellites, the smallest weighing less than 9 pounds, for both military and commercial operations. The Fantasy of Extreme Weather Has Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the remains of a Soviet Mars lander from 1971? Since 2010 total government spending per household has exceeded what each household earns per year. The seasons change on Titan as winter clouds begin for form over its south pole. Vladimir Putin noted today, the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight, that the new Russian spaceport being built in Vostochny will be open for use by other countries. Despite a rest, Kepler’s problematic gyroscope is still having problems. The International Astronomical Union has issued a press release condemning the commercial efforts of private companies to issue names for exoplanets. New rumors suggest that the first powered flight of SpaceShipTwo will occur April 22. New calculations have significantly reduced the chance that a comet will smash into Mars in 2014. A private company tells the IAU to bug off! A countdown dress rehearsal of the Antares rocket on Saturday was halted when a problem with a valve was discovered. Alan Boyle has some more information on SpaceShipTwo’s most recent test flight, and the rumors concerning the ship’s first powered flight. Dennis Tito’s project already has hundreds of volunteers. Russia under Vladimir Putin has announced a big financial boost from its government to its semi-private space industry. A decorated war veteran on a Boy Scout hike with his 15-year-old son was arrested by police in Texas because he was “rudely displaying” a firearm. Eleven incredible places. The nation’s largest movie chain is turning its employees into part-time workers to avoid the cost of Obamacare. Data proving the existence of the Higgs boson appears to raise questions with some physicists about the most popular Big Bang theory of cosmology. Russia’s Proton rocket successfully launched a Canadian communications satellite today. The last 800 years of ice cores from Antarctica shows that the icecap has apparently been increasing over the last century. Because its FAA test flight permit will expire on May 23, SpaceShipTwo’s first powered flight has to occur by then and be supersonic. The climate models used to predict global warming all fail to predict droughts correctly. A union is calling for the repeal of Obamacare. The Antares rocket has been cleared for its first test launch tomorrow at 5 pm (Eastern). The American Communist Party has sued the Democratic Party for stealing their platform. The countdown has begun for the first Antares launch. Go here for regular updates. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Wednesday he fears a “train wreck” as the Obama administration implements Obamacare A breathtaking X-ray view of the supernova remnant from 1006 A.D. The Antares launch was scrubbed at T-12 minutes because one of the the umbilical lines separated prematurely. What happens when you wring out a washcloth in zero gravity? “I’m not trying to get birth control out of Rite Aid or Walmart, but don’t tell me I gotta pay for it.” Using Kepler astronomers have found a solar system with five terrestrial-type planets, with two in the habitable zone. The next Antares launch attempt has now been scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 5 pm (Eastern). Hubble has taken a spectacular close-up image of the Horsehead Nebula. A Russian spacewalk on ISS today. An detailed analysis of the tumbling of the asteroid Apophis, detected by radar observations in January, suggests it will be easier to predict the asteroid’s orbit in the future. Twelve of the world’s most spectacular gorges. Polar Spirits The countdown for the first launch of Antares today at 5 pm (Eastern) has begun. All systems are now go for the first launch of Antares at 5 pm (Eastern). “This nation of sheep is indeed begetting a government of wolves, and as a result we are all witnessing the death of liberty.” A rocket reveals a fundamental truth about America The dismal predictions of the future from the first Earth Day in 1970. The Lover’s Waltz SpaceX’s test vertical-landing rocket Grasshopper successfully climbed to 250 meters in its most recent test flight. This year’s Great Moonbuggy Race, the 20th, has attracted 600 international competitors. Three years of Solar Dynamics Observatory images of the Sun — in three minutes. In a web interview today, Richard Branson said that the first supersonic powered flight of SpaceShipTwo is now set for this coming Monday. Shayla cover celebrating Shakespeare Insults by Shakespeare you can use in everyday life. An antenna used to orient a Progress freighter during docking, launched today to ISS, has failed to deploy. America the fallen: Twenty-four signs that our once proud cities are turning into poverty-stricken hellholes. A new report from Russia suggests that the undeployed antenna on the Progess freighter will interfere with ISS’s docking port and prevent a docking. An image of the hot spots of the supergiant red star Betelgeuse. Congress is considering exempting itself and its staffers from Obamacare. Cassini has imaged meteorites as they crash into Saturn’s rings. It appears the Progress freighter has successfully docked with ISS. More Democratic senators discover that Obamacare is a train wreck about to happen. Jacqueline Abbott and Iris Dement – You’ve done nothing wrong The excitement builds in Mojave for SpaceShipTwo’s first powered flight, expected on Monday.. SpaceShipTwo has successfully completed its first powered flight. Cassini snaps an amazing image of Saturn’s north pole vortex. SpaceShipTwo broke the sound barrier on its first powered flight. “The truth is that the Koran directly compels Muslims to commit violent acts against disbelievers.” The Herschel Space Telescope has closed its eye on the universe. On the air, twice! A dozen Democrats are calling for action on global warming because it might cause women to become hookers. Opportunity went into safe mode during the communications pause in April when the Sun was between Mars and the Earth. Smithsonian researchers have recovered a short recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice, made in 1885. The meteoric rise in Texas oil production since 2010. Better buy your tickets now because in a week the price for a flight on SpaceShipTwo is going up 25%. Schools from Puerto Rico dominated the competition at this past weekend’s Great Moonbuggy Race. In NASA’s new contract with Russia to launch astronauts to ISS Russia has raised the ticket price from $63 million to $70.6 million per seat. Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries From Palestine’s moderate leader: Palestinians who murder Israeli Jews cannot be punished. Eight abandoned and truly gigantic construction projects. In a NASA contest, a nine-year-old has named asteroid 1999 RQ36 after the Egyptian god Bennu. Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown neighbor to the Milky Way. The total benefits paid by private companies declined outright in the first quarter of 2013 as employers prepare for the onset of Obamacare. Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) says the federal government isn’t spending enough to implement Obamacare. Modern Mongolian Music – “Sandy Desert” Opportunity is out of standby mode and has resumed normal operations. NASA revealed Tuesday that last April the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope barely avoided a collision with an abandoned Russian satellite. A new high resolution image from Mars Express illustrates the violent landslides and lava flows off the eastern flank of Olympus Mons, the solar system’s largest volcano. The European Space Agency is investigating the possibility that the Progress docking to ISS on April 26 might have damaged equipment needed by their ATV cargo ship. A close study of human bones recently uncovered from Jamestown’s early “Starving Time” have revealed evidence of cannibalism. After four tries the Air Force X-51A Waverider test craft finally succeeded in achieving sustained, scramjet-powered, air-breathing hypersonic flight above Mach 5 in its final test flight on May 1. The robotic demonstration of remote satellite repair on ISS resumed this week. The Chinese national who had been arrested at Dulles airport as he left for China with a NASA laptop has been released after pleading guilty to one charge, having porn on the laptop. The story of the youngest survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp to be liberated by the Americans. A 3D-printed handgun has now been made. A former gun control believer explains why he is now against gun control. Paul Speer – Krakatoa The lingering echo of Comet Shoemaker-Levy in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Last Saturday the space telescope Swift detected the most powerful gamma ray bursts ever detected. On the road, in California Two university professors who believe in global warming celebrate book burning at San Jose State University The high peak in tornado in 2011, the most in fifty years, was quickly attributed to global warming. Eric Berger asks: How does this explain this year’s low number, the fewest in fifty years? Beginning in June Staples will be the first major retailer to sell a 3D printer. Because of Obamacare Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennesee will raise premiums to its customers 3 to 30 percent in 2014. Private space is winning A solar-powered airplane landed safely in Phoenix today on its first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States. The Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that carrying a firearm in an open-carry state does not create reasonable suspicion of a crime. The three phonesats launched piggyback on Antares several weeks ago beamed down images of Earth that have now been released. Pink – Try Why gun owners do not trust any anti-gun advocate. NASA Announces Plans To Put Man On Bus To Cleveland The Sun shows a bit of life Video of a successful test firing of Liberator, the first working 3D printed gun. The Obama administration has given up trying to force a bible publisher to pay for contraceptives under Obamacare. The first Cygnus/Antares demo flight to ISS has been delayed at least one month, to no earlier than August. Head Start teachers expect Obamacare to severely impact their work and income. Russia has confirmed Sarah Brightman’s tourist flight to ISS, now scheduled for October 2015. Europe’s new Vega rocket made its second successful commercial launch today, placing three satellites in orbit. R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013). North Korea has withdrawn two missiles from their launch site. A second grader in Virginia has been suspended for pointing a pencil like a gun. The European Union’s program to reduce carbon emissions is in disarray. The 2000th show Two reports released today show that gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their peak in 1993. A new research study finds that every time someone imagines the economic system of Socialism working, it does so as much as 98 percent of the time! Jonathan Edwards – Sunshine (Go Away Today) Japan’s entire space program faces a major overhaul. SpaceX is moving its Grasshopper test program to New Mexico’s spaceport. Predicting snowfall on Mars. The sad, strange, and ineffective story of the Canadian Firearms Registry. Real vs imagined human spaceflight. What are “progracists”? House Republicans have refused to recommend anyone to the Obamacare Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), labeled “the death panel” by some. The words of those government officials who falsely blamed the Benghazi terrorist attack on an obscure YouTube trailer, and were then willing to abandon the First amendment to defend their lies. The International Space Station has switched all its computers from Windows to Linux. Astronauts today spotted an ammonia coolant leak in ISS’s left-side power truss. A high energy laser beam destroys a rocket from a distance of a little less than a mile. Is Tim Tebow being blackballed because of his religious beliefs? The IRS admitted today that it targeted conservative political organizations during the 2012 election campaign. In a science fair project that came in third, a fourteen year old has discovered that the magnets inside IPADs can interfere with heart devices like implanted defibrillators. Astronauts will replace a pump tomorrow on their spacewalk in the hope this will fix the leak in ISS’s solar panel cooling system. The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S. Ten crazy and unconstitutional demands made by the IRS to conservative organizations in its effort to harass opponents of the Democratic Party. A report to be released this week says that senior IRS officials knew that agents were targeting tea party groups in 2011, even as they were denying that this was happening. In replacing a pump during today’s spacewalk it appears the astronauts have fixed the coolant leak. Remember Romney supporter and businessman Frank VanderSloot? Checking the cracks on the first Orion capsule to fly. The engineering test prototype of Dream Chaser has been shipped to California for drop tests this summer. There is also evidence that the IRS illegally leaked the tax records of conservative groups to its opponents. SpaceX is about to finalize a deal with the Air Force to launch satellites on both its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. “We’re not going to have any health care.” Documents now show that IRS officials in Washington DC and California were also involved in targeting conservative organizations. Seventeen of the nation’s largest healthcare insurance companies now say premiums will rise from 100 to 400 percent under Obamacare. Three astronauts safely returned from ISS today. A judge has ruled that JPL had no right to displine five scientists for sending emails at work protesting the security measures taken by the Bush administration after 9/11. Economic crisis forces Detroit to cancel half its murders The myth of the scientific liberal When the IRS harassed this tea party group in Toledo in 2011, demanding what books they read or discussed, they responded by sending the IRS a copy of the Constitution. According to two Congressman, almost 500 conservative organizations were targeted for harassment by the IRS, significantly more than the IRS has admitted to. The IRS scandal and the fact that Obamacare uses the IRS for enforcement now has people increasingly frightened. Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put a commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit on Wednesday Richard Branson recently told an audience in Dubai that the first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo will occur before the end of 2013, and that commercial flights from Dubai will occur two years later. Did the White House use the IRS to pressure this critic of Obamacare? The IRS now faces a class action lawsuit over the illegal seizing of the medical records of 10 million patients. New estimates of the 2013 federal deficit show it will be the lowest deficit since 2008. Did the writings of a prominent Catholic professor, critical of Obama and Democratic Party policies, cause the IRS to audit her? A small business owner explains the hard facts of Obamacare to his employees. It appears that a number of Senate Democrats have been demanding, in writing, that the IRS harass conservative organizations since 2010. The Kepler mission has lost its second gyroscope, ending the ability of the telescope to aim precisely. After waiting fifteen months for IRS approval of its tax-exempt status and getting to response, a conservative group reapplied using a liberal-sounding name and got its approval in three weeks. Did the IRS audit two long-established well-known Christian ministries because of their opposition to Democratic policies? Eden MacAdam-Somer & Larry Unger – River Falls Waltz The IRS is deeply political — and very Democratic “They simply did what their bosses ordered.” The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education today demanded that every college and university in the United States establish strict speech codes that would violate the First Amendment and decades of legal precedent. Two pro-life groups were told by the IRS that they had to change their position on abortion in order to get their tax exemption request approved. In order to enforce Obamacare, the IRS and HHS are creating the largest federal database ever of the personal tax, income, and health records of American citizens. The nine lies of Lois Lerner. Earth under fire from the Sun! A second appeals court has ruled that Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional. Venezuela has run out of toilet paper. Did the IRS audit the conservative Leadership Institute in 2011 as part of its effort to target conservatives for harassment? On the air The liberal union that controls the IRS. The woman who had been in charge of the IRS office when targeted conservatives beginning in 2010 now heads the IRS office that will enforce Obamacare. The Mars rover Opportunity has now traveled farther than any other American rover, including the Apollo 17 rover on the Moon. The impact of a 100 pound meteorite on the Moon in March produced the brightest flash ever recorded. Barnes Wallis: the man behind World War II’s Dambusters. Sarah Hall Ingram, the woman who ran the IRS office which harassed conservative organizations and now runs the IRS Obamacare office, received more than $100K in bonuses for her work, three of which were large enough that they requred Presidential approval. Did Treasury inappropriately target conservatively-owned car dealerships in the GM bailout? Did multiple federal agencies target True the Vote, an organization that has successfully identified numerous examples of voter fraud? Becket A group of tea party organizations is preparing to sue the IRS for its abuse of power. The IRS refused to grant tax exemption to a Christian conservative organization because they “criticized President Obama … and she said we did it when he was a candidate.” The IRS targeted the conservative Catholic League for investigation because its leader had dared to criticize a rival liberal religious organization. Scientists have released the first topo map of Titan. “Simply a brute-force bullying effort in order to sideline grassroots opposition to the current administration.” Judge dismisses case against cop who broke into home with no warrant & killed unarmed man Great Britain’s first official astronaut has been picked for a five month mission on ISS in 2015. In his weekly radio address, President Barack Obama reassured the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years. Fifty-four Colorado sheriffs as well as a host of other organizations have filed suit against their state’s new very restrictive gun laws. Two separate IRS offices last year targeted the GOP’s Hawaii leader. AP’s CEO calls the Obama administrations seizure of their phone records “unconstitutional” and says they are considering legal action. Did the IRS audit the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute in its effort to harass conservatives from 2009 to 2011? The White House defends the woman who was in charge of the IRS office when it harassed conservatives organizations and now runs the IRS Obamacare office. Dark matter, WIMPS, and NASA’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer In new and apparently successfully ground tests of the SpaceShipTwo engine, Scaled Composites even destroyed one this week to test the operation of different components. Why the IRS scandal is the ugliest in U.S. history. Lois Lerner of the IRS scandal apparently has a history of harassing religious organizations when she was with the Federal Elections Commission. Seven liberal fascists who are fine with using the IRS to target their political enemies. A Russian Bion-M spacecraft, filled with mice, lizards and other animals, returned to Earth after 30 days in space with about half its mice and all its gerbils dead. A California tea party group sued the IRS on Monday. Climate scientists have been forced to revise their climate models due to the unexpected refusal of the climate to warm since the late 1990s. More labor unions balk at the consequences of Obamacare. IRS official Lois Lerner will invoke the Fifth Amendment when she testifies to Congress. A first look at the Saturn 5’s F1 engines that were recovered from the ocean floor. Another conservative organization that was harassed by the IRS has filed suit against the tax agency. How “Hope and Change” became “spying on the press.” Photos from various tea party protests across the nation today. The Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle has been unwrapped at Dryden. The journal Science struggles to find the harm done from NIH’s 5% cuts from sequestration. A detailed analysis of the IRS’s chain of command in Cincinnati, proving the harassment of conservatives came from high up the chain. A new Defense Department report says that China is aggressively ramping up its space program. In a speech in Dubai last week Richard Branson revealed that his company is aiming for a 2013 Christmas day inaugural space tourism flight of SpaceShipTwo. The IRS today failed to comply with a Congressional deadline to provide documents relating to the IRS scandal. An early sign of Obamacare’s impending collapse? IRS official Lois Lerner invoked the Fifth amendment to Congress today, defiantly refusing to answer any questions. Some of the Earth’s creepiest places. A lawsuit was filed today in federal court in Connecticut against the new gun control laws that were passed recently after the Newtown shooting. When IRS official Lois Lerner was head of the Federal Election Commission’s enforcement office in 1998, she was accused of stopping an investigation because Al Gore was involved. “With all due respect, I will not consent to a search without a proper warrant.” Gun rights advocates counter a Michigan county gun buyback program with their own “Guns 4 Cash” operation. A former IRS worker points out that the law allows the immediate termination of any IRS worker who violates certain clear rules. The Russians announced that they plan nine more Proton rocket launches in 2013, for a total of twelve. Japan has announced an August 22 launch date for its new Epsilon rocket. The accumulating dents and dings on Curiosity’s wheels. “Silence will be interpreted as disapproval.” Did contributing to Mitt Romney’s campaign last year cause the IRS to target you for an audit? The real voter suppression of 2012. Don’t criminalize the investigations. immunize the witnesses! The top ten new species discovered in 2012. Lois Lerner has been put on administrative leave by the IRS, according to one report today. Ecuador’s first satellite, launched last month, has been hit with debris from an old Russian rocket. A series of letters signed by IRS official Lois Lerner show that she was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups. Check out this official IRS organizational chart of the Tax Exempt Government Entities division A Russian paid 1.2 million euros to fly on SpaceShipTwo with actor Leonardo DiCaprio at a charity auction at the Cannes film festival on Thursday. Sea Launch announced it plans four launches in 2014. The Russian deputy prime minister told students at the Moscow Aviation Institute on Thursday that they expect their first launch from their new spaceport in Vostochny to occur in November 2015. NOAA today was forced to activate a back-up weather satellite when its GOES-13 weather satellite suddenly shut down. Did the IRS also target the Conservative Hispanic Society for harassment? Despite a demand by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to shut up, the sheriffs of New York have joined a lawsuit against the state’s new gun control law. The IRS has created eight different offices, as well as an undetermined number of enforcement teams, to enforce the Obamacare regulations. New details about Stratolaunch, its gigantic carrier airplane, the largest ever built, and the rocket that it will carry. Solar Impulse has completed the second leg of its journey to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. The House Ways and Means committee request for information from anyone targeted by the IRS because of their political beliefs is apparently bearing fruit. Heart – These Dreams Coming: A two-tiered health care system. The Wow! signal: An intercepted alien transmission? Sunjammer, NASA’s next solar sail experiment. Seven horrifying aircraft landings in which no one died. How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it. The Virginia veteran who was arrested simply because of his political posts on Facebook has sued the police and other government workers over his arrest. Who are the real climate deniers? The state of Illinois illegally enters a beekeepers’ property, confiscates his bees, and destroys them. The stupidity of gun free zones. Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Blaming turbulent weather on global warming Is extreme nonsense. “Are these people [bloggers and tweeters] journalists and entitled to constitutional protection?” Two attorneys representing eleven organizations claim that the IRS’s targeting of conservatives is still ongoing and plan to file suit. A new report on state economies shows that the states governed by Republicans generally outperform states governed by Democrats. The bankruptcy of modern journalism. A high school teacher faces punishment because he properly reminded his students of their Constitutional rights. Why are liberals so rude to the right? To the horror of global warming alarmists, the climate refuses to warm. Twenty vials of Apollo 11 moon dust have been found in storage after forty years. A Maine doctor has stopped accepting any insurance, posts his prices online, and is doing fine. Video from inside a tornado. When government is bankrupt and freedom takes over — in Detroit. The IRS has been directed to lock down all its data in connection with the four ongoing investigations of its harassment of conservatives. The first X-37b to fly in space has now completed five months of its second mission. IRS letters show that the decisions relating to the harassment of conservatives by the IRS came from upper management. The next crew of astronauts to ISS blasted off today on a Soyuz rocket. The five year conviction of a former police officer for gun possession because he was moving with his guns from Maine to Texas thru New Jersey and was subjected to a warrantless search of his vehicle has been upheld by the court. Japan has decided to develop its first new rocket in two decades and use the private-sector to reduce costs. Planetary Resources today announced a Kickstarter fund-raising campaign for its space telescope Arkyd. The world’s highest traffic jam — at Mt. Everest. Not only can the very fast rotation of neutron stars sometimes speed up suddenly, scientists have now discovered that their rotation can suddenly slow as well. Like your health insurance? You may be losing it. Cassini has found hints of activity coming from the Saturn moon Dione. The asteroid is coming! The asteroid is coming! After warning repeatedly last year that the sequester would damage the economy, NBC now says “Nevermind.” College students gladly sign a big thank you card to the IRS for specifically targeting conservatives for harassment. Today 25 tea party organizations filed suit against the IRS and the Obama administration for its harassment of conservatives. Tests have now shown that at least one bead from an Egyptian tomb was made from a meteorite. Sixty years ago today Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the peak of Mt. Everest. Did the IRS target five pro-Israeli organizations for harassment because they opposed Obama’s policies towards Israel? Data collected by a radiation sensor inside Curiosity during its journey to Mars suggest that it will be possible to build ships with sufficient shielding to protect humans on such a voyage. New images of Comet ISON. One of the IRS agents who signed letters harassing conservatives was recently promoted. A museum holding the recovered remains of Henry the Eighth’s flagship the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, has now opened. A detailed analysis of the pebbly rocks that Curiosity traveled past last year have confirmed that this area was once a streambed. Based both on computer models and satellite data a team of scientists has concluded that the increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making arid regions greener. Engineers now suspect that the shutdown of the GOES-13 weather satellite last week was caused by a micrometeorite hit. The Tortoise and the Hare Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2, flying past the Earth today, show that it has its own moon. An attorney for the Obama Justice Department is warning Americans they could be prosecuted if they use social media to criticize Muslims. A new study suggests a link between CFCs, the ozone hole, and climate change. In California, Obamacare will increase individual health insurance premiums from 64% to 146%. “Their collective experiences at a minimum could spread skepticism about the fairness of a powerful agency that should be above reproach and at worst could point to a secret political vendetta within the government against conservatives.” The IRS has refused to meet the deadline for answering questions put to it by the Senate Finance Committee concerning its harassment of conservatives. Scientists think they have developed a chestnut tree resistant to the blight that can be re-introduced into American forests. The IRS has told a House investigation that almost 90 IRS agents were involved in harassment scandal. The 100 words used on the web that Homeland Security considers dangerous and thus justification for spying. .45 acp Guns and The People Who Carry Them When Lois Lerner worked for the FEC she offered to drop a case against a conservative if he promised never to run for office again. Transcript excerpts of House testimony by two IRS employees show that the policy to harass conservatives was ordered by supervisors in Washington. In celebration of its tenth year in orbit, scientists running the Mars Express mission have released global mineral maps of Mars. Russia’s Proton rocket successfully launched a commercial satellite today. A U.S. company is planning on building a commercial jet capable of traveling routinely just under the speed of sound. “I can say with a very strong sense of certainty that there are people very close to this president that not only knew what the IRS were doing but authorized it.” Stratolaunch officially announced today that Orbital Sciences will build the system’s second stage rocket. The Sun makes the scientists look good — for now! A new report from Social Security has raised its predicted unfunded liabilities over the next 75 years by one trillion dollars. The left’s unmistakable trend toward weaponizing the tax code. Astronomers take an image of an exoplanet only 300 light years away. The communications satellite launched by Russia’s Proton rocket has successfully reached its target orbit. Wednesday is National Hug Your Cat Day! Did an IRS employee illegally leak the donor list of a conservative organization to one of its left wing opponents? The House testimony today of one tea party person Researchers have developed a technology which permits a toy helicopter to be steered through an obstacle course — by thought alone. A liberal campaign finance reform activist, who had called for the targeting of conservative organizations, had meetings with Obama about the time the IRS harassment began. A message to moderate Muslims. An eleven-year-old was suspended from school for merely talking about guns. A look at Dream Chaser’s upcoming glide tests. German scientists have outlined a technique for using pulsars as an interplanetary and interstellar GPS system. The EPA has acknowledged that it illegally released personal information of farmers to several leftwing environmental organizations. The first annual College Stupidity Awards. Two more IRS agents have been put on leave. The predictions of seventy-three climate models are compared to real data and not one comes even close to reality. Rex Harrison – Why Can’t the English Learn to Speak? Europe successfully launched its heaviest unmanned cargo freighter to ISS today. The scientists operating Curiosity have decided it is time to begin the trek up Mt. Sharp Richard Branson has revealed that Justin Bieber has signed on to fly on SpaceShipTwo. The repairs to the cracks in the first Orion capsule have withstood static stress tests. What “Happily Ever After” really looks like. Two IRS employees in Cincinnati have told congressional investigators that officials in Washington directed and established the policy of harassing conservative groups that began in 2010. Despite the failure of any climate model to predict the climate, the Obama administration is increasing the cost and strictness of regulation because of what it sees as the “social cost of carbon dioxide.” A senator asks Attorney General Holder if the Obama administration has spied on Congress with its access to Verizon phone records and Holder refuses to answer. Sierra Nevada has begun the testing program of Dream Chaser’s engines. John Wayne in The Longest Day NASA has decided that the best use for two space mirrors donated to the space agency by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) would be to study either dark energy and extrasolar planets. Fifteen famous living trees. Opportunity, now moving to another target 1.5 miles away, has found evidence of drinkable water on Mars. Astronauts on ISS this week initiated a four year study of the vision problems that scientists have discovered occur to some individuals after long exposure to weightlessness. “The IRS scandal is much worse than anyone realizes.” A Texas high school cut off the mike of a valedictorian during his speech when he deviated from his approved speech and began to talk about the Constitution. The National Security Agency can secretly access user data provided by as many as fifty American companies, ranging from credit rating agencies to internet service providers. The whistleblower who leaked the NSA surveillance program to the press has gone public. Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon China’s next manned mission is now scheduled for launch tomorrow, Tuesday, June 11. Another IRS official has been removed as a result of the agency’s harassment of conservatives. According to Ohio’s Insurance Department, Obamacare will cause healthcare rates to rise next year by 88 percent. The red tape of the space bureaucracy The metallic snow-capped mountains of Venus. China has launched its fifth manned mission, planned to be longest to date. Engineers have successfully restored the weather satellite GOES-13 to full operations after it was hit by a micrometeorite in May. Despite the decline in Arctic sea ice during the past decade the population of polar bears in the Davis Strait has skyrocketed. Data from an experiment on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has confirmed that light plastics can provide sufficient protection for humans against radiation. “Now I dream of snowboarding down a Martian sand dune on a block of dry ice.” Republican Lindsey Graham said today that he’d be willing to censor our mail if he thought it would help catch terrorists. Close-minded politicians everywhere! The Secret Service raided a man’s home expressly and solely because he was a frequent critic of President Obama. The Russian Progress freighter got a surprise today when it undocked from ISS: the rendezvous antenna that refused to deploy when needed after launch finally deployed. Richard Harvey – Concerto Antico, movement 3 A researcher of fuel cells, manhandled and arrested because he used the wrong mailing labels in selling and shipping sodium to fund his research, was then targeted by the EPA because he wasn’t home to maintain his sodium supplies. China’s manned Shenzhou-10 capsule successfully completed an automated docking with its Tiengong-1 space station today. Space Show podcast for June 11, 2013 The Obama administration demands the right to snoop on American private communications, but it specifically forbids any spying in mosques. Under Obamacare it looks like health insurance will be unaffordable for most low wage workers. Some hints about SpaceShipTwo’s next powered test flight, as well as details about the first. An audit has revealed that in 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 IRS employees misused government charge cards No apologizes for arming America. Not one tea party group has yet been contacted by the FBI, one month after the IRS scandal began. Why doctors are bailing out of health insurance Detroit announces that it will default on its debt today. “Self-confessed liar publishes more dubious stem-cell work.” Engineers in the Czech Republic have built a bicycle that can fly. It appears that Homeland Security and Customs teach their officers that pilots have “no right to refuse a search” of their planes. The draft budget of the House science committee gives commercial space a boost while nixing Obama’s asteroid mission. A Democratic Congressman thinks it “is simply not fair” to make his staffers subject to Obamacare like everyone else. The delays in SpaceX’s commercial launch schedule appear caused by a series of problems testing the first stage’s upgraded engines. The count of candidate exoplanets found by Kepler has now risen another 503 to 3,216, of which only 132 have been confirmed. A man claims he has found a piece of debris from the Russian space station Mir in his backyard in northern Massachusetts. Europe’s ATV freighter has docked successfully with ISS. Engineers have decided to keep the New Horizons spacecraft on its original fly-by path past Pluto, scheduled for July 2015. An eight grade high school student, suspended from school for wearing an NRA t-shirt, now faces the possibility of a year in jail. Matthew Curtis – Loch Lomond Even as the IRS was harassing any nonprofit using the word “patriot” in its name, it was rubberstamping exemptions for “Islamic” groups, even those that have violated laws and are thought to have links to terrorist organizations. In interviews to Congress, a Washington IRS supervisor admitted to scrutinizing tea party applications. Arianespace is considering accelerating upgrades to its Ariane 5 rocket so that it can carry larger satellites. What caused that Falcon 9 engine failure on the second Dragon flight to ISS? Here’s an outline. A liberal state bar spends three years destroying a lawyer’s career merely because she is conservative. NASA picks 8 new public relations figureheads, calls them astronauts. Virgin Galactic has sold its 600 ticket to fly on SpaceShipTwo. Union bosses threatened businesses and their families because they had legally hired non-union workers to do Hurricane Sandy cleanup work. The preliminary design for Europe’s service module, to be used with the Orion spacecraft, has come in about a half ton too heavy. A Virginia school board has voted unanimously to revise their zero tolerance policy in connection to guns after two boys were suspended for “using pencils like guns”. After six years of study, Venus Express has found that during that time the super-rotating winds of Venus have actually increased in speed. Russian concerns about a build-up of mold inside the European ATV, now docked to ISS, has caused a delay in the opening of its hatch. If you are hoping to buy stock in Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, Musk now says you will have to wait until they have begun regular missions to Mars. A recap of the broken promises of Obamacare. A black politician explains why he switched parties. A professor at a Tennessee college ordered her students to publicly express support for gay rights or fail the course. After working out the decontamination procedures against mold, ISS astronauts today finally opened the hatch on the European ATV cargo freighter, one day late. Manaical 4 Trombone Quartet – Carry on wayward son Flames in space. A billion pixel view from Curiosity. It appears that the IRS targeted a Homeland Security whistleblower. The real cause behind the plane crash that killed Yuri Gagarin in 1968. A 3D printer intended for installation on ISS in 2014 has successfully proven it can work in weightlessness. Europe admits that its planned accelerated upgrades to Ariane 5 are intended to counteract the competition from both Russia’s Proton and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. Planetary Resources’ Kickstarter campaign to raise money to build its Arkyd Space Telescope has reached its million dollar goal. Two reports issued today have concluded that implementation of Obamacare by the federal government is behind schedule. 6 places we like to go to right now Germany’s next three radar reconnaissance satellites will be launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Scientists have finally discovered the forgotten formula for the concrete the Romans used. Want to complain about your water quality? You’re a terrorist, according to a Tennessee government official. Europe has successfully drop tested its experimental re-entry vehicle. Orbital Sciences is scrambling to find a reliable long term first stage engine for its Antares rocket. As a scientist, I find sloppiness at this level not only stupid, not only time-wasting, but downright offensive. As planned, the Chinese astronauts successfully completed a manual docking today to their station Tiengong 1. SpaceX’s commercial launch from Vandenberg in California of the Cassiope satellite has now been set for September 5. Islamic gunmen kill ten mountain-climbers in Pakistan. Fleetwood Mac – Landslide Two Russian astronauts completed a six-hour-plus spacewalk today, preparing the station for Russia’s science module. Orbital Sciences, in its scramble to obtain engines for its Antares rocket, has sued the United Launch Alliance (ULA) for blocking their purchase of the Russian-made RD-180 engine. A NASA ion engine has successfully completed more than five and a half years of continuous operation. Astronomers have found a solar system with six exoplanets, three in the habitable zone. The Chinese astronauts have undocked from the Tiengong-1 space station and will return to Earth tomorrow. Six images that ruined the lives of the individuals they made famous. Liberal groups were not targeted by the IRS. A Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launched four commercial broadband satellites today for French Guiana. The toxic combination of Obamacare and the proposed Senate immigration bill would create a big financial incentive for employers to hire non-citizens. One of the lawsuits against the IRS has added 16 more conservative organizations for a total of 41. The prosecutors trying to put a high school teenager in jail for a year because he refused to take off his NRA t-shirt have tried to put a gag order on the teenager and his parents. Shenzhou 10 has landed safely, completing it 15 day mission. Arianespace will not be able to set its launch manifest for the remainder of this year until late July. The remarkable remains of a most recent supernova. Two researchers have concluded that sterilizing spacecraft heading to Mars is largely a waste of money. Kepler’s planet-hunting predecessor, COROT, has been shut down. Treasury’s inspector general has revealed that while only six progressive groups were targeted for investigation by the IRS, 292 conservative groups, 100% who applied, were investigated. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that it has filed charges against former Democratic Governor/Senator Jon Corzine for his part in the embezzlement of customer funds at MF Global. It is now reported that the charges against the high school who refused to remove his NRA t-shirt have been dismissed. Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus rocket this evening successfully launched NASA’s newest solar research satellite, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Voyager 1 has found the edge of the solar system to be far more complex than predicted by scientists. A teenager, in jail since March, faces 8 years in prison for making a sarcastic remark on Facebook. The House committee has ruled that Lois Lerner waived her fifth amendment rights when she claimed she did “nothing wrong” before invoking the fifth in testimony last month. The Obama administration issued finalized rules Friday allowing religious-affiliated organizations opposing the use of contraception to opt out of the Obamacare mandate After ten years of operation, NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) space telescope. The Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel — who made up fake data for at least 30 published papers — has reached an out-of-court settlement with prosecutors. “This is the reason the U.S. has the right to bear arms.” A science poster released at an American Geophysical Union conference this week finds again that the global warming climate models used by policy makers have all failed to predict what has actually happened. Want some patient privacy? Don’t call the Obamacare healthcare help line. Better not buy bottled water in Virginia: It will put you in jail. Third Anniversary NASA’s Space Launch System, costing billions per year, will only make its second manned flight in 2025. The Washington Post admits that most of the Democratic claims that sequestration would cause disaster were either outright lies or a gross exaggeration. A Russian Proton rocket went out of control and crashed mere seconds after launch today at Baikonur. India today successfully launched the first satellite in its own homegrown GPS constellation. The Kickstarter campaign by the private company Planetary Resources has made its $1.5 million goal. Both SpaceX and Boeing say that they are on schedule to make their first test flights of their manned capsules before 2016. The International Astronomical Union has rejected the first choice of voters for naming Pluto’s fourth and fifth moons. A university supervisor orders a student at Sonoma State University in California to remove her cross necklace because “it might offend others.” The White House today announced that it is delaying until 2015 the requirement in Obamacare that companies with more than 50 employees offer health insurance. The Proton rocket is now grounded pending an investigation into today’s launch failure. NASA has revised their plans for the 2017 and 2021 flights of its Orion capsule, making both flights more ambitious. A fifteen year old has invented a flashlight that runs on body heat alone. The lawyer for IRS official Lois Lerner is pushing to get her full immunity in exchange for her full testimony to Congress. The FBI has still not contacted any conservative group that was harassed by the IRS. Mercury, world of fire. A doctor with 5,000 patients is closing his practice because of Obamacare. “I hope you’re raped.” A white dwarf star that has morphed into a massive pulsing crystal. This week’s launch failure of the Proton rocket leaves two satellite communications firms in a quandary. After more than eleven years, the sea-level tracking satellite Jason-1 has finally shut down. Hugh Laurie’s song for America Among many other valid points, the Wall Street Journal notes the “lawless” nature of the Obama administration’s announcement yesterday that it will not enforce one legal requirement of Obamacare in 2013. Want to land on an asteroid? Watch out, a gentle touchdown might cause avalanches everywhere! Legitimacy. The Russian investigation into the crash of their Proton rocket on Tuesday now includes a criminal prosecutor. Nevada police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their neighbors. Off to the Grand Canyon Emma Lazarus – The New Colossus At the rim Engineers will attempt one more try this month to revive one of Kepler’s reaction wheels so that the telescope can resume observations. At the rim 2 A Russian news story reports that the spectacular Proton rocket failure several weeks ago occurred because a sensor was installed “upside down.” It appears that SpaceX has completed another test firing of its new Merlin engine. Got $125? You can do an experiment in space. A blue exoplanet the size of Jupiter where glass rains sideways. Sierra Nevada has completed its first tow tests of its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle, now officially named “Eagle.” Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered another moon orbiting Neptune. Scientists have developed a technique for using GPS signals to precisely measure the wind speeds inside hurricanes. Orbital Sciences has issued an update on its Antares launch schedule, with the launch window now set for September 14-19. Doing the Grand Canyon Right After thirty years, someone has finally won the Sikorsky Prize for creating a human-powered helicopter that can fly for at least a minute. Iris Dement – Our Town Treasury admitted today that the IRS tax records of several political candidates and campaign donors were illegally disclosed to unnamed government officials. SpaceX has successfully completed a full duration test firing of 9 upgraded Merlin engines. “We have had an enormous amount of death threats.” The Sun has a maximum and no one notices A spacewalk on ISS was cut short today because of an unexplained dangerous build up of water inside one astronaut’s spacesuit. A survey shows that three quarters of all small businesses still plan to fire workers and cut hours in 2014 to avoid Obamacare, even though the Obama administration says it will not enforce the law unitl 2015. World’s largest building has opened in China. SpaceX has renegotiated its lease with the city of McGregor, Texas, in order to begin testing the Falcon Heavy rocket. The IRS now claims that the government official who willfully accessed confidential tax records illegally was not an IRS employee. Part of the gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way have already swung past the black hole. The harassment of conservative groups by the IRS was planned and run by officials in Washington, D.C., according to a retiring IRS lawyer who will testify Thursday in the House. Astronomers have found evidence which suggests that most of the universe’s gold was created during the collision and merger of two neutron stars. One of the world’s longest running experiments, now 69 years old, has finally captured on camera the fall of a drop of tar pitch. Congresswoman Mary Edwards (D-Maryland) has proposed merging two NASA centers to save money. A third federal court has ruled that Obama’s fake recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Broad violated the Constitution. It appears that one of the four individuals whose tax records were illegally accessed for political reasons was tea party candidate Christine O’Donnell. Testimony today revealed that the harassment of conservatives was managed by a White House appointee in the IRS chief counsel’s office. Engineers have announced that their last ditch efforts to repair the reaction wheels on Kepler will begin today. The New Black Panther Party is offering a $10,000 bounty for the capture and kidnapping of George Zimmerman. A summary of the IRS scandal testimony today before the House Oversight Committee. Own two of a certain object in the home will almost guarantee your kids will do well in school. Can you guess what it is? Detroit today filed for bankruptcy, the largest city in U.S. history to do so. The Private Plan to Put a Telescope on the Moon Russia confirms that a Proton rocket failed at launch two weeks ago because three of six sensors were installed upside down. Ten unique cable car rides. Under pressure from her fellow legislators, a Maryland congresswoman has withdrawn her proposal to close the Marshall Space Flight Center. The Russians admitted today that, due to the Proton launch failure two weeks ago, only five more Proton launches can occur this year. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the launch of Opportunity, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took its photograph. “Comet of the Century”? We’ll soon find out. The IRS chief counsel, now implicated in the IRS scandal to harass conservatives, is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire IRS. NASA and Jeff Bezos today confirmed that one of the Saturn 5 first stage engines recovered from the ocean floor was from the Apollo 11 launch. With Proton rocket’s most recent launch failure, Inmarsat looks for alternatives. An illegal police raid no different than a home invasion. The continuing technical troubles of the James Webb Space Telescope. “Killer salt and other ‘scientific’ disasters.” Pro-global warming climate scientists, called to testify to Congress by Barbara Boxer (D-California), admitted yesterday that the global temperature has not risen for the past 10 to 15 years. Why has Cassini detected no waves on the lakes of Titan? Engineers continue to struggle to find the cause of the spacesuit water leak during a spacewalk last week. Robot engineers have successfully built a fleet of small flying robot helicopters that can fly individually or as complex large arrays. Two days before IRS White House appointee William Wilkins established the guidelines for reviewing IRS applications of conservatives, he met with Obama. George Zimmerman, still in hiding because of death threats, went public long enough on Thursday to help rescue a family trapped in an overturned car. The plundering of NASA Boeing today unveiled a full scale mock-up of the interior of its CST-100 manned capsule. The double planet, rocky and wet with a big moon, as seen from Saturn. NASA is trying get some spare spacesuit parts onto a Russian Progress freighter, scheduled to launch Saturday, in its effort to fix its American spacesuits on ISS. The routine lowering of past climate data to make today’s temperatures seem hotter. “Our goal is not a speedy settlement or a quiet Washington deal. We will sue, depose and expose every person who came near this illegal scheme to suppress voters’ First Amendment rights.” A review and analysis of China’s space program. Inside the world’s largest tunnel boring machine. A close look at the Florida prosecutor who brought charges against George Zimmerman. Paleontologists in Mexico have uncovered the complete tail of a dinosaur. An Arizona nursing student was suspended from school and called a bigot because she requested one of her classes be taught in English. According to a new poll, only 11% of doctors believe that the Obamacare health exchanges will be open for business on October 1, as mandated by the law. Bigelow announces prices for visiting or renting their space station modules. Scientists have found evidence that at least some of the carved river valleys on Mars were partly the result of snowfall. Observations of Comet ISON have detected strong carbon dioxide emissions escaping from the comet. The family that George Zimmerman rescued from a car crash this week is terrified they will become targets of hate mobs if they say anything positive about him. NASA has initiated a second investigation board looking into last week’s spacesuit incident on ISS. The defense industry has found that the cuts from sequestration have been far less painful than their lobbying had claimed. Ten things you could do in 1975 that you can’t do now. SpaceX has begun assembly of the upgraded Falcon 9 rocket that will launch its first commercial payload in early September. India has set August 19 as the launch date for its home-built Geosycnchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). The developmental engineering successes of the new commercially-built private spaceships, Dragon, CST-100, and Dream Chaser, appears to be winning over Congress. Obama’s nominee to manage contracting and budget at the Energy Department had serious problems doing the same job while she was at NASA. NASA plans to test the parachutes for the Orion capsule today. “Global warming hasn’t stopped, it’s just hiding.” The records of the snooping into Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s confidential tax records have mysteriously been destroyed. A Norwegian town, sunless for five months of the year, is building a giant array of mirrors to light up its town square. Today’s parachute test of the Orion capsule successfully demonstrated that the capsule could safely land with only two of its three parachutes. The Detroit City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the further prosecution of George Zimmerman. The effort to bring Kepler back to life does not look good. Aerospace defense contractors Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon all show better than expected profits despite sequestration. A government program only wastes $4.4 billion out of a projected waste of $19.1 billion. A GAO report has found that heath insurance premiums will skyrocket next year when Obamacare takes effect. The new solar space observatory IRIS has taken its first pictures. Forty-three peer-reviewed papers by a Japanese researcher are tainted with falsified or fabricated data, according to a Japanese newspaper report today. According to two industry sources, the U.S. government has demanded that major internet companies provide it the stored passwords of their customers. The box that built the modern world. Congress fiercely divided over completely blank bill that says and does nothing. The cost of complying with Obamacare is forcing insurance companies to abandon many state markets. Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched two satellites into orbit today. A Russian Progress freighter has arrived at ISS with supplies and a spacesuit repair kit for fixing one American spacesuit. Slinging payloads into orbit. Scientists have finalized their flyby plans of Pluto when New Horizons arrives there in 2015. The sad fate of Democrat women. A supernova has exploded in the galaxy M74, only 30 million light years away. On Friday an astronaut on ISS controlled and steered a rover on Earth. According to the observations of one Italian astronomer, it appears that Comet ISON will not be the “Comet of the Century,” as hoped. New evidence now suggests that the IRS harassed conservative organizations routinely, whether or not they already had tax exempt status. Many in the astronomy community do not agree with the recent conclusions of one astronomer that Comet ISON is likely a dud. SpaceX has signed a contract with MDA to launch all three of Canada’s next generation Radarsat satellites. Emails between IRS official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office show them twice colluding to illegally influence the FEC to prosecute conservative groups. New satellite data covering the period from 2000 to 2011 now shows that the atmosphere traps far less heat than predicted by every global warming climate model. More evidence that Obamacare is turning the U.S. workforce into a part-time workforce. Amazing Mick A new GAO report has found that TSA misconduct has risen by 26% in the past three years. Homeland Security has lost track of more than one million foreigners after they have entered the country. The state of SLS construction. The IRS paints it black. Twelve amazing outdoor staircases. A careful analysis of IRS behavior shows that the tax agency very clearly favored liberal groups while specifically targeting conservatives for harassment. “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well.” Curiosity’s first year on Mars, in video in two minutes. SpaceX has confirmed that it plans to begin vertical take-off and landing tests of a full scale Falcon 9 first stage. Of the almost 1 million jobs created in 2013, 77% are part-time. New evidence strongly suggests that the IRS’s harassment of conservative groups is continuing, despite the on-going Congressional investigations. The White House has agreed to exempt Congressional staff from the high costs of Obamacare. A graveyard of comets. Two graphs that show the depressing trends of the work force for the past twenty years. “You’ve frustrated this committee. You’ve promised to do things and you’re not.” Armadillo Aerospace closes down. Japan today successfully launched another unmanned cargo freighter to ISS. An update on the effort to bring Kepler back to life. My rant Thursday against politicians on the John Batchelor Show Russia has announced that they will resume Proton rocket launches in September. A few questions that a real journalist would ask Obama, if given the chance. New York’s “greenest” skyscraper turns out to be its biggest energy hog. Mandatory Suicide Astronomers have taken an image of an exoplanet only a few times the mass of Jupiter. An update on Dawn in its journey from the asteroids Vesta to Ceres. NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver is leaving NASA to take a job “in the private sector outside the space industry.” The government is months behind in testing the security arrangements of Obamacare. New evidence suggests that elected Democrats have been aggressively lobbying the SEC to target conservative businesses. Despite finding evidence for the Higgs boson, the CERN Large Hadron Collider has not yet found any evidence for the theory of supersymmetry. The Obama administration has given Congress and its staff a waiver so that they will not have to pay the full cost increase imposed by Obamacare. An inspector general report has found that the 24 health co-ops formed under Obamacare are going bankrupt, even before they have opened. Modern Journalism: Retyping press releases An IRS agent admitted this week in testimony to a House committee that the IRS is still harassing conservatives, three months after the targeting was revealed. Virgin Galactic did another glide test of SpaceShipTwo today. In its minority small business program, supposedly designed to help minorities, the federal government has instead given millions to firms owned by fictitious people. The IRS official who released the confidential tax information of conservative groups to a left-leaning news organization has been promoted. In order to protect one species of owl, the Forest Service is going to kill thousands of another species. Japan’s fourth unmanned cargo freighter to ISS was successfully berthed to the station today. The ‘Filthy Filner’ cover-up. A Christian couple that refused to use their business as a venue for a gay marriage are now receiving hate mail and threats. How Obamacare discourages people from making more money, discourages businesses from hiring, and discourages everyone from becoming better than they are. A detailed look at the questions and rumors that continue to swirl around the engineering status of SpaceShipTwo. How to have fun The sequester was — and continues to be — a success. A judge ruled today that New York’s stop-and-frisk policy was unconstitutional. Despite the complete lack of evidence, the Obama administration on Monday blamed floods, wildfires, and power outages on global warming. “She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl. I didn’t hurt anyone. I don’t know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV.” ATK has joined Stratolaunch, winning a contract to provide solid rocket motors for company’s proposed second stage air-launched rocket. “What causes the Sun’s magnetic field flip?” The Obama administration has quietly decided to arbitrarily delay implementation of another Obamacare requirement. Fifteen really strange beaches. A teacher molests an underage student for three years and, when caught, his fellow teachers come forward to support him. A climate scientist demands neutrality from climate scientists. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Obama administration has been violating the law by delaying a decision on the proposed nuclear waste facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. A rally today in DC about the threat of global warming, organized by Obama’s Organizing for America, had no attendees. Pigs in Space An analysis of the climate models used by global warming advocates to illustrate the consequences of climate change finds them to be totally useless. Pigs in space The federal treasury had a $98 Billion deficit in July, yet the total debt was left unchanged at $16,699,396,000,000 Rodeo clown forces decimated and on the run! Comet ISON has come out from behind the Sun, and it looks like it will not produce a grand show for us later this year. Sierra Nevada has completed ground tow tests of its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle. Grasshopper flies again, this time both up and sideways. Engineers have identified twelve asteroids that could be captured with today’s technology. On the air New evidence suggests that IRS official Lois Lerner attempted to hide her harassment of conservatives while working at the IRS. True the Vote has found 173 cases of voter fraud in Florida. No liftoff for these space flights of fancy “Liberals have targeted this man for personal destruction to create a climate of fear.” The effort by the local government in Rochester, New York, to destroy the fourth amendment rights of renters. Russia has concluded its investigation into last month’s Proton launch failure and now says its next launch will be on September 15. Assuming the first demo berthing of Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus capsule to ISS goes well in September, NASA has now scheduled the subsequent cargo missions of Cygnus and Dragon for December and January respectively. Scientists today published a new model that suggests that Voyager 1 actually entered interstellar space in July of last year. Ten examples of protest images mocking George Bush that were far more offensive and violent than that harmless rodeo clown whose life is now being destroyed. Why did the builders of One World Trade Center in New York settle on fourth place? Crazy Youtube games The engineering tests to try to save Kepler have found that the mission is essentially over. A GAO audit of NASA’s Orion capsule says the program faces delays and budget overruns. The Obama administration is now insisting that the proper term for climate change is “carbon pollution.” Scientists have assembled a movie of one Martian moon eclipsing another, taken from Curiosity. For the first time since 1975 the Navy and NASA have teamed up to practice the ocean recovery of a manned capsule. The Russians have begun a six-hour spacewalk today on ISS to prepare the station for the arrival of a new Russian module. Despite a congressional ban against providing ACORN or any of its affiliates money, HUD handed the organization $200k. Orbital Sciences has confirmed a September 15 launch date for the first Cygnus capsule mission to ISS. A plane you can drive to the airport. Thirty-six incredible landscapes from video games. It appears there is some “dissatisfaction” among Kazakhstan officials over the cleanup from July’s spectacular Proton rocket crash. Formation flying in space, without propellants. The Great Organic Blueberry Raid. The Obama administration has failed to meet more than half of the deadlines mandated by Obamacare. A star that went nova last week is now visible to the naked eye. The launch today of India’s homemade Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was scrubbed when a fuel leak was spotted at T-74 minutes. “Impeach Obama” protesters arrested for peaceably assembling. The oldest globe to show the New World may have been discovered. Observations of the comet that the European probe Rosetta will visit next year suggest it is becoming active earlier than expected. More money for Dream Chaser. The fuel leak that scrubbed yesterday’s launch of India’s GSLV rocket will likely cause at least a week’s delay before another launch attempt. “We plan on doing the same thing this Saturday to let them know that we are not backing down; we have rights here.” A Michigan school board has refused to fire the teachers who publicly supported another teacher who had molested a student for three years. A draft of the next IPCC climate report has arrived, and it is more of the same: We are all gonna die! The Moon’s dirtiest secret: Does its dust levitate? The rover Opportunity has settled into its winter haven on Mars. Japan’s unveiled its new Epsilon rocket yesterday, scheduled for its first launch next week. Space agencies of the world unite! UPS announced today that it is dropping the spousal coverage for 15,000 employees because of the cost of Obamacare. NASA will reactivate the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) next month to use it to look for more near Earth asteroids. Curiosity snaps a spectacular image of Mt Sharp as it begins its journey to the mountain’s base. How one man saved $17,000 on the cost of a surgery. A Homeland Security employee openly calls for the mass murder of whites on his website. The University of Virginia is cutting health insurance coverage for spouses. Some historical perspective about what we know about the polarity reversal of the Sun’s magnetic field. Sierra Nevada’s engineering test vehicle of its Dream Chaser mini-shuttle completed its first capture carry flight test yesterday. “An inconvenient untruth.” Islam: A religion of bigots. “You will be made to care.” Healthcare premiums have climbed almost $3,000 since 2009. The Russians have now fired three executives as a result of their investigation into last month’s Proton launch disaster. The launch of the first demo mission of Orbital Sciences’s Cygnus capsule to ISS has now been officially scheduled for September 17. City governments nationwide are cutting employees’ hours to below 30 hours per week to avoid Obamacare. A union strike has shut down the new ALMA telescope array in Chile. The Homeland Security employee who runs a website promoting race war has been put on paid leave. The first launch of Japan’s new Epsilon rocket was scrubbed today at T-19 seconds. Engineers in India have decided to completely replace the leaking second stage engine of the GSLV rocket whose launch was scrubbed last week. Scientists using data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 space probe have detected new evidence of water inside one crater. In another country. A rodeo in Texas is defiantly hyping up the appearance of their own Obama clown. A FAA waiver granted to SpaceX for its next launch outlines details on the company’s effort to recover the first stage for reuse. The relationship between gun ownership and violent crime — and it’s exactly the opposite of what the left alleges. Identifying the real racists. Physicists have managed to create and confirm, for a brief moment, the existence of the 115th element of the periodic table. The Falcon 9 launch of Canada’s Cassiope space probe has been rescheduled from September 5 to September 10. Astronauts on ISS have successfully recreated the water leak in the defective spacesuit that almost drowned an astronaut last month. It appears a programming error might have caused the scrub of Japan’s new Epsilon rocket launch yesterday. A disabled security guard was fired for asking a Muslim woman to remove her veil. Astronomers have identified a star almost identical to the Sun, except that it is 4 billion years older. China’s first unmanned lunar lander is now scheduled for launch before the end of the year. For the first time since arriving on Mars engineers have allowed Curiosity to drive itself. Using the combined power of 200,000 home computers astronomers have discovered 24 new pulsars in the Milky Way. More details are released about the launch abort of Japan’s new Epsilon rocket earlier this week. The Israeli spring. Aetna pulls out of New York because of Obamacare. Hubble sees a cosmic caterpillar An Iranian news release today says that researchers at a local university have “designed and built” a manned spacecraft. “Democrats are just goddamned liars.” Curiosity makes a movie of Phobos eclipsing the Sun. The launch date for India’s GSLV rocket has been pushed off until December in order to thoroughly investigate what caused the fuel leak during the scrubbed launch last week. Five large population groups are losing their healthcare insurance because of Obamacare. The IRS harassment of conservatives continues. No Atlantic hurricanes in August for the first time in eleven years. In an effort to deal with their quality control problems the Russians plan to consolidate their space industries into a single company controlled by the government. Seven colossal architectural blunders. “The timing couldn’t be worse.” A businessman fights a federal regulatory effort that destroyed his business. The government responses by trying to destroy him. A NASA veteran slams SLS. A London building melts a parked Jaguar. Brazil stalls paying its share for the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope. A London university has digitized and placed online a collection of historic space images. Militant gays force an Oregon bakery out of business. Taxing both the rich and the sick to pay for Obamacare. A family whose dog was shot by police is now suing for half a million dollars. A college professor threatened a student during in a rant in which he insulted Republicans and even Mitt Romney’s wife. “The [US Justice Department] just stuffed a rag in Barrett Brown’s mouth, as well as his lawyers.” Astronomers submit a slew of proposals for using the partly crippled Kepler space telescope. A survey of planetary nebulae near the Milky Way’s central bulge has revealed that they tend to be aligned with each other. Despite the astronauts’ success on ISS in recreating the spacesuit water leak, NASA engineers still do not know its cause. How to view the east coast launch on Septembert 6 of LADEE. Orbital Sciences prepares its Cygnus capsule for its first flight to ISS, set for launch on September 17. SpaceShipTwo is expected to make its second powered test flight today. Cumulative data from a variety of space probes now shows that the direction of the interstellar wind has shifted during the past forty years. The college teacher who went on an anti-Republican tirade in class and even threatened a student who disagreed has been suspended for the rest of the semester. NASA has lost contact with its Deep Impact probe and is racing against time to save it. A Russian astronaut, scheduled to fly to ISS in 2015, has unexpectedly resigned. NASA has put Orbital Sciences on notice that, assuming its demo cargo mission to ISS in two weeks is a success, the company might have to do it again as soon as December. Obamacare is forcing a number of artist organizations to cancel health insurance for its members. A engineering problem during construction of one of the shuttle-derived solid rocket boosters for SLS is causing delays. While the launch industry eagerly awaits SpaceX’s first commercial Falcon 9 launch on September 10, Arianespace has been signing up customers. Orbital Sciences has now mated the Cygnus capsule to its Antares rocket for its September 17 launch to ISS. The Russians are including a bathroom in their next generation manned vehicle, something they note Orion will not have. The project manager said today that all the problems outlined in a December GAO report have been resolved. NASA’s lunar probe LADEE was successfully launched tonight from Wallops Island. The first and second launch of the Space Launch System are likely to be delayed due to budget issues. Having completed its investigation into its scrubbed launch two weeks ago, Japan’s space agency JAXA has announced a September 14 launch date for its new Epsilon rocket. NASA engineers have successfully fixed the glitch on the LADEE spacecraft. A tea party leader in Oklahoma has been charged with a felony because he sent an email to an state senator demanding he do his job or face the political consequences. “The face of the sun is nearly blank.” After more than two weeks the labor strike at the ALMA telescope array in Chile has ended. The first commercial launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 has been pushed back to September 14. Help Kickstart World War III After 166 days in orbit, three astronauts safely returned to Earth this evening in a Soyuz capsule. Orbital Sciences has finished loading its Cygnus capsule and has closed the hatch for next Tuesday’s launch. Why we must remember SpaceX has again delayed the launch of its first Falcon 9 commercial launch. Despite the significant increase in the Arctic icecap’s size this winter, satellite data of the icecap’s actual volume and thickness suggest that the new ice was quite thin. It appears that Deep Impact is lost. Another large satellite is about to fall to Earth. The world’s thinnest buildings. The two Colorado Democrats who were key instigators of that state’s new gun control laws were both decisively voted out of office yesterday in recall elections. Today’s static fire test and launch rehearsal of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed. Using photos from Dawn astronomers have now assembled an online atlas of the asteroid Vesta that the public can explore. The Russians have delayed the next Proton launch, scheduled for September 17, for at least a week. Astronomers have compiled the first detailed 3D map of the inner regions of the Milky Way. Virgin Galactic held a job fair this weekend and almost 600 applicants showed up. Orbital Sciences plans to roll Antares and Cygnus to the launchpad tomorrow for its Tuesday launch. NASA has announced a press conference for later today about the Voyager spacecraft. New emails show that Lois Lerner and the IRS specifically targeted conservative groups for harassment in 2011. Major unions are now calling for the repeal of Obamacare. SpaceX’s static fire test of Falcon 9R that was scrubbed yesterday is about to happen today. Indiana University is laying off 50 maintenance workers to avoid Obamacare costs. SpaceX successfully completed a static test of the 9 first stage engines of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket today. After a journey of 10 years, astronomers are accelerating preparations for the arrival of Europe’s Rosetta space probe at Comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko. Two Earth-based radio telescopes have detected the radio glow of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, now in interstellar space. It is now eight years since a major hurricane made landfall in the United States. Fifteen so-called journalists have made their political preferences official by joining the Obama administration. Before the Minnesota Obamacare health exchange has even officially opened there has been a security breach of the private health records of more than 2,400 individuals. When will SpaceX launch the upgraded Falcon 9? We have competing news stories: The increasing harassment of their members by Homeland Security has caused the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) to begin a political campaign against the agency. “It certainly appears that the IRS was weaponized for the political purpose of one party.” Orbital Sciences has rolled Antares/Cygnus to the launchpad. The Obama administration has decided to actually follow the law and not give its Democratic union buddies a waiver on Obamacare. The astronauts who returned to Earth from ISS on September 10 were flying blind. Japan’s new Epsilon rocket has successfully placed its first payload into orbit. A good scientist, who also believes in global warming, explains the irrelevance of “extreme weather” to the climate change debate. India space officials have decided to completely replace the second stage of the GSLV rocket that leaked during the rocket’s scrubbed launch last month. The first launch of SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 rocket has probably been delayed by several weeks. Orbital Sciences has decided to delay the first launch its Cygnus capsule to ISS by one day. A newly leaked revised draft of the upcoming IPCC report suggests that the climate uncertainties have significantly grown since the last report in 2007. The second static fire test of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, planned for yesterday, has been rescheduled for Wednesday. Data from the 2011 Virginia 5.6 magnitude earthquake suggests that the North American continent had drifted above a mantle hotspot millions of years ago. An unmanned spacecraft designed to get rid of space junk is set to launch in 2018, and use a new European built reusable launch system. After two months of travel, Curiosity on Mars is now taking short break to study the rocks under its wheels. Another story on the leaked IPCC report, and how that new report will admit the climate has not warmed as predicted. Obamacare’s Useful Idiots For those on the East Coast, a viewing guide for tomorrow’s launch of Antares/Cygnus from Wallops Island. On the air Another look at the leaked IPCC draft report. New documents show that more than 80% of the organizations targeted by the IRS in 2011 for harassment were conservative. Antares has successfully put Cygnus into orbit. IRS officials specifically targeted conservatives for harassment because they thought that was what President Obama wanted. Nine mass shootings that did not happen because someone was there to stop it, with a gun. Republicans in the House move to fund the government, excluding Obamacare. Cygnus is operating well in orbit, with berthing to ISS scheduled for September 22. Voyager 1’s future. Arianespace has signed a contract to build 18 more Ariane 5 rockets. The impending end of China’s first space station. The media guide for identifying firearms. The House vote to fund the government but not Obamacare will force vulnerable Senate Democrats to either endorse the unpopular law again or shut it down. Australia’s new government does the right thing, instantly shutting down its agenda-driven global warming bureaucracy. A cop stops a student from handing out copies of the Constitution, on Constitution Day. Home Depot joins Walgreens in dumping tens of thousands of employees from their employer heath insurance plan, because of Obamacare. All but two Democrats walk out of Benghazi hearing to avoid hearing testimony of victims’ families. “Close to 10% of the papers we receive show some sign of academic misconduct” An Australia test flight of a scramjet engine ended in failure today when the rocket carrying the engine failed to reach the require elevation for the test to begin. Despite data from orbiting probes that say there is methane in Mars’ atmosphere, Curiosity has detected none. Another leak from the IPCC shows that politicians in Belgium, Hungary, Germany, and the United States attempted to pressure the scientists writing the report to cover up the lack in global temperature rise since 1998. After several tries, SpaceX finally completed the static fire test of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket today. NASA has officially ended the Deep Impact mission. Orbital Sciences has now posted a detailed outline of Cygnus’s flight schedule for the next few days. Check out this detailed overview of the upcoming launch of SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9, including yesterday’s static fire test. Boeing has successfully completed a series of thruster tests for its CST-100 manned capsule. Engineers have pushed the four orbiting Cluster satellites into their closest configuration yet. A lot of famous people have bought tickets to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo but not William Shatner: He’s apparently afraid of flying! The Senate has passed a bill to allow the sale of the government’s stockpile of helium. The Russians have now rescheduled for September 30 the next Proton rocket launch. SpaceX will delay its planned December launch of Dragon to ISS in order to complete upgrades to the capsule. The Republican battle plan for defunding Obamacare while keeping the government operating. Only two weeks before Obamacare goes into effect, the law’s health exchanges can’t figure out what people will have to pay for coverage. The real Navy Yard scandal. Linking mass extinctions to the Sun’s journey in the Milky Way A software conflict today forced Orbital Sciences to delay the rendezvous of Cygnus with ISS to Tuesday. Because of the scheduled arrival of a Soyuz manned capsule to ISS on Wednesday, NASA and Orbital Sciences have decided to delay Cygnus’s rendezvous and berthing until Saturday. “In life and as in the game of football, you can never win the victory if you choose to punt every time you touch the ball.” A medical school official urges denial of all medical care for all “Obamacare nonbelievers”. Obamacare will increase health costs by an average of $7,450 per year for a typical family of four. The global warming scientists at the IPCC struggle to explain the lack of warming. The strange and alien plant life of Socotra Island. Lois Lerner, who is at the center of the IRS scandal, is now retiring from the IRS. A group of Serbian academics, disgusted with the poor state of their country’s research output, have scammed a Romanian magazine by publishing a completely fabricated hoax article. The head of the IPCC, railroad engineer Rajendra Pachauri, plans to step down in 2015. Wind tunnel tests of Dream Chaser’s thermal protection system were recently completed at the Langley Research Center in Virginia. Senator Cruz’s speech today in trying to get the Senator to pass the House bill funding the government but defunding Obamacare. A seventh grade student faces expulsion from his school because he was playing with an air pistol — in his own yard. Obamacare was written and passed solely by Democrats. German politicians openly admit they are trying to squelch any mention in the IPCC report of the recent 15 year pause in global temperature rise. Five reasons why trying to defunding Obamacare is smart politics. One man’s Obamacare nightmare. The Antarctica icecap is now grown to be the largest it has been in 35 years. China announced today that it plans to hold the launch cost of its Long March rockets at $70 million per launch. How the tentacles of the green environmental movement dominate the IPCC. China today successfully launched a new quick response rocket. A new delay in the launch of a Russian weather satellite illustrates the need that small satellite owners have for their own rocket. China today unveiled its first unmanned lunar rover, set for a December launch, and announced a competition for the public to name it. The Obamacare wars are just beginning. Based on the rates just announced by the Obama administration, health insurance premiums are going to skyrocket in 2014. A Soyuz rocket successfully launched three astronauts today for a six month mission to ISS. The Treasury Inspector General has found that the IRS cannot account for $67 million of Obamacare funds. A test flight of SpaceShipTwo was scrubbed today because of weather. SpaceX is now aiming for a Sunday launch of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket. On the road The Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked with ISS late yesterday. A store owner’s entire bank account was seized by the IRS, even though he was not charged with any crime and had recently passed an audit. “Any party that cannot successfully sell freedom and personal liberty doesn’t deserve power.” “The Democrats in 2014 should by all means be asked relentlessly to defend their monster.” Comet ISON has now brightened to 11th magnitude as it approaches its flyby of Mars. LIberal talk radio host calls for the murder of Senator Ted Cruz. Physicists have made Molecules out of light. The Obama administration today revealed that ObamaCare enrollment will be delayed for small businesses and Spanish speakers. Curiosity has found that water and other interesting things permeate the soil of Mars. Orbital Sciences is now aiming for a Sunday berthing of Cygnus to ISS. The secret messages on ISS. Obamacare will destroy our members’ health insurance, cry the unions. Divers have pulled fragments from the February 15 Chelyabinsk meteorite impact out of nearby Chebarkul Lake. NASA has released more details about Sunday’s schedule of Cygnus’s rendezvous and berthing with ISS. The window for the launch of SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 will open at noon (Eastern) on Sunday. Due to problems developing SpaceShipTwo’s engine, it appears that its first flight into space will not occur sooner than February 2014 India has now rescheduled the launch of its home-built GSLV rocket for December 15. Republicans vent frustration over their internal battles over stopping Obamacare. A good global warming scientists comments on the IPCC report: “The increase from 90-95% means that they are more certain. How they can justify this is beyond me.” A 12-year-old boy was suspended from school for three days because he had a gun-shaped keychain. The lies Obama told to sell Obamacare. Ten states where Obamacare has wiped out health insurance. The Coney Island of the Smokies Japan’s H-2A rocket, built by Mitsubishi, has won its first commercial contract. Cygnus was successfully berthed with ISS early Sunday morning. SpaceX successfully launched its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket today, putting its first commercial payload into orbit. Russia’s Proton rocket returned to flight today with a successful launch of a commercial satellite. “It is the Democrats who have taken an absolutist position.” The weather on an exoplanet: Cloudy and clear. Why the House should stand firm. In straight party line votes, the Democrats in Congress once again voted for Obamacare, refusing to even consider a one year delay in some of its provisions in order to keep the government running. “I respectfully inform you hereby that I am disinclined to join in any more mandatory radicalism.” The IPCC fixes the facts. With a launch window from November 18 to December7, the government shutdown might delay NASA’s next Mars unmanned probe MAVEN until 2016. SpaceX is denying rumors that the upper stage of its Falcon 9 rocket exploded after completing its mission. Market Watch decided to see if they could enroll in Obamacare on its first day of availability and found it was impossible to do. The House Republicans plan to offer separate funding bills to the Democrats in an effort to get parts of the government back in operation. Shut down fascism in the Smoky Mountains Cover story: The Great Supernova Race Veterans plan to storm more DC monuments today. The Democrats today once again rejected Republican efforts to fund the government, rejecting three different new bills. The Obama administration is trying to close memorials that in previous shutdowns were never closed. Scientists believe they have identified the remains of a supervolcano on Mars. The failure of the Falcon 9 upper stage prior to a final engine test on Sunday’s launch may delay the rocket’s next commercial launch. Even as the Republicans in the House continue to pass budget bills for funding the government — with some Democratic support — Obama and the Democratic leadership continue to refuse to negotiate. Shut down fascism wins in the Smoky Mountains The Obama administration has ordered the closure of a park that gets no federal funding. The Obama administration has closed the cemeteries at Normandy in France. The Obama administration has demanded that hundreds of private venues close, merely because they are on federal land. “It’s day two of health care reform, and we have yet to have someone successfully register on the marketplace.” Burials in space: Cheaper by far than on Earth! House Republicans plan to pass more narrow funding bills in an effort to get some of the government running again. Freeing the Smoky Mountains After developing the J-2X engine for the upper stage of its SLS heavy-lift rocket, NASA now plans to mothball it. NASA has decided to exempt its Mars probe, MAVEN, from the government shutdown, allowing preparations to resume for its November launch. Elon Musk lays out SpaceX’s planned program for developing a reusable first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. Orbital Sciences is suing the government agency that operates the Wallops Island spaceport, saying it is refusing to pay a $16.5 million bill. Virgin Galactic has signed a television deal for a reality show where the winner would get a flight into space on SpaceShipTwo. The Obama administration is now beginning to reinforce the barricades at the World War II memorial to prevent access. Even as the military announces it must eliminate TV broadcasts of sporting events for the troops overseas because of the govermnent shutdown, it continues to operate the golf courses and Camp David for President Obama’s entertainment. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.” Stratolaunch has now released some preliminary details about its commercial rocket, including images. “Government shuts down, nation descends into riots, looting and cannibalism.” Because India depends on the American Deep Space communications network — mostly unavailable due to the government shutdown — the launch of its first Mars probe, set for October 28, might have to be delayed for two years. A bus tour of veterans today pushed barricades clear so that the Iwo Jima Memorial was once again open to the public. The Obama administration has ordered 1100 square miles of open ocean off limits to private fisherman and tourists because of the government shutdown. NASA and JPL have now stated that the government shutdown will not interfere with their promised support for India’s Mars Orbiter Mission. LADEE has now slipped out of Earth orbit and into its first wide lunar orbit. A nine-year-old boy was able to board a plane in Minnesota and fly to Nevada with no ticket or boarding pass. Speaker John Boehner on Sunday said that the House will pass no bills to re-open the federal government or raise the debt limit until President Obama sits down to negotiate. The sadism of Harry Reid. The National Park Service is permitting a leftwing rally for illegal immigrants to take place on the National Mall, supposedly closed because of the government shutdown. 22 privately run campsites in New Hampshire are being told to close by the Forest Service, even though they get no money from the federal government. “I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today.” New data suggests that Pluto’s atmosphere is thick enough to not freeze out during the planet’s decades-long winter. Making Martian clouds — on Earth. The shake-up in the Russian space bureaucracy continues. The world that works vs the world that doesn’t. A drone that can fly continuously for five years at 65,000 feet. In a newspaper interview Richard Branson today claimed that Virgin Galactic is “just three months away from having a fully-functioning rocket that is capable of taking passengers into orbit.” Despite a threat of arrest by the Obama administration, veterans from Ohio plan to visit the World War II memorial on Wednesday. Say you are conservative at a dinner party and get booed and called a racist. “The difference between competence and incompetence.” Ramping down from solar maximum In press, scheduled for January 2014: Water on the Moon? In press, scheduled for February 2014: The Rivers of Titan The government shutdown is forcing House lawmakers to reuse their towels in the House gym. If you sign up for Obamacare in Maryland you are required to agree to make your personal data available for “law enforcement and audit activities.” The public appears to be increasingly defiant about the National Park Service’s closure of parks. IRS officials, including Lois Lerner, used their private email accounts to illegally transmit confidential tax information. Using archival Hubble images astronomers have rediscovered a moon of Neptune lost for twenty years. Turning off Planck. The asteroid that might hit the Earth in 2880. Obamacare’s biggest problem. Scientists in Egypt have found what they think is evidence of a comet impact from 28 million years ago. Occupy America! Citizens storm National Park Service barricades throughout the land. New evidence suggests the IRS and the White House illegally exchanged confidential taxpayer information. The Obama administration is shutting down small private campgrounds in Forest Service lands, but allowing big ski lodges to continue to operate. Astronomers have discovered a planet floating freely and not in orbit around a star only six times larger than Jupiter and only 80 light years away. After the unmanned probe Juno zipped past the Earth on its way to Jupiter today, it unexpectedly went into safe mode. Is a natural rain of diamonds occurring on Jupiter and Saturn? Two scientists say yes! Former NASA shuttle head outlines a pessimistic future for NASA expensive Space Launch System. Engineers hope Juno’s Earth flyby yesterday will help solve a mystery seen in previous flybys by unmanned probes. China complains about the ban of its scientists at a NASA Kepler conference. Prohibiting a religious person from following their faith. More defiance of the Obama administration’s attempt to lock Americans out of public lands. The Obamacare website — that doesn’t work and probably never will — was originally supposed to cost $93.7 million and ended up costing more than six times more, $634 million. Jaxa, the Japanese space agency, announced today its management goals for the future. “How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn’t work?” “The Obama Administration’s behavior during the first week of the shutdown has been the best argument against Obamacare anyone has ever made.” A Iowan Mennonite couple that owns an art gallery has filed suit against the state’s Civil Rights Commission after being threatened with punishment for refusing to host a same-sex wedding on their property. “Look at these radicals who are blatantly defying the federal government by having a stroll and eating lunch in a CLOSED PARK.” The Russian government today replaced the head of its space agency. Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter, 1925-2013. Astronomers have found evidence of the remains of an exoplanet that they think was once wet and rocky. An eleven year old’s experiment in brewing beer in space will fly to ISS on the next Cygnus cargo flight in December. A new survey shows that one out of every three persons wants to travel in space. Except for a troublesome fan, the first Cygnus cargo capsule to dock with ISS is performing perfectly. Utah has forced an agreement with the federal government to reopen its national parks. Sarah Hall Ingram, now in charge of administrating Obamacare for the IRS, not only advised the White House on how to harass conservative organizations, her emails appear to have illegally included confidential tax information. One man’s Obamacare nightmare. Not only did Sarah Hall Ingram illegally share confidential taxpayer information with White House officials, she met with White House officials 165 times. One hundred days to wake-up for Europe’s Rosetta comet probe. When surveyed, more than 70 percent of all doctors and practices say they will not participate in the Obamacare health exchange insurance plans. Two days after its flyby of Earth, Jupiter probe Juno remains in safe mode. Scientist right now think it is a toss-up whether Comet ISON will survive its dive past the sun on November 28. Chris Hatfield describes how a bureaucratic tangle with the space doctor bureaucracy almost grounded him before his ISS expedition. A remotely operated Russian telescope, located in New Mexico, on Wednesday discovered a kilometer wide Near Earth asteroid. Jeff Bezos reveals some details about the goals of his space company, Blue Origin. The Republican leadership folds. SpaceX has revised the schedule for its next three launches, pushing back two weeks so engineers can review issues with the Falcon 9 upper stage engine. Juno has exited safe mode and is now functioning normally. A violin that was played as the Titanic sank in 1914 has been found to be authentic and will be auctioned to the public on October 19. Obama apparently has rejected the Republican capitulation offer from yesterday. “Obamacare has raped my future” Privatize the National Park Service. University students have successfully test fired a 3D printed rocket engine. A collection of new images from Mars by a variety of spacecraft and rovers. Among other things, Sarah Brightman talks about her planned trip to space. “Obama lied, my health care died.” The test pilots who have been flying SpaceShipTwo report on their work at a test pilot symposium. Americans storm the barricades at the Lincoln Memorial. On October 7 SpaceX successfully flew and landed Grasshopper on its highest flight yet, 2440 feet. How to Become a Member of the new Nobility Thousands of Americans have stormed the World War II memorial, as well as other barricades monuments in DC. Scott Adams presents his 10 favorite Dilbert strips. A college that bans any guns on campus has also decided to ban any speech that mentions guns. A Catholic priest at a military base has been prohibited from even volunteering to run Mass and was told that if he violated that order he would be arrested. A company that employes a large number of temporary workers is now going to have to drop health insurance for all of its employees, because of Obamacare. In a negotiated settlement, Arizona police will pay the widow of Jose Guerena, murdered during a SWAT raid, $3.4 million. The government shutdown has put flight testing of Dream Chaser on hold. Scientists have found a fossil of a mosquito with traces of blood in its engorged abdomen. A new woman’s land speed record was set this week. The winners of the “What would you send to ISS?” contest have been announced. A bogus scientific paper, with numerous errors, was accepted for publication by more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific journals. Tennessee and North Carolina have agreed to reopen Great Smoky Mountains National Park. No budget deal: The Democrats continue to refuse to give in at all, and the bulk of the Republican caucus has shown some spine and refused to cave. “I wanted the Affordable Health Care Act. The problem is, is it’s not affordable,” The director of the National Park Service now claims that the barricades around memorials in DC were put there to protect them from terrorists during the shutdown. “Let’s don’t confuse nobody with the facts.” The true global warming crisis: The lies underlying the theory. Chase Bank has told its business customers that there is now a limit on the amount that can be withdrawn from an account, while also banning all international wire transfers. The Senate budget deal that the House will vote on today includes some really nice pork. Divers working at a Russian lake have recovered a half-ton piece of the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk on February 15. Cygnus will be de-orbited one day early, on October 23. The next test flight of a version of SpaceX’s Grasshopper could occur in New Mexico in December. Cassini has taken a spectacular full color image of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped storm that surrounds its north pole. Obamacare might well be imploding. A House hearings yesterday, the partisan tactics of the director of the National Park Service was clearly illustrated by comparing what this government official did during the Occupy Wall Street protests versus his actions during the government shutdown. A Moveon.org petition calls for the arrest of the House Republican leadership. The major news networks blamed the shutdown on Republicans 41 times, Democrats 0 times. Some comments from people trying to use the Obamacare website. A recently discovered 1.8 million year old skull suggests that the multiple human species theorized by paleontologists were actually just one. Five stupid movie deaths that should have been really easy to avoid. More people have applied to live on Mars than have signed up for Obamacare. Want to send your child to school with a lunch you prepared yourself? The federal government now forbids it, unless you get a doctor’s note. Bankrupt Detroit has dumped the health insurance of all its retirees, forcing them into Obamacare. A long and detailed assessment of the present technical problems of the Obamacare exchange website. The sting whereby a bogus science paper was accepted by more than 150 journals has produced one result so far: One journal has ceased publication. A newly discovered half-mile wide asteroid has 1 in 63,000 chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. How to keep an old space telescope in operation and scientifically useful. Maryland’s Obamacare exchanges will not be functional until December. New York doctors express their strong reluctance to participate in Obamacare. Extreme weather events in 2013 are at an all time low. What cats see, compared to human vision. A person on twitter has threatened both Ted Cruz and his family, posting his home address as well. Fresh impacts caused by Curiosity during landing Want a rocket to launch your satellite into orbit. Orbital Sciences has one. Progressives made their beds; it’s time they lay in it. Global warming activists enthuse about the LA Times’ policy of restricting debate “Let me be clear, there is no option to keep my current plan.” Consumer Reports has advised its readers to avoid the Obamcare website “for at least another month if you can.” “This isn’t a case of glitches. This is a case of incompetence.” The future? The great Martian dust storm of 1971. Hayabusa 2 test fires its cannon in preparation for its 2014-2018 asteroid sample return mission. The abandoned European gravity research satellite GOCE is going to crash to Earth in about two weeks. The first free flying glide test of the Dream Chaser test vehicle is only days away. Cygnus has undocked from ISS and will be de-orbited tomorrow. A new company is now offering balloon flights to the edge of space for one third the price of a suborbital flight. Even when they admit that Obamacare isn’t working, liberals still refuse to recognize that they are now agreeing with Ted Cruz. Why the shutdown was a total victory for conservatives, both in the short and long runs. The catalogue of exoplanets has now jumped to over 1,000. An engineer describes how he and four other engineers debugged a fully fueled Saturn 5 rocket while it was the launchpad. The next Dragon flight has now been scheduled for no earlier than February 11. A civilian jet has set a new world record for circling the globe. In an engineering test, LADEE successfully used a laser to beam information back from the Moon this past weekend. An Iowan man began Iowa’s first Obamacare enrollee, after only 100-plus attempts to sign in at the Obamacare website. A D.C. businessman faces two years in jail because he happens to own guns and stores them legally in Virginia. A federal court has ruled that police must have a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to your car. The definitive guide to how Obamacare is destroying American lives A new image of Titan’s northern lakes. The Obama administration is now considering delaying the Obamacare mandate. The number of health insurance cancellations is snowballing into the millions. The first Cygnus capsule has been de-orbited, burning up in the atmosphere. Astronomers have discovered a galaxy farther away than any previously seen. Boeing has finalized its lease for building its manned capsule in one section of the giant Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. While Comet ISON continues to disappoint, another comet suddenly gets one hundred times brighter. The Mars rover Opportunity is heading up hill. Europe turns off Planck Private space in control Obama: Always the victim. The White House has now delayed the deadline for signing up for health insurance by six weeks. A new Federal Reserve report links Obamacare to the decline in employment in ten different areas. The rise of government-sanctioned home invasions Planning the first launch abort test of the Dragon capsule. The Seattle city council has seized a privately owned parking lot in order to turn it into … a parking lot. Animal lovers discover that Obamacare will cost them money too. Confirmed: Not thousands but millions of people are losing their health insurance due to Obamacare. India has mounted its first Mars probe on its rocket, readying it for a November 5 launch. The investigation into the spacesuit leak in July is now awaiting the return of equipment from ISS. Some new details about SpaceX’s new Raptor rocket engine are revealed. Thousands of elderly New York patients have been told by their insurance company that, because of Obamacare, they will have to find another doctor. The number of Democratic senators calling for a delay in the Obamacare mandate has now grown to nine. Data from the Census Bureau reveals that in 2011 the number of people working full time was outnumbered by those getting government aid. Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland security officers and Maryland police confiscated a journalist’s confidential files. A look at what scientists think Comet ISON is and is not. Russian owned International Launch Services today successfully used its Proton rocket to launch a commercial satellite. Israel today issued a strong warning about the possibility that Iran could have enough uranium within a month to produce a nuclear bomb. “I have now learned that I was wrong. Very wrong.” New quality control problems that have popped in Russia might delay its next module to ISS by more than a year. The Washington Times is preparing to take legal action in connection with the raid of a reporter’s home by government officials. In its first free flying glide test, the Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle had a perfect flight and approach to landing but flipped over on the runway when its left land gear failed to deploy. Half a million Californians to lose their health insurance because of Obamacare. The 13 Democratic Senators up for re-election in 2014 who voted for Obamacare, both in 2009 and last month. Why governments can’t do it My fear. The sling shot man Lockheed Martin successfully powered up the first Orion capsule last week. Sierra Nevada provides an update on the condition of its Dream Chaser test vehicle after this weekend’s glide flight and bad landing. Unnamed healthcare officials admit that the Obama administration specifically wrote the Obamacare regulations so that millions would have to lose their healthcare plan. “It was reported today by MSNBC that President Obama was unaware that he had ever said to anyone the words ‘If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.'” Sierra Nevada today released a video of the test flight this past weekend of its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle. ESA scientists have produced a movie using the data produced by their Mars Express orbiter in the past decade. Geologists have determined that the magma reservoir under Yellowstone is much bigger than previously thought. Death threats against Republican Governor Scott Walker and his wife and children. Steny Hoyer, #2 Democrat in the House, admitted today that Democrats knew that Obamacare would cause the cancellation of millions of health plans. Sierra Nevada reveals that its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle survived its bad landing in weekend in reasonably good shape. It is worse than a Nigerian hoax email. Thirteen Democratic senators who told the same lies as Obama. The reasons Obamacare makes health insurance much more expensive. The president and the Democrats lied us into a bad law. According to insurance executives, the White House is threatening them with “retribution” if they don’t keep silent about the problems Obamacare is causing them. “If you like your plan you can keep your plan.” 70% of Americans want to delay the Obamacare individual mandate. A physicians organization has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s decision to delay Obamacare employer mandate by one year. A new dark matter detector has failed to detect any dark matter after its first three months of operation. The first Earth-sized exoplanet, just discovered, makes no sense to scientists. A fundamental design failure appears to be the cause of the fuel leak that caused the launch postponement of India’s first home-made geosynchronous powered rocket in August. Obamacare does not provide patients or doctors or hospitals any way of finding out who is in or out of network. IRS official Lois Lerner illegally provided private tax information to other government agencies. Obama and the Democrats solve the terrible terrible problem of the terrible name of the Washington Redskins. One expert estimates that 129 million people, 68% of those who buy health insurance, will lose their plan by the end of 2014 because of Obamacare. Bras in space: How a bra company made the spacesuits the astronauts wore on the Moon. Another young Obamacare supporter finds out what’s in it. Here’s some evidence that in trying to spin his earlier lies, Obama has only lied again. The Justice Department and Homeland Security are threatening to prosecute a novelty store owner for selling mugs and t-shirts that make fun of the two agencies. The best (and worst) concealed carry states for 2013. They own it. In preparation for November 5 launch of India’s first mission to Mars, ISRO successfully performed a full dress rehearsal countdown yesterday Protesters shout down New York police commissioner Ray Kelly at Brown University. In 2010 the Democrats unanimously voted in support of the regulations that are now forcing the cancellation of millions of health insurance plans. A new poll, taken by a liberal poll company, finds that Democratic incumbents took a much bigger hit than Republican incumbents after the government shutdown. The man whom the Justice Department and Homeland Security threatened with prosecution because he was selling mugs and T-shirts ridiculing those agencies has now sued them over those threats. Another court has ruled against the Obama administrations forced contraceptive mandate under Obamacare. The FAA has lifted its ban on the use of cell phones during take-off and landings in airplanes. The Obama administration has issued an order forbidding Navy Seals from wearing the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag on their uniforms, something they have been doing for two centuries. “This is a program that’s doing the opposite of what it was intended.” The only juror in the George Zimmerman trial to go public has lost her job, been shunned by friends, and received death threats to herself and her family. In preparation for the arrival of a new crew, the astronauts on ISS took a short ride yesterday, moving their Soyuz capsule to a different docking port. Sunrise tomorrow on the East Coast will be interesting, as the sun will rise in the middle of a partial solar eclipse. In his weekly radio address today, President Obama called for new taxes and increased spending. Kathleen Sebelius was handed a copy of “Websites for Dummies” by a Republican state senator at an Obamacare outreach event Friday. Five things the Obama administration had no idea the Obama administration was doing TSA agents were trained to save themselves, not passengers, during the Friday’s LA airport shooting. 28 solar flares in the past week. The Obamacare website routinely uploads your confidential personal information for all to read. You also can’t keep your doctor. Twenty-two pictures taken at exactly the right angle. India has begun the countdown for the November 5 launch of its first Mars orbiter. Twitter has repeatedly suspended @mycancellation, an account critical of Obamacare that is gathering images of insurance cancellation letters. “This whole experience has converted a lifelong Democrat into a foot soldier for the Republican Party.” “The biggest failure of Obamacare: Increasing the number of uninsured.” Scientists now estimate that one in five sunlike stars have Earthlike planets in the habitable zone. Some minor news on the “If you like your healthcare plan, you get to keep your healthcare plan” front: India successfully launched its first probe to Mars today. For its next science mission the European Space Agency (ESA) has now decided to give first priority to an X-ray space telescope. At the same time announcing that a third powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo will occur in about a month, Virgin Galactic has now admitted that commercial flights will not occur in 2013. Students crash rockets into the ground on purpose! With video. Obama lies again, claiming that he never really said “If you like your plan you can keep your plan. Period.” dozens of times. An analysis across 49 states reveals that Obamacare cause premiums to rise by 41%. ‘This thing has legs.’” Obama now just learning that he is President! The sun goes boom! President Obama publicly promised that “If you like your plan you can keep your plan.” at least 36 times. A new mission for Kepler? A new study suggests that the variation of the cosmic ray flux during the solar cycle has little influence on the climate. A man in New Mexico was illegally subjected to a cavity search, including a colonoscopy, without his permission and without a legal warrant as the result of a simple traffic stop. A bacteria that causes urinary tract infections has been found to grow better in zero gravity than it does on Earth. A very good analysis of yesterday’s election results. A new ligament has just been discovered in the human knee. The accumulated evidence from the Chelyabinsk meteorite now suggests the risk of large asteroid impacts might be ten times greater than previously estimated. A rare new microbe has been found in two different clean rooms, one in Florida and the other in South America. The geology of Vesta as seen by Dawn appears to contradict the present models for that asteroid’s origin. 250,000 to lose their health plans in Colorado due to Obamacare. A Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launched a new crew to ISS today. Lady Gaga intends to take a Virgin Galactic suborbital flight in 2015 and beat Sarah Brightman into space. Hubble spots an asteroid spout six comet-like tails. The number of candidate exoplanets found by Kepler has now risen to 3,500. India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe has successfully completed its first orbital engine burn. Engineers successfully completed Mangalyaan’s second engine burn yesterday, raising its orbit to just under 25,000 miles. Beyonce might beat Lada Gaga into space. Successfully growing crops in the desert using salt water and solar power. A Texas-based company has printed the first 3D-printed metal pistol, a 45 caliber Model 1911. Unlike an earlier test where one fairing did not release, a second test of Orion’s shroud separation system was successful this week. The House committee investigating the IRS scandal issued a new subpoena yesterday. Ten of the best newspaper corrections. Even as President Obama issued a weak-kneed apology for his lie about keeping your health plan, he made a whole bunch of new lies. The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant.” Medical treatment by bureaucrat. Virgin Galactic has signed a deal with NBC to televise the first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo. Only 22% of those who are uninsured are interested in signing up for Obamacare. Engineers now expect the European GOCE research satellite to crash to Earth either late Sunday or on Monday. The Obamacare website is a deadly security hole for anyone that uses it. ESA has issued an update on when and where they think GOCE will impact the Earth. During a five hour EVA that had lots of difficulties, two Russian cosmonauts took the Olympic torch on a spacewalk 32 of the worst architectural decisions ever made. State and local governments cut workers’ hours to under thirty to avoid Obamacare. The returning crew from ISS has undocked from the station. It appears that the police in Deming, New Mexico have done forced medical procedures on more than one person. Four things the U.S. government did faster than building the Obamacare website. New Mexico is being sued by the ACLU over a third case of an intrusive medical probe, this time without a warrant. GOCE has returned to Earth, breaking up somewhere over Antarctica, Siberia, or the Indian or Pacific Oceans. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission experienced its first technical problem during an engine burn today. A Soyuz capsule safely returned three astronauts to Earth Sunday. Two Baptist chaplains are suing the Veterans Administration for demanding they stop naming “Jesus” in their prayers. Twenty-seven genius inventions you can buy now. Getting rid of health insurance and paying your doctor direct. In the states where the Obamacare websites have been mostly functioning, they have only met 3% of their target enrollments. 72 absurd items Obamacare requires your health insurance to cover. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter inaugurates a new website of its images of the landing or impact sites of every human vehicle to arrive or crash on the Moon. It is time to start considering the worst case scenario for Obamacare. A Proton rocket successfully launched a Russian military satellite today. Comet ISON is now visible in binoculars, and has a double tail. A fourth engine burn has put India’s Mangalyaan probe back on course. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Obamacare contraceptive mandate cannot be imposed on either religious or private organizations. Two Russian workers were killed and several injured last week while cleaning out a rocket tank at a Russian spaceport. The same software guy who refused to certify the Obamacare website as secure is also the same guy who now says the website’s security problems are “limitless.” A detailed update on the status of spacesuit repairs on ISS, following the July water leak during a spacewalk. One million Californians have had their health plans cancelled. China reveals its space station plans. Scientists have discovered a Kuiper Belt asteroid lighter than water. A Republican bill to allow insurance companies to continue to offer their old policies is gaining Democratic support. ObamaCar Sixteen different foreigners describe things they couldn’t believe about America until they moved here. President Obama’s new big lie. The Obama administration has had to issue 254 corrections to its own Obamacare regulations. Obamacare and the unstoppable project. SpaceX has delayed the next commercial launch of its Falcon 9 rocket by three days. A buggy software upgrade on November 7 caused Curiosity to spend a week rebooting itself. The first satellite designed and built by high school students is about to go into space. Ten Democrats who repeatedly lied about Obamacare. John Boehner in 2010, on the day Obamacare was passed, predicting its every failure and lie since. With a wave of his hand, Obama has declared that insurance companies need not cancel policies forbidden under Obamacare. A GAO report has found no evidence that TSA personnel can spot terrorists at airport checkpoints. Insurance companies are already saying that they cannot go along with Obama’s decision to suspend the cancellation of insurance policies. “The lawlessness of Obamacare, root and branch.” It appears state insurance regulators are also telling Obama to go to hell with his lawless announcement that the parts of Obamacare causing him political troubles are temporarily suspended. Comet ISON brightens to just within naked eye visibility. In the past three months Scaled Composites has conducted nine tests of SpaceShipTwo engines. Lockheed Martin announced today that it is closing down five facilities and laying off 4,000 employees. Obama announces he will veto any bill that changes Obamacare, including the “Keep your plan” offers from both parties in Congress. So, when does Ted Cruz get his apology? The House, with 39 Democrats voting yes, today passed its “You can keep your plan If you like it” bill. The new head of the Russian Space Agency has requested that the government impose a ban on the sale of any foreign made satellites in Russia. NASA’s next Mars orbiter, MAVEN, is go for launch today at 1:28 pm from Wallops Island. An Obamacare supporter begins to see the light. Twelve unusual towers around the world. Today in Starbucks… The world of English freedoms. MAVEN has reached orbit. Dukakis and the tank. The Census Bureau apparently faked the unemployment numbers prior to the 2012 election to make it appear more people were employed. Newly released emails provide more evidence that IRS official Lois Lerner was lying when she said the IRS scandal was confined to the low-level employees in Cincinnati. New images of Comet ISON suggest it might have begun breaking up. A close look at another government program to try to lower the cost to orbit. To save money, NASA management has shut down a troubled program to build a more efficient plutonium power supply for its deep space missions. New data suggesting the presence of granite on Mars also suggests that the planet is more geologically complex than previously believed. on the air The Homeland Security employee who runs a website that calls for the the mass murder of whites has still not been fired. The Obamacare website apparently has security flaws so significant that experts are afraid to describe them. The Pentagon has for years routinely been doctoring its budget numbers, and has no idea where billions of its money is going. Some spectacular oblique images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been released. Opportunity releases a new panorama from its perch on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The top ten race baiters of 2013. A father is arrested merely because he wants to pick up his kids from school and walk home with them. An Orbital Sciences’ Minotaur rocket tonight launched a record 29 satellites into orbit, 28 of which were cubesats. On Tuesday NASA issued a solicitation for bids on providing the agency a manned ferrying capability to and from ISS. The federal budget deficit for October was “only” $91 billion. An update on the arrest of a father for wanting to pick up his kids and walk them home from school. On Sunday Curiosity suffered an electrical problem that has caused a pause in operations while engineers troubleshoot it. And it ain’t your doctor! Seismic data now suggests that a volcano is beginning to stir far beneath the Antarctica icecap. Dennis Tito’s project to launch a manned fly-by of Mars by 2018 has issued its revised plans, and they call for NASA to use SLS to do it. In undercover tapes, the communications director of Enroll America, an organization that helps sign people up for Obamacare, is seen agreeing to help get confidential personal data of enrollees for political purposes. In a launch today a Russian Dnepr rocket sent 32 satellites into orbit, breaking the record of 29 set less than a week ago by a Minotaur rocket. How not to get to Mars India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe has returned its first image, a picture of Earth. Construction of Russia’s new Vostochny spaceport is essentially back on schedule. The longest and most powerful gamma ray burst yet detected apparently does not fit any of the theories that are currently used to explain these events. Why Obamacare is different. Tito noted today that if the U.S. doesn’t partner with him to send a couple to fly past Mars, he’ll partner with Russia or China instead. ISS celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of its first module today. SpaceX successfully completed a countdown dress rehearsal and launchpad hot fire engine test in preparation for the next commercial launch of its Falcon 9 rocket on November 25. A Russian rocket this morning launched a trio of European satellites designed to study the Earth’s magnetic field. A new Chinese suspension bridge, set to open November 25, has won top honors for being such a long three-tower/two span bridge. The Obama administration has delayed next year’s enrollment deadline under Obamacare. MSNBC, the cable network of hate. The Washington Times and the journalist whose confidential files were taken illegally during a house search on an unrelated matter are suing Homeland Security. ESA has announced a six month delay in the development of its service module for the Orion capsule. “The entry of SpaceX into the commercial market is a game changer. It’s going to really shake the industry to its roots.” In an interview Richard Branson says that Virgin Galactic is working to replace SpaceShipTwo’s hybrid engine. A man is arrested in Ohio for the crime of having an empty hidden compartment in his car. SpaceX has scrubbed today’s first geosynchronous launch of its Falcon 9 rocket. Faced with stiff competition from SpaceX, Arianespace is considering lowering its launch prices. China next lunar mission, set to launch next month, will have a rover named “Yutu”. Cuirosity has resumed science operations after experiencing a short circuit and voltage drop. A Progress freighter, launched yesterday, will not dock with ISS for four days in order to test upgrades to its rendezvou radar system. Five disastrous predictions that the Republicans got right about Obamacare. Another wave of mortgage loan defaults is about to hit. This year’s hurricane season, predicted to be above average, was the weakest in decades. The Supreme Court has decided to rule on the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. Using home computers, astronomers have discovered four new gamma ray pulsars, all in the plane of the Milky Way. It appears firefighters saved a half billion dollar NASA satellite from burning up in a truck fire today. The ingenious plan engineers have devised to do good science with the crippled Kepler space telescope. The man who saved the world. It appears that two nitrogen tanks exploded at the SpaceX facility in Texas last night. Russia has now officially delayed the launch of its next module to ISS by at least a year. Using Kepler data, astronomers have discovered a solar system with seven planets and configured similar to our own, with rocky planets close to the star and gas giants farther away The Obama administration yesterday proposed outlawing political speech by any non-profits. Faced with an almost certain recall over her gun control votes, a third Colorado state legislator has resigned. Using Cassini data scientists theorize that the lack of craters in the lowlands of Titan is because those lowlands were swamps that quickly erased the evidence. Comet ISON makes its close flyby of the sun today. Two brothers, also college students, have formed a company to build cubesats for researchers Gun confiscation begins in New York. A new housecat-sized feline species has been discovered in Brazil. A cancer patient who went on Fox to talk about how Obamacare has made him lose his health insurance is now being audited by the IRS. Though this conclusion is not final, it appears that Comet ISON was destroyed today in its close fly-by of the Sun. Another state tells Obama that they have to follow the law. The Falcon 9 rocket had an abort at launch today at 5:39 Eastern. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. A Progress freighter was manually docked with ISS today when its automatic docking system suffered a malfunction 200 feet from the station. Argentina to begin testing its own rocket for satellite launches before the end of 2013. Scott Walker’s epic battle to beat the unions in Wisconsin. The Federal Trade Commission goes after piano teachers. A mother with multiple sclerosis has lost her health insurance because of Obamacare. India’s first Martian orbiter, Mangalyaan, successfully fired its engines today to leave Earth orbit and head to Mars. Can’t light a Falcon 9 without a spark. Chang’e 3 and Yutu – The tale of a beautiful goddess and her rabbit on the Moon. Another great moment in local government. No more seasonal hurricane predictions from Colorado State University. China has successfully launched its first rover mission to the Moon. An overview of the known superearths. A Canadian disabled woman was denied entry to the United States after a customs agent cited her supposedly private medical details. SpaceX now plans its next launch attempt of the first Falcon 9 geosynchronous launch for Tuesday at 5:41 pm (Eastern). Russia consolidates its space industry into one giant government-owned corporation. Cats can recognize their owner’s voice, but choose to ignore it. According to one online hacker/security expert, no security was ever built into the Obamacare website. Exciting Times in Space India has delayed the first test launch of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from mid-December until the first week in 2014. A Connecticut museum, having switched its focus from art to science, has chosen to sell its most valuable statue to finance its own cubesat. In a 376-5 bi-partisan vote, the House has approved a one year extension to the liability exemption of the 2004 Space Amendments Act. Think you have finally enrolled in Obamacare? Think again. The FBI has been stonewalling the House investigation into the IRS scandal. SpaceX Falcon 9 launch Blue Origin today revealed details of its successful tests of its BE-3 hydrogen rocket engine. How to opt out of Obamacare, legally and intelligently. A new poll suggests that the young are finally abandoning Obama and the Democratic Party. Five myths about hacking you probably believe, thanks to the movies. Cassini has obtained its highest resolution images yet of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped jet stream. The planetary science community is in an uproar over the Obama administration’s proposed restructuring and possible budget cuts to NASA’s planetary research program. The Air Force’s X-37B is approaching a year in orbit. How India’s cryogenic rocket engine program was hampered and delayed, by the United States. Some more details about the impending takeover and overhaul of the Russian space industry by the Russian government. Let the space price war begin. A new poll shows Democrats as out-of-touch extremists. A map of Opportunity’s journey on Mars as it approaches its tenth anniversary since landing on January 25, 2004. Google X-Prize competitor Moon Express has unveiled its lunar lander, scheduled to soft land on the Moon in 2015. When a man denied the police entry into his house because they didn’t have a warrant, one officer threatened to come back with a warrant and “shoot and kill” the man’s dogs. Here’s another report on the planetary sciences/NASA dispute this week over funding and grant scheduling. No alcoholic beverages for the Russian astronauts to drink on ISS on New Year’s Eve. Obama tells Chris Matthews what he really thinks of the IRS harassment of conservatives. The lawsuit by a doctor against Obamacare. Obamacare threatens to destroy volunteer fire departments. Astronomers discover an exoplanet that their theories say shouldn’t exist. One person describes the experience she and her mother had under Obamacare. Nelson Mandala: Getting the facts of his life right. Seven out of ten doctors in California are refusing to participate in Obamacare. China’s lunar probe has entered lunar orbit. Rumors suggest that Republicans are moving to accept a budget deal that would end sequestration. Without permission California’s Obamacare exchange distributed the contact information of tens of thousands of people who had visited their website. The head of India’s research team at its Antarctica base has been recalled after he ordered the shut down of power at the station. International Launch Services ((ILS) has successfully launched its Russian Proton rocket to put another commercial communications satellite into orbit. Obamacare, where the liberal dream crashes and burns. Obamacare insurance plans are routinely excluding the world’s top hospitals. The latest IRS power grab. A Brazilian earth research satellite was lost today when a Chinese Long March rocket failed to put it into orbit. Russia’s deputy prime minister is pushing to accelerate the completion of Russia’s new spaceport in Vostochny. Using Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), scientists have finally identified the Sun’s predicted giant jet streams. No, you can’t keep your medicines either under Obamacare. Another news report suggests that Republicans are preparing to surrender in budget talks. A TSA agent confiscates the two-inch fake pistol of a monkey sock puppet. Of the 78 times police in Greensboro, North Carolina, fired their pistols in 2012, all but two were to kill someone’s pet. Yesterday police in Wisconsin celebrated Pearl Harbor Day by issuing tickets to people waving the American flag. Apropos my comment here, Rand Simberg superbly summarizes the serious threat SpaceX poses for the older space launch companies. Curiosity has succeeded in dating the age of one of its rock samples, the first time this has ever been done remotely on another planet. Scientists have published the first 300 days of radiation data from Curiosity on Mars. An upbeat wimpy maximum holds on Orbital Sciences, having delayed the launch of its first operational Cygnus cargo mission to ISS by one day, has named the spacecraft after the late astronaut Gordon Fullerton. Gale Crater held at least one lake in the past, and that lake existed for longer and more recently than expected. MSNBC: “It’s like watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 — just less realistic.” An airline stages a magnificent “Christmas miracle” for hundreds of its customers. Data from Messenger now shows that as Mercury cooled it shrunk far more than earlier data had indicated. One scientist’s modeling of the early universe suggests to him that intelligent life could have evolved as early as 15 million years after the Big Bang. The IRS is now harassing the insurance broker who has helped people losing their insurance under Obamacare. Why Republicans should reject the surrender budget deal rumors say Paul Ryan is negotiating with Democrats. Juno, on its way to Jupiter, flew past the Earth on October 9 and made a movie. “It’s hard to see how conservatives support it,” he said. “The question is, how angry will they get?” The failure of a Chinese Long March rocket to put a commercial satellite into orbit earlier this week was caused by a malfunction in the rocket’s third stage. A private unmanned mission to Mars by 2018? India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe successfully completed its first midcourse correction maneuver today. Triumph of the Vulgarians: Decency is now the new taboo After two months, Obamacare has only enrolled less than 400,000 people, even as it has caused millions to lose their health insurance policies. The Republican leadership expresses contempt for any opposition to its budget deal that abandons the cuts imposed by sequestration The refusal of 70% of California doctors to participate in Obamacare appears to be spontaneous, without leadership from any professional or political organization. This detailed look at the budget deal suggests it isn’t as much of a surrender as first implied. Scientists detect evidence of the splash of clay material left by an asteroid or comet after it impacted Europa. SpaceShipTwo flew another glide test today. One of ISS’s cooling system pumps failed today. The Ryan budget deal includes a provision that limits the ability of the Senate minority to block tax increases. If a US spacewalk on ISS is necessary to repair its cooling system, the spare parts are there, but the spacesuits are not. China’s Chang’e 3 lunar orbiter has lowered its orbit around the Moon. Trying to hide the disaster that is Obamacare. Yup, this sums it up nicely. “Please pray for me… I am losing my insurance.” How to beat a photo-enforced traffic ticket. Ten cool places you are not allowed to visit. Hubble discovers water vapor venting from Europa’s south pole. The Washington state Obamacare website is down, but it still has been able to mistakenly take money from people’s bank accounts. A Michigan teachers union is trying to win a $10,000 severance payment for a child molester. Homeland Security has finally fired the black racist who had called for the mass murder of whites. The Connecticut Obamacare website gave the wrong information for every single insurance plan it offered, and it took a month to fix the problem. A dead Nelson Mandala crashed an Obama Johannesburg appearance last week. A man arrested in Colorado City for legally open carrying his pistol has won $23K in a lawsuit against the city. The coolant systems failure on ISS might delay next week’s Cygnus cargo mission. Anthill art It is time to start applying the Broken Windows Theory to liberal intolerance. A survey of 400 chief financial officers finds that nearly half plan to cut back on employment because of Obamacare. Chinese scientists have concluded that the asteroid Toutatis is a rubble pile barely held together by gravity, based on data obtained from Chang’e 2’s flyby one year ago. It appears that Senate Republicans will filibuster the Ryan budget deal. As deadlines loom and the problems with the Obamacare website continue, the Obama administration has issued a number of illegal extensions to the law. It appears that NASA is planning to go ahead with at least one spacewalk to replace ISS’s faulty coolant system pump. On the road After a successful soft landing, China’s lunar rover Yutu has successfully rolled onto the lunar surface. Iran claims to have sent a second monkey into space and recovered it safely. The Cygnus cargo mission to ISS has been delayed by at least one day as NASA managers struggle to deal with the station’s coolant pump failure. NASA has decided that Dream Chaser met all its engineering milestones during its test flight in October, despite the landing gear failure. China outlines the plans for its next two unmanned lunar probes, with the second targeted as a 2017 sample return mission. Germany has funded a study to look into using Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser for its space operations. Leftwing news photographer reveals he is no news photographer, ashamed he broke a big story revealing the ugly side of his hero Obama. Paul Ryan says House Republicans are going to demand something in exchange for raising the debt ceiling again in February. “If they kill us all, will you do something then?” Eleven spectacular cliff paths. A campaign ad that says it bluntly: “You lied.” Aerojet has successfully completed engine tests for the launch abort system on Boeing’s CST-100 manned capsule. Arianespace has ordered the construction of an additional 18 Ariane 5 rockets. A cop not only doesn’t shoot a dog, he adopts him. A 12-year study of massive stars in the Milky Way has confirmed the galaxy has four spiral arms. Obamacare: The worst is yet to come. The Obamacare contraceptive mandate is struck down again, and here are six reasons why. Thirteen insane projects funded by our federal government. NASA engineers have decided to go ahead with a series of spacewalks to repair the ISS cooling system, thereby delaying the Cygnus cargo mission until January. “Nothing is written.” More than half the U.S. is covered with snow this November, the most in ten years. A company fires an employee because he put out a fire. The media’s ten worst predictions for 2013. 2013: a bad year for liberty. A judge has blasted the Obama administration for attempting to keep non-classified materials secret and ordered their release. A non-paleontologist documents significant errors in the work of several noted paleontologists. Reddit bans any skepticism of global warming. Fixing the coolant pump on ISS: A close look at what will happen during the upcoming spacewalks. The star of cable television’s highest rated show in history has been sacked because he dared criticize the homosexual lifestyle Gaia, a astronomical space probe designed to pinpoint the location of a billion stars to map the Milky Way, was successfully launched today. Bad weather scrubbed a SpaceShipTwo test flight yesterday. SpaceX has set December 31 as the launch date for its next Falcon 9 commercial launch. 77% of the uninsured don’t want Obamacare. The real legal issues surrounding the right to openly carry your pistol. Cuba is lifting the limit on the number of people allowed to buy a car. The Messenger science team has named ten craters on Mercury after some 19th and 20th century artists, musicians, and writers. The Obamacare state exchanges are losing their directors. An update on the Google Lunar X-Prize competition. WISE, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, sent back its first images in almost three years this week. A homeless dog rescued Forced to put their existence up to a vote, over 70 of 408 public unions in Wisconsin have been rejected. Under Seattle Bertha has stopped drilling because something is in the way. The Obama administration has announced another eleventh-hour exemption to Obamacare. The eerie, alien, and abstract World War II monuments of Yugoslavia. Advice for Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty. A 3D printer comparison guide. India has set January 5 as the launch date for its next attempt to launch is home-built GSLV rocket. Scientists admit that second-hand smoke causes zero cancer deaths. New security issues revealed for the Obamacare website. NASA and Orbital Sciences have set January 7 as the launch date for the Cygnus cargo mission to ISS. A Muslim woman graduates at the top of her class, in medicine, in Israel. It seems Curiosity’s wheels are wearing out faster than expected and engineers want to know why. A Christmas prank. The top ten states for job growth. Another court today ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. Today’s spacewalk on ISS to replace a coolant pump is ahead of schedule. Another way for the young to avoid the absurdly expensive Obamacare insurance plans. Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery comes to life! Yesterday’s spacewalk on ISS, though successful, was cut short because of spacesuit discomfort issues unrelated to the earlier water leak problems. “An apparent double standard in President Barack Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on unauthorized leaks.” This news report, confirmed by no other source, claims that the spacewalk this week was cut short because of water in the astronauts’ spacesuits. Iraqi government declares Christmas a ‘national holiday’ The sticker shock of Obamacare only begins when you pick your plan. Preparing for today’s second spacewalk to replace the coolant pump on ISS. China’s rover about to go to sleep for the long lunar night. Mars Express will do an extremely close flyby of the martian moon Phobos on December 29. The companies building manned spacecraft for the United States all appear to be on track. A White Christmas on Mars. The first theorem of government: Government is a racket that benefits the political elite by taking money from everyone else. Should Republicans again demand that the Obamacare individual mandate be delayed? George Washington: a victor in battle, a freeman in heart. Every image taken during the Apollo program is now available online. “The TSA couldn’t protect you from a 6-year-old with a water balloon.” Today’s spacewalk on ISS is complete with the successful installation of a replacement coolant pump. Insufficiently servile. The Russians have delayed the first launch of a new Soyuz rocket for at least a week. Here come the Obamacare tax bills! Another successful Proton rocket launch took place today in Russia. Under Obamacare more than half the counties in the 34 states that use the federal Obamacare health exchange have no affordable insurance plans. Obama’s top ten Constitutional violations for 2013. Photos taken 33 years ago by a photographer who died in the Mt. St. Helens eruption have been discovered and developed. The Russians on ISS are doing their own spacewalk today, for profit. Were the dinosaurs covered by feathers or scales? Scientists disagree. The first commercial supersonic business jet? State governments are now withholding payments to the contractors who created their failed Obamacare websites. Life on the GLAAD blacklist. A 9-year-old boy from California has become the youngest person to climb the western and southern hemisphere’s highest peak. Today’s spacewalk by two Russian astronauts on ISS set a new Russian duration record though one of the two commercial cameras was unable to transmit its data to the ground. India has now scheduled January 5 as the date for the test launch of its homebuilt powerful GSLV rocket. The Russians today launched their new upgraded Soyuz 2 rocket, successfully putting three payloads into orbit. SpaceX successfully completed a static fire engine test Saturday in preparation for its next commercial satellite launch on January 3. The first person to cycle to the South Pole. Obamacare includes absurd regulations that will cost the vending machine industry millions. Police confiscate a legal firearm and thus cost their city almost $7000 when the owner wins the lawsuit demanding the gun’s return. A tea party look at 2013. The company for the high resolution cameras that the Russian astronauts were unable to install on ISS during their spacewalk last week has issued an update. The Obama administration essentially admits that Obamacare has increased the number of uninsured. Dave Barry looks back at 2013. Moronic Common Core lessons the federal government is imposing on public schools. Global sea ice area is now at its second highest level ever recorded, and closing in on an all time record. Mars Express buzzes Phobos. Mars One narrows its applicant pool of would-be Martian colonists from 200,000 to just over a 1000. “Why is Israel releasing murderers?” Elon Musk outlines the upcoming test program for the development of the man-rated Dragon capsule. Virgin Galactic has released video of SpaceShipTwo’s second powered flight. Scientists think they have found cloudy skies on a nearby super Earth. The Chinese rover Yutu, before going into hibernation for the long lunar night, successfully took its first spectrum of the Moon’s surface. New York mayor Bill de Blasio: “We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period.” The geological history of Venus: What’s known, not known, and unknown. AmeriCorps volunteers have discovered that the health plans provided by this federal program are insufficient to meet the requirements of Obamacare. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted China’s Yutu rover on the Moon’s surface. How global warming activists ended up getting stuck in the ice fields surrounding Antarctica. “Unfortunately, it’s easier for our franchisees to open a restaurant in Siberia than in California.” Scientists tell the truth. The law gives the government the final say on how your doctor treats you. A box of 100-year-old negatives from the Antarctica Shackleton expedition have been discovered, processed, and printed. In the final draft of its new report the IPCC has significantly slashed its predictions for how much the climate will warm in the coming decades. U.S. Customs destroys a musician’s 11 flutes, declaring them to be agricultural products. The bottom of the barrel. A survey of New York businesses cannot find any businesses whose healthcare costs have gone down due to Obamacare. Eleven global warming stories from 2013 you probably never heard of The big solar hotshots of 2013. Frontpage picks Ted Cruz as their 2013 man of the year. Britain’s citizens want their guns back. The 30 counties with the highest medium income just happen to be where most people work for the federal government. Obamacare confusion reigns as frustrated patients walk out of hospitals without treatment. The second commercial launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been delayed three days until January 6 because an unspecified issue with the rocket’s fairing. Obamacare does not provide any easy way for a family to add a new baby to their insurance plan. Cats are liquid. “I have closed all my businesses in Ventura County, California.” Scientists so good they can predict things after it happens NASA and Orbital Sciences have rescheduled the Cygnus freighter launch to ISS until January 8 because of cold weather. Boeing is moving its X-37B operations to the Kennedy Space Center. After more than a decade of failed attempts, India has finally successfully launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). Even if you have health insurance, it might be cheaper to pretend to be uninsured and pay cash instead. Chutzpah. Nearly two thirds of the fraud and waste lost by the federal government in 2013 was paid by HHS, the agency running Obamacare. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Theme from ‘Shaft’ website down SpaceX on Monday successfully launched its second geosynchronous commercial satellite. Astronomers, using Kepler data, have identified dozens of exoplanets between 1 and 4 times the mass of the Earth. The agony of the world’s most influential focus group pollster. The recently reactivated WISE space telescope has discovered its first new asteroid. Arianespace, in an effort to trim costs, is considering slashing the number of companies that will build its next generation rockets from 150 to 50. A North Carolina cop shoots a tased and restrained 90-pound high school student after allegedly stating, “We don’t have time for this.” Five years of hate and falsified news at NBC. Orbital Sciences has scrubbed today’s launch of Cygnus due to the major solar flare that occurred yesterday. The European Space Agency announced today that it is studying using Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser spacecraft for manned flights. In a story that concerns the upcoming presidential campaign, emails show that top aides to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie purposely closed lanes to the George Washington Bridge in an effort to hurt the mayor of Fort Lee for not endorsing Christie. Yippee! Solar scientists finally get it right Eight reasons why Chris Christie’s traffic scandal could cause big trouble in 2016. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has now expressed outrage over the revelation today that his aides created traffic jams to hurt a political opponent. Global warming devastates America. Orbital Sciences now plans to launch Cygnus on Thursday. NASA and the Obama administration have announced their support for extending ISS’s operations for more years to at least 2024. A direct image of an exoplanet. More than eight months after an outraged President Obama said he would get to the bottom of the IRS harassment of conservatives, we finally find out who is heading his investigation. A Colorado Democratic Senator has asked his state insurance agency to hide the numbers of people whose insurance was cancelled because of Obamacare. Heads roll in New Jersey over traffic scandal. Orbital Sciences has successfully launched its Cygnus cargo ferry into orbit. Speaking of contrasts, compare the reaction when evidence revealed the Obama administration intentional made life difficult for citizens during the government shutdown. Some individuals who thought they had enrolled in a healthcare plan on the Obamacare website are discovering that their insurance company has no record of them. Astronomers announced today the discovery of several dozen stars which are traveling so fast they will escape the Milky Way galaxy. Congress has now officially renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong. One health insurance company has now announced that the mix of old/sick and young/healthy buying insurance under Obamacare is far worse than expected. Seven months after the IRS scandal broke, the FBI has finally contacted some of the conservative groups that were harassed by the tax agency. SpaceShipTwo successfully completed its third powered test flight today. Cygnus was successfully berthed to ISS today. China’s rover and lander on the Moon have both been successfully reawakened after hibernating through the two week long lunar night. The Spanish language Obamacare website is unreadable to Spanish speakers. “Over the weekend, it seems as though the national media finally figured out what most ObamaCare critics have predicted all along.” SpaceX has signed a contract with a Japanese commercial satellite company. Astronomers have identified a star they expect to go supernova very soon. Another innocent patient, having lost his insurance due to Obamacare, is now threatened with death. Twenty fascinating photos from history. A federal court has thrown out the net neutrality rules imposed by Obama’s FCC appointees, stating that the commission had overstepped its authority. The sound of pi On the air tonight The House is about to vote on a trillion dollar spending bill that no one has really read. After drilling four shafts and sending in one man to look, engineers still don’t know what is blocking the giant tunnel drill Bertha in Seattle. A House investigation has found that the Obama administration acted to make the sequestration cuts as “painful as possible” for rural schools. A detailed look at how the budget deal effects the NASA budget. Orbital Sciences outlines the upgrades it plans for Cygnus and Antares. Why the sequester had to die. Jimmy Kimmel savages Obamacare and ignorant young who support it. The Obama administration now harasses the military chaplain who sued them because of their actions during the government shutdown. A scuba mask that allows you to breath underwater as if you were a fish. Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanets orbiting a star almost identical to the Sun. NASA’s first test flight of both the Orion capsule and the heavy-lift SLS rocket in 2017 might be delayed because of design problems with the European-built service module. A Democrat wins election in Virginia and a push for more gun control follows. Republican leadership begins an effort to back off from repealing Obamacare. “Please take me off your list of hate.” UN climate chief this week declared that communism is the best way to fight global warming. In a House hearing today, cybersecurity experts once again warned that the Obamacare website is not secure, and that the Obama administration is doing nothing to fix it. A legal gunowner gets abused by the police because he’s a legal gun owner. The operators of campgrounds in the national forests are suing the Obama administration, saying it had no right to force them to close down during last October’s government shutdown. Amazing German designed cat climbing furniture. When it comes to abusing his power, Chris Christie is an amateur compared to the Democrats. “I think it was a sham from the beginning.” A cheaper Japanese launch vehicle is scheduled to launch next month. An outline of Dream Chaser’s test flight schedule for the next three years, leading to its first crewed flight in 2017. Scaled Composites did an engine test today in Mojave of an alternative engine for SpaceShipTwo. The man who was forced by police to undergo multiple invasive surgeries after a traffic stop — and billed for the abuse after nothing illegal was found – has won a $1.6 million legal settlement with New Mexico local authorities. “If guns cause more violence, where’s the exploding crime rate?” Higher premiums, less generous coverage, and more paperwork! Obama’s two children were listed as “Senior Staff” for a Michelle Obama trip to Africa that cost at least $424K. Finally, an aggressive TSA groping at an airport checkpoint has led to a sexual assault investigation by police. An interview with Scott Walker. On Friday SpaceShipTwo completed another test flight, this time a glide test to for pilot training. SpaceX successfully tested the parachute system on its Dragon capsule on Friday. Opportunity begins its second decade roving the Martian surface. The European Space Agency has now released its first cost estimates for upgrading and replacing its Ariane 5 rocket. A Kentucky state legislator has introduced a bill to have the state pull out of the Common Core federal education standards program. A cancer patient discovers at the last minute that she can’t keep her doctor or get treatment, because of Obamacare. A comparison between reality and the predictions of global warming scientists from 1988 reveals an epic fail. “You can literally just open up your browser, go to this, and extract all this information without actually having to hack the website itself.” After three years in hibernation Europe’s Rosetta comet probe has successfully come back to life. The Obama administration exempted the members of a Muslim Brotherhood delegation from any TSA inspection when the visited the U.S in 2012. Another law, another squelched dream If you want to see the inside of NASA’s gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), you better hurry. Tours cease in February. Another lunar Earthrise image from the 1960s restored and enhanced. Beautiful machinery. A donut-sized rock suddenly appears in front of the Mars rover Opportunity. A village government in New York is trying to take a private grocery using eminent domain in order to replace it with a municipality-owned market. “The potential for abuse is staggering.” Because of a computer reboot, Rosetta’s revival from hibernation came 18 minutes late. Penn State’s Google Lunar X Prize team has now launched a kickstarter campaign to fund its effort. A woman spends six weeks trying to cancel an Obamacare insurance policy. Six likely events that will follow an economic crash. To environmentalists no warming and more bears means global warming and an endangered species A new study outlines the problems British researchers had in their 2012 attempt to drill down into a buried Antarctic lake. A look at China’s plans to develop a heavy-lift rocket. A new supernova, bright enough to be visible to amateurs, was discovered last night in the nearby galaxy M82. The fraud in global warming science Virgin Galactic today announced the successful testing of their own new rocket engine. Astronomers have detected water vapor spurting from Ceres, the solar system’s largest asteroid. For more information about that newly discovered supernova in the nearby galaxy M82 go here and here. The credit rating agency Moody’s has downgraded its outlook for health insurancers from stable to negative because of Obamacare. Gun manufacturers flee California over its microstamping law. The IRS harassment of conservatives continues. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Opportunity’s landing on Mars, the journal Science publishes a special section of the newest findings from Mars. Ants on ISS. The totalitarians of New York. The conservative target of a fake investigation by a Wisconsin Democratic prosecutor — having won in court — is now threatening to sue if the prosecutor doesn’t stop the investigation down immediately. Sierra Nevada sets November 2016 as the date for its first orbital flight of Dream Chaser. Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s top experts on black holes, has written a paper stating there are no black holes. Come October 2014 astronomers will attempt to weigh Proxima Centauri, the nearest star. A Kazakhstan political party is demanding the end of all launches from Baikonur. Enrollees in Obamacare in California are discovering few doctors or hospitals willing to accept their plans. New York Senator Charles Schumer proposes disenfranchising tea party voters in order to weaken their impact at the polls. The TSA spent almost a billion dollars hiring behavior detection officers who then detected zero terrorists. A newspaper chain plans to assemble a state-by-state database of every person permitted to carry a concealed weapon. Something is wrong with China’s lunar rover. NASA data has confirmed that the flat global climate temperature that started around 1998 has continued in 2013. More information on the problems with China’s lunar rover Yutu. Twenty places that are difficult to believe really exist. “The most dangerous years of the Obama presidency are upon us.” Posting to be light Eye update After dimming for decades, the North Star is now getting brighter. In a spacewalk earlier this week, two Russian astronauts on ISS successfully installed the commercial UrtheCast cameras. The National Science Foundation wants to get rid of some of its older big telescopes, and you can buy them! The reactivation of Rosetta continues, with no serious issues so far. Multiple U.S. science agencies have been accused of fudging data to fake the existence of global warming. A Republican congressman threatens a reporter for asking him an unexpected question. Illinois officials have ordered an eleven-year-old to close her cupcake business that was earning her $200 a month. Better medicine through engineering NOAA fudges the numbers to turn a January cooling trend since 1930 into a warming trend. A Christian song has been stripped of its Oscar nomination as a result of protests within the Hollywood community. New Yorkers react to Obama’s State of the Union speech, before it happens. One NASA lunar orbiter snags an image of another NASA lunar orbiter. The dislike of Obamacare has risen, among the uninsured. The head of Russia’s space agency is in Vostochny to review the construction of Russia’s new spaceport there. One in five enrollees in Obamacare are likely to have their policy canceled for not paying their premium. To reduce wheel damage engineers are considering sending Curiosity on an smoother route up Mount Sharp. What life has been like for one engineer who works at SpaceX. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent. Sick children in Washington state denied insurance coverage for specialty treatment at a children’s hospital. A new harvest of vegetables in space! Curiosity snaps a picture of its planned upcoming travel route. The Gibson Guitar Company gives the federal government the finger. Why good people should be armed. After resuming drilling in Seattle — and only going four feet — Bertha has been stopped again. Slandering an American icon. The legs for Falcon 9’s first stage. An Obama supporter discovers she was betrayed by Obama and Obamacare. “We prefer to pretend that bad students don’t exist.” Every Democratic senator up for re-election in 2014 voted with the president at least 90 percent of the time in 2013. Bolden and Mikulski hold a press conference to lobby for continuing funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. The public battle between Virgin Galactic and the author of a critical new biography of Richard Branson. Jupiter’s shrinking Great Red Spot. College students eagerly sign a petition to imprison all registered gun owners. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office has found that Obamacare will increase the deficit and slow the economy far more than originally predicted. The 2014 Birthday Bleg Will Piers Morgan apologize for spreading a racist hoax? A close look at the spending bills introduced in Congress shows that of the 70 members who sponsored the largest number of spending bills, 65 were Democrats, four were Republicans and one an independent. Archeologists excavate a 4,600 year old pyramid in Egypt. Scientists have found that bumblebees have the capability of flying at altitudes higher than the top of Mount Everest. An analysis of the rotation of the peanut-shaped asteroid 25143 Itokawa suggests that its smaller end is actually far denser than its bigger end. Congress hovers over commercial space like a vulture “I can’t imagine this is how President Obama wanted it to happen.” Scientists claim that global warming will cause big waves that will exhaust fish! Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots a new crater on Mars. The uncertainty of knowledge A new survey of the nation’s top companies finds that large numbers plan to cut benefits, hours, and hiring to deal with the costs of Obamacare. Chris Christie’s pain is Scott Walker’s gain For a variety of reasons, SpaceX and NASA have agreed to delay the next Dragon cargo mission a few weeks to no early than March 16. NASA and one of its major IT contractors have both screwed up badly, according to a new Inspector General report. Data tampering to create the illusion of global warming by James Hansen and NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. A close review of the sources cited in the four studies that claimed a 97% scientific consensus supporting global warming has found that claim to be false. What if there was a terrorist attack but no one told us? Boehner suggests linking the debt-limit hike to a restoration of recent cuts to military benefits. “I will not retreat. I will not surrender. I will not be intimidated, and I will not ask for permission to exercise my constitutional rights.” Curiosity takes its first image of the Earth/Moon system from Mars. More red tape in space. Russia considers building a heavy-lift rocket, even as it completes the design and construction of its new Angara commercial rocket family. Cosmologists, using new data, are now reconsidering their theories on the manner in which the universe began organizing itself after the Big Bang. An FBI agent mistakenly fills out the wrong box so that an innocent person is put on the no-fly list, she sues, and the federal government fights her for almost a decade in court proceedings that the government demands must be held in secret. The voters in bankrupt San Bernardino this week elected tea party-type individuals as their mayor and city council. How the tea party cornered John Boehner on immigration. At House hearings this week witness after witness recounted how the IRS harassment of conservatives continues. A new study has found that healthcare costs for small businesses have doubled since Obama became President. Curiosity has successfully crossed its first sand dune. A message in a bottle, tossed into the ocean at Cape Cod by a scientist in 1956, was just found in Nova Scotia. Engineers have finally pinpointed the problem, a damaged seal assembly, that has been stalling the giant drilling machine Bertha in Seattle. Want to know why Arianespace has never made a profit? Read this story. Scientists have found 800,000 year old footprints of a family on Britain’s eastern coast. The oldest known star in the Milky Way? The Obama administration unilaterally delayed the employer mandate for medium sized businesses today. Richard Branson today claimed that Virgin Galactic will fly its first space tourists this year. Awaiting contact from China’s rover as lunar day arrives. If Obamacare is so great, why does Obama keep delaying it? 95% of all climate models agree: The observations must be wrong. Arianespace, under severe competitive price pressure from SpaceX, begs for more subsidies from ESA. DARPA opens the competition for awarding the first design contracts for a new experimental unmanned space plane, set to launch in 2017. The first four cubesats of a fleet of 28 launched from ISS on Tuesday. 100% of 501(c)(4) groups audited by IRS were conservative. Yutu is dead. Environmentalists register opposition to a new commercial spaceport in Florida. A defunct Soviet-era military satellite might spew debris onto the ground when it re-enters the atmosphere on Sunday. Will SpaceShipTwo take passengers into space this year? Branson says yes, Messier says probably not. Republican wins big in a San Diego special election yesterday to replace that city’s corrupt Democratic mayor. The Republican leadership joins with Democrats to pass a debt limit extension. Scientists produce the first global geologic map of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them. Though Chinese engineers say that Yutu is still having problems, they have gotten a signal from it. It appears that a large majority of Connecticut gun-owners are refusing to register their semi-automatic rifles, as required by that state’s new gun control law. Senate Democrats to the IRS: You’re our only hope! Ben Carson and his family and friends have been targets of IRS harassment since he criticized Obama in 2013. The trial of the century. Mapping the galaxy’s magnetic field. Governments spent $359 billion in 2012, about the same as 2011, on their effort to stop global warming. SpaceX gets incentives to build a spaceport in Texas. Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia House of Burgess, March 23, 1775. Torches, masks, and violent threats: The KKK used it (a almost entirely Democratic Party organization), and now environmentalists are running with it. For the first time in 20 years, the global total spent on government space programs declined in 2013. The FAA has given its permission for Blue Origin to expand its operations in Texas. Orbital Sciences’ balance sheets booming as a result of commercial space. The structural assembly of India’s manned crew module was delivered to its space agency this week. “Indeed we are not purists. We just want people who fundamentally represent our values.” The Facebook comment that ruined a life. Opportunity heads uphill after engineers finally pinpoint the origin of the rock that appeared out of nowhere. India unveils its first test manned capsule. Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put a commercial Turkish communications satellite into orbit on Saturday. Is Google planning to launch a constellation of 1600 satellites? Police shoot and kill an 80-year-old man in his own bed. A Boston hospital kidnaps a man’s daughter and then slaps a gag order on him to try to prevent him from talking about it. Three relatively large near Earth asteroids have just been discovered. NOAA’s official prediction for this winter was worse than monkeys working on typewriters. Cygnus has departed ISS after successfully bring its cargo to the station. Kate Upton and Sports Illustrated have completed a swimsuit photo shoot on the vomit comet. The Russian head of the Baikonur spaceport has resigned. Is Yutu alive or dead? Only the Chinese know for sure. Communism fails again, and the Western intellectual elite puts blinders on so they don’t have to see it. University of South Carolina administrators refuse to teach the Constitution as required by state stature because they find it “inconvenient.” A fourth hospital in two years is shutting down in Georgia because of payment cuts imposed by Obamacare. Our decadent elites. “If I do not receive my medication, I will die.” Europe approves its own more advanced version of Kepler to launch in 2024 and hunt for exoplanets across half the sky. Off to Israel The Google Lunar X-Prize has chosen 5 finalists of the 18 teams remaining in the private competition to land a rover on the Moon by 2015. A last look inside NASA gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building before tours end. More evidence that Brownsville, Texas, has won the competition to become the location of SpaceX’s private commercial spaceport. Orbital images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have confirmed that the mysterious rock that appeared near Opportunity was not ejecta from a nearby meteorite impact. Colorado sheriffs push back against enforcing the gun laws passed by Democratic state legislators Stand with President Obama on spending! Russia on track to test launch its new Angara rocket before June. A ruling by “a fatwa committee” in the United Arab Emirates now forbids Muslims from going on a one way mission to Mars. Democrats are whining about the Medicare cuts imposed by Obamacare, by the very law they refused to read and then imposed on us. The Obama administration is moving ahead with a FCC project to send government agents into newsrooms to make sure journalists cover certain topics the Obama administration considers important. The TSA is studying how to prevent solar powered bombs being smuggled onto airplanes. The next Falcon 9/Dragon launch to ISS will include the first test of legs on the rocket’s first stage, as well as an attempt to complete a soft touchdown on water of that first stage. A blogger with brains and a passion for free speech explains to the brainless and partisan mainstream press why the Obama administration thinks it can get away with monitoring the news gathering operations of the press and not face outraged criticism. A renowned astronomer reminds everyone — the public, the astronomy community, and most importantly the press — that the data collected on most exoplanets is far more uncertain than often claimed. The purchase of land by SpaceX in the Brownsville, Texas area reveals the name the company is considering giving is spaceport there. “I don’t think we should be tolerating conservative views because that dominant culture embeds these deep inequalities in our society.” The consolidation of the Russian aerospace industry continues as the government considers taking over privately owned Sea Launch. Several massive countersuits have now been filed against global warming scientist Michael Mann after he failed to pursue his own lawsuit againsts Canadian climate scientist Timothy Ball. Grovel before the badged ones. A close look at the environmental assessment that Blue Origin submitted to the FAA to get approval for an expanded test operations reveals their intention to do numerous launch abort tests of an orbital crew capsule. A Democratic Congressmen threatens the loss of the FCC license of television stations which air an ad criticizing his vote in favor of Obamacare. Victory in the Ukraine for its protesting citizenry with the ouster of that country’s corrupt and tyrannical government. The cop who shot and killed an already restrained 90 lb teen, saying “We don’t have time for this,” as he fired, has now been indicted for voluntary manslaughter. The FCC now claims it will not send monitors into newsrooms. A September asteroid impact on the Moon captured by Spanish astronomers. R.I.P. astronaut Dale Gardner. A zircon crystal found in western Australia has been dated as the oldest piece of the Earth’s crust, Global warming activists organize a petition to ban a column by Charles Krauthammer that criticized global warming activists of trying to silence opposing points of view. NASA is preparing the next round of commercial contracts to supply cargo to ISS. It is now confirmed that the next Falcon 9 launch to ISS will have legs on its first stage and will attempt a controlled landing over water. Problem with comments A report released by the Obama administration on Monday estimates that health insurance premiums for small and medium business will rise significantly in 2014 because of Obamacare. The student who was stopped from handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day has won a settlement from the college that tried to stop him. To save fuel United Airlines is adding additional winglets to the wingtips of their airplanes. Eric Holder describes his belief that district attorneys don’t have to enforce any laws they disagree with. A California couple finds a hoard of gold coins buried on a nearby trail estimated to be worth $10 million. A Florida judge has ruled that it is illegal to live completely off the grid. The most dangerous woman in DC. A district that the Democrats won by a big margin in 2013 voted as strongly for a Republican in a special local election on Monday. A scientific study has found that name-calling and trolling on websites polarizes thought and blocks the ability of reasonable people to focus on the actual facts. Former IRS official Lois Lerner has been recalled to testify again before a House committee in regards to the IRS’s harassment of conservatives. Contempt for the law Harry Reid insists that “all” of the Obamacare horror stories “are untrue.” Two publishers of scientific journals have withdrawn 120 papers which they have discovered were nothing more than computer-generated gibberish. “So we do live in a jackboot society.” Comment problem Using archived Kepler data combined with statistical modeling, scientists have proposed the discovery of another 715 exoplanets. An investigation into the dangerous leak of water into a spacesuit during a spacesuit last July has found that NASA engineers had missed an earlier failure of the same suit. An image of North Korea taken from ISS illustrates starkly the failure of a state-run top-down dictatorial society. Despite IAU disapproval, the space company Uwingu has announced another private commercial naming project for the craters of Mars. The treasure trove of gold coins found by a California couple on their property might be the gold coins stolen from 1901 heist of the San Francisco mint. Just in case Harry Reid might actually be listening, here is another round of Obamacare train wrecks. Modern cop to person filming him: “You just lost your free speech rights!” The harassment of conservatives by the IRS was instigated by Democratic elected officials in plain sight for all to see. The archeological discovery of a gladiator school in Austria has revealed many details about their daily lives. The Obama administration’s Interior Department has decided let the people in a remote Aleut community die rather than risk the lives of the birds in a wildlife refuge. On Thursday Japan launched the NASA-built Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory (GPM), designed to track the climate’s rain and snowfall. Comments continued Even as the IRS was admitting last year that its harassment of conservatives was a mistake, the agency was working up its new rules to make the harassment official policy, under pressure from Democratic elected officials. A federal appeals court has ruled that schools can ban the American flag in order to prevent violence. The spoiled rotten kids of DC’s elite. Just hours before she was scheduled to testify about IRS harassment of conservatives, the head of a conservative organization was called by an IRS official, telling her that her organization’s tax exempt status had finally been approved, after waiting more than 3 years. One of the publishers who had published fake peer-reviewed papers generated by a computer program has responded aggressively to fix the problem. After six months of trying and failing to cancel an unwanted Obamacare health insurance plan, a Florida man is now considering shutting his bank account to prevent the plan from automatically withdrawing money from his account. The inspirational life of the oldest Holocaust survivor whose genius for the piano enabled her AND her son to survive a Nazi death camp. The story of the early history the Russian spaceport at Baikonur. Returning the Falcon 9 first stage safely: More details about the next attempt during the next Dragon launch to ISS on March 16. A retired NASA manager is suing the Discovery Channel for its false portrayal of his action in connection with the Challenger shuttle accident. “What happens if Russia refuses to fly U.S. astronauts?” China finally reveals Yutu’s problem: the failure of a control circuit prevents it from storing its solar panels during lunar night. Airbus plans to do the first drop test a prototype of its commercial space plane sometime in May. The Obama administration released its 2015 proposed federal budget today, including its proposals for NASA. The guacamole at the fast food chain of Chipotle is going to be stricken from the menu because of “global warming.” Amateur astronomers can help a commercial space start-up by taking pictures of its cubesat SkyCube. A 100-foot diameter newly discovered asteroid will zip past the Earth inside the Moon’s orbit today at 4:07 pm Eastern. A look at the President’s overall budget for science, which finds spending levels remain flat. A 10-year-old is suspended for pointing a “level 2 lookalike firearm,” which happened to be his finger. “Obama’s pseudo-scientism” According to the IRS, when Obamacare goes into full effect in 2016 the cost for its cheapest plan will average $20,000 per year per family. In testimony to Congress Wednesday, Elon Musk described how allowing SpaceX to compete as a military launch provider would significantly lower costs. The Chief Financial Officer of the spaceport there suddenly resigned without explanation, just as a financial audit was starting. Hubble photographs the break-up of an asteroid. Another rock will fly past the Earth today, killing no one. Thousands of union workers in Las Vegas might go on strike because of the increased costs of healthcare, imposed on them by Obamacare. In reporting on climate change, ABC and CBS have excluded any commentary from any skeptical scientists for literally years. According to two surveys a large majority of the previously uninsured are uninterested in signing up for Obamacare. How Washington journalists conspire to not report accurately the President’s yearly budget proposal. “I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system.” WISE’s survey of the sky in infrared has now shown that there is no large planet X orbiting beyond Pluto. “They said they have to take that one down. But they didn’t say anything about putting another one up.” Most Mars meteorites found on Earth may have been blasted here from a single impact on Mars around 3 million years ago. Virgin Galactic is close to getting its FAA launch license. A static fire engine test of the Falcon 9 scheduled to lift Dragon to ISS next week has been delayed one day. Taking a close look at the engineering and history of SpaceX’s new Raptor engine, presently under development. Connecticut seniors are in an uproar because their AARP health insurance plan was forced to sever ties with their hospital and doctors because of Obamacare. The Sun goes boom again! A major union charges in a new report that Obamacare will reduce wages, cut hours, and limit access to health insurance for the lower middle class. Neil deGrasse Tyson poo-poos private space. On Saturday SpaceX successfully conducted a dress rehearsal countdown and static fire engine test of the Falcon 9 rocket that will loft a Dragon capsule to ISS next week. A scientist describes the skeptics view of global warming. The comet that the European probe Rosetta will visit in August has awakened. Connecticut police are now threatening to refuse to enforce that state’s new oppressive gun control law. Emails now show that the the closure of open access monuments that needed no staff during October’s government shutdown was planned by National Park management A glory on Venus. The Milky Way’s council of galaxies. The IAU has issued a press release condemning the public’s naming of Martian craters as initiated by the private company Uwingu. Two Russians and an American landed safely in Kazakhstan on Monday, finishing their 166 mission to ISS. The Russian company that owns the Proton rocket is considering a redesign that would allow them to launch two satellites on one rocket. “I give my left nut to bang down your door and come for your gun.” Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered safe mode on Friday, caused by unexpected switch to a backup computer. Lockheed Martin announces they will either give a full refund or refly a payload for free if their Atlas rocket fails at launch. A new report by the largest coalition of biomedical research organizations has found that animal rights extremists have shifted their tactics, increasingly targeting individuals rather then universities in their violent attacks. “What it is observed right now is utter dishonesty by the IPCC advocates.” The senator who aggressively supported the federal government’s illegal spying on innocent Americans is shocked and offended that they also spied on her. The evil polices of that evil Republican Scott Walker has now produced a $1 billion budget surplus in Wisconsin. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) thinks the Constitution is 400 years old. According to 2013 FBI statistics, all ten of the nation’s most dangerous cities are run by Democrats. The faculty at Rutgers have voted to demand the university rescind its speaker invitation to Condoleezza Rice. The Obama administration budget proposal for NASA includes shutting down Opportunity in 2015. Astronomers have found the largest yellow star yet, 1,300 times bigger than the Sun. The House committee investigating the IRS’s political harassment of Obama’s opponents has now unveiled evidence showing that former IRS official Lois Lerner committed perjury in Congressional testimony at least four times. A legal settlement in Maryland gives complete victory to a man who camera was confiscated by police because they didn’t want him recording them. An asteroid will eclipse the bright naked eye star Regulus for 14 seconds on March 19-20, and everyone in the New York City metropolitan area will be able to watch. When a Democrat does it, it’s not illegal. Why conservatives should have no regrets dumping Mitch McConnell as the Republican leader in the Senate. A dishonest “Cosmos”. A Health and Human Services official has resigned in disgust from his job monitoring research misconduct because of his frustration with the federal bureaucracy. The next Dragon launch to ISS has been delayed for two weeks because of the detection of contamination that could affect some of its research cargo. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has now resumed full science operations after it went into safe mode late last week. Arianespace and the Russian-owned Sea Launch are seeking to get the restrictions against them removed so that they can sell their services to more customers. One liberal pundit proposes that Democrats embrace Obamacare in the coming election campaign. Comments again Swiss Space Systems (S3) is planning to offer zero gravity airplane rides at the Kennedy Space Center in direct competition with Zero Gravity Corp. Mercury, the incredible shrinking planet. The first test flight of NASA’s Orion capsule has been delayed from September to December. A U.S. college professor demands that skeptics of global warming be imprisoned. Scientists think they have detected active volcanoes on Venus. Using images from Cassini scientists think they have made their first detection of waves on a lake on Titan Putting a spacecraft back in the orbit it was intended, thirty-one years later. “There’s no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.” Some of the country’s best cancer hospitals are excluded from every Obamacare policy. 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. 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 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. According to an audit, the former chief financial officer of the Mojave Air and Space Port provided 24 straight months of inaccurate accounting reports. The Obama administration unilaterally rewrote parts of the Freedom of Information Act in order to suppress access to documents. “There were women and children inside our retail establishment when the (ATF) agents came in with guns drawn.” Health insurance premiums are expected to double in some parts of the country because of Obamacare. Obamacare worked so well some Senators want to do the same for the real estate industry. A Michigan union contract requires a school district to discriminate against Christians and whites. 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. Orbital Sciences has set May 6 as the launch date for its next Cygnus cargo mission to ISS. Paleontologists have discovered a dinosaur dubbed “the chicken from hell.” China’s Yutu rover is still functioning but cannot move. This is how the tea party ends. Fifty states of Obamacare victims. Using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have assembled a 360 degree zoomable portrait of the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. The contamination that has delayed SpaceX’s next Dragon cargo mission to ISS was caused by oil from a sewing machine. A reporter takes a close look at Virgin Galactic and Spaceport America in New Mexico and comes away very skeptical. The Michigan union contract that required a school district to discriminiate against Christians and whites as now been amended so that it won’t discriminate against Christians. Will the American Physical Society be the first major scientific institution to reject the global warming “consensus”? New geological research suggests that the hydrogen levels that have detected on the moon — which are used to predict the presence of water — might be a false positive and not exist at the levels predicted. On Saturday Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket has successfully launched two commercial satellites, its 59th straight successful launch. Curiosity has reached another area of interesting terrain: rows of layered curvy rocks. “The malignancy that is really destroying this country is low-information people with high-profile power and/or influence.” Four reasons why the cost of heath insurance will go up again next year. DARPA picks Boeing to build a test design of an air-launched satellite launcher. Obamacare, a cascade of failures. The UK’s nationalized hospital system has routinely been using the fetal remains of dead babies for heating fuel. A Russian rocket successfully lifted off today from Kazakhstan with the next crew for ISS. Sierra Nevada has subcontracted Lockheed Martin to help build its Dream Chaser spacecraft. When challenged about his gun control proposals and how they conflict with the second amendment, a Rhode Island state legislator responded “Go f–k yourself.” The Obama administration has once again arbitrarily extended the deadline in Obamacare for obtaining health insurance. An expected engine burn on board the Soyuz capsule taking three astronauts to ISS did not take place as scheduled, forcing at minimum a two day delay in the rendezvous and docking. The timeline of Obamacare delays arbitrarily imposed by the Obama administration. A Massachusetts judge has ruled that the state there owns your children. A family’s home is raided by a gun-toting SWAT team because police found tea leaves in their garbage pails. Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet about 300 miles wide at the very edge of the solar system. The road to hell Astronomers have found an asteroid with its own rings. Though engineers still don’t know why the Soyuz spacecraft was oriented incorrectly, thereby preventing a scheduled engine firing, they have uploaded new software and have subsequently executed two additional burns successfully. A college student who was attacked and then arrested by Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents because she and two friends had purchased a case of sparkling water is now suing Virginia and those seven agents for $40 million. A fire at a radar site used by the Air Force to track rockets lifting off at the Kennedy Space Center has delayed all launches there, including SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 flight. Rosetta has taken its first picture of its target comet since coming out of hibernation. A feminist comedian calls for violence against conservative Christians. Government power relies on violence and coercion, regardless of where and when. A different look at 25 famous places that gives you a better idea of what it is really like to visit them. Hubble takes an image of Comet Siding Spring and finds two jets coming off the nucleus. The Republican leadership in the House today held a sham vote to get a spending bill passed. After a two day delay because of an aborted engine burn, a Soyuz spacecraft docked last night with ISS, bringing its next crew of three to the station. The Air Force’s X-37B mini-shuttle presently in orbit has now set a new record for the spacecraft’s longest flight. Orbital Sciences has begun construction of the 81satellites that will make up Iridium’s second generation communications satellite constellation. SpaceShipTwo is outside its hanger today, undergoing cockpit pressure tests. Bruce Rauner, the Republican running for governor of Illinois, is proudly running as a RINO. The U.S Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has forced a Michigan school to rip down a brand-new set of bleachers for its boys’ baseball team because the new seating is nicer than the girls’ softball bleachers. A reporter today was detained by DC police for daring to ask a question of the head of the EPA. The odious Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid. According to a new report from the federal government, only 6 percent of the country’s electricity comes from green energy sources. SpaceX has test fired its Grasshopper replacement test vehicle. In honor of April Fools Day on Tuesday, fourteen of the greatest hoaxes ever. Whose side are you on? A complete list of the Obama administration’s Obamacare.delays. NASA is looking to extend its commercial cargo contracts with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences until 2017. Scientists have developed a bacterium that can brew high energy rocket fuel. Obama declares that “The debate about repealing Obamacare is over.” China’s new spaceport and the giant rocket it is being built for. The year that Elon Musk’s dream almost died. The German-built comet lander Philae has been successfully reactivated on Rosetta. Scientists from the joint European/Russian ExoMars rover mission have narrowed their candidate landing sites to four. Climate scientists think the first major El Niño since 1997-1998 is beginning to brew in the Pacific. The Supreme Court today ruled that federal limits on how much individuals can spend yearly on politics are unconstitutional. In a vague announcement with unclear ramifications, a NASA memo today suspended “all contact with Russian government officials,” though it exempted all activities in connection with ISS. A new analysis of data from Messenger suggests that violent explosive volcanism occurred throughout much of Mercury’s history. Massive voter fraud, in the tens of thousands of votes, has been uncovered in North Carolina. A Connecticut community college suspended a student because he dared question the Connecticut governor about his support of gun control. Six Senators on Wednesday demanded the Air Force open up competition to more companies for launching its military satellites. NASA’s short statement, in connection to the Obama administration’s decision to suspend all non-ISS related activities with Russia, is almost entirely a demand for more funding for its commercial space program. Brian Binnie, the man who flew SpaceShipOne for Scaled Composites, has left that company for competitor XCOR A scientist whistleblower has found that publicly questioning bad science papers vs privately notifying the publisher significantly increases the chances of getting them retracted. Watch how Chicago’s middle class has been destroyed by the radical leftwing Democratic Party during the past forty years. The terrible close-mindedness of the left. In a new study scientists confirm their belief that a sea of water the size of Lake Superior exists inside the Saturn moon Enceladus. A skydiver’s helmet cam captures a meteorite zipping past him as it falls. A man loses his job merely because he has an opinion the left dislikes. UrtheCast has released its first image of Earth, taken from one of its cameras on ISS. In hearings today, Pentagon officials said that they are considering ways to build American-built engines to use on our rockets rather than buy Russian-made engines. Because of a $10 million shortfall in its astrophysics budget, NASA is weighing the fate of nine operating space telescopes. Even as India successfully launched its second homemade GPS satellite today, its space agency ISRO announced that it will launch a test flight of a manned capsule in June using that country’s powerful GSLV rocket. The launches at Kennedy, delayed because of a fire at an Air Force radar facility, have now been rescheduled. As the NASA lunar probe LADEE nears its planned end — where it will crash onto the Moon — the scientists running it admit that they have as yet been unable to solve its primary scientific question about levitating lunar dust. Boeing is about to begin environmental tests on a new composite fuel tank for rockets. The Connecticut college that threatened a student with expulsion for daring to ask the governor questions about his gun control position took down its Facebook page rather than answer questions for critics posting there. Obamacare rules have killed a New Jersey healthcare plan aimed at providing healthcare for children. An incredible collection of photos from the Edwards Air Force Base 2009 open house air show. The oldest galaxy known might be a tiny dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. A detailed look at Russia’s new Angara rocket family. Triumph of his will: Elon Musk’s effort to build a rocket company. How to push back against Mozilla for firing its CEO because it didn’t like his private political beliefs. According to the testimony of IRS agents to a House committee investigating the IRS scandal, the harassment was specifically aimed at conservative groups. You won’t believe this Border Patrol checkpoint refusal. On Sunday the Bureau of Land Management arrested a man, after deploying snipers against him, for taking photographs of agents rounding up his family’s cattle. Uninstall Firefox. A new study has found that there is zero correlation between increased spending and improvements in education. A black activist Chicago preacher has come out endorsing the Republican candidate for Illinois governor. The Sun continues to hiccup Curiosity catches a mysterious flash of light on the Martian horizon. According to the deputy head of Russia’s space agency, they are not planning any retaliatory sanctions against NASA. A survey of health insurance brokers suggests that health insurance rates are increasing at the fastest rate ever seen since these surveys began. From now until January 1 Obamacare does not allow you to buy health insurance. An update on the story of the BLM’s attempt to confiscate a man’s cattle in Nevada while outlawing free speech in vast parts of the land the agency administers. Brandeis University withdraws planned honorary degree for Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali Congress and NASA administrator Charles Bolden battled over ISS, Russia, crew transport, and commercial space yesterday in a hearing before Congress. A government investigation has found evidence of numerous IRS employees of performing illegal political activity in support of President Obama and fellow Democrats. An op-ed in Ebony (!) notes that despite getting an Obamacare insurance policy the writer cannot get any doctor to take her as a patient. Liberal mob rule. Geologists, using computer models, have reconstructed the size and impact velocity of a giant asteroid that hit the Earth approximately 3.26 billion years ago. Scientists have found that Saturn’s hexagon-shaped jet stream is deeply rooted and that its rotation might be revealing the planet’s rotation as well. Emails now show that IRS officials Lois Lerner and Holly Paz fed private tax information of True the Vote to Democratic Congressmen Elijah Cummings. A Russian Progress freighter successfully docked with ISS on Wednesday, rendezvousing with the station using the fast track approach of six hours. XCOR today took delivery of the cockpit assembly of its Lynx suborbital space plane. On Wednesday Israel launched its tenth satellite, spy satellite Ofek 10. India’s Mangalyaan Mars orbiter is now halfway to Mars. Richard Branson manipulates the press again “A lot of investment in green technology has been a giant scam, if well intentioned.” The braided dry stream beds of Mars. An award winning science teacher was suspended when an unnamed school employee thought two student science projects looked too much like weapons. “The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition.” An update on China’s lunar rover Yutu. Houston yesterday signed a letter of intent with Sierra Nevada to provide the company a home at that city’s proposed spaceport. Scaled Composites has posted the logs for several successful engine test results on its webpage. What Ayaan Hirsi Ali would have said if the academics at Brandeis weren’t either cowards or queslings for terrorism. Forecasters at Colorado State University are predicting the 2014 hurricane season will be quieter than normal. A comprehensive list of Lois Lerner’s partisan effort to use the IRS to attack conservatives. Finding out what’s in it: Endless waits on hold. The disaster that is in Obamacare in 15 charts. The backup computer that helps operate ISS’s robot arms is not responding to commands. New research suggests that, in general, Mars has always been too cold to harbor liquid water on its surface. Want to watch today’s SpaceX launch and tonight’s lunar eclipse? Here’s how? Another look at the BLM’s range war with the last remaining rancher in Nevada. Today’s launch of Dragon to ISS has been scrubbed due to “a helium leak in Falcon 9’s first stage.” European satellite operators are pressing Arianespace to find ways to immediately reduce the cost of launching satellites on now Ariane 5 and in the future on Ariane 6. SpaceX has positioned recovery crews in the Atlantic in an effort to retrieve the Falcon 9 first stage after its upcoming launch, now set for Friday. Has Cassini spotted the formation of a new Saturn moon? Why we should be sympathetic to the Bundy family in Nevada. China’s president calls for the increased military use of that country’s space assets. The EPA admits that it does not have the data to justify its environmental regulations. NASA has officially handed control of launchpad 39A to SpaceX, where the company intends to launch its Falcon Heavy. Crowd-funding the engineering and money to bring a 1970s NASA space probe back to life. Scientists have verified that a large gold nugget is actually a gigantic single crystal, the largest known. The slow death of free speech. Newly released emails show that former IRS Official Lois Lerner discussed prosecution of conservative tax exempt groups with Eric Holder’s Justice Department even as she was publicly admitting that the harassment of conservatives was improper. What I learned as a liberal talking head on Fox. The IRS scandal spreads. A trail of wreckage left behind by the BLM in Nevada. Alaska is going to sue the Obama administration for blocking the construction of a 10 mile long road necessary to give people in a remote village access to emergency medical care. The Obama administration’s culture of intimidation. Sierra Nevada is planning additional glide tests in the fall. using its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle. Russia is accelerating construction of its new spaceport in Vostochny. Over two dozen widows in Alabama were dropped from their health care plans due to Obamacare. The new more sinister IRS scandal. The existence of a Kepler-found earth-sized planet in the habitable zone has been confirmed. How the 1964 Alaska Earthquake shook up geology. The crashes that changed aviation and plane designs forever. What happens to you if you decide you wish to control the education your children get in a public school When asked if Arizona’s gun laws need changing, 86% chose the answer “We have too many laws, and most of them should be eliminated.” LADEE hits the moon. SpaceX has completed the first vertical flight of the Falcon 9R landing test rocket. Dragon has successfully reached orbit. Orbital Sciences is considering three different bids to provide the company new engines for its Antares rocket. Some additional details about SpaceX’s effort Friday to bring the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth gently. The Forest Service has seized the property and cattle of a New Mexico rancher. A SWAT team in Florida decided to test their new military equipment by breaking into someone’s home on Friday. A list of some incredibly useful webpages. A history of global warming “Tipping Points” where it was declared that doomsday was certain in only a few years if we didn’t act now The American Revolution began today at Concord and Lexington. Data now suggests that SpaceX successfully achieved a controlled landing of its Falcon 9 first stage on Friday. Red tape appears to be preventing the U.S. military from releasing meteorite data obtained by its nuclear test monitoring system. A new study claims that biofuels made from corn produce more greenhouse gases than ordinary gasoline. To avoid the cost of Obamacare ski resorts are being forced to shorten their seasons. A bill introduced in Congress would require numerous government agencies to study the role of telecommunications in the encouragement of hate crimes. Having completed more than 3,000 orbits around Mercury, Messenger’s orbit is now being lowered to just under 125 miles from the surface. The BLM is considering taking advantage of an obscure legal dispute to confiscate 90,000 acres of privately owned land on the Texas-Oklahoma border Arianespace struggles to schedule its customers for launch. A balloon spaceport for Arizona? The Health & Human Services department spends an average of $146 per month per employee for email services. The comptroller of New York City does not like the political opinions of a Texas business and the causes to which it contributes. Liberals on twitter call for the murder of the Bundy family in Nevada by the federal government. A Democratic prosecutor has waged a fifteen year campaign of harassment against a gun range and its owner because the owner publicly disagreed with that prosecutor. What Israel’s new surveillance satellite, Ofek 10, is doing. According to a new study, Chelyabinsk-scale meteorite impacts happen more often than we have been aware. Budget issues continue to threaten a number of successfully functioning science spacecraft, including Opportunity on Mars and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter circling the Moon. Russia has noticed literally no change in cooperation with NASA since the U.S. government announced two weeks ago that all such cooperation, excluding ISS, was being cut off. Astronauts successfully completed a spacewalk Wednesday to repair the backup computer that operates ISS’s robot arms. SpaceX has signed a deal to have its new Raptor engine tested at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences intends to use an upgraded Antares rocket as its contribution to Stratolaunch. A new study confirms that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide lengthens the plant growing season. Want to find out which American company is winning the race to ferry astronauts to the ISS? Go here. Protecting interplanetary travelers from radiation will not be easy according to a recent study. “It would have to be an extraordinary circumstance to convince me killing the bears in order to protect them makes a whole lot of logical sense.” SpaceX sues to block ULA’s monopoly on Air Force military launches. A brown dwarf star has been discovered only 7.2 light years away. At the end of a press conference Elon Musk lets slip the news that SpaceX has chosen Brownsville, Texas as the location of its commercial spaceport. A man quotes Winston Churchill in England and is immediately arrested. Another conflict between local Utah residents and the BLM appears to be brewing in Utah. Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put two satellites into orbit on Monday. ULA has accelerated delivery of its required Russian rocket engines in anticipation of worsening relations with Russia and with members of Congress. A proposed House bill would forbid use of Russian rocket engines in launching any American military payloads. Arianespace today scrubbed the third launch of its new Vega rocket at T-minus 10 minutes due to a technical problem. ATK is splitting off its aerospace division to merge that division with Orbital Sciences. A man doing a 16-mile charity swim was surrounded and protected from a shark by dolphins. Russia responds to new U.S. sanctions by threatening U.S. astronauts on ISS. A doctor’s declaration of independence. SpaceX has released video of its Falcon 9 first stage splashing down vertically in the ocean. Arianespace has successfully launched a commercial satellite with its new Vega rocket. More delays seen in the completion of a new and critical module to the Russian portion of ISS. This year saw the biggest increase in healthcare spending in thirty years. “If the government says you can’t use your property for anything, they’ve essentially taken your property from you.” Senate Democrats plan a vote to amend the First Amendment to curtail criticism. Orbital Sciences is considering using ATK’s solid rocket motors to replace the refurbished Russian engines in the first stage of its Antares rocket. On the radio Thaicom has chosen Orbital Sciences to build its next major communications satellite and SpaceX to launch it. SpaceX has won an injunction from a federal judge, preventing ULA from buying any further Russian engines. A gigantic forest fire threatens Russia’s new spaceport under construction in Vostochny. Engineers commanded Curiosity to drill its third drill hole on Tuesday on what looks like an outcrop of sandstone in Gale Crater. For the first time astronomers think they have measured the rotation rate of an exoplanet, thus determining the length of its day. Boeing and Bigelow show off their respective manned capsule and space station modules. Iowa City police seized $48K in cash from a Minnesota couple during a traffic stop in March and now refuse to return it. “Obama’s 3-Part Benghazi strategy: Lie, lie, and lie again.” On the radio Guns or rockets: Which part of the ATK split is the stronger? The porksters arrive! It turns out that the object dubbed G2 that is zipping past the Milky Way’s central black hole is behaving not like a cloud but more like a star. The Russians have ten launches scheduled in the next three months, using their Proton, Soyuz, Zenit, Rokot, and new Angara rockets. SpaceX releases spectacular footage of another vertical take-off and landing test of their Falcon 9R rocket. SpaceX continues to acquire land in Texas for its planned spaceport in Brownsville. The sanctions against Russia imposed by the Obama administration could delay the launch of Iridium’s second generation communications constellation of satellites. Obama administration officials from three departments have asked a federal judge to lift her injunction against Lockheed Martin’s use of Russian engines in its Atlas 5 rocket. According to a GAO report, the sequester cuts that were going to destroy civilization as we know it resulted in exactly one layoff across the entire federal government. The IRS audited 10 percent of all Tea Party donors, a rate much higher than for average Americans. The House today voted to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt. SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 commercial launch, set for Saturday, will once again attempt a soft splashdown of its first stage. The creation in the lab of an as yet unnamed superheavy element adds weight to the theory that there might exist even heavier elements that are stable in nature. How to turn an American spacecraft ferrying astronauts to ISS serve as a lifeboat as well. Ten modern conveniences we take for granted that didn’t exist before 1970. What happens next for Lois Lerner? Less than 24 hours after the House held Lois Lerner in contempt, the IRS has finally agreed to turn over all her emails to House investigators. Bertha is stuck under Seattle and the taxpayers are going to have to pay millions, if not billions, to get the giant drilling machine moving again. In response to the Obama administration’s request a judge has lifted her injunction against the purchase of Russian rocket engines for the Atlas 5 rocket. Because of issues preventing a dress rehearsal countdown and launchpad static fire of the Falcon 9 rocket SpaceX has delayed Saturday’s launch. Fact checking Elon Musk’s statements about his company’s efforts to reuse the Falcon 9 first stage reminds us of some space history and one of Musk’s chief competitors. Building a scale model of the International Space Station — using matchsticks! Google tells a major conservative website to take a hike. The 2013 Walter Duranty Prize for mendacious journalism was announced on Monday. The Yellowstone of Mars. The trip of what is essentially a circuit breaker on ISS has reduced the station’s power by about 12.5%. Ground tests of SpaceShipTwo’s engines continue. Does the auction sale of an Excalibur Almaz capsule signal the end of this manned space commercial company? Colorado’s new gun control law has forced police to steal a woman’s pistol. A news story today reports that cracks have been discovered in the wings of WhiteKnightTwo. The new American fascism. The U.S.’s most capable deep-sea unmanned research sub has been lost more than six miles deep in the Pacific. Archeologists think they have located the wreck of Christopher Columbus flagship, the Santa Maria, from his 1492 voyage. The mysterious spokes in Saturn’s rings, discovered by the Voyager craft back in the 1980s, still persist today in Cassini images. Russia fights back Some scientists are now calling into question the BICEP2 results that confirmed the existence of inflation just after the Big Bang. Using computer models and data collected in the past decade, some climate scientists now believe that a major Antarctica ice sheet is in the process of collapsing. NASA has chosen the four shuttle engines that will be used to launch SLS on its first mission in 2021. Though they really don’t need it, a private effort to reactivate a 1970s spacecraft has now gotten NASA’s okay. India has successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile with a range of more than 1,800 miles. “We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has.” Three astronauts safely returned from ISS on Tuesday evening. On Tuesday Virgin Galactic rolled WhiteKnightTwo out of its hanger “as part of a gearing up process.”. Read the full transcript of Tuesday’s briefing in Russia on the subject of the U.S./Russian cooperation in space. A climate scientist who joined the board of a skeptical think tank was forced to resign from that think tank after only three weeks due to intense outside pressure and harassment from the global warming community. 29 fascinating images. Newly released IRS emails show that the harassment of conservatives was directed by higher management in Washington and elsewhere, not confined to low level employees in Cincinnati. How the Peoria mayor used the power of his position to try to destroy someone who was making fun of him. ULA today stated that they have enough Russian engines in stock to complete the 36 launch U.S. military bulk buy. My cat goes rock climbing. Rosetta photographs its target comet as it comes to life. The shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter. How ten high-profile Democrat Senators pressured the IRS to harass conservatives. The woman whose pistol was seized by the local government in Colorado will finally have it returned next week. In an effort to reassure its ticketholders, Virgin Galactic sent them email on May 10 disputing the story that they have discovered cracks in WhiteKnightTwo. Amid its political kerfuffle with the U.S., Russia has significantly increased the government budget of its space industry. New reports suggest that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo will be incapable of flying to an altitude of 100 kilometers. A Russian Proton rocket crashed today nine minutes after launch. Two California residents have filed a class action suit against their health insurance company for misrepresenting the doctors and hospitals that their plan would include. The best image yet of an exoplanet orbiting another star. Debris from the Proton launch failure yesterday has been found in China. In a sweeping election victory on Friday India voted a new pro-business party and prime minister into power. The IRS appears to be stonewalling a Freedom of Information request for all documents relating to communications between that agency and thirteen Democratic elected officials from 2009 to 2013. According to a prominent climate scientist, a research paper he co-authored suggesting the threat of global warming from carbon dioxide is exaggerated was rejected for publication for political reasons. After losing an HBO television show because of their conservative views, Benham Brothers has now had its bank partner suddenly cut all ties from their business. Students shout down a speaker at Portland State University. Want to watch some astronomers blow up the top of a mountain? You can! After concluding eight years of science observations in orbit around Venus, Venus Express is about to begin a series of atmospheric plunges to test the engineering of aerobraking at the extreme. Bill Whittle — The Deal After it was revealed today that SunTrust Bank was cutting ties with the Benham brothers because it did not like their conservative opinions and thus threatening their business, it now appears that the bank has backed down and has re-established those ties. Want to fly into space? All you have to do is “build the future” and win the Hackaday Prize. NASA has approved a new mission for the crippled Kepler space telescope, allowing observations to continue for another two years. The Air Force has hired the Aerospace Corporation to evaluate how long it will take to replace the Russian engine used by the Atlas 5 rocket. The assembly of Boeing’s CST-100 manned spacecraft is expected to begin soon. Virgin Galactic pretty much admits that SpaceShipTwo will fly to only fifty miles altitude, not 62 (100 kilometers). A modern John Deere tractor with 850 horsepower plays tug of war with an 1800s era steam tractor that has about 18 horsepower. Benghazi: Some pertinent questions. “How many dead veterans do you need before somebody asks the question within the White House, ‘Maybe this isn’t the best steward of these veterans?’” A replacement commencement speaker for someone forced out by student protests today strongly criticized the students in his speech today. Dragon has returned safely to Earth after a month docked to ISS. The Democrats in the Senate moved this week to introduce a constitutional amendment for limiting the first amendment and the freedom of speech. The launch failure Thursday of a Russian Proton rocket is putting the squeeze on the commercial satellite industry. The first preliminary list of candidate landing sites for NASA’s next Mars rover have been proposed. Two VA patients committed suicide after their treatments were delayed against the wishes of their psychiatrist. Sierra Nevada has successfully completed wind tunnel tests a several scale models of their winged spacecraft Dream Chaser. The next Falcon 9 commercial launch, scrubbed from early May, has now been rescheduled to June 11. Sources in Russia say that it was human error in the rocket assembly that caused last week’s Proton launch failure. The private effort to reactivate ISEE-3, a 1970s NASA spacecraft in orbit around the sun, has successfully detected the spacecraft. Russia signs a preliminary space exploration agreement with China. Aerojet Rocketdyne has signed a contract to provide rocket engine’s for the upper stage of Stratolaunch’s air-launched rocket. A GAO report says that NASA has been hiding the true and very expensive cost of the SLS/Orion projects by specifically excluding the cost of any actual missions that go anywhere. Construction has now begun on NASA’s next Mars lander. The University of South Carolina is closing its Women & Gender Studies department and replacing it with a program to teach the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. It is now confirmed that a helium leak caused the scrub of the Falcon 9 May 10 launch. Replacing the Russian-made rocket engines used by the Atlas 5 and Antares rockets would take about four years, according to a industry analysis. The battle between France and Germany on how to replace the Ariane 5 rocket continues. Designed and funded on the premise that it would fly past a Kuiper belt asteroid after it flew past Pluto, the New Horizons team has so far failed to find such an asteroid and is running out of time. In order to lower costs, Lockheed Martin wants to get more American parts into the European-built service module for the Orion capsule. The consequences if Russia carries out its threat to shut down the U.S. science GPS stations in Russia will be relatively minimal according to scientists. Prison for D’Souza, beach time for Corzine “Epically incompetent.” The Sun settling down? A citizen’s group is offering a one million dollar bounty to “anyone who can provide ‘smoking gun’ evidence” that implicates either the IRS leadership or members of the Obama administration as ordering the harassment of conservatives. On the road SpaceX discovered a lot of water inside their Dragon capsule after splashdown. NASA reveals that the second flight of SLS in 20210 might not be manned. The European partnership building the new Ariane 6 rocket struggles to keep its costs down to compete with SpaceX. While SpaceShipTwo continues to sit on the ground, European space tourism competitor Swiss Space Systems (S3) has initiated zero g flights for its customers. On Wednesday Rosetta successfully completed an almost eight hour engine burn to adjust its course to its comet rendezvous in August. Will there be a meteor shower tonight? The largest new impact crater ever found on Mars. A refurbished Russian rocket engine, to be used by the Antares rocket, failed during tests A new report suggests that Virgin Galactic’s first flight has now been officially delayed until 2015. Short of money for astrophysics because of the overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope as well as federal budget woes, NASA has decided to shut down the Spitzer Space Telescope. The predicted new meteor shower last night was less than hoped but intriguing nonetheless. Virgin Galactic finally admitted to its engine troubles on Friday. Elon Musk and another watchdog group suggested on Friday that there was a quid pro quo in the awarding ULA its bulk buy military launch contract. “The mob must be sated.” Opportunity takes another spectacular image peering into Endeavour Crater. How a private effort run by space geeks hopes to bring ISEE-3 back to life. An summary of the past week’s private effort at Aceibo to reactivate ISEE-3. In its first launch since a failure early in 2013, Sea Launch successfully put a European communications satellite into orbit on Monday. The FAA is inching closer to approving a license to allow SpaceX to conduct tests in Texas of its rocket-powered prototype of its Dragon capsule. A place on Mars that was possibly habitable only 200 million years ago. A gamma ray burst possibly occurred in Andromeda only 2.5 million light years away today. Orbital Sciences has delayed its next Cygnus flight to ISS by at least one week in order to complete its investigation of the failure of a Russian-built rocket engine used by the Antares rocket. Google introduces its first prototype of a completely driverless vehicle. SpaceX has completed qualification tests of the SuperDraco engines that will be used by Dragon for launch aborts as well as soft landings on land. “For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate.” A new crew of three successfully launched and docked with ISS today. China claimed today that its lunar rover Yutu is still alive on the Moon. The suspected gamma ray burst yesterday thought to occur in the galaxy Andromeda — which would have been the closest ever seen — has turned out to be a false alarm. The suborbital tourist company XCOR has raised $14.2 million of private investment capital. Website software expert needed The Russian investigation into the most recent Proton launch failure has not yet ruled out sabotage as the cause. A frame-by-frame repair of the video taken during the April soft splashdown of the Falcon 9 first stage now shows the deployment of the landing legs. The blackballing of conservative commencement speakers. The private effort to reactivate the 1970s ISEE-3 space probe has successfully re-established two way communications with the spacecraft. Want to be an editor at Sky & Telescope? They have two positions open. The proposed SpaceX spaceport in Brownsville, Texas, has passed its final federal environmental review. On Friday SpaceX unveiled its manned version of its Dragon capsule. Virgin Galactic and the FAA on Friday reached agreement allowing the company to fly its suborbital flights from Spaceport America in New Mexico. A photographic tour of the new Dragon capsule. Scientists have developed a working tractor beam that has actually moved objects as large as 1 cm in size. Russia has moved today to exclude access by the U.S. military to any GPS stations in its territory. A new Google project proposes to put 180 satellites in orbit to provide worldwide internet access. The Democratic Party’s proposed constitutional amendment to limit free speech. Price increase on Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 “Can anyone on board fly an airplane?” India and Narendra Modi: Freedom’s New Trumpet? Astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a rocky exoplanet that is seventeen times the mass of Earth. The U.S. military has awarded Lockheed Martin the contract to build the next generation radar system that will be used to track objects in orbit. A test flight of a new NASA parachute system for landing on Mars has been delayed until at least Thursday due to weather. Stratolaunch announced this week that it is on schedule for a first launch in 2018. Further details on Google’s proposed 180 satellite constellation for providing internet access worldwide. The solar-powered experimental airplane Solar Impulse 2 made its maiden flight on Monday. A transcript of the phone conversation between Barack Obama and Dwight Eisenhower on the eve of the invasion of Normandy. Airbus has begun drop tests of its own suborbital spaceplane. Solar scientists admit they at this point have no idea what the Sun will do after it completes is present solar maximum. House and Senate budgets for NASA give almost full funding to manned commercial space while boosting SLS. On Monday the Russians announced that they plan to fly two tourists around the Moon by 2017. Almost three million Americans who signed up for Medicaid under Obamacare have not yet had their applications processed. “Homofascism should be crushed.” The x-ray instrument on the orbiting Swift gamma-ray telescope has shut down. Aerojet Rocketdyne says it can replace the Russian rocket engines used by American rockets for $20 to $25 million per engine. The investigation into the failure of the Russian Proton rocket on May 16 says it will make its report by June 8. SpaceX plans to boost production of its rockets to 2 per month by year’s end. Weather has once again delayed the test flight of a new Mars-landing parachute system on a saucer shaped launch vehicle. Want to own your own Apollo capsule from the 1960s? Richard Shelby’s poison pill in the Senate NASA budget bill that will double the cost of manned commercial space. India will do a planned midcourse engine burn of its Mangalyaan Mars orbiter on June 11. The rupture of a drum at a nuclear waste site in New Mexico has shut down a neutrino experiment. Why the crickets on the Hawaiian islands stopped singing twenty years ago. Americans the Obama Administration has left behind. Disgusted with getting petty citations from their Florida city for the look of their home, a Bradenton couple has had it painted with a giant American flag. Believe it or not, it appears that organic or “green” kitty litter is the cause of the leak that has shut down a nuclear waste facility in New Mexico. Mojave Spaceport temporarily evacuated due to a small scrap metal fire. Some additional details about Airbus’s spaceplane, its recent successful drop tests, and the company’s future plans. A new analysis of Apollo lunar rocks provides strong new evidence for the theory that the Moon was formed when the Earth was hit by a Mars’ sized planet. Oklahoma today joined Indiana and South Carolina in rejecting the Common Core education standards that have been imposed by the federal government. Dozens of Veterans Administration whistle-blowers have been punished by their management for reporting management problems. Mississippi’s new voter ID law went into effect and there were no problems. Why Japan (and Germany) really lost World War II. Animal rights activists want to blacklist the metal band Metallica from a music festival because one of its members is a hunter. Orbital Sciences has announced a further delay to July 1 for the next Antares/Cygnus cargo mission to ISS in order to complete its investigation into the failure of a Russian engine during testing. Fifty-one fascinating historical pictures. Obamacare has caused a significant spike in emergency room use. There is an ongoing rescue of a caver in one of Europe’s deepest cave. For the past four years the glaciers in Glacier National Park have stopped shrinking. Engineers have returned to full operation the x-ray instrument on the Swift gamma-ray burst space telescope. On Monday Boeing unveiled a full mockup of its CST-100 manned capsule. A faulty heater filled the Russian module of ISS with smoke on Tuesday. The investigation into the failure of a Proton launch several weeks ago has been completed. For half a billion dollars Google has purchased satellite company Skybox Imaging. Why we fired Eric Cantor. The race between Lady Gaga and Sarah Brightman to be first professional singer to perform in space. India’s Mars probe Mangalyaan successfully completed a mid-course correction on Wednesday. A petition signed by 87,000 people wants George Will fired by the Washington Post because he wrote a column saying things they don’t like. What Cantor’s loss and Graham’s win mean. The test of a new parachute system for Mars landing has been delayed until the end of June due to high winds. Sierra Nevada has announced that it plans to do additional test flights in 2014 of its prototype Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle Is Google negotiating to become an investor in Virgin Galactic? A tour of the full scale mockup Boeing’s CST-100 manned capsule. After successfully completing its standard prelaunch static fire, SpaceX has delayed the Sunday Falcon 9 commercial launch at the request of its customer which wishes to do further tests of the six satellites on board. The IRS claim that two years of Lois Lerner’s emails were lost when her computer crashed is simply not believeable. “The Peace President is starting to leave a legacy of war.” The competition heats up: European aerospace companies Airbus and Safran have signed an agreement to merge their rocket divisions. Italian coffee machine maker Lavazza has developed a coffee machine that will make expresso in weightlessnesss. Getting the Russian Soyuz capsule prepped to take two tourists around the Moon. The ticking IRS IT department time bomb. Images of the Soviet Union’s one flight space shuttle, damaged and destroyed by the collapse of the building roof in 2002 where it had been stored. The astronomers who allocate time on the Hubble Space Telescope have decided to devote a large block for finding a Kuiper Belt object that the probe New Horizons might fly past. The lawyer for True The Vote — one of the groups targeted by the IRS and other federal agencies for harassment — has just issued a very blunt letter to the Department of Justice that puts them and the IRS very much in the hot seat. An update on the ongoing cave rescue of an injured explorer in Riesending Cave in Germany. On Monday ULA signed contracts with several American companies to begin development of an engine to replace the Russian built first stage engine used by the Atlas 5. SpaceX and ORBCOMM have now set Friday, June 20, as the date for next commercial launch of the Falcon 9. In an editorial today the Washington Times labels SLS “the rocket to nowhere” and condemns Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) for trying to sabotage the new commercial manned space companies in order to fund it. The long range medical study of 100,000 children from birth to adulthood that Congress mandated fourteen years ago and has already spent a billion dollars without even getting started has just been delayed again after an outside review has raised new questions. The IRS now claims it has lost emails from six other key employees involved in the agency’s effort to harass conservatives. Is the Sun’s strange double-peaked solar maximum finally ending? A Massachusetts judge has released a 16-year-old Connecticut girl back to her family after Massachusetts child welfare authorities seized her 16 months ago. The tree that hitched a ride for 11,000 miles. China is investigating ways to recover the first stages of its rockets. A Connecticut high school student discovers that his school firewall has been set up to specifically block access to all conservative sites while allowing access to liberal ones. In 2010 the IRS illegally provided the FBI with confidential tax information totaling 1.1 million pages. In an interview today, a Russian official stated that they expect the Proton rocket to resume operations by September. Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) today expressed concern on the Senate floor over the budget language inserted by Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) that many think will cripple the new commercial manned space companies with high costs and extensive paperwork. The new Russian rocket Angara is now scheduled for its first test launch on June 27. SpaceX today released a new video of the most recent Falcon 9R vertical take-off and landing test flight. After an almost two week rescue effort, the injured German caver safely reached the surface Thursday. Rosetta’s comet has unexpectedly gone to sleep. Two low-cost, car battery-sized Canadian space telescopes were launched successfully in Russia today At hearings in the Senate Ted Cruz sharply criticized the proposed Democratic proposal to amend and restrict the first amendment of the Bill of Rights. Why the Redskins trademark ruling should terrify you. Groundbreaking — the literally blasting off of a mountaintop — took place today in Chile at the eventual site of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). A Russian Dnepr rocket today successfully placed in orbit the largest number of satellites, 37, ever launched on a single rocket. A detailed look at tomorrow’s Falcon 9 commercial launch of six Orbcomm satellites. The late arrival of Russia’s first private satellite In a speech in Singapore, the head of Arianespace said that the company urgently needs to overhaul its Ariane 5 rocket in order to meet tough competition from SpaceX and Russia’s Proton rocket. As China’s Yutu lunar rover barely continues to survive, unable to move, its scientists prepare to publish their results. “They just got rid of it. … It really looks bad and I’ve got to say it looks like a cover-up to me.” The truth versus the leftwing media. The head of the Clinton library in Arkansas has banned researchers from a conservative media outlet. More video from IRS commissioner John Koskinen testimony today during House hearings. More revelations from today’s IRS hearings, this time indicating evidence of White House involvement. Images from the successful cave rescue in Germany. The IRS Commissioner John Koskinen smirked as he insisted that “no apology is owed” by the agency for its actions. Lois Lerner’s hard drive crashed ten days after the chairman of the House Ways & Means committee sent a letter to the IRS asking the agency was engaged in targeting. SpaceX scrubbed its Falcon 9 commercial launch of six Orbcomm satellites tonight because of an issue with the rocket’s second stage. The superintendent at a Connecticut school that blocked access to conservative websites while allowing access to comparable liberal sites has finally issued a response to the charge. To be fair, let’s watch a montage of the Democratic representatives and their statements during today’s House hearing of IRS commissioner John Koskinen. On the road SpaceX now says that Tuesday will be the earliest it will try again to launch six Orbcomm satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket. Radar images of Titan taken in 2013 by Cassini show a twelve-mile patch appear in one of the moon’s methane lakes, then disappear. Engineers have now developed techniques to a produce materials as light as aerogel but many times stronger. The history of Russia’s new Angara rocket. Left wing activists demand but fail to prevent someone from videotaping an open public event they had scheduled at a college. The IRS cancelled its emailing archive service only weeks after Lois Lerner’s computer crashed. In searching for three kidnapped teenagers, Israel has uncovered dozens of tunnels, weapons caches, and explosive labs hidden throughout the Palestinian-controlled Hebron region of the West Bank. The scandal of fiddled global warming data. The Curiosity science team celebrates the completion of a full Martian year since the rover’s landing. Tonight’s testimony and questioning of IRS commissioner John Koskinen concerning the destruction of Lois Lerner’s emails in connection with the IRS’s harassment of opponents of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.. SpaceX delays its Falcon 9 Orbcomm launch until July. Orbital Sciences has delayed its next Cygnus cargo launch to ISS until July 10 at the earliest. Russian government: Nyet to tourists. First test flight for balloon company India’s new prime minister to watch rocket launch. Embezzlement at British rocket company. Tracking animals from space. Russia begins its withdrawal from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. A new water supplier for SpaceX’s Texas spaceport. Sudanese Christian woman rearrested trying to leave country. “They did not follow the law.” The sixteen most expensive substances in the world. What are the odds of seven hard drives failing at the IRS? IRS admits it leaked confidential tax information On the radio The VA scandal expands with new report Orbital to inspect Antares’ Russian engines. Another update on the reactivation of ISEE-3 A Russian military satellite fails. Supreme Court forbids warrantless police searches of cell phones. Glaciers on Mars! EPA “loses” emails like the IRS. Lois Lerner: Democratic attack dog at the IRS. Report finds 6.9 million people registered to vote in multiple states. Arianespace lowers its prices. My Space Show appearance June 14, 2014. China heads for the Moon and Mars. Another Orion parachute test Comparing the rocket vs balloon space tourism ride. A trio of supermassive black holes Using bath salts to make solar cells Supreme Court rejects Obama’s recess appointments Supreme Court rejects abortion clinic free speech buffer zone. Hillary Clinton reveals what it’s like to be poor in America Another global warming computer model bites the dust. Blacklisting “disruptive” vets from medical care. 37 amazing places you must visit before you die. A look at the seven IRS officials whose computers crashed. Sudanese woman freed again More evidence of data tampering at NOAA $4.4 billion for 2,000 IRS hard drive crashes. An Angara home page A laptop/tablet case designed to let you use either while standing and walking. Angara launch scrubbed. Sarah Brightman’s space training to begin Sudanese woman flees to U.S. embassy. Let citizens sue government workers directly for misconduct. Communications to be lost with the Stereo spacecraft An contract extension from NASA for SpaceX and Sierra Nevada IRS also failed to tell court about lost emails Things could get very interesting for the IRS on July 10. A flawed first flight for NASA’s saucer for testing Mars landing techniques. First test flight of Angara is officially postponed Another legal case that could blow the IRS open South Pole ice cap sets new record Update on the LDSD partly successful test flight Global warming scientists find another cute species to use for political purposes. Democrats rewrite their attempt to repeal the first amendment The LDSD vehicle for testing Mars’ landing techniques has been recovered intact. Another launch success for India Angara launch July 1 or 2? Hobby Lobby wins Rosetta measures its comet Hippos in South America? The sad and dishonest state of economic research Valve failure caused Angara scrub A streamlined Arianespace to build Ariane 6? Construction of Vostochny spaceport on schedule Free paid vacations for House lawmakers A WhiteKnightTwo test flight today Hubble to search for Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons True the Vote sues Mississippi over voter fraud in Republican primary Another lawsuit presses the IRS OCO-2 in orbit More fraud in peer-reviewed science Millions of Obamacare applications can’t be processed FIRE sues to end university speech codes SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket gets a customer Russia abandons Sea Launch NASA and Boeing finalize contract to build the SLS rocket Cygnus/Antares launch date scheduled A profile of the designer of China’s Yutu lunar rover. Gigantic underground trampoline about to open Newly discovered dinosaur tracks More cost increases due to Obamacare Telescope teamwork produces spectacular galaxy image Shaking up a space plane Two exoplanets disappear ISEE-3 fires its thrusters for the first time since 1987. Corvette Museum preserves sinkhole Space junk damages ISS coolant radiator? How beautiful we were. Plastic bags do not kill birds and fill the oceans ISIS demands a Jewish genocide Seven unjustified school suspensions Angara to fly July 9? Problems with the European Gaia space telescope Buran moved to new exhibition location Obamacare causes wait time in California emergency rooms to skyrocket ISEE-3 engine burn tomorrow A source for the most powerful cosmic rays? Russia to phase out use of Ukrainian-built Soyuz rockets Obamacare forces health insurance brokers to flee ISEE-3 engine burn Voyager 1 phones home Angara launches Mapping the inside of Mt St. Helens An update on ISEE-3’s resurrection Name an exoplanet! Lois Lerner intentionally sought to hide her emails from Congress ISEE-3 effort aborted? SpaceX’s spaceport in Texas approved by FAA Cygnus launch delayed due to weather Bigelow Aerospace hiring Rosetta snaps more comet pictures Fast radio pulses exist, come from outside the galaxy, and no one knows what they are The effort to resurrect ISEE-3’s is over LightSail to launch on a Falcon Heavy A pro-choice supporter illustrates her hatred for freedom The sun continues its ramp down Prison for collecting rain water in Oregon Dry ice evaporation creates the fresh gullies on Mars ISEE-3 might still be saved The next Falcon 9 commercial launch is on schedule Federal judge gives the IRS 30 days to come clean ISEE-3 reboot team has a solution Cygnus launch delayed again Russian Soyuz launches commercial satellites for Arianespace India’s space program gets a huge budget boost TSA joins Obama adminstration in opening the borders Second judge demands explanation from IRS Website upgrade Air Force certifies Falcon 9 Venus Express is coming up for less air Ten myths about Isaac Newton TSA backs down Curiosity’s journey continues “Imagine 80 percent of your citizens in bomb Shelters.” A conservative town rallies to support their gay police chief. Cygnus launch Global warming: Is there anything it can’t do? “We were incredibly stupid.” The New Nazis have arrived. Surprising support for Israel against Hamas A spaceport for Great Britain? CDC suspends shipments of dangerous pathogens Falcon 9 launch The darkest material ever made A request in connection with Genesis John Prine and Iris DeMent – In Spite of Ourselves An illegally destroyed hard drive blocks an investigation into a collegue of Lois Lerner The next Proton and Angara launches Great Britain’s proposed suborbital spaceport locations Sixty science papers retracted DARPA awards contracts for XS-1 spaceplane Is the TSA the most monstrously incompetent agency in history? The House slashes IRS budget Plumbing repair scheduled for ISEE-3 A new map of Mars More images from Rosetta TSA don’t know nothing about geography Mark Knopfler – Wild Theme Israel repairs Gaza power line What others really think of America Another update on ISEE-3 Cygnus berthes with ISS The elusive effort to detect gravitational waves. The UAE wants to go to Mars Lawyer threatened with disbarment because of his political views White House defies House subpoena House slashes budget of National Security Council University of hate Another ISEE-3 update Art Garfunkel – All I know House imposes more cuts to the IRS budget More forgotten vials of deadly diseases discovered UrthaCast progress Europe readies its own space plane for test flight Rick Wakeman – keyboard solo Voyager 1 might not have left the solar system The first blank Sun since 2011 Caves on the Moon! More harrassment of opponents by the Obama administration Half a billion dollars spent by Bezos in space Monty Python – Mafia The 707 turns 60 Looking Forward Lerner’s pension defunded Was Yutu stopped by rough ground? A question for Israel’s critics? More destroyed evidence at the IRS Going back to the Canyon Mike Oldfield – The Bell An exoplanet with an orbit like Mars Islamic terrorism and bigotry for all to see. Puddles Pity Party – “Royals” Spyro Gyra at Montreux Jazz 89 Eddi Reader – Galileo Out of the Canyon Soviet spacecraft kidnapped by CIA New Rosetta comet images Exoplanets with no water Falcon 9 soft lands on water SLS needs more money! Russia loses contact with Photon-M Sierra Nevada signs deal with Japan The loss of skepticism in science Protecting the Mars orbiters from comet flyby Maria and the Captain dance the Laendler SpaceX scores first in its suit against the Air Force Russia regains control of biology satellite Commercial communications satellites for Mars? “This was lawless behavior, and reckless as well.” SpaceX launch schedule heats up Today’s Rosetta comet picture Will Russia’s most powerful rocket engine be reborn? Another DC gun ban ruled unconstitutional Planet of geysers Opportunity breaks Soviet record The Happy Cats – Doesn’t come any better Trees Comet 67P on July 28 Venus Express is alive Messenger descends to Mercury Amazon’s 3D printshop opens World War I underground Congress restores most VA bonuses Gaia commissioning complete Black bigots in California ISEE-3 engine restart fails but the private effort continues Jews attacked in Germany The More the Merrier SpaceShipTwo flies again The Milky Way shrinks Last ATV launched to ISS A new cheap rocket company Creeping closer ExoMars will likely miss 2018 launch date New emails reveal Lois Lerner’s hatred of conservatives Burn the witch! Chinese anti-satellite test? Clarence White & Roland White – I Am A Pilgram/Soldiers Joy Today’s 67P image + the comet’s coma! The early bombardment of the Earth SpaceX’s Texas spaceport advances The first lunar close-up How the Earth gave the Moon a lemon shape Mangement failures in Obamacare A Democrat speaks, and lies spew out CIA admits it hacked the Senate’s computers Fermi proves that novae produce gamma rays A Hubble Space Telescope status report The Clintons demand that unauthorized bios should not “be allowed” Mary Hopkin – Those were the days Mom arrested for teaching her son independence and self-reliance Getting closer Vostochny Soyuz 2 launchpad nears completion Another new launch company completes flight test Flying a glider to the edge of space Sudanese Christian woman arrives in U.S. The Feds steal cars Obamacare continues force premiums to skyrocket. EPA funnels cash to Democrats Hamas breaks ceasefire in only 90 minutes Obamacare increases Florida insurance premiums Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa “Tolerance, freedom, and the hypocrisy in an age of confusion” Russia to conduct its very first cosmonaut rescue drills at sea Democratic Party law professor made a fool of at House IRS hearings today How ctrl-alt-delete came to be The real solution to the Gaza war Dream Chaser air frame unveiled NASA confirms “impossible” drive Don’t buy stock yet in that “impossible” space drive Netanyahu tells off the Obama administration Comet 67P from 1000 k The Putin government moves to take control of Energia Ebola patient arrives in U.S. Today’s Comet 67P image Russia outlines its space exploration plans for the next two decades Bake sales without the sweets 67P from less than 200 miles Russian umanned space program pushed back three years SpaceX’s next commercial launch set for tomorrow Ukraine tensions disrupt more U.S.-Russian science The next U.S. Mars rover will try to make and store oxygen Scientists struggle with earthquake data in the Pacific northwest News crew threatened with arrest if they didn’t turn over their footage The library that tried to ban conservative news researchers backs down. The oldest known common-place items. A volcano eruption on Io If you own a gun stay out of New Jersey Market Street, San Francisco, April 14, 1906 Hamas propaganda becomes Israeli comedy An Amtrak train abandons all of its passengers SpaceX strikes deal with Texas to build spaceport U.S./Russian owned launch company ILS cuts workforce by 25% Another successful SpaceX commercial launch An exoplanet that was once like a star Comet 67P/C-G at 126 miles Video of the Falcon 9 first stage doing a soft splashdown How does Comet 67P compare with other comets? Eta Carinae’s next big show Religion banned in shopping mall British medical journal bans Israelis Obamacare poll numbers crash Ten very unusual libraries. The lingering weak solar maximum Hayley Westenra – Pie Jesu An Hamas officer, captured by Israel, admits he led the kidnapping and murder operation of three Israeli teenagers The VA pattern of lies Rosetta arrives Genocide from ISIS Postmodern Jukebox – Burn China to build a new canal in Central America Comet 67P on the day of rendezvous Congress applies pressure to ULA and the Air Force Free gym memberships for Homeland Security desk jockeys Ten amazing coincidences. Christians flee Islamic jihadists in northern Iraq Giant storm on Uranus An Obamacare official deleted her emails in violation of federal law Reba McEntire – I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair The count now more than 20 67P from 52 miles Dragon launch abort tests scheduled Orion first test flight scheduled The Dream Chaser test vehicle to fly again New Horizons shoots a movie An Obamacare typo costs family $1.2 million The coverup involves large swathes of the federal and state bureaucracy Bambi meets Godzilla Test results from NASA saucer Mars landing test More U.S. spacesuit problems Another Rosetta closeup of 67P/C-G “If you try to mandate my smart-gun technology, I’ll burn it down.” “These two businesses did not get looted in Ferguson” Vocal Spectrum – The Music of the Night NASA admits that it is struggling to meet the 2017 launch date for SLS The Milky Way’s most distant stars Europe’s ATV cargo freighter has docked with ISS A blue flask of viruses The weather is finally changing on Titan Giant Greek tomb discovered ULA CEO steps down Pink “Perfect” Rosetta detects its first dust grains Another former SpaceX employee sues Iraqi Muslims celebrate persecution of Christians Cop kills baby-HOAX The militarization of the police in Ferguson It ain’t gravity holding this asteroid together NASA headquarters staff votes to unionize. The flight of gifted engineers from NASA David Foster and Kenny G – Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire Maps showing the territories of the Kurds and the Islamic State 67P/C-G in 3D Worldview-3 in orbit Private lunar lander completes test landing Another look at why ULA’s CEO stepped down Russia to build new satellite communications cluster Michael Mann’s court suit under attack The IRS stonewalls a judge “You had one job.” The occupation of Cyprus underscores the hypocrisy of any anti-Israel outrage over Gaza “It was the grossest incompetence.” On the radio IRS lets contractors rummage through taxpayer data New footage of the Falcon 9 soft spashdown Did Stardust capture stardust? Maliki steps down in Iraq “A real Nobel Laureate takes pity on a fake Nobel Laureate.” The Cat Came Back Only some in the Muslim world condemn ISIS Judge orders independent investigation into lost IRS emails Six common sounds of the past that we no longer hear Cygnus leaves ISS Visiting the memorial to a forgotten astronaut IRS tech claims Lerner’s hard drive wasn’t damaged. The life story of a meteorite “Delete this email.” Puddles Pity Party – Dancing Queen The background to the Rick Perry indictment What’s next in Gaza if Hamas rejects peace Cygnus completes mission to ISS What private manned spaceship will NASA pick? Branson insists he will fly this year Competition with SpaceX forced ULA CEO out A brief history of USB Rosetta spirals in Curiosity retreats from Hidden Valley Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck “For the Israelis, this time is different.” Sea plankton on the outside of ISS Above LA 4K Orbital plans upgrade to Antares Sierra Nevada abandons its own hybrid engine for Dream Chaser German journalists arrested by police in Ferguson Scientists baffled by unknown source of CFCs Beautiful woodworking India delays next GSLV test launch NASA’s Space Launch System searches for a mission Two additional Russian rocket engines arrive in the U.S. Arianespace and ESA sign contract for three launches The weight of Comet 67P/C-G A new map of the Middle East GAO report: Bergdahl hostage swap broke law A movie of Triton made from Voyager 2’s fly-by 25 years ago High school student arrested for writing he killed his neighbor’s dinosaur with a gun Judge orders release of documents withheld by DOJ in Fast-and-Furious Pause in global temperature rise to continue for another decade? Roy Orbison – In Dreams Feds confiscate bagpipes because Air Force requests info for new engine A problem with drilling on Mars Surprise! TSA lied! Use a smart phone? Google knows where you’ve been Linda Ronstadt – Love has no pride Falcon 9R destroyed during failed test flight Sea Launch has suspended all operations until 2015 Soyuz puts two satellites in wrong orbit Curiosity cancels drilling and moves on Confirmed: Life in buried Antarctic lake Europe’s continuing problems with Galileo GPS Picking a comet landing site “Finally, finally, finally! They had come!” First comic book appearance of Superman for sale Cooking the climate numbers in Australia Crime rate plunges in Chicago as concealed carry applications surge Rosetta’s comet landing sites SpaceX delays commercial launch 24 hours Russia to continue on ISS past 2020? Natural methane plumes found on the sea floor Happy birthday Linux! Obamacare continues to squelch economy DOJ admits Lerner’s IRS emails do exist Identification of unknown airstrikes in Libya revealed 2Cellos – With or without you DOJ attorney once worked under Lois Lerner at IRS Lois Lerner’s Blackberry destroyed by IRS A new Falcon 1 to compete against SpaceX Clouds of water found on brown dwarf Air Force hypersonic test ends in failure Voter fraud found in Virginia and Maryland No children playing in America! The world’s two most dangerous dams. SpaceX scrubs Wednesday commercial launch Antares to launch polar orbiting satellites? “International press coverage has become a morality play starring a familiar villain.” On the radio Bugs Bunny – 8 Ball Bunny Rosetta’s camera zooms in A tugboat for satellites Russian military abandons Rokot The DOT wants to know where you are The federal government wants to know what you are saying The most amazing lie in history. SLS first launch officially delayed one year Andreas Vollenweider – May Green Be The Grass Court rules in favor of rock throwers and thugs Software error caused Soyuz/Galileo failure Spitzer spots asteroid collision The real story behind “The Sound of Music” “We don’t have a strategy yet.” Morning Has Broken for Harp & Violin A new SpaceShipTwo glide test flight Single sensor caused Falcon 9R failure British government raises terror threat Fewer people to have health insurance under Obamacare The X-37B just keeps going. Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys Forty badass quotes. The decision on manned spaceflight Opportunity to get a reboot Battle of the heavy lift rockets Professor with leftwing ties to build hate speech database. Woman scares off attackers with gun All geckos lost from Foton-M4 Nothing for New Horizons after Pluto Hayabusa ready for launch Current Congress sets record for fewest laws passed Israel’s land grab – not! New York clamps down on free speech The return of vinyl records The bubble we live in The deadly Israeli house strikes again Police arrest a man for picking up his kids. One minute changes a life forever ISIS in retreat? Lerner ignored questionable union political activities Musk vs Bezos Immigration has lost track of thousands of foreigners here on student visas. 11-year-old threatened with expulsion for virtual gun ISIS beheads another American Islamists gain control of a dozen commercial jets Animusic – Acoustic Curves Space geckos froze to death Vladimir Putin, space cadet People abandon obscure languages to gain prosperity Binary stars can form solar systems An ISIS fighter’s previous job was working at American airport SpaceX sets the next Falcon 9 commercial launch date Review panel approves extensions for seven planetary missions. Mark Knopfler – Going Home Mysterious hacking cell towers Rosetta to announce landing site Sarah Brightman, astronaut Giant dinosaur skeleton discovered Messier gets a scoop! Rosetta spots no surface ice on comet New emails provide more details of the IRS harassment of conservatives Glenn Miller – In the mood New York dumps NASA contract because of cost overruns. SpaceX commercial launch moved to Sunday New York gun shop raided by SWAT team, without a warrant Army can’t track spending on $4 billion system to track spending More IRS emails lost New Rosetta mosaic reveals jet Prepping Europe’s experimental space plane Indecision in Europe about their future commercial rocket Excavator mulches trees in seconds Europa’s geysers disappear Saudi authorities arrest 27 Christians for holding services in a home The American professors who think Israel is the only evil in the Middle East Jack the Ripper identified Another Falcon 9 launch success Why did the IRS wipe clean Lois Lerner’s Blackberry? Five ways movies get everything wrong about gun battles in war The first suspension bridge connecting mountain peaks Plate tectonics on Europa? The first geology map of Comet 67P/C-G Crashing moonlets orbiting Saturn Meteorite strike in Nicaragua Government takes over healthcare spending Icehouse – Great Southern Land Questions raised about Nicaragua meteorite impact Construction completed on first Orion capsule Arianespace signs four new contracts Democrats vote to squelch free speech Another launch contract for SpaceX Greenhouse gases up; Temperature stable Government to ban cheese How to embarass Democrats A program works so of course the Obama administration must stop it! Polish and Egyptian teams win first European rover competition Obama official calls Republicans by mistake in trying to leak info to Democrats Eleven facts that prove we live in a nation run by idiots One of John Franklin’s lost ships found? Ana Yang – Blowing bubbles The greatest electronic music of the fifties and sixties The IRS goes after Breitbart Lawsuit grounds Zero G The Russian takeover of Crimea once again threatens American access to space Who is buried in the largest tomb ever found in northern Greece? More fraud in academia Universal Big Bang lithium deficit confirmed Rosetta gets closer A new schedule for China’s space station program “Whenever we can, we follow the law.” Another delay at Virgin Galactic Judy Collins with Shawn Colvin – Since You’ve Asked Europe’s satellite makers want Ariane 6 ISS astronauts return home safely Your neighbor the fascist The first chemical analysis of Comet 67P/C-G’s coma Putin threatens management at Vostochny with criminal prosecution Obamacare forces cancellation of Virginian healthplans Curiosity to begin climbing The solar maximum lingers on The fascist Senate Democrats who voted to repeal the first amendment Russia to match SpaceX launch prices Keep Calm and Carry On Senate Republicans block Democrat attempt to repeal First Amendment The first of two coronal mass ejectors from a solar flare has arrived. Playing with today’s Rosetta image of Comet 67P/C-G Moderate Islam, the myth. The things your kids will never understand The second CME has arrived. Is your firearms training realistic? An update on the status of NASA manned commercial competition New Horizons spots Pluto’s moon Hydra Saving a tree The competition in space continues to heat up Philae’s mission at Comet 67P/C-G Refusing TSA sex abuse Philae’s landing site chosen No first stage landing attempt on next Falcon 9/Dragon launch Philadelphia’s District Attorney likes to steal homes Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing Management problems at NASA’s asteroid hunting program NASA to announce its commercial crew decision today. Russia reiterates that it has no intention to stop selling the U.S. its rocket engines Obamacare continues to cut employement On the radio Air Force to decide SpaceX certification on December 1 NASA has chosen Boeing and SpaceX to build manned spacecraft to ferry crews to ISS Death Valley’s moving rocks A new impact crater on the Moon Another contest where you can win a ticket to space Neil deGrasse Tyson under attack for fabricating quotes Blue Origin to build rocket engine for Atlas 5 The FAA approves spaceport license for Midland Texas. Dawn’s arrival at Ceres delayed one month More computer crashes and lost emails at the IRS. The Muppets & Rita Moreno – Fever Another ACLU lawsuit against Philadelphia for harassing photographers Judicial Watch demands right to cross-examine IRS officials Falcon 9 still go for launch on Saturday Extending ISS to 2024 A giant black hole in a tiny galaxy Using government funding to finance antisemitism at UCLA Why is Wikipedia deleting all references to Neil Tyson’s quote fabrications? Obamacare could leave 2 million families without insurance Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hoedown The disaster and ensuing coverup of the Obamacare website The next week in space Tennessee cheerleaders defy a ban on pregame public prayers Ohio teachers threaten strike because they are being switched to Obamacare Maintaining a high voltage line Ocean surface wind speeds declining Falcon 9 launch scrubbed due to weather. Global warming advocates finally admit their focus is politics, not science Antarctic sea ice extent largest on record Falcon 9 launch puts Dragon in orbit India inks space deal with China Trouble in Branson-land Obamacare to cut tax refunds in April MAVEN enters Mars orbit Obamacare forces Alaskan doctors to close their practices. “They want to start taking — now.” The planet debate continues Mangalyaan’s engine test a success SpaceX breaks ground on new spaceport Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot The People’s Climate March leaves New York a mess Dragon has been berthed successfully to ISS Obamacare enrollment plunges The Great Space Race The IRS versus the Constitution Linsey Pollak – Carrot clarinet “The debate is indeed over. The side that lies loses.” Forest Service clamps down on free speech Success for India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Russia announces plans to fund its share of ISS through 2025 Rosetta moves in Taking a close look at the political leanings of a global warming rally Taking a close look at the peaceful nature of Islam in Great Britain Why India’s Mars probe was so cheap Ennio Morricone – Gabriel´s Oboe (clarinet version) Space weather downs U.S. military helicopter? Sierra Nevada lays off employees Europe struggles to contain costs on its next generation rocket Mangalyaan sends its first Mars pictures Russia to launch its first woman in 20 years AG Eric Holder to resign Hamas cedes some Gaza control to Fatah New Jersey prosecutor drops prison threat against Pennsylvania gun-carrying mom A pipeline for beer! New study devalues carbon dioxide again Russian launches new crew, including first Russian woman, to ISS Dream Chaser is not dead according to Sierra Nevada A solar panel on manned Soyuz fails to deploy Kate Rusby – Who will sing me lullabies? Soyuz docks successfully with ISS India: Space success vs red tape? TSA favors government employees and politicians at security checkpoints How a woman gets undressed on television in Italy Sierra Nevada protests NASA manned spacecraft contact award Philae landing date chosen Russian investigation begins on failed Soyuz solar array Proton rocket returns to flight Something keeps coming and going in a sea on Titan Soprillo & Tubax Contrabass Saxophone Duet Mangalyaan’s first global images of Mars Washcloth delays SLS engine tests Congress demands American rocket engines for military launches Dream Chaser still alive! More evidence of past glaciers on Mars Australia’s climate agency admits to fudging climate data We don’t need no intelligence briefings Another court rules against Obamacare subsidies More health insurance cancellations due to Obamacare Béla Fleck – Big Country Stratolaunch and Sierra Nevada team up More quality control problems in Russia A decision in November on Orbital’s reliance on Russian engines in Antares Fixing the space junk problem of the new Japanese Epsilon rocket. India and NASA sign cooperative agreement Another moon for Earth Candidate Mars landing sites for Europe’s ExoMars mission The upcoming cold and toxic winter on Titan’s southern hemisphere Harpo Marx – I Love Lucy (May 9, 1955) Delta 4 Heavy moved to launchpad for Orion flight More IRS hard drives wiped to conceal evidence Itzhak Perlman – Theme from Schindler’s List Homeland Security settles lawsuit of reporter whose home they illegally searched Comet 67P/C-G fires its jets The day fascism rushed through the door in Wisconsin Naturally 7 – Ready or Not Some reasons to panic Some reasons to panic, part 2 The stall in global warming is now more than half the satellite record India gets Canadian launch contract Reality bites liberal Texas judge Privately built module heading to ISS next year SpaceX wins safety design award The deep ocean is not where global warming has gone Planxty – The Blacksmith Richard Branson’s balloon rival The next wave of Obamacare insurance cancellations begin arriving Groucho Marx – You Bet Your Life, May 12, 1955 Nobel Prize goes to blue LED light inventors Orbital Sciences schedules next Cygnus cargo launch Successful American spacewalk today on ISS XCOR sells its Lynx suborbital spaceplane Independent Arianespace investigation cites design error as cause of Russian launch failure Rosetta gets the go to descend to six miles Mangalyaan releases its second global image of Mars Ground-breaking ceremony for Thirty Meter Telescope cancelled because of protesters SWAT teams kill another innocent citizen in raid IRS begins an audit of an anti-Obamacare filmmaker Cara Dillon – P Stands For Paddy Obamacare forces 13 states to cancel insurance plans A pulsar that’s eating a galaxy Air Force to take over two former shuttle hangers in Florida for its X-37B program World’s first space detective agency launched Launch abort system installed on Orion for December test flight Construction of Angara launchpad at Vostochny delayed EPA tells court it has lost text messages Kristin Chenoweth – Glitter and Be Gay New measurements cut dark matter in Milky Way by half SpaceShipTwo poised for powered test flights Yutu is slowly dying Eleven astonishing science fair projects Shania Twain & Alison Krauss – Forever And For Always Giant boulders on Comet 67P/C-G The remains of Alexander the Great’s father believed found Twenty percent increases in the cost of Obamacare in 2015 Orbiting X-37B to land on Tuesday Recent volcanism on the Moon Why NASA picked Boeing over Sierra Nevada The Obamacare trifecta Democratic spokesman for Democratic governor threatens reporter with arrest Exploding Pianos Finding a meteorite 20 years after it hit the ground Update on Bigelow’s ISS module 1 in 4 Americans can no longer afford to see their doctor Houston demands that pastors hand in their sermons on homosexuality or be held in contempt of court. Five terrifying consequences should Baghdad fall to ISIS On the radio Kraftwerk – The Robots First results back from the U.S. MAVEN Mars probe Comet landing site confirmed A detailed look at today’s spacewalk on ISS The silent Obamacare protest of doctors “We’re not gonna move.” Ice photographed in Mercury’s permanently shadowed craters? A reviving solar maximum 40 to 63% increases in heath insurance premiums in Minnesota Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, and Don Rickles Houston mayor says she will reduce scoop of pastor subpoenas Democrats oppose an ebola travel ban Three potential post-Pluto targets for New Horizons Another succesful rocket launch for India Obama quarantines American soldiers in Africa but not Africans Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters – You Don’t Have to Know the Language Things are going to get worse G2 survives fly-by of Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Sierra Nevada fights back China gives outsiders a look into its manned space program The mysterious interior of Saturn’s moon Mimas Comet 67P/C-G at 2 feet per pixel Virgin Galactic outlines near term test flight schedule Argentina joins space club A look ahead to Sunday’s comet fly-by of Mars The X-37B goes to Mars George Harrison and Eric Clapton – While my guitar gently weeps Mars orbiters survive comet fly-by The X-37B landing in pictures and video Ebola’s rate of growth Send your sermons to Houston Jack the Ripper identification questioned Snowcaps of metal on Venus? Animals standing up for the first time Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs Comet Siding Spring Proton launches commercial satellite China to launch two payloads to the Moon Solar minimum to limit interplanetary manned flights? Comet 67P/C-G’s surface at less than 1 meter resolution A citizen pulls over a cop and issues him a warning Court allows work on commercial crew to go forward A Mandelbrot set zoom animation out-take California orders churches to fund abortions India begins tests of larger rocket engine Voter fraud in Colorado Another failure for Russia’s Proton rocket? Titan’s atmosphere is unexpectedly unbalanced Composing Mozart’s “Requiem,” from Amadeus Increasing activity at Comet 67P/C-G Orion ready for launchpad! Next Angara test flight in December Problems at the National Weather Service? Comet Siding Spring flies past Mars, as seen by Hubble 55,000 Connecticut citizens to lose their health plans Next Cygnus/Antares launch to ISS set for October 27 Comet 67P/C-G smells! Chinese lunar mission launches Jon Lord – Gigue India’s manned space program Sierra Nevada announces an X-37B version of Dream Chaser More brainlessness from Ebola experts and government operatives Heath insurance premiums skyrocketed because of Obamacare New sky-diving record by Google executive Democrats demand the right to regulate internet speech Ginger Rogers – We’re in the money Falcon 9 first stage to land on floating platform Lawsuit could delay Cygnus cargo flight in April ISS data lowers radiation risk for humans in space Dragon departs ISS The IRS steals property and cash Kid makes interception and scores and is punished Viewing Monday’s Antares launch along the East Coast Obamacare causes AIDS drug prices to skyrocket Vulnerable Senate Democrats are all Obama rubber-stamps Cygnus launch scrubbed Clean Bandit – Rather Be Largest sunspot in a quarter century spews flares Hubble gives Jupiter a giant eye Third launch for China in a week NASA treats Congress like a doormat, again Obamacare website easy to hack Engine failure forces emergency landing of Russian cargo plane with European satellite The Grand Tetons used as the Obama adminstration’s private playground Obamacare forces actors’ union to drop older members from healthplan Rosetta begins maneuvers for November 11 Philae landing Antares launch failure Yael Ahn – Chopsticks Doctors flee Obamacare LADEE impact site located Russian Progress freighter launched Updates on Antares launch failure Avalanches on an asteroid First chemical results from Rosetta Test flight of European space plane delayed Houston mayor withdrews sermon subpoenas How the biggest sunspot in a quarter century fits into history Video of election machine voter fraud? Cheap alternatives to Obamacare on the rise Initial assessement of Wallops launchpad completed Bond – Viva TSA confiscates a toy ray-gun belt buckle Atlas 5 successfully launches GPS satellite Massive voter fraud in Maryland Rage Two Republican senators propose limiting ability of government to confiscate property Sun reflection off of Titan’s lakes 44 places everyone should see before they die A further update on Antares failure Kitaro with 12 Girls Band – Matsuri Controversy surrounding IXV flight cancellation Ex-construction boss at Vostochny arrested A mysterious piece of Russian space junk does maneuvers! The Earth/Moon double planet, as seen by China’s Chang’e 5 probe CDC deletes ebola info from website SpaceShipTwo crashes during test flight Martin Brest – Hot Tomorrows EPA threatens $75K per day fines to man who built pond on his own property. China’s test Moon mission returns to Earth “Medical science doesn’t support official rhetoric on ebola.” “The sky is crying.” Rosetta gets in position to release Phalae New rocket coming from ULA? SpaceShipTwo accident pilots identified SpaceShipTwo’s engine did not cause failure G2 survives Milky Way center fly by How a big impact gave Vesta its grooves Some Virgin Galactic customers demand money back Tina Dico & Helgi Jonsson – River Moon Express lunar rover tests about to begin Update on SpaceShipTwo investigation Mathematical models badly overstate ebola numbers Sha-Na – I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door A geological score for Curiosity! Turbopump failure in first stage engine eyed for the Antares launch failure Signs of a sunspot ramp down Victor Borge and Marilyn Mulvey – Hands Off! Taking a broad look at Tuesday’s Republican sweep 20 delusions that shape how liberals vote Second SpaceShipTwo almost ready for flight The best image yet of the birth of a solar system Former SpaceX employee arrested A simple but powerful strategy for Congress against Obama Buddy Greene – Classical Harmonica Medley A pause in investment commitment to Virgin Galactic Solid rocket motors for American rockets? Orion heat shield redesigned before its launch? The November 12 timeline of events for Philae’s landing on a comet Why the polls underestimate Tuesday’s Republican sweep White student supports/attends Mike Brown event and is attacked Amazing rooftop structures Andreas Scholl performs Handel’s Ombra mai fu Focusing on strategy instead of substance Bringing Dream Chaser home Virgin Galactic vows to fly again by April Alternative rockets and 2015 launch dates for Cygnus Police officer suspended for slapping citizen for refusing a warrantless search Soyuz brings home crew from ISS China’s struggle to compete with SpaceX Comet Siding Spring’s fly-by of Mars changed the planet’s atmosphere Close-up image of Philae’s landing site Obamacare enrollments far below government predictions O boy! Obama wants to regulate the internet! Nicole Atkins – Bird on a Wire Italian appeals court overturns convictions of earthquake scientists Google takes over Moffett Field Musk hints at a team-up with space-based internet provider Russia rolls Angara 5 to the launchpad Police seize $100K without a warrant One of NASA’s two STEREO solar probes has gone dead Philae still go for landing Orion rollout to launchpad delayed 24 hours because of weather. Hayley Westenra – For The Fallen Philae is go for separation, despite problem Rosetta snaps Philae’s picture A third video of Obamacare’s creator found, insulting Americans More crushing Obama regulation to come Philae has landed successfully! More penalties from Obamacare A comet picture taken by Philae on the way down More than 200 colleges slash work hours to avoid Obamacare Philae might have bounced Tim Conway – Dentist sketch Philae’s status on the surface Japanese investor sues Excalibur Almaz New Horizons to wake up on December 6 for its July Pluto flyby Engineers have until Saturday to reposition Philae before its batteries go dead Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust Obamacare is forcing the closure of small rural hospitals nationwide Drill baby drill! What Mechanical Engineers Do When They Retire Been underground Philae has gone to sleep Philae spotted before and after first bounce Russias pulling out of ISS in 2020 Falcon Heavy launchpad work begun Geological maps of Vesta published The long working relationship between Obama and Gruber Los Angeles Guitar Quartet – Lotus Eaters Philae’s landing site dust-covered ice Update on Russia’s proposed new space station project SpaceX vs Arianespace, according to the TV industry The Revolutionary Non Sequitar Turbo Encabulator Transmission Heading to Israel Five space companies whose future hangs in the balance. Kickstarter campaign to fund lunar probe Sandy and Richard Riccardi – Holiday Dinner Party Comments down Air Force admits SpaceX certification likely Comments fixed The Association – Along Comes Mary MAVEN in safe mode Obama’s attempt to impose amnesty: a bluff? Accidental freon release inside ISS Another business forced to close by gays Lion hug A new master image of Europa IRS finds lost Lerner emails Even if you liked your plan, Obamacare will pick a plan for you Galaxies formed faster than predicted What the Middle East conflict looks like from inside Israel The search for Philae narrows Images of Falcon 9 first stage fins and landing platform Sheriff tases and arrests homeschooling family because their house is messy Eighteen pictures of history lost or forgotten Emails reveal press willingness to be manipulated by the Obama administration Obama proclaims he will fail to do what every President has failed to do since Carter and the right goes crazy. New crew arrives at ISS Antarctic ice sheet thicker than expected Jennifer Nettles – Hello Again Cygnus on Falcon 9? Carnegie Mellon unveils its Google X-Prize lunar rover Italy’s legislature rejects additional funding for space “Our better angels” Looking down a comet’s neck Spaghetti Western Orchestra First 3D part manufactured in space Billion-dollar-plus NASA medical research contract under dispute Obamacare and amnesty: working together to screw Americans Court demands documents linked to IRS scandal FAA moves to regulate and thus destroy drone use Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Ralph Vaughan Williams:- A Song of Thanksgiving Back from Israel Proton launch postponed Safely landing the Falcon 9 first stage on the next launch Philae’s bouncing, tumbling landing sequence Surprise babies in the 115,000 volt substation! A scrambled SLS/Orion flight schedule Hayabusa-2 scheduled for launch Chinese spacecraft reaches L2 Europe agrees to build Ariane 6 The failure of single payer government health plans Turkey Drone 2014 A mysterious Russian spacecraft makes more maneuvers Postgraduate plug-n-play cubesat manufacturers ship their first product Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) / Kathrin Troester – Griminelli’s Lament Organic material from Mars? Japanese asteroid probe Hayabusa-2 successfully launched Orion launch on Thursday given go-ahead Human etchings half a million years old? Obama administration defies IRS court order Empire of the Sun – P51: Cadillac of the Skies Increasing hostility to religion in America Europe approves construction of giant telescope Orion test flight scrubbed Busy year for Russian Proton rocket? New joint venture to build Ariane 6 NSF accused of misuse of funds in giant ecological project Wallops launchpad repairs to take a year Willie Nile & Bruce Springsteen – One Guitar Orion test flight a complete success Dawn takes its first good picture of Ceres Luciano Pavarotti & Lionel Richie – The Magic of Love New Horizons awakes Venus Express gone? World population rejects climate change Arizona county to ban employees who smoke A Chinese SLS super rocket? Curiosity confirms that Gale Crater was once a water filled lake. Want to become a rocket scientist? Martin Frost – Ava Maria The federal government mines confidential private health data Antares hot fire test set for late in 2015 What exactly is that Russian satellite? New documents link Justice Department with IRS scandal Book news! NOAA admits that California drought is not man-made Orbital Sciences to use Atlas rocket to launch next Cygnus freighter Jonathan Gruber grilled by Congress over Obamacare Lame duck Congress agrees to $1.1 trillion budget A planetary cubesat mission by Japan Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound Science spending steady in proposed Congressional budget Solar maximum ramp down continues A bird’s eye view of London Comet 67P/C-G unveils a scientific surprise A Russian commercial reusable space shuttle? The geography of scientific plagiarism “Why the media’s fact problems are much bigger than Rolling Stone.” The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the sky Dragon launch delayed three days Global views of six Saturnian moons Comet 67P/C-G in color Seven surgeries made possible by 3D printing NIH panel recommends cancelling multi-billion dollar study When did humans begin using fire? Private company offers to fly packages to Moon No more Russian engines for ULA A more positive conservative take on the budget deal The Marx Brothers – Tootsi Frootsi Ice Cream Airbus attacked by French lawmaker for talking to SpaceX Last three years the quietest for tornadoes ever University defunds Christian student organization because it wants to be Christian Another reasonable look at this week’s Congressional budget deal. 2014: The year of the liberal lie A new Russian heavy lift rocket amid Russian budget woes The arrival of two new childhood diseases to America “I will not comply.” What Gazans really think about Hamas More problems for Webb Telescope Simon & Garfunkel – American Tune Voyager 1 on the edge of the solar system NASA builds a $349 million test stand it knows it will never need The approved 2015 NASA budget Want to name a crater on Mercury? Mapping the world’s most influential languages Evaporating dry ice chunks create gouges on Mars Curiosity finds organic materials on Mars, including fluctuating levels of methane The John Wright Band – The Lock Keeper Boeing to bid CST-100 for ISS cargo contract Venus Express mission ends Orbital Sciences picks another Russian engine for Antares The Falcon 9 first stage landing barge about to set sail The reasons behind Russia’s proposed new space station The seas of Titan Google Lunar X-Prize news Countdown begins for the suborbital test flight of India’s new rocket Conservatives can remove John Boehner as House speaker Colin Hay – Goodnight Romeo/Prison Time Friday’s Falcon 9 launch delayed India’s rocket and manned capsule test flight a success Falcon 9/Dragon launch rescheduled Kepler reborn The liberal hatefest Halftime dogs at Eagle’s football CO2 satellite overcomes design flaw Comet 67P/C-G: the Movie! Emailing a wrench to ISS The cowards in the Sony/North Korea kerfuffle New data says volcanoes, not asteroids, killed dinosaurs Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell – Begin the Beguine Successful Falcon 9 static fire Geoffrey Castle – Ring Christmas Bells IRS leadership planned harassment of conservatives Angara A5 rocket launches successfully The top 10 things you DON’T need for Christmas After a year Obamacare still stinks Delta employee caught repeatedly smuggling guns on flights Nicaragua and China break ground on new canal Loose fibers significantly cuts Gaia’s output Sue Richards & Maggie Sansone – The Ash Grove India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe working fine A Russia/Brazil partnership for Sea Launch? Possible ebola exposure at CDC Get ready to have your health records hacked Newsong – The Christmas Shoes Climate scientists massage data to create illusion of ocean acidification Home Free – Angels We Have Heard On High Shock! A Democrat actually pays attention to cost 33 examples of liberal intolerance in 2014 Charles Mokotoff – Bach: Sheep may safely graze Proton launches commercial satelite Vostochny spaceport construction back on schedule What happens when you wring a wet washcloth in space? Dawn begins its approach to Ceres Memory problems on Mars rover Opportunity Penalties in Obamacare to rise in 2015 Improper charge card use by government employees wastes millions New York cops stop harassing citizens in protest Comet Lovejoy becoming visible to the naked eye The Sun’s most spectacular events for 2014 The Fendertones – Sloop John B Ten of the worst zero tolerance school discipline actions in 2014 New Years resolutions for climate scientists On the table The most rocket launches in 20 years Catholics now forced to march in gay pride parade Rod Stewart – Auld Lang Syne The benefits of fewer New York police arrests The bigoted root of liberal double standards Genesis sale over as of midnight Eye update The Chieftains & friends – Give the fiddler a dram Egyptian leader demands an Islamic reassessment Abbott and Costello – Loafing Obamacare requirements to employers arrive in 2015 Korean satellite threatened by space junk Weather reports moderately favorable for Tuesday’s Falcon 9 launch Why the pause in global temperature rise? Some details on the SpaceX’s attempt to land its Falcon 9 first stage SpaceX job offers posted for Brownsville Texas China lifts export limits on rare earth minerals Chinese service module journeys to and from Moon Mary Black and Joan Baez – Ring Them Bells The search for Philae goes on Falcon 9 launch scrubbed Sierra Nevada loses its protest of NASA contract decision Europe reconsiders reusability in its rockets Kevin Delaney Makes a Cloud More Earthlike exoplanets confirmed New Hubble images to celebrate its upcoming 25th anniversary Comet impact theory replaced by common house fires Islam murders 12 people at magazine Do not submit! The sunspot cycle update for December Six Turnin and Four Burnin Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Saturday Ancient fossils on Mars? Paul Kelly – Careless 9 of the 10 worst countries for Christian persecution are Islamic An update on the on-going ebola outbreak in Africa New York Times explains why it won’t publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons Comparing the weather on Mars and Earth Travel posters for alien worlds Airbus-Safran demand total control of Arianespace California newspaper vandalized for defying pro-immigration groups “It’s time to stop lying.” Senate Republicans call for gas tax hike Ra Paulette – cave artist Dragon reaches orbit Opportunity reaches high point on crater rim Islamophobia is a myth created by the bigotry of the elites “Dear France, wrap their bodies in the carcasses of pigs.” The world’s biggest ship arrives in Great Britain on its maiden voyage Elon Musk’s twitter explanation of the 1st stage landing attempt Jihadists kill thousands Political prosecution of conservative in South Dakota The madness of IRS Obamacare paperwork “The freedom to write history without intimidation was no longer something that I took for granted.” Cruz and Rubio to chair important space and science subcommittees Photos of SpaceX’s floating landing barge Dragon arrives at ISS Sarah Brightman to begin training for space flight A close look at Russia’s next generation space station modules Muslim students refuse to honor murdered victims of terrorism Georgia police declare war on okra Sting – Every breath you take Judeo-Christian tolerance vs Islamic tolerance Ten time capsules lost and then rediscovered Dream Chaser lives on! Arianespace and SpaceX neck and neck in race for contracts The world’s most majestic libraries IRS harassment of conservatives continues Politicians in Paris do photo op rather than participate in demonstration Six cool science experiments you can do at home Falcon Heavy launch still set for 2015 False ammonia leak alarm causes evacuation of US portion of ISS High Russia space official shoots down idea of new Russian space station Test flight of Europe’s first prototype space plane has been rescheduled Cats vs dogs in genome research Oxford University Press bans mention of pork in books to avoid offending Muslims or Jews Read an english translation of Charlie Hebdo Big asteroid to fly past Earth Lerner discouraged investigation by supervisor of IRS harassment Islamic leaders worldwide react with hostility to Charlie Hebdo cover Fred Astaire & Barrie Chase – Miss Otis Regrets A 132-year-old Winchester rifle found leaning on a tree in national park SpaceX to open satellite-building operation in Washington state India gets new space agency head Ten years after Huygens landed on Titan… Scientists demand more skepticism of doom-sayers IRS chief warns of bad service due to budget cuts New Horizons to begin observations of Pluto Funding obtained for 648-satellite internet constellation Head cold delays the start of Sarah Brightman’s space training Joe Cocker – The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress More commercial problems for Russian rockets Lost Beagle 2 found on Mars by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter More Earthlike exoplanets found Comet 67P/C-G’s plumes Orbital signs deal for Russian engines Images of Falcon 9 first stage crash Paul Ryan: No new gas taxes Holder bars use of federal law to seize private property John Jorgenson – Red On Red Next Falcon 9 launch delayed two weeks. A Japanese Nobel laureate blasts his country’s treatment of inventors “They were talking about [killing] hundreds of millions.” New images of Ceres from Dawn Karine Polwart – Follow the Heron home Google and SpaceX team-up? Holder’s end to federal property seizure ban exaggerated Fourplay – Bali Run SpaceX confirms Google deal Planet Labs confirms big investment deal NASA explains why it picked Boeing over Sierra Nevada Sarah Brightman’s first day of astronaut training A Honda Rube Goldberg Why I ignored Obama’s State of the Union speech Were two Iridium satellites hit by space junk? Putin endorses Russian government consolidation of space industry Ukrainian space workers protest lack of pay A quasar shuts down Government abducts homeschooled children on trumped up charges Comet 67P/C-G’s coma fluctuates widely Nanci Griffith – Love at the Five and Dime Ten astonishing images from Rosetta Ocean science deals with limited budgets Messenger’s life at Mercury extended Small businesses dump health insurance The man who saved the world Isn’t it Romantic? Look like a Jew in Sweden and get attacked by anti-semitic Arabs A drone for Mars SpaceX drops Air Force lawsuit in new deal Water flows on Vesta? Google Lunar X-prize awards five teams Comet 67P/C-G’s water output has increased The left wing pundit press makes fools of themselves A plane is born SpaceX moving forward on manned flight Asteroid that flew past Earth has its own moon Solar system of ancient Earths found New Horizons’ first images of Pluto on the way Manned balloon crossing the Pacific Massive federal/state program uncovered to track millions of cars nationwide Ceres comes into focus Got $500? You too can get a scientific paper published! JPL releases movie of asteroid fly-by The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You SpaceX animation of Falcon Heavy launch The surprisingly dark and organic surface of Comet 67P/C-G Weird jobs for science Ted Cruz introduces bill outlawing political targeting of citizens. Michael Davis – Juggler 9 unbelievable things discovered by hikers Air Force gives more launches to ULA Manned balloon approaches North America Obama allies himself with Islam radicals Madre Luna – Aelfheim Color snapshots of England 1960 Update on Philae on Comet 67P/C-G Boeing’s commercial manned space effort Privately-built weather satellite constellation to be built Hayabusa-2 in “tip-top” shape Threatened water shortage on ISS New Mexico wants out of the spaceport business Senate Democrats consider boycotting Israeli leader’s speech Two Eagles manned balloon breaks record Itzhak Perlman & Janet Guggenheim – Two pieces Air Force to open bidding on launches Gravitational wave/inflation discovery literally bites the dust Obamacare tax mess Getting ready for the first Dragon launch abort test Iran orbits a satellite Proton launches successfully Hayley Westenra – Scarborough Fair The Hubble Space Telescope lives on! Iranian satellite success confirmed The Obama administration’s 2016 NASA budget proposal Roscomos puts the squeeze on Ukraine Paul introduces bill to rein in government property seizures When will the pause end? Life found that hasn’t changed in 2 billion years Lars Andersen – Archery done the right way Why do cats love boxes? Republicans to stand firm on blocking Obama’s illegal over-reach on immigration? Obamacare website allows commercial companies access to personal data New Pluto images from New Horizons The rockets of the world The government as thief The Browns – Little Jimmy Brown SpaceX gives names to its floating landing barges TSA supervisor arrests traveler for no reason and then lies about it in court Hubble captues triple moon transit across Jupiter Dawn snaps more images of Ceres The Russian spaceport construction still behind schedule Obama: all religions the same “Oh, she’s going down.” Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold – I Remember It Well Annual fund-raiser plus lower price for Genesis “It is ironic a sign warning of the liberal thought police was potentially stolen by the liberal thought police.” Five years later a second attempt to put a Japanese spacecraft into Venus orbit Astronomers find an invisible dwarf galaxy OSIRIS-REx to get more fuel for its asteroid mission Rocket tank lands on Brazil farm Scientists discover that bigger is not better NASA safety panel questions safety of SLS Plumes and dust surrounding Comet 67P/C-G IRS re-hires employees it fired for being tax cheats 42 second engine change Weather 90% go for Falcon 9 launch today “The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever.” Falcon 9 launch scrubbed What happens if Homeland Security shuts down? Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Tuesday evening Ratings plunge for network news shows Could we get people to get vaccinated if we said measles contained gluten? Eleanor Powell – Hula Staples cuts hours to avoid Obamacare Busy day for SpaceX Yutu still alive! All things go for test flight of European space plane prototype New ebola drug appears somewhat effective A drone that flies in a protective cage wins million dollar prize Brian Williams is no exception, he is the rule Cholesterol warning about to disappear Obama administration stonewalls IRS investigation The sideshow of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress High winds cause Falcon 9 scrub Unions discover Obamacare sucks Dragon returns to Earth safely Emmylou Harris – Pancho & Lefty Europe test flies its engineering prototype space plane The last two satellites in Russia’s missile warning constellation have failed. Rosetta preps for close fly-by of Comet 67P/C-G IRS steals widow’s savings Sunspot activity tracks prediction No barge landing attempt today for Falcon 9 Another Falcon 9 launch success Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale The endless and all-compassing terrors of global warming Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday A new drill hole into Lake Vostok Virgin Galactic opens facility for developing LauncherOne Week long movie of Pluto produced by New Horizons SDO celebrates its fifth year in space with a time-lapse of the Sun Looking down a comet’s plume Movies before the code Gunmen attack free-speech event in Copenhagen More Obamacare website problems The mystery of Martian plumes Europe’s last ATV leaves ISS A television reality show to pick 24 candidates to go to Mars — one way Images from Rosetta’s weekend fly-by of Comet 67P/C-G Origin of Chelyabinsk meteorite remains unknown Republicans continue to show little enthusiasm for Obama Attorney General candidate Democrats discover that Obamacare fines are costly DNA – the future of data storage A real hero of freedom What the Islamic State really wants Sierra Hull – Someone Like You South Korea unveils its own lunar rover SpaceX signs leases for first stage landing pads The quietest places in the U.S. Ceres comes into focus The crooks in the tea party movement Do you know more about science and technology than the average American? A stellar fly-by 70,000 years ago Islamic cleric insists Sun orbits Earth Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song) Stratolaunch airplane 40% complete New Horizons spots some of Pluto’s smaller moons JJ Cale & Eric Clapton – After Midnight & Call me the Breeze Work stalls on Mars One robotic missions How scientists lose the average layman Judge rules that Christians should be persecuted if they disagree with gays A dozen launches for Arianespace in 2015? Work accelerates towards the first test flight of Falcon Heavy Methane leaks from natural gas wells less than predicted World still terrorized by ‘‘Random Angry Unknown Folks’’ the Obama adminstration declares Will Rogers – The Ropin’ Fool Spacewalk on Saturday will begin ISS reconfiguration for private manned capsules Orbital ATK announces date of next Antares launch Another Obamacare law delay An ISS built from matchsticks! New Mexico legislature advances spaceport sale bill Another problem with the Obamacare online system forces further delays and problems Dave Mason – Sad And Deep As You How to drill rocks on Mars Spacewalk to begin the reconfiguration of ISS successful Why Isn’t Batman in the public domain? Highlights from Dream Lines IV The collapse of corrupt unions in Wisconsin Florist rejects attorney general’s deal to settle lawsuit over same-sex weddings World View sets parafoil altitude record X-Prize contestants team-up to create head-to-head lunar race How many people have actually purchased SpaceShipTwo tickets? Watching politics eat away at climate science Obamacare taxes hit the poorest the hardest Next Angara launch delayed Russia to build own space station after 2024? Louisville Leopard Percussionists – Zeppellin What every conservative politican should answer when asked a stupid gotcha question by a journalist Christian florist tells her side of the story Russians confirm plan to leave ISS in 2024 The brightest spot on Ceres has a partner World Order – Mind Shift SpaceX gets its first launch contracts for its Texas spaceport Second spacewalk in ISS reconfiguration completed Earth’s other moon Fired for using the wrong word Inspector General to report tonight on Lois Lerner email recovery Jet lag is worse on Mars An even bigger tiny engine Investigators say 32,000 Lerner IRS emails have been recovered India plans 2015 test flight of reusable suborbital spaceplane A cold Pacific causing the lack of warming? Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015 Homeland funding bill fails The Honey Trees – Moon River Methane does exist in the Martian atmosphere Military satellite goes boom! Fly-by close-up of Comet 67P/C-G Senate RINOS whine about the House’s refusal to give Obama what he wants Star Trek – Amok Time Small satellite industry predicted to blossom Third ISS spacewalk to reconfigure station completed successfully California bans Christian clubs at its colleges SpaceX has another successful commercial launch UCLA student denied position because she is Jewish Obamacare causes insurance company to lose money Roy Clark & Buck Trent – Dueling Banjos Warren to boycott Netanyahu speech Rosetta spots its own shadow Yutu lives! Boehner joins Democrats to support funding of Obama amnesty A list of politicians boycotting Netanyahu Dawn bears down on Ceres Boehner had made a deal with Pelosi Fred Astaire & Leslie Caron – Something’s Gotta Give Curiosity in trouble? Britain narrows its competition for spaceport The race to map the space around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy NASA considering ion engines for next Mars orbiter India announces scheduled to test a prototype space plane Obama threatens veto of House bill to limit EPA use of unpublished data Nobel Prize demotes man who gave Obama peace prize in 2009 Most Republicans fold to Boehner Cass Elliot, Mary Travers, & Joni Mitchell – I shall be released NASA picks landing site for next Mars lander Lerner illegally provided Democrats with confidential tax information The oceans that Mars lost “Listen, you better not have a church down there.” Blackmore’s Night – Minstrel Hall NASA schedules commercial manned demo missions to ISS Hayabusa-2 shifts to cruise Dawn has entered orbit around Ceres New images from Mangalyaan El Niño has finally arrived, far weaker than predicted A star escapes the Milky Way ????? – John Wilson Orchestra Drill design flaw source of short circuit on Curiosity The only Republican Presidential contender to be honest in Iowa Americans demand mandatory food labels for DNA The ten coolest walkways on Earth Japan successfully tests new solar power technology China’s next space station will also receive unmanned freighters Supreme Court throws out Obamacare contraceptive mandate again New CBO report reveals that Obamacare will add more than a trillion to debt Sunspots crash in February The ATF does not have the legal right to ban AR-15 ammo Diana Krall – I Get Along Social Security still has 6.5 million people older than 112 active in its files Monitoring for a signal from Philae to begin this week India’s space budget remains stable Aerojet Rocketdyne to cut costs and streamline operations More evidence NOAA has tampered with climate data Two astronauts gear up for one year in space Insane shift change at lighthouse A new song for space Virgin Galactic test flights to resume in 2015? The Milky Way is like ripples in a pond Feel the middle-class rage Orbital ATK successfully tests the largest solid rocket motor ever made Tiny grains from the interior ocean of Enceladus New Horizons adjusts its course Katie Melua – If you were a sailboat Crew returns safely from ISS The closest exoplanet is Earth-sized Family flees home due to death threats Ganymede’s underground salt water ocean Obama learns of existence of mysterious ‘‘Hillary Clinton’’ from news! A peek into the world’s largest underground mine Archeologists discover the world’s oldest pretzel Curiosity has resumed science work The Refreshments – Let It Rock Privately built module for ISS unveiled today Yutu reveals a complex lunar geology The neck of Comet 67P/C-G in color Magnetic field science satellites launched Russia abandons super-rocket designed to compete with SLS The history of Pluto, in images Another American expresses his anger Aerosmith – Livin’ On The Edge Life is beautiful Arkansas SWAT team kidnaps a family’s seven kids Curiosity moves on ISRO completes engine burn Whistling now forbidden Sloppy biosafety procedures found at federal disease center New areas of Comet 67P/C-G come out of the shadows Muslim university students campaign to shut down free speech Wait times at the VA remain months long, not 4 days as claimed New results from Messenger at Mercury Edie Brickell & Steve Martin – When You Get To Asheville A Mars One finalist accuses the company of fraud Virgin Galactic says LauncherOne will make its first flight in 2016 Airline passengers subdue man screaming “Jihad!” on airplane Water ice volcanoes on Ceres The lost tomb of Cervantes found New evidence of child-smuggling in ancient Mayan human sacrifices Lockheed Martin enters the competition to supply cargo for ISS Nanci Griffith & The Chieftains – Red Is The Rose Sierra Nevada introduces its cargo version of Dream Chaser Unexpected findings from Mars An iron rain fell on Earth early in its formation Obama prosecutor stonewalls Congress to protect Lois Lerner Launch date for one-year mission to ISS set Dubai World Record Eagle Flight Obamacare is crushing small business with its cost and complexity Mars One finalist kicked out for publicly criticizing company. Obama administration considers Munich-like UN deal to partition Israel Ohio wedding photographer threatened with legal action over beliefs Arkansas agrees to let Stanley children go home, but only for awhile Giant lava tubes possible on the Moon Duo Scarlette – Trapeze How NASA will use Bigelow’s privately built ISS module Rosetta’s first attempt to contact Philae ends with no contact Did the Moon’s axis shift 3.5 billion years ago? Want to help name Pluto’s features? You can! Federal government moves to seize water rights from Montanans “No Republican should vote for her confirmation.” Boogie Woogie by Dona Oxford Further SLS delays loom Vostochny construction chief demoted Largest ancient meteorite impact found? Watch the break up of Pangea! Supreme Court upholds voter ID again The myth of Netanyahu’s racism Henry Mancini – The Baby Elephant Walk GAO says IRS taxpayer security stinks! Russian tourism flights to resume in 2018 Test flight of rail-guided launcher delayed to October India extends Mangalyaan’s mission by six months A photo tour of Vostochny Help name ULA’s next commercial rocket! How long would it take to fall through the Earth? Opportunity’s flash memory reformatted successfully Sierra Nevada makes deal with Houston airport authority for Dream Chaser landings Curiosity finds nitrates on Martian surface Poles cheer as an American military convoy passes through More Democrats discover the Obamacare law they wrote is a bad law New bill would repeal Patriot Act Moving Hearts – Finore Whose side is Obama on? Russians to offer tourists six-month tour on ISS Wisconsin to evict Amish family from their home Rosetta makes the first detection of nitrogen at a comet Republicans criticize Obama administration for program attacking legal businesses Survey shows Obamacare reduced worker hours College punishes students for sexist chanting at party, even those not there A drastic drop in complaints immediately after San Diego outfitted its police with body cameras Tony Smiley – Baby Steps NASA has decided to grab an asteroid rock rather than bag an asteroid GAO denied access to Webb telescope workers by Northrop Grumman Stay tuned for photo tour of Vandenberg Dark matter is even more of a mystery that expected Air Force demanded too much in its SpaceX certification process Hovercraft Deer Rescue How scientists are using the Kelly twins during Scott Kelly’s year-long mission to ISS to learn how weightlessness effects the human body Air Force subsidies to ULA to end UN finds that only Israel violates women’s rights Curiosity’s impact scars are evolving at different rates Messenger completes 4,000 orbit around Mercury A photo tour of Vandenberg Air Force Base NASA cuts Opportunity and LRO from budget Two astronauts begin year-long mission on ISS Obama about to make deal with Iran Keith Jarrett – Somewhere Over the Rainbow Republicans pass the first budget resolution in six years U.S./Russian deal on space cooperation past 2024? Florist fined $1000 in Washington in same-sex refusal case Iranian defector claims U.S. negotiating for Iran in nuclear weapon talks NASA denies new space station partnership with Russia Seed from ancient extinct plant planted and brought back to life New study finds fracking does not contaminate drinking water Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Botti – Cinema Paradiso Opportunity has another brief memory loss X-37B to fly again! Ants in space! Musk invests in Musk China’s first reusable shuttle? Iran military chief insists it will retain the goal of destroying Israel Rubio and Bush move to extend NSA snooping of Americans Opportunity enters Marathon Valley Three future targets of the same-sex fascists Les Paul – Sleepwalk SpaceX schedules its next Dragon launch Russian government takes over Vostochny construction Problems for Rosetta during its most recent fly-by of Comet 67P/C-G Dawn’s chief engineer gives us a detailed update It’s National Hate Week! Gnome Management in the Garden The GAO discovers another out-of-control NASA project Jewish kindergarten denied insurance because too many Muslims live nearby New Jersey pardons mother of concealed carry charges Ben-Hur – John Wilson Orchestra Death threats from homosexual activists put family in hiding Judge demands that IRS hand over list of targeted conservative groups Liberals are the New McCarthyites—and they’re proud of it ESA and Airbus Safran in budget dispute over Ariane 6 The establishment of a state religion called progressive liberalism Sierra Hull – River Of Jordan Americans rally to support persecuted Christians Unpaid Russian workers at Vostochny go on hunger strike Kansas Republicans forbid welfare recipients from buying luxury items Colorado: Discrimination by gays good! Discrimination by Christians bad! Vostochny strike ended Build a satellite of your own for less than $30K $10 billion wasted on military projects Jordan and Israel agree on Dead Sea water project partnership Obama lets stand Iran’s goal of destroying Israel Dawn in excellent shape The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Smells like Teen Spirit ALMA captures the rotation of the large asteroid Juno Brontosaurus returns! Rising sales of US Constitution put Homeland Security on alert! Another global warming advocate demands the arrest of skeptics The sunspot crash continues Blue Origin to begin flight tests of new rocket engine Congress moves to require NOAA to use private weather satellites Abbott & Costello – 7×13 =28 Charles Murray’s field guide to civil disobedience 3D printed items made in space come back to Earth The hidden glaciers of Mars Governor orders one week shut down of Thirty Meter Telescope project Rosetta team asks for help from amateur astronomers Indiana pizza parlor to reopen despite violent threats Brandi Carlile – The Story ULA to trim working launchpads from 5 to 2 NASA to use giant SLS rocket to launch cubesats Astronomers find complex molecules in baby star system New studies struggle to explain the origin of the Moon Global Warming advocates debunk their own theory Russian hunters find frozen carcass of extinct whoolly rhino The fascist state of the modern American university. Destroy a building rather than let a charter school use it The day frozen pudding-pops destroyed Boris Yeltsin’s faith in communism Airbus Safran demands full ownership of Ariane 6 J.S. Bach – Air on a G string ULA to reveal design of new rocket April 13 SpaceX to try a first stage recovery again on April 13 Cubesat satellite industry booming Rosetta team adopts new approach strategy Tank tests for launch abort rocket 90% of New Yorkers defy the state’s new gun registration law Fleet Foxes – The Shrine / An Argument Dump Obama’s asteroid mission says advisory council Next X-37B launch delayed New Horizons begins Pluto approach phase 2 of 3 Hawaii governor extends halt to construction of telescope Dark energy evidence found to be uncertain The storms of Saturn Tracking the weather on an exoplanet The first detailed map of Ceres The skewed view of American inside the progressive bubble The distortion of the global surface temperature datasets Weather issues have scrubbed today’s Dragon/Falcon 9 launch ULA has dubbed its next generation rocket Vulcan Donna Summer – McArthur Park Comet 67P/C-G does not have a magnetic field More evidence found for liquid water on Mars Stratolaunch update A detailed look at ULA’s proposed Vulcan rocket Another successful Dragon/Falcon 9 launch New Horizons takes another picture of Pluto Ground-breaking for LSST takes place in Chile Patty Loveless & Vince Gill – My Kind Of Woman/My Kind Of Man Video of Falcon 9 first stage landing attempt Antares failure cause pinpointed Why SpaceX’s first stage failure is really a magnificent success A real report of Hillary’s first campaign stop Human tower competition in Tarragona, Spain No obvious evidence of advanced civilizations in 100,000 galaxies An engineering analysis of the Falcon 9 first stage landing failure Stratolaunch considers multiple rockets for its giant airplane SpaceX is considering a ground landing for its next first stage return attempt New images of Ceres “If life were only like this.” Russia delays first manned launch from Vostochny Mercury mission to end on April 30 Sierra Nevada and Germany sign agreement Dragon has berthed with ISS Incorrectly built SLS welding machine to be rebuilt Massenet – Meditation from Thais TMT construction postponed again Ceres’ bright spots come into view Japan to the moon! More strikes at Vostochny An update on the Falcon 9 landing attempt 25 famous predictions that turned out to be wildly wrong For the birds Rosetta records the appearance of a new jet on Comet 67P/C-G Protesters prevent minorities from attending class SpaceX schedules Dragon pad abort test Paul Simon, David Crosby and Graham Nash – Here Comes the Sun Liberals may regret their new rules NASA ISS cargo contracts delayed New Shepard test flights to begin within weeks Hubble finds something astronomers can’t explain The building rage is not just against Democrats Russia slashes spending on space The first reflected light from an exoplanet detected Aerojet Rocketdyne faces the possible loss of most of its business Gilda Radner – Miss Emily Litella Chinese scientists do genetic experiments with human embryos Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte Russia ends effort to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine Seismic data of Yellowstone has found a bigger second magma chamber Students vote to ban Chick-fil-A from Johns Hopkins campus Judge rules family should be destroyed for refusing to bake a cake FBI found to have routinely faked incriminating data Russia launches criminal investigation at Vostochny The Band – The Weight A detailed look at the decision-making process behind ULA’s Vulcan “They have become the Mongol hordes.” Layered mesas inside Martian crater Seven big failed environmentalist predictions Top scientists to review data adjustments of temperature data Dawn begins science research at Ceres Russians cancel effort to fly humans from Vostochny by 2019 Next Falcon 9 launch set for Monday IAU contest to name 20 exoplanets moves forward Supreme Court rejects Obama’s contraceptive mandate again Air Force reveals some details of next X-37B mission Another successful Falcon 9 launch On the radio “Let’s all be manly!” Progress freighter in big trouble Two thirds of Obamacare recipients have to repay subsidies ISS supply lines strained by Progress failure Musica Universalis – Blackbird IRS Inspector General finds another 6,400 lost Lois Lerner emails “American cities are by and large Democratic-party monopolies [and] the results have been catastrophic.” Rosetta team releases almost 1300 images of Comet 67P/C-G Progress freighter declared lost Is it dark matter, or a previously unrecognized failure of Newton? Latest images from New Horizons see Pluto’s polar cap Cosmic Guinea Pig New Shepard makes its first test flight Third stage separation focus of Progress failure investigation Furniture for space! The IRS targeting of conservatives is ending says inspector general Messenger has crashed into Mercury Faith Hill – This Kiss An update on Sarah Brightman’s astronaut training Hawaii agency withdraws support for TMT Indecision at Virgin Galactic over engine design Obamacare exchanges in trouble An exoplanet that shouldn’t exist Claude Bolling – Sentimentale, Suite No. 1 for Flute and Jazz Piano India has successful rocket engine test The Sun drifts downward Johnny Carson Show – Egg trick Five things to know about the Dragon launchpad abort test R.I.P. Grace Lee Whitney Astronauts drink the first home-brewed coffee in space Mysterious X-rays at the center of the galaxy A review of what little we know of Pluto prior to New Horizons’ arrival Scientist abandons research due to protests and lack of support Conservative journalist obtains evidence the IRS audited him because of his political views Federal government demands NY strip Times Square of billboards Lori Lieberman – Killing Me Softly with His Song Dragon launchpad abort test a success Freedom speaks: An interview with Pamela Geller DEA steals life savings of innocent man A second experiment on the next X-37B flight revealed Boston – More Than A Feeling The plans for the first Arab probe to Mars revealed Pamela Geller a non-person to the Obama FBI Michigan voters resoundingly reject tax increase proposed by Republicans Tory Party unexpectedly wins big in Great Britain Progress failure causes delay in next manned mission to ISS Extreme wood bending with ammonia Russian sources confirm their plan to flip launches to ISS XCOR progress report in construction of Lynx Obama administration admits it defied a judge’s injunction Tory victory in UK even better than predicted just yesterday The liberal bias of pollsters The Americanization of Emily – “War is not moral” New images of Dawn’s double bright spot The 9 strangest drones from the world’s biggest drone show Sunset on Mars Construction at SpaceX’s new spaceport about to begin Speak free or die Elton John – Daniel Ted Cruz’s finest moment Prototype variable star has a previously unknown companion Is the dark material along Europa’s long surface fissures sea salt? Russians confirm flip of Progress and Soyuz launches Clint Mansell – Lux Aeterna (Requiem for a Dream) NASA announces bold plan to still exist by 2045 New Horizons spots all of Pluto’s 5 known moons Engine failure for Japan’s Procyon probe Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain What caused the failed separation of the Soyuz and Progress? Sarah Brightman pulls out of her flight to ISS later this year Arianespace admits it is in a head-to-head competition with SpaceX House Science Committee approves changes to space law Stephanopoulos admits he is a Democratic stooge Nina Conti – “I think the world is ready to see my dance moves.” The rage builds, even in a posh DC suburb Lorrie Morgan – Something in Red Another Proton launch failure Balanced rock on Comet 67P/C-G Update on Saturday’s Proton launch failure Broken arm Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway Celebrating the death of the mainstream media Update on Seattle’s stalled Big Bertha tunnel project House Appropriations reveals its proposed NASA budget The media’s fraud and dishonest bias documented Rogozin pins Proton failure on “moral degeneration” Guang Dong – Pas de deux How the DEA harasses and robs train passengers India prepares reusable prototype mini-shuttle for July flight X-37B launch a success Russians delay next Angara launch to replace Briz upper stage Zooming in on Ceres’ mysterious double bright spot Chico and Harpo Marx – At the piano Jack Johnson, Eddie Vedder, Kawika Kahiapo – Constellations Another Dragon returns home House passes revisions to space law India considers its next interplanetary mission Nature ignores the elephant in the room Coral islands defy sea level rise Patriot Act snooping prevented no terrorism Fascist gays attack business for providing them services Health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket under Obamacare Drastic changes in Mars South Pole icecap B.B. King – The Thrill Is Gone PBS news anchor admits she is a Democratic stooge Russian executive acknowledges SpaceX is beating them Japan to upgrade its ISS cargo freighter XCOR gets funding from Chinese venture capital firm Patriot Act renewal fails in Senate The Dragon launchpad abort test, from the capsule’s point of view “If they are white kill ‘em all.” Corruption in the Russian space industry The state of the Republican presidential campaign Berlin July 1945 in color UAE establishes space agency The Russian investigation into Progress failure stalled? ISS reconfiguration moves forward New world record for longest hoverboard flight Senate Republican leaders ready to cave to save Obamacare Appeals court rules against Obama immigration executive order Democrats propose more Obamacare to solve problems caused by Obamacare Kenny Rogers – The Gambler NOAA caught tampering with temperature data again Air Force finally certifies SpaceX Solar sail experiment stymied by software crash ISS module rearrangement a success Hawaii’s governor imposes new deal for Mauna Kea Criminal charges against Russian workers who caused Proton failure Obamacare overhead eats 22% of all health care costs Secret Service tries to steal $115K from a business couple Hubble films of movie of a jet firing from a black hole NSF to help fund the development of implantable antennas New Images of Pluto from New Horizons X-37B orbit uncovered Russian rocket now garden furniture in England ABBA – Arrival “These are the brownshirts of our time.” A journalist and filmmaking team fake a study and the press buys it It looks like the Moon! Russian rocket engines ready for shipment to U.S. A solar system like our own, but when it was a baby Another major image release from Rosetta Sesame Street – Fat Cat Sat Hat ALMA detects a solar flare on Mira 420 light years away Same-sex science paper retracted Live anthrax spores shipped improperly by U.S. military A teacher’s Title IX inquisition The increased bureaucracy imposed on doctors by Obamacare The replacement SpaceShipTwo gets its legs Rosetta team proposes landing on comet to finish mission Proton third stage design problem cause most recent failure ESA and Airbus Safran agree on deal to build Ariane 6 Carrie Underwood – Different Drum Pro-crime policies work! Unsafe anthrax shipments more extensive than first revealed The long term decline in the United States’ GDP More details concerning Russian Proton investigation New flights from SpaceShipTwo will likely not happen for years India’s spaceplane prototype to fly by August LightSail reboots and restores communications Highlights from the just completed 2015 robotics conference in Seattle LightSail deployment scheduled for Tuesday Steve Martin – The Crow ULA to trim management by 30% Senator proposes criminal charges against global warming skeptics FEC tries to force PAC to change its name Astronomers accept terms imposed on them by protesters in Hawaii Air Force asks private companies to develop new rocket engines Akilah Hughes – Every youtube video ever Mars One only had about 4,000 applicants, not 200,000 Angara to launch commercial payload on next launch Pluto’s moons rotate chaotically GMT about to begin construction Even more rate hikes expected in 2016 due to Obamacare J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D on Glass Harp A massive breach of federal personnel data Pushing Darwin LightSail deploys, then falls silent again Soyuz rocket to launch this week Scott Walker reveals his inner Democrat Republicans propose replacement after they repeal Obamacare Airbus unveils its first stage re-useability concept The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream Hawaii’s highest court takes on TMT case Manned flights from Vostochny delayed LightSail back in business? “There’s certainly something ironic about watching thousands of people watching three hundredweight of circuitry and metal trying to sort out a doorknob.” Obamacare bureaucracy threatens doctors who speak out State Department proposes fines for writing about guns without permission Bee die off hasn’t happened Turkey’s Islamists lose Parliament in elections today LightSail deploys its solar sails Jets on Comet 67P/C-G now persist into the night Dawn makes a movie of Ceres SpaceShipTwo debris from crash almost hit two truck drivers LightSail successfully deploys solar sail Bullet hole found in Mauna Kea observatory Problems at Stratolaunch TSA fails to find links to terrorism of airport workers Ramp down to solar minimum continues Want a law passed? Bribe your Senator! Parachute problems again for NASA’s flying saucer Parks and Recreation – “Thoughts For Your Thoughts” Google and Facebook cancel satellite plans Hole in observatory door was not caused by bullet Russia completes Soyuz launchpad at Vostochny Video of NASA’s flying saucer test Rare large meteorite stolen from Australian museum Obamacare sets record for unpopularity with public $28 billion spent on poor biomedical research? Did some dinosaur soft tissues survive fossilization? Finding caves on Mars Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair Russia announces revised launch schedule for ISS Fifteen-year-old discovers exoplanet The collapse of Russian scientific innovation New close-up image of Ceres’s double bright spots SpaceX begins planning a 4,000 satellite internet constellation Judge rules the arrest of a citizen during a local meeting illegal A compilation of robots falling down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge The truth about bottled water The first sex in space! The crooked politics behind the Obamatrade deal Is this Philae? “It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to.” ISS crew returns safely to Earth Death by 1000 lashes for writing a blog post Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill New images from New Horizons of Pluto NASA to launch first interplanetary cubesats Things look bad for Obamatrade fast track Flashback to ABC’s 2008 climate predictions for 2015 75% of Russia’s satellite electronics come from U.S. The sad remains of the Soviet space shuttle program SpaceX – The Blue Danube Philae returns to life! The complicated status of Obamatrade in Congress Maryland DJ under attack for not working a homosexual party OneWeb picks Airbus to build its first 900 satellites Getting Philae back up and running All that Jazz – audition scene Methane in Martian rocks Anti-drilling environmentalists trash environment during protest Federal government has no system for verifying Obamacare subsidies Cat Choir Another successful course correction for New Horizons Rosetta repositions to improve contact with Philae Saudia Arabia and Russia sign space exploration agreement France sells Arianespace to Airbus Safran UrtheCast releases its first commercial videos of Earth OPM ignored warnings last year its computers were insecure Research finds that viewing cat videos makes people happy Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet smaller than Earth The Swiss Top Secret Drum Corp Active lava flows found on Venus Spaceports battle for space tourists The newest Republican proposal on Obamacare Fast track trade authority passes in House Some stories of hate Supreme Court voids local sign ordiance Retired test pilot buys his own Harrier SES wants to launch with a recovered Falcon 9 first stage Philae contacts Rosetta again Falcon 9 landing barge replaced and upgraded School scans student thumbprints, giving data to federal government Federal Court rules in favor of lawsuit against IRS for harassment Woods – Rain On The Pluto/Charon orbital dance TMT construction to resume on Wednesday Government forces closure of another Christian business A closer close-up of Ceres’ double bright spot When to doubt a scientific consensus Supreme Court rules government cannot confisicate farmer crops Russia replaces Brightman with Kazakhstan astronaut Rosetta’s mission has been extended until September 2016 Another Vega rocket launch success The orbiter structure for India’s next lunar mission delivered Ted Cruz outlines why he now opposes fast track trade Government celebrates ten years of stealing private land New images of Pluto The icy patches on Comet 67P/C-G Republican-led Senate proposes big budget boost for NIH The disaster of state-run Obamacare health exchanges One month after it realized it needed them, IRS erased email backups ISS Symphony – Timelapse of Earth House conservatives push back against Boehner Construction crews turned back by protesters at Mauna Kea Conservative journalist harassed by customs agents “Words no longer have meaning.” Hawaii governor halts TMT construction again The world launch market embraces launch reusability OneWeb awards major launch contracts Finding Pluto is really New Horizon’s biggest problem House leadership reinstates conservative lawmaker Black hole awakes after 26 years Lois Lerner’s hard drive failed because of “impact” Art Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water An update on Rosetta’s effort to re-establish contact with Philae The foolish petty Republican response to the Supreme Court SpaceX reviews its previous first stage landing attempts Tiller’s Folly – Panhandle Rag Cruz proposes requiring judges to face voters periodically Hawaii governor condemns protesters Audi joins race to the Moon Falcon 9 explodes two minutes into launch The future roadmap of religious persecution in America The mighty J58 engine, the SR-71’s secret powerhouse NASA to waste $150 million on SLS engine that will be used once. Russian sets record for most time spent in space Road to Mauna Kea to remain closed for the rest of the week Another Dawn image of some of Ceres’ bright spots Cher – Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves New Horizons gets closer Contractor’s assets seized at Vostochny Cubesat company raises $80 million The negative, depressing mainstream press Active sinkholes found on Comet 67P/C-G New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – The Windmills of Your Mind What we will and will not see during the Pluto fly-by TMT protesters complain about road closure Rocket Labs picks New Zealand for its launch site The jets on Comet 67P/C-G come from its sinkholes Air Force sticks with SpaceX Jonah Morgan – A GoPro view of surfing in Indonesia Progress successfully launched into orbit Dragon/Falcon 9 launch abort test moved from Vandenberg to Kennedy New poll finds hostility to the federal government growing Oregon fines couple who refused to bake a same-sex cake $135K, also ordering them to shut up Take 6 – Star-Spangled Banner New Horizons temporarily loses contact with Earth “All my Muslim brothers and sisters must understand that it became a moral imperative for all inhabitants of war-torn Middle-East, namely Arabs, to desist their absurd hostility toward Jewish people.” Obamacare continues to cause health insurance premiums to skyrocket The Fifth Anniversary of Behind the Black All A-OK with New Horizons Fifth anniversary fund-raiser James Taylor – Still crazy after all these years Dawn recovers from safe mode Great Britain space agency calls for an increased space effort Astronomers propose giant super Hubble replacement An overview of New Horizons’ mission, in graphics Study finds electric cars more environmentally damaging than gas guzzlers The fascist academic community The IRS and Obama administration planned to criminally prosecute its opponents IRS defies judge’s court order in Lerner email scandal Brainstorm – the world’s smartest mouse New Horizons team proposes cool names for Charon and Pluto features Musk makes first extended public comments since Falcon 9 failure A New Horizons map of Pluto Dance of the stars Giant robot battle set for June 2016 Oregon bakers raise $200K from supporters A Democratic senator admits she doesn’t believe in free speech Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now Best image yet of Pluto Watch Opportunity’s full journey on Mars, in 8 minutes Some results from SpaceX’s Dragon launchpad abort test A new double dynamo theory to explain the Sun’s solar cycle A bullseye in space On the radio tonight Vince Carrola – Pachelbel’s Canon in D New image of Pluto and Charon New radio communications from Philae India puts five satellites in orbit with one rocket launch NASA names its astronauts for the first Dragon and CST-100 flights Juno flight plan at Jupiter revised SpaceX in no hurry to launch 4000 satellite constellation The incivility and hostility of the Mauna Kea protesters Persecution of conservatives by the IRS and Wisconsin Democrats linked Frank Sinatra – My Way Oregon threatens to take home of Christian bakers Another new Pluto image Hawaii officials vote to limit access to Mauna Kea Ceres’ white spots might be salt not water The last image of Pluto’s opposition hemisphere Pluto on July 11 The approaching perihelion of Comet 67P/C-G Free to shut up On the radio The size of Pluto pinned down TU Delft – Ambulance Drone Pluto just before close encounter Road to Mauna Kea opened, with restrictions Some speculations from scientists about Pluto data Peace in our time! Court rules Obamacare requires nuns to buy contraceptives Pluto and Charon in false color “We are in lock with telemetry with the spacecraft!” Bond Girls – Korobushka First Vostochny launch expected before year’s end A geological tour of Comet 67P/C-G The wine-sipping butchers of Planned Parenthood Why the Jews are the canary in the coal mine First New Horizons fly-by images released Democratic fake skepticism, and Republican failure theater Obamacare gives money to fake applicants Astronomers find exoplanet twin of Jupiter Don McLean – American Pie Growing and eating lettuce on ISS The government-run Russian space program trims its budget A Canadian man faces jail time for merely disagreeing with two feminists on Twitter. Weird geology on Charon Wisconsin Supreme Court declares illegal Democratic SWAT team raids on conservatives Bird loves GoPro India engine test a success Russia considers building heavy-lift rocket like SLS More Pluto news! Angara to fly commercially by 2017 Islamic attack in France Apple makes the conservative internet vanish Obamacare increases are only going to get worse Tim Weisberg – Margarita Dawn resumes descent to Ceres The Earth from a million miles away Philae status update Baikonur Cosmodrome to open for tourists Internet tycoon commits $100 million to alien life search Iran’s parliament questioning Iran nuclear deal SpaceX pinpoints likely cause of Falcon 9 failure Judy Garland – Somewhere over the rainbow Another successful engine test for India Falcon Heavy first test flight delayed again John Kerry doesn’t understand the words “Death to America!” Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Prelude and Yodel Japan wants you to name Hayabusa-2’s target asteroid! Mountains and craters on Pluto? Haze spotted over Ceres’ double bright spot Robotic servicing demo resumes on ISS Hackers demonstrate they can remotely take over moving vehicle Soyuz launches crew to ISS Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight Russians confirm their commitment to ISS through 2024 More problems at Virgin Galactic? Astronomers confirm Kepler discovery of near twin of Earth GAO finds IRS still focused on harassing conservatives Worlds without end Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) discovers why he is an idiot Leroy Anderson – Typewriter Song Cruz calls McConnell a liar in the Senate New Pluto data released Dolly Parton – Jolene India’s space agency calls for more hiring Proton failure investigation finds quality control the root problem Anthony Newley and Petula Clark – You and I Names on Ceres $126 million stolen in Vostochny construction The UK launches a 3D printed airplane drone SpaceShipTwo accident report released Where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean How Comet 67P/C-G interacts with the solar wind Hawaii government not enforcing Mauna Kea emergency rule Four skeletons at Jamestown identified Puzzling red arcs on the Saturn moon Tethys Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Counting bats on a Saturday evening Kazakhstan gets a cut rate deal from Russia “I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally in contempt.” Obamacare co-ops losing money Arrested for playing Star-Spangled Banner on July 4, man reject plea deal Astronomers confirm existence of Earthlike exoplanet 21 light years away Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven The supernova of 1987 finally begins to fade Philae results published Alan Stern gives the IAU a piece of his mind Why an impossible space engine has not been discovered New Ebola vaccine 100% successful in trial Snake vs Centipede Twenty arrested for blocking trucks to different mountain telescope in Hawaii Republican leaders find support for Boehner’s speakership very weak in House All Rosetta data through Philae landing released China races to finish giant radio telescope NASA considers offering SLS for commercial payloads Lorrie Morgan – Will You Love Me Tomorrow Orion might not be ready for 2018 test flight Solar panels more climate damaging than coal The Muppets – Ode to Joy Airbus patents design for a supersonic ramjet airplane Texas government officials kidnap 11 children illegally from parents Curiosity looks ahead at its future travels The sunspot decline continues TMT protesters gather outside IAU conference in Hawaii DSCOVR images the Moon crossing in front of the Earth Joe Hisaishi & New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – Tubular Bells NASA extends Russian crew ferry contract through 2019 for $490 million Big fire in the mountains above Tucson Auschwitz commandant outraged over Mengele video Finger Rock Fire update Another movie of Ceres from Dawn Russia delivers to Orbital ATK the first two new Antares engines The bog bodies of Europe Stratolaunch shifts to the small sat market Footage of the Red Baron from 9/17/17 Scientists narrow the next Mars rover candidate landing sites to 8 Houston trying to steal land from two churches Anne Murray – I Just Fall in Love Again Mauna Kea visitor center reopens The mobile launch building at Vostochny The troubles caused by Obamacare in Colorado Nathan and Eva Leach – Hero Sudden outburst activity on Comet 67P/C-G Update on Boeing’s CST-100 Ten years after the Russians did it, NASA finally produces lettuce in space Astronomers chart the universe’s slow death July 4th flash flood captured on video Where is Pluto’s nitrogen coming from? Orbital ATK orders second Atlas 5 for launching cargo to ISS Contract to build Ariane 6 signed Contract to build upgraded Vega rocket signed The Space Show modernization crowd-funding campaign David Gilmour of Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond NASA considers using Bigelow module for deep space missions DARPA awards phase 2 space plane contracts A look at Ted Cruz’s election strategy The wild Martian terrain Obamacare forces schools to cut back Cassini’s last fly-by of Dionne on Monday Astronomers photograph an exoplanet The entire world economy explained using cows “They just didn’t think.” The Brothers Four – Scarlet Ribbons A 30-year government science fraud exposed NOAA scientists predict developing El Niño could be strongest ever Requiring scientists to document their methods caused positive results in medical trials to plunge Lumbering the Redwoods Spectacular 3D image of Mars from Mangalyaan NASA postpones decision again for 2nd ISS cargo contracts “When EPA is not ignoring Supreme Court limitations on it, it is blithely disregarding rule-making laws required of it.” Fund-raising campaign to help bakery threatened by gay fascists IRS computer hack bigger than previously thought Orbital ATK cargo contract extended Sibelius – Waltz Trist Soyuz rocket builder proposes major upgrade A detailed status update on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Comet 67P/C-G’s fractured surface Another slew of science papers retracted because of fraud What cavers do for fun Japan launches HTV cargo ship to ISS The modern horror story Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Boeing’s 747 is finally heading for retirement Russians consider building reusable rocket Ecologists try to control reporting of their presentations A calculator beats IPCC supercomputer models in predicting climate Cruz’s good positioning in campaign recognized by more pundits Cassini’s last close-up images of Dionne Scott Ott – How NPR really covers the GOP Presidential Primary race Eight telescope protesters arrested on road to summit of Haleakala on Maui Whiskey in space! Oldest message-in-a-bottle found after 108 years The next Lois Lerner, this time at the Federal Election Commission Florida demands real skim milk be declared “imitation” because nothing was added to it. Making excuses for moden Islamic slavery The one climate prediction that has come true Iran: We “reject the existence of any Israeli on this Earth.” Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano concerto No.5 Two years from today a total eclipse will cross the U.S. “SJW zealots proved their commitment to tolerance, openness and variety by vowing not to read a work found on [an opposing] slate under any circumstances.” Oregon forest fires blamed on federal ban on logging An update on XCOR’s Lynx suborbital craft Helium reserves might be greater than previous believed Wisconsin spends $1.2 million defending “John Doe” prosecutors. Tooth of Time IRS reveals Lerner used more than one personal email address New sharp images of Ceres from Dawn Russia to do all-female simulated Moon mission Boeing lobbies for renewal of the Export-Import Bank A breakthrough in creating fusion power? EPA withholds Colorado disaster documents demanded by Congress Cubesats to the Moon! Rod Hull And Emu – How To Groom An Emu An update on Gaia’s first year of astronomical observations New Hubble image of Twin Jet Nebula Russia delays first manned Vostochny launch seven years India starts countdown for the launch of its big rocket IAU balks at some Pluto names picked by New Horizons team The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall Launch of India’s big rocket a success States okay big insurance premium increases caused by Obamacare The terrible political consequences of Iran deal to the Democratic Party More than half of published psychology papers cannot be replicated Alexander Rybak & Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos – Clair de Lune Comet 67P/C-G goes boom! Proton launches successfully Hawaii Supreme Court hears arguments on TMT constructions Wyoming farmer defies the EPA New EU tax law puts thousands out of business Judge rules IRS must disclose White House requests for private taxpayer information New Horizons team picks its next Kuiper Belt target Alexander Rybak – Into A Fantasy A movie of New Horizons’ Pluto fly-by Russia accelerating development of Soyuz replacement Charges dropped against man for playing Star-Spangled Banner on July 4th Obamacare to punish small businesses for helping employees Anti-establishment non-politicians top Iowa poll On the radio The elephants of Bushcamp Company’s Mfuwe Lodge SpaceX delays its next launch What it was like practicing Islam for the first Malaysian in space Data from New Horizons does not match what is seen from Earth The Space Show website upgrade is 70% funded Kentucky clerk again defies Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages Largest glacier calving event ever filmed Government still hasn’t notified individuals whose personal data was hacked Curiosity spots a spoon on Mars! Blue Origin abandons patent for barge-landing a rocket Blue Origin wins financial incentives to build in Florida Manned Soyuz heads for ISS with new crew Atlas 5 successfully launches U.S. military satellite Technical problems for cosmic ray detector on ISS Shake-ups in the Google Lunar X-Prize competition 170 million guns purchased, crime drops by half Iran deal gets enough Democratic votes to pass Jay Ungar & Molly Mason – Ashokan Farewell First Falcon Heavy launch now scheduled for April/May 2016 Soyuz capsule maneuvers to avoid space junk Apollo lunar samples crumbling to dust High res radar instrument fails on Earth observation satellite The Earth has a lot of trees! New engineering gives a man paralyzed from the waist down the ability to walk again. VA fiddled while sick veterans died CST-100 name to be unveiled on Friday The Tokens – The Lion Sleeps Tonight Crew docks with ISS School lunch program collapsing under Obama Boeing names its CST-100 manned capsule Starliner Glen Campbell & Flip Wilson ~ Rocky Racoon New Horizons data dump about to begin Russia testing upgraded Soyuz capsule The push at SpaceX to resume flights is accelerating How a scuba tank is made Another political story today says John Boehner’s position as House Speaker is under threat Al Stewart – Year of the Cat Venus probe about to rise from the dead China lunar lander to be aimed at the Moon’s far side. Spaceport head says Lynx to launch in early 2016 Closing in on Ceres’s bright spots Republican revolt over Iran deal vote Earl Scruggs & Men with Banjos – Foggy Mountain Breakdown Aerojet Rocketdyne makes $2 billion offer to buy ULA Police arrest 8 protesters camping illegally on Mauna Kea ULA and Blue Origin sign new agreement Engineers propose using SpaceX rocket and capsule to bring samples back from Mars New human species found? Martian floods regional, not global Brandon Ridenour & Rachel Kudo – Fantasy Variations” on a theme by Paganini New Pluto images! A new company enters the smallsat business Europe’s Galileo GPS constellation reaches 10 satellites SpaceX releases video showing glimpse of manned Dragon interior A detailed update on the efforts to contact Philae Southern ocean absorbs more CO2 than expected Mitch McConnell makes a fool of himself CDC expands investigation into military handling of dangerous disease samples Petrified sand dunes on Mars The day we forgot Whiskey tastes strange after being aged in space The Bridge at Q’eswachaka The first sharp pictures of Pluto’s moon Nix Doctor fired for daring to disagree with homosexual agenda New launch contracts for SpaceX and ILS The slow disappearance of college English departments Decline to solar minimum Two more arrests for embezzlement at Vostochny Gale Garnett – We’ll Sing in the Sunshine Astronomers find no evidence of nearby alien civilizations Rivers and lakes on Pluto? Second successful Proton launch in a row Virgin Galactic announces changes to LauncherOne Yearlong mission on ISS reaches halfway point Blue Origin announces it will launch from Florida Giant global ocean inside Saturn’s moon Enceladus Cursing the police and the law is legal Obamacare more severely punishes hospitals serving the poor More rumors swirl about replacing Boehner as House Speaker Lou Reed and David Bowie – Waiting for the Man On the radio Philae landing in real time Aerojet Rocketdyne lobbies its rocket engines to Congress and ULA Road crews remove stone altar built by TMT protesters on Mauna Kea New census data confirms more Obamacare failure NASA delays first Orion manned flight two more years ULA rejects Aerojet Rocketdyne $2 billion bid to buy company Railroad thermite welding ILS to slash prices for Proton EPA violated Endangered Species Act in Colorado The Tiny Dot New images from Pluto Students defy school restrictions on free speech Auckland Symphony Orchestra – Angry Birds Ted Cruz, Sitting Pretty Hawaii arranges to schedule next TMT protest Worker fired because lesbian was bothered by his Christianity. Students win lawsuit against university speech restrictions Saudia Arabia condemns 17-year-old to crucification for protesting government ExoMars delayed three months to fix technical problem Philomena Cunk’s Moments of Wonder: Time Audit finds Obama administration complicent in the Obamacare website fraud and cost overruns Global warming advocates call for the prosecution of scientists who disagree with them China to launch new rocket today Why I am not impressed with Fiorina’s impressive words More data tampering at NOAA Changes on the surface of Comet 67P/C-G Long March 6 launch a success Iran nuclear deal allows Iran to increase funding to terrorists New SpaceShipTwo first flight delayed until 2016 Around the World in 80 Days Mangalyaan in great shape Researchers push for access to confidential government records of the public Robert Tiso – Moonlight Sonata on glass harp ULA and Orbital ATK ink new rocket motor contract GAO criticizes the staff and budget request of FAA’s commercial space office Boeing reveals landing sites for Starliner Harvesting tulip bulbs with modern engineering Legal costs to university from Mauna Kea protests squeezing education budgets Milky Way’s central black hole is getting active Obamacare causes health insurance deductibles to skyrocket New Pluto images China debuts another new rocket Aerojet is considering increasing its $2 billion offer to buy ULA Rosetta data reveals how a comet evaporates Boehner steps down Opportunity marathons on The Lion Roars First rocket arrives at Vostochny 66% of all surface climate data is adjusted Using fish to study bone loss in weightlessness Boeing’s first stealth plane concept New EPA ozone regulations based on fantasy India launches its first space observatory The dark streaks on Mars are water Comet 67P/C-G was formed by a soft collision SpaceX test fires its Falcon 9 upgraded first stage Back to the Grand Canyon The modern glassmaker Back from the Grand Canyon Virgin Galactic tests new rocket engine Creeping towards commercial and private weather satellites NASA signs deal with Boeing for operating ISS through 2020 Development of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine moves forward Smallsat company buys its own Falcon 9 rocket to launch 20 satelites Congress places additional limits on Russian rocket engine use NASA pulls funding from private asteroid hunter Vostochny launch building built to the wrong size A new map of Ceres Charon in color It wasn’t just an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs New Horizons next fly-by Moon Express buys launch contract Lockheed Martin eliminated from ISS cargo contract competition ULA completes its 100th successful launch France considers developing reusable first stage A list of all smallsat launch rockets Government overpayments going up by billions School officials ashamed of the U.S. Facebook to provide internet access to Africa Nat King Cole – Red Sails In The Sunset Republicans investigate global warming scientists who demanded skeptics be prosecuted Curiosity’s future path What Facebook “likes” reveal about the candidates Ramp down in sunspots continues IPPC replaces head with economist Guess where? An avalanche on Mars, as it happens Government workers earn 78% more than private workers Sounds of a Glass Armonica Another Google Lunar X-Prize contestant announces launch contract Russian proposes private lunar satellite to prove Apollo landings China launches first commercial Earth-observation satellite Yale makes available online 170,000 photographs from WWII period A planet-forming disk with mysterious ripples Ozone-destroying gas suddenly decreases for no reason How the Republican Party might break-up Government admits whole milk was always good for you Conservative Republicans back Webster for Speaker Construction by helicopter Sierra Nevada touts new work on Dream Chaser Second Atlas 5 launch in only six days Cygnus grabs March Atlas 5 launch slot Army building its first operational ray gun? Kevin McCarthy drops out of Speaker election Ice and blue skies on Pluto More confirmation from Curiosity of past lakes in Gale Crater To Scale: The Solar System Another EPA wastewater spill in Colorado Sunlight rolled the rocks on an asteroid Russian lunar mission delayed again 3D image of Comet 67P/C-G Next New Shepard test flight expected before December Increase push to get Ryan to run for House Speaker Joaquin Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez, 2nd movement Ella Fitzgerald – Angel Eyes Back from a weekend underground Judge rules in favor of telescope protesters Pentagon refuses ULA Russian engine waiver Russia to sell China rocket engines? ULA picks Vulcan launchpads Getting India’s first space telescope working Neiman Marcus sells suborbital space tickets Solar ramp down jumps slightly Judge proposes using courts to ban global warming skepticism New weather maps of Jupiter Cassini’s last flybys of Enceladus Next Falcon 9 launch delayed to December Don Henley – Take A Picture Of This Putin delays first launch from Vostochny “There are kindergarten classes with more realistic assessments of cost-benefit tradeoffs than the crowd watching this debate at the Wynn Las Vegas.” New global maps of Titan Kepler finds a star no one can explain Real clam digging Next Cygnus to launch December 3 Antares failure wipes out Aerojet’s 2nd quarter profits Smallsat rocket launchers get NASA contracts More evidence of giant flash floods on Mars Iran writes its own bill Two more Obamacare state co-ops fail Ben-Hur – The Chariot Race Fractures on Enceladus’s north pole R.I.P. George Mueller Mark Knopfler – Last Exit To Brooklyn SpaceX switches payloads for next launch Another Proton launch success China launches commercial satellite Study questions scientific dating method Eleven more Obamacare co-ops face bankruptcy MTNS – Lost track of time Obamacare causes school shutdowns in Tennessee New cheap way to turn sea water drinkable? This year’s building El Niño? Islamic State in retreat in Iraq? 200 new lunar impact craters discovered Bridge Girder Erection Mega Machine Earth might be one of the universe’s first habitable planets Two NASA employees indicted for allowing Chinese scientist access Hawaii names third telescope to be removed from Mauna Kea SpaceX Dragonfly test vehicle arrives in Texas Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad Chris Botti & Sting – Bourbon Street New Horizons begins course change Another Pluto Moon revealed Update on Vostochny delays ULA prepares Atlas 5 for its third October launch The largest astronomical image ever Obamacare still accepts fake enrollees Engineers create the blackest material yet Justice Dept ends IRS investigation with no charges The coming dark ages Mason Williams & Deborah Henson-Conant – Classical Gas Mysterious piece of space junk to hit Earth Pluto in 3D A detailed update on the Falcon 9 return-to-flight Zero-G airplane makes emergency landing NASA to decide on 2nd cargo contracts Nov 5 Drinking beer prevents brain damage! Pluto’s meandering canyons Billions of Obamacare funds pocketed by Democrats Congressional leaders negotiating 2-year spending deal New Horizons makes second course burn Worldview tests subscale prototype of its balloon and capsule The New Periodic Table Song Lockheed Martin ready to build Orion? The Okinawa missiles of October John Williams – Dry Your Tears, Áfrika Dawn begins descent to final orbit around Ceres Buy the first computer to fly in space! Early Apollo rover prototype sold for scrap ULA shuffles and trims its executive leadership Russia’s ten-year space policy delayed again Comet 67P/C-G has passed peak brightness Get 2 out of 10 questions right and pass! Ryan to support budget deal Another Obamacare co-op fails A mother and father is still the best for kids 45 Republicans vote against Paul Ryan nomination Boots Randolph – Yakety Sax Oxygen in Comet 67P/C-G coma Cassini survives unharmed its close flyby of Enceladus Moon buggy saved from scrap heap Camille Saint-Saëns – La danse macabre New Horizons completes third course change engine burn Yutu still operational after two years Fiber optic cable damaged on Mauna Kea High school coach suspended for praying Christians do have a right to religion in Dearborn Enceladus flyby images begin arriving John Jorgenson Quintet – Ghost Dance Eutelsat signs a multi-launch Proton rocket deal Greenland ice sheet not covered in soot An Enceladus close look History: CNBC, the tea party, and this week’s debate Sea level fraud by the Colorado Sea Level Research Group Third successful Atlas 5 launch in October Another Obamacare co-op, the largest, collapses 2016 Obamacare premiums to skyrocket 20% Rosetta special science issue British spaceplane concept gets infusion of cash ISS celebrates 15 years of continuous occupation French television weatherman fired for doubting global warming Cruz demands Justice Dept preserve IRS scandal documents Excommunication scene from Becket Richard Branson makes another prediction! China unveils model of planned 2020 Martian probe The Martian surface was shaped by volcanic acid fog? A hybrid coyote/wolf prospers in the eastern U.S. Grizzly bear no longer endangered in Yellowstone Kingston Trio – They’re rioting in Africa Experimental Air Force rocket launch fails Update to commercial space law stalled in Senate Tomato harvesting Crowded Mexico City and colonization of space Recreating the changing giant starspots on a distant star A closer look at the fake sea level data Tony MacAlpine Band – Tears of Sahara New Horizons on the way to 2014 MU69 No sign of alien civilization at distant star Competition for ISS cargo contract reduced to three More Mexico commentary to come Noteworthy – Amazing Grace Yale students demand two administrators be fired for defending free speech Two Mauna Kea protesters convicted but get minor sentences Epic monuments and power Why cold fusion and NASA’s EM Drive are most likely frauds Nested comments disabled Republican claims of media bias supported by facts Ice volcanoes, spinning moons, and more proof of geologic activity David Arnold – Independence Day Time to shut the universities down? The proper way to peel hard boiled eggs Phobos is being pulled apart Comments restored The most distant object in the solar system Another new American rocket engine tested successfully Congress revises law governing commercial space SpaceX successfully tests its Dragon capsule abort rocket thrusters Stars in the Milky Way so old they predate it Wrong professor fired at University of Missouri Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again Earth-sized exoplanet found only 39 light years away Ground-breaking for the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile Planning the coming end of Rosetta Failed GPS satellites to test Einstein’s theory Dubai to use jetpacks to fight fires Iridium launch delayed to fix problem Bibles banned from school libraries in Tennessee More mob college protests, now in New York Student reporter files complaint against teacher Vizio smart televisions watch YOU Decline to solar minimum continues Florida school district threatens homeschool parents with arrest EPA rewards Gold King contractor with more contracts Annual Sept 11 event banned at University of Minnesota Copenhagen Phil – Ravel’s Bolero Next Blue Origin test flight before end of year Astronomers measure 5,400 mph winds on exoplanet Mysterious piece of space junk burns up over Indian Ocean Denial by everyone College students demand professor be punished for expressing an opinion Playwright forces play cancellation for racist reasons Amherst students demand punishment for those expressing opinions they disagree with Police steal a citizen’s guns and ammo Obama declares “we have contained ISIS” even as they execute an attack in Paris Mendes Harmónica Trio – Beethoven’s 5th Symphony Orbital ATK’s next cargo ship to ISS is packed and ready to fly Obamacare causing large numbers of doctors to flee medicine Is ISIS Islamic? Islam scholars say yes! Enceladus rises over Dione The uncertainty of climate science on account of because Curiosity heads for the dunes Short circuit on ISS ULA concedes GPS competition to SpaceX Israel eases its restrictions on gun use John Rich – The Battle of New Orleans Why the English language is odd Vine to Wine The first image of a newly formed exoplanet Japan’s Venus probe zeros in on Dec 7 arrival Hawaii’s Supreme Court temporarily stops TMT Largest diamond found in more than a century The Portland Cello Project – Denmark ULA is adding cubesat capability to its Atlas 5 Bezos gives museum recovered Saturn V engines Another company enters the orbital remote sensing field Obamacare regulations to destroy craft beer industry Trump’s real weakness Dawn’s first close look at Ceres’s poles The Pacific Crest Trail in Three Minutes NASA contracting development of new ion/nuclear engines More students demand firing of a teacher for saying things they didn’t like NASA contracts Aeroject Rocketdyne to build shuttle engines for SLS Gene Pitney – Last Chance To Turn Around Spat between senators over Russian rockets Blue Origin lands first stage rocket vertically XCOR founders step down Japan launches its first commercial payload The climate fraud at NASA Ex-Im bank: Crony capitalism at its absolute worst They mean what they say Oldest known footage of New York City Earth’s magnetic field might not be flipping The launch cost of Japan’s H-IIA rocket Aerojet Rocketdyne gets Boeing rocket engine contract Iran deal “not legally binding” Tommy Emmanuel, John Jorgenson, Pedro Javier González – Sultans of Swing A developing new astronomical mystery The blackballing of Judith Curry Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land Falcon 9 failure debris washes up off English coast The United Kingdom Ukulele orchestra – Tubular Bells The big money for climate alarmism Marine court-martialed for displaying Biblical verses Mainstream media outlet notices possible news! 3D shape model of Comet 67P/C-G The jets of Enceladus The global warming conference’s gigantic carbon footprint John Williams – Flying theme from ET Russia describes its planned first manned Moon mission Deposed XCOR founders form new company Turning planes into trucks Scientists begin another attempt to drill through the Earth’s crust Cygnus to launch on Thursday NY’s Obamacare co-op failure forces doctors to demand cash up front The first Ceres atlas Money is worthless in 2016 Presidential campaign Hope and Cagney dancing Next Falcon 9 first stage to touch down on land? More than half Kepler planet candidates false positives Loggins & Messina – Watching the River Run, House at Pooh Corner, Danny’s Boy Japan’s Hayabusa-2 flies past Earth Lisa Pathfinder lifts off Hawaii’s Supreme Court kills TMT Russia’s ten-year space budget slashed again Arm yourself Syria’s only astronaut now a refugee Oblique view of Ceres’s bright spots Boxer cites California gun laws to stop California terrorist attacks U.S. Navy Midshipmen – Naptown Funk Atlas 5/Cygnus launch scrubbed due to weather LRO finds lunar impact site for Apollo rocket stage NASA Mars lander might miss 2016 launch window. Virgin Galactic to use 747 for LauncherOne Beaver dams centuries old India wins contract to launch private weather satellites New spectacular images of Pluto Winds scrub Atlas 5/Cygnus launch Richard Galliano Tangaria Quarter – Autumn Leaves Western Muslim reformers to name extremists in their mosques The murder rate on U.S. islands with strict gun laws Atlas 5 successfully launches Cygnus to ISS Russia has another launch failure Success at last for Akatsuki A new technique for creating diamonds Rabbis endorse Cruz as polls show him surging Sunspots continue predicted decline Roosevelt’s speech responding to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Japan commits to ISS through 2024 National Youth Orchestra of the USA – Simple Gifts More data says no alien civilization at KIC 8462852 Akatsuki’s Venus orbit confirmed Cygnus berthed at ISS French Mars’ instrument repair looks good Second Google Lunar X-Prize launch contract confirmed Gagarin wins contest for new Russian spacecraft name Bright spots on Ceres likely salt deposits Kurt Nilsen – Walking In The Air A movie of Ceres Obamacare squeezes the economy Gabriella Quevedo – 7 Years Curiosity arrives at Martian dune Next Falcon 9 launch set for December 19 How to land on a carrier with a missing front wheel Hayabusa2 on course for asteroid rendezvous Proton launch success The King’s Singers – Greensleeves Rosetta hi-res images released New astronaut crew to ISS, including Brit ULA’s fight to use Russian engines continues Hype in science papers on the increase Government audit finds EPA broke the law! On the radio Olivia Newton-John & Bob Hope – Silver Bells New China manned vehicle under development Successful India launch Soyuz docking issue during ISS arrival Budget deal boosts NASA budget Russian officials decide to broadcast launches The Democratic Party’s disconnect from reality Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal Builders of TMT begin removing equipment Astronomers successfully predict appearance of supernova Budget bill lifts ban of Russian engines on Atlas 5 Landing an F-15 with only one wing Saturday launch of Falcon 9 uncertain On a caving expedition William Zeitler – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Falcon 9 launch delayed until Monday Cause of Soyuz docking problems pinpointed Strong academic objections to unopposed election for National Academies president Daniela Andrade – Christmas Time Is Here SpaceX lands the first stage! Water unneeded to produce wet gullies on Mars Fossil fuels might cool the planet The coming bright age Images of Ceres from Dawn’s lowest orbit InSight Mars mission suspended Roy Clark – 12th Street Rag Ditto Orchestra – Christmas Medley Musk vs Bezos vs Branson ULA buys 20 more Russian engines for Atlas 5 U.S. production of plutonium-238 resumes Images from Cassini’s last Enceladus flyby “The Democrats’ theme for 2016 is totalitarianism.” Russia hints at Vostochny schedule A new lightweight and very strong metal Jose Feliciano – Feliz Navidad Prosecutors investigate scientists while blocking efforts against plant disease Proton successfully launches satellite Pagagnini – Pachelbel’s Canon in D California high schools to get diploma for failing Vostochny update suggests further delays and corruption Andre Rieu – 2013 Brazil Skater’s Waltz SpaceX to display recovered first stage First test flight of India’s prototype space shuttle delayed Russia cancels all Moon missions till 2025 Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson Confusion in Russia’s space program Seth MacFarlane – What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? Japan looks to private space Science journal publishes fake study Make Trump go away with software! Robbie Williams & Frank Sinatra- It Was A Very Good Year Recovered Falcon 9 first stage undamaged Seeds from archaeological site grow into extinct squash 2015’s 13 most ridiculous protests on college campuses Leningrad Cowboys & the Red Army Choir – Sweet Home Alabama Washington state releasing convicts early by mistake since 2002 The presidential campaign primary schedule A detailed look at Trump’s positions Millions opt out of Obamacare despite penalities Bob Stromberg with Ken Davis – Hand Shadows Four elements added to periodic table 2015 the busiest launch year for Florida since 2003 Hillary Clinton vows to investigate UFOs if elected 2014 Budapest Airshow highlights Europe might end its ISS partnership in 2020 Rubio as establishment proves tea party won Mark O’Connor & Wynton Marsalis – Boil ’em Cabbage Down Starliner schedule shapes up Arianespace sales top SpaceX in 2015 How to really look for aliens Sunspot decline continues 2CELLOS – The Book of Love One last chance for Philae Betelgeuse baffles astronomers Mold on ISS plants Next Falcon 9 first stage will try to land on barge Lay-offs at Bigelow “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.” “You’re just not couth!” Russians to develop Falcon 9-like rocket China has big plans in space in 2016 World’s second-tallest skyscraper completed in Shanghai Mystery at LHC confounds theorists Mighty Saturn Glowworms in Motion – time lapse Philae officially dead Was the Wow! signal from two comets? Static fire test of next Falcon 9 successful Crater close-ups from Dawn Former Virgin Galactic employee battles company in court Gaming Obamacare The rules to buy and sell guns Daft Punk – Get Lucky SLS still has no mission The Falcon has landed On the radio Four-wheeled robot climbs walls Water behavior on Comet 67P/C-G That space junk was from Lunar Prospector Juno becomes most distant solar-powered mission Orbital ATK and SpaceX win Air Force contracts Self-healing composite developed Bush, Cruz, Carson, and Sanders on space policy A cold-eyed look at Trump’s actual record A detailed review of the climate data tampering at NASA and NOAA SpaceX, Orbital ATK, and Sierra Nevada awarded contracts to ISS Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces Most powerful supernovae ever Russia trims its 10-year space plan New Orbital ATK rocket to compete for military launches Tonight’s Batchelor podcast China goes for the Moon Spacewalk cut short due to spacesuit water leak A river on Mars Zagreb Guitar Quartet – Bach Little Fugue BWV 578 Falcon 9 launches NASA satellite, first stage landing fails Russia names next manned spaceship “Federation” Fraud detected in science research that suggested genetically modified crops were harmful Lonette McKee – Ill Wind The Falcon 9 first stage almost landing Corruption uncovered in federal environmental project Captain & Tennille – Love Will Keep Us Together Tuesday’s Batchelor podcast India’s first launch of 2016 Astronomers propose Neptune-sized planet in Kuiper Belt Flowers bloom on ISS World View gets incentives to settle in Arizona The Palin endorsement of Trump AirPano – Panoramas taken throughout the world Dantu Crater on Ceres Howard Shore – The Shire (Concerning Hobbits) FAA flight restrictions suggest upcoming New Shepard flight Thursday’s Batchelor podcast Video of Dragon/SuperDraco engine test Orion: construction in slow motion Angara at Vostochny trimmed Trump: “Let’s get to be a little establishment.” Europe kicks in money for Dream Chaser Billy Joel – Travelin’ Prayer Blue Origin reflies and lands New Shepard again Thirty Meter Telescope’s future in Hawaii in state’s hands Comet 67P/C-G’s active surface Gordo – street drummer Blue Origin to increase New Shepard launch rate Air Force certifies Falcon 9 upgrade for military launches Trump: “I can be the most politically correct person you’ve ever seen.” Jinan Acrobatics Troupe – Rings Hawaii’s governor expresses empty support for TMT Two thoughtful endorsements of Ted Cruz Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly – True Love SpaceX successfully tests parachutes for manned Dragon Computer program learns and then wins at Go McCain and Air Force question ULA military arrangement Private company proposes commercial airlock for ISS Arianespace completes its first commercial launch in 2016 Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on ISS New York oppresses opposition to gay marriage Using Roman tactics to quell riots Europe settles on Ariane 6 design Flying over Ceres Average Obamacare premiums are unaffordable 300 climate scientists demand NOAA explain its global warming climate data The January 28, 2016 Batchelor podcast Water ice on Pluto’s surface Maksim Mrvica – Bohemian Rhapsody Russian Proton rocket successfully launches commercial satellite An issue with Curiosity’s scoop Another 5 month slip of first Falcon Heavy launch A look at the emerging dark age in California Crystal Gayle – Cry Me A River Iowa results suggest strong Cruz future NASA ships a capsule The candidates’ take on science The Roman Legion at War First SLS launch will carry 13 cubesats New Shepard launch update National debt tops $19 trillion North Korea announces planned satellite launch Luxembourg to establish space property rights Carter would pick Trump if he had no other choice Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show – Sylvia’s Mother February 2, 2016 Batchelor podcast Successful course correction for Juno Falcon 9 to be modified A look inside Comet 67P/C-G Curiosity moves on, scoop still not working China releases images from lunar rover and lander Kristin Chenoweth – I Will Always Love You February 4, 2016 Batchelor podcast The floating mountains of Pluto Atlas 5 launches GPS satellite SpaceX promises increase in Falcon 9 launch rate Experts: NASA’s SLS Mars proposals bunk R.I.P.: Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell passes away Long and Big Trucks North Korea launches rocket TMT to repeat hearings before state One dead, four ill, in drug study in France The first recorded human death from a meteorite? Next Falcon 9 launch date announced Marlene Dietrich – Lili Marleen A second Little Ice Age uncovered North Korea’s satellite tumbling A new Japanese X-ray telescope to launch February 12 NASA bans employees from writing the word “Jesus” The long decline to solar minimum Oregon as seen by a modern drone SpaceX to reduces chance of first stage recovery on SES-9 launch February 9, 2016 John Batchelor podcast Brainstorm ULA launches spy satellite Mold forces Cygnus launch delay First direct detection of a gravitational wave Russian engineers develop an ATV capable of going anywhere India and UAE to ink Mars project deal England Dan and John Ford Coley – I’d Really Love to See You Tonight Astro-H launch scrubbed due to weather TMT might abandon Hawaii The politics of high fantasy February 11, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast The final search for Philae The graffiti inside Apollo 11 Tests confirm meteorite at India impact site Big solar storm not so big SpaceX loses a launch payload The first music video in zero gravity Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday Obamacare to increase costs 60% The stupid party Justice Antonin Scalia passes away suddenly Congress is now in recess until February 22 Study determines which light bulb type bugs like Exploding nanobubbles destroy cancer cells India privatizing PSLV rocket A toy replicator for kids! The first geology map of Pluto Balloon Flight over Cappadocia, Turkey LISA Pathfinder’s cubes floating free Astronomers make first analysis of a SuperEarth’s atmosphere. Ukraine’s aerospace industry in collapse Harper Collins bans a sci-fi book because it isn’t sufficiently liberal Lou Rawls – You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine China’s long term space science plans February 16, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast Japan launches X-ray space telescope A modern caveman in a modern cave Bureaucrats fight over the regulation of commercial space Hubble measures the rotation of an exoplanet India okays its own LIGO detector Apollo 11 First Stage liftoff in Ultra Slow Motion A frozen underground ocean on Charon? The Obama-like promises of Trump John Denver & Cass Elliot – Leaving on a jetplane February 19, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast Virgin Galactic unveils new SpaceShipTwo Toy boat crosses the Atlantic National Youth Orchestra of the USA – America the Beautiful Falcon 9 static fire test completed Investment in commercial space zooms Drop test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule Trump threatens private citizens for opposing him University President shuts down speech because it is conservative El Camino del Rey February 23, 2016 Batchelor-Zimmerman podcast First map of Comet 67P/C-G’s southern hemisphere America’s ten most oppressive colleges No security at Homeland Security SpaceX launch scrubbed The cratered surface of Ceres Cam – Can’t Help Falling In Love LISA Pathfinder cubes in freefall GAO finds fraud rampant in Obamacare subsidy program The moment Yeltsin became a capitalist Fraud in many science surveys? Successful test of India’s GSLV rocket engine Lexington proposes gun confiscation MozART Group – Wild, wild West SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch again Wrapping up the longest space mission by an American Iridium dumps Russia for SpaceX Changes in DARPA rocket projects The coming collapse of Obamacare Our glorious Democratic leaders! Brownshirts try to silence conservative speaker February 25, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast IRS hack of private files much larger Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Sunday Steve Martin – The Great Flydini Falcon 9 launch scrubbed again UC-Berkeley Chemistry College to shutter? Tom Lehrer – Poisoning Pigeons In The Park SpaceX aims for Tuesday launch Air Force awards contracts for American rocket engine Honing the search for alien civilizations Georgia House passes space act China’s next manned mission The suicide of the GOP establishment Falcon 9 launch scrubbed again Al Bowlly – Melancholy Baby Wally Eastwood – Piano Juggler Astronauts return after 340 days on ISS India’s space agency ISRO gets a budget boost Trump winning open primaries, Cruz winning closed ones March 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Mars’ giant volcanoes shifted planet’s axis Free government money for Aerojet Rocketdyne! Titan’s changing shorelines Hubble finds galaxy with record-breaking redshift Building a log cabin, alone March 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Methane ice on Pluto’s mountain peaks Getting higher on Mount Sharp Businessman found innocent of all charges after years of persecution by the Justice Department. Trump begins to “evolve” Successful SpaceX launch Victor Borge – Getting ready Roscosmos approves space tourism project Clouds on Pluto? A Ted Cruz surge tonight Dawn’s chief engineer reviews the mission King Crabbing on Bering Sea Ice On the road The Kingsmen – Louie Louie Ceres’s big mountain NASA reschedules rather than cancels InSight Second solo Ariane 5 launch in 2016 Jeff Bezos gives a tour of Blue Origin Want to discover gravitational waves? You can! Computer beats human in Go College student faces charges for expressing conservative opinions Monthly Solar Cycle update Iran tests ballistic missiles Gaelynn Lea – Someday we’ll linger in the sun ExoMars ready for launch Another Falcon Heavy customer switches to different rocket India launches sixth GPS satellite More details about China’s space station, planned for launch in 2020 XCOR wins Vulcan engine design contract Russia completes investigation into Vostochny embezzlement March 9, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Violence against reporter and protesters at Trump events Multicultural Student Government approved at Kansas University “How I Went from Trump Curious to Anti-Trump.” “The Republican Establishment is Worse Than Trump.” Images of North Korea’s rocket and nuclear bomb? Making art from aluminum cans and anthills ULA’s parent companies express caution about Vulcan SpaceX estimates 30% price cut from reusable 1st stage Rosetta detects magnetic-free bubble around comet Good HDL cholesterol might not be so good March 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The bigotry in the Democratic Party Jeremy Schonfeld & Deborah Cox – Somewhere Out There Democratic fascists force cancellation of Trump rally Second SLS flight delayed until 2023? The cost of delaying the Mars InSight mission two years Blue Origin engine testing update “I’m Angry! So I’m Voting For Donald Trump.” Russian Soyuz rocket launch aborted seconds before launch It’s a sweep! ExoMars blasts off Mathematicians discover pattern in prime numbers Iran to launch satellite? Pinpointing Curiosity’s location in Gale Crater Hunting truffles in Oregon Akatsuki to finally begin studying Venus Fifteen-year-old pilot wins 250K at drone race What next for the computer Go program? China plans first commercial rocket company Curiosity reaches Naukluft Plateau Obama shuts down oil exploration in Atlantic Another glorious Democratic leader speaks! IRS given power to revoke passports Conservatives to block gigantic budget plan High Diving Giraffes Starting a fire in space, on purpose Tea party Republican wins primary for John Boehner’s seat Changes in Ceres’s white spots Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit ULA head rejects his engineer’s remarks about Aerojet Rocketdyne March 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ULA official resigns Virgin Galactic awards contract Self-tightening shoelaces! Hubble finds unexpected crop of massive stars Pluto 8 months after fly-by Wintergatan – Marble Machine Roscosmos budget slashed 30% NOAA head poo-poos private weather companies March 17, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast South Korea commits almost a billion dollars to AI research First step in producing silicon-based life Russians use wooden matches to ignite rocket engines Injected stem cells cure osteoporosis in mice Russia finally approves 10-year space plan North Korea test fires another ballistic missile New ISS crew successfully launched “Have they tried SEC to Aux?” SpaceX sets date for next Dragon launch Orbital ATK expands in Arizona Exoplanet with cometlike orbit The Irish not of Celtic origin? Getting real close to Comet 67P/C-G China shuts down its first space station Filleting a giant tuna New supersonic passenger plane coming? United Arab Emirates teams up with Japan Vostochny begins practicing launch procedures A new gravity map of Mars Fuel for Russia’s nuclear space engine Does captivity hurt or help killer whales? Scientists disagree “We don’t need another lecture about Islamophobia.” New close-up of Occator Crater’s spots Emory University takes action to stop free speech Eddie Reader – Dragonfly Near disaster for ExoMars VA reinstates worker who committed armed robbery Atlas 5 launches Cygnus Court again rules against IRS and Justice Department TMT leadership looks at alternatives to Hawaii DOD opens ULA investigation An estimated $55 billion in Obamacare waste It’s the Beatles Nation’s largest health insurance company wants out of Obamacare House proposes killing Commerce Department New Horizons’ future research goals Another Rosetta close-up of Comet 67P/C-G Saying “All Lives Matter” is now white supremacy New Jersey actor sentenced to 10 years for using a prop gun Titan’s tallest mountains Count Basie- Flight of the Foo Birds Premature shutdown of Atlas 5 First Rocket Lab launch this year Virgin Galactic signs deal for supersonic plane Vulcan passes first design review March 24, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Nigeria aims for manned space Europe aims for the Moon The sad state of South Korea’s space sector Cosmic rays cause the red in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Vostochny contractor ordered to pay loans Vast Martian dune fields Bill to trim BLM/Forest Service power ISS astronaut to steer rover on Earth Practicing Landings on a Carrier in bad weather “Why do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe they know more about Islam than Muslim clerics?” Next Atlas 5 launch delayed March 25, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Frozen pond on Pluto DARPA to build satellite repair robot No communications with new Japanese X-ray telescope TMT consortium considers India for telescope Debris spotted near Hitomi Conservative professor to be fired for his opinions SLS software over budget and behind schedule Preserving strawberries the 18th century way Computer chip company sues SpaceX Video suggests Hitomi tumbling in orbit Justice Department resumes program to steal property of citizens Combined Earth-Space radio array discovers superhot quasar interior More chalk oppression at Emory! Air Force: Hitomi not hit by space junk A possible impact on Jupiter? Federal law outlaws launches on foreign rockets Guy Clark with Karen Matheson – Dublin Blues Democratic AGs team up to prosecute global warming skeptics On the radio March 29, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Using lasers to travel to the stars Another subsidized solar power company going bust? Emory University alumni push back against free speech attacks The Ronettes – Be My Baby Russia selling Sea Launch? Further chaos at Vostochny SpaceX wins first round in lawsuit Earth forming around sun-like star? OneWeb begins hiring in Florida India signs deal for its own LIGO White nose syndrome found on Washington state bat Rod Stewart – Moonglow Fuel system on Atlas 5 linked to premature shutdown Ordered to reduce red tape, federal bureaucrats increased it Looking back at Comet 67P/C-G Opportunity takes a spin Sierra Nevada favors Alabama for Dream Chaser’s commercial port The two most important stories for today New Shepard to fly this weekend John Prine – Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone New Shepard flies again, for the third time April 2, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Video of Saturday’s New Shepard flight Russia insures first Vostochny launch Florida passes law outlawing theft by government Evanescence – Going Under Reorganization at Arianespace Russia schedules first Vostochny launch Misuse revealed of vomit comet at NASA Another Cassini flyby of Titan Using ICBMs to lower launch costs Close encounter with a dust devil TSA wastes $1.4 million Anne Sofie von Otter & Stéphanie d’Oustrac – Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Russia denies that Proton upper stage failed after launching ExoMars Boeing moves to block Russians from selling Sea Launch Falcon 9 completes static fire test India to test reusable mini-shuttle in May WISE completes another year of asteroid hunting The invention of the escalator Take-aways from Cruz’s win in Wisconsin The sunspot decline continues April 5, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ariane 6 delayed by tax and legal issues The supernovae that fertilized the Earth Pink Floyd – Julia Dream North Korea can launch nuclear bombs Smallsat company searches for launch services The changing color of Comet 67P/C-G NASA picks Aerojet Rocketdyne engine for SLS upper stage Update on Dawn at Ceres In the wild April 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Phase 2 begins in DARPA spaceplane program Brownshirts shut down student Trump meeting Fascist New Jersey threatens prison for man flying Trump flag Vet charities not getting promised Trump donations Serious security flaws found in Obamacare websites in three states SpaceX lands its first stage on a barge Imogen Heap – Just For Now ULA trims workforce Kepler in trouble Next Atlas 5 launch delayed indefinitely Video of Falcon 9 first stage barge landing Dragon arrives at ISS Delusional banking Kepler out of safe mode Merle Haggard – Okie From Muskogee ULA to launch two Bigelow space station modules NASA’s moon buggy prototype goes up for auction Falcon 9 first stage returns to port Universe’s expansion rate contradicts dark energy data Next Atlas 5 launch date set Russian assets in France seized Dave Matthews Band – Satellite April 12, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russian billionaire backs interstellar project Swiss company buys jet for vomit-comet Aerojet Rocketdyne pitches its AR1 rocket engine to reporters Orbital ATK to launch robotic servicing mission Japanese Venus probe sends back first science data French court rules against freezing Russian assets NOAA plans use of private weather data The Orion fantasy North Korea might have mobile ICBM capability More Obamacare exchanges expected to fail R.E.M. – Driver 8 More job cuts planned at ULA Falcon 9 first stage hoisted from barge Construction of China’s next space station complete Vostochny’s past and future McCain challenges ULA cost figures for new engine Tucson to be sued over space tourism deal Next Atlas 5 launch delayed again The history of Falcon 9’s recoverable first stage L’Arpeggiata – Ciaconna by M. Cazzati April 14, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First test flight for Rocket Lab upcoming Drone racing deal for ESPN Funds needed to identify “Wow!” signal ExoMars instrument activation so far good Obamacare unsustainable according to insurers North Korean missile launch fails Audioslave – I Am The Highway Privately-built inflatable module installed on ISS Prep work for SpaceX’s Texas spaceport continues Hi-tech shrimp fishing The asteroid didn’t do it all OneWeb to set up operations in Florida An update on SpaceX’s recovered first stage An update on Philae Pakistan pulls out of India satellite project The commerical battle over U.S. surplus ICBM’s UnitedHealth abandoning Obamacare Tetanus boosters can work for almost thirty years Nick Drake – One of These Things First Problems with attitude system doomed Hitomi Video of recovered Falcon 9 first stage on the road OneWeb satellite factory coming to Florida Senate committee throws money at NASA Russian government rescues Proton manufacturer Largest jet engine ever test fired The coming dark age, part 2,322 Rodgers and Hammerstein – Oklahoma! “You have no right to speak.” April 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Liver damage from weightlessness? Want to live in a hobbit-hole? You can! 50 year old time capsule in Houston reveals space artifacts China grows mouse embryos in space Foo Fighters – Times like these Orbital ATK negotiating lease for part of VAB California’s Democratic fascist attorney general loses in court San Francisco requires new buildings have solar panels Evidence of water on Ceres? China to launch full space station in 2018 Shelby blocks Export-Import Bank nominee Obamacare bankrupting state governments More evidence you can’t trust anything Donald Trump says The failed predictions of Earth Day Isabelle Druet – Ah que j’aime les militaires! Bigots harass white woman for singing music from India Avoiding the period in space Did Russia test hypersonic glide plane? Brown shirts attempt to silence conservative speaker at American University April 22, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Fake images in biology research papers Soyuz rocket launch scrubbed due to faulty IMU Nirvana – Lithium Vostochny’s first rocket on launchpad New images of failed Beagle 2 on Mars New Hubble image of Red Rectangle Soyuz successfully launches from French Guiana Problems at Stratolaunch? First Long March 5 begins assembly Congress micro-manages rocket engineering again New smallsat rocket company obtains financing An extended Dawn mission might go to another asteroid Hubble discovers moon circling Kuiper belt object Airbus Safran joint rocket venture moving forward The methane seas of Titan A close look at Falcon 9’s reusable cost savings April 25, 2016 Zimmerman Space Show appearance Colin Hay – I just don’t think I’ll ever get over you April 26, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Why Science Is Broken, and How To Fix It Fascists try to shut down conservative panel at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst First Vostochny launch scrubbed at T-1.5 Curiosity drills again Dragon to go to Mars in 2018 Tallest tunnel slide to open in London Venus’s dark stripes remain unexplained Billy Joel and Michael Pollack – New York State of Mind First launch from Vostochny a success Another successful launch for India SpaceX gets its first official Air Force contract New research confirms CO2 increase is greening Earth Curiosity’s wheels handling rough terrain John Prine – Hello in there April 28, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Fuel valve cause of Atlas 5 shutdown Money for space The stupid party, part 2 Halo craters on Pluto Claudia Drake – I can’t believe that you’re in love with me Anti-Trump protesters get violent Next Atlas 5 launch delayed until summer Blue Origin selects company to build its rocket factory Russian court calls for arrest of Vostochny suspects SpaceX updates its prices Boiling water on Mars The depressed heart of Pluto Russia and Europe agree to delay next ExoMars mission Exoplanets found nearby Such Great Heights The doodles of a 7-year-old in 1300 Why Russian aerospace will not compete ULA shuffles Atlas 5 schedule NASA signs engineering test agreement with new launch company The Oil Seepage Thread Ice and volcanoes on ancient Mars? How tiny cowardice is destroying us Taking Heads – Psycho Killer May 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Pluto’s solar wind interaction more like a planet’s SpaceX gears up for first Falcon Heavy flight Congressman proposes major changes to regulation of commercial space Eighth-grader arrested for using $2 bill You asked for this Employers hiring freelancers to avoid Obamacare New jellyfish spotted at 2 miles depth Weather delays next SpaceX launch one day Problems with nanosat launched from Vostochny The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Psycho Killer Manager resigns as investigation pinpoints issues during first Vostochny launch Putin signs Russian homesteading act Trump’s new finance chief donates 2x more to Democrats than Republicans Obamacare includes 171-word definition of menu Cruz’s political stature enhanced by campaign Luxembourg signs deal with asteroid mining company Future Republican battle leans right and anti-establishment Foster The People – Houdini SpaceX lands the first stage again! May 5, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Global elevation map of Mercury Pima county files motion to dismiss World View lawsuit Does Trump have the best space policy? SpaceX’s second first stage barge landing On the radio A review of Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, ten years later Increased earthquake activity at Mount St. Helens A new Enceladus geyser mystery Why I use Linux Pearl Jam – Alive May 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast Death threats to vegan restaurant owners for eating meat again Trump calls for a minimum wage increase Mercury’s transit today Long March 7 heads to spaceport Saturn’s moon Epimetheus Sunspot activity crashes Facebook routinely suppressed conservative news Judge rules White House showed “bad faith” in global-warming case New analysis says it ain’t aliens at strange star Iran completes another ballistic missile test Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You Falcon 9 booster returns to port More problems at Khrunichev Watch the last Blue Origin landing, from the rocket Computer simulation models Sun’s magnetic field during grand minimum Harvard researchers discover that Obamacare isn’t working NASA uses computer model to find exoplanets Wyoming rancher beats EPA over stock pond A bibliography of my research into climate Stevie Nicks – Edge Of Seventeen May 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA considers advancing first SLS launch two months Texas town regulates SpaceX engine tests Why Trump and Cruz dominated campaign Dragon returns home A Kuiper belt object turns out to be large Jimmy Eat World – The Middle Two years of weather at Gale Crater First manned Starliner flight delayed ULA’s CEO explains why they are retiring Delta A new Vostochny embezzlement investigation begins Airbus initiates smallsat launcher project Court rules against illegal Obamacare subsidies Republican-led Senate passes spending bill larger than requested by Obama Pink Floyd – See Emily Play Off to Belize Lacy J. Dalton – Black Coffee In Belize Vostochny manager resigns Congress demands Air Force spend less and more at the same time Iran announces satellite plans Two days in Mountain Cow Cave The Dubliners – Dirty Old Town Status of the third recovered Falcon 9 first stage Upgraded Antares rolled to launchpad On the radio from Belize Blockhead – The Music Scene TMT permitting process about to begin anew May 17, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Johann Strauss – Perpetuum mobile Jamey Johnson & Lee Ann Womack – “Give It Away” Leaving Belize tomorrow SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, and Mars ULA sets dates for next Atlas 5 and Delta 4 Heavy launches China to build space communications facility in Argentina India sets date for spaceplane test flight Airbus begins assembly Orion service module Congress pushes for Europa missions Electric Light Orchestra -.Can’t get it out of my head X-37B completes year in orbit Another look at China’s space station plans Cruz supporters dominate Washtington state convention Mars’s giant tsunamis Why I went to Belize India test flies its first spaceplane prototype United Kingdom cancels spaceport competition More weird Pluto geology TSA removes its head of security The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park and Other Things House committee reshapes NASA budget Iridium announces its own alternative to GPS Orbital ATK introduces a new rocket Chito May 24, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Anti-Trump protesters get violent at Trump rally ESO signs giant telescope contract Protesters crash stage and threaten conservative speaker Antares static engine test scheduled Wintergatan – Starmachine2000 More violent protests against Trump Bigelow’s ISS module expansion halted TMT calls for removal of official supervising permit process D.C. ignores 2nd amendment court order IRS steals millions from people for depositing the wrong amount of money Another look at what President Trump would likely do Jupiter exoplanet around baby star Planetary Resources has raised $21 million Belize and Guatemala Yanni, Lisa Lavie, Lauren Jelencovich – Aria Health insurance premiums to rise 24% because of Obamacare Next New Shepard test flight to test parachute failure China to fly sample return mission to Moon The party of science? May 26, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Microsoft and Facebook to lay Atlantic cable Blue Origin builds engine test facility in only seven months Juno enters Jupiter’s gravity well New Horizons’ best Pluto close-up Rosetta finds organic compounds at Comet 67P/C-G SpaceX does it again! Want to buy your own 747? R.E.M. – Losing My Religion Rocket Lab tests second stage engine NASA to try module expansion again on Saturday DARPA requests spaceplane proposals Russia tests a missile designed to take out satellites High speed Falcon 9 first stage camera view More enraged anti-American protests against Trump BEAM module expanded successfully XCOR layoffs, ending Lynx? Premature engine cutoff on Soyuz upper stage The B-1 Lancer Bomber Rosetta almost lost during weekend Obamacare forces small businesses to drop employee health benefits Emmylou Harris & Mary Black – You’ll Never Be The Sun Orbital ATK successfully completes Antares test fire Airbus Safran begin Ariane 6 engine tests May 31, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New data challenges consensus on galaxy formation Longest and deepest rail tunnel opens Pluto: the world’s largest lava lamp Manned Soyuz launch delayed Prince & Lenny Kravitz – American Woman Billionaires propose big space plans Why I use Linux, part 2 Yale students demand that the school stop teaching English literature California moves to ban climate dissent Connecticut moves to ban 2nd amendment A faster Hubble constant? Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence Another leftist mob attacks Trump supporters in San Jose today California effort to make climate dissent illegal fails Falcon 9 first stage returns to port, with a noticable list Why the Goldwater Institute sued to block Tucson space deal The Rosetta science team wants your help! NASA signs Blue Origin for suborbital missions FEC Democrats vote to punish Republican for a political joke Liberal editor calls for riots against Trump Another Obamacare co-op fails Ricky Syers – Marionettes No sunspots for the first time in two years June 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Luxembourg to invest $200 million in space mining Why I won’t use Windows Trump the liberal revealed again No sunspots for two days Astronauts enter privately built BEAM module Hawaii turns down requests to remove TMT hearings officer Titan over Saturn’s rings Sunspot cycle update SpaceX lobbies Texas government for spaceport backing Russia delays next manned Soyuz flight President Roosevelt’s announcement of D-Day, June 6, 1944 LISA Pathfinder proves space-based gravity wave detection technology The history of the stopwatch Elon Musk to meet with Defense Secretary National Science Foundation considers shuttering Arecibo FAA warns public of military GPS jamming tests Insurance companies abandon Colorado because of Obamacare New poll shows Trump barely winning Utah Journalist demands murder of legislators who disagree with him Passenger – Let Her Go RINO Ellmers loses in North Carolina June 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Elon Musk sends a tweet and the world listens Boeing begins assembling second Starliner manned capsule Four new names proposed for periodic table Proton launch delayed 24 hours Masten unveils two new reusable suborbital rockets North Korea restarts processing of plutonium for nuclear weapons Student sues police for fine after refusing Breathalyzer “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.” Cake – Short Skirt, Long Jacket A sunspot returns to the Sun Proton launches successfully India’s government proposes ending satellite competition Federal court rules against 2nd amendment Another Russian rocket, the Proton this time, has underperformed Mars’ seasonal dust storms The Corrs – Everybody Hurts California moves to criminalize journalism Battle for communications spectrum between private companies Republicans in Congress move to limit civil forfeiture Pay cash for healthcare and save a fortune Pluto’s jagged shores Stuck in part-time work or unemployed? Blame Obamacare San Jose police herded Trump supporters into mob Auction of silver medals flown on Apollo brings in $800K Musk hints details of SpaceX Mars project Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries Europe develops net gun to capture space junk Successful ULA Delta 4 Heavy launch today NASA and United Arab Emirates sign space cooperation deal Luxembourg purchases 49% stake in Planetary Resources Blue Origin will webcast live its next flight of New Shepard The liberal response to terrorism: Disarm the innocent! Disturbance in Saturn’s outermost ring Why I use Linux, part 3 June 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Insurance premiums skyrocketing due to Obamacare Cygnus to depart ISS, then start a fire How Its Made – Train Wheels Rosetta detects krypton and xenon at Comet 67P/C-G Curiosity heads south Muslim Democratic Congressman reveals his pro-Islam bias toward murder Democrats work to abolish 2nd amendment merely because the FBI suspects you Next China lunar lander aimed for farside south pole SpaceX to launch again on Wednesday McCain agrees to compromise over Atlas 5 Russian engines Direct image of exoplanet Niamh McGlinchey – Love You ‘Till The End Opportunity moves on from Marathon Valley University in Michigan drops math while requiring four diversity courses June 14, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Another successful Falcon 9 launch Muslims celebrate the Orlando mass murder on Twitter Russian robot escapes! Trump the gun control expert Another gravity wave detected by LIGO Leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore demands the removal of every elected official who disagrees with him Anthony Hopkins & André Rieu – And The Waltz Goes On Orbital ATK delays Antares launch until August ULA pinpoints cause of Atlas 5 premature shutdown Newly discovered asteroid quasi-moon of Earth Fire in space Kelly describes medical issues from weightlessness Global warming skeptic responds bluntly to Democratic subpoena Democratic Senator condemns idea of due process ExoMars snaps its first images of Mars Quincy Coleman – Baby Don’t You Cry (The Pie Song) Blue Origin delays New Shepard flight Senate to vote Monday on four gun control bills Facebook bans gay web magazine for criticizing Islam Ten scientific benefits of owning a cat June 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Iraqi forces retake Fallujah from ISIS The Tenors – My Father’s Son Exploring Space in the 21st Century GOP congressman defeated in primary because of Obamatrade support Russia negotiating with Australian investors to buy SeaLaunch Europe announces a three month delay for Orion service module Video of fire experiment on Cygnus Trump affirms support for denying Americans their second amendment rights New Shepard successfully completes fourth flight Trump softens tone on gun restrictions Backgrounder on June 23 UK vote on EU membership Stratolaunch three quarters complete The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Florida demands $15K port fee from SpaceX Beware new javascript ransomware Russia’s continuing weakness in space Neil Young – Old Man Firefly tests aerospike engine Pluto might have subsurface liquid water ocean Judge strikes down as illegal Obama fracking regulations Another North Korea missile test Trump campaign announces Christian advisory board UC-Irving bans Republican club for a year The Think Tank Culture of Washington India today successfully launched 20 commercial satellites on its PSLV rocket Damaged Falcon 9 first stage returns to port China announces four day launch window for Long March 7’s first launch Russia plans 12 person lunar base by 2030 RINOs in Senate team up with Democrats for gun control push Russia in perspective New model for Enceladus’s subsurface ocean Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away California bills man for rescuing family Sierra Nevada prepares for Dream Chaser glide tests SpaceX’s first stage teaches them how to land on Mars The first solar-powered flight across the Atlantic Democrats perform sit-in in Congress to protest 5th amendment of Bill of Rights Hubble spots new dark storm on Neptune Saturn from Cassini Colorado university investigates professors for noting alternative opinions Hubble lives on! Joey Alexander – Over The Rainbow UK votes to leave EU Atlas 5 successfully launches military communications payload Science elites move to block UK exit from EU Russia looks to reduce Proton launch costs Data manipulation at U.S. Geological Survey science lab Sun blank again Ceres’s brightest spot Blue Cross Blue Shield pulls out of Obamacare in Minnesota Angela Hewitt – Claude Debussy’s “Clair de lune” June 23, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Getting and Installing Linux China launches first Long March 7 rocket, recovers test capsule The elite speak! Virgin Galactic gets another launch contract University of North Carolina publishes guide on squelching free speech Why I use Linux, part 3,453,333 Juno closing in on Jupiter Some reasons to keep money out of Paypal Democratic Party platform will demand prosecution of global warming skeptics 2D Photography – Rube Goldberg Machine Moon discovered orbiting Kuiper Belt Object Makemake Judge rules No-Fly list unconstitutional The howl against democracy A Russian space station spun off from ISS? NASA approves robot satellite refueling mission More Rosetta high resolution images released Longest blank sun since 2010 Orbital ATK test fires SLS solid rocket booster Geologists discover giant field of underground helium in Tanzania Jim Gaffigan – 4 Kids Court rules no warrant needed for police to hack your computer June 28, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The 17 equations that changed the world Russia looks to develop reusable first stage Blue Origin breaks ground on rocket factory Sierra Nevada signs deal with UN Elite journalist considers murder the appropriate response to Brexit vote The fascist nature of the European Union June 28, 2016 Zimmerman Space Show appearance Blue Cross Blue Shield is losing money nationwide because of Obamacare Dawn data suggests recent hydrothermal activity on Ceres Oakland city council micromanages the shipping industry New evidence that Lois Lerner released confidential taxpayer information illegally Glenn Miller Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade Our limited understanding of the Martian climate through time Rosetta’s finale set for September 30 Airbus Safran merger completed Hubble images Jupiter and its aurora Space reporter banned from space news website Republicans and Democrats fight to restrict freedoms Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama Juno has entered Jupiter’s magnetic field 1.6 million people drop Obamacare in 2016 California university backs down and reinstates conservative organization China’s space plans for the rest of 2016 ULA reduces its workforce and costs Puerto Rico debt restructuring signed into law Tennessee makes owner responsible for harm caused by gun-free zone NASA okays New Horizons mission extension, rejects Dawn asteroid fly-by TSA injures and arrests a disabled teenager, because they can Michael McDonald – Hits Medley July 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Getting and Installing Linux – Part 2 Microsoft gives people another reason to dump Windows The defense of Little Round Top Federal court rules a farmer plowing his land violates Clean Water Act The story of the writing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic The Declaration of Independence The American Revolution, as reported by modern reporters Iran reveals the Iran deal facilitated aiming 100,000 missiles at Israel European experimental space junk removal mission to launch 1776 – Hatching an Egg Juno successfully enters orbit around Jupiter The fix for Hillary Clinton is IN Court rules Obama adminstration can’t use private email accounts to bypass law A short but weak solar maximum? Another Obamacare co-op to fold Grease – We Go Together Cubesats to the planets! Auction of first published book describing Copernicus’ heliocentric theory Weird dunes on Mars Curiosity in safe mode Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young – Almost Cut My Hair Hotel clerk loses her job and might be jailed for reporting suspicious behavior July 5, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Upgraded Soyuz capsule launches three astronauts to ISS New Hubble image of Crab Nebula Balanced rock on Mars FAA moves to regulate backyard drone use House Freedom Caucus opposes Republican gun control measure VA performance worsens with more money Obama illegally funding Obamacare, stonewalling Congress A planet with three suns Most of America’s elite universities do not require history majors to study U.S. history State Department reopens investigation into Clinton private server Boston Dynamics – Atlas, The Next Generation Curious George celebrates Ramadan Smallsat market to exceed $22 billion July 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Juno turns on A description of SLS’s first launch MRI software bug invalidates 40,000 research papers Permanently shadowed regions on Ceres The terrorist murders in Dallas A blunt honest appraisal of America today New Navy communications satellite in trouble TMT likely to abandon Hawaii The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist Two anti-fracking/anti-oil industry environmental papers retracted Another Obamacare co-op folds Getting and Installing Linux – Part 3 Upgraded Soyuz docks with ISS Virgin Galactic to resume SpaceShipTwo test flights in 2017 Vision problems from weightlessness Astronomers discover Kuiper Belt object half Pluto’s size Curiosity resumes full operations Huey Lewis and the News – Workin’ for a livin’ Sierra Nevada completes first Dream Chaser milestone China launches second generation space tracking ship Black racism and hate Ban AC for DC The first Juno picture of Jupiter from orbit New Mexico insurance company abandoning Obamacare exchange Mary Travers – Follow Me Breakthrough on battery life? Toilet failure on U.S. segment of ISS Rocket Lab gets new launch contract July 12, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ESA contract for hypersonic engine research Privately built smallsat designed deep space communications Dormant volcano near Rome reawakens Why no one should be surprised by AG Lynch’s failure to uphold the law Another Obamacare co-op fails Trump doesn’t care if Republicans hold Senate Paul Mauriat & Orchestra – La pie voleuse Iridium’s next generation constellation of satellites Angara’s status DARPA pushes its Experimental Spaceplane program forward More bright spots on Ceres Trump picks Pence Freedom caucus demands impeachment vote on IRS head Route to Balanced Rock Trump rally attendees sue San Jose Mother, Father, Sister, Brother – The Sound of Philadelphia Late Sunday Falcon 9 launch looks good Antares launch set for no earlier than August 22 New Horizons looks back at Pluto SLS engine shuts down prematurely during test Want to get a close look at the Russian spaceport during a launch? You can! A brief history of the nuclear defence triad Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long Getting and Installing Linux – Part 4 SpaceX chooses recovered first stage to reuse July 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Another successful Falcon 9 launch The rings of Saturn New climate model works better, but doesn’t! 100 Kepler exoplanet candidates confirmed SpaceX seeks two more pads for returning 1st stages Reused Dragon cargo capsule to ISS within a year New rocket company raising investment capital BLM demands removal of police float from gay parade Alexei Arkhipovsky – Going Home North Korea fires three more missiles Japanese military satellite damaged during shipping Progress freighter arrives at ISS Health insurance rates in California to rise Franky Zapata demonstrating his Flyboard Air Trump will ask Congress to ease the firing of government workers July 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A glacier on Mars International space efforts to double in next decade Trump Treasury Secretary to be former Clinton donor and Goldman Sachs banker? EPA’s gasoline efficiency tests are garbage Nearby exoplanets have Earthlike atmospheres Satellite hit by space junk, still operational Half of TSA employees cited for misconduct France: Windows 10 collects “excessive personal data” No 6207 A Study in Steel New Shepard aced its landing test WIMP detector finds nothing The Indian government considers privatization Astronaut touts space at Republican convention European commission approves Airbus-Safran buy of Arianespace Rosetta’s landing site chosen Flyboard Air company purchased ULA chief says Congress deal clears path to Vulcan Trump considers fracking businessman for Energy Secretary Cruz’s speech at the convention Keith Emerson – Creole Dance Humana abandoning Obamacare July 21, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Black Lives Matter rejects good will gesture by police Trump considers funding super-PACs to defeat Cruz and Kasich in later elections New smallsat rocket company plans first launch in 2018 Danny Kaye – Monahan O’Han Getting and Installing Linux – Part 5 More speculations about Trump’s cabinet A good summary of the Wikileaks DNC emails Curiosity’s way forward Another da Vinci discovery Democrats add space language to platform No U.S. category 3 hurricanes for more than a decade Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds are a girl’s best friend Rosetta says goodbye to Philae India faces $1 billion in damages for space contract cancellation Swedish engineer test flies human-carrying drone Hackers devise method to take over wireless keyboards/mouses Two different kinds of boos Ceres lacks large craters The Sun is blank again ULA interns launch record-breaking model rocket Donna Fargo – Funny Face Take a 3D tour of the Apollo 11 capsule New smallsat company plans 200 satellite constellation “They can’t be real.” China unveils world’s largest amphibious plane Astrobiologists meet to better their search for exoplanet life The pro-Clinton mainstream media, challenged by one guy with a camera Landslides in China! The Lie that is Orion Lower Waterholes Canyon, Arizona Great Red Spot hottest spot on Jupiter NASA guesses SpaceX’s Dragon-Mars mission will cost $300 million GAO warns of more cost overruns for SLS/Orion July 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Atlas 5 successfully launches U.S. surveillance satellite How Comet 67P/C-G was made ExoMars successfully completes long mid-course burn Heading directly for Balanced Rock “Have you reached your breaking point yet?” Documents prove IRS targeted conservatives because of ideology Harry Nilsson – As Time Goes By SpaceX test fires one of its recovered first stages Sierra Nevada preps for Dream Chaser glide tests Making a choice in November Martian gullies not formed by water flow More Junk Science and Journalism Success on second SLS static fire engine test Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass July 29, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Getting and Installing Linux – Part 6 Juno swings back towards Jupiter Japan’s troubled space agency Russia’s troubled new spaceport China’s Chang’e 3 finds no water on Moon Angara gets a customer Top IRS officials approved and supervised harassment of conservatives Millennials favor GOP, want Clinton imprisoned First Virgin Galactic Unity taxi test Roscosmos delays next Proton launch Bernadette Peters – Unexpected Song NASA delays asteroid redirect mission one year A one room fire at SpaceX Io’s atmosphere freezes and reinflates daily Design problems for Starliner Sara Bareilles – Many the Miles Outsiders win primaries in Kansas and Missouri August 2, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Vector completes suborbital test launch, signs contract “News Media Now Giving Trump the ‘Full Palin.’” 3rd largest insurer begins retreat from Obamacare The interior of Ceres Moon Express gets FAA approval for Moon landing After 31 months, Jade Rabbit ceases operation ULA and SpaceX to compete for GPS launch Pete Townshend – Let My Love Open The Door North Korea’s space goal: Hit the Moon in five years SDO not returning data Another reason to avoid Windows Three stops on Iceland’s golden circle Poll shows Hawaiians strongly favor TMT August 4, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Reviewing the history of Jupiter exploration New evidence suggest lake once existed in Gale Crater Trump reveals economic policy team Peggy Lee – Fever Sunspot ramp down continues Chloe and Jason Roweth – The Wild Colonial Boy The mystery of Tabby’s Star deepens NASA finalizes more cubesat deals for first SLS launch A big Perseid meteor shower on Friday? Cruz visits NASA A report from Smallsat 2016 Physicists fail to find sterile neutrino Wind erosion on Mars Illinois college proud to offer “blacks-only” courses Clinton sued by Benghazi families, endorsed by father of Orlando terrorist One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles Rivers of liquid carved deep gorges on Titan Deep Space Industries to fly probe to asteroid SpaceX prepares to test its next generation rocket engine Orbital ATK delays Antares-Cygnus launch until September Clinton put State Department up for sale Craters on Ceres Sondre Lerche – My Hands Are Shaking Russia considers reducing its ISS crew August 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Curiosity prepares to move on Jimi Hendrix – Red House The landing site for ExoMars’ Schiaparelli lander Aerojet Rocketdyne gets NASA contract for cubesat engine TMT will probably not go to India Russia’s space station faces funding problems A fine collection of Rosetta images Trump considers John Bolton for Secretary of State Heading to the Grand Canyon Polio returns to Nigeria Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour Obama goes after gunsmiths SpaceX launches another satellite and recovers another Falcon 9 first stage Yutu might still live! The Backwards Brain Bicycle August 12, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Aetna pulls out of Obamacare The status of SLS for its first launch in 2018 Balanced Rock at last The Grand Canyon Gloria Gaynor – I will Survive Trump’s agriculture advisory panel August 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Costs rise on Obama’s asteroid mission Russia commits money to research manned lunar mission An isolated dune on Mars More evidence ULA will pick Blue Origin over Aerojet Rocketdyne Dirt roads Omaha’s solution to crumbling roads Zager And Evans – In The Year 2525 SpaceX to up its purchase of carbon fiber? China’s biggest rocket ready for shipment Lots of launches Dave Brubeck – Unsquare Dance ULA’s Delta 4 successfully launches two military satellites Russia-Boeing settlement in Sea Launch dispute? Another establishment Republican endorses Clinton EPA never did ethanol studies required by law Clinton and aides ignored law requiring ethics training Murray Buttes panorama by Curiosity released More reasons why I don’t use Windows Küzdők Astronauts attach new U.S. docking port to ISS August 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX’s first recovered first stage placed on display The world’s longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge Russia announces it is building “a super-heavy-class rocket” Dione’s global geology By 2017 one-third of U.S will have no Obamacare insurance choices Beyond Murray Buttes Mars’ wet streaks might not be wet Contact re-established with dead solar satellite Pink Floyd – If Lawsuit against Tucson and balloon company to proceed Russia reveals its proposed new cargo spacecraft Unknown new British company will fly space tourists in five years SpaceX tests parachutes for manned Dragon The bigots in academia Dooley Wilson – Knock on Wood China unveils its 2020 Mars lander/rover August 23, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast North Korea fires a ballistic missile from submarine Fossilized rivers on Mars Virgin Galactic, an expert in diversity! A visit to OSIRIS-Rex clean room Another balanced rock! New York college offers class called “StopWhitePeople2k16.” Obamacare in Tennessee near collapse Earthlike exoplanet discovered orbiting the nearest star “Our projections were completely wrong.” Baltimore to ignore behavior and homework in school grading How to Kiss Chinese company agrees to buy Israeli satellite company Rosetta photographs outburst on Comet 67P/C-G Arianespace sets payload weight record More details about Proxima Centauri’s Earthlike exoplanet India to test ramjet engine A university declares its stand for freedom The November Democratic primary expands! Federal debt to rise to $28 trillion Paul Winter Consort – Icarus ULA wins contract to launch 2020 NASA Mars rover The Earth’s shifting waters Starliner and Orion drop tests Changes on Comet 67P/C-G Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn August 26, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Juno’s closest Jupiter fly-by Dragon splashes down Concrete poured for Blue Origin factory India tests scramjet successfully Suggesting Evening Pauses The alien buttes of Mars Antarctica defies global warming predictions New EPA toxic spill in Colorado Beautiful and mysterious Saturn The evening pause New and very distance outer solar system objects beyond Neptune ThatCelloGuy – River Flows in You Comments down – Fixed First relaunch of Falcon 9 1st stage announced World record for largest 3D printed object Russian hackers attack US election systems Obama to ratify Paris climate treaty, bypassing Senate Michigan court rules against civil forfeiture Richard Feynman explains the Scientific Method Third Lunar X-prize competitor signs launch contract August 30, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast An update on Stereo-B’s status Three professors ban skepticism of human-caused climate change DNA sequencing successfully done on ISS Big scandal for Virgin Galactic’s investment partner Dawn moves to higher orbit around Ceres Scientists discover exoplanets orbiting both stars of binary system Social Security paid $1.7 million to dead federal workers 747 designer dies at 95 Iran to launch three satellites NASA extends Hubble contract through 2021 The Cleverlys – Single Ladies Falcon 9 explodes on launchpad The Earth’s oldest fossil? Video of Falcon 9 launchpad explosion Ahuna Mons, Ceres’s biggest mountain, is an ice volcano On the radio Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite Did China today have a launch failure? The surface of Ceres lacks water NASA sets InSight’s new launch date to Mars Rosetta’s end First science results from Juno Budget constraints and technical challenges delay commercial crew Opportunity’s future travels on Mars September 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Richard Thompson – Wall of Death Opportunity’s steep downhill path New delays for Angara Want to buy a used NASA robot? You can! China to launch next space station September 15 Update on Falcon 9 explosion Philae found! Head of Swiss Space Systems attacked Russia completes preliminary design for Progress replacement UAE adopts a national space policy Sunspots: A recovery in August Big money for California air pollution researchers North Korea fires three more test missiles The cattle business The cat who co-authored a physics paper Mars rover update Federal Dept of Ed forces school to close More budget cuts to Russia’s space program The Webb Sisters – If It Be Your Will September 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast OSIRIS-Rex cleared for launch ISS crew returns safely to Earth Orion faces more budget and schedule delays The dunes of Titan The Peasall Sisters – Farther Along IRS refuses to stop harassing conservatives Rosetta finds carbon molecules in comet dust The technology of Star Trek India’s GSLV rocket successfully launches again Blue Origin to use two launchpads at Cape Canaveral The government vs the people of Louisiana Obama administration gave Iran as much as $33 billion in cash Atlas 5 successfully launches OSIRIS-Rex Tina S – Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Movement First test captive carry flight for Unity Blue Origin to do New Shepard launch abort test Arianespace offers to pick up SpaceX business Update on the Falcon 9 launchpad explosion investigation September 8, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rosetta’s final descent to Comet 67P/C-G The flowing formations of Lethe Vallis An attack on Israel coming? The people directly hurt by Obamacare rises Upcoming lecture in Illinois Do you have video of the Falcon 9 explosion? SpaceX needs it! Ozric Tentacles – Aura Borealis NASA touts Curiosity images of Murray Buttes Blue Origin reveals its orbital rocket Russians consider building another new rocket Statistical analysis suggests Moon can cause quakes Louie Schwartzberg – Gratitude Blue Origin engine test might delay ULA decision on Vulcan engine Russia to expand Proton rocket family Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne signs another customer Some uncomfortable but valid thoughts about SpaceX A Mars Rover Update Another Obamacare co-op folds John Williams – Theme from Jaws More fraud found in Obamacare September 13, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Website issue solved First Gaia release suggests Milky Way larger than previously thought SpaceX aims for November launch ULA announces new plan to speed up launches SpaceX explosion will not effect its Air Force certification Antares return now set for October ESA/Airbus Safran deal finalized Launched today, Israel military satellite in trouble Russian ISS crews to be reduced beginning in spring 2017 Charles Bolden poo-poos private space Court rules EPA violated privacy of farmers and ranchers Charon’s red polar region explained? Davey Graham – She Moves Through The Fair Israelis official think they can save Ofek-11 China launches its second space station Congressman proposes new legislation to better regulate commercial space Republican leadership avoids vote on IRS head impeachment Four different research papers this year find no evidence linking human activity to sea level rise Hubble captures on-going comet break-up New evidence of lakes and streams in Mars’ recent past Israeli soccer fans prevented from attending game by Palestinian protesters Saturn in all its glory “Since when is bigotry a foundation for peace?” André Rieu – Zorba’s Dance (Sirtaki) September 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Arianespace launches 5 satellites with Vega rocket Rosetta’s last days UN Secretary-General declares climate change debate ‘over’ Obama meets with health insurance execs in effort to save Obamacare Puccini – Madam Butterfly Are thousands of Kurds abandoning Islam? News media pushes the idea of President Obama demanding and releasing Donald Trump’s tax returns, without his permission Atlas 5 launch scrubbed Russia postpones September 23 manned Soyuz launch Thirty ton meteorite excavated in Argentina New Zealand government okays commercial launches by Rocket Lab NOAA signs first contract for private weather satellites New NASA authorization bill introduced in Senate Read the reviews for Hillary Clinton’s new book! Really! House votes ease rules for firing VA employees Suspicious climate data manipulation at NASA Russian government going broke Short circuit cause of Soyuz scrub Brushfires force another scrub of Atlas 5 launch A detailed look at the Russian elections today Vandenberg wildfire spreads Scientists make guess about origins of Pluto’s nitrogen sea Federal agencies question establishment of SpaceX spaceport and three liquefied natural gas plants in Brownsville What is happening with Stratolaunch? NY/NJ bomber arrested in shootout Feds mistakenly grant citizenship to more than 800 potentially dangerous immigrants Saturn’s wonderful rings The powerless GOP Crowded House – Weather with you India army suffers largest terrorist attack in decade Senior Bush to vote for Clinton Putin to revive the KGB Manned Soyuz launch delayed until November Update on wildfire at Vandenberg How cats conquered the world Elon Musk’s speech next week to be webcast Mars rover update: September 20, 2016 Orbital ATK aims for October 9-13 Antares launch John Moore – Paint It Black An avalanche pile on Mars Vandenberg wildfire expands to 12,000 acres College students using coloring books to ease stress Michigan public school official calls first American flag symbol of “exclusion and hate” Democrats blame lack of gun control for knife and bomb attacks September 20, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast IRS chief John Koskinen makes excuses Big warming, or no warming, depending on dataset The Known Universe Russian engineers locate short circuit problem on Soyuz Fire at Vandenberg 70% contained Windows 10 breaks computers Republican leadership pushes Democrat-approved budget deal Nils Lofgren – Dream Big Arab columnist discovers that Arab youth admire Hitler “War clouds are gathering. A hard rain is soon going to fall.” September 22, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia to break safety rules to repair Soyuz capsule Stratolaunch loses top executive The outbursts on Comet 67P/C-G Mars’ weird windblown surface Puddles Pity Party & Haley Reinhart – Mad World On the radio SpaceX update on launchpad explosion investigation First light for world’s largest radio telescope Vandenberg wildfire 90% contained PSLV places multiple satellites into different orbits SpaceX test fires Raptor engine Mercury still geologically active? Water plumes on Europa? Trump names climate skeptic to transition team Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take Five Rocket Lab completes construction of first launchpad Pathfinder 1 communications confirmed Watching Rosetta’s finale More delays for Russia’s next ISS module An ancient volcanic mountain chain on Mars OSIRIS-Rex checks out okay Jeff Bezos releases first images of New Glenn prototype First computer music recording restored Musk’s Mars plan Taimaine Gardner – Taimane’s Toccatta by Bach on Ukulele Mars rover update: Sept 27, 2016 Russian airline owner signs deal to buy Sea Launch September 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Dream Chaser to fly 14-day UN mission in 2021 Vandenberg wildfire overview given by base commander Roman coins found in Japan September 27, 2016 Space Show appearance Roy Clark on the Odd Couple Archaeologists find stone toilet in religious shrine The interior of Comet 67P/C-G Keeping the Deep Space Network working The end of freedom Evgenia Laguna – Fifth Element Republican budget deal backed by more House Democrats than Republicans Republican Congressmen question SpaceX’s investigation SpaceX targets November 17 as next launch date Rosetta’s last image Airbus imposes management cuts to save money Next New Shepard test flight set for October 4 Office politics delays Russian ISS module Black Lives Matter protesters shut down debate at university Pakistan threatens India with nuclear attack Libertarian VP candidate praises Hillary Clinton The Pretenders — I’ ll Stand By You Airbus signs first customer for its ISS external platform Cash shortage and court problems for Firefly Sabotage? Dark matter unnecessary? September 29, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A detailed look at SpaceX’s Raptor engine Spring Creek – Hello Operator On the road Curiosity moves on Blue Origin test flight scrubbed Firefly shuts down Not sabotage! The mystery of Tabby’s star deepens Agriculture Secretary demands Americans reduce their food portions Vitas – Opera #2 Space letter wars in Congress! Redesigned Antares launch scheduled for Oct 13 IRS renews harassment of tea party groups October 4, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Success for New Shepard launch abort test Predicting the next Martian global dust storm Tapping the Maple tree Sunspot ramp down resumes The childishness sweeping America Mars rover update: October 6, 2016 Ryan Adams with the Cowboy Junkies – 200 More Miles Stratolaunch to use Orbital ATK’s Pegasus rocket Russia schedules manned Soyuz launch for October 19 SpaceX offers 10% discount for satellites launched on reused 1st stages Hawaii Supreme Court approves solar telescope construction October 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Launches at Vandenberg remain suspended due to wildfire damage China considers moves against North Korea Opportunity to head into Endeavour Crater Cristina Gatti – Someday Green Bank goes private The war with Islam explained The arrogance of today’s government class The world’s most terrifying car Antares launch delayed one day to October 14 Vandenberg launches will not resume until late October at the earliest Cosmic rays a threat to Mars travel More madness from our intellectual betters Obama makes another empty space commitment Antares delayed again, until October 16 A large Kuiper Belt object discovered NASA to offer port on ISS for private modules A*Teens – Halfway Around The World October 11, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Boeing pushes back first Starliner flights Russia gets two contracts for Proton TMT considers alternative sites to Hawaii Upper Austrian Youth Orchestra – Sebastian, the Cyber Conductor The first nation in space? Vector Space Systems to open Tucson facility More Proton delays The Moon gets pounded more than expected Breakthrough increases plant yields by one third Ten times more galaxies than previously believed New power source for planetary missions? André Rieu – The Beautiful Blue Danube Details on Starliner changes No more manned Soyuz purchased by NASA after 2019 ExoMars 2016 bearing down on Mars Kaguya data released at last Vanishing Obamacare plans The intolerant religion of peace Tripp Crosby – Conference Call in Real Life Good distractions Antares launch delayed by faulty cable Problems with Juno’s main engine China launches two astronauts on 30-day space station mission Schiaparelli lander successfully separates from orbiter Used Dragon to fly in 2017 October 14, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ExoMars 2016 in detail Audrey Hepburn – Moon River Antares successfully launches Cygnus Vector Space Systems signs $60 million contract Mars in ultraviolet New comments by Musk on Sept 1 launchpad explosion New object found beyond Kuiper belt The first Arab space program Mars rover update The clouds of hot Jupiter exoplanets Active volcano on Venus? Chinese astronauts dock with station Comet 67P/C-G slowly breaking apart United States Navy Band – Selections from Jersey Boys October 18, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Three astronauts launched to ISS on Soyuz Landslides on Charon Hydrogen loss on Mars is seasonal Juno enters safe mode prior to Jupiter close approach Three GOP offices have now been attacked Fate of Schiaparelli remains unknown Bette Midler – Do You Want To Dance? Another failed North Korean missile test October 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Schiaparelli landing apparently a failure Did Opportunity see Schiaparelli? Two Trump advisers push for National Space Council Iron Horse – Rocketman TMT hearing a fiasco October 20, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Opportunity did not see Schiaparelli Virgin Galactic lawsuit against Firefly moves forward Did Viking discover life on Mars? MRO images Schiaparelli on Mars Celtic Woman – Isle of Inisfree Expansion rate of the universe might not be accelerating Something in the Kremlin is jamming GPS Did fueling procedures cause Falcon 9 launchpad explosion? Moon found orbiting one of the larger known Kuiper belt object Saturn’s changing north pole Science conference accepts fake paper Kepler finds exoplanets orbiting dwarf stars New map outlines the river basins of the US Pentagon demanding return of cash bonuses given to soldiers a decade ago Changing seasons on Titan Musk answers questions on reddit Obamacare premiums skyrocketing again Charlene – I’ve Never Been To Me Astronomers track Io’s volcanic eruptions ISRO begins ground tests of its first lunar lander Russia considers using Ukrainian rocket Schiaparelli failure focuses in on altimeter data The storms of Jupiter’s south pole Brownshirts vandalize and attack neighbors’ homes of Republican senator London university pockets millions for fake global warming research Court awards $197K to Christians October 24, 2016 Midnight Ocean Zimmerman appearance Tony Bennett – I’m Just A Lucky So And So Juno successfully completes engine burn with smaller thrusters Vandenberg launches to resume Nov. 6 Russia and ESA in money dispute October 25, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Aggressive SETI observations of Tabby’s star upcoming Clinton campaign outlines its space priorities The effect of weightlessness on the spine Vandal destroys Trump’s Hollywood sidewalk star Berkeley students block pedestrian bridge to whites Defense Secretary suspends Pentagon’s demand that soldiers repay bonuses Peter Green & Carlos Santana- Black Magic Woman Chinese smallsat snaps pictures of Chinese space station Designing a propulsion system for cubesats Birds that can fly practically forever Russia to test components of nuclear engine on ISS NASA’s headquarters sold Spacesuit problem from January declared solved New details emerge of Schiaparelli crash site Police arrest man who destroyed Trump’s sidewalk star October 25, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor short podcast New Horizons returns the last data from Pluto fly-by Ghetto Kids Dancing – Sitya Loss October 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SES financial report SLS schedule changes impending NASA solar weather satellite in trouble U.S. marshals attack lawyer in Bundy case “This year, my premium is going up 96 percent. Ninety-six percent.” More climate fear-mongering SpaceX update on Sept 1Falcon 9 launchpad explosion Want to see an Ariane 5 launch in French Guiana? You can! Resonance experiment Commercial space industry meets to set its own safety standards Kim Jong-un orders investigation into missile failures Boeing patents concept for vertical take-off commercial jet Virgin Galactic to begin glide tests of Unity “Academic freedom: It’s great, as long as you don’t use it.” Saturn from above Modern college students think America invented slavery It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown TMT consortium picks Canary Islands as alternative site to Hawaii Christopher Cross – Arthur’s Theme Virgin Galactic glide test cancelled due to winds China company to launch suborbital tourists by 2020 Mars rover update: November 3, 2016 George Carlin on language of politics Curiosity finds a meteorite China’s new big rocket set for launch Thursday China’s smallsat rocket scheduled for first launch in December November 2, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Long March 5 successfully launched Atlas 5 Vandenberg launch delayed again Virgin Galactic releases Unity test flight program SpaceX may lose a customer payload MRO color images of Schiaparelli crash site The Origins of Slavery in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century North Korean children on the guitar November 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Atlas 5 to launch Cygnus in March Midland spaceport approved as Dream Chaser landing site Luxembourg invests $28 million into asteroid mining company Vector teams up with private company for low-cost launch tracking capability Unity glide test scrubbed in flight High school student suspended for wearing “Hillary for Prison” t-shirt Largest Texas meteorite ever found by accident on dude ranch IRS harassment of conservatives continues Jury rules against Rolling Stone in gang rape story Musk predicts mid-December return to flight Matt Monro – Born free November 4, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Decline in sunspots continues The Script – Superheroes Orion faces more delays Using the X-37B as a space ambulance? The Star-Spangled Banner The moderate Democrat wins Clinton supporters issue death threats and riot November 8, 2016 Batchelor/McCotter/Rose/Zimmerman podcast More death threats against Trump Natalija Havralenko – In A Sentimental Mood Anti-Trump protesters vandalize Richmond Republican headquarters Colorado voters reject single payer Obamacare clone by 80% Russians to put first centrifuge on ISS Europe and Airbus Safran ink deal to build Ariane 6 The pushback against Trump begins Will Republicans and Trump reduce the budget? Maybe not! A list of potential Trump cabinet picks Diver accidently finds long-lost nuclear bomb ““Die whites die” Henry De Winter and the Bratislava Hot Serenaders – Livin’ in the Sunlight, Lovin’ in the Moonlight NASA considers alternatives to Orion A list of potential Trump staffers ULA Atlas 5 launches successfully from Vandenberg Angles and Dangles on the USS Pasadena November 11, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chicago Cubs are being forced to give up their World Series title “Kill the police!” Oxo Crater on Ceres Oregon official who destroyed Christian bakery loses election IRS denies tea party groups tax-exempt status Mars rover update: November 14, 2016 Roger Whittaker – The Last Farewell The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak Chinese astronauts to return to Earth this week First images from Pathfinder-1 test smallsat released Luxembourg establishes its own legal framework for asteroid mining DARPA tests anti-terrorist radiation detection network Pro-Israel artist threatened with prison for posting posters at university Three things Trump can do to strengthen the 2nd amendment House Republicans to vote on ending ban on earmarks House passes new tax on concrete companies Tine Thing Helseth – Libertango TMT legal case in Hawaii gets messier November 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Problems with Russia force private company to deemphasize ISS cameras Software issues threaten Orion/SLS schedule Stereo images of Schiaparelli crash site Nebraska bans civil forfeiture without a criminal conviction The American city-rural political divide November 15, 2016 Space Show appearance Ryan stops vote on earmarks OutKast – Hey Ya! SpaceX files FCC application for 4000+ internet satellite constellation New conclusions about Pluto from New Horizons data No Trump NASA transition team yet Explosion at SpaceX test site part of launchpad investigation Another Vostochny criminal case opened Scientists puzzle over possible connection between a fast radio burst and a gamma ray burst Astronauts going up and down from different space stations Boeing and Russia to partner on building lunar space station? Buckethead – Big Sur Moon “You are still crying wolf.” November 17, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Shenzhou-11 returns two astronauts safely to Earth NASA global warming advocate Gavin Schmidt fights back Boeing files FCC application for 3,000 satellite constellation Drilling at the Chicxulub impact site has unveiled the crater’s shape Ceres’ cratered surface Obamacare Medicaid expansion to overwhelm state budgets Florence Lacey – It Only Takes a Moment UAE sheikh okays next phase in Mars mission Atlas 5 launches NOAA weather satellite Russia postpones Proton launch again Cygnus leaves ISS Mark Wills – Jacob’s Ladder An update on the Bigelow inflatable module on ISS Democrats look in all the wrong places to explain their losses Massachusetts college bans American flag The worst fake news stories in the past few decades Judge blocks illegal Obama overtime rule Micah Tyler – You’ve Gotta Love Millennials SpaceX wins NASA satellite launch contract Donor pulls funds from Hawaii college for Trump protest A lawsuit that could end all federal gun regulations New Defense directive permits concealed carry on bases November 22, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Off to Death Valley John Mellencamp – Longest Days Improvisation at the train station in Paris Andrew Danube – A medley of piano music Back from Death Valley Rocket Lab delays first rocket test flights Software error caused Schiaparelli crash SpaceX to launch EchoStar satellite in early January Canyoneering in Death Valley Artists Of Then, Now & Forever – Forever Country Possible cause of microgravity vision problems identified Autistic boy disqualified from victory because he swam too fast ExoMars’ Trace Gas Orbiter takes first pictures Drilling for the oldest ice Dispute in ESA over Schiaparelli failure Trump picks two for overhauling Obamacare Trump picks pro-voucher conservative for Education Secretary ISS Fisheye Fly-Through Trump and the Republican establishment team up Another Google Lunar X-Prize team secures launch contract New Chinese launch company gets its first customer U.S. and China top Russia for most launches in 2016 New ULA website allows customers to configure their launch The science lobby looks at Trump’s pick for Health Secretary Trump picks NASA transition team leader Airbus to slash more than a 1,000 jobs to cut costs Russia sets budget for Vostochny through 2019 Democrats pick Pelosi again November 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition LIGO 25% more sensitive Russia Progress freighter lost during launch Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole due to health issue Megan Lee – Winter Wonderland SpaceX sets Dec 16 for next launch Cygnus fire experiments a success December 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New astronomy webpage and grants devoted to next year’s eclipse Fourth Google Lunar X-Prize team gets launch deal Japan developing small rocket for commercial smallsats Japanese company developing suborbital mini-shuttle Aldrin condition stable Another captive carry flight test of Virgin Galactic’s Unity Hampshire College ends ban on U.S. flag Trump initial agenda includes Obamacare repeal and “fundamental tax reform” ESA approves ExoMars 2020 funding Mark Knopfler – Brothers in arms Cause of Progress failure unlikely to be found The beginning of Cassini’s final year at Saturn The ever shrinking and delayed Orion/SLS Why we have Trump Unity successfully completes its first glide flight Altitude sickness caused Buzz Aldrin’s Antarctic health problems How Bush after 9/11 overwhelmed Al-Qaeda Vega launches a Turkish commercial smallsat Another Russian Roscosmos official arrested Russian authorities locate Progress debris Cassini makes its first close ring flyby of Saturn Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are “Researchers baffled by nationalist surge” Drill issues at Curiosity NASA awards contract for satellite refueling mission Pentagon buries report documenting $125 billion of waste SpaceX to delay December 16 launch Sunspot activity continues to drop Susan Boyle with Libera – In the Bleak Midwinter First images from Cassini’s first Saturn ring flyby ExoMars’ Trace Gas Orbiter images Phobos Republican Congress passes National Park bill that raises fees India successfully launches Indian Earth resource satellite UAE to issue national laws to facilitate space tourism and exploration Update on Blue Origin’s new rocket factory Dispute in Russia over Progress failure investigation December 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Upcoming lectures Trump picks oil industry ally and global warming skeptic for EPA USGS responds to Congressional inquiry about data tampering with blank documents Successful Delta 4 launch of Air Force satellite The weird south pole of Mars STAR WARS Stormtrooper VS. Fort Worth Police Officer! John Glenn hospitalized SpaceX confirms its next launch will be in early January Europe commits to a second service module for Orion Design flaw in India’s Mars Orbiter Two new studies say different things about Greenland’s icecap history SpaceX’s loses launch contract due to scheduling delays Details revealed about Trump’s space policy? December 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast John Glenn has passed away at 95 Mars rover update: December 8, 2016 Christmas in Hollis Carpool Karaoke December 8, 2016 Zimmeman/Batchelor podcast Japan successfully launches its ISS cargo freighter The present strengths and limits to North Korea’s nuclear missile capabilities Dutch rightwing politician convicted by court for expressing anti-immigration opinions Jupiter’s chaotic storms China preparing for anti-satellite test? More members of Trump’s NASA transition team named Juno’s upcoming December 11 Jupiter flyby Democratic Senators force short government shutdown Sammy Hagar – Eagles Fly December 9, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First dinosaur tail found, preserved in amber India hires private companies to build satellite Curiosity cleared to move but not drill Update on Progress/Soyuz launch failure Did a giant black hole eat a star? Pennsylvania college students replace Shakespeare portrait with black author OSIRIS-REx to search for Earth’s Trojan asteroids SpaceX pushes back first manned Dragon flight Miyako Arishima – Nocturne in G major Op. 37 No. 2 Another Obamacare co-op shuts down Drill issue stalls Curiosity again Shonen Knife – Sweet Christmas In Santa Barbara Juno completes third Jupiter flyby Rocket Lab rocket ready for first test flights Louis Armstrong – When The Saints Go Marching In NASA begs out of first SpaceX’s Mars mission Obamacare subsidies to go up almost $10 billion next year Back from Vandenberg Lots of ice on Ceres Joe Satriani – Midnight Flying over Occator Crater on Ceres December 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Orbital ATK’s Pegasus launches successfully Judge: NASA cannot confiscate an Apollo 11 artifact that was sold by mistake Vector successfully test fires its rocket engine Lunar lava tubes could be big President of Cornell College Republican club attacked How the new Congress will repeal Obamacare Four richest counties are all suburbs of DC The Space Show annual fund-raising campaign The first powered flight Another successful ULA Atlas 5 launch Proton launch postponed again Swiss Space Systems declared bankrupt China’s Chang’e-3 lunar lander still working after three years on the Moon December 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Death threats and harassment from Democrats to members of Electoral College Betelgeuse might have eaten a star Joe Journeys – Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia OneWeb raises $1.2 billion in investment capital John Glenn and Charles Lindbergh Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches successfully “Anomalous readings” detected during testing of Webb telescope JAXA signs agreement with private lunar mining company The squealing of pigs Pressure on Trump to shift NASA transistion team towards private space Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan – El Pastor “The oldest computer (not) on Earth.” On the radio A review of Trump’s current cabinet picks December 20, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia conducts anti-satellite missile test Fifth Google Lunar X-Prize team gets launch deal What happened at SpaceX the first time they landed a first stage Computer modeling suggests light fluctuations at Tabby’s Star are natural December 20, 2016 Space Show appearance A Very Murray Christmas – Fairytale of New York Leftist and Muslim student organizations make demands at University of Maryland December 21, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China and the UN open future Chinese space station to international research Fatal clinical drug trial failed because company did not review all data Close-up of Pandora Lace on Mars Pentagon makes believe Iran isn’t using $1.7 billion for military Fake Hate Crimes EPA only archived 86 out of 3.1 million agency texts in 2015 Mars rover update: December 22, 2016 Gloria Estefan – Turn the Beat Around Trump puts Boeing and Lockheed Martin in competition! ESA signs contract for construction of its part of ExoMars 2020 A rover review of 2016 Lobbying for the Moon Second successful glide test for Unity U.S. tests anti-missile interceptors The recent changes in Earth’s magnetic field George Washington University drops American history requirement Rod Stewart – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Russia once again postpones next Proton launch December 23, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Kaylee Rodgers & Killard House Special School – Hallelujah A Christmas Carol Ben Abraham and Guests – O come, O come, Emmanuel NASA estimates one month to address Webb vibration issues Adam Shugar – Hanukkah Overture for String Orchestra and Clarinet Vera Rubin R.I.P. China outlines its next five years in space CUFI Cornerstone Singers – Hava Nagila Texas Style Venezuela: the bankruptcy of socialism and modern intellectualism Chinese rocket fails to put two satellites into correct orbits Trump interested in lunar manned mission? California history professor wants to bar climate skeptics from internet 100 Years of Men’s Fashion: New Year’s Style Obama and the UN vs Israel and the Free World Debbie Reynolds – I Ain’t Down Yet Republicans consider delaying Obamacare repeal Debris inside Curiosity drill might be cause of problem Colleges in California and New York ranked #1 and #2 as the most anti-Semitic Ørkenens sønner – Dance in the fog California Democrats legalize child prostitution Robot lie detector being tested by Canada SpaceX preps for next launch EPA moves to punish Alaskans for burning wood to heat their homes EPA moves to regulate key pizza ingredients The upcoming Israeli response to the UN and Obama attacks Johann Strauss Sr. – Radetzky March Prime-time audiences drop by double-digits in 2016 The fall of the USSR, as seen by a witness Republicans offer two meaningless resolutions condemning UN-Israel resolution U.S. wins launch scorecard for 2016 The real margin of error for polls SpaceX plans Jan 8 launch An igloo on Mars? Study reveals that today’s elites cluster in out-of-touch urban bubbles A New Year Update into into Dec 1 Progress failure investigation Curiosity looks at Mount Sharp House moves to weaken its ethics panel It’s Still a Mad, Mad California First sunspot for the next solar cycle spotted 94% of all new jobs under Obama part time Another Boston Dynamics robot video New Republican bill to move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem U2 – New Years Day NASA awards more operational manned missions to SpaceX and Boeing Republicans introduce first measure for repealing Obamacare The competition heats up January 3, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA approves two new asteroid missions House passes bill to cancel all regulations created during Obama’s lame duck rule BLR – iDiots Astronomers identify for the first time the source of a fast radio burst Launch of joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite delayed again January 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launch delayed until Monday Arianespace wins two contracts, aims for a dozen launches in 2017 India considers going to Jupiter and Venus Republicans prepare legislation to defund UN Corzine fined $5 million for stealing $1 billion Leonid & Friends – Chicago’s 25 or 6 to 4 Trump does a clean sweep of all politically appointed ambassadors House passes bill requiring Congressional approval for major regulations Astronomers predict binary stellar merger in 2022 Could Venus’ atmospheric dark streaks be life? Mission proposes to find out Obamacare: The Republican strategy of partial repeal vs full repeal Hubble takes a look at both Voyagers’ interstellar path A feudal and isolated California The Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars GOP schedules six confirmation hearings for one day Bohemian Rhapsody on 111-year-old organ FAA okays SpaceX launch on Monday Handicapping Trump’s Supreme Court pick January 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast January 6, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launch delayed to January 14 due to weather Memories of Arthur Clarke Herschel Crater on Mimas Famous sequoia tree falls Republicans moving to restore earmarks The sunspot crash continues Olivia Newton-John – Take me home Country Roads China’s Kuaizhou rocket launches first commercial payload Pentagon test flies a swarm of 100 micro-drones Could Tabby’s Star have eaten a planet? The status of telescopes the NSF is getting rid of Japan unveils new small rocket Utah climate scientists whine about possible NASA cuts Private money to VLT to search for Earthlike planets at Alpha Centauri Coordinated bomb threats against Jewish schools and community centers Luciano Pavarotti – Ave Maria Japanese SS-520 rocket launch scrubbed due to weather The X-37B flies on January 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The raging storms of Jupiter’s south pole Launch industry trends, based on recent history Russians complete investigation into Progress launch failure These Gears Really Work? SpaceX to land both Falcon Heavy first stages and Dragon at Cape Canaveral January 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A centrifuge costing 20 cents based on a toy Senate passes Obamacare partial repeal Leftist organization organizes boycotts of many companies for Trump support Berkeley professors demand silencing of dissent January 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Noory podcast Jon Lord – Miles Away NASA asteroid redirect mission delayed again NASA names acting administrator “We do see ourselves as preventing a peaceful transition of power.” House approves Senate budget resolution repealing Obamacare Joss Stone – Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye Moon Express completes funding for Google X-Prize lunar mission Yannapoulos speech canceled because of violent protesters January 13, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Pakistan test fires a submarine-launched cruise missile SpaceX is flying again Japan’s SS-520 launch a failure “We have waited for you for a very long time.” Private Chinese rocket company gets launch contract Preparing to dive into Saturn’s rings Gene Cernan, 82, has passed away Video of leftists planning terrorist acts during Inauguration events Kara : a PS3 new technology Head of ethics office Obama supporter Inaugural event organizer to bring charges against leftists for their terrorism threats ULA Atlas 5 launch delayed Big money offered to protest Trump Some background on leftist terrorist Colin Dunn School fires employee for correcting spelling error Second video released of planned violent protests at inauguration Curiosity spots cracks formed from drying mud ABBA – Waterloo Russians to replace Soyuz engines for next few launches Boeing obtains available seats on Soyuz as result of Sea Launch settlement Recovered Falcon 9 1st stage arrives in Los Angeles January 17, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX prepares used 1st stage for February launch ELT construction moves forward Cause of vision problems in space pinpointed? Akatsuki discovers a giant wave in Venus’ upper atmosphere 18 Jewish organizations hit with second wave of bomb threats today Mars rover update: January 18, 2017 Carion Quintet – Jacques Ibert’s trois pièces brèves, I. allegro Atomic clocks on 9 of 72 European GPS satellites have failed India delays next launch of its largest rocket Chris Hadfield, Barenaked Ladies, the Wexford Gleeks – I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) Bigelow proposes extending life of its ISS module beyond its two year demo Anti-Trump protesters riot in DC Judy Collins – The Blizzard Planes flying at high latitudes can travel through clouds of high cosmic radiation January 20, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Trump’s 1st NASA appointees suggest future policy Chinese lunar sample return mission set for November Major budget cuts and agency eliminations coming from Trump? Baby it’s cold outside Proton launch delayed again, possibly for months Japan launches first military satellite Lennon and Maisy – Ho Hey Trump shuts down public communications at numerous federal agencies Project Veritas videos lead to one arrest A 1960 Soviet-era vision of the U.S.S.R. in 2017 January 24, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Newly discovered quality control problems ground Russia’s Proton Google Lunar X-Prize finalists named Giant networks of fake twitter users discovered Trump threatens to “send in the Feds” to control Chicago violence A Saturn moon makes waves Trump “clamp down” no different than past transitions Jay Proctor (Jay & the Techniques) – Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie Boeing unveils its spacesuit for Starliner missions Webb telescope vibration tests resume Clock problems on one of India’s GPS satellites UAE’S 2020 Mars mission still on schedule Upper stage engine test of India’s GSLV Jupiter’s Little Red Spot Trump’s top five picks for Supreme Court New measurements of the universe’s expansion rate John Denver – I Remember You Dream Chaser arrives at Edwards for testing 85% of the world’s governments are corrupt Fifty years ago today: the Apollo 1 launchpad fire ISS twin study suggests weightlessness stresses the body in unexpected ways Have scientists produced a speck of solid metallic hydrogen? A Martian sinkhole Making a Linux laptop Tina Arena & Kane Alexander – I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You Soyuz launches successfully from French Guiana Next Falcon 9 launch delayed as SpaceX rearranges manifest A review of Trump’s first 17 executive orders Iran tests ballistic missile despite UN ban New close-ups of Saturn’s rings Elon Musk’s design vision Trump fires acting AG for refusing to defend his executive order on immigration India to launch spare GPS satellite because of single satellite failure A review of 2016 launches China tests long-range missile carrying 10 warheads “We need to start killing people.” Dan Licht – Dexter Suite Gorsuch picked by Trump for Supreme Court Some radioisotope dating might be overestimating the age of samples Japanese experiment to remove space junk fails U.S. 2020 Mars rover faces delays SpaceX to double leased space at Los Angeles port January 31, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Plotting the interstellar path to Proxima Centauri Recovered Falcon 9 first stage prepped for launch Government-owned Alaska Aerospace considers second spaceport SpaceX gets an eighth Iridium launch The private weather industry moves forward Almost 200 federal workers to take “civil disobedience” class How government wrecked the gas can The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird New Horizons adjusts its course Russian prosecutors indict four rocket engineers for Proton failure ESA commits $91 million to reusable rocket engine development Russia proposes increased space cooperation with the U.S. Violent rioters shut down free speech at UC-Berkeley Curiosity’s drill remains out of commission A robot that imitates the flight of bats Juno’s next Jupiter fly-by today UAE considers initiating its own manned space program The vanishing volcanoes of Ceres Iran officials thumb their noses at Trump The ships of Hanjin six months after it went bankrupt More new robots from Boston Dynamics February 2, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Tyrone Wells – Beautiful Girl, Beautiful World Congressional report worries over Falcon 9 engine cracks Protesters attack and shut down lecturer at NYU Congress moves to overturn numerous Obama regulations Judge strikes down Tucson/Worldview spaceport deal Russia sets early April for next Proton launch ULA to trim workforce again Strange beat-up Martian terrain The fascist face of the left How past fascist dictators took power Man wearing Trump hat assaulted at Berkeley today Jean Redpath – How Can I Keep from Singing February 3, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Anti-Trump protesters block ambulance with critically-ill patient Whistleblower exposes climate data manipulation at NOAA At Jupiter reality imitates art Obamacare numbers continue to tank The Sun turns New Curiosity data leaves scientists baffled about past evidence of water The wit of Ronald Reagan Democratic party leaders endorse obstruction as political tool NanoRacks and Boeing to build private airlock on ISS Milo Yiannopoulos plans to return to UC-Berkeley The fascist and violent intentions of the left Educated Fish UC-Berkeley student newspaper publishes essays praising riots February 7, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA SLS/Orion facility in Louisiana sustains tornado damage An orbital change extends the life of India’s Mars orbiter Democrats in Pima County vote to appeal World View court decision Orbital ATK sues DARPA over its satellite repair program Trump jokes about “destroying” Texas politician EPA employees protest Trump pick for agency head How Differential Gear works SpaceX sets February 18 for next Falcon 9 launch Iran tests short range missile February 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Warning – Enter Sandman Birthday bleg time again! Lockheed Martin screwup delays delivery of Air Force GPS satellites Trump to the Moon! UK commits £10 million to space development China to test unmanned space freighter in April Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner February 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA narrows to three the Mars rover landing sites in 2020 North Korea test fires another ballistic missile Black Lives Matter co-founder advocates black supremacy and genocide of whites “For the first time in my adult life, I was outside of the liberal bubble and looking in.” New Horizons enters safe mode SpaceX successfully completes Falcon 9 static fire test American citizen detained and forced by Customs to unlock his JPL secure phone Orbital ATK prepares Cape Canaveral launchpad for July Minotaur launch Japan to try another launch of low-cost mini-rocket A glimpse at China’s unmanned cargo freighter NSF voids punishment of scientists who committed plagiarism and data fabrication Hunting Javelinas Olivia Millerschin – Look Both Ways Heart risks from secondhand smoke completely bogus X-37B about to land? A comet breaks apart Countdown begins on India’s record-setting launch of 104 satellites Short circuit caused launch failure of Japanese mini-rocket The international government effort to come up with a cis-lunar ISS Mars rover update: February 14, 2017 Maybe the Earth’s magnetic field is not weakening Freedom Caucus to push for swift Obamacare repeal Join the Snowflake Squadron! John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air February 14, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India launches record 104 satellites at one go Capitalism in Space to be released early next week NASA considers putting astronauts on first SLS/Orion flight The Feather King February 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India preparing rover for 2018 Moon landing Rocket Lab delivers first test rocket to launch site Two congressmen propose naming SLS for astronaut Gene Cernan Republican leaders propose Obamacare revisions Weather threatens Saturday Falcon 9 launch UAE proposes building Martian city within a century George Jones – The Grand Tour Dawn finds organics on Ceres Killing both commercial space and American astronauts The consequences of leftwing censorship Tilleson starts State Department purge February 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Juno to remain in 53-day orbit Mexico’s supermarket dancing cow SpaceX launches Dragon and lands first stage SpaceX delays first Dragon Mars mission to 2020 China suspends coal purchases from North Korea Janet Devlin – Time After Time Another nationwide wave of bomb theats against Jewish facilities India’s space agency wants to build a space station ULA lets the press see part of SLS UC-Berkeley and Google looking for amateur images of upcoming August eclipse High School band to exclude whites in its music selection Senate passes NASA budget that slashes environment spending “This is how socialism always ends.” Testing of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne first stage engine Pan Am Boeing 707 – 1965 Emergency Landing Scientists propose new planet definition that reinstates Pluto Polar bear populations continue to grow and thrive Off to Belize Last Soyuz-U launches Progress to ISS Dragon aborts berthing with ISS Sea Launch deal finalized? A solar system of exoEarths! Daniel Boaventura & Carlos Rivera – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizás, Quizás, Quizás) Aerojet Rocketdyne sets record testing new rocket engine NASA signs technology development contracts with eight companies February 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Aaron Copland – Fanfare For The Common Man Dragon safely berths at ISS one day late India’s government a barrier to private space The life of Robert Mitchum February 23, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Caving all day New auto-destruct system to increase launch rate Unity completes third glide test The Champs – Tequila Gustav Holst – Jupiter from The Planets Heading Home NASA buys Soyuz seats from Boeing Carrot harvester China considering multi-asteroid mission The oldest fossils ever? The winds of Mars Bigelow advocates his space stations for lunar missions The tampering of climate data at NOAA and NASA Asteroid breaks in two, each piece develops a tail Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over China completes construction of space station core module SpaceX loses 89 smallsats due to delays China launches smallsat on new rocket Virgin Galactic spins off LauncherOne into its own division Blue Origin proposes unmanned lunar mission March 2, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Police arrest former journalist for bomb threats against Jewish centers College Republicans at Berkeley-UC continue to be threatened Two of five cameras on Japan’s Venus orbiter Akatsuki shut down Fascist protesters attack professor and speaker at Vermont college A propeller in Saturn’s A ring Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Didn’t It Rain 44 days for first round of hearings on TMT Cuts to NOAA, EPA, and the environmental bureaucracy New commercial proposals for launching almost 15,000 satellites TSA to make pat-downs more “intimate” Democrats make no gains in special elections March 3, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast North Korea test fires four ballistic missiles Scientists estimate age of bright spots in Occator Crater on Ceres Automated factory to build smallsats Japan passes its own commercial space law Russia puts four engineers on trial for Proton launch failure Sunspot update for February 2017 Scandal – Goodbye To You Vega launches European research satellite Dream Chaser flight tests upcoming Blue Origin unveils first completed BE-4 rocket engine Republican leadership endorses Obamacare House approves NASA authorization Boeing 747 brake test Blue Origin gets its first orbital customer A Kuwaiti space agency? Anti-Trump protesters who threatened violence during inauguration get off scott free A Ted Cruz telecon Local Vermont voters dump mayor who pushed accepting refugees At the crest March 7, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Noble Sissle and his Ciro’s club dance orchestra – Little White Lies/Happy Feet Blue Origin signs second contract for New Glenn Rand Paul introduces his Obamacare replacement Meet the fascist professors at Middlebury College March 9, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Walk off the Earth – Somebody that I used to know Stratolaunch to fly in 2017? Congress micromanages rocket development at ULA Saturn’s weird moon Pan Sessions asks all remaining attorneys appointed by Obama to resign The Key of Awesome – Somebody that I use to know parody Lockheed Martin abandons Athena rocket Decision on new Orbital ATK rocket expected in 2018 Parachute tests for Boeing Starliner New York dumps literacy tests for teachers Crosby, Stills & Nash – Marrakesh Express Microsoft inserts ads in Windows 10 University removes weight scale from gym because TRIGGER Weather delays Falcon 9 launch till Thursday Engineer invents teabag dunking machine Ukraine-Canadian partnership to launch from Nova Scotia March 13, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Last Super Fortress B-29 takes to the air SpaceX wins another Air Force launch contract House leans to less regulation of commercial space Minneapolis: another American city destroyed by Democrats Titan’s fizzy oceans? March 14, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Jack Bruce – I Feel Free Less evidence of dark matter in early universe SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite Want to watch a nuclear bomb go off? You can! Trump budget proposal March 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor/Livingston podcast The math hidden in Van Gogh’s Starry Night Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter has passed its check out OneWeb breaks ground on satellite factory The terrorist protesters in North Dakota Japan launches military satellite The layered mesas of Mars March 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Faron Young – Sweet Dreams Capitalism in Space: College eliminates English and math placement tests Conservatives “violently threatened” at Lutheran college Ariane 5 launch delayed by labor strike Tom Jobim – Waters of March/Águas de Março SpaceX signs lease for Florida warehouse to refurbish 1st stages Atlas 5/Cygnus launch delayed until next week due to technical issue Trump signs NASA authorization The rings of Saturn The changes seen by Rosetta on Comet 67P/C-G Republican healthcare bill faces defeat in House Postmodern Jukebox – All About That Bass Rocket Lab raises $75 million More strike actions delay Ariane 5 again Vector Space Systems plans launches from Kennedy More wear found on Curiosity’s wheels North Korean missile test a failure Lawsuit against San Jose by Trump supporters to go forward March 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The longest stretch of no sunspots since 2009 Why U.S. farmers are hacking their John Deere tractors Atlas 5/Cygnus launch delayed again Deborah Kerr – I whistle a happy tune Another arrest in Jewish center bomb threats Another NASA authorization bill this year? Vote on Republican Obamacare bill canceled Labor strikes force Arianespace to suspend all French Guiana launches Strawhatz – A China Concept SSL sues Orbital ATK over proprietary in-space servicing technology More problems for Russian ISS module Next Proton launch tentatively set for May Republican Obamacare bill does not have votes X-37B sets new orbital record March 23, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast “Limited in attention span, all about big talk and identity politics, but uninterested in substance.” Reused first stage static fire dress rehearsal today Today’s modern fascist university Science discovers that cats prefer human companionship over food Hot Wheels double loop dare Juno completes fifth flyby of Jupiter French Guiana strikes continue David Gilmour – The Blue ESA narrows landing site choice for ExoMars 2020 to two A NASA Image and Video library, available to all California to prosecute pro-life activists March 28, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A look at Blue Origin’s upcoming plans Vector signs deal with Georgia spaceport Genocidal professor wants protesters to silence speaker’s free speech rights Washington Bubble fights back against Capitalism in Space Atlas 5/Cygnus launch delayed until mid-April Gene Watson – Farewell Party Less than 1% of all science papers follow scientific method Private Space wins the Race New theory eliminates need for dark energy SpaceX successfully launches a previously flown first stage A tour of Vector Space Systems Practically every Russian Proton rocket engine defective New data from MAVEN confirms how Mars lost its atmosphere SLS faces more delays Rush – Countdown SpaceX recovers fairing of upper stage of Falcon 9 Bad solder joints cause of Russian Proton engine defects Returning to the Grand Canyon How to Replace Blinker Fluid First Falcon Heavy demo launch to include two used boosters Russia responds to SpaceX reused booster success Ekso Bionics’ Bionic Suit Sha Na Na with Johnny Contardo – Those Magic Changes Yes – I’ve Seen All Good People ULA gets three launch contracts Atlas 5 launch of Cygnus set for April 18 New Horizons halfway to 2014 MU69 SpaceX gets commercial launch contract ULA reduces workforce at Vandenberg Orbital ATK developing new rocket Russia proposes extending ISS beyond 2024 ULA prepares to choose engine for Vulcan Strikers attempt to occupy Arianespace spaceport in French Guiana Suborbital promises Hubble snaps close-up of Jupiter Exoplanet twin of Venus found Sarah Connolly & the BBC Orchestra – Rule Britannia March 31, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Atmosphere detected around Earth-sized exoplanet Citizen scientists crowd scource discovery of 4 exoplanets Air Force willing to use re-used Falcon 9 first stages ULA slashes launch prices for Atlas 5 Mob shuts down speech at Claremont McKenna College Another Grand Canyon tour Elvis Presley – Love Me Tender Solar panel project costing millions produces enough energy to run one microwave R.I.P: Georgy Grechko Soyuz returns ISS crew to Earth The storms of Jupiter Cement Mixer Slim Gaillard Large archive of Canadian ice cores melts New Horizons goes back to sleep Sweden delivers science instrument for Chinese lunar probe Scientists find persistent cold spot on Jupiter Aerojet Rocketdyne trims and reorganizes workforce Italian rocket engine company stock surges in trading debut Turkey moves to create its own space agency China and South Korea agree to counter North Korea’s missile/nuclear program U.S. refuses to sign G7 statement supporting Paris climate accord California professor repeatedly calls for the assassination of Donald Trump Sunspot update for March 2017 Eric Church – Kill A Word April 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Off to Israel + new op-ed! The Last Day April 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First Falcon Heavy side first stage ready for initial tests China launches advanced communications satellite Jennifer Connelly – The Night Has A Thousand Eyes Audit finds SLS unlikely to launch in 2018 Water plumes on Europa plus hydrogen in Enceladus plumes Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Court allows lawsuit against NASA agent who detained elderly couple NASA to rely more on private space for deep space missions North Korea missile test fails New Zimmerman op-ed in The Federalist Anna Martin – Dead and Lovely Japan aims for record 8 launches in 2017 ULA successfully launches Cygnus to ISS Landslides on Ceres reveal presence of ice Jean Mitry – Pacific 231 Luxembourg rejects proposed space legislation because of Outer Space Treaty Want your food kosher in space? U.S. space law versus UN Outer Space Treaty New poll says most Hawaiians favor TMT Bobby Vee – Take Good Care of My Baby Israeli student cubesat launched from Atlas 5 UC-Berkeley tries to silence Coulter speech Private company builds high resolution space radar facility in Texas First results from Breakthrough Listen’s search for alien radio signals Scientists release geological map of potential landing site for 2020 rover Berkeley backs down to Coulter, partly Peter Pringle – The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian Soyuz launches two astronauts to ISS China launches first unmanned freighter in test flight The “March for Science”: a Democratic Party operation Some teasing pictures of Stratolaunch How Russia’s next ISS module got contaminated Arianespace wins new commercial contract Mars rover update: April 21, 2017 Trump signs commercial weather satellite bill The Maine – If I Only Had The Heart France settles union dispute in French Guiana The Israeli finalist in the Google Lunar X-Prize is out of the running China’s first unmanned freighter successfully docks with test station Airbus-Safran gets go-ahead to build first Ariane 6 test rocket Berkeley mayor belongs to group that organized riots against Milo Yiannopoulos Donors and students fleeing Drexel University, home of genocidal professor Vector suborbital rocket test scrubbed 19 federal agencies eliminated in proposed Trump budget Refueling tests begin on Chinese test space station Former Obama official confirms climate data manipulation by bureaucrats Cassini makes last fly-by of Titan Crystal Gayle & Muppets – River Road Clemson administrator proposes that candidates be prescreened for ideology A look at some Israeli West Bank settlements Salt N Pepa – Whattaman Latch blamed for Webb vibration test issue Cassini about to make first dive into Saturn’s rings Liberated Mosul districts reconnect with satellite television European push for more space regulations under international law Bigoted professor to accept students in course based on race April 25, 2017 Zimmerman Space Show podcast Ann Coulter has cancelled her speech at UC-Berkeley Rod Stewart – When You Wish Upon a Star Report finds NASA spacesuit development over budget, behind schedule, and inadequate Third reaction wheel on Dawn fails April 25, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Cassini successfully completes first dive between Saturn and its rings UAE and Algeria sign space accord Space, regulation, the Outer Space Treaty, and yesterday’s Senate hearing Portland parade cancelled because of threats by leftist fascists Hibernation research for long space flights NASA officially delays SLS first flight to 2019 April 26, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Pietro Mascagni – Preludio Cavalleria Rusticana Chinese freighter successfully completes first refueling test Trump administration eases technology restrictions to Saudi Arabia North Korea ballistic missile test ends in failure Fascist California abandons the Constitution April 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Winny Jessica Setiawan, Sheila Permatasaka, and BEBOP Light Orchestra – Something Stupid Trump administration plans 9% staffing cuts at State Department The coming fascism SpaceX launch of spy satellite scrubbed New bipartisan budget deal cuts nothing from bloated federal government SpaceX successfully launches first surveillance satellite North Korean missile explosion part of planned test Unity successfully completes fourth glide test Elton John – Rocket Man Cassini finds gap in Saturn’s rings surprisingly empty Iranian owner of Middle East satellite TV company assassinated in Istanbul To celebration May Day and communism, leftists riot in Portland Anti-white protests shut down Minnesota college Trump threatens shutdown in September after caving in May North Korean missile destroyed because it was heading to Russia? Astronomers find that Epsilon Eridani solar system resembles our own system The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian May 2, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Company that analyzes satellite data raises $50 million ISRO requests Indian proposals for Venus probe Iran announces launch plans for 2018 NASA looks to private companies for lunar missions The soft avalanches of Mars Submarine test launch by Iran of cruise missile fails Maiden flight of China’s new 158-seat C919 passenger jet Vector completes first suborbital test flight Cassini science team releases movie of images from first ring dive Serena Ryder – Racing In The Street 3D printing of bricks, using moondust California proposes taxes on commercial space companies New poll suggests majority of Americans support free speech Republican Trumpcare passes House Senate passes $1 trillion continuing resolution 79-18 Arianespace successfully resumes launches in French Guiana Curiosity’s last dune investigation Nancy Sinatra – Sugar Town Senate to ignore House Obamacare replacement, write its own bill India’s GSLV rocket successfully launches communications satellite Bezos sells about $1 billion of his Amazon shares Trump signs $1 trillion spending bill China’s space managers now dominate China’s government Gilbert & Sullivan – Three Little Maids SpaceX to launch Bulgarian satellite in June with used first stage May 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The UAE plan to tow an iceberg from Antarctica for drinking water X-37B lands at Kennedy after spending 718 days in orbit Trump administration removes members of EPA science advisory board NASA may have decided to fly humans on first SLS test flight Saturn’s north pole hexagon jet stream Speak your mind at Duke Divinity School and get threatened Sunspot update for April 2017 The status of all of Trump’s executive appointments so far Ray Bethell – Romancing The Wind Brittle and weak welds on SLS tanks? Georgia governor signs spaceport bill Europe considers a helicopter drone for future Mars missions The city of the future will watch you all the time The left moves to indoctrinate elementary school kids Ray Bethell – Good Stuff SpaceX completes first static fire test of Falcon Heavy core stage Japan begins testing new rocket engine Palestinian Authority stops shipping medicine to Gaza SLS oxygen tank dome dropped and damaged New multi-wavelength image of Crab Nebula Aetna leaves last two Obamacare exchanges Kim Wilde – Kids in America May 9, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two Dragon Mars missions in 2020? Air Force agreement with ULA expires UAE reveals details on its 100 year Mars colonization plan Irreplaceable plant specimens destroyed by Australian customs. Propellers by the dozens Assistant principal who harassed pro-life protesters resigns Nina Simone – To Love Somebody May 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast American colleges: Today’s blueprint for tomorrow’s totalitarian state NASA nixes plan to fly humans on first SLS flight The press begins to turn against SLS Percy Shelley – Ozymandias North Korea completes ballistic missile test May 12, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab sets May 21 for first test launch of its Electron rocket Engine test of Blue Origin BE-4 engine goes bad Mars rover update: May 15, 2017 Another California speaking event shut down by students SpaceX launches commercial satellite Nana Mouskouri – La Paloma Islamic expert Robert Spencer poisoned by leftist protester GAO: Cost and scheduling problems with many big NASA projects A former leftist sees the light Beethoven – Turkish March Dubai of the UAE and its push for science, space, and technology NASA Inspector General blasts agency construction of SLS test stands Trump rules out moving embassy to Jerusalem Cruz to hold hearing on updating Outer Space Treaty Juice Newton – Angel in the Morning Rocket Lab gets another contract Arianespace successfully launches commercial satellite on Soyuz In 2016 federal government improperly paid out $144 billion Moon discovered around Kuiper belt dwarf planet The bigotry that dominates today’s colleges Republican Trumpcare bill might require another vote Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe? FAA issues launch license to Rocket Lab The first 3 of a 200 nanosat constellation delivered for launch White House decision on embassy move only after Trump’s Middle East trip Tabby’s Star is dimming again and astronomers are rushing to watch Juno does fifth flyby of Jupiter Patty Loveless – The Boys Are Back In Town Court of Appeals rules FAA drone registry illegal Academic journal publishes another hoax paper Primary data relay electronics unit on ISS truss fails Rocket Lab launch delayed Emergency spacewalk on ISS to replace electronics relay box The face of Ceres Rocket Lab launch scrubbed again due to weather Democrats have worst fundraising April since 2009 Julie Feeney – Love is a Tricky Thing Spacewalkers successfully replace failed unit on ISS Nat King Cole – But Not For Me Trump budget released only to be immediately trashed Rocket Lab reschedules test launch California woman arrested for selling space technology to China Lawsuit by fired SpaceX employee goes to court Sixty-six programs slated for elimination in Trump budget May 23, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Washington rallies around the Outer Space Treaty After 7 years Cassini reaches Saturn’s solstice How to land a space shuttle Boeing wins DARPA contract to build reusable first stage spaceplane Rocket Lab launches its first Electron rocket Russia completes first military launch in a year College professor arrested for attacks against Trump supporters Civil War museum closes rather than remove its Confederate flags Star becomes black hole without supernova explosion First science results from Juno Threats and violence against dissent at university The Muffs – Don’t Pick on Me Egypt considers creating space agency Looking at Jupiter’s southern hemisphere California single-payer $400 billion healthcare plan approved by state committee with no funding Connecticut: sinking in debt with a fleeing population NASA delays launch of space-junk removal test satellite LRO hit by meteoriod in 2014 Doris Day – Young at Heart Kim Jong-Un Consults With Planned Parenthood To Learn How To Cover Up Atrocities May 26, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Brewing beer on the Moon Construction begins on the European Extremely Large Telescope Son of Democrat VP candidate charged for attacking pro-Trump demonstrators Dog sits on editorial board of seven medical journals North Korea fires another ballistic missile Results after one year on ISS for Bigelow’s inflatable module Another impact flash spotted on Jupiter A Memorial Day remembrance Curiosity data increases time water existed Gale Crater Academic invents new non-oppressive physics to protect minorities Air Force successfully tests ICBM interceptor Pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus shifted 55 degrees in the past Jimmy Roberts – A House With Love In It Astronomers find star with giant ringed planet Road construction at SpaceX’s planned Texas spaceport Near the Martian south pole Washington State legislators move to defund Evergreen State College If TMT moves from Hawaii Canada might exit partnership May 30, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Santo & Johnny – Sleep Walk Japan successfully launches navigation satellite Stratolaunch unveils its giant mother ship NASA names next solar mission after pioneer solar scientist Eugene Parker Frost on the Moon? LIGO detects its third gravitational wave Russia moves to reduce launch costs with new rocket Rat sperm exposed to weightlessness still produces healthy rats Trump to keep U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv Cumulative data from Curiosity shows Gale Crater lake stratified Trump exits Paris climate agreement SpaceX launch of used Dragon to ISS scrubbed VSS Unity completes fifth glide flight 15 absurd over-reactions to Trump’s withdrawal from climate treaty Did the Pentagon give ULA $27.4 million for work already done? Mucking about off-hours in San Francisco, California California passes single payer health plan, without a way to pay for it Arianespace successfully launches two commercial satellites Soyuz safely returns two astronauts from ISS Iran abandons effort to put humans in space Arianespace wins contract to launch 3 Eutelsat satellites California’s bankrupt house industry, crippled by government Coalition of leftwing states and cities to uphold Paris climate treaty Tatyana Ryzhkova – Capricho Arabe June 1, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hoax “penis as concept” paper finally retracted SpaceX successfully launches the first reused cargo Dragon Another proposal for dealing with the Outer Space Treaty India successfully launches its first GSLV Mark 3 rocket Proton rolled to launchpad for June 8 launch Turkish company announces plans to build commercial rocket NASA considering using used first stages for Dragon cargo launches More near Earth objects found by WISE Exoplanet hotter than some stars Jupiter’s cloud-tops, up close Julie Andrews and Gene Kelly Fascism at Emerson College The atomic rocket that never was Imans in UK refuse to say prayers for terrorists Air Force awards SpaceX contract to launch next X-37B mission Jupiter gets two more moons China to ramp up manned missions to build space station Climate scientists increasingly show no warming in peer review papers Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum est June 6, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia lowers its Proton launch plans for 2017 China reveals landing site for Chang’e-5 lander/rover Astronomers confirm that comet caused Wow! signal, not aliens T Rex fossils suggest it was covered with scales, not feathers Simon & Garfunkel – The Sounds Of Silence At the rim Luxembourg revises space law to address Outer Space Treaty Using math to protect the Washington power structure Jury rejects lawsuit by disgruntled former SpaceX employee Russia launches first Proton in a year World Party – Ship Of Fools June 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire What ISRO charges for a launch Sunspot update for May 2017 House committee passes new commercial space bill Laura Engel – Bésame Mucho How NIMH policy effects research A dust-off broom for Mars More news from fascist Evergreen State College Worm grows 2 heads on ISS KFC pays to put chicken sandwich on four day World View shakedown flight Lennon Sisters – May you always June 13, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russians successfully launch Progress to ISS Design questions might delay construction of China’s first big optical telescope Boeing cuts management, streamlines its operations China to attempt to grow potatoes on Moon A new map of Mimas The Emotions ~ Best of My Love Senate to hold third hearing on commercial space China launches X-ray space telescope Truck driver killed in fire related to crash of Soyuz stage in Kazakhstan Digitizing Venice’s 1,000-year-old archives Titan’s clearing northern skies T Rex – Bang A Gong (Get It On) China’s Tianzhou-1 freighter completes second refueling test Air Force budget reveals cost differences between ULA and SpaceX The state of the global aerospace industry It’s the hate, not the violence Thomas Quasthoff & Sylvia Schwartz – Papageno & Papagena New smallsat rocket company plans first flight of aerospike engine Illinois facing budget collapse June 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX delays Bulgarian satellite launch to replace valve Did China experience a launch failure today? How cats used humans to conquer the world Update of Kepler exoplanet catalog Largest quake in Yellowstone since 2014 China’s Tianzhou-1 completes second docking test Sachal Jazz Orchestra – Take Five British government to loosen regulations on space Trinity College professor calls for death of whites Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric? Arianespace gets another launch contract Russia moves to capture the smallsat launch market Recent Kuiper Belt discoveries cast doubt a big planet exists there Trump administration continues to clean house at EPA Russia offers Soyuz capsule for tourist flights, even after it is replaced Iridium launches might use reused Falcon 9 first stages Senate hearing on commercial space postponed Journey To The Edge Of Space SLS first mission delayed again June 20, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Warp in Kuiper Belt suggests existence of Mars-sized object A congressman acts to limit competition in solid rocket motor production Senate introduces its version of Trumpcare Nils Lofgren – Keith Don’t Go NASA shuts down asteroid capture mission House lawmakers push Air Force to use reusable rockets ESA discovers the wonders of capitalism! India’s PSLV rocket successfully launches 31 satellites Bulgaria credits SpaceX’s low costs for making its satellite possible OneWeb wins FCC approval for 720 satellite internet constellation Mars rover update: June 23, 2017 SpaceX launches satellite with reused first stage, recovers stage Russia successfully launches military satellite with Soyuz rocket Maria Mena- All This Time Four reasons why college degrees are becoming useless June 22, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A detailed look at the UAE’s national space policy California government healthcare plan shelved SpaceX launches 10 Iridium satellites, lands first stage Blue Origin to build its rocket engines in Alabama Japan’s next rocket on schedule for 2020 launch Joe Bonamassa & Tina Guo – Woke Up Dreaming Climate scientists once again claim ozone layer is threatened The academic community weighs in on Outer Space Treaty Success of test mission paves way for orbiting gravitational wave detector Luxembourg offers prizes for new space business proposals Orbital motion of a binary black hole detected for the first time US military tests laser weapon fired from helicopter SpaceX to try another launch on Sunday Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine still leads race with Aerojet Rocketdyne George Michael & Wham Careless Whisper June 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast with Iridium CEO Matt Desch June 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First test launches of commercial manned vehicles upcoming New company formed to service satellites in-orbit Uranus’s magnetic field switches on and off daily SpaceX expanding facilities in Florida for refurbishing used first stages A river canyon on Mars Public school teachers now required to do student mental health assessments China cuts off oil to North Korea CNN Lists Job Opening For Head Fiction Writer Ariane 5 successfully launches two communications satellites Republican House restores spending in NASA budget Lesley Gore – California Nights Astronomers discover complex molecules in protostar accretion disk UCLA fires popular free speech professor Improved software uploaded to Curiosity to extend wheel life Astronomers take best image of Betelgeuse yet World View launches chicken sandwich in test ballon flight Vector obtains $21 million in funding Liberace & Jack Benny Russian student satellite hopes to be the brightest star in sky ULA wins Air Force launch contract JAXA proposes Japan send humans to the Moon More political problems for the private Russian company taking over Sea Launch Republican Senate restores spending in NASA budget Dress rehearsal completed for SpaceX’s Sunday launch As predicted climate scientists begin adjusting satellite data to fit models Surrey Satellite closing U.S. factory June 29, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Fixx – Red Skies Iraq recaptures Mosul mosque from ISIS China’s second launch of its Long March 5 rocket fails Reba McEntire -You can’t get a man with a gun SpaceX aborts launch at T -9 seconds Reused Dragon makes second splashdown successfully Long March 5 failure occurred at satellite separation The soft craters of Epimetheus Sunspot update for June 2017 Falcon 9 launch aborted at T minus 10 again today Vanessa Williams – Save the Best for Last North Korea test fires another ballistic missile World View test balloon flight cut short due to leak Commercial communications satellite breaks apart in orbit Becoming American New data suggests Sun undergoing fundamental changes “It took two wars to make me an American.” A close look at the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence “This is paradise. I want to live as long as possible.” “People were different, not only from Swedes, but from each other.” A look at the war for independence 1776 – Hatching an Egg Qatar blockade threatens worldwide helium supply Fastest stars in Milky Way escaped from Large Magellanic Cloud? UK’s space industry bill introduced in House of Lords Five satellite Air Force contract up for bid Will Dawn head to another asteroid? SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite South Pacific – You’ve Got to Be Taught German government sets ethical rules for self-driving cars XCOR shuts down Israel and India sign three new space agreements Team Indus needs to raise $40 million for Google mission Universities increasingly encouraging segregated events New Horizons’ next target might be smaller than predicted Pablum from Pence on space “We will get better aim.” Jessica Rabbit – Why don’t you do right Roskosmos completes investigation into deadly post launch debris fire ESA unveils dual orbiter mission to Mercury China planning its own commercial sea launch platform NASA and JAXA approve replacement of failed Japanese X-ray space telescope Crab Processing July 7, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Professor who interfered with reporters loses job XCOR layoffs due to loss of ULA contract Creating space dirt Ghana launches its first satellite Another Vostochny executive arrested for taking bribes China begins 200-day simulated self-sufficient space station experiment Australian academic group to review Outer Space Treaty Toots & The Maytals – 54 46 The confusing Iranian space program China’s giant single dish radio telescope FAST nears completion Near disaster at San Francisco airport Navy temporarily relieves commander from ocean collision U.S successfully tests missile intercept system Hamas has made Gaza unliveable, according to the UN Juno completes close fly-by of Great Red Spot John Williams – Raider’s March Space law vs the Outer Space Treaty Africa and space Evergreen College already admits to drop in enrollment July 11, 2017 Zimmerman Space Show podcast Mars rover update: July 12, 2017 Juno images of Great Red Spot released Missing Persons – Words July 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lunar landers/rovers for sale! White House rejects House proposal to create a military “Space Corps” Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctica Australia to consider forming its own government space agency House Republicans push for big spending in Defense and NIH budgets Commercial space has won More news from racist Evergreen State College Ryan Adams – English Girls Approximately July 12, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Orbital ATK suit against DARPA dismissed First Starliner manned flight delayed to late 2018 Soyuz successfully launches 73 satellites Luxembourg parliament adopts draft space law House appropriations approves NASA and NOAA budgets White House appoints first member of National Space Council I Are Cute Duckling AWW Fire at SpaceX Florida building that stores returned 1st stages NASA communications satellite damaged during launch prep July 14, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Trump administration to increase use of asset forfeiture Valentina Lisitsa – Chopin’s Minute Waltz Dream Chaser test vehicle undergoing tow tests A map of Pluto Republican health tweak of Obamacare dead, Senate to vote for straight repeal Claremont McKenna College suspends students who led violent protest New adjustments to early satellite data confirm accelerating sea level rise Fire at SpaceX caused by spark from grinder SpaceX competitors team up to try to block its satellite constellation Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You July 18, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast LISA Pathfinder switched off Fish trap Sierra Nevada picks ULA’s Atlas 5 for first two Dream Chaser cargo flights Has India cut its cubesat launch prices? News from SpaceX Hundreds of NASA videos uploaded to Youtube UC-Berkeley blocks another conservative from speaking “If you want to care for your grandson you will have to give up some of your constitutional rights.” Hubble shoots movie of Phobos Mueller widens witch hunt investigation Google street view of ISS now available Opportunity takes panorama at top of Perseverance Valley Yuja Wang – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble-Bee July 20, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA and Boeing to replace damaged antenna on NASA satellite UC-Berkeley backs down will host and pay fees for conservative speaker ISRO’s 104 satellite launched earned India about $7 million Growing cucumbers in space Opportunity enters Perseverance Valley Gays ban Jewish banners in upcoming march Lecture by atheist/scientist Richard Dawkins canceled in Berkeley because he criticized Islam Is the Arctic icecap now larger than in 1971? NYC law bans pet sitting without license California community colleges consider eliminating algebra requirement Schedule for commercial manned flights solidifies Buckethead – Walk on the Moon July 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA and Lockheed Martin to build simulated interplanetary spaceship, on the ground R.I.P. U.R. Rao Fake “Star Wars” science paper accepted/published by four journals Congressional Republicans give more money to agencies Trump wanted to eliminate First results from Cassini’s dives between Saturn and its rings Facebook moves to protect Islam from criticism California iman calls for genocide against all Jews Brooks and Dunn – Only in America Another space company partners with Luxembourg New Horizons team spots stellar eclipse by 2014 MU69 Tupperware in space! The endless bands of Saturn Astronomers find unexpected comets in outer reaches of solar system LA Speed Check Interorbital’s first test rocket, Neptune 1, is almost ready for flight The damage and repair of TDRS-M creates complicated scheduling problems Computer simulations prove that we can geoengineer the climate! Repeal of Obamacare fails in Senate July 25, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast TDRS-M launch moved to August 20 Japan’s first private rocket to launch this weekend Commercial lunar mission gives launch contract to ULA Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says Anti-vaccine campaigns are threatening the return of measles Denmark facing the first “summerless” July in four decades Judge okays TMT permit Breakthrough Starshot puts smallest satellites ever into orbit Time/PBS video documentary nominated for Emmy despite factual error in title Cameras on next Kepler-like exoplanet space telescope out of focus FBI arrest former IT staffer for many Democrats in Congress Iran launches satellite Cole Porter – Night and Day July 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Video of Iranian launch today Republican Senate committee restores all cuts to NASA climate budget SpaceX now one of the world’s most valuable companies Have astronomers using Kepler discovered the first exomoon? Musk announces November as month for 1st Falcon Heavy launch Russia launches crew to ISS The Great Red Spot North Korea launches another ballistic missile IRS routinely rehires fired workers Pennsylvania school district apologizes for teacher who attacked pro-life protesters John McCain, Liar The Present Trump fires chief of staff Priebus July 28, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Japanese private rocket launch terminates early due of communication failure Solid gold Apollo 11 lunar module replica stolen from Armstrong museum in Ohio Next test flight of Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket delayed Booking service now available to rocket and satellite companies Robots communicating in languages humans can’t understand Another California Islamic iman calls for Jewish genocide Russ Roberts – It’s a Wonderful Loaf Sun’s core rotates 4X faster than surface China punishes more than 500 scientists for peer review fraud Vector to do 2nd test launch in Georgia on August 3 Global warming activists tremble as Trump administration reviews their work Virgin Orbit’s launch jumbo jet arrives at company’s base in California An explorer’s club for Mars missions Australian weather bureau caught tampering with temperatures Government officials expect disaster during eclipse Getting safe eye filters for viewing eclipse On the radio The difficult task of legally preserving the Apollo lunar sites Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things Arianespace launches two Israeli built satellites University decides political displays must be hidden to avoid offending anyone The head of Iran’s space effort to step down Court allows lawsuit against police for improper drug raid to go forward EPA stonewalls investigation into its Gold King Mine disaster Desmond Dekker – Israelites Lockheed Martin begins construction of new satellite factory Hawaiian protesters fail to block mirror for solar telescope Vector live streaming test launch India to almost double launch rate with new rocket assembly building New images downloaded from Curiosity for the first time in two weeks Aetna to withdraw from all Obamacare exchanges Some Amazon Echo speakers can be hacked to spy on you August 1, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast MU69 is not round Video of Vector test launch Live from the Flight Deck International group forms to get UN protection of Apollo sites One of Jupiter’s mid-sized storms Sly & the Family Stone and Prince – Everyday People SES agrees to a second Falcon 9 launch with used first stage California’s public colleges to no longer require students to know math or read August 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Vostochny update Ground equipment caused premature end to first Rocket Lab launch Webb telescope launch might be delayed again China has a giant radio telescope and no one to run it Looking down at Saturn’s rings Georgia University professor allows students to pick their grades Sunspot update for July 2017 Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper A Martian Journey University scrubs professor’s plan to let students pick their grades Google unveils new slogan Rogue Wave – Lake Michigan August 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Google Gulag How did the Democrats’ IT foreigners get in the U.S? University excludes white males from $10K journalism grant Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing Cassini’s last five orbits of Saturn First very short movie from Jupiter Minnesota writing conference cancelled because of too many whites The fifteen most popular search engines SpaceX completes static fire for next launch, advances its Falcon Heavy prep Development of argon plasma rocket engine continues This is why we fly… Russia to spend $630 million to build Vostochny Angara launchpad Cubesat builder becomes cubesat operator as well Palin wins first battle with NYTimes in her libel lawsuit Cell towers to the Moon! China admits it will do nothing to stop North Korea from attacking US University backs down, will allow 9/11 memorial as planned Stanford University course to study the evils of “whiteness” Mars rover update: August 11, 2017 Antonio Calsolaro – Tarantella Napoletana An article in New York magazine claims blonde hair is racism A memo from Google advising employees on correct thought August 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast White nationalist protest in Virginia Chinese engineers and astronomers fight over new telescope design Unexpected big storm on Neptune Virgin Orbit gets another launch contract Cassini’s last close look at Titan Japanese launch scrubbed due to problem with rocket New Japanese private joint venture to enter smallsat rocket industry Amazon refunding customers who bought fake eclipse glasses SpaceX launch today Rocket Lab looks to second test flight of Electron New research challenges theories on Earth formation The gentle storms of Saturn A celebration of hate and ignorance Love Unlimited – It may be winter outside (but in my heart it’s spring) North Korea appears to back down 3D printing and how it will change what things look like Radical left calls for more violence More Russian launch delays Ten planetary probes track a solar eruption through the solar system S7 announces plans to resume launches on Sea Launch UC-Davis establishes rules to allow free speech Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws August 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Google Lunar X-Prize extends deadline Russia to launch twice from Vostochny this year Japan’s beginning shift to commercial space The mob attacks Three leftist protesters arrested in Chicago California Democrats move to stifle free speech Loggins and Messina – Angry Eyes ISIS files “cultural appropriation” complaint against ANTIFA with UN Proton successfully launches Russian military satellite Water ice found near Martian equator Imran Awan, Wasserman Schultz’s computer geek, indicted Street performer August 17, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ULA’s Atlas 5 successfully launches NASA communications satellite “One of the greatest discoveries of the century is based on these things and we don’t even know what they are, really.” To protect students from eclipse some schools will close Monday, or will keep their students indoors Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King SpaceX postpones Mars Dragon missions Japan launches GPS satellite How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble At Zion on the way to the eclipse Local officials deny pro-Trump group rally permit Indicted Democratic IT staffers suspected of selling sensitive info to hostile foreign governments Judge comes down hard on IRS for its harassment of conservatives In Idaho Falls, ready for the eclipse Navy destroyer collides with merchant ship Trump administration to end climate panel Democratic staffer signed off on computer theft by foreign IT workers Young Readers – We Will Become Silhouettes The Eclipse Billy Preston & Syreeta – With you I’m born again Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number Glacier: Why I am not posting this week SpaceX launches commercial satellite, lands 1st stage SpaceX’s flight suit for manned trips to ISS Private Japanese company to test fly again by December Astronomers produce best image yet of a star Firefly emerges from bankruptcy Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man North Korea launches another missile Eugene Godsoe – Your Hand in Mine Orbital ATK’s Minotaur rocket launches Air Force satellite Russia and China to team up to explore Moon? Johnson Space Center shuttered due to flooding Silly magic act Dream Chaser engineering vehicle completes tow tests SES flips satellites between SpaceX and Arianespace launches Celtic Woman – Westering Home Global warming and Glacier National Park Problems with 6 of 72 cubesats launched by Soyuz Akatsuki finds super-rotating equatorial jet on Venus Evergreen State College faces budget deficit Dream Chaser test vehicle completes captive carry flight John Hiatt – Have a little faith in me Angola establishes its first space strategy Yenne Lee – Autumn Leaves India’s PSLV rocket fails to release satellite Astronomers search for water on Trappist-1 ecoplanets Peter Schilling – Major Tom Coming Home Trump nominates James Bridenstine as NASA administrator Cassini movie flying past Saturn’s rings Mars or a bacterial cell? SpaceX completes static fire tests of Falcon Heavy first stages Soyuz returns three astronauts to Earth from ISS A look at UAE’s space program, its overall goals and its Mars probe Hope Action in House to limit use of civil forfeiture by Sessions Hollywood’s worst summer box office in 25 years North Korea completes H-bomb underground test New study claims global warming caused 2015 spike in road deaths Dschinghis Khan – Moskau Building launch backlog in China SpaceX wins another launch contract Senate/House budget conflicts over science and space First images released from Juno’s seventh close fly-by of Jupiter Local Democrat calls all disaffected New Hampshire voters “white supremacists” Sunspot update for August 2017 John Williams – Imperial March Arianespace has launch abort of its Ariane 5 rocket today September 5, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia and China both condemn North Korea’s nuclear test New Generation looks to establish private spaceport Trump teams up with Democrats on debt limit deal How the “internet of things” robs us of our rights Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Arianespace pins down source of launch abort GAO report finds Navy training in Pacific inadequate SpaceX launches X-37B Mars rover update: September 6, 2017 “Witches, Jews And Climate Deniers” Juno finds mystery in Jupiter’s aurora Illegal votes may have decided 2016 New Hampshire results Foxes and Fossils – Can’t Hurry Love September 6, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Plan of New Horizons’ fly-by of 2014 MU69 announced First Juno movie of Jupiter’s changing weather Saturn’s magnificent rings Google appears to favor liberal sites in its searches Senate committee approves funding for UN global warming bureaucracy Prosecutors focus on laptop contents in Democrat IT scandal Trump Justice Department will not prosecute Lois Lerner Fleetwood Mac – Tusk September 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ULA delays California launch because of Florida hurricane Iran to put man in space in 8 years? Why is no one buying time on Nigeria’s satellites? Successful test of Austrialian 3D printed rocket engine Cassini says goodbye to Saturn Republicans called Klan members by protesters at Amherst Russia’s Proton rocket today successfully launched a commercial satellite New Horizons team looks for second flyby in Kuiper Belt In memory of… Private rocket does short test flight Arianespace announces new launch contracts Curiosity tops Vera Rubin Ridge Movie of Juno’s September 1 fly-by of Jupiter Journalist and author claims police actions against looting equals “white supremacy” Federal debt tops $20 trillion Obamacare collapse in Virginia Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird China successfully completes third robotic docking Soyuz launches three astronauts to ISS Space hype versus reality Virgin Orbit wins launch contract An oral history of the Cassini mission to Saturn Trump administration shuts down NIH anti-gun research “Taking the red pill” Wasserman Schultz’s IT guy Imran Awan funnelled data to illegal secret server Cassini on final approach to Saturn First global map of the trace water on the Moon Michael Davis on Johnny Carson Cassini’s last shot of Titan Berkeley creates police state in anticipation of conservative speaker September 12, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast How not to land a rocket It is now bad to cheer for the USA in California Hubble spots a pitch-black exoplanet New theory for formation of main asteroid belt Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns North Korea fires another missile ESA buys the first Ariane 6 launches Cassini’s mission ends Cats are liquid — if they choose to be Orbital ATK begins assembly of first orbital repair satellite 3D image of Jupiter Big news: Free speech is allowed in Berkeley Enrollment plunges at Oberlin College Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want The Worst Part of Losing Cassini Is That It Has No Replacement India hopes to resume launches before December Evergreen settles lawsuit with banned professors September 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Dragon successfully returns from ISS Tianzhou-1 completes 3rd refueling of Tiangong-2 Northrop Grumman to buy Orbital ATK ArianeGroup’s transition to Ariane 6 rocket NASA’s international outreach continues Cassini’s last image of Iapetus Oh no! Climate panel might include skeptics! Navy removes top management in response to recent ship collisions Brown University to offer segregated dinners to minorities Carl Orff – O Fortuna from Carmina Burana Middlebury College endorses heckler’s veto Federal bureaucracy prevents satellite launch Academic response to radical paper: fire him! Trump White House wins Emmy for best reality show Mitsubishi wins launch contract from Inmarsat Stratolaunch tests engines on giant plane Lockheed Martin unveils standardized satellite lineup The Temptations – I Can’t Get Next To You Egyptian leader demands Palestinians accept Israel in UN speech “I am just in shock how no one actually cares about the policy any more.” UC-Berkeley comes out for free speech Hubble finds binary asteroid that also acts like a comet Global warming scientists admit their models predict too much warming Why Obama spied on Trump More hearings stalling TMT Air Force admits SpaceX forced it to streamline operations Stone Temple Pilots – Big Empty September 19, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The final commercial 747 flights Three women called police, accusing Imran Awan of abuse Chinese banks cease all business with North Korea Significant evidence found of double voting In new Obamacare vote, Republican leaders offering bribes Post-hurricane update from Arecibo radio telescope Tom Petty – It’ll All Work Out September 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Soyuz launches Russian GPS satellite UAE announces its second student space competition Scientists oppose changes to fishing ban around Pacific islands A detailed look at the new Republican Obamacare revision Tianzhou-1 de-orbited to burn up in atmosphere OSIRIS-REx flies past Earth Mob at Howard University attempts to silence Comey lecture Scientists finally image SMART-1 lunar impact site Private company makes first phonecall using smartphone and nanosats Aerospike engine ready for ground tests Catching up on stupid news Enrollment at University of Missouri continues to drop Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit First manned SLS/Orion flight officially delayed to 2022 UC-Berkeley student group backs out of free speech event ULA successfully launches surveillance satellite Australia to create its own space agency Behemoths of the Sky The kittens of Saturn’s rings Hanson – Where’s the Love Sputnik for sale! Mangalyaan passes three years in Mars orbit UC-Berkeley’s chancellor orders removal of posters, starts investigation On the radio Blue Origin inks deal with satellite company to use New Glenn Republican leaders to introduce tax increase Long March 5 failure to delay Chinese lunar probes and space station Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) will not seek reelection OSIRIS-REx looks at Earth Alex Farris – Anarchestra Rocket Lab preps for 2nd flight of Electron First meeting of National Space Council announced Dark energy might not exist Roy Moore has won the Republican Alabama senate primary UN announces proposed Dream Chaser international mission Parts 2 and 3 of “A Niche in Time” Gravitational waves from black hole collision detected Leftist protester who set fires sentenced to five years prison Republican tax plan unveiled September 26, 2017 Zimmerman Space Show podcast NASA and Roscomos sign agreement to work together to build lunar orbiting station Fleetwood Mac – Big Love September 26, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast One last image from Rosetta Chinese government orders shutdown of all North Korean businesses Status of Arecibo radio observatory Arianespace issues contract to build 10 more Vega rockets Hubble spots most distance active comet yet Sputnik full scale test model sells for $850K Proton launches commercial satellite Lockheed Martin unveils concepts for Mars ship and lander Hot riveting The unspoken contract Webb Space Telescope delayed again Elon Musk’s economic version of SLS Hawaii’s land board votes 5-2 in favor of TMT Egypt announces creation of space agency Boeing delays first manned Starliner flight Leftists brownshirts stalk and plan violence against conservatives Solar storm activates global aurora on Mars China successfully launches three satellites Ariane 5 successfully launches two commercial satellites When the Day Breaks Sierra Nevada and German space center increase ties September 29, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast World View completes first Stratollite balloon launch from Tucson spaceport Testing underwater interplanetary robots on the cheap UAE announces manned spaceflight plans Restrain yourself! SpaceX successfully completes dress rehearsal for Saturday launch The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter Democratic IT Awan sent money to Pakistani officials NASA to extend use of private module on ISS Falcon Heavy launch delayed? Database of presumed human-caused earthquakes created One Chute Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to three LIGO scientists Pioneer Sierra Nevada and Canada sign agreement for using Dream Chaser Rory Feek – Fifty Thousand Names First Flight Viewing options for first National Space Council meeting More strange behavior from Tabby’s Star The story of Sputnik The Las Vegas shooting, based on police radio communications Fannie Mae’s new headquarters included $250K chandelier Mars Odyssey makes its first observations of Phobos GAO finds issues in management of DOE space nuclear fuel program Timelapse photography of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park October 3, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hate from the left A new Zimmerman op-ed at The Federalist Democratic congressmen falsified records says computer man Awan The first meeting of the National Space Council Atomik Harmonik – Turbo Polka ArianeGroup struggles with the concept of reusability October 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast MDA becomes Maxar TeamIndus still searching for funds for Google Lunar X-Prize mission Stratollite completes five day balloon test flight Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . . October 6. 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Canadian Inuit officials demand halt to rocket launch Air Force releases request for launch proposals The world’s oldest flying satellite Private company to build its own ISS airlock The midterm revolt brewing against the Republican leadership China launches Venezuelan research satellite Russia and Saudi Arabia sign space agreement SpaceX successfully launches 10 Iridium satellites Democratic computer expert wiped cell phone prior to arrest Mitsubishi’s H-2A rocket launches Japanese GPS satellite Twitter blocks campaign ad by Republican congresswoman Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly Death threats force journal to remove pro-colonialism paper A modern academic looks at the Outer Space Treaty Sunspot update for September 2017 Why electric cars for interstate travel cannot work The mysterious dark splotches of Mars Glen Campbell/Mel Tillis/Roy Clark – When I Stop Dreaming October 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Luxembourg and UAE sign space agreement NanoRacks and Moon Express team up for lunar missions First discoveries from China’s FAST radio telescope NASA wants to use its SLS mobile launch once, then replace it Air Force shifting to commercial space products Navy relieves two officers in charge during ship collision Today in facist academia Astronomers discover ring around object beyond Neptune McConnell, the Senate, and the approval of Trump’s judge picks The FDA and its regulation of genetic data purchased by Americans SpaceX launches another satellite, recovers 1st stage Wings – I’ve Just Seen A Face Surveys find major morale problems in Navy ship Trump appoints private sector businessman to head NOAA United States to pull out from UNESCO Storms on Titan dump a lot of liquid methane, quickly Hamas agrees to hand Gaza to Palestinian Authority Blue Origin considering military certification for New Glenn Taxpayers paying millions for airfare for illegal immigrants 30 day timelapse at sea Russia’s Rockot launches ESA Earth resource satellite NASA official hints at further SLS delays Language of bump stock ban could ban all semi-auto rifiles Today in fascist academia Ginger Cat vs The Paper Army October 12, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Pro-Trump hecklers shout down California attorney general Russians successfully launch Progress to ISS Morgan Stanley analysts see SpaceX value growing to $50 billion ULA’s Atlas 5 successfully launches surveillance satellite Mysterious SpaceX launch scheduled for November 10 Motor for ArianeGroup’s next generation rockets ready for testing Scaled Composites flies experimental plane for mystery customer Victory for right in Austrian elections Imran Awan improperly downloaded data from numerous Congressmen School district dumps To Kill a Mockingbird because of complaints The man who suited up astronauts during the 1960s passes away at 101 China’s first test space station, Tiangong-1, is out-of-control Another critical look at new Republican gun control bill Astronomers detect neutron star merger in both light and gravitational waves Recent CO2 increase comes from tropical jungles, not human activity Highlights from Elon Musk’s Reddit session yesterday Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter detects clouds over Martian volcano EPA will no longer quickly settle lawsuits with environmental activists Facebook updates privacy policy to simply read “LOL” New findings from Cassini’s final months Iraq moves to take control of Kurdish area Paris HS Percussion Ensemble – Rung again Cause of Long March 5 July failure is in “first-stage propulsion” October 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor/Chang/McCotter podcast Suppression of academic freedom a global crisis Ethiopia and India consider space partnership ISIS capital Raqqa falls to U.S. backed forces Russian bribes funneled to Clinton foundation in 2009 I am looking for a library to donate my space history files Nearby asteroid orbits both the Earth and the Sun Astronomers reduce estimate of still undiscovered dangerous asteroids Japanese metal manufacturer faked specifications to hundreds of companies Kang Hye-Jung – Beautiful Dreamer Bigelow and ULA propose lunar station During its landing in April a manned Soyuz capsule became partially depressurized Turkey will establish space agency this year Thirty mile cave on the Moon? NASA and Australia sign extension of space-tracking agreement Higher insurance rates for Proton threaten its market viability Producing oxygen and fuel from Martian CO2 UK health system considers banning surgery for smokers and the obese Senate committee opens investigation into Russian uranium bribes to Clintons Obama administration blocked FBI informant from testifying to Congress about uranium deal and Russian bribes Thomas Jefferson’s legal reading list going on line Pee Wee King & Golden West Cowboys – Slow Poke October 17, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Iridium switches two upcoming launches to reused Falcon 9 first stages Budget cuts for Roscosmos in 2017 China to begin development of its own SLS rocket NOAA declares record-setting warming where it has no data NASA extends Dawn’s mission orbiting Ceres Juno’s first hints of Jupiter’s interior Blue Origin successfully completes first test of BE-4 rocket engine NASA instrument for European space telescope flawed and must be rebuilt Background of Mueller’s lead investigator confirms it is a witch hunt Wearing Mars and Moon spacesuit prototypes October 18, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Vector signs deal to launch from Wallops XCOR faces bankruptcy and liquidation Today in fascist academia Trump administration backs off plans to end or reduce ethanol policy Hillary Clinton and her Russian connections October 18, 2017 Pratt on Texas, Zimmerman podcast NASA still hasn’t established a baseline cost for SLS’s future missions Greg Kihn – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em) October 20, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Could North Korea use its missiles to fill orbital space with debris? Iranian scientist sentenced to death SpaceX barge damaged from fire after 1st stage landing The glory of Cassini’s Saturn WHO fakes data to claim weedkiller causes cancer Engineers develop new technique to resume drill use on Curiosity Timeline of Russian uranium deal and Clinton donations Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra – Nice Work If You Can Get It R.I.P. Skylab astronaut Paul Weitz, 85 Vector’s third suborbital test flight set for January 2018 Since 2016 almost a 1000 published papers have challenged the theory of human-caused climate change Joan Osborne – One Of Us NanoRacks successfully deploys its largest commercial smallsat from ISS Russia to up ISS crew back to three Lockheed Martin earnings down due to its commercial space divisions Squiggles on Mars Wisconsin students protest Lincoln because “he owned slaves” Today in fascist academia Swedish National Wind Band October 24, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Freon leak on U.S. part of ISS? The first large object identified coming from interstellar space FBI informant cleared to testify on Clinton Uranium Russian deal Email proves Obama administration targeted opponents for harassment by the IRS Update on five Iranian satellite projects Boeing’s Starliner undergoing drop tests Saudi Arabia to invest $1 billion in Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit More hints that the first SLS launch will be delayed again Rosetta’s capture of a dust jet from Comet 67P/C-G Scientists propose adding smog to atmosphere to fight global warming Trump Justice Department settles lawsuits over Obama IRS harassment An ancient ocean on Ceres? Survey finds universities teach a “thin and patchy education” Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm SpaceX to resume launches at second launchpad in December Chinese company gives live turtle a high altitude balloon flight Saudi Arabia gives robot citizenship Assembling a Boeing 737 Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday October 26, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast October 28, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast October 29, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes 16th successful launch in 2017 North Korea’s new plan to develop and launch satellites Orbital ATK to launch first Minotaur-C in six and a half years Astronomers find 20 more exoplanet candidates in Kepler archive Satellite data business to grow to $8.5 billion by 2026 SpaceX completes installation of two antenna dishes in Boca Chica spaceport New exoplanet defies accepted theories of planet formation Minotaur-C successfully launches 10 commercial smallsats NASA wants private company to take over Spitzer Space Telescope House on Haunted Hill Scientists receiving EPA grants will no longer serve on EPA advisory panels Users blocked from files by Google Docs SpaceX aims for December 29 launch of Falcon Heavy Itzhak Perlman & the Klezmer Conservatory Band MIT redwood forest design wins 2017 Mars City Design competition TMT opponents file appeal to Hawaiian supreme court Another Vostochny manager on trial for embezzlement Physicists using cosmic rays find hidden void inside the Great Pyramid Factional bickering dominates nomination hearing for NASA administrator Human errors and lax management caused Navy collisions Saudi minister calls for “toppling” Hezbollah October 31, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The King’s Singers – Barbara Allen Local tribe signs deal for Australian spaceport China says Long March 5 will resume launches in 2018 Fifth mirror for Giant Magellan Telescope has been cast Builders of Ghana’s first satellite push for government help Tesla stock crashes due to possible loss of tax credit Today in fascist academia Astronomers find Kuiper Belt-like ring around Proxima Centauri Love These Days November 2, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Canada’s Supreme Court rules against tribe in development dispute Bezos sells another $1 billion in Amazon stock to fund Blue Origin China successfully launches two satellites today Sunspot update for October 2017 The Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Star Trek Medley NASA forces retraction of astronaut vision study due to privacy issues Dream Chaser approach and landing test upcoming New Horizons wants the public to help pick a nickname for its next target First infrared image of a red giant star with a mass of the sun EPA approves release of bacteria-carrying mosquitoes to 20 states Annual fund-raiser at Parabolic Arc Astronaut Richard Gordon, 88, has died More SLS delays The Velvet Underground – I’m Sticking With You Arianespace successfully launches Morocco’s first reconnaissance satellite Physicists once again fail to detect dark matter United flies its last 747 A review of the Saudi purge taking place this week Driverless shuttle crashes on first day Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know November 7, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Engine failure for SpaceX upgraded Merlin engine during static test Surprise! First unmanned launch of SLS might be delayed until 2020 New study confirms the cost effectiveness of commercial crew Senate kills military “Space Corps” ESA to lead international effort to track falling Chinese space station India’s space agency ISRO hopes to double launch rate A simple and inexpensive skin cancer detector wins award Tuesday’s election results This week in fascist academia Washington swamp creature hints that SLS could be in trouble PJ Liguori – Tree Hugger XCOR files for bankruptcy Crowdfunding campaign to honor only cat to fly in space Update on the development of Blue Origin’s orbital rocket New Glenn United Arab Emirates signs space agreement with Germany Physicists shrink their next big accelerator A storm on Jupiter Saudi Arabia has launched a military strike against Yemen Chuck Jones on Getting Started November 9, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast November 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Antares successfully launches Cygnus cargo freighter to ISS Dream Chaser test vehicle flies again! Next Dragon launch for NASA may fly using reused first stage Sacrificing Scientific Skepticism Want to own Robby the Robot? You can! World’s fastest turbine model jet CEO of ARCA Space arrested for fraud and embezzlement Billionaire Yuri Milner considering funding mission to Enceladus Sierra Nevada declares Dream Chaser glide test a success New robot from Boston Dynamics Japan to make second launch attempt of world’s smallest orbital rocket Exploring one of Mars’ giant volcanoes Zwicky Transient Facility sees first light Keith Whitley – I Never Go Around Mirrors China successfully launches two satellites Astronomers find habitable Earth-mass planet 11 light years away NASA completes first high altitude supersonic test of Mars 2020 rover parachute India and China to reduce launch costs 250,000 Dominoes Interstellar object resembles asteroid November 14, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A space journalist looks at Richard Branson’s new autobiography Haze on Pluto lowers its global climate temperature 54º F Petroglyphs found depicting the earliest leashed dogs? Another LIGO black hole merger detected Mars rover update: November 16, 2017 David Bowie – Life on Mars Off caving Belle & Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher November 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Delta 2 launches NOAA weather satellite Launch by SpaceX of mysterious Zuma payload delayed indefinitely Rocket Lab prepares for second test launch of Electron rocket Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne wins Defense launch contract Arecibo gets a backer to keep it running Vector makes deal to launch from Vandenberg ARCA issues statement after arrest of CEO November 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast Air Force to shift focus to smallsat constellations India’s Google Lunar X-Prize competitor still short of funds Solid gold Lunar Module replica sells for $149K New study says recurring dark streaks on Mars are from flowing sand, not water I’m not a robot Another Navy ship collision in the Pacific China launches three commercial remote sensing satellites Cassini’s last full mosaic of Saturn and its moons Samantha Whates – Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) India proposes new oppressive space law SpaceX aiming for a launch rate of 30 to 40 launches per year New technology for future missions to Venus Robbie the Robot sells for $5.3 million in auction XCOR bankruptcy leaves behind $27.5 million in debt A spot on Mars, as seen by different orbiters over the past half century November 21, 2017 Zimmerman Space Show podcast This week in fascist academia Delivery from Earth Matt Wessel and Katie Wessel – Anyone Else But You November 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Nobel laureates demand Iran release scientist sentenced to death Beer on Mars A mission to interstellar object Oumuamua? The Dukes of September – Who’s That Lady? California cities charge citizens massive prosecutions fees for minor violations China launches three more military reconnaissance satellites Russia astronauts have found bacteria living on the outside of ISS Another Evergreen employee resigns to protest college policies Bryan Adams – Everything I Do New report says WFIRST is “not executable” Europe finally begins to realize that reusability cuts costs Second Soyuz launch from Vostochny a failure SpaceX raises another $100 million in investment capital Worms on Mars! Wind eating away the Martian terrain North Korea launches another ICBM Steve Cutts – This is our world “Yeti” DNA found to come from bears and dogs First Falcon Heavy launch delayed until 2018 India’s next launch might slip to 2018 The Space Show’s annual fund-raising campaign Susanna Hoffs – Eternal Flame Rocket Lab sets launch window for 2nd Electron launch test NASA confirms next Dragon launch will be on used first stage Review of all Soyuz upper stages ordered by Russian manufacturer Orbital ATK shareholders approve sale to Northrop Grumman Soyuz failed because it was programmed for Baikonur, not Vostochny Chinese space probe detects possible dark matter signal Someone in India finally reads its proposed oppressive space law More delays in Democratic IT scandal November 28, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast House panel approves concealed carry reciprocity for all 50 states Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 18 years Europe commits $107 million for new rocket and space plane November 29, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Moon Express will launch to Moon in 2018, regardless of X-Prize deadline Development at SpaceX’s Texas spaceport to pick up in 2018 Watch a rocket tank being built, mostly by robots The organic dust of Comet 67P/C-G Baby stars at center of galaxy Facebook now identifies potential suicides for authorities to take action Voyager 1 fires thrusters not used in 37 years Petula Clark – I couldn’t live without your love The fly-by anomaly returns with Juno Soyuz launches military satellite, despite failure earlier this week Tesla aimed for Mars will be the payload on first Falcon Heavy launch December 1, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches another military satellite Israeli competitor for X-prize faces shutdown due to lack of funds Vostochny failure points to serious problems in Russian aerospace Wyoming judge rules against theft by government The corruption in Washington DC The Sun goes quiet! Sunspot update for November 2017 Trump shrinks two national monuments significantly LeAnn Rimes – Blue Physicists look for new alternatives to explain dark matter Another negative op-ed of India’s oppressive draft space law Calculating the number of alien space artifacts in our solar system Private commercial supersonic jet gains funding The Holdman House decorated for Christmas December 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA submits its red tape recommendations to National Space Council Wall St pushes to have SpaceX save Tesla Argentine scientist indicted for creating census of glaciers UAE invites its citizens to apply to join its astronaut program Trump declares Jerusalem Israel’s capital, delays moving embassy More data tampering to prove global warming, this time with tidal gauges The roots of our modern fascist and bankrupt academia House passes concealed-carry reciprocity How to make your dog really happy! December 5, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Vector picks construction team for building its rocket factory Former Google Lunar X-Prize competitor still alive “Mueller’s anti-Trump investigation is effectively dead.” USAF Band – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring Rocket Lab delays test launch until Friday More delays expected for launch of Webb telescope Major fund-raising effort for Japanese lunar mining company Another Juno fly-by movie of Jupiter! Leftist prosecutors spied on conservatives, defied court orders Pablo Larcuen – Elefante ARCA’s CEO provides update on charges against him December 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Horizons successfully does course correction Blue Origin to resume New Shepard test flights next week? Update on Russia’s troubled Sea Launch Lawsuit reveals two customers for Soyuz circumlunar tourist flight China successfully launches Algerian communications satellite Rocket Lab delays Electron launch till Tuesday Breakthrough Listen to observe Ourmuamua New method to 3D print entire objects simultaneously, without layering Trump signs new space policy directive, making Moon 1st priority again Juno’s look at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot No Strings A Cappella – Past Three O’ Clock Rocket Lab launch aborted at engine start Flying through Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Faults on Mars MU69 might have a moon Jerry Weil – Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages) Blue Origin successfully flies upgraded New Shepard capsule Saturn’s rings are very young Ariane 5 successfully launches 4 European GPS satellites Orbital ATK gets first FCC license approval for space repair mission Rocket Lab pins down cause of launch abort Negotiations underway to shift 1st stage landings at Kennedy to new site Sea Launch will assemble rockets in U.S. A variety of geological activity caused bright areas on Ceres David Essex – A Winter’s Tale December 12, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast This week in fascist academia New exoplanet makes eight in rival solar system Initial analysis of radio observations of Oumuamua detect no artificial signals Julie Andrews – Impossible Rocket Lab launch delayed again Blue Origin releases video from inside capsule Vector gets launch contract More than 1,000 sign up to compete for four UAE astronaut positions Israeli X-Prize team still short of funds Arizona’s Court of Appeals sides with Pima County on space balloon deal India to build a smallsat rocket The Trump administration’s space policy, according to Scott Pace SpaceX launches Dragon and lands 1st stage Slimtime Rocket Lab delays test launch until the beginning of January December 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Soyuz launches new crew to ISS XCOR bankruptcy revelations Giant Stratolaunch plane conducts first taxi test ArianeGroup to begin production of first Ariane 6 rocket More films of early nuclear test released Mars rover update: December 18, 2017 The Fifth Dimension – One Less Bell to Answer Algeria’s space agency reveals its plans for the next two decades Oumuamua has a thick carbon crust built up by its interstellar travel Blue Origin still a year away from launch humans on New Shepard Smallsat industry considering standardized “launch unit” Virgin Galactic signs deal with Italy for dedicated research flight Daniela Andrade – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas World View balloon explodes Local Florida officials battle over $8 million grant to Blue Origin A weaponized and partisan Justice Department and FBI Two finalists for 2020 deep space planetary mission picked by NASA Aryeh and Gil Gat – The Sound of Silence December 19, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Musk releases pictures of assembled Falcon Heavy in hanger The best infrared image yet of a star’s surface China’s 2017 year in review A star that is devouring its planets? This week in fascist academia Benjamin Shapiro – Theme from Schindler’s List Japan’s Google Lunar X-Prize rover arrives in India for launch Russia to launch luxury hotel room module to ISS? Arecibo returns to operation with images of asteroid Phaethon On the radio Greg Lake – I believe in Father Christmas SpaceX successfully launches 10 Iridium satellites R.I.P. Bruce McCandless, astronaut The SpaceX light show yesterday Trump administration finally takes over Justice and FBI December 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A Christmas Carol India aims to double launches in 2018 Ringo Starr to be knighted Buddy Greene – How Can I Keep From Singing Academic fascism in 2017 Michelle Moyer & Clyde Bawden – Silent Night Russian/Ukrainian Zenit rocket puts Angola’s first satellite into orbit First flights of commercial manned capsules in 2018 Cornillon Quentin – Print Your Guy The oddest inventions of 2017 Scientists catch a big volcano eruption on Io Russians regain contact with AngoSat 1 Is Clinton a target of Trump’s order freezing foreign assets of “human rights abusers?” How the Purge in Saudi Arabia might link to the Democratic computers in Congress Billie Joe Armstrong – Good Riddance(Time of Your Life) R.I.P. Rose Marie Falcon Heavy on the launchpad Dan Fogelberg – Same Old Lang Syne Trump administration cancels $255 million of military aid to Pakistan Protests in Iran escalate Falcon Heavy update No obscenities on Behind the Black The Stylistics – You Make Me Feel Brand New An educated perspective on on the Iran protests The state of the worldwide rocket industry at the start of 2018 Sea Launch aims to resume flights by the end of 2019 SpaceX leases space at Kennedy for manned Dragon Two for a Penny – The Grapes of Wrath China aiming for more than 40 launches in 2018 A short dose of ultraviolet light might save North America’s bats New data from Tabby’s Star suggests that dust, not alien megastructures, is the cause of its dimming Was the solar system formed inside a giant bubble? Traveling Wilburys – End Of The Line A faint seasonal fluctuation of methane on Mars? Justice Dept to provide House Russian probe documents January 2, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Nigeria signs deal with China for two communications satellites This week in bigoted academia Park Ki-Young – Nella Fantasia Orbital ATK gets its second contract for its satellite repair robot Atlas 5 man-rated upgrades approved by NASA for Starliner launches SpaceX aiming for Falcon Heavy launch before end of January Trump administration suspends at least $900 million aid for Pakistan U.S. freezes $125 million grant to UN agency that funds Hamas in Gaza Alyce Tzue – Soar Is Iran on the edge of collapse? R.I.P. John Young 1930-2018 January 5, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Curiosity images small tubelike rock features on Vera Rubin Ridge Republican leadership works to renew FISA rules that violate 4th amendment SpaceX successfully completes first launch of 2018 The utter childishness of modern intellectual discourse The corrupt and power-hungry Consumer Financial Protection Bureau All charges dismissed in Bundy case Exploring Arsia Mons Sunspot update for December 2017 SpaceX military payload might have been lost Bryan Adams – Heaven Blue Origin completes another test of its BE-4 rocket engine First six segments of Extremely Large Telescope cast China completes its first launch of 2018 A new prime number, 23 million digits long Team Indus exits the Google Lunar X-Prize competition An update on Zuma status Arianespace aims for 14 launches in 2018 ULA settles lawsuit that said it defrauded government of $90 million Hotels coming to Boca Chica due to SpaceX spaceport Falcon Heavy prepped for static fire test Strzok/Page FBI texts suggest they were investigating private lives of journalists What Happened to James Garner? On the radio, now! Is the Google Lunar X-Prize dead? Arianespace orders last ten Ariane 5 rockets Almost 500 science papers in 2017 challenge “global-warming consensus” Falcon Heavy static fire test delayed one day A spectacular collapse feature at Arsia Mons Bell X1 – She’s A Mystery To Me January 9, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Scientists demonstrate first space navigation on ISS using pulsars NASA renames Swift telescope to honor Neil Gehrels Engineer appointed to head ISRO, India’s space agency Spanish company gets grant to develop smallsat rocket Falcon Heavy static fire test scrubbed for today Another China space chief appointed to political post Russia to launch a dozen cubesats for Planet SpaceX pushes back its manned flights A lava tube entrance near the Moon’s north pole? NASA funds a cubesat-sized ultra-violet telescope Take a flight through the Orion Nebula An illicit visit to two abandoned Soviet space shuttles On the road January 10, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Exposed mid-latitude ice deposits found on Mars Justin Johnson -Crankin’ Up the 3-String Shovel Guitar India and ULA complete first launches in 2018 Rocket Lab announces January launch window VSS Unity completes 7th glide test China completes third launch in as many days A movie of Jupiter’s south polar region Falcon Heavy static fire test delayed again On the way home Jason Headley – It’s Not About The Nail Detailed update on Falcon Heavy static fire test set for later today The known ice cliffs on Mars Falcon Heavy static fire test delayed again Mars rover update: January 16, 2018 Trump administration withholds $65 million from UN PLO agency Criminal charges filed by Navy against commanders of collision ships Jamey Johnson & Alison Krauss – Seven Spanish Angels Virgin Orbit gets another smallsat launch contract 1 in 10 graduates of DC schools rarely if ever attended school Awan and cohorts made many “unauthorized” accesses to Congressional accounts NASA’ safety panel illustrates the impossibility of exploration by NASA Titan’s liquid hydrocarbon seas have a global sea level Falcon Heavy static fire now set for January 19 China and Luxembourg sign space cooperation agreement Japan’s Epsilon rocket successfully launches radar satellite Jack Johnson – Flake January 16, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Republican introduces bill to end California space tax Republicans call memo about FISA abuses “shocking” Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight China successfully launches six satellites Another embezzlement case revealed at Vostochny Diana Krall – The Look Of Love January 18, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab succeeds in placing three satellites in orbit on second test launch Government shutdown and its effects on science Proposed budget deal lifts all spending caps FBI loses texts from anti-Trump agent covering the exact period of greatest importance The man behind Rush Limbaugh and the alternative news revolution Air Force reaffirms its SpaceX certification after Zuma Sessions: Justice Department to investigate missing text messages Long March 5B delayed to 2019? Russian launch rate to drop? ULA takes over Atlas 5 commercial marketing from Lockheed Martin Maria Muldaur- Midnight At The Oasis Google Lunar X-Prize announces that it will award no winners Falcon Heavy static fire test now set for January 24 ArianeGroup successfully completes first engine test of Ariane 6 rocket The Falcon Heavy vs the Saturn 5 Govt shutdown deal included provision reducing spending oversight of surveillance agencies Falcon Heavy static fire test completed John Anderson – Seminole Wind January 23, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Video of Falcon Heavy static fire test China successfully launches four satellites Scientists created tiny projected 3D image using light and lasers Justice Dept inspector general says he has recovered missing texts Today’s Ariane 5 launch NOT a failure Gaither Vocal Band & Jake Hess – Cool Water Forensic experts baffled about FBI claims about lost texts January 24, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Weird Martian geology: Kaiser Crater Amateur discovers long-dead NASA satellite has come back to life The Continental Divide Trail in Four Minutes January 25, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Moon Express loses lawsuit by subcontractor Bad times fall on Russian Proton rocket SpaceX sets February 6 for first Falcon Heavy launch attempt Problem with new ISS robot arm hand Every shuttle launch, simultaneously The landing site of NASA’s next Mars lander Another anti-Trump FBI official steps down House committee votes to release memo on Justice Dept surveillance abuse Aaron Tippin – You Gotta Stand for Something SpaceX seeks more government money for Texas spaceport Curiosity takes a panorama that shows its entire journey so far André Rieu & Carmen Monarcha – Habanera January 30, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Private Chinese company developing vertical take-off and landing rocket Fractures in the floor of Occator Crater SpaceX successfully launches Luxembourg’s first government satellite Gustav Holst – St Paul’s Suite Falcon 9 first stage survives splashdown New Zimmerman op-ed: NASA’s safety bureaucracy sabotaging manned space Russia successfully completes first 2018 launch, from Vostochny A SpaceX expansion at Boca Chica spaceport? Cape Town about to run out of water Time for my annual birthday fund-raising campaign Anti-Trump FBI officials discussed ways to avoid transparency requirements Air Force issues bid requests for five future launches Milton Berle & Harpo Marx – I’m forever blowing bubbles China successfully launches a new earthquake research satellite Russia considering $100 million tourist spacewalks Polar bears are starving! (NOT) House memo describes misuse of FISA rules by Obama administration Candide Thovex – quattro 2 Longest Russian spacewalk replaces ISS antenna, though issues remain Update on the recovery of long lost IMAGE spacecraft VA rewriting the words of Abraham Lincoln because of feminist whines Japan’s newest rocket puts tiny satellite in orbit Lockheed Martin starts assembling first manned Orion capsule The FISA law itself is corrupt Palestinian condemnation, from a Saudi Arabian February 2, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Sunspot update for January 2018 Falcon Heavy launch tomorrow Russia’s next ISS module, Nauka, delayed again More info on Trappist-1 solar system Large study finds saturated fats good! Audit finds Pentagon dept lost hundreds of millions of dollars John Arthur Martinez – Closer To My Dream Watching the Falcon Heavy launch More evidence of data tampering at NOAA Falcon Heavy launch a success! Stevie Nicks – Stand Back February 6, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Falcon Heavy reactions post launch World View balloon explosion caused $200K in damage New anti-Trump emails: Obama “wants to know everything we’re doing.” Eddy Arnold & LeAnn Rimes – Cattle Call Mayor of bankrupt Stockton wants to hand out $6000 to every resident New budget deal dumps budget caps What the Falcon Heavy launch sounded like Obama ignored Russian treaty violations to give it U.S. uranium mining rights Linux beats Windows and Apple for security Update on Falcon Heavy core stage landing failure Can you spot the racist xenophobic politician in this quiz? Mars rover update: February 8, 2018 Lilly Yokoi – ballerina on bicycle Off hunting javelinas again The last picture from SpaceX’s Tesla Tiangong-1 reentry now estimated between March 25 and April 17 NASA approves 2020 launch window for first Dream Chaser flight New Horizons takes the most distant pictures from Earth ever taken SSL lawsuit against Orbital ATK to move forward Narwhals love glaciers! San Francisco area #1 in nation for fleeing residents Trump signs two-year budget deal A good health check for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Friday Songs – Listen to the Music! February 8, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The penny on Mars Back from the hunt China completes its seventh launch in 2018 Interstellar object Oumuamua tumbling chaotically Trump to propose transitioning ISS to private hands post 2024 Massive flow on Mars Grassley-Graham memo confirms allegations in Nunes memo Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday The dying Palestinians in Syria Russia launches Progress to ISS Europe suddenly realizes that reusable rockets are possible and economical Off to Israel Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Why you must never buy a used smartphone Bitcoin-type crypto-currencies slowing SETI search for ET SpaceX cancels Texas subsidy that required Boca Chica operation in 2018 Kealan O’Rourke – The Boy In The Bubble Vector gets new contract for five launches SpaceX’s Saturday launch will two test smallsats for its planned 11K internet constellation Rocket Lab to launch NASA and Naval Academy smallsats The Russian-Trump collusion story: a media disinformation campaign Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield – Between The Bars Evergreen State College expects 20% drop in enrollment Oktapodi Air Force reconsiders rocket engine, aims for small rocket launches Aligned erosion lines of Perseverance Valley Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in safe mode Giant net to catch Falcon 9 fairing April 11, 2013 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Metric – Twilight Galaxy Planetary Resources misses fund-raising target More details about SpaceX’s fairing recovery plans The first SLS mobile launcher is leaning Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed – Muleskinner Blues Identifying the mysterious dark bands in Venus’s atmosphere Bigelow establishes company to market its private space stations Celtic Woman – A Spaceman Came Travelling The first launch of NASA’s SLS rocket delayed again SpaceX successfully launches Spanish radar satellite Spitfire 944 Robert Mueller’s political document Curiosity science team to attempt first drilling in a year Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe A detailed look at SpaceX’s attempt to recovery its rocket fairings Former Vostochny head and comrades sentenced to jail Smoking battery at Rocket Lab facility Tiny crowded Israel Democrats in House introduce bill to ban semi-automatic weapons Sasha & the Starlight – So Nice Microbes found that survive in the driest desert on Earth Stratolaunch completes initial taxi tests Japan successfully launches reconnaissance satellite Hubble finds new figure for universe expansion rate George Nield of FAA space office is retiring David Byrne + NYC – Heroes Interorbital completes static fire test of upper-stage engine New backers to run Arecibo Methane detected on Enceladus could come from microbes China test fires core engine for its Long March 5 rocket Justice Dept faulted for lack of progress in Awan IT scandal Parkland Underscores How Americans Pay For Garbage Government While Doing Its Job Ourselves Conor Oberst – You Are Your Mother’s Child Trump: “Take the guns first, go through due process second.” February 27, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast “They don’t hate the NRA. They hate you.” Curiosity attempts to drill with improvised technique Webb faces more delays, cost overruns Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter comes out of safe mode The ever-receding Space Launch System Atlas 5 successfully puts NOAA weather satellite in orbit The left’s hatefest continues Hayabusa-2 spots its target asteroid More weird Mars geology Lorde – Glory and Gore March 1, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Testing of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine continues China’s space station delayed to 2020 America’s first space weatherman gets to say “Go!” again Utah concealed-carry class for teachers largest ever Sunspot update for February 2018 American embassy opens in Jerusalem in May Marbles, Magnets, and Music (Synchronized) Bi-partisan group of senators back bill to deny citizens their second, fifth, sixth, and seventh amendment rights SpaceX successfully launches commercial communications satellite Ground too hard for Curiosity’s drill ESA successfully tests an air-breathing ion thruster Twenty-year-old sues Dick’s for refusing to sell him gun Leftist fascism at the start of 2018 Betty Hutton – Murder, He Says North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un meets with South Korean delegation Tiangong-1 reentry update: April 3rd, give or take a week Justice Department to give House all “Fast & Furious” documents Jupiter has a 1,900 mile deep atmosphere One Direction – Moments March 6, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A detailed look at Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket Another smallsat rocket company enters the market University of Chicago to cease support of Yerkes in October 2018 Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis – Defective Detective Trump to meet with North Korean leader Trump plugs private space at cabinet meeting Vector to launch two cubesats from Alaska later this year More big space rumors from China Martian craters go splat! Smothers Brothers – Red River Valley Arianespace successfully places four communications satellites in orbit FCC accuses satellite startup of launching satellites without a license March 9, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Another age discrimination lawsuit against Dick’s Highlight video reel of Falcon Heavy launch A Juno movie of cloud motions Rocket Lab unaffected by Swarm/FCC kerfuffle Funding shortfall causes Planetary Resources to cut back An even more spectacular movie of Jupiter’s storms This week in leftist fascism The Duck Song NASA’s interim administrator to retire in April NASA concludes design error caused June 2015 Falcon 9 launch failure Blue Origin gets its fourth launch contract for New Glenn The Vegas Massacre Exposé: What Really Happened? Public meeting at White House between Israeli and Saudi, UAE, and Qatari officials Facebook’s new algorithm tilts left significantly New Horizons team picks Ultima Thule as nickname for 2014 MU69 Fingerstyle Jukebox – We Don’t Talk Anymore Stephen Hawking passes away, age 76 Chandra looks back at the Crab Nebula Orbital ATK unveils new satellite servicing robots Bezos releases video of BE-4 static fire test Kepler to run out of fuel in the coming months Dawn finds recent changes on Ceres New trains costing $2 billion too wide to fit in tunnels Johnny Cash – Hurt March 13, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Trump mentions interest in creating military “Space Force” New Air Force launch contracts for SpaceX and ULA Russia gets multiple launch contracts for its Proton? China’s big space launch schedule Only five days after installation pedestrian bridge in Florida collapses Ides of March – Vehicle North American mountains get 3Xs the snow previously estimated New spaceport bill becomes law in the United Kingdom Putin promises a Russian Mars mission in 2019 Anti-Trump FBI officials colluded with recused judge New Jersey school threatened with lawsuit for punishing students for visiting gun range Collapsed bridge did not have tower and suspension cables The Virginia Gentlemen – Lady in Red China launches military surveillance satellite Tiangong-1 reentry window narrowed Firefly Aerospace shows off its Lightning-1 rocket engine McCabe’s defiant response to his firing incriminates Comey R.I.P. Ed Charles Scientists theorize that Oumuamua came from a binary star system World’s largest jet engine makes first test flight Witness tampering and intimidation by Imran Awan New theory suggests Mars’ oceans formed earlier and intermittently On The Space Show Monday March 19 7 pm PDT Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world Port of Los Angeles approves SpaceX portside construction site Alaskan spaceport schedules first commercial launch Chinese competition in smallsat rocket industry forcing prices down School shooter in Maryland stopped by armed officer Star’s close approach 70,000 years ago pinned to cometary orbits March 19, 2018 Zimmerman Space Show podcast Birds of Flame – Open Country Joy March 19, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Japan creates $1 billion fund for private space start-ups The mysterious upcoming commercial launch in Alaska SpaceX’s August launch created largest shockwave from rocket ever measured Russian Soyuz launches three astronauts to ISS Mars rover update: March 21, 2018 Fkj & Masego – Tadow Congress pumps pork money to NASA in omnibus budget Juice Newton – Angel of the Morning Disney Pixar – Lou India delays Chandrayaan-2 six months March 23, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Failure history of the Russian launch industry SpaceX using up old used boosters as it shifts to final Falcon 9 design Tiangong-1 re-entry narrowed to four days centered on April 1 The Danish National Symphony Orchestra – For A Few Dollars More Tabby’s Star dims again NASA chief argues against purchasing Falcon Heavy over SLS Webb telescope delayed again to 2020 Meaghan Smith & Stadacona Band – It’s Been a Long Long Time Evergreen State College suspends new dorm construction due to drop in enrollment First commercial crew flights still set for 2018 with chance of delay Tiangong-1 reentry window narrowed to 24 hours centered on April 1st The James Webb Telescope: a signpost for identifying fake news sources Hubble finds galaxy with no evidence of dark matter Justice Dept inspector general to review FISA abuses Yes – Changes March 27, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Tiangong-1 re-entry window narrowed further India’s GSLV rocket successfully launches military communications satellite Further launch delays for Russia’s next ISS module & space telescope Russia launches test smallsat on Soyuz rocket The Corrs – Runaway China successfully launches two GPS satellites Sessions names US attorney to investigate FISA abuses The massive data Facebook and Google collect on their users SpaceX successfully launches ten Iridium satellites into orbit World View launches first balloon flight since explosion, raises $26.5 million Blue Origin changes engines for New Glenn second stage FCC approves SpaceX 4K+ satellite constellation with strict new requirements ESA successfully completes first parachute test for 2020 ExoMars mission Trump Justice Dept decides to defend IRS harassment of conservatives NOAA bureaucracy shuts down SpaceX telecast because stupid Tiangong-1 reentry update David Brancato – Of Mice and Moon A detailed look at Orbital ATK’s Next Generation Launcher (NGL) Another successful launch for China today March 29, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX ship returns with this week’s fairing apparently intact Tiangong-1 now expected to reenter on April 2 Contact with Indian military communications satellite lost Tiangong-1 reentry window narrowed to only 3.4 hours and two orbits 44 Democrats waived background checks for Imran Awan Google and Amazon patent 1984-style devices that spy on you in your home Near the Martian shoreline Saint Motel – My Type SpaceX launches Dragon to ISS Larry Griswold NOAA admits it wants the power to license all camera use in space Rocket Lab next launch window opens April 20 NASA’s horrible management of SLS Sightseeing Madeleine Peyroux – The Kind You Can’t Afford Astronomers find a dozen black holes near center of Milky Way UN agreement reached on space sustainability April 3, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A spray of volcanic ejecta on Mars? Revisiting Biosphere 2 Another space station hotel company enters the market Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker – Black Mountain Rag First SpaceshipTwo powered flight since accident Ariane 5 launches two satellites NASA expands first manned Starliner mission NOAA claims it is streamlining its remote sensing licensing operations A detailed analysis of the recent seemingly pro-Israel remarks by the Saudi leader “If you have wrongthink, you will not be allowed.” It’s a Beautiful Day – White Bird April 5, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra Space’s first suborbital test launch scrubbed Homeland Security to track journalists and bloggers in the media Sunspot update for March 2018: the sun crashes! Two investigations blame Northrop Grumman for Zuma failure Marina Sirtis tells the costume story Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter achieves operational orbit around Mars China successfully launches three military satellites Issue with thermometers on Parker Solar Probe Absurd monument to Yuri Gagarin lambasted Status update on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter A Martian snake of collapsed hills New York to jail man for possessing a legal gun Renaissance – Mother Russia April 9, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor/Pappalardo podcast NanoRacks outlines its private space station plans Jupiter’s North Pole, as seen in infrared by Juno A real look at Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress A gun to shoot down drones Jimi Hendrix On An Acoustic Guitar April 10, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India’s PSLV successfully launches GPS satellite The search for exoplanets at Alpha Centauri Another smallsat rocket company enters the frayPrivate space raised nearly $1 billion the first quarter of 2018 Environmental activists to build methane-detecting satellite New method for scrubbing CO2 out of the air Benjamin Costello – In My Daughter’s Eyes New information on SpaceX’s rocket fairing recovery effort Is it a volcano or an impact crater? Mars Express wants to know! SpaceX in the news! Marshmallow Farming More delays threaten the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii ULA’s Atlas 5 today successfully launched three U.S. military satellites NASA might scale down the first manned SLS flight Fueling issue during Electron countdown dress rehearsal The first sunspots of the next solar cycle How I spent my Saturday: Removing graffiti in a cave Delays in New Shepard program? SpaceX launch of NASA exoplanet hunting telescope TESS scrubbed 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up Orbital ATK renames its Next Generation Launcher OmegA Elon Musk hints at using a “giant party balloon” to recover Falcon 9 upper stages China finally reveals design issue that caused July’s Long March 5 failure The UAE receives more than 4000 astronaut applications Rocket Lab’s future plans Stratolaunch to make first flight later this year SpaceX announces it will build its Big Falcon Rocket in Los Angeles Imaging restrictions on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Trump administration to begin shift of space bureaucracy to Commerce Frederica von Stade – Song to the Moon Rocket Lab delays launch Air Force moves to reorganize its space operations FCC upset FCC not included in National Space Council Diamonds from space! Russia throws in the towel Republicans make criminal referrals for Clinton, Comey, Lynch, and others More hatred and bigotry from the left SpaceX successfully launches NASA new exoplanet telescope 10 Songs You’ve Heard and Don’t Know the Name Russia’s Proton successfully launches military satellite Wernher von Braun material up for auction Sierra Nevada opens all rockets to launching Dream Chaser DARPA announces $10 million launch challenge for smallsat rocket companies China’s mysterious SJ-17 satellite Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross puts his foot down Zooming in on a Martian surprise Justice Dept Inspector General makes criminal referral against McCabe Bridenstine confirmed as NASA administrator Arizona legislature about to pass law voiding 1st amendment at colleges Elvis Presley – C.C Rider How to blow up a star Blue Origin’s CEO gives an update on the company’s rockets April 18, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Asian rivers produce almost all the world’s ocean pollution Pearl Jam – Nothingman California bans free speech, forces gay sex ed on little kids North Korea suspends nuclear and rocket programs Off to the Grand Canyon The Amazing Paul Frees The Wilson Sisters – The Battle of Evermore Penn State cuts support for outdoor clubs because they are not perfectly safe Russia agrees to replace Angola’s first satellite, lost shortly after launch Gaia releases 3D map of galaxy India recalls communications satellite, postponing launch indefinitely Russian lawmakers introduce legislation to ban rocket engine sales to U.S. Trump administration considering reinstating fees to purchase Landsat images Source of yellow water in Russian section of ISS identified House passes law reforming commercial space licensing rules UC-San Diego requires new faculty to stand for “diversity” Etta James – Something’s Got A Hold On Me Trace Gas Orbiter releases its first image China’s Long March 11 rocket launches five Earth observation satellites Short movie from Rosetta of Comet 67P/C-G April 25, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Greys – Needle in the Camel’s Eye Summit between leaders of North and South Korea began today China aims to reuse vertically-landed first stages by 2020 Big earthquake in South Korea linked to geothermal power plant Mars rover update: April 27, 2018 The thin dense crust of Mercury April 26, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Katie Mullins – A Disney Love Song Medley (on the ukulele) Heat shield for 2020 Mars rover cracks during testing Trump administration cancels lunar rover mission Blue Origin to test fly New Shepard tomorrow Successful test flight of New Shepard Alien world Poll finds Democrats losing ground with millenials Numberphile – The Most Powerful Dice Scientists claim Earth’s magnetic field not about to flip Andrea Motis & l’Orquestra Simfònica – Solitude Japan’s space agency to build reusable rocket Hubble detects helium in exoplanet atmosphere May 1, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast “God damn you to hell.” Willie Nelson & Kenny Rogers – Blue Skies Australian government to create space agency NASA tests new small fission power plant for future space missions Musk releases image of Falcon 9 fairing floating back to Earth GAO predicts more delays and cost increases in NASA’s big projects Democrat demands prison for those who don’t cooperate with proposed gun buyback Aimee Echo & Teddybears – Punk Rocker China’s Long March 3B rocket puts communications satellite in orbit More problems uncovered during testing of the James Webb Space Telescope Serious fire at ISRO facility Russian to fly on Orion? Volcano or Impact? Judge challenges the scope of the Mueller investigation Above & Beyond Acoustic – On A Good Day May 3, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Issue with comments… Atlas 5 successfully launches Mars lander InSight ULA workers go on strike Dragon returns successfully from ISS Sunspot update for April 2018: Heading into solar minimum FBI/DOJ redactions hid their misbehavior, not protect national security How they drive through waterfalls in Nepal SpaceX sets May 10 for next launch, the first for Falcon 9’s final design The two Mars cubesats flying in formation with InSight The aging data relay spacecraft orbiting Mars Pluto is a planet Another company enters the smallsat rocket competitionSchool lets everyone qualify for cheerleader squad Craters, cones, pits, amid endless plains Trump pulls U.S. from Iran nuclear deal Sam Smith – Burning Software issue caused self-driving car accident that killed pedestrian Astronomers find evidence for thousands of black holes near galaxy center Putin dumps Rogozin China launches Earth observation satellite House committee boosts NASA budget while micromanaging its projects A new net for Mr. Steven Customs steals $41K from nurse Michael Dudok de Wit – Father and Daughter May 8, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Air Force forces delay in next Falcon Heavy launch Kenya’s first satellite to be deployed tomorrow from ISS Asteroid that formed in the inner solar system discovered in Kuiper Belt Trump administration shuts down $10 million carbon measuring program at NASA Juno images processed by citizens highlighted at conference Mars Odyssey looks down at Curiosity Most scientific studies cannot be reproduced Cracks in pedestrian bridge possible root of failure SpaceX scrubs launch today Anneke van Giersbergen & Danny Cavanagh – The Blower’s Daughter People object to Google’s robot call technology sounding just like a human The Middle East following Trump’s rejection of Iran deal Did the Obama administration use the FBI to put a spy in the Trump campaign? SpaceX successfully launches in Block 5 Falcon 9 NASA will fly a test drone on 2020 Mars rover mission Dale Watson – South Of Round Rock Texas Hiding messages using fonts ULA picks Aerojet Rocketdyne engine for Vulcan upper stage May 11, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The cave dwellers of China Riots prompted by Hamas have left Gaza with fuel crisis Dozens killed, including armed terrorists, in Gaza border violence Chaos on Mars 1984 at the University of Michigan Mrs. Hughes – Till Death Europa water plume detected in old Galileo data Another delay for SLS Astra cancels second launch attempt in Alaska Rogozin to take over Roscosmos? Redactions in Strzok/Page texts reveal FBI/Justice is hiding something Radiohead – Creep Mars cubesats take picture of Earth and Moon Block 5 Falcon 9 first stage returns to port Russian government audit finds $20 billion in “spending violations” Socialists win four Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania Evergreen State College: 20% enrollment drop and $6 million budget cut NASA inspector general weighs in on ISS’s future Diane Keaton – It Seems Like Old Times May 15, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast “Private” Chinese company successfully completes 1st suborbital launch All charges dropped against ARCA CEO Astronomers detect oxygen only 250 million years after Big Bang Boulder bans assault weapons, gun owners sue Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign How To Use A Semicolon Correctly UAE astronaut to fly to ISS on Soyuz? Contamination found in shuttle engines to be used by SLS The federal government’s blank check 29 Republicans and all Democrats vote to kill Senate balanced budget proposal TESS completes lunar flyby, takes first test image Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens & Flaco Jimenez Former Obama Education Secretary calls for school boycott over guns May 18, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ULA strike ends A detailed timeline of entire Clinton-Trump-collusion-story Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket successfully launches Cygnus capsule China launches communications relay satellite for upcoming lunar mission India clears GSAT-11 for launch ARCA’s CEO arrested by Homeland Security Texas law school capitulates to leftist racist dogma Kukla, Fran and Ollie – Here We Are Again Two giant U.S. telescope projects team up ArianeGroup chief admits they can’t compete New tests prove EM drive doesn’t work SpaceX successfully launches seven satellites, including two NASA science satellites Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer – Something Good Why jets formed on Comet 67P/C-G Pluto formed from a billion comets? A close look at SpaceX’s new domination in the commercial launch industry Drilling success for Curiosity Mars rover update: May 23, 2018 Tony Bennett – It Had to Be You May 22, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New NOAA weather satellite has serious problem Satellite images of Iran’s missile program Can we trust any deal with North Korea? Rogozin takes over Roscosmos China launches two test cubesats to the Moon “The Democrat Party is committed to the New Rules. And the New Rules are tyranny.” Crazy Drummers vs Europen X Holland Rocket Lab announces new launch date Russia cancels new lightweight Proton White House issues new policy statement to reduce space regulation China, the Moon, and the Outer Space Treaty Craig McPherson – The Entire Appalachian Trail in 5 Minutes China’s lunar communications satellite eases into position InSight makes course correction Alan Bean passes away at 86 May 25, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA reconfiguring future SLS planning China loses contact with one of two lunar cubesats Italy in uproar: President rejects election results Update on Hawaiian lava eruption “I am in a country that is not free.” Star Swain – The National Anthem Astronomers identify 25 stars that have or will come within 3 light years of Sun Canada exits WFIRST project Trump-Kim summit back on? Pachelbel’s Canon in D Virgin Galactic’s Unity makes second powered flight More budget cuts expected for Roscosmos China offers its space station to the UN Not one citizen of New Jersey complies with bump stock ban May 29, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese regulations sends recycling into the trash New impact craters on Mars Why you got Trump, part 2,398,105 Hawaiian War Money Max Planck scientists criticize institute for lack of support over animal rights Radio telescope in Greenland sees first “light” Dawn moving to closest orbit to Ceres Astronomers identify giant exoplanets that might harbor habitable moons 2 Cellos – Mombasa Dunes on Pluto? Proposed new FCC regulations would shut out student cubesats Heavier astronauts more likely to have vision issues in zero-G Customs steals $58K, a man’s life savings The surface properties of 122 asteroids revealed Patricia Janečková: Johann Strauss’ Frühlingsstimmen Cubesats heading to Mars complete first course correction Certain microbes survive in clean rooms by eating the cleaning fluids May 31, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches Earth observation satellite The upcoming Falcon Heavy schedule Reuseability lowers SpaceX launch price to $50 million Stratolaunch still lacks a launch vehicle SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite Boulder-sized asteroid discovered just before it hit Earth Globular clusters not as old as universe? Narrow victory for religious freedom Sunspot update for May 2018: Solar activity hangs on Curiosity’s new drilling technique declared a success Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five – Aint Nobody Here But Us Chickens Smallsat rocket company Firefly gets contract China launches weather satellite New Horizons awakened to begin preparations for January 1 2019 flyby Russia announces plans to build reusable rocket No giant planet needed in Kuiper Belt to shape orbits of outer known planets NASA administrator in talks about commercializing ISS Anti-spam filter for comments fixed! Homeland Security to track bloggers and journalists California outlaws same day laundry and showers Another intriguing pit on Mars Eric Clapton – They’re Red Hot Russia launches new crew to ISS China offers big bucks to attract foreign science talent Northrop Grumman purchase of Orbital ATK approved Aerojet Rocketdyne completes first rocket engine for DARPA’s quick launch rocket Democrats generally reject scientist candidates More problems for James Webb Space Telescope? 8 times FBI colluded with Democrats during election Juno mission extended New data widens the margin of error in carbon dating Julie Gautier – AMA June 5, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rigged poll claims Americans want NASA to do climate research Movie of Juno’s thirteenth fly-by of Jupiter Curiosity finds evidence of complex carbon molecules New texts from former FBI officials reveal contempt for Congress and the law How an accelerometer works June 6, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Former staffer of Senate intelligence committee indicted for leaks House passes tiny $15 billion budget cut Germany to do partial gravity experiments using Zero-G airplane Curiosity finds methane fluctuates seasonally in Gale Crater More Earthlike exoplanets! Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright June 7, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Northrop Grumman’s first Pegasus launch delayed indefinitely SpaceX outlines plans for major expansion at Kennedy Woman sues NASA to keep possession of moon dust Growing Martian dust storm forces Opportunity to suspend operations The history of the second amendment Vector plans first orbital flight this October China cracks down on corrupt science The mysterious dust surrounding Tabby’s Star June 8, 2018 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast 3 scary movie themes played in Ragtime? Japan successfully launches military reconnaissance satellite Hayabusa-2 takes first photos of target asteroid Ryugu California police raid home, confiscate guns, from man who tried to register AR-15 Trump-Kim summit ends The two candidate landing sites for ExoMars2020 Connecticut locks all train bathrooms because half are not ADA compliant Leonard Cohen – The Stranger Song Proposal to split California into three states makes ballot Contact with Opportunity lost New analysis suggests Ceres has more organic molecules than previously estimated Walt Disney’s MultiPlane Camera June 12, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Private company to offer tourist trips to its own facility on ISS Landslides on Ceres Strong Link Found Between Watching Soccer, Being Incredibly Bored UCLA students file criminal complaints against violent meeting disruptors The Justice Dept Inspector General report on FBI corruption Dolly Parton – Stairway to Heaven June 14, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese cubesat using Saudi Arabian camera sends back first pictures Questions raised about NEOWISE asteroid data analysis Willie & Lukas Nelson – Just Breathe Russia launches GPS satellite Chang’e-4 launch set for December The modern non-debate over climate, or anything Trump orders Defense Dept to create “Space Force” Some victories against modern leftist oppression Donnie McClurkin – I Need You Curiosity on the march S7 Space wants to build Soviet era rocket engines Dubai to fund 36 science space projects What yesterday’s National Space Council meeting really reveals Why is Peter Strzok still employed by the FBI? The epic lava flows of Olympus Mons U.S. withdraws from UN Human Rights Council Transient A guide to spygate, from a retired FBI agent Ryugu seen from 150-200 miles Trump replaces Obama’s oceans policy Congressman unmasks two unnamed anti-Trump FBI agents in IG report Senate kills House bill to cut $15 billion from passed $300 billion spending deal Martian dust storm goes global On the radio Nick Jonas – Find You June 19, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Deorbit soon for China’s second test space station module? European satellite designed to test space junk removal released from ISS UAE signs deal with Russia for UAE astronaut flight Obama administration ordered a “stand down” of work to stop Russian election interference Too much hate Wintergatan – Visa Från Utanmyra McCain’s office joined Democrats in encouraging IRS to harass conservatives Hawaii’s Supreme Court to review TMT’s permit, again SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy wins Air Force launch contract Supreme Court rules warrant required to gather cell phone data The ship cut in half June 21, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab scrubs Electron launch on Saturday Buzz Aldrin sues his own family Hayabusa-2 22 miles from Ryugu A NASA astronaut’s detailed look at Dragon and Starliner Poor weather delays Electron launch to June 26 Supreme Court again rules in favor of religious freedom Coldest place on Earth is even colder Dragon cargo fees to rise, due to NASA demands Trump administration to remove climate change from NOAA’s priorities Prílet Vtákov – Arrival of The Birds U.S. suspends payments to Palestinian Authority Ryugu from 25 miles Falcon 9 Dragon launch to set used booster turnaround record The slow death of Planetary Resources Judge throws out California climate lawsuits The dying Russian space program Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban The mysterious chaos terrain of Mars House Judiciary Committee calls for impeachment or contempt for Rosenstein Parson James – Waiting Game Rocket Lab launch scrubbed Hayabusa-2 officially completes rendezvous with Ryugu Grease in space Arianespace lowers its launch forecast for 2018 China launches two satellites Fractured surface in Occator Crater on Ceres Trace Gas Orbiter releases new images Supreme Court rules against goverment unions Were Democratic staffers working with Awan brothers to steal equipment? Innocent Red Hen businesses threatened nationwide New observations of interstellar Oumuamua give it comet-like properties James Webb Space Telescope delayed again, with budget rising Supreme Court justice Kennedy to retire North Korea upgrading nuclear research facility The annual fund-raising campaign has begun Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes June 26, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab cancels Electron launch for this launch window Long March 2C first stage crashes into Chinese town Complex carbon molecules from within Enceladus A nerve gas detector made of Legos and an iPhone Federal police remove protesters blocking Portland ICE building First look at Trump’s short list for Supreme Court Dan Wilson – Closing Time SpaceX successfully launches Dragon to ISS Ancient rain on Mars? California bans handguns IT specialist Imran Awan solicited a bribe from at least one vendor Super Batucada Heading to Belize again Private Japanese smallsat rocket fails at launch June 30, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Modern Mandolin Quartet – Russian Rag Aladdin – A Whole New World More close-up images of Ceres A star that shoots cosmic rays Galaxies collide! Virgin Orbit gets first launch license Justice Department lets Imran Awan walk More launch delays from Russia Day off on the Fourth of July in Belize The soccer ball that flew in space twice The Declaration of Independence 2″ 2.5″ 3″ 4″ 5″ 6″ 7″ 8″ 10″ 12″ 16″ 24″ 36″ 48″ Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb – MacArthur Park AT&T: How to Use the Dial Phone Back from Belize July 6, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India tests launch abort system for its own manned capsule Searchers find fragment of asteroid that hit Earth June 2nd Kepler on verge of death Astronomers dispute existence of galaxy without dark matter Witchhunt against Northrop Grumman employee because of his private opinions China reveals details of its planned heavy-lift and reuseable rockets Four of thirteen trapped Thai cavers rescued Failed Soviet-era Venus probe to crash to Earth between 2023-2025 OSIRIS-REx makes second course correction Billions to replace or decommission thousands of wind turbines Close look at bright spots in Occator Crater on Ceres 3D image of Ryugu The first American dogs were different, and arrived a very long time ago China launches two satellites on Long March 2C Interorbital successfully test flies its upper-stage engine Why Google blurs surface images of Israel, and why that blurring could end Four more boys rescued from cave in Thailand Israel considers a loosening of its gun laws Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS Sunspot update for June 2018: Activity increases again Mike Oldfield – Sentinel Trump picks Kavanaugh for Supreme Court All thirteen trapped cavers rescued alive! China launches GPS satellite, matches record for annual launches First manned Dragon capsule completes thermal vacuum tests Israel’s former Google Lunar X-Prize contestant to launch in 2018 Mars 2020 gets fourth candidate landing site Global topographic maps of Pluto and Charon The dying Russian space program, from a Russian’s perspective Spiders on Mars! Tory Party opposition to Theresa May’s Brexit deal grows Inventor of 3D gun wins lawsuit against Justice Eric Whitacre – The Seal Lullaby Cygnus fires engine to test reboost of ISS Rocket Lab plans second launch site in U.S. Nine finalists for UAE’s astronaut corps of four Engine tests for reusable Phantom Express space plane completed SpaceX installs much larger arms for net on ship for fairing recapture Ghost dunes on Mars Court rules TSA screeners immune from lawsuit damages Oh Sheep! California’s coming crash July 10, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast GAO report indicates NASA forcing more delays in commercial crew Conflict in Hubble constant increases with new data from Hubble and Gaia SpaceX delivers huge supply tank to Boca Chica spaceport site James Morrison – I won’t let you go A science journal describes how evil Trump is destroying EPA SpaceX’s first test crew Dragon capsule arrives in Florida Astronomers track neutrino from galaxy 3.7 billion light years away Binary asteroid imaged by radio telescopes Bush – Glycerine July 12, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blue Origin to charge $200K for New Shepard tourist flights United Kingdom picks location in Scotland for spaceport Boeing puts foam insulation on one SLS tank The federal black hole of lost nuclear bomb material A weird lunar lava field Mrs Good – La terre tremblante ArianeGroup successfully tests solid rocket booster India tests upgraded rocket engine Lockheed Martin key investor in Rocket Lab New Shepard test flight set for tomorrow Astronomers discover 10 more Jupiter moons On the radio Mars rover update: July 17, 2018 A petition to kill SLS/Orion and LOP-G Professor calls for the defunding and shutting of America’s universities Suncoast Worship – Holes in the Sky July 17, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Entire Martian atmosphere appears to act as a single unit Another successful test flight for second New Shepard suborbital spacecraft Chinese officials quite rightly dismiss LOP-G New close-up images of Ceres July 17, 2018 Zimmerman/Livingston podcast The Sweeplings – Carry Me Home Global mosiacs of Titan in infrared Dust storm update on Mars Johnny Rivers – Secret Agent Man Hayabusa-2 finds Ryugu covered with scattered large boulders China developing a robot satellite refueling spacecraft A detailed look at upcoming SpaceX launch recovery operations Trump administration proposes revisions to Endangered Species Act Most biomedical research cannot be replicated “They’re coming for you next.” Tom Jones & Toni Braxton – Knock On Wood Europe initiates website to name ExoMars 2020 rover July 20, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starliner has propellant leak during launch abort test SpaceX successfully launches commercial communications satellite New FISA release confirms Obama and FBI illegally conspired to spy on Trump Threats by Portland Occupy ICE protesters force closure of homeless food cart Protesters rampage against Kosher Cafe because owner supports Trump A dark dust avalanche on Mars Radiation maps of Europa Brick thrown through window of Democratic senator North Korea’s actions post-summit remain unclear Kimya Dawson – Tire Swing Nicaraguan socialists move to kill opposition The dust on Mars comes from one specific Martian region Is the entrance to space 80 kilometers up instead of 100? Treason investigation opened against Roscosmos research unit Congress nixes Space Force, for now Interstellar Technologies releases video of launch failure A Chinese skyscraper with a waterfall Another skylight entrance pit found on Mars Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola & John McLaughlin – Mediterranean Sun Dance Santa Barbara requires jail time for giving out plastic straws SpaceX and Arianespace both launch multiple satellites Liquid water found beneath Martian south pole NASA delays launch of Parker Solar probe, again NASA considering more cuts to WFIRST NOAA still struggling to get GOES 17 working Democratic Party hate and demagoguery on display No Zimmerman/Batchelor podcasts this week Tom Rush – Making the best of a bad situation Venezuela to remove 5 zeros from currency due to 1 million % inflation Ryugu as seen by Hayabusa-2 from less than 4 miles Changes to big August 3 commercial crew announcement do not bode well NASA wants to delay WFIRST to pay for Webb overruns House committee approves new space weather bill Federal agents steal $29K from innocent man Virgin Galactic’s Unity successfully completes powered test flight San Francisco legislators propose banning company cafeterias David Gilmour & Richard Wright – Comfortably Numb The Polls Are Crazy Japanese officials arrested, JAXA raided, in bribery scandal Celebrating Milton Friedman’s birthday today Two roundworms return to life after being frozen for almost 42,000 years Threats against the children of a Republican congressman part of rising pattern New York Times and Associated Press look for dirt on Kavanaugh’s wife A vegetable grater on Mars Mob gathers and attacks pro-Trump demonstraters in Hollywood Federal court allows attacked Trump supporters to continue lawsuit against San Jose Verdi’s Il Trovatore – Anvil Chorus Martian dust storm beginning to clear First Block 5 1st stage reflight China successfully launches two GPS satellites Watch SpaceX retract one leg from used Block 5 booster Dale Watson – Texas Armadillo China launches secret remote sensing satellite NASA rubberstamps Russian engines in Atlas 5 for manned flights Russian company that builds Proton rocket faces bankruptcy and reorganization NASA safety panel reviews commercial crew, tries to justify its paperwork demands New York shuts down 7-year-old’s lemonade stand Billy Preston – Nothing from Nothing Close-up of bright spot in Occator Crater Tzvi Erez – Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 #1 in F minor Boeing adjusts Starliner launch schedule after fuel leak during test Russian scientist accused of treason fed data to NATO Planetary scientists protest use of term “Planet Nine” for unknown planet Private rocket failure in Alaska New York Times hires bigot for its editorial board South Africa’s black government moves to allow it to steal land from whites Federal judge rules New Mexico’s civil forfeiture law unconstitutional Landslide on Mars New launch dates for commercial crew posted by NASA Two men arrested for making threats against Republican congressmen August 1, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick NASA announces crews for first commercial manned launches No water as yet detected on Ryugu More close-up images of Ceres Mars dust storm blocks Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images Another failed drilling attempt by Curiosity More problems for Mueller in Manafort trial Rogue giant exoplanet or brown dwarf discovered about 20 light years away Alison Krauss & Union Station – Man of Constant Sorrow Chandrayaan-2 delayed again, until January 2019 Next Rocket Lab launch set for November How to build a scaled-down version of Curiosity, all by yourself! Sunspot update for July 2018: The Sun flatlines! Leftist thugs harass conservative black woman and white man eating lunch Want to earn a college degree in mining in space? You can! Johnny Cash – Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down SpaceX launches commercial satellite with first used Block 5 first stage Tess captures comet, variable stars, asteroids, and Martian light Aristarchus Crater on the Moon The shrinking and growth of the poles of Mars True color images of Pluto and Charon Rocket Lab and Ecliptic agree to use Electron kick stage as a payload platform Avi Avital – Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto in C Major Rocket Lab signs deal with UAE company for 10 Electron launches Short of money, Planetary Resources to auction off equipment Company aims to sell its rocket engines to smallsat rocket companies Perseid meteor shower this weekend Laid off workers supported by Hamas, take over UN refugee headquarters Yesterday’s election Weird Martian crater? Fascist who attacked conservative protesters with bike lock goes free Scientists create coldest spot ever on ISS The Great Race – Pies Upon Pies There were Viking cats Computer simulations suggest solar system was partly shaped by star flyby Magnetism helps shape Jupiter’s colorful jet stream bands The history of SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket UK estimates its new spaceport could capture thousands of smallsat launches The two things SpaceX must do for NASA to okay the first manned Dragon mission No habitable planets for at least one globular cluster Pence outlines Trump administration’s plans for Space Force Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall – Am I Blue? August 7, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russian lawmaker threatens to block sale of Russian rocket engines to ULA Researchers say cubesats with propulsion systems must have encrypted software Tea party groups get major payout in lawsuit settlement with IRS Dan Hill – Sometimes When We Touch Parker Solar Probe launch scrubbed two minutes prior to launch A spinning heat shield to lower their cost and weight ISRO head: Recall of India satellite prevented a failure ULA’s Delta-4 Heavy successfully launches the Parker Solar Probe ISRO schedules Chandrayaan-2 launch for January 3rd Houston restaurant chain faces leftist boycott The on-going vicious debate over dinosaur extinction Curiosity successfully drills another hole More testing of “Roc,” Stratolaunch’s giant airplane FBI fires anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok The failed Arctic Ocean predictions of global warming scientists The Great Kiss-off Excavation begins on site for Giant Magellan Telescope Ghana considers its first national space law One “tiny” storm on Jupiter Google lied when it said it would allow you to block it from tracking you August 13, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Coron Island Hopping, Palawan, Philippines India’s prime minister: manned mission by 2022 SpaceX unveils interior of manned Dragon An update on China’s private smallsat rocket companies Will SpaceX bail out Tesla? Ceres’ internal structure Christian baker files lawsuit against Colorado for continuing harassment A review of yesterday’s primaries A different type of color scale for maps that the color-blind can read Cryptic terrain in Martian high southern latitudes Trump revokes Brennan’s security clearance Anna Nalick – Breathe (2am) August 14, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russian astronauts complete 8 hour spacewalk A gas giant exoplanet so hot it resembles a star China unveils next lunar rover Second Japanese official indicted in JAXA bribery scandal State Department claims orbiting Russian satellite is a military threat Ancient drainage on Mars? Warren: Federal government must have more control over large corporations Eric Clapton – Tears In Heaven An update on Trump appointments to the federal circuit courts Opportunity’s uncertain future Roscosmos in the news! 3D-printed solar panels for cubesats! SpaceX unveils access arm jetway astronauts will use to board Dragon Liberal media tries to dox jurors in Manafort case Rossini – Overture to The Thieving Magpie August 17, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA officially approves SpaceX’s fueling system Three Russian space officials arrested for fraud Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl New analysis strengthens evidence of water in lunar polar craters Can the Earth’s magnetic field shut down and flip in only two centuries? South Africa begins confiscating white-owned farms Parker makes first course adjustment Stratolaunch to build its own upper stages Flying Boeing’s Starliner capsule Air Force to accelerate hypersonic weapon development? Trump EPA proposes new power plant climate rules Mob rips down Confederate statue Man beaten by antifa thugs for carrying American flag A strange bulge on Mars The Kempters – The Orange Blossom Special EXOS to test fly reusable suborbital rocket in New Mexico Oblique mosiac of bright spot on Ceres Gabriella Quevedo – Blackbird August 21, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Arianespace’s Vega launches European satellite to study the Earth’s winds NASA considering purchase of communications services Swooping over a lunar cold spot Trump administration goes all in for LOP-G Jeanne Robertson – Don’t Hire a Hit Man Hayabusa-2 science team lay out Ryugu landing schedule China reveals landing site for Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission Volcanic rills and lava tubes on Mars Los Angeles leftist groups call for “violence against the enemies of the people.” The corruption centered on Mueller and Comey Trump administration cuts $200 million of Palestinian aid OSIRIS-REx takes first image of Bennu Scorpions – Wind Of Change August 24, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two GPS-type satellites with Long March 3B EXOS completes successful test flight of reusable suborbital rocket Inexplicable high latitude Martian terrain Pachelbel’s Chicken Hayabusa-1 sample pins down age of asteroid Arecibo gets upgrade, new funding The search for Mars Polar Lander 3D gun files still available to public despite judge’s ruling Jerry Goldsmith – Rambo First Blood: “It’s a Long Road” The shift to smallsats by the U.S. military New Horizons snaps first picture of Ultima Scientist proposes aerobraking asteroids into Earth orbit Dragon/Starliner schedules firming up Russian medics have approved UAE’s astronaut candidates Launch schedule shuffles for SpaceX Virgin Orbit performs more flight tests of 747 India’s manned flight schedule revealed Ukraine test flies winged cruise missile Looking for Marsquakes 10cc – I’m not in love August 28, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lunar scientist Paul Spudis had passed away The aurora of Saturn Air leak on ISS First private patents filed for manufacturing materials on ISS Trump cancels federal employee pay raise Pollster: Elitists still refusing to listen Fat Cat Staying Alive 10 Hours Update on the leak on ISS, its cause and repair Dates set for first landings on Ryugu Luxembourg announces creation of space agency Scotland’s first commercial rocket test flight Vostochny manager accused of overbuying cables As Mars dust storm clears, Opportunity remains silent How the Curiosity science team found soft rock for drilling Hollywood once again reveals its distaste for America The upcoming very busy planetary probe season Audiobook of Genesis: the story of Apollo 8 now available Democrat calls for boycott of company for donating to GOP Democratic Congressman to immigration officials: “When the worm turns you will not be safe.” Bernie Marsden & Micky Moody – Till The Day I Die August 30, 2018 Zimmmerman/Batchelor podcast Some debate at NASA over Opportunity Russian official predicts only 10 launches for 2019-2020 Director of Neil Armstrong movie responds to flag critics SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket and the colonization of Mars Leftist thugs take over British college UAE names the two finalists for its first manned flight on Soyuz A glider sets new altitude record Sunspot update for August 2018: The slide to minimum ISS airleak an accidental drill hole on ground Tim Conway & Harvey Korman – WWII airplane jump Roscosmos re-inspecting all Progress/Soyuz capsules Saturn’s polar hexagonal vortex might tower high above clouds Lizz Wright – Reaching for the Moon Chinese smallsat rocket company completes suborbital launch How I spent the past two days New study: Forest cover has blossomed since 1980s Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China University censors student handing out “Jesus loves you” valentines September 4, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast “Unsteady hand” drilled hole in Soyuz More details about Chinese suborbital launch earlier this week Curiosity to drill twice more on Vera Rubin Ridge Camel – Stationary Traveller Update on the Parker Solar Probe China launches ocean survey satellite Russia begins construction of Angara launchpad at Vostochny TESS releases its first batch of exoplanet candidates Astronomers retract prediction of star merger Hayabusa-2 scientists release updated landing schedule India teams up with France to prep for its first manned mission Jupiter’s weird magnetic field Armstrong filmmakers purposely obscured American flag The Cranberries – Zombie Japan to launch space elevator experiment to ISS Second Chinese company completes suborbital rocket test September 7, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast On the radio SpaceX successfully launches communications satellite More aerospace problems in Russia Trump administration to shutter PLO office in DC Science paper slams IAU planet definition Solar observatory closed for unstated security reasons Patricia Janečková – Les oiseaux dans la charmille India unveils spacesuit for Gaganyaam manned mission Faulty concrete at Vostochny launchpad caused by contractor Ariane 6 gets first commercial contract New enrollment at Evergreen drops 50% Baby volcanoes on Mars John Sebastian – Darling be home soon New research confirms leftward domination in academia Gateway fantasies from NASA First manned flights on Blue Origin’s New Shepard delayed to 2019 Leftist election terrorism Scientists identify molecule linked to anti-aging effects Henry Mancini – Inspector Clouseau Theme Orion test vehicle completes last parachute test NASA resets listening plan for Opportunity Is mercury release cause of New Mexico solar observatory shutdown? Astronomers use radio emissions from distant galaxy to observe asteroid HP to mass produce large 3D metal printers Dress rehearsal of Hayabusa-2’s landing scrapped More suborbital private rockets in the news Oblique view of lunar crater September 11, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Cassini’s last view of Titan Filming rocket launches NASA & Roscosmos heads to meet Luxembourg formally establishes space agency SpaceX to name on Monday its first customer for BFR flight around Moon Republican Congress boosts NIH spending, rejecting Trump proposed cuts Soyuz capsule was drilled after it was fully assembled Asia – The Smile Has Left Your Eyes September 13, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russians considering spacewalk as part of airleak investigation Multiple launches today Statement about closure of solar observatory SpaceX announcement of first passenger for Lunar BFR Cryo-volcanism had less influence on shaping Ceres than predicted Trump unclassifies FISA warrants, interviews; orders release of unredacted FBI text messages A Trip Through Victorian Paris, France SpaceX’s first BFR passenger is Yusaku Maezawa, owner of Japanese fashion company Curiosity fails again to drill into Vera Rubin Ridge Who is Yusaku Maezawa? Kenya creates space agency Air Force estimates Space Force cost at $13 billion for first 5 years Instrument on GRACE-FO fails Vulcan found? A Martian shoreline? John Rzeznik – Iris Republican wins special election in black/Hispanic district in Texas New data says going to Mars involves significant radiation exposure All instruments check out on the Parker Solar Probe China’s Long March 3B rocket successfully launches two GPS-type satellites British test satellite uses net to capture target Update on SpaceX and Boeing’s private commercial crew capsules The volcano Llullaillaco Leaving Home | A Tragicomedy On the radio + September 18, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Sunspot observatory shut down for child porn investigation? September 19, 2018 Zimmerman Beyond Reality appearance Astronomers detect matter falling into black hole at 30% of the speed of light Curiosity has problem sending back its stored data Hayabusa-2 sees its shadow Rocket Lab signs another satellite launch contract On the radio Nordic Choir – Sure on this Shining Night Creeping into Ryugu More details about Sunspot Observatory closure confirms child porn investigation NOAA awards three more experimental commercial weather contracts Stratolaunch considering launching hypersonic rocket tests from its Roc airplane Want to look at every planetary map ever made? You can! Mountains on the Moon Robert DeMayo – The Star Spangled Banner Russia considering getting out of Gateway Historian discovers long-lost original of Galileo letter Democrats have abandoned the presumption of innocence Minerva probes send back first pictures Japan successfully launches unmanned cargo ship to ISS Bill increases funding to FAA space office, adds other provisions On the road Greenhouse in Antarctica survives winter for 1st time Mike Olbinski – Breathe Dust storms spotted on Titan Four candidate stars identified as home for Oumuamua Has Aerojet Rocketdyne lost engine race with Blue Origin? Australian agency pushes Australia to join NASA Gateway project Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots Opportunity through dust Elvin Bishop – Fooled around and fell in love Millennials are staying married; thus divorce rate plummets Ariane 5 launches two communication satellites China schedules deorbit of Tiangong-2 station for July 2019 SpaceX gets contract to launch private lunar rover missions NASA extends Chandra telescope operation to 2024 Local Texas city council votes to keep spaceport Rick Wakeman – Children of Chernobyl September 24, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ULA picks Blue Origin rocket engine for Vulcan first stage The Smothers Brothers – Marching To Pretoria SEC goes after Musk Next Long March 5 launch delayed again? New images from Hayabusa-2’s mini-bouncers Roscosmos head meets with Chinese Stratolaunch building its own rocket engine The Mavericks – All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down September 27, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches smallsat UAE astronaut flight to ISS tentatively scheduled for April Musk settles with SEC, pays fine, reduces control at Tesla for 3 years Three U.S. small space companies establish offices in Luxembourg Russia and China sign agreement for future space cooperation Occator Crater on Ceres “Kill Kavanaugh” now tops Twitter feeds One Minute Fly Breakthrough Listen adds southern hemisphere telescope to extraterrestrial listening campaign Deployment operations for Hayabusa-2’s MASCOT lander have begun More intergalactic stars discovered Celebrate Earthrise Day! Lobo – I’d Love You To Want Me Hayabusa-2’s third mini-lander successfully lands on Ryugu Parker completes first Venus fly-by Roscosmos cuts price for Soyuz rocket launch Astronomers discover very distant object orbiting the Sun ISS’s international partners express interest in extending station’s life A new Moon Race contest established More fake papers accepted by sociology/gender/racism journals NASA signs agreement to work with SpaceIL’s privately built lunar rover The first exomoon found? BBC’s Proms Hedwig’s Theme Curiosity to switch computers in effort to restore operations October 2, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA study says deep space will cause cancer and destroy stomachs How one region’s space industry represents the world SpaceX turned down government money to build Falcon Heavy A vent on Mars? Democratic doxxer threatened to also release the health data of the children of Republicans The Crying Shame – Camel Commercial crew test flights delayed again MASCOT ends its mission on Ryugu, as planned IAU names two craters in honor of 50th anniversary Apollo 8 mission Punch Brothers & Rob Moose – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 New Horizons makes final big course correction Images of Mascot by Hayabusa released Data from Voyager 2 suggests it is entering interstellar space Sixth biggest Michigan meteorite discovered as doorstop NASA pushes upgrades to interim and final SLS upper stages October 5, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches Argentinian radar satellite Hubble in safe mode, down to two gyroscopes Competing proposals for military space operations Giant ice pinnacles on Europa The central peaks of Copernicus crater Sunspot update September 2018: Minimum! Ceres’s poles have shifted by as much as 36 degrees Snack Attack UAE passes a space law An update on China’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander China launches two remote sensing satellites Mancini – Thorn Birds theme Update on SpaceX’s effort to recover/reuse its rocket fairings China plans next Long March 5 launch for January 2019 Honoring the Apollo 8 astronauts Honeycombs on Mars Air Force awards contracts to ULA, Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin Betty Grissom, widow of Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom, passes away Why Modern Music Is Awful Israeli private Moon mission delayed by SpaceX October 9, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Soyuz upper stage fails, forces emergency landing of manned capsule Audit of SLS predicts more cost overruns and delays Blue Origin delays New Shepard and New Glenn Hayabusa-2 landing on Ryugu delayed until January Debating the landing site for the Mars 2020 rover Astronomers double the number of known fast radio bursts Davy Spillane – Caoineadh Cu Chulainn Zimmerman op-ed: Bring on more Kavanaughs! MASCOT’s journey on Ryugu Updates on yesterday’s Soyuz failure Rocket Lab officially opens new rocket facility Stratolaunch completes taxi test at 80 mph Branson suspends negotiations with Saudi Arabia Update on Hubble: no real news Carol Burnett – Palace Guard wants a pony Chandra goes into safe mode October 11, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Trump scraps academic EPA air pollution panel The Facebook political purge Richard Searfoss, 1956-2018 October 12, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Updates on Russian investigation of Soyuz launch failure Curiosity sends down images for the first time in weeks Hayabusa-2 will do two touchdown rehearsals prior to landing in January Giant planets around young star defy model predictions China launches two GPS-style satellites Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet Paul Allen dead at 65 Chandra back up in operation Another Zimmerman op-ed: Congress Needs To Stop Pouring Money Into NASA’s Contractor Black Hole Hayabusa-2 completes 2nd touchdown rehearsal at Ryugu Mini-drones for the military Gerry & Pacemakers – Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying Atlas 5 launches Air Force military satellite A new virus that mimics polio appears in U.S. Rocket Lab chooses Wallops as first U.S. launch site U.S. astronaut describes Soyuz launch failure SpaceX gets another Falcon Heavy contract Moon Express and Canada cement business relationship Treasury employee arrested for revealing confidential bank info to press October 16, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Raymond Burley & Gordon Giltrap – Daisy Chain Russia: Next Soyuz manned flight likely not delayed ISS experiment shows that some microbes can survive in space SpaceX doing fairing landing tests with its ship, Mr. Steven First Man: Trivializing the lunar landing Land of swiss cheese and spiders Palestinian Authority arrests Palestinian-American for property sale to Jews Joseph’s Machines – The Cake Server Off to the Grand Canyon John Prine – Lonesome Friends of Science Tom Jones & Jeff Beck – Love Letters October 18, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First interplanetary image from a cubesat Ariane 5 launches BepiColumbo to Mercury Hubble gyro problem appears fixed Final 2018 SpaceX launch schedule Vector raises $70 million more in investment capital Strong India monsoons cause more hurricane landfalls in North America The Music Man – 76 Trombones Trump moves forward on Space Force; commercial space reorganization Active signaling to Opportunity to end Pluto orbiter mission could also explore Kuiper belt Stripes on Dione Rappelling in the Grand Canyon Suspicious packages mailed to Democrats R.E.M. – The One I Love October 23, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russian Soyuz rocket launches military satellite China launches ocean research satellite Parker looks back at Earth Blue Origin’s ship for its 1st stage landings arrives in Florida Atlas 5 upper stage for first unmanned Starliner launch arrives in Florida Virgin Orbit reveals LauncherOne rocket attached to its 747 launch vehicle Hayabusa-2 completes third Ryugu touchdown rehearsal More successful image downloads for Curiosity Changes on the slopes of Olympus Mons? Donovan & Crystal Gayle – Catch The Wind October 25, 2018 Zimmerman X-Zone appearance Astronomers confirm Earth has satellite dust clouds SpaceX lands another Falcon Heavy contract; seeks big loan First ULA Vulcan launch delayed a year to 2021 Intriguing water-ice cloud on Mars First suspect arrested in pipe bomb mailings Hayabusa-2’s highest resolution image so far Utah man arrested for mailing poison to Republicans Green Grass Cloggers- music by Strictly Strings Chinese smallsat rocket fails to make orbit India completes test landing for its Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander Pakistan enlists China to launch its 1st astronaut by 2022 October 26, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Netanyahu visits Oman, which calls for acceptance of Israel Hubble resumes science operations Number of candidate exo-Earths reduced by Gaia data Fast radio bursts not detected at certain radio wavelengths Scientists calculate Mars methane release China successfully launches Chinese/French ocean research satellite Japan launches UAE satellite The radical and ugly left reveals itself again Mazzy Star – Fade Into You IAU once again sticks it to an American scientist, devaluing Edwin Hubble Russia to disassemble the next Soyuz rocket scheduled for launch Stratolaunch’s Roc airplane completes fastest taxi test Parker sets new records in its flight to the Sun Neil Armstrong’s personal collection up for auction SpaceX confirms it will do first hopper tests of BFR in Boca Chica Rocket Lab adds two more satellites to its November 11 launch Curiosity resumes science operations The steep slumping wall of a Martian volcano caldera NASA officially retires Kepler Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Kubla Khan Hawaii Supreme Court rules in favor of TMT NASA decides to continue to ping Opportunity Shake-up in SpaceX’s Starlink satellite division Oblique view of Hayabusa-2’s most recent landing rehearsal Timelapse movie of Supernova 1987A’s evolution from 1992 to 2017 Early Milky Way collision uncovered by Gaia The vast northern plains of Mars Penny Dreadful October 30, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast October 31, 2018 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast Parker begins first perihelion fly-by of Sun Russia releases video of October Soyuz launch, showing failed strap-on release China launches two more GPS-type navigation satellites OSIRIS-REx snaps image of target asteroid Bennu Planetary Resources bought by blockchain company Company focused on cleaning up space junk raises $50 million China tests its own grasshopper Dawn’s last look at Ceres Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark Russians say Soyuz sensor was damaged in manufacture Head of Webb investigation: Webb was “a step too far” Danish astronomers question gravitational wave detection Musk endorses Trump’s Space Force proposal Juanita Hall – Bali Ha’i November 1, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches another Soyuz, placing GPS-type satellite in orbit Airbus to deliver the first Orion service module to NASA this week Farrakhan leads “Death to America” chants in Iran Sunspot update October 2018: Deepening minimum Oumuamua might be artificial lightsail An honest political ad Armstrong auction nets more than $5 million China still struggling to find scientists to run FAST radio telescope Luxembourg awards prize to Taiwan company NASA completes final parachute test for 2020 Mars rover mission SpaceX’s Tesla passes Mars’ orbit Bennu’s two hemispheres Soyuz from French Guiana successfully launches weather satellite Volcano Eruption in Papua New Guinea Freedom dying How a monolithic leftist academia poisons America Garth Brooks – If Tomorrow Never Comes Leftist mob at home of Tucker Carlson: “You are not safe!” SpaceX to build test prototype of BFS, test on Falcon 9 Russian company S7 says it will launch in three years Democratic control of House threatens Space Force and SLS Puzzling fractures on Mars Leftist San Fran shuts down Airbnb business Parker survives first close solar fly-by Ian Anderson – Pavane “The world is watching us, remember.” Florida shuttle runway gets license as spaceport NASA approves Falcon 9 for all science missions Mars rover update: November 8, 2018 The endorsement of election theft Europe picks landing site for its ExoMars 2020 rover The Saga Of Biorn Watch Rocket Lab launch tonight Jupiter’s upper clouds Rocket Lab successfully completes its first operational Electron launch Japan successfully sends small recoverable capsule back from ISS The ExoMars 2020 landing site Stan Lee dies at 95 More Pits on Mars! John Bonham, Led Zeppelin’s Drummer ArianeGroup to cut 2300 jobs Is Rocket Lab an American or New Zealand company? Earth’s atmosphere cooling as solar minimum arrives Fox reporter threatened, chased from bar Evidence of nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto LSST’s giant coating chamber arrives in Chile Another private lunar rover unveiled Lucie Silvas – Nothing Else Matters India’s GSLV-Mark 3 rocket successfully launches communications satellite OSIRIS-REx completes 4th course correction Vector applies for license for launch in Kodiak, Alaska Virgin Orbit completes fastest taxi test of LaunchOne Powerful 1972 solar storm detonated ocean mines in Vietnam Neutron star merger caused gravitational wave? SuperEarth orbiting Barnard’s Star? Volcanic rivers on Mars Null result from Spitzer suggests Oumuamua was small Scientists discover giant impact crater buried under Greenland ice Scientists admit to many errors in ocean warming paper The Vogues – Five O’clock World India to attempt four more launches in 2018 Sixty documented-as-false anti-Trump news stories SpaceX successfully launches Qatar communications satellite Astronomers identify first progenitor star for Type 1C supernovae Brodie Cumming – 100 Famous Rock Guitar Riffs Defense offers much lower $5 billion Space Force cost Rocket Lab raises an additional $140 million Escape velocity on Phobos changes a lot depending on location FCC approves four proposed satellite constellations, including SpaceX’s of 7,500+ Advisory panel to Space Council pans Gateway Movie of Juno’s October 29, 2018 Jupiter fly-by The fractured floor of Komarov Crater Man attacked in Tucson for wearing MAGA hat Soyuz rocket successfully launches Progress freighter O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics Antares rocket launches Cygnus freighter to ISS NASA suggests retirement of SLS when BFR and New Glenn fly OSIRIS-REx unfolds its robot arm SpaceX will not use Falcon 9 for BFR tests Luxembourg accepts full loss from Planetary Resources investment 3D printed screws from fake moon dust China launches two GPS-type satellites Virgin Orbit completes first capture-carry flight of LauncherOne Looking at the south pole of the Milky Way SpaceIL gets $5 million for its lunar lander/rover SpaceX delays today’s Falcon 9 launch using booster for 3rd time Sunset/sunrise on Mars Hidebound government slowing smallsat industry Computer model suggests universe has innumerable exomoons NASA picks Mars 2020 landing site: Jezero Crater Merle Haggard – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Parker reports in China successfully completes another launch Musk renames BFR Soyuz launch failed pinned to “unintentional error” New cost figures for Space Force New Wolf-Rayet star discovered 8,000 light years away SpaceX now seeking a $250 million loan, not $500 million NASA to hire private lunar probes for future missions The soft landslides of Mars Timestorm Films – Nox Atacama Arianespace’s Vega rocket launches Moroccan satellite Corruption at Vostochny included more than 140 criminal cases NASA opens safety review of Boeing and SpaceX A young lunar impact crater Maurice Jarre – Building the Barn November 20, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Date set for first unmanned launch of manned Dragon Another star found that dims strangely like Tabby’s Star Groundwork and licensing begins for first test flights of SpaceX’s Starship A military Thanksgiving dinner in Asia India wants international instruments for its Venus mission Potentially dangerous bacteria found on ISS ESA plans Vega rocket upgrades Present and future landing sites on Mars Taylor Mali – On Girls Lending Pens Bennu from 85 miles Quasars that shut off Google wants to monitor our movements, moods, and children InSight has successfully landed William Joseph – Within InSight’s solar panels have opened Local opposition might delay UK spaceport The war against our failed cultural elitists Moon rocks for sale! Supreme Court limits government’s attempt steal land for endangered species The MarCo cubesat success Hundreds gather at Flat-Earth conference Hank Williams & Anita Carter – I Can’t Help It If I’m Still in Love with You A cubesat communications satellite for the Moon Investigators uncover extensive corruption in Roscosmos Scientists to pollute atmosphere to stop global warming Weather delays SpaceX launch The lava tubes and canyons of Cerberus Fossae Ecuador At The Equator: Coriolis Effect demonstration Successful launch tonight for India’s PSLV rocket November 27, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Analysis of InSight’s landing site South Korea test flies its first home-built rocket engine Blue Origin reveals more details about New Glenn Electric cars routinely transmit info to Chinese government More ice cliffs found on Mars! Making barrels NASA commits $2.6 billion for commercial lunar exploration Google considered burying conservative outlets in search results Russia launches three military communications satellites Moon rocks sell at auction for $855K Astronomers get best and earliest view of supernovae ever FBI raids home of Clinton whistleblower Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones – Johnny Ace Is Dead Annual Space Show fund-raising campaign Philadelphia’s civil forfeiture scam shut down November 29, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Off to Israel — and Buffalo Unidentified object launched by Russians Nov 30? Russian Soyuz successfully launches three astronauts Four more gravitational wave detections OSIRIS-REx at Bennu Falcon 9 first stage successfully flies for the third time The basement of Mars Angel City Chorale – Al Ha-Nissim In Israel Carol Burnett: Love SpaceX recovers fairings from ocean The cameras that saved Hubble Senate committee demands FBI explain whistleblower raid Ariane 5 launches two satellites Falcon 9 launches Dragon; 1st stage return fails The vast southern highlands of Mars Glen Campbell & Roy Clark – Ghost Riders in the Sky Solar scientists: sunspot increase in next solar cycle SpaceX sees no schedule impact from first stage landing failure BepiColombo tests its ion engines Sunspot update November 2018: Minimum continues Small Faces – Itchycoo Park InSight tests its robot arm Calculating Bennu’s future John Williams – Hymn to the Fallen China launches lunar rover/lander Chang’e-4; Saudi satellites New Horizons completes another course correction before flyby Boeing cancels satellite deal involving hidden China funding Delta Heavy launch aborts at T-7.5 seconds First test flight of Dragon manned capsule delayed ten days “Just leave me alone.” Voyager 2 enters interstellar space Peter, Paul, & Mary – Light One Candle OSIRIS-REx finds evidence of water on Bennu Clara Bow – She’s Got It Russian astronauts complete spacewalk to inspect drill hole A detailed look at Chang’e-4 R.I.P. Riccardo Giacconi Syria wants its own space program Los Cenzontles y Razilla Chiquilla – La Mula y El Arriero December 11, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Do tornadoes form top-down or down-up? Virgin Galactic finally reaches space, by one definition Cats might be larger now than in the past Chang’e-4 enters lunar orbit Why ULA picked Blue Origin’s engine over Aerojet Rocketdyne Trace Gas Orbiter finds no methane on Mars SLS shuttle engine shuts down early during engine test MRO photographs InSight on Mars Two dead at U.S. Antarctic station Joseph Haydn – Serenade for Strings Launchpad contractor at Vostochny in legal and financial trouble Kate Rusby – Hunter Moon NASA’s warped measure of safety Rocket Lab completes its third successful launch in 2018 Parabolic Arc’s annual fund-raising campaign December 14, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Obamacare struck down by judge Astronomers discover most distant solar system object so far “What do we do now? “ The Tremeloes – Here Comes My Baby Saturn’s rings are dying New Horizons sees no hazards, will do closest fly-by of Ultima Thule Three launches scrubbed Comparing Ryugu and Bennu FCC: SpaceX’s Starlink satellites can kill Dark dunes, wedding cake mesas, and dust-filled gullies Michael Praetorius – Quem pastores laudavere Today’s launch update Trump administration reorganizes military space into single command NASA approves Dream Chaser design BepiColombo begins first operational engine burn SpaceX raises a half billion for its Starlink satellite constellation Curiosity’s future travels Sussin Family annual Christmas light display December 18, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast InSight installs seismometer on Martian surface Drilled Soyuz returns three astronauts from ISS Chang’e-4 establishes link with Queqiao relay satellite CNN’s “Journalist of the Year” fired for fabricating stories Trump’s decision to leave Syria Carol Of The Bells No rotational light curve from Ultima Thule? Russia’s Proton launches military satellite FCC fines company $900K for unapproved satellite launch Apollo 8: Fifty years ago New asteroid radar images Pentatonix – White Winter Hymnal China launches first prototype of new low-cost communications constellation OSIRIS-REx flies over Bennu’s north pole Trump administration: parks to stay open to public during shutdown December 21, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches GPS satellite The real meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image Come, ye thankful people, come China launches military satellite A Christmas Carol Palmerston North Boys’ High School – Prayer Of The Children Dried mud cracks on Mars? Tim Hawkins – Hip Replacement Song Russian Soyuz launches 28 satellites India aims for 24 launches in 2019 Gale Crater dunes: dry and volcanic in origin Japan quits global whaling regulatory body Musk tweets peek at Starship hopper Prayer about Getting Old Nancy Roman passes away at 93 Saudi Arabia creates space agency Russia faces launchpad bottleneck in 2020 How Do They Knit a Chain-Link Fence? China launches first of planned 320 communications satellite constellation India’s government approves manned space program Watching New Horizons’ flyby of Ultima Thule Leftist Jewish cafe owner attacked by leftists Why the Drake equation is overrated Engineers adjust Chang’e-4’s orbit Juno images volcano plume on Io OSIRIS-REx moves into close orbit with Bennu Dick van Dyke and Julie Andrews – Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious First faint image of Ultima Thule “We have a healthy spacecraft.” Another image of Ultima Thule Christy Moore – The January Man India’s 2019 space plans The 2018 global launch race plus predictions for 2019 “We have a snow-man!” Randy Newman – Better Off Dead Chang’e-4 successfully lands on far side of Moon OSIRIS-REx’s first survey of Bennu India delays launch of Chandrayaan-2 Dust devil tracks on the Martian southern highlands 2018 – One Of The Least Extreme Weather Years On Record More results from New Horizons Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1 (the Classical), last movement January 5, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX rolls manned Dragon/Falcon 9 to launchpad Yutu-2 has rolled out and has begun roving Using LRO to find Chang’e-4 The Ross Sisters – Solid Potato Salad Sunspot update December 2018: Decline to solar minimum continues January 4, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Flowing cracked mud on Mars? TESS spots first exoplanets plus supernovae and more Dido – White Flag Portland State University moves to punish professor for uncovering bad scholarship Private businesses take over services to keep Yellowstone functioning Unmanned test flight of manned Dragon delayed again Update on Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 Chinese rocket company tests vertical landing Shutdown and government politics slows some science work Pat Upton/Spiral Staircase – I Love You More Today Than Yesterday Video of SpaceX fairing drop test Hubble’s main camera in safe mode Hayabusa-2 to grab asteroid samples in February SpaceX completes fit test of two sections of Starship hopper A workout treadmill for cats A visit to the Mexican border Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street Fastest Stratolaunch taxi test FBI union says FBI operations hurt by shutdown Democratic NY mayor promises to redistribute the wealth of citizens Lopsided ejecta from Martian crater Earth’s magnetic field undergoing unexpected changes Air Force accepts first new Boeing tanker despite problems Making chain Want to see a panorama of Chang’e-4 landing site? You can! Chandrayaan-2 launch now scheduled for mid-April SpaceX reveals picture of fully assembled suborbital Starship hopper China completes first launch of 2019, followed by SpaceX January 9, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Great Red Spot from Juno Corrupt Washington moves to permanently fund itself Pressure builds on Trump to declare national emergency to fund border wall Jerry Douglas – Route Irish SpaceX to trim workforce by 10% Ceres’ bright spots in Occator Crater LRO pinpoints Chang’e-4 landing site The man who challenged the government’s postal monopoly 30+ students doxxed by leftists simply for attending conservative events FBI started Trump investigation because they disliked/opposed him; had no evidence Shutdown update: We don’t need them! Weird erosion in large Martian craters Bonnie Tyler – It’s A Heartache College students launch rocket to 6,000 feet, with goal to reach orbit in three years January 11, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Iran rocket fails to place satellite in orbit Seeds sprout on Chang’e-4 More updates from SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site Update on Chang’e-4 plant experiments Genesis Piano Project – Ripples Arianespace plans at least 12 launches in 2019 A detailed look at the layoffs at SpaceX Argentinian smallsat company signs 90 satellite deal with China Shake-up at half billion dollar government ecology project Summer has finally arrived on Titan’s northern hemisphere Boston mayor wants doctors to grill patients about guns Angelina Jordan – Can’t Help Falling In Love January 15, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Oregon & Washington politicians considering supervision of parents of all newborn babies Fix pinpointed for Hubble main camera SpaceX shifts some Starship/Super Heavy construction to Texas Congress and Trump give free paid vacation to federal workers during shutdown Making smallsat rockets at Vector America – Sister Golden Hair Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches seven engineering test satellites New local dust storm activity near silent Opportunity Smallsat rocket company Relativity Space gets Air Force okay to launch from Florida Astronomers begin their 2020 decadal survey Bill to pay federal workers will not pay those not working Volcanic vent between Arsia and Pavonis Monsa Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose – Too Late To Turn Back Now Scientists calculate length of Saturn’s day ULA successfully launches U.S. spy satellite Stratolaunch ends plan to build rockets for its giant Roc aircraft Ariane 6 might be in trouble Democratic House threatens Webb cancellation January 18, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Is the pole of the Milky Way’s central black hole pointing directly at us? China launches three Earth resource satellites using Long March 11 First unmanned test flight of manned Dragon now set for Feb 9 Kickstarter campaign starts to finance launch of garage-built cubesat Hayabusa-2 names features on Ryugu Carol Burnett & Harvey Korman – The Pail Problem found with Angara’s most powerful version UAE’s Mars mission on schedule for 2020 launch No Planet X needed Planetary rover update: January 22, 2019 Moon hit by small meteorite during eclipse Harry Chapin – Cat’s in the Cradle New Shepard makes another successful test flight Rocket Lab gets DARPA launch contract Arianespace slashes launch price for Ariane 5 NASA pulls astronaut for medical reasons from Boeing manned flight Blue Origin reveals redesigned New Glenn rocket New impact on the Martian south polar cap Blank VHS covers were kinda beautiful January 22, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Contract cancelled for Vostochny launchpad for Angara Upper half of Starship hopper blown over by winds Orbital images of Bennu Oblique close-up image of Ceres India’s PSLV rocket successfully launches military satellite Rock from Earth, found on Moon? Martian glacier with moraine? Federal workers will get a bonus on top of salary for shutdown Béla Fleck – Falani New image of Ultima Thule “It’s Time To Finally Legalize Post-Birth Abortion!” High Russian officials lambast Roscosmos and its head A detailed update on China’s numerous smallsat rocket companies Plato Crater on the Moon Another process arrest for Mueller Recent events in the Mideast Virgin Galactic lays off 40 workers Cliff Richard – The Twelfth Of Never The absolute uncertainty of climate science Weird Martian fracture feature January 26, 2019 Zimmerman on Martian Revelation The Complete 14 Batman Window Cameos Parker begins second orbit around Sun Next Long March 5 launch delayed six months to July ArianeGroup successfully test fires new solid rocket motor New technique could make nickel as strong as titanium New report predicts the boom in smallsats will continue in 2019 Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) goes full communist Well water likely available across Mars Catherine MacLellan, Chris Gauthier & the Blue Engine String Quartet – Snowbird China aims for at least 30 launches in 2019 Problem found with Soyuz set for Arianespace commercial launch Lockheed Martin’s space profits to decline in 2019 because of ULA Camden submits spaceport application to FAA China fails to reduce its methane coal mine emissions The many pits/caves of Mars The Pretenders – My City Was Gone Maxar cancels its DARPA satellite servicing mission Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awake after long lunar night India opens its own Human Space Flight Center A close look at Russia’s Vostochny spaceport The unfinished search for the Hubble constant Measles makes a comeback in the liberal and anti-vaccine northwest China’s unsupervised radio antenna in Argentina January 29, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket gets another launch contract The base of Mt Sharp is less compacted than expected Global warming must be happening! A politician declares it! Marshall & Alexander – Perhaps Love Because of Russian violations, U.S. withdraws from nuclear arms treaty Local downrange homeowners have announced their opposition to Georgia spaceport We are one step closer to the first replicator ULA gets launch contract for Lucy asteroid mission Russian engineers fix microhole in Soyuz upper stage Unmanned test flight of manned Dragon delayed again? We are all fundamentalist now January 30, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle February 1, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast On the radio InSight’s seismometer now fully operational Strange fernlike ridges on Mars Oh no! Trump’s wall to block butterflies! Larry L – Joanne Birthday fund-raising time again! The Milky Way is warped? Plumbing leak on ISS SpaceX test fires next generation rocket engine Decline continues in 2018 in geosynchronous satellite industry The story of an American family that moved to Russia The location for a future Martian colony? MarCO interplanetary cubesats likely dead Boeing partners with commercial supersonic jet startup Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny – Introducing the Baroque Theorbo On the radio LRO photographs Chang’e-4 on lunar surface Ariane 5 launches two communications satellites Chinese cubesat snaps picture of Earth and Moon from deep space NASA delays unmanned test of manned Dragon again Hayabusa-2 to attempt asteroid landing on February 22 One smallsat satellite company hires another NASA confirms new Dragon launch date Sunspot update January 2019: The early solar minimum Harry Styles – Two Ghosts UK names rover for 2020 ExMars mission New Hubble images of Uranus and Neptune A look at SpaceX’s upcoming launch schedule Auditor condemns Ariane 6 First SLS launch faces more delays Rare asteroid orbiting near Venus discovered Hawaiian activists say “No!” to smallsat spaceport Two Zimmerman radio podcasts available The bigoted communist “New Green Deal” of the Democratic Party Carol Burnett Show – The Accident Turkey’s president endorses creation of space agency SpaceX ramps up Raptor engine tests UK smallsat rocket company unveils upper stage prototype Trump administration moves forward with reorganization of space bureaucracy Illinois joins NY in demanding social media histories of gun owners Curiosity has left Vera Rubin Ridge Mysterious dark-toned Martian terrain New Horizons’ farewell image of Ultima Thule Tony Banks – Reveille Border wall to divide SpaceX’s Texas spaceport? NASA to avoid SLS delays should another shutdown occur SpaceX’s new Raptor engine: The world’s most powerful? LRO spots Chinese lunar rover A second Greenland crater discovered? Antifa thug favorite of Democratic politicians IMF announces plan for stealing money from bank accounts NASA’s political and corrupt safety panel Birthday fund-raiser continues! Farewell MAVAN shifts priorities to communications Second orbital launch failure in a month for Iran rocket Military inspector general to review SpaceX’s launch certification Mars One is dead NASA extends Soyuz contract to maintain ISS presence through 2020 Chang’e-4 & Yutu-2 enter sleep mode for second lunar night Is a region in France the origin of Europe’s ancient standing stones? TV meteorologist fired for showing brainteaser with picture of noose Strange crescent-shaped pit near Martian south pole NASA about to pull plug on Opportunity Abraham Lincoln – an annual tribute California governor abandons high speed rail boondoggle InSight deploys heat sensor onto Mars surface Recent Cuba meteorite estimated to have weighed about 360 tons NASA officially declares Opportunity dead Mohammed Rafi – Jaan Pehchan Ho The anti-Semitic and bigoted Democratic Party Update your GPS before April 6 or it might not work! Asteroid to eclipse Sirius, the sky’s brightest star, on February 18 SpaceX protests NASA launch contract to ULA Hawai’i public radio joins campaign against spaceport Monitoring a fresh-looking Martian landslide Don McClean – American Pie Major natural gas discovery off of South Africa coast IAU approves China’s proposed names for Chang’e-4 landing site Rather than use American manned capsules, NASA is considering buying more Soyuz astronaut flights Movie of Juno’s December 2018 Jupiter fly-by NASA to put humans on the Moon soon! Sergei Rachmaninoff – Variation 18 on a theme by Paganini Harpoon concept for removing space junk tested in orbit Progressive group harasses, demands firing of professor, because of his religion and his political beliefs New LRO image of Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 Democratic LA City Council votes to blacklist NRA linked contractors A good summary of the FBI coup attempt against Trump Nigerian national elections postponed suddenly for a week Widespread Yellow Vest protests in France Belarus willing to remerge with Russia Branson seeks new capital for Virgin Galactic/Orbit A river valley floor on Mars Everybody’s Talking – Everybody’s Talking A very old white dwarf star with rings? The military components of China’s space effort Russia signs contract for two more tourists to ISS The InSight Martian weather station New sky survey uncovers hundreds of thousands of previously unknown galaxies Leftists reject Wisconsin judge candidate merely because he is Christian Lawyers for Covington high schooler file first lawsuit, against Washington Post Penderecki String Quartet – Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor Trump signs directive outlining Space Force proposal Air Force awards launch contracts (3 each) to ULA and SpaceX ISRO to launch new smallsat rocket by summer How NASA’s X-34 ended up rotting in someone’s backyard Hayabusa-2 prepares to land Rover update: February 20, 2019 Ohio music shop will refuse service to Trump supporters Harpo Marx – Swanee River February 19, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hayabusa-2 has begun approach to Ryugu Bezos comparing New Shepard to SpaceShipTwo: “No asterisks.” Buzz Aldrin’s son acts to block his father’s access to his assets Even as NASA announces schedule for SpaceX Dragon test flight, anti-American forces at NASA work to block that flight Russia’s first 2019 launch has launch issues Hayabusa-2 has completed its touch-and-go on Ryugu NASA selects experiments it wants to put on commercial lunar spacecraft “We are gonna die.” SpaceX successfully launches three satellites Confirmed: Hayabusa-2 grabbed got a sample of Ryugu Sweden fines man for writing insults about Somalis Astronomer discovers newest farthest solar system object NASA schedules Orion/SLS launch abort test Global warming in Tucson! Another batch of caves/pits found on Mars On the radio NASA okays March 2, 2019 Dragon test flight Virgin Galactic’s Unity spacecraft completes 2nd test flight above 50 miles Curiosity recovering from safe mode New high resolution images of Ultima Thule George Washington’s Farewell Address February 22, 2019 Zimmerman/Thomson podcast Israeli lunar lander deploys legs Firefly to build and launch from Florida Most popular theorized particle for explaining dark matter now eliminated February 22, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hayabusa-2 touchdown images released Betty Hutton & Howard Keel – Anything You Can do Exos to test the reusability of their suborbital rocket Beresheet successfully completes first in-space engine burn SpaceX first stage for launch abort returns to port Bad climate science, bad climate journalism Charice – All By Myself Beresheet’s second engine burn stopped by computer reset Europe to build reusable first stage No laser communications system at Tabby’s Star Waterlike Martian lava flows Arianespace successfully launches first set of six OneWeb satellites Victor Borge at the White House ExoMars prototype test driven from 6,000 miles away Close-up of Bennu’s north pole Planet-wide groundwater system on Mars Curiosity sends its first images in two weeks Ceres has too much water! February 26, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Horizons data suggests the Kuiper Belt is emptier that previously believed Trump walks out on North Korea summit Rising tensions between India and Pakistan Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel Beresheet successfully completes engine burn Canada commits to NASA’s Lunar Gateway boondoggle Pegasus problems continue InSight’s heat sensor begins drilling down Nat King Cole – That Sunday, That Summer February 28, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Dragon successfully launched on its first unmanned test flight to ISS EXOS successfully flies its reusable suborbital rocket, SARGE Dragon successfully docks with ISS More conflict on India-Pakistan Kashmir border Sunspot update February 2019: The Sun flatlines again Firefly inks big launch contract 5secondfilms – Missing On the road Scientists confirm first exoplanet candidate found by Kepler Hubble’s main camera down Mozart’s Naughty Notes Beresheet sends back first pictures Video from Hayabusa-2’s touchdown NASA reassessing SLS first launch date NASA cancels overbudget instrument for Europa clipper Increased isopropyl alcohol detected at ISS following Dragon docking The anti-Semitic Democratic Party New project to map shallow water sources on Mars New analysis suggests photon could make dark matter unnecessary New method to turn CO2 into coal Andy Grammer – Honey, I’m Good Brain Terrain on Mars Possible cure for AIDS? March 5, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast InSight hits a rock Hubble’s main camera resumes science work Next Rocket Lab launch delayed because of late delivery of payload Russia to install security cameras inside ISS Hayabusa-2 to get close to Ryugu again to observe next touchdown point A Russian speaks truth to power about Roscosmos Air Force awards ULA and SpaceX three launch contracts each Tommy Shaw – Blue Collar Man Dragon successfully splashes down in Atlantic The travels of Moon’s scarce surface water Väsen – Fanny China launches communications satellite March 7, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Martian massive landslides The nationwide Venezuela power outage Anti-Semite Democrat says Trump simply isn’t human David Byrne & St Vincent – Road to Nowhere SpaceX about to install engines on Starship hopper New research detects increase in Bennu’s rotation Trump’s budget will not “destroy” or “gut” science Water system in Caracas goes dry Opportunity’s parting shot Heartstrings Cello Ensemble – For the Beauty of the Earth Toyota and JAXA to work together to build lunar rover Sandmann lawyers file $275 million defamation lawsuit against CNN Alanis Morissette – Thank U NASA considering replacing SLS with commercial rockets for first Orion test mission Aldrin family ends legal battle World View crashes? A gathering of dust devils Russia successfully launches manned Soyuz to ISS Electric power restored in Venezuela David Gates – If New analysis supports catastrophic floods and intermittent ocean on Mars Curiosity has another computer crash Chinese lunar rover and lander enter their third lunar night A pond on Bennu Rogozin: Russia and U.S. to use both countrys’ manned capsules to ISS The Washington Empire strikes back! On the radio Timestorm Films – South Pole: Night in Antarctica ULA’s Delta 4 rocket launches Air Force communications satellite New Zealand threatens prison for publishing material showing this week’s shootings First SpaceX Starship Hopper tests this week? OneWeb raises $1.25 billion DARPA’s satellite servicing mission adrift Mars likely has many large and extensive cave systems Pink Floyd – Us and Them Cost for Mars 2020 rover up 15% Hayabusa-2 schedules explosion on Ryugu A rock on Bennu Test drone maps ice cave in Iceland Snow on Mars? Confirmed: Ryugu is a rubble pile David Lanz & Paul Speer – Lento984 Beresheet makes final engine burn before entering lunar orbit A review of the Trump administrations’s SLS/Orion reprogramming options Land of mesas Streaky Mars: Slope streaks and recurring slope lineae Andrew Yang: the fascist future of the Democratic Party Burnside High School Senior Chorale – Let the river run March 19, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Boeing delays unmanned test flight of manned capsule Ariane 6 gets OneWeb launch contract China’s future lunar exploration plans Air Force’s launch contracting plans under scrutiny Hayabusa-2 to take close look at planned explosive impact point on Ryugu Yutu-2 heads west! Lava tubes on Alba Mons The changing surface of Comet 67P/C-G Understanding Different Types of Glass Arianespace’s Vega rocket launches Italian earth observation satellite Jezero Crater: The landing site for the Mars 2020 rover The pro-Iran and anti-Israel Democratic Party Mueller submits report, ends investigation Looking at LPs, CDs, and DVDs with an electron microscope March 21, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Swedish Facebook suspends journalist for defending freedom of speech Electron launch scrubbed, rescheduled for March 26 Russia offers to take over ISS if US exits Rogozin: Investigation into Soyuz sabotage to continue on ISS Does the Mueller report suggest there is hope? The layering at the Martian poles College political course chooses authors by race European Court upholds conviction for condemning Mohammad’s child marriage U.S. recognizes Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights Ansambl Black Angels – 5 elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Love) Update of Starhopper testing in Texas Russia cuts Proton price to match SpaceX Key House Democrat announces opposition to Trump’s Space Force proposal OneSpace to attempt first orbital launch this week Strange craters in the Martian northern lowlands Pence reiterates Trump administration’s willingness to abandon SLS Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn – And Am I Born to Die OneSpace orbital launch fails Children benefit more when parents read to them from printed books India claims it has successfully destroyed a satellite using an anti-sat missile The National Space Council’s full recommendations Russians routinely disrupt GPS data in sensitive areas Scientists horrified that Trump wants to require universities to honor free speech Senate rejects Democratic New Green Deal 57-0 Fresh crater in Martian northern lowlands N’Deye & The Three Generations – Man Sized Job Update on the upcoming second Falcon Heavy launch Rivers on Mars? How fast do things change on Mars? Saturn’s rings desposit material on its tiny nearest moons White reporters barred from press event in Savannah mayoral race Live feed of today’s Rocket Lab Electron launch An explanation of the on-going Israeli elections Rocket Lab launch a success Magali Barbé – Strange Beasts March 27, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Parker about to do its second close fly-by of Sun Beresheet to win $1 million if it succeeds in lunar landing Mars helicopter completes first test flight Scientists propose widespread deep groundwater on Mars UK lawmakers reject all Brexit deals A look at the March 31 Ukrainian election André Rieu – Hava Nagila Cruz’s Space Frontier Act reintroduced; extends ISS to 2030 March 29, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India launches military satellite plus 28 smallsats Comedian wins plurality in Ukrainian election; run-off April 21 Democracy comes to Turkey? Circular feature on Mars? NASA head says that Falcon Heavy remains a future option for Orion In honor of April 1st Mars Express confirms Curiosity 2013 methane detection Chick-fil-A banned from another airport Yutu-2 and Chang’e-4 awake for fourth lunar day Vector delays next test launch until June Beresheet makes course adjustment just prior to entering lunar orbit Hayabusa-2 to make crater on Ryugu later this week India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander delayed until May Professor fired for challenging new fad of letting children pick their sex More Martian Pits! CNN reporter advocates censorship by the FBI How not to fall for modern news propaganda Sissel Kyrkjebø – Summertime Boeing confirms delay till August for first unmanned Starliner launch Global map of Bennu The Viking landers and its possible discovery of extraterrestrial life A decade of changes at the Martian south pole Future of InSight’s heat probe dim The Stringspace Orchestra – Young & Beautiful Progress freighter launches and docks with ISS Beresheet enters lunar orbit Starhopper completes first tethered hop Chandrayaan-2’s new delay is due to damage during test Air Force confirms more Rocket Lab launches Scientists in Japan claim that cats can learn their name! Hayabusa-2 has begun descent to Ryugu Curiosity films partial solar eclipses by both Phobos and Deimos Amazon to build its own giant satellite constellation Telescope store sues Asian telescope manufacturers for fixing prices Arianespace successfully launches four commercial communications satellites Monitoring the ice scarps on Mars for changes Abby Scott – The Way You Look Tonight April 3, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hayabusa-2’s successfully bombs Ryugu Falcon Heavy dress rehearsal countdown and static fire today Fragment of a long dead planet’s iron core found orbiting white dwarf OSIRIS-REx maps Bennu by laser The eye of a storm on Jupiter Beresheet’s first pictures of the Moon Don Williams – Lord I hope this day is good Parker survives its second close Sun flyby Bennu’s cobbled equatorial ridge Smallsat rocket company Relativity gets its first launch contract SpaceX drops protest against NASA launch decision April 5, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Sunspot update March 2019: An upcoming Grand Minimum? Leftist groups demand industry blacklist former Trump officials Thumbprints on Mars! Jupiter’s atmosphere reacts quickly to the solar wind Peter, Paul and Mary – Blowing in the Wind Falcon Heavy launch now set for tomorrow evening, April 10 Rocket Lab now building smallsats also Chandrayaan-2 likely delayed to July ULA to fly Vulcan components on Atlas 5 flights Beresheet lowers orbit in preparation for lunar landing on April 11 Vote to name largest unnamed object in solar system A dance of dust devils Canadian Brass Ensemble – Penny Lane Astronomers take highest resolution radio image of black hole Confirmed: Netanyahu wins reelection Attorney General: Spying on Trump occurred; investigation begun Results from Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars The central peaks of Compton Crater Falcon Heavy launch now set for April 11, 6:35 pm Eastern Beresheet now in final orbit prior to landing attempt Josh Groban – Try To Remember April 9, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Iran says it will launch three orbital launches in 2019 DARPA picks three smallsat rocket companies for launch challenge Beresheet landing telecast live streaming now Beresheet landing fails Rover update: April 11, 2019 The second Falcon Heavy launch F-35A Lightning II SpaceX gets NASA launch contract Virgin Orbit gets another launch agreement SpaceIL wins $1 million from X-Prize April 25 set for Hayabusa-2’s first observations of artificial crater The Falcon Heavy reported by modern shoddy journalism Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson – I Still Miss Someone SpaceX recovers Falcon Heavy fairings and will reuse them Stratolaunch flies! SpaceIL to try again to land on Moon UAE names astronaut to fly to ISS in September Spanish company completes parachute drop test of reusable first stage The story behind the computer that made IBM, and computers Video shows sudden satellite failure April 12, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The routine failure of Arabian armies Tess finds Earth-sized planet? Data from Cassini’s last fly-by of Titan Seasonal frost in a gully on Mars Berlin Brass Quintet – Puttin’ on the Ritz SpaceX loses Falcon Heavy core stage in rough seas Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott passes away The Carol Burnett Show – The Senator’s Wife Beresheet failure linked to ground command Did an interstellar meteor hit the Earth in 2014? SpaceX booster damaged on barge but not lost All high resolution images from Rosetta now available Mercury’s core is solid Kasia Łaska & Jon Lord – Wait A While Antares launches Cygnus freighter to ISS NASA announces ISS manned launch schedule through February 2020 U.S. experiment on Beresheet might have survived crash Five exoplanets discovered with orbits from 15 to 40 years long International payloads will fly on China’s Chang’e-6 lunar sample return mission Blue Origin leases old unused NASA engine test stand Hubble celebrates 29 years in orbit April 16, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Smart House ESA agrees to subsidize Ariane 6 should it fail to sell China announces plans for asteroid/comet sample return mission Independent study finds NASA’s Mars plans infeasible How last year’s global dust storm changed one spot on Mars Harris, Parton, Ronstadt – After the Gold Rush Dragon capsule suffers problem during engine test China launches GPS-type satellite Actor wins Ukraine election April 18, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ùr – The Waking Hour UAE’s space agency declares its Mars probe almost ready for launch Pete Buttigieg: Democratic Party Fascist First Marsquake recorded by InSight? Junior Walker – What does it take Relativity gets a second launch contract Starliner does first splashdown recovery tests Long March 5B to launch first Chinese station module in 2020 Hayabusa-2 has begun close fly-in of man-made crater Another spectacular landslide found on Mars Mark Slutsky – Final Offer April 23, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hayabusa-2 confirms man-made crater on Ryugu DOJ settles with company that faked tests which caused two Taurus launch failures New Hubble data baffles cosmologists about universe’s expansion rate Muriel Anderson – View From Space The new man-made crater on Ryugu ISRO delays Chandrayaan-2 to July NASA safety panel on SLS schedule, Dragon explosion AJ Lee & Jesse Fichman – Across The Great Divide April 25, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast April 22, 2019 Zimmerman/Thomson podcast Two Chinese companies test reusable rocket technology FCC approves SpaceX’s Starlink constellation Settlement reached in lawsuit about private lunar mission Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awaken for fifth lunar day Curiosity second drill hole in clay formation a success Barry Humphries – Dame Edna Everage A stellar interloper in the Milky Way? Lunar eclipse meteorite hit the Moon at almost 38,000 mph Partial power outage on ISS today delays Dragon cargo mission China successfully launches two earth observation satellites Firefly completes full duration test of second stage engine SpaceX successfully tests core stage for June Falcon Heavy launch Mark Doubleday – Shades of Cool Trump & Democrats work out $2 trillion spending deal X-37B passes 600 days in orbit Satellites map out Earth’s Great Whirl The battle over Trump’s Moon effort exposes Washington’s power-hungry bureaucracy Computer History Museum Covington lawyers file defamation lawsuit against NBC/MSNBC ISS power repaired, SpaceX launch early tomorrow New Shepard test flight successful India sets Chandrayaan-2 launch and lunar landing dates More gravitational waves detected The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You Dragon launch scrubbed Two Cellos – Benedictus Cannon Beach, Oregon North Korea tests short-range missiles New Falcon 9 successfully launches used Dragon cargo ship Japanese private company launches rocket on suborbital test May 3, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab completes second commercial launch in 2019 Bennu from two miles Sunspot update April 2019: Not quite minimum Honoring elections is no longer the Democratic Party way Pavarotti and Friends – All for Love Relativity gets third launch contract ArianeGroup begins production of first 14 Ariane 6 rockets Lawyer fired for being conservative The many pits of Arsia Mons Turkey’s ruling party voids elections it lost, demanding do-over House Democrats threaten to withhold salaries from Trump officials Singers from everywhere – Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay The temperature on Bennu May 7, 2019 Zimmerman Space Show podcast Big Bang Theory – If I Didn’t Have You (Bernadette’s Song) May 7, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Smallsat launch company breaks ground on satellite-flinging test facility April parachute test for manned Dragon had problems Russia to launch two more American astronauts on Soyuz North Korea does second missile test in a week The temperature on Phobos Strasbourg Saxophone Ensemble – Vivaldi’s Winter Blue Origin unveils proposed lunar lander Ten secondary craters produced on Ryugu by Hayabusa-2’s manmade impact Rocket Lab announces next launch Will India’s private space industry take off? Fractured and collapsed Martian crater floor Colbie Caillat – Brighter Than The Sun Virgin Galactic to move flight operations to New Mexico May 10, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Yutu-2 travels more than 600 feet during its fifth lunar day on the Moon Off to Wales for two weeks The floor of Marineris Valles Siobhan Miller – Bonny Light Horseman Finally in Dublin Are Boeing and SpaceX having parachute issues with their manned capsules? The Lemonade Machine Trump seeks $1.6 billion more for NASA, cuts money to Gateway America’s 10 largest cities drowning in debt Fascist scientists propose excluding 85% of solar system from human use King Crimson -The Sheltering Sky In Wales Beresheet 2 wins $2 million prize Wales Day 2 Kane Brown – What’s Mine Is Yours Wales Day 3 Hayabusa-2 aborts close-in drop of visual marker on Ryugu New LRO pictures showing Beresheet impact site Alexandr Misko – Every Breath You Take Wales Day 4 China launches GPS-type satellite Wales Day 5 Wales Day 6 Wisconsin HS students win U.S. rocketry competition United States Navy Concert Band – Dvorak’s “Song to the Moon” Wales Day 7 Jason Achilles – Billy Joel (is not my lover) Nevada approves bill that requires electoral votes to go to winner of popular vote Three exocomets found circling Beta Pictoris New Zimmerman op-ed at American Greatness India’s PSLV launches Earth observation radar satellite New Russian Quartet – Shostakovich Polka Trump walks out of infrastrucure negotiations London and art SpaceX suing Air Force due to exclusion from development contracts China has launch failure Justice charges man with falsifying inspection reports for rocket parts House ignores request for more NASA money for moon mission Hércules Brass Ensemble – Tico Tico To repeat: No obscenities on Behind the Black SpaceX successfully launches 60 prototype Starlink satellites Trump give Barr authority to declassify documents related to campaign spying by Obama Laura Stiles – Work Hard, Play Hard Boeing completes Starliner thruster tests SpaceX raises more than a billion in investment capital NASA awards Maxar Gateway power/communications contract Foreign elections: UK, India, France, Italy, Israel OSIRIS-REx moves into new science phase Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launches Glonass GPS-type satellite Hayabusa-2’s second approach to artificial crater scheduled Future lunar colonies at Shackleton Crater at the Moon’s south pole Scientists propose planetary orbital alignments cause the sunspot cycle John Philip Sousa – Semper Fidelis Signals detected from experimental satellite that failed in 1967 Super Heavy/Starship construction now in SpaceX facilities in Texas and Florida Phil Salazar & the Kin Folk – A Week In January Russian company announces plan to enter suborbital tourism industry SpaceX investigation into test explosion ongoing Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 wake up for sixth lunar day Launch failures in the past decade cost Russia almost a billion dollars NASA releases industry studies of future commercial viability of low-Earth orbit Hayabusa-2 has begun approach to Ryugu NASA IG finds both Europa missions a mess The mysterious slope streaks of Mars Netanyahu calls for new elections Yuja Wang – Mozart’s Turkish March May 28, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Turkey releases jailed American citizen Hayabusa-2 successfully places reference target at man-made crater Russians say ISS threatened by debris from India’s anti-satellite test First movie of solar eclipse rediscovered Study shows Common Core hurt kids’ test scores Rover update: May 30, 2019 Nevada’s governor vetoes bill to void electoral college Oregon official who oppressed Christian bakers loses election John Williams – Olympic Fanfare Trump imposes escalating tariffs on Mexico Russian Proton rocket launches Russian communications satellite Anomaly during static fire test of Northrop Grumman OmegaA rocket motor GAO finds continuing budget and scheduling problems for NASA’s big projects Trace Gas Orbiter shifts orbit to prepare for ExoMars rover arrival Astronauts recover towel left on outside of ISS ten years ago Europe inaugurates ExoMars control center Solar scientists struggle to predict the next sunspot cycle NASA selects three companies to provide lunar landers for its science instruments Mexico’s president responds to Trump’s imposition of tariffs The Dixie Dregs – The Bash Stratolaunch shutting down? Republican senators move to stop Trump’s Mexico tariffs May 31, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast VLT snaps image of double asteroid zipping past Earth Sunspot update May 2019: The long ramp down Crater? Pit? Volcano? Ólafur Arnalds – Saman Dragon cargo capsule successfully returns to Earth Astronomers call for regulations to stop commercial satellite constellations Woman forced into hiding after admitting at feminist event she voted for Trump Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’ New Zimmerman op-ed at The Federalist China completes first launch from ocean launchpad Update on effort to resume drilling of heat probe on InSight Commercial space unhappy with proposed regulations On the precipice on Bennu ESA moves forward on building its own reusable X-37B A look at future missions to Venus Glenn Close – With One Look New study calls for government to center its space policy around private enterprise Worldview balloon completes 16-day flight Ebola epidemic continues to grow The Martian North Pole Google fires conservative for complaining about company’s leftwing bias Trump considers delaying tariffs as Mexico increases action on illegals June 4, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Matt Johnson – Texas Virgin Orbit sues OneWeb over canceled launches Park Service removes signs saying glaciers to be gone by 2020 and 2030 White House to allow ISS commercialization, including tourists Ralph Vaughn Williams – English Folk Song Suite III Trump announces immigration deal with Mexico, suspending tariffs Ginsberg extols Kavanaugh for hiring female law clerks June 7, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast House proposes streamlined Space Corps within Air Force Rules for commenting now posted permanently Land of stucco and lava-filled cracks Ashley Campbell – Pancho and Lefty On the radio New analysis throws wrench in formation theory of spirals in galaxies The big water volcano on Ceres Ghost dunes on Mars Leftist college loses big in court for slandering local bakery First confirmed Ebola case in Uganda Museum decides T-Rex skeleton has no gender The NCL Band – Littlest Birds June 10, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Relativity leases manufacturing space from NASA India sets a July 15 launch date for Chandrayaan-2 China tightens rules for its private space companies SpaceX successfully launches three Canadian radar satellites The damp southern latitudes of Mars Hayabusa-2 making close approach of target/manmade crater Kate Tempest – Brand New Ancients New prediction for upcoming solar cycle India sides with Israel in UN for the first time OSIRIS-REx’s new orbit of Bennu only half mile high Bigelow announces four tourist bookings to ISS using Dragon India to build its own space station China announces international experiments to fly on its space station Hayabusa-2 completes close approach of target/manmade crater Mexico deploys its national guard to its southern border Communist wins election in Denver city council Oberlin hit with maximum punitive damages in slander case Illegal acts in Justice Dept routinely given wrist-slap Brandon Ridenour & Jeremy Jordan – Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Update on development status of ULA’s Vulcan rocket Nearly 400 medical procedures found to be ineffective Sofia Rei Trio – John Zorn Masada Book 3 Stratolaunch for sale? Edward Elgar – Jerusalem Texas court says it is okay for Texas university to steal Bridenstine: Artemis to cost $4-$6 billion per year India to use PSLV 4th stage for orbital research and docking tests Wind and/or water erosion on the Martian northern lowlands The culture of theft at Oberlin College Camera Obscura – Eighties Fan Two more commercial Proton launches later this year Bennu from 2,200 feet Dutch university to only hire women NASA releases draft commercial Gateway resupply plan Some fake space news Two Earthlike planets possibly found around neaby red dwarf star Quey Percussion Duo – As One GAO: More delays and cost overruns for SLS/Orion SpaceX reschedules manned Dragon demo flight to November Mass wasting on Mars Gentle Giant – Advent of Panurge U.S. Communist Party praises Democrats’ policy shifts June 18, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Oberlin College PR campaign blames jury while declaring itself a victim Boeing shifts space headquarters from DC area to Florida Sri Lanka’s first satellite launched from ISS Ireland’s government releases its space strategy goals through 2025 SpinLaunch gets first launch contract, from Defense Department Russian cosmonauts refuse to donate sperm for space research Jupiter in 3D The make-up and temperature of Uranus’s rings Planning Hayabusa-2’s next sample grab on Ryugu Glaciers growing on Greenland Arianespace successfully launches two commercial satellites Mueller probe of Manafort initiated based on fake information Sandy Denny – Late November Hawaii fully okays construction of TMT, removes protest structures Battery screw-up delays Russian X-Ray telescope launch Blue Origin completes first test of lunar lander engine Schedule for Dragon/Starliner manned flights revised Anarchists threaten to dox any new student for joining conservative groups at Texas university Strange Martian gullies Trop Rock Junkies – Living The Life More delays for Long March 5? June 20, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Opposition candidate wins redo election in Istanbul Spike in methane detection in Gale Crater ULA postpones next Atlas 5 launch due to battery failure Weird minerals discovered in simulated Titan environment Google’s hidden agenda: Stop Trump’s re-election Exploring with Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Adi Hayat & Inbal Paz – Old and Wise Google censors Project Veritas expose on Google censorship What the resurgence in animal life at Chernobyl can teach us Falcon Heavy launch a go for 2:30 am (Eastern) tonight Falcon Heavy launches successfully SpaceX catches a fairing China successfully launches GPS-type satellite Soyuz has problem during return to Earth Hacker steals JPL data Elementary students to compete to name 2020 Mars rover Malcolm Dalglish – Solo on the hammer dulcimer SpaceIL decides Beresheet-2 will not be lunar mission Leftist backed by socialist Ocasio-Cortez wins in Queens Another odd crater on Mars Josh Ritter – Joy To You Baby The Whirlpool Galaxy across many wavelengths June 25, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awake for 7th lunar day Europe finally admits it must build reusable rockets Hayabusa-2 to attempt 2nd sample grab Vostochny contractor charged with embezzlement avoids jail Mold in space can tolerate very high doses of radiation Supreme Court rules federal judges have no right to overturn gerrymandering The expanding range for Martian ice scarps Fast radio burst located for the first time NASA announces mission to Titan Elblag Canal TESS finds exoplanet smaller than Earth Chaos on Mars SpaceX seeking more investment capital The travels of China’s Yutu-2 rover on the Moon Court reduces Oberlin total judgment by smallest amount Seminar at Cornell will question use of “reason” and “rationality” Insight engineers get first look at hole Wiener Glasharmonika Duo – Musicbox Rocket Lab successfully completes third commercial launch in 2019 June 27, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Fascist mob sends journalist to emergency room in Portland Exos suborbital reusable rocket aborts prematurely during third launch Chick-fil-A vandalized in NY during gay pride march Where are the caves on Mars? Judy Garland & Deanna Durbin – Americana New image of Eta Carina from Hubble Astronomers declare: Oumuamua was not an alien spacecraft! Comparing today’s modern rocket engines SLS abort test for Orion successful India hires Russia to train its astronauts Strike on July 4-5 against censorship on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc The Martian seabed? Democratic congresswoman wants to prosecute anyone who ridicules a member of Congress Lacy J Dalton – The Boys of 16th Avenue LightSail 2 released from cubesat; establishes contact ExoMars 2020 parachutes damaged during test Roscosmos creates new design bureau to build reusable rocket Astronomers map exoplanet atmosphere of super-Earth Apollo landing tapes for sale A journey to Saturn’s moon Dione Ocasio-Cortez’s supporters dox and threaten little girl Andy Griffith & Joanna Moore – Down in the Valley July 2, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Want to get off gmail? Behind the Black might provide an option Far right radicals make declaration Update on planned Russian additions to ISS Paper ballot count puts establishment Democrat ahead of socialist in NYC primary 1776 – Hatching an Egg Jupiter’s changing Great Red Spot An inteview with George Zimmerman Frank Sinatra – The House I Live In Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launches 33 satellites into orbit Ninth Anniversary Fund-Raising Drive for Behind the Black X-37B photographed in orbit Timothy Seaman & Ann Robinson – The Foggy Dew DSCOVR in safe mode Man who wanted to be the first African in space killed in road accident Hayabusa’s 2nd sample grab on Ryugu Conservative wins in Greece University student attacked for wearing MAGA/Trump paraphernalia UCLA professor found guilty of stealing military technology for China Astronomers find kilometer-sized asteroid with shortest year Threats of violence force cancellation of pro-life film screening Sunspot update June 2019: Down to zero again, with next cycle making an appearance The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time — Part XXIII Aliaksei Zholner – Paper Piano Engineers adjust Voyagers 1 & 2 because of steadily dropping power Reused Falcon 9 wins NASA launch contract instead of Pegasus Branson sells 49% of Virgin Galactic, stock to be publicly listed Fire at SpaceX Starhopper facility in Florida Amazon releases more details about proposed Kuiper satellite constellation NASA begins the slow leak process prior to announcing new SLS delays Light Sail 2 beams back first images Wheel update on Curiosity Faking gravity in space with a spinning table NEC Jazz Orchestra – Maharajah of Magador Hayabusa-2 begins second touch&go sample grab on Ryugu Private lunar lander company files for bankruptcy Chang’e-4/Yutu-2 return to dormant mode for lunar night Study says space radiation less of a risk Beresheet design adopted by Firefly & Israeli private partnership White House objects to House language on military space Battle over ownership of dinosaur fossils could upend paleontology research Trump drops plan to establish independent climate review panel Virgin Orbit successfully completes rocket drop from 747 Keiko Matsui – Whisper from the Mirror TMT construction begins July 15 July 9, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Arianespace Vega launch fails Major management shake-up at NASA’s manned program Russian Soyuz rocket launches four military satellites Hayabusa-2’s second touchdown an apparent success John Farnham – You’re the Voice Hayabusa-2’s second touchdown sample grab Satire website bluntly but correctly summarizes Democratic Party policy Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image of Curiosity Robert Houdin – Joueuse de Tympanon Russia successfully launches Spektr-RG carrying two X-ray space telescopes Two new science papers strongly question theory of man-made global warming July 12, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chandrayaan-2 launch scrubbed France to set up military space command within its Air Force China to de-orbit Tiangong-2 on July 19 Europe’s GPS-type constellation Galileo down 500 protesters block access road on Mauna Kea Modern Democratic Party McCarthyism Hayabusa-2: Carbon-rich asteroids too delicate to reach Earth surface Mew & Copenhagen Philharmonic – Comforting Sounds SpaceX pinpoints cause of Dragon explosion during test Modern journalism celebrates Apollo 11, badly Chandrayaan-2 launch scrub caused by leak in helium bottle Update on Europe’s Galileo GPS-type constellation failure A lunar crater wall two miles high Apollo 11 in real time Protesters continue to block construction of TMT Apollo 11 First Stage liftoff Starhopper static engine test engulfs vehicle in flames CNN panel of Republican women back Trump unequivocally Justice Dept dismisses as harmless death threat against Republican Weird lunar crater House kills Trump impeachment articles, despite large Democratic approval It no longer makes sense to recycle Apollo 11 astronaut telecast, July 17, 1969 July 16, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Protesters continue to block telescope construction in Hawaii India reschedules Chandrayaan-2 launch NASA admits that 1st SLS launch likely to be delayed to 2021 Off to Grand Canyon again A wave on the Moon Eagle undocks, Apollo 11, July 20, 1969 ULA delays Delta 4 and Atlas 5 launches for same reason The Taurus-Littrow valley July 20, 1969: “The Eagle has landed” July 20, 1969: “One small step…” The Untouched Moon Soyuz launches new crew to ISS China deorbits Tiangong-2 Europe’s Galileo GPS-type constellation back up and running July 20, 1969: “We came in peace for all mankind.” LightSail-2 to deploy sail July 23 India successfully launches Chandrayaan-2 Apollo 11 videotapes sell for $1.82 million Jackson Crater on the Moon’s far side People in leftist coastal enclaves going insane over global warming Agreement on bankrupt budget deal today? Protests continue at Mauna Kea July 24, 1969: Apollo 11 splashdown Christopher Columbus Kraft, 1924-2019 Boris Johnson to be next British PM LightSail-2 successfully deploys light sail Smarter Every Day – Where does NASA keep the Moon Rocks? Northrop Grumman to build Gateway habitation module Hawaii’s governor expresses support for TMT protesters Tsunamis on Mars? The glaciers of Mars Images confirm LightSail-2 deployment success Off to Huntsville, Alabama Possibility of meteorites from bright fireball in Ontario Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Fly Me Off the Händel Weather scrubs SpaceX cargo Dragon launch Mueller’s testimony today proves witch hunt failed Starhopper’s 1st test hop aborts Max Vandervorst & Marc Hérouet – Music for abandoned objects China smallsat company succeeds in orbital launch End coming for twin Van Allen spacecraft Chandayaan-2 completes first orbit burn The state of water on the Moon Judge: Oberlin must post $36 million bond to appeal University punishes professor for uncovering academic fraud and incompetence TESS completes survey of southern hemisphere SpaceX launches used Dragon to ISS with used Falcon 9 Jim Radford – The Shores of Normandy Starhopper has hopped NASA to do full engine test of SLS first stage China launches two military satellites Chandrayaan-2 raises its orbit a second time Movie of Hayabusa-2’s 2nd Ryugu touch-and-go Judge dismisses Sandmann libel case against Washington Post Trump gets asylum deal with Guatemala Golfing with boulders on the Moon China tests controlled flight for returning first stage Japanese private smallsat rocket company launch failure TESS finds the first two mini-Neptune exoplanets Lang Lang & Mark Guiliana – Why Bartók Rocks Russia launches communications satellite TMT protests continue, block all astronomy research to Mauna Kea Chandrayaan-2 completes third orbit maneuver Private lunar landing company backs out of NASA contract Europe completes 1st rollout of Ariane 6 mobile launch gantry Want to get off gmail? A possible Behind the Black option A bullseye on Mars School fires teacher for praising western civilization Democrats once again push to repeal 1st amendment Anastasia Tyurina – Valenki Oberlin College posts $36 million bond, appeal to go forward Russia launches and docks new Progress freighter to ISS iSpace plans eight launches in 2020 More exoplanets found by TESS LightSail-2 successfully raises its orbit using sunlight Democrats fire six people because they are white Dylan Elise – Drum solo July 30, 2019 Zimmerman Space Show podcast A heavy metal exoplanet, a star with no iron Suborbital rocket company has launch failure New NASA development contracts include refueling work by SpaceX Bezos sells another $1.8 billion in Amazon stock Senate passes budget-breaking bill Why drastic education cuts in Alaska tell us everything about the coming dark age Leroy Troy – Ghost Chickens In The Sky Chandrayaan-2 successfully completes 4th orbit burn Parker data downloaded from first two orbits The Milky Way is warped? Chinese test microsat deorbits and crashes into Moon Landowners in Scotland sign lease for spaceport NASA/NOAA failure report for GOES-17: The government screwed up Tim Conway & Dean Martin – Old Man in diner Bezos provides 1st BE-4 engine update in more than a year SpaceX to launch Super Heavy/Starship from Florida Russia denies OneWeb permission to operate in Russia Hundreds arrested in Moscow demonstrating for open elections First images from Chandrayaan-2 The great storms of Jupiter Sunspot update July 2019: Almost no sunspots Off to Denver tomorrow Pomplamoose – Can’t Stop Feeling Billie Jean’s Face Proton launches military communications satellite TMT consortium applies for Canary Islands building permit Water bears on the Moon! SpaceX offers new cut-rate prices for smallsats Bezos sells an additional billion dollars in Amazon stock Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Downey To Lubbock SpaceX and Arianespace complete successful launches Rocket Lab to attempt recovery and reuse of Electron 1st stage Chandrayaan-2 completes fifth orbital maneuver India’s new smallsat rocket gets its first launch contract Cygnus undocks from ISS, will remain in orbit for five more months Smallsat rocket company Orbex signs two launch deals Movimiento 7 – Song of Sea Exile ULA’s Atlas 5 launches military communications satellite Yutu-2 and Chang’e-4 go to sleep again Vector gets Air Force launch contract Video of Long March 2C grid fins used in July FCC streamlines and cuts fees for smallsat licensing Crater on the Basement of Mars Are you a decent human being? New Hubble image of Jupiter Shoe Salesman OneWeb: LauncherOne too expensive IAU approves 2nd set of Pluto names chosen by New Horizons team Watching the yearly vanishing of Mars’ north pole dry icecap Vector changes CEO, might have money issues Foster & Allen – After All These Years Reports of another ExoMars parachute failure during test Nurse gets death threats for posing with Trump Environmentalist group opposes Scottish spaceport Forbes censors climate article questioning human-caused global warming NOAA revises upward its ordinary average 2019 hurricane season prediction Protesters allow research to resume, within limits, at other Mauna Kea telescopes Monitoring Martian pits not near Arsia Mons OSIRIS-REx team picks four finalist sample return sites on Bennu The Game Of Thrones Theme Song August 9, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast As protesters shut down Hong Kong airport, government brings military into city ESA confirms ExoMars parachute test failure Blue Origin protests Air Force launch procurement process Linkspace completes vertical take-off and landing test NASA extends life of private BEAM module Amateur finds moon orbiting comet in Rosetta archive Riot police attack Hong Kong airport protesters Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers – Jumpin Jive Arecibo gets $12.3 million NSF grant Chandrayaan-2 successfully puts itself in route to the Moon Video of Linkspace vertical take-off/landing rocket test SpaceX gets 2nd boat to catch rocket fairings Jupiter’s changing Great Red Spot, as seen by Juno Goddard engineers complete third robotic refueling test on ISS Whistleblower of Google anti-right bias goes public after being threatened by Google Hong Kong airport reopens as protesters retreat Juno finds Jupiter’s core more extended and less dense than predicted A review of Glenn Reynolds’ The Social Media Upheaval : French solar road a total failure Bill Bailey – Duelling Sitars Dream Chaser to launch on ULA’s Vulcan rocket Israel to block entry to Muslim anti-Israeli Congresswomen Fascist and Democratic-controlled California Daniel Rozin – Mechanical Mirrors August 14, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Texas and Alabama fight over space pork The Philippines creates its own space agency When told Clinton’s missing classified emails were sent to gmail, FBI was uninterested Protest filed against NASA contract awards for unmanned lunar landers Tlaib lies about desire to visit grandmother in West Bank Suzy Bogguss – Someday Soon A directory of skeptical climate websites Marshall wins Artemis manned Moon lander pork China launches three satellites on new rocket Northrop Grumman leases part of VAB for assembling Omega rocket Parker to extend instrument operations in future solar fly-bys 1.7 million protest China in Hong Kong August 16, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab & China launch satellites Second gas giant found orbiting Beta Pictoris Data suggests Earth-sized exoplanet has no atmosphere and resembles Mercury Democrat fundraiser includes mock assassination of Donald Trump Obama’s legacy of hate John Arthur Martinez – The Armadillo Song Facebook allows flat-Earthers to censor a space history book Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters lunar orbit ULA wins private lunar launch contract An eroding Martian glacier? Jörg Hegemann & Stefan Ulbricht – Sixth Avenue Express How Google bought off Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) Chandrayaan-2 completes first lunar orbit adjustment SpaceX’s Tesla has completed its first solar orbit Scientists resolve one Mars methane mystery Washington’s spectacular effort to crush the American space effort 2018 Hot Rod Wild Rides August 20, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Congressional Budget Office: Budget deficits about to explode Russia and ULA successfully complete rocket launches ISRO releases Chandrayaan-2’s first Moon image from lunar orbit China successfully tests navigation in space using pulsars Sierra Nevada unveils full scale Gateway habitat module prototype Japan’s plan for returning Hayabusa-2’s Ryugu samples to Earth Melting rocks on Mars Antique tortoise shell singing bird box Results from tiny MASCOT lander on Ryugu At a conference today Danil Danzheev & Ezendey Balbin – Altai throat singing Unmanned test Soyuz aborts docking to ISS The first crime in space? Curiosity’s future travels Global warming scientist Michael Mann loses Canadian lawsuit Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awake for 9th lunar day Satellite company switches from Falcon Heavy to Ariane 5 August 22, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hong Kong police fire water cannons, gunshot, against protesters Remy: All My Loving (Beatles Parody) Planned Starhopper test shuts down Boca Chica Russian astronauts move older Soyuz to clear port for new Soyuz More images from Chandrayaan-2 Orbiting X-37B breaks record for longest mission Arecibo gets $19 million NASA research/education grant No warming in U.S. since 2005 Itai Kriss & Telavana – Mafroum Soyuz successfully docks to ISS on second attempt Starhopper test flight scrubbed Assembly complete on Europe’s Franklin Mars rover Astronomers find Jupiter-sized exoplanet with comet-like orbit Starhopper: Success! Etienne de Lavaulx – The Sounds of Silence Chandrayaan-2 lowers lunar orbit again What Starhopper achieved Webb assembled for the first time Elementary students to name NASA’s 2020 Mars rover Engineers attach test helicopter to Mars 2020 SpaceX begins hunt for Starship landing sites on Mars Dick Cavett interviewing Orson Welles about famous people NASA Inspector General to Congress: Free Europa Clipper from SLS Comey skips free Space Command to launch today Apparent Iran launch failure Cliff collapse on Mars Felix Dierich – A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit Russia’s Rockot launches military geodesic satellite Chandrayaan-2 lowers lunar orbit for the 4th time OSIRIS-REx’s four candidate landing sites ISS atmosphere issue? Kennedy Space Center prepares for hurricane FAA required SpaceX to up its insurance for Starhopper test New Russia Soyuz spacesuits interfere with Russia pee tradition China’s FAST radio telescope discovers 93 new pulsars Scientists look at and compare two past grand minimums Hong Kong arrests three prominent protest leaders Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better China launches two smallsats ISS partners okay Trump changes to Gateway Has Yutu-2 found something unusual? Police ramp up violence against Hong Kong protesters today Chandrayaan-2 now in proper lunar orbit for release of lander/rover Vikram has successfully separated from Chandrayaan-2 The modern academic view of the future SpaceX declines to shift Starlink satellite to avoid collision Sophie Fatu – Fly Me To The Moon Vikram completes first de-orbit burn Parker completes third fly-by of Sun Lunar lander company PTScientists purchased Hayabusa-2 in safe mode for one day on August 29 Boris Johnson loses one-vote majority in House of Commons Mars’ mysterious slope streaks become even more mysterious SpaceX issues explanation for nonresponse in potential satellite collision issue Gatos do Sul – Fire the Pandeiro player UK Tories purge 21 who opposed party today Vikram makes second and last lunar orbital change The end of the Thirty Meter Telescope? China withdraws extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong protests Charles Walker: the first commercial astronaut San Fran government declares NRA (and its members) terrorists Roy Orbison & k.d. lang – Pretty Woman & Crying The bit rate of human languages Democrats at climate forum: Ban everything! Terraced and banded hills on Mars Township shuts fire company because one member spoke to Proud Boys The Paul Hogan Show – Product Placement Sketch September 4, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Results released of July Vega launch failure investigation Update on SpaceX’s plans for Starship Watch Vikram landing on Moon Vikram fails to land on Moon Mat Gurman – Hotline Bling Chandrayaan-2 locates Vikram Exploding nitrogen on Titan Sunspot update August 2019: Even fewer sunspots September 6, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Mathematicians and chalk Vector loses Air Force contract Yutu-2 travels almost 300 meters on ninth lunar day SpaceX wins launch contract for seven SES satellites Taking a look back at a Martian pit Japan scrubs launch due to launchpad fire Chris Botti & Lucia Micarelli – Emmanuel More parachute problems for ExoMars 2020? Swamp attacks Trump over hurricane forecasts Water found on exoplanet in habitable zone Jon David Kahn – American Heart September 10, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor Interstellar comet discovered? Relativity gets another launch contract Video of the Japanese launchpad fire New Hubble image of Saturn Communications restored with Curiosity Avalanche season at the Martian north pole Departure (or “Space Travel Agent”) China’s Long March 4B launches three satellites More delays for China’s Long March 5 LRO to image Vikram landing site next week First high quality image of interstellar comet Test cubesat to launch to Gateway lunar orbit Joe Lycett – Parking Ticket Story UAE’s first manned flight launches this week on Soyuz Buy dumb! Update of Texas Starship prototype construction Update on effort to save heat probe on InSight Hayabusa-2 dropping orbiting target marker The Democratic/Media smear machine Stony-iron asteroid caused flash on Jupiter in August September 13, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast More potential Starship landing sites on Mars Herb Alpert – Puttin’ on the Ritz New theory says evaporating exomoon explains Tabby’s Star New data cuts neutrino mass in half Io volcano erupts like Ol’ Faithful The never-ending snowstorm circling Saturn Has the leftist smear machine begun to crack? Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump finds out he has a son Scientists propose mission to interstellar comet Borisov SpaceX offers to buy all nearby property to Boca Chica launchsite Roscosmos knows but will not disclose cause of Soyuz drilled hole Hayabusa-2 completes rehearsal for MINERVA-II drop New findings from Rosetta: Bouncing boulders and collapsing cliffs IG had recommended criminal prosecution of Comey Fifty years of failed climate predictions Wayne Hancock – Thunderstorms and Neon Signs Israel election produces uncertainty again September 17, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China uses Long March 11 to launch five smallsats House hearing, and budget, raises doubts about 2024 Moon landing LRO fails to spot Vikram on Moon Starlink satellite launches to dominate SpaceX’s 2020 launch schedule Problems fixed with next Russian ISS module Io’s shadow on Jupiter Yang: Private car ownership must end Shirley Bassey – Goldfinger Yutu-2’s first close look at mysterious “gel-like” material Progress on Dragon parachute tests ESA asks NASA’s help on ExoMars rover parachute problems Senate appropriations bill slams new commercial space regulations Bridenstine will ask Russia for explanation about drill hole Russia and China to team up on lunar lander/orbiter missions Boeing pushing to kill Gateway for more SLS funds? Cave pits in the Martian northern lowlands Climate forum disrupted by screaming protesters Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – They Can’t Take That Away From Me Mitsubishi IDs cause of launchpad fire, reschedules launch Storms on Jupiter September 20, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two more Beidou GPS-type satellites Some Boca Chica landowners reject SpaceX offer Australia signs on to NASA’s Artemis project Tongue-shaped glaciers on Mars NASA awards Lockheed Martin long term Orion contract Luca Stricagnoli – Can’t Stop On the road Musk shows off Starship Comet Borisov is now 2I/Borisov Astronomer: Look for monolith on co-orbiting asteriods New York Mets – September 24, 1969 LauncherOne shipped to Mohave for launch prep Three launches today, including launch of three astronauts and UAE’s first spaceman Proton commercial launch delayed UK company buys space on Astrobotic’s first lunar lander Climax – Precious and Few Soyuz launches military surveillance satellite More delays for New Shepard Curiosity to use first of nine “wet chemistry cups” TESS spots black hole ripping star apart Adventures in TSA fantasyland Liberace – Malaguena September 24, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast More Starship teasers from Musk A big planet circling a small star Stratolaunch has begun hiring again LRO scientists release image of Vikram landing site On the radio today The Interviewer Planet X a small black hole? NASA awards 14 companies small development contracts Movie of Juno’s 22 close fly-by of Jupiter How to watch Musk’s Starship update tonight Sweden is no leftist utopia Musk’s speech: Starship is coming on fast! First data suggests Comet Borisov resembles solar comets Martian impact into lava crust? Retired engineer builds giant and revolutionary train, in his backyard China to open FAST radio telescope to world Russia to reduce manned missions to ISS in 2020 UAE astronaut completes telecast to UAE NASA solicits proposals for manned lunar landers Rocket Lab sets next launch date The sounds of Mars Musk on Starship, engineering, and management Ukraine: The Democratic Party’s effort to overthrow the elected government The Ventures – Wipeout Relativity raises $140 million in third funding round NASA in negotiations to buy more Russian Soyuz astronaut seats Juno completes long engine burn to avoid Jupiter’s shadow More organics detected in Enceladus’ plumes The slowly changing dunes of Mars October 1, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Joe Ely – Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes Soyuz brings three back from ISS, including first UAE astronaut Hayabusa-2 releases last mini-lander/rover to Ryugu SpaceX wins launch contract for NASA privately-built lunar lander InSight robot arm to help mole dig Blue Origin hints at the New Shepard ticket price Astronomers roughly map out Andromeda’s history Italy buys tickets on Virgin Galactic’s suborbital VSS Unity Weird glacial features in Martian crater Camel – First Light Astronomers photograph baby binary system Chinese head in Hong Kong invokes emergency powers Protests in Iraq Panache Quartet – Old songs Capsule and booster for SpaceX launch abort test arrives in Florida China launches Earth-observation satellite October 4, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The drying out of Mars Astronomers find 20 more moons orbiting Saturn Sunspot update Sept 2019: Hetty & the Jazzato Band – Tu Vuo’ Fa’ L’Americano Bridenstine to hold press event at SpaceX on Oct 10 Russia strips Sea Launch platform of foreign equipment UN faces financial shortfall Swirls and layers in Martian depression World’s largest camera lens arrives safely for assembly into LSST Roger Hodgson – The Logical Song Boeing to buy $20 million minority stake in Virgin Galactic Proton flies last commercial mission First images from Chandrayaan-2 Musk confirms: Dragon launch abort test in about 10 weeks Justice expands investigation into coup attempt against Trump California utility cuts power to more than a million customers Two fans removed from NBA game for holding “Free Hong Kong” signs Ulysses S. Grant Buddy Ebsen – I’m nuts about you Boeing sets Dec 17 for launch of unmanned Starliner Mars Express looks at Martian river relic More “Free Hong Kong” protesters at NBA-Chinese exhibition games Ice! Ice! Everywhere on Mars ice! Ice suspected in both old and young lunar craters The Smothers Brothers – I Am A Pilot Bridenstine’s visit to SpaceX a non-story 1st launch attempt tonight on Pegasus aborted; 2nd attempt a success October 9, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Northrop Grumman buys back Pegasus rockets from Stratolaunch FAA gives Rocket Lab an umbrella 5-year launch license Air Force selects 8 launch companies for future contracts Leftist rioters attack Trump supporters leaving Trump rally Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, dies Best of Wingsuit Flying Compilation New owners for Stratolaunch Astronomers identify likely origin star for interstellar Comet Borisov First SLS launch will likely be delayed again SpaceX extends Boca Chica purchase deadline, will do new appraisals October 11, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Skylights into Martian lava tube? The bad consequences from California’s imposed blackouts On the radio tonight The amazing ibex climbing a dam InSight’s mole digs an inch Preparations begin for China’s next Long March 5 launch Unexplained issues with assembling SLS’s core stage? Europe schedules new parachute tests for ExoMars 2020 October 14, 2019 Zimmerman Space Show appearance Democrats decimated in Louisiana election A discontinuous Martian channel California moves to shut down ham radio Paul Robeson – Ol’ Man River Dream Chaser’s primary structure completed SpaceX expands Starlink concept from 12,000 to 42,000 satellites Non-stories from NASA reveal mainstream press corruption Hubble snaps photo of Comet Borisov California’s first cubesat to be named after Jerry Brown Sinkholes on Mars Steve Hackett – After the Ordeal October 15, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab & China launch rockets House committee rejects extra funding for 2024 moon landing Boris Johnson strikes Brexit deal with EU The 1572 Tycho supernova, as seen by Chandra Lava-draped terrain on Mars 500 climate scientists challenge the UN on global warming Compliation video of violent leftist protesters at Minnesota Trump rally Eric Mead – Coin Trick NASA to give Boeing cost-plus contract for 10 more SLS rockets At a conference Dale Watson & The Texas Two – My Baby Makes Me Gravy October 17, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astronauts replace failed unit on ISS Scientists propose changes to planetary protection rules Parliament rejects Johnson’s Brexit deal Polar bear researcher fired for being a global warming skeptic Clashes in Hong Kong protests escalate Netanyahu fails to form government Large numbers of minorities and Democrats attend Trump rallies Deonis Kiroshka – Classical Guitar Liberals in Canada retain control Rocket Lab announces new upper stage for taking satellites beyond Earth orbit Storms on Saturn baffle scientists Pence endorses property rights in space British parliament passes Johnson’s Brexit deal while pushing for more delays Bob Ross, artist Blue Origin partners with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Draper to build lunar lander InSight’s digging problems reveal the alienness of Mars’ soil Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awake for 11th lunar day LRO’s 2nd attempt to find Vikram comes up empty UK hypersonic engine component passes test Bhabha Crater at dawn China officially withdraws extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong protests India releases first radar images from Chandrayaan-2 Judge rules civil forfeiture is unconstitutional Synchronized cavern diving Mars2020 budget overruns threatening other missions Israel still aims for second attempt to land on Moon Mice in space and kept in artificial gravity experience no harm to reproduction New estimate for Hubble constant differs from previous and also conflicting results Big landslides on Mars might not require ice Curiosity takes selfie next to two of its most important drill holes Ancient glacier flows on Mars Robin Huw Bowen & Camille and Kennerly – Harp medley December 17 officially set for Starliner unmanned orbital launch Virgin Orbit to add 3rd stage to LauncherOne for planetary missions Congressman questions Northrop Grumman-Air Force ICBM deal Virgin Galactic stocks go public on October 28 Too many smallsat rockets to count NASA to send new rover to lunar south pole Is Justice investigation really getting serious about anti-Trump coup attempt in FBI/CIA? Asleep at the Wheel – Hot Rod Lincoln Firefly to use Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR-1 engine Mitsubishi offers its H3 rocket to Artemis PG&E to cut power to almost a million people in California again Fourth SARGE suborbital flight fails, crashes X-37B lands after completing record mission October 25, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast InSight’s mole has popped out of its hole Crew Dragon successfully tests SuperDraco engines Starship manned lunar landings by 2022? Bankrupt Chicago negotiating big payout to school union Rover update: October 28, 2019 Comparing Trump vs Obama against ISIS Excavator Artistry Smallest spherical planet so far found Jupiter’s thunderheads Covington lawsuit against Washington Post reopened UK to have general elections December 12th Luna Lee – Voodoo Child Webb telescope faces more schedule risks, engineering issues Orion capsule has no room for Moon rocks Bobby Pickett – Monster Mash October 29, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Update on Starship Mk1 assembly MarCO cubesats almost failed just before InSight landing House Democrats vote to move forward on impeachment effort Carnival of Souls Virgin Galactic stock drops 25% since IPO on Monday Turkey negotiating with Russia to train its future astronauts Shelby delivers big bucks to SLS, Gateway Russia ships three more engines to U.S. for ULA’s rockets Upcoming schedule of Boeing & SpaceX manned capsule tests Jeanne Jolly – Long Way Home Cygnus successfully launched by Antares How to watch Boeing’s Starliner pad abort China launches remote sensing satellite November 1, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Boeing completes Starliner pad abort test SpaceX successfully completes 13 parachute drop tests of Crew Dragon Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 complete 11th day on Moon Sunspot update October 2019: Sunspot activity continues to flatline Interstellar space, as seen by both Voyager spacecraft Women Of Soul – Proud Mary Boeing & NASA declare pad abort test a success China uses Long March 3B to launch GPS-type satellite U.S. formally begins exit from Paris climate agreement TESS completes 1st survey of southern sky Gene Wilder – Pure Imagination Boeing proposes manned lunar lander that bypasses Gateway NASA to fly more year-plus missions to ISS NASA rejects Blue Origin’s proposed SLS upper stage Sightseeing Central Butte on Mars Hey-ho! Virgin Orbit gets $9.5 million from UK space agency White House: Cost for each SLS launch is $2 billion The dark future predicted by this week’s elections New video of Starliner pad abort test Carol Burnett – clips from the last show How to safely watch the November 11 solar transit of Mercury More detail on pad abort test parachute issue New InSight image of mole shows collapse of hole Watch the Mercury transit of the Sun from home! Bennu & Ryugu: Two very old and strange asteroids Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Hello Mabel SpaceX successfully launches 60 Starlink satellites Youtube and Facebook censoring name of Ukraine leaker We are not going to die from climate change Mars’ seasonally vanishing carbon dioxide polar cap Martha Raye – No Time At All Hayabusa-2 to begin return voyage on November 13 Putin slams Roscosmos for continuing corruption at Vostochny Astronomers discover star fleeing Milky Way at 3.7 million mph New Horizons team renames “Ultima Thule” to “Arrokoth” Polygons on Mars Canadian Brass – Flight of the Tuba Bumblebee China completes two launches today No manned New Shepard flights in 2019 Parker releases first data to public Virgin Galactic reports first loss since stock went public Hayabusa-2 begins journey back to Earth Chandrayaan-2 releases more lunar images SpaceX completes 1st round of Starship’s Mars landing site images The Snow Cruiser: Antarctica’s abandoned behemoth November 13, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes Crew Dragon static fire tests India targets Nov 2020 for new lunar lander mission China unveils Mars lander during landing simulation test Both methane and oxygen fluctuate in unison seasonally in Gale Crater Upcoming big satellite constellations vex and worry astronomers Celebrating Apollo 12 A journey into the depths of Valles Marineris The dance of two Neptunian moons Shashi Tharoor – Is Your Vocabulary Up to Mark? Inspector general slams NASA’s management for bonus payments to Boeing Islands of ice on Mars and Pluto Homemade model StarHopper & Starship launch & landings Structural failure destroyed suborbital SARGE rocket A quick holiday fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black Second Kuaizhou-1A launch in less than a week Indonesia to building rocket and spaceport First global geologic map of Titan Recent impact on Mars Wayne Brady – Thriller Caving today Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter locates crashed Chinese orbiter Sinkholes galore! Thank you! Carolina Eyck – The Ecstasy of Gold NASA expands list of companies certified to bid on lunar launch/payload contracts Blue Origin wins protest against Air Force Sierra Nevada updates Dream Chaser status, names its cargo module Astronomers think they have pinned down location of Supernova 1987a’s central star Explosion during Starship tank tests Red Skelton & Walter Brennan India confirms details of Vikram’s crash on Moon SpaceX ‘s decision to slash prices/provide reliable launch schedule upends smallsat industry ULA backing off from reuseablity and Vulcan upgrades? Unearthly pit in Martian northern icecap Virgin Galactic stock continues its plunge André Rieu – Lippen Schweigen November 20, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Mid-latitude Martian glacier? A house in the forest Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 begin 12th lunar day Mars Express confirms ancient glaciers in northern Martian mid-latitudes Air Force to still limit launch contractors to two Nick Sandmann $275 million libel suit against NBC to proceed China launches two GPS-type satellites November 22, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Home destroyed by Long March 3B 1st stage “Damaged cable” causes Russians to delay Progress launch Sweeping victories for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong elections A society run by mob rule Supreme Court allows Mann defamation case to proceed Janik & Arnaut – Snake dance Russians launch military satellite Astronomers find 19 more galaxies showing lack of dark matter First detection of extended galactic magnetic field More Martian pits, filled and unfilled! New image of Comet 2I/Borisov Arianespace launches two communications satellites Paganini in gypsy jazz style India successfully launches Earth observation satellite plus 12 cubesats Climate change protesters mob local UK spaceport council Does zero gravity cause intestinal issues? China unfolds Dutch radio antennas on lunar relay satellite Further explorations at candidate Starship Mars landing site Paul Smith – Typewriter artist China launches Earth resource satellite Lincoln’s Proclamation of Thanksgiving Louis Armstrong – What a wonderful world Giving Thanks Big budget boost for ESA Giving Thanks New Horizons confirms solar wind slows at greater solar distances Martian “What the heck?” formations Crash site of Vikram found USAF Band – Greensleeves & Carol of the Bells Astronomers find record-setting heaviest supermassive black hole Hayabusa-2 fires main ion engines for return to Earth Long March-8 2nd stage engine passes engine test Ukraine’s president reiterates: No quid pro quo from Trump Harris’s exit from presidential race highlights again the bigotry of the Democratic Party A crack in the Martian crust New analysis suggests dark energy might not be necessary TESS captures outburst from comet A home-made plane First Starliner mission delayed two days Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 complete 12th lunar day Bridenstine: SLS costs less than $2 billion per launch China to launch 30 times in 2020 SpaceX to test upper stage endurance as part of Dragon launch First results from Parker released Queen – You’re My Best Friend December 3, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast OSIRIS-REx completes reconnaissance of four candidate sample sites SpaceX targets December for launch abort test, early 2020 for 1st manned Dragon mission SpaceX successfully launches cargo Dragon to ISS Lloyd’s introduces new insurance policy for smallsats Eleanor Powell & Buddy Rich – I’ll Take Tallulah Successful Russia and Rocket Lab launches Inmarsat bought out and delisted from stock exchange Cloud stream on Jupiter Father Berndt – A Soldier’s Silent Night Two Chinese Kuaizhou-1A launches within six hours December 5, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ISRO officially requests funds for new lunar lander/rover Dragon launch abort test set for January 4 The dark splotches on Mars: Magnets for dust devils Sunspot update Nov 2019: The longest flatline in centuries Women Of Country – medley New Shepard test flight delayed to tomorrow ESA hires private company to remove space junk Congress approves establishment of Space Force Morgan Stanley recommends buying Virgin Galactic stock How the Mars2020 rover differs from Curiosity If You Could See Every Satellite… Russia and India launch satellites A new map of the water ice on Mars New Shepard completes another test flight World Order – Singularity Buyer of Stratolaunch revealed though unconfirmed OSIRIS-REx team picks primary sample site New Hubble images of Comet 2I/Borisov The Carol Burnett Show – The Queen & the Palace Guard December 10, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Major victory for Boris Johnson, Tories, and Brexit New storm spotted at Jupiter’s south pole Interacting galaxies Rocket Lab opens Wallops Island launchpad Maven makes first map of Mars’ high altitude winds Scientists reject discovery of biggest known black hole The importance of small telescopes to science and civilization North magnetic pole continues its drift Josh & Larkin – Just Like Heaven Vector files for bankruptcy New info on Long March 5 launch failures December 12, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two more Beidou GPS-type satellites Turkey buys machine gun toting drones Spygate from a scientific perspective Thomas Dolby – Blinded Me With Science SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite Martian impacts and streaks FISA court condemns FBI Beverly “Guitar” Watkins – Rock Me Baby Soyuz rocket launches five satellites for Arianespace Original investors sue Firefly Starliner launch set for Friday, December 20 Fawlty Towers – Wrongly Shaped Chips December 17, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab begins construction on 2nd New Zealand launchpad SpaceX delays launch abort until January 11 Mars 2020 rover takes first and last test drive Yutu-2 sets new longevity record for lunar rover Megadunes in the giant canyon of Mars’ north polar icecap Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir? Starliner launch fails, spacecraft to return to Earth Long March 4B launches a China/Brazil Landsat-type satellite UK parliament moves forward on Brexit Buried glaciers flowing off of Martian mesa The Starbugs – Mr Tambourine Man Trump signs defense bill which includes Space Force Starliner lands safely after failed orbital insertion December 20, 2019, Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India aims for about a dozen launches in 2020 Movie of Jupiter’s south pole storms Boeing fires CEO The Navy’s horrible software and the crashes it caused On the Space Show tonight A deep dive into Valles Marineris Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You Russia’s Proton launches weather satellite SpaceX completes new round of crew Dragon parachute tests Crater in the Martian northern lowlands December 23, 2019 Zimmerman/Space Show appearance Merry Christmas! U.S. Army Band – Bluegrass Christmas Medley Repost: The real meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image A Christmas Carol Jennifer Nettles – O Holy Night/Hallelujah Giant scallops on Mars A minor eruption on the Sun China has a shortfall of jet engines Christmas Songs on Steel Landslide primary win for Netanyahu China’s Long March 5 rocket successfully launches Rockot launches three communications satellites ExoMars2020 passes new parachute tests Protesters continue to shut down TMT Catalina Vicens – Rondeau Russia’s population to shrink? Betelguese fades a full magnitude Why Oil Paint Is So Expensive U.S. embassy in Iraq attacked NY, Illinois, California populations in decline The state of the global rocket industry in 2019 John Hess – Auld Lang Syne White House slashes National Security Council staffing New Year’s resolution Modern cars automatically invade your privacy India picks its first astronauts; confirms new lunar rover Darkened craters on Mars The new pogrom in New York Mike Oldfield – In the beginning & Let there be light U.S. kills leader of Iranian Quds Force Yutu-2 completes 13th lunar day Astronaut treated for blood clot on ISS China now predicts more than 40 launches in 2020 Dickson Mounds Hubble captures giant galaxy January 3, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New evidence: dark energy might not exist Newly discovered repeating fast radio burst breaks rules Sunspot update: The record flatline continues Astronomers predict nova outburst later this century Tonight’s SpaceX launch Stan Hershonik – Making of an Aeolian Harp TESS finds its first Earth China completes first launch of 2020 Firefly reschedules first rocket launch for April CNN settles with Nick Sandmann Arsonists the cause of most of Australia’s bushfires Dragon returns to Earth with mice and cookies baked in space George Harrison tribute – While My Guitar Gently Weeps On the radio Investigation forces retraction of 800+ Russian science papers SpaceX crew Dragon launch abort test delayed another week Webb telescope remains on schedule for March 2021 launch India releases Vikram failure report China releases data and images from Yutu-2 and Chang’e-3 Money finally allocated to replace signs at Glacier that say glaciers to vanish by 2020 Survivor – Eye of the Tiger January 7, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast More libel lawsuits initiated by Covington student Iran misses military targets, kill passenger jet instead Pedestal craters in the Martian northern lowlands? First SLS core stage completed and ready for final testing Senate considers rules change permitting dismissal of House impeachment lacking submission Jonah Ho – Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 UK parliament approves Brexit deal at last Probe to visit 8 asteroids, not 7 Arecibo shut temporarily due to earthquakes House committee approves bill coordinating the government’s space weather work Update on Dream Chaser More problems at Boeing, this time with military aircraft First image of Ganymede’s north pole Farmers swarming to buy used 40-year-old tractors No trend in hurricanes since 1970 Driving the same car for 53 years January 10, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Protests in Iran against Islamic government Curiosity climbs a hill Silent Monks Sing the Hallelujah Chorus Stardust found in meteorite older than Earth First head of Space Force to be officially sworn in More superEarth exoplanets found circling nearby stars A typical worker in the campaign of socialist Bernie Sanders Gully on Mars The fabled yacht Endeavour China completes 2nd launch in 2020 First asteroid discovered that circles Sun closer than Venus Martian dry ice frost on glacial remains? Bernie Sanders campaign organizer: “I’m all aboard for gulags!” SpaceIL gets $1 million grant for building Beresheet-2 Sleepy Man Banjo Boys – Three bluegrass songs January 14, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Spitzer SpaceTelescope shutdown in a week Boeing releases video of Starliner’s first orbital demo flight A second exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri? Watching SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launch abort A detailed look at Boeing’s recent aircraft problems Arianespace and China complete launches Mel Blanc & Jack Benny – Si Lawsuit against DEA for stealing 79-year-old man’s life savings SpaceX is shifting all Starship design work to Boca Chica Strange things at center of Milky Way Wolf puppies play fetch with humans Tadpole on Mars NASA: first manned Dragon flight could occur in March 2020 Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman Crew Dragon launch abort test delayed Crew Dragon unmanned launch abort a success January 17, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The long term ramifications of SpaceX’s crew Dragon on the future of the human race Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 begin 14th lunar day Six Martian summers at a polar impact crater On the radio The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket Prototypes of China’s core space station module and new manned spacecraft arrive at launch site Boeing looking to borrow up to $10 billion because of 737-Max problems Another pro-gulag Bernie Sanders campaign organizer reveals the increasingly fascist Democratic Party Undulations on Mars Nine finalists in Mars 2020 rover naming contest Bayin Wu – Das Boot The oldest known meteorite strike? Animal life thriving in Fukushima radioactive zone An update on the new virus outbreak originating from China Trunk from Dragon recovered intact Taking back the arts to make them meaningful again Japan to establish its own military space unit Boeing abruptly exits DARPA’s experimental spaceplane project Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring January 20, 2020 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast January 21, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Fire during Firefly rocket engine test forces evacuations OSIRIS-REx completes close fly-over of Bennu touchdown site Russia again delays launch of Nauka module for ISS Martian pimples Sade – Your Love Is King Launch abort data suggests Dragon performed “flawlessly” SpaceX wins first new launch contract in 2020 NASA picks science payloads for 1st two unmanned private lunar landers The Democratic Party: Elections are bad, let’s end them! Gary Numan – Cars Airbus gets ESA as customer for its ISS commercial platform Coronavirus update January 24, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Boeing flies 777X for the first time Iran to launch two satellites soon? House authorization bill focuses on pork The beginning of chaos on Mars Chris Pritchard – World way: The City of LAX NASA picks Axiom to build three private commercial modules on ISS More evidence of ample shallow ice in Martian mid-latitudes More evidence Iran is about to launch a satellite Two abandoned satellites might collide Inexplicable ridges on Mars Another two hard radical Sanders campaign field workers Hillary Klug – Cotton Eyed Joe SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites Voyager 2 in safe mode GAO warns of more Webb delays First images from Inouye Solar Telescope Mystery of Prince Rupert’s Drop Two defunct satellites barely miss each other January 28, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Trump’s Mideast peace plan: What it really reveals Parker completes fourth solar flyby; sets new record Boeing budgets for extra unmanned Starliner test Why Bigelow passed on NASA bid for new ISS module A new Juno flyover movie above Jupiter More Martian pimples Honoring Churchill on anniversary of his funeral Update on coronavirus spread NASA signs agreement with private company to train private astronauts You Use a Cartridge Razor? Dump it! Rocket Lab successfully launches U.S. reconnaissance satellite Strange parallel grooves in Martian crater floor Cerutti Mastodon Discovery A Martian avalanche: before and after Crested Saguaro January 31, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russian satellite rendezvouses with U.S. military satellite Maxar wins NASA contract to build robot for assembling test large antenna dishes in orbit The moral and intellectual decline of American academic research Mock and Real Mars habitats on Earth How to spot a glacier on Mars Grace Thomas – Electro Swing Dance Freestyle Yutu-2 and Chang’e-5 complete 14th lunar day Congress gets first organizational plan for Space Force New simulations of Pluto’s atmosphere Residents recycle, Baltimore throws it out A historian’s testament to Rush Limbaugh Frozen lava that flowed from Elysium Mons On the radio Filming the Speed of Light SpaceX wins another NASA launch contract Momentus announces new customer for its cubesat upper stage services Bezos sells another $1.8 billion in Amazon stock SpaceX’s next Starship test flight will go almost eight miles high Europa Clipper faces budget overruns February 4, 2019 Zimmerman Space Show podcast The cliff at the end of Chasma Boreale on Mars Rhiannon Giddens – Wayfaring Stranger ISS crew returns to Earth New solar results from Parker First Virgin Orbit launch pending? Long March 5B arrives at launch site Russian Soyuz launches 34 OneWeb satellites Brendan Kavanagh – Mums, Kids, & Boogie Woogie February 5, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA safety panel raises more questions about Boeing and Starliner SpaceX might spin off Starlink with stock offering NASA delays commercial bidding process for its unmanned lunar landers A Chernobyl fungus that thrives on radiation Successful first light for CHEOPS space telescope A bullseye on Mars NASA confirms seriousness of 2nd Starliner software issue John Cougar – Ain’t Even Done With The Night Voyager-2 back in action The impact of coronavirus on China’s space industry Japan launches military reconnaissance satellite Iran fails in attempt to launch satellite Sunspot update: A tiny burst of activity that might mean something ULA’s Atlas 5 launches Solar Orbiter Martian dust devil! The terrible consequences of NOAA’s data tampering The Temptations – Just My Imagination NASA get boost in Trump proposed budget for 2021 Remnant moraine on Mars Scientists admit worst case global warming prediction won’t happen POTATO – The World’s First Smart Potato Trump proposes an increase in science spending in 2021 An update on Comet 2I/Borisov SpaceX hires Bill Gerstenmaier as consultant The range for exposed ice scarps on Mars keeps growing NASA breaks ground on new communications antenna A baffling repeating fast radio burst Democrats in VA and AZ issue a warning: “We will oppress you if you elect us!” Abraham Lincoln – an annual tribute Dragon capsule for first manned mission shipped to Florida Large glacier-filled crater/depression on Mars? Whitney Houston – Didn’t We Almost Have It All Anomaly during OSIRIS-REx flyover of secondary landing site Virgin Galactic relocates SpaceShipTwo Unity to New Mexico Engine failure during test for startup rocket engine company Images reveal changes in Betelgeuse’s shape as it has been dimming Justice Dept decides to allow McCabe to skip charges Carol Burnett Show – Singles Bar Rocket Lab gets launch contract for lunar cubesat Coronavirus update Successful launch today of Cygnus freighter to ISS February 14, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast On the radio February 16, 2020 Zimmerman/Task Force Gryphon podcast SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites; 1st stage landing fails America’s modern rocket industry illustrates the power of freedom Yuval Salomon – Sweet Child O’ Mine Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awake for their 15th lunar day Blue Origin opens rocket engine factory Jeff Bezos to spend $10 billion on “climate change” Chicago demonstrates the abject failure of Democratic Party policies China’s candidate landing site on Mars First Solar Orbiter instrument activated SpaceX signs deal to fly four tourists on Dragon Juno’s first measurement of water content on Jupiter Brazilian Orchestra medley Ariane 5 successfully launches two satellites MRO undergoing maintenance and software upgrade Martian wind-swept buried depressions Talking Heads – Burning Down the House February 18, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia and China launch satellites SpaceX begins assembling its next Starship test prototype Astronomers photograph baby stars in Orion Maiden flight of China’s Long March 5B rocket targeted for April Japan to send unmanned probe to Mars’ moon Phobos Harvard professor arrested for his work with China NOAA’s aging fleet of sun-observation satellites Pits indicating a Martian underground river? Yes, Prime Minister – The need to know As predicted, Betelguese’s dimming has ceased Yutu-2 finds rocks that appear young Ice-filled canyon on Mars? America’s Iron Giants Airbus to cut 2,362 jobs, citing weak space market Engineers to use InSight’s scoop to help digging process First SLS launch pushed back again to April 2021 SpaceX seeking $250 million more in investment capital New OSIRIS-REx close-up image of secondary asteroid landing site February 21, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space Force lobbies for $1 billion extra Watch a liberal lynch mob form and riot, in real time Quakes by InSight indicate Mars’ interior is active Confirmed: Betelguese is brightening, as predicted The B52’s – Love Shack NASA leaning towards long-duration flight for 1st Dragon mission College apologizes because teacher accurately quotes historical document Enclosed Martian canyon, filled with ice Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata Europe considering delaying ExoMars2020 two years SpaceX gets approval for Starship/Super Heavy factory in LA Virgin Galactic losses grow in second public report Building an artificial pond February 25, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Northrop Grumman completes first robotic docking to a satellite Sea Launch launch platform finally moving to Russia Starship moved to launch site Chinese scientists publish radar results from Chang’e-4 lander VIPER lunar rover delayed, NASA seeks new bids for delivering it to Moon The coming small satellite revolution First image of possible asteroid in orbit around the Earth a-ha – Take On Me Another professor arrested for lying about working with China Northrop Grumman completes test of Omega rocket 2nd stage SpaceX proposing big launch rate increase in Florida More SLS launches planned/proposed? Trump pushing for major FISA reform or he will let law expire The modern blacklist in climate science Review of Kepler data uncovers seventeen more possible exoplanets Peering into a Martian pit Teddy Swims – I can’t make you love me Photos prior to MEV-1 docking to Intelsat 901 satellite Falcon Heavy wins launch contract for NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission Explosion during static fire test of SpaceX’s Starship-SN1 prototype Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 complete 15th lunar day on Moon SLS likely launch mid- to late-2021 Glacial breakup on Mars OSIRIS-REx bypasses laser altimeter issue Astra scrubs first orbital launch Spandau Ballet – True ExoMars2020 parachute tests delayed until late March Summer at the Martian North Pole Spy Hippo discovers a Fish Spa! Blue Origin update on New Shepard and New Glenn Jupiter in glorious color Primary turnout numbers for Trump Trump refuses to renew FISA without changes Stalemate continues in Israel Mars rover Update: March 4, 2020 Upgrades to Deep Space Network to block commands to Voyager 2 Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard March 3, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Birth of a planetary nebula Protein molecules found in meteorite OSIRIS-REx makes closest reconnaissance of Bennu yet Japan suspends funding to TMT India’s next lunar landing attempt set for 2021 Florida to reconfigure Cape Canaveral roads to accommodate New Glenn DARPA finally picks Northrop Grumman for satellite servicing Coronavirus and the madness of crowds NASA dubs next Mars rover “Perseverance” Bucky Covington – Different World Axiom and SpaceX sign deal for flying commercial tourists to ISS Rolling boulders on Mars What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe SpaceX successfully launches cargo Dragon to ISS Curiosity reaches highest point yet on Mars Thank you! March 6, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches another GPS-type satellite Earth’s day was half hour shorter 70 million years ago Martian badlands On the radio Looking Glass – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) SpaceX raises $500 million for Starship, twice the amount planned China completes remote communications test of Mars rover The last cargo Dragon to berth with ISS using robot arm New inspector general report slams NASA’s SLS management Astronomers more precisely estimate the diameter of neutron stars Martian dust devil tracks come and go Hans Davis – Shadow Act Russia delays first 2020 Proton launch due to “component mismatch” Big budget cut for India’s manned space program House about to renew FISA with only cosmetic changes Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Our House ExoMars2020 rover delayed until 2022 March 10, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast An exoplanet where it rains iron Manned Dragon mission targeted for May First launch of ULA’s Vulcan on schedule for 2021 Sunspot update: The flatline resumes Black dunes and weird hills on Mars Idina Menzel – Tomorrow China on track for Mars launch in July? Santana – Soul Sacrifice Gateway dropped from NASA lunar landing plans Falcon 9 aborts automatically at T minus 0 March 13, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Monday at the non-existent Lunar & Planetary Science Conference Launch failure for China’s new Long March 7A rocket Arianespace suspends all launches from French Guiana due to COVID-19 Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy Russia successfully launches GPS-type Glonass satellite Sea Launch arrives in Russia Tuesday at the non-existent Lunar & Planetary Science Conference COVID-19: the unwarranted panic Celtic Woman – Faith’s Song SpaceX launches another sixty Starlink satellites More overruns in NASA’s SLS program, this time with the mobile launchers Secondary impacts in water ice on Mars Wednesday at the non-existent Lunar & Planetary Science Conference Comet C/2019 ATLAS brightening Magnetic Games – Spinning Magnets Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden passes at 88 French and American studies find drug that can treat COVID-19 March 17, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA’s inspector general finds more budget overruns at Artemis NASA confirms May target date for first manned Dragon flight SpaceX recovers both fairing halves from Starlink launch More Boca Chica residents move out, accepting SpaceX offers Thursday at the non-existent Lunar & Planetary Science Conference California: where politicians consider criminals their base and ordinary citizens their enemy Yes, Minister – Get some patients NASA shuts down all in-house work, suspending SLS/Orion testing NASA considering shutting down Curiosity in 2021 Inactive hot springs on Mars? Friday at the non-existent Lunar & Planetary Science Conference Justice Dept abandons Mueller indictments of Russian companies Two weeks under water OneWeb faces bankruptcy, even as it is about to launch more satellites The real facts about COVID-19 show the panic about it is absurd Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launches 34 more OneWeb satellites Webb telescope further delayed by COVID-19 Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awake for 16th lunar day Astra to try its first orbital launch again this week Another Chinese state-sponsored company about to launch orbitally Layers upon layers upon layers on Mars Power is what the COVID-19 government panic is really about Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction China launches three satellites with its Long March 2C rocket Bigelow lays off everyone Astra Space suffers failure during launch dress rehearsal Long March 5B launch still set for mid-April, despite Wuhan virus $1 trillion COVID-19 aid bill includes significant funds for foreign aid March 23, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Bezos’ Feb Amazon stock sale earned $3.4 billion, not $1.8 billion Martian plateaus and buttes European planetary missions go dark because of Wuhan virus B. J. Thomas – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry Rocket Lab suspends launches due to Wuhan virus NASA to use private enterprise for space communications Details of the Wuhan virus Congressional pork bill March 24, 2020 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Today COVID-19 made my doctor and I criminals Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man Dragon parachute test aborted SpaceX commercial launch for Argentina postponed because of COVID-19 COVID-19 is NOT going to overwhelm our healthcare system ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket successfully launches military satellite Party shuffling points to new Israeli Netanyahu government New radio telescope discovers many new Fast Radio Bursts Pork galore in Senate-passed COVID-19 “stimulus” bill TruthSurge – Open Arms March 25, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Mars: Volcanic, Glacial, or Fluvial? Quick fading of a Martian impact crater NASA awards SpaceX deal to provide cargo to Gateway Marmot Dam Removal OneWeb files for bankruptcy TMT protesters abandon camp due to Wuhan virus fears March 27, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Flu deaths appear to be plummeting as COVID-19 arrives Europe’s BepiColumbo mission to Mercury threatened by COVID-19 In the midst of Mars’ volcano country Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan – Don’t Lie To Me Stratolaunch now wants to build a reuseable hypersonic vehicle New York: Where politicians consider criminals their base and ordinary citizens their enemy It ain’t simple keeping a camera functioning properly in orbit around Mars IG report: FBI screwed up on every single FISA warrant application it submitted Total mortality is DOWN in Europe during Wuhan panic Rose Royce – Wishing On a Star Yutu-2 and Chang’e-4 complete 16h lunar day on Moon SpaceX prepares next Starship prototype; releases Starship user manual 2019 was a boom year for the commercial space industry NASA selects full crew for first operational Dragon mission Triple impact on Moon The lack of context during the Wuhan virus panic Enigmas on Mars Smarter Every Day – Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets States begin push to end voting at polls March 31, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Momentus wins contract with Taiwan university ESA resumes science operations on orbiting spacecraft SpaceX bans use of Zoom by employees First estimate of the cost of the Wuhan panic shutdown Shutdowns forcing hospitals to cut staff during Wuhan panic Skiing dry ice boulders on Mars Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time Predictions four to eleven times higher than actual COVID-19 hospitalizations Third Starship prototype collapses during tank pressure test Russia confirms launch delay to 2021 of Nauka module to ISS Sunspot update: tiny uptick in March activity Oscar Peterson Piano Lesson April 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Trump fires inspector general who sparked fake Ukraine whistleblower complaint More evidence that U.S. health system is not being overwhelmed by COVID-19 China tests parachutes to control 1st stage Astra furloughs and lays off a fifth of its workforce NOAA’s prediction for the next solar maximum Changing Mars COVID-19 model predictions continue to be too high Trump signs executive order supporting private ownership in space R. E. M. – Everybody Hurts Boeing to do second unmanned test flight of Starliner Big sections break off of interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Russia hostile to Trump declaration to promote private enterprise in space The 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 Weird flat plateau on Mars Lost freedoms and media lies Duo Siqueira Lima – Tico Tico no Fubá Wuhan panic causes Space Force to delay launch Comet ATLAS appears to be breaking apart Universe’s expansion rate found to differ in different directions A river canyon on Mars? IHME lowers its death prediction for Wuhan virus again Sean Altman – They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat Soyuz successfully launches three astronauts to ISS Rocket Lab tests 1st stage capture using helicopters A Long March 3B launch failure today Masten’s lunar lander wins NASA contract SpaceX moves forward on Starlink launch April 16 COVID-19 vs other causes of death New study suggests lockdowns did nothing to change epidemic growth Passover: Celebrating Freedom April 8, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast OSIRIS-REx to do sample-grab rehearsal at Bennu BepiColumbo successfully completes Earth flyby Failed past predictions from a COVID-19 “expert” The icy Phlegra Mountains: Mars’ future second city Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite 2, movements 3-4 LauncherOne gets Space Force contract Russians find serious problems with three Proton rockets UAE’s Mars probe ready for launch Boeing’s fall from grace at NASA April 10, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Failure on Apollo 13 Virgin Orbit completes capture-carry test of LauncherOne Large ozone hole forms over northern hemisphere for first time OSIRIS-REx’s sample grab location on Bennu A scientist picks apart the COVID-19 models, and finds them wanting Atom – The Great Gig in the Sky First manned Dragon mission slips to end of May Intuitive Machines reveals details of lunar landing mission Bloomberg News killed story, fired reporter, critical of China Seasonal avalanches in Martian dune gully Trump halts payments to WHO The Eagles – New Kid in Town State governments announce demands before releasing citizens from house arrest New changes to the brain found from long space missions OSIRIS-REx successfully completes touch-and-go rehearsal Confirmed: Comet ATLAS has broken apart New York falsely inflates COVID-19 death toll with no evidence Economy crashes in March due to Wuhan lockdowns Earth-sized exoplanet in habitable zone found in old Kepler data Baby Martian volcanoes Judge rules health dept must give names of all COVID-19 patients to police Katica Illényi – Once Upon a Time in the West Astronomers claim to have discovered most powerful supernova ever Space Force hypes unspecified Russian anti-satellite test Rocket Lab steals Arianespace customer Movie of OSIRIS-REx touch-and-go rehearsal Rover update: Curiosity heads downhill Trump bows to bureaucrats, unveils a never-ending 3-phase program to end shutdowns JC Penny faces bankruptcy due to Wuhan panic Best Buy furloughs 51,000 workers because of Wuhan panic shutdown Pat Metheny – So May It Secretly Begin Five million more applied for unemployment benefits last week April 15, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Clothing and cotton sales plummet 50% due to Wuhan panic Homebuilding market crashes due to Wuhan virus Splashdown of Apollo 13 Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 reactivated for 17th lunar day on Moon’s surface Space radiation may increase risk of cancer SpaceX reuses sections of damaged Starship prototype for next version First manned Dragon flight scheduled for May 27th Strange terrain in the Martian lowlands Economic index experienced biggest crash ever due to Wuhan panic Wuhan panic destroys flower business worldwide Study suggests COVID-19 death rate is far less than presently reported, comparable to flu Wuhan panic wipes out NY restaurant business Chop with Chris – Hand Carved Wooden Bowl In C Major Overall U.S. death rate is at a multi-year LOW More economic disasters due to government imposed shut downs April 17, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Unprecedented wave of evictions coming due to Wuhan panic Bankruptcy for Neiman Marcus because of government-imposed shutdown Disney to furlough 100K employees because of government-imposed shut downs Massachusetts study finds 1/3 of participants had already been infected with COVID-19, without symptoms Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov has an excess of carbon monoxide Russians slash their launch prices by 39% Study finds COVID-19 infecting homeless in large numbers, with few ill effects Social distancing and lockdowns killing craft beer industry Rock droplets hitting a Martian plain Price of oil crashes, goes negative First exoplanet imaged was nothing more than a debris cloud Rural hospitals in eastern Washington state face bankruptcy 100K airline jobs facing elimination due to Wuhan panic shut downs The Knack – My Sharona Cancer and heart patients dying because of government-imposed shut downs Clean energy industry faces loss of a half million jobs 8 million restaurant workers unemployed due to government-imposed shutdowns The real devastation from COVID-19: A destroyed economy imposed by government panic Claire Crosby – Can’t Help Falling In Love A reasoned look at masks and whether they really work Iran launches its first military satellite Dream Chaser’s wings arrive What We Should ALL Be Doing Right Now! Stucco on Mars SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites Ashley Campbell – Remembering The first complete geologic map of Moon Firefly signs deal with satellite broker Spaceflight Swarm and Momentus team up to launch and position satellites Wartime Radio Revue – Bei Mir Bist Du Shein April 22, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two NY studies suggest Wuhan flu death rate comparable to the flu Another 4.4 million are out of work this week SpaceX rolls out next Starship prototype China names its 2020 Mars mission Scientists fine tune the cause of the super-rotation of Venus’ atmosphere NASA’s safety panel rubberstamps May 27 manned Dragon launch Movie of OSIRIS-REx’s 1st landing rehearsal Clickspring – Ancient Tool Technology: The First Hardened Steel Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS The Justice and FBI players under suspicion for FISA illegalities Sea Launch project crushed by Putin government Of almost 3,300 prisoners infected with COVID-19, 96% have no symptoms Researchers: Miami COVID-19 infections could be 20x higher than estimated April 24, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast 4th Starship prototype passes tank pressure test More data from interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov as it zipped past Sun in December A Martian lava flood plain Arizona Governor Ducey to delay end of lockdown? Confirmed: Almost 15% of NY population infected with COVID-19 A Trip Through New York City in 1911 Europe turns to private enterprise for future space transportation The most tragic case of governmental, medical, and media malpractice in the history of the world Global warming crowd demands censorship of documentary by Michael Moore Hubble photographs break-up of Comet ATLAS Freedom rallies planned nationwide for May 1st Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire Long March 5B moved to launchpad ICE & FBI agents took bribes US 1st quarter GDP crashes Perseverance’s helicopter named Ingenuity Fascist America: Brought to you by our elected officials April Yang – Tank Drum music Ducey extends Arizona shut down two weeks Arianespace to resume launches in June Rocket Lab completes new launchpad at Wallops Small rocket start-ups disqualified by SBA for Wuhan flu relief loans Air Force study rubber-stamps Air Force desire to limit launch companies New technical problems for SLS? Yutu-2 and Chang’e-4 complete 17th lunar day on Moon NASA contract award for manned lunar landers rejects SLS The Sun fluctuates far less than other similar stars New documents prove FBI targeted Flynn and framed him Starlink satellites, not aliens, are those strings of lights in the night sky In-person voting in Wisconsin produced no new Wuhan flu cases The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See April 29, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Car sales continue crash in April Curiosity and other Mars orbiters threatened by budget cuts NY funeral directors: Government is padding Wuhan flu deaths Europa’s mysterious stained grooves Scientists better constrain time frame of Mars’ active dynamo Funding breakdown for three lunar landing contracts Taiwan timelapse NASA delays 1st SLS launch again SpaceShipTwo Unity makes first New Mexico glide flight SpaceX successfully completes Dragon parachute tests Sierra Nevada names its first Dream Chaser spacecraft “Tenacity” NASA buys 18 new space shuttle engines for SLS for $1.79 billion Comparing the Wuhan flu with the 1968 Hong Kong flu Japan tests new engine for new rocket A “gallery of snitches, busybodies, and employees who rat out their own neighbors and employers.” Experts now admit COVID-19 mortality rate much lower then predicted May 1, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The edge of Mars’ north polar ice cap First Fast Radio Burst discovered inside the Milky Way Virginia now double-counting Wuhan flu cases Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden Successfully first launch of China’s Long March 5B New capacity limits will destroy most remaining restaurants A failed star with cloud bands like Jupiter’s California building “army” to track those infected with COVID-19 The eroding edge of Mars’ largest volcanic ash field Trump administration drafting new space agreement to supersede Outer Space Treaty Tommy James & the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion Blue Origin to deliver first BE-4 engines to ULA this summer The closest black hole: 1,000 light years away? China has problem with test “cargo return capsule” Successful static fire Raptor engine test on 4th Starship prototype UAE’s Mars probe arrives in Japan for launch in July Arctic ozone hole closes I will NOT wear a mask NY mayor forbids protests Tony Bennett – Fly Me to the Moon China: All well for manned test capsule NASA considering consolidating two Gateway launches into one Democrats trying to thwart NASA’s commercial return to the moon Pennsylvania: 79 average age of COVID-19 deaths; 67% in nursing homes A relaxed crater on Mars I am ashamed of the police Rose Royce – Love don’t live here anymore May 6, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Study: 50% of all small businesses to vanish due to Wuhan lock downs Chinese manned test capsule returns to Earth “A naked abuse of authority.” Evidence suggests Ryugu was once closer to Sun The epidemic model that panicked the world was junk World’s First Air Hijacking Sunspot update: The deep minimum continues Musk: Tesla leaving California due to government-imposed shut down May 8, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Long March 5B’s core stage might hit the ground in uncontrolled reentry The salty liquid water on Mars Bennu’s equatorial craters House FISA court reauthorization reaches Senate California Tesla factory reopens, defying local officials Eric Clapton – Layla Google routinely hands your smart phone data to the police Senior facilities account for 39% of all Wuhan flu deaths Long March 5B core stage returns to Earth over Atlantic Ocean China’s Kuaizhou-1A smallsat rocket launches two satellites Branson selling 25% of Virgin Galactic shares to save airline business Another professor arrested for lying about his Chinese ties Lock down failure A Brief History of Toilet Paper Tank in abandoned Russian upper stage explodes, producing space junk NASA signs deal with Russians for one Soyuz seat to ISS Parker extends length of science operations during upcoming fifth solar fly-by The blobby wettish flows of Mars Kevin James – Out of Touch List of Obama officials who illegally used wiretaps to spy on Americans Our Big Bear Family May 12, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Supermassive black hole binary flares as predicted Commission: U.S. should increase its severe limits on Chinese space contacts The epidemic has passed its peak Senate approves FISA renewal Texas business reopens in defiance of shut down with armed security Flash from a 2050 news report: Strange forgotten legal document found in Washington ruins Another scientist arrested for failing to disclose ties to China Peaches & Herb – Reunited China a major investor in World View OSIRIS-REx’s landing spot on the asteroid Bennu The uncertainties of mask use demand that no one be forced to wear them Yes, Minister – The Rhodesia Solution Large majority of COVID-19 infections are asymptomatic The Artemis Accords: The Trump administration’s effort to bypass the Outer Space Treaty Atlas 5 launches X-37B spacecraft Yutu-2 awakes for 18th lunar day on far side of the Moon May 15, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast From Pennsylvania: more proof the lock downs were insane SpaceX delays Starlink launch to put manned mission first China’s space station The edge of an eroded buried Martian glacier Judge declares Oregon governor’s Wuhan flu edicts “null and void”; Overridden by state supreme court Luca Stricagnoli – Sweet Child O’ Mine Oregon fines salon owner, goes after her children The fascist states within the United States A shadowed ice patch on Mars NASA head of manned space abruptly resigns LaLa Brooks – Then He Kissed Me & Da Doo Ron Ron NASA names WFIRST after its first head of astronomy, Nancy Roman Fire during most recent Starship prototype test Dawn at the Moon’s North Pole Japan launches HTV cargo ship to ISS OSIRIS-REx rehearsal and landing rescheduled Michael Moschen – The Triangle Voters throw out all Democrats in city council in Virgina May 19, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Palestinians threaten to end West Bank agreements with Israel LauncherOne first launch set for May 24 Almost lost: The flag that SpaceX astronauts will claim on ISS First Ariane 6 launch likely delayed to 2021 British company completes 1st rocket test in the UK in 50 years A call for India to exit the Moon Treaty A Jupiter Trojan asteroid spouts a tail Google steals; distorts search results to hide it Trump exiting Open Skies treaty The only opposition that will matter to today’s lock down fascism will be opposition expressed in the ballot box Dani Wilde – Deeper than Black Russians successfully launch military satellite “Spots” orbiting Milky Ways central black hole Star to get within a trillion miles of Sun in 1.4 million years On the radio, today and Sunday More pits found on Mars SpaceX successfully completes static fire dress rehearsal of manned Dragon Falcon 9 Patrick Acton – Matchstick artist U.S. universities have pocketed $6 billion from hostile enemy countries CDC confirms COVID-19 tiny death rate, comparable to flu May 22, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Florida’s successful response to COVID-19, based on the DATA Court rules fossils belong to landowners More good news on the Wuhan flu front Russia says it will oppose Artemis Accords Launch date for UAE’s Hope Mars orbiter set In space exploration, freedom wins again LauncherOne flight terminates early West Point Band and Glee Club – Mansions of the Lord Weather improves for tomorrow’s manned Dragon launch COVID-19 deaths likely inflated by a minimum of 25% Almost all COVID-19 deaths occur in long-term nursing homes Democratic election fraud documented in Texas Democratic election fraud documented in Michigan Amazing layers The health dangers of wearing a mask improperly Peter Bence – Africa Piano Symphony OneWeb requests FCC approval for 48,000 satellite constellation Virgin Orbit provides update on LauncherOne failure SpaceX’s first Starship tourist customer accused of tax evasion Justice Dept recommends Trump veto of FISA bill SpaceX’s first manned Dragon launch scrubbed due to weather Weird central peak in Martian crater Melanie – Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma May 26, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX raises $346 million more in investment capital OSIRIS-REx completes close fly-over of backup sample grab site New observations confirm Earth-like planet orbiting nearest star A Martian crater with a straight edge Rover update: The state of Curiosity’s wheels Poll: Hawaiians favor construction of TMT by wide margins Doctors admit: Masks are nothing more than “symbols”, do little Making wood function like home heating oil Weather for Saturday’s SpaceX launch is presently poor Rocket Lab to resume launches in June New Starship engine test; launch license issued China reveals its space station launch schedule That Jupiter Trojan comet-like asteroid was neither an asteroid nor a Trojan Chandra captures black hole outburst over eight months The history of the U.S.’s giant off-road land trains More evidence masks are merely a symbolic gesture Explosion during test of 4th Starship prototype SpaceX and NASA will reassess weather for launch in morning Magic of Making – Glass Marbles New Zealand confisicates guns; gun crime goes up China launches its new quick-launch Long March 11 rocket Fuel leak in Russian rocket in French Guiana “The Trump-Russia investigation was a politically driven fraud” SpaceX’s first manned SUCCESSFUL Dragon launch Another coup leader at the FBI forced to resign Dragon docks with ISS; astronauts reveal its name is Endeavour China’s Long March 2D launches Earth observation satellite May 29, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Thar’s ice in them Martian hills! On the radio Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely Musk confirms cause of most recent Starship prototype failure Smallest satellite yet detects exoplanet June 1, 2020 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast Second exoplanet confirmed orbiting Proxima Centauri New proposal to end the “qualifified immunity” held by police The strange squashed ridges at the basement of Mars Forty Fingers – Bohemian Rhapsody The coming death of America Live feed of tonight’s SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink launch American Kristallnacht The Ides Of March – Vehicle ArianeGroup developing new rocket engine A detailed update on SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation Exoplanet in Earth-like orbit circling Sun-type star Rethinking the theories that explain some supernovae InSight mole team reports some digging success June 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast An exposed dry waterfall on Mars Billy Gibbons – La Grange Bennu’s forbidding gravelly surface Vera Lynn – The White Cliffs Of Dover & We’ll Meet Again Northrop Grumman wins contract to build Gateway habitation module June 5, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New data suggests COVID-19 is weakening in deadliness Minneapolis city council will disband police force A Catholic archbishop chooses sides, and picks Trump A gun-control Democrat in Chicago calls for defunding the police Sunspot update: The deep minimum deepens STØDIG: Exploring the Arctic on a Repurposed Lifeboat NASA endorsement allows SpaceX to shift focus to Starship A global map of rockfalls on the Moon ULA on schedule for maiden flight of Vulcan in early 2021 OSIRIS-REx spots sun-caused erosion on Bennu “Insane” & “Mad rush” to escape New York & San Francisco Kenny Rogers & The First Edition – Something’s Burning NASA aiming for late July/early August Dragon crew return Scientists to appease racist Black Lives Matter movement Parker successfully completes fifth solar fly-by S7 now in “negotiations” to sell Sea Launch to Russian government India to give private space access to ISRO facilities Fading Martian slope streaks Kodo – O-Daiko Chinese launch and Rocket Lab scrub June 10, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astrobotic wins contract to land VIPER rover at Moon’s south pole NASA confirms Webb launch delayed again India’s first manned mission faces delays, caused by COVID-19 NASA IG: Bolden misused NASA resources after leaving agency Trump had better do something soon New Horizons sees stellar parallax Marble race New analysis of COVID-19 death rate ranks it the same as “a strong seasonal flu” Isidis Basin, on whose margin Perseverance will roam Help scientists plan Curiosity’s future travels Seattle fire station to become “community center for black residents” Chinese military officer arrested trying to leave U.S. JJ Cale & Leon Russell – Roll On/No Sweat Successful Rocket Lab launch Successful SpaceX launch Head of NASA’s commercial program picked as chief of manned space Dozens of scientists forced out because of foreign ties, mostly with China Interstellar suborbital launch ends in failure June 12, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Deciphering the strange geology of Mars — or anything! Cassini evidence suggests volcanoes on Titan Lego Antikythera Mechanism Next Rocket Lab launch scheduled only three weeks after last launch Trace Gas Orbiter detects oxygen layer in Martian atmosphere SpaceX recovers both reused fairings from most recent launch The coming final flight of the shuttle’s solid rocket booster segments Antares’ vast blobby atmosphere Persecution is now cool! Tedeschi Trucks Band – Any Day China launches Earth observation satellite Astronomers discover giant arc spanning a third of the night sky NOAA awards contract to private company for solar observatory Yutu-2 to resume travels after day of rest SpaceX hiring engineers for building floating Starship spaceport U.S. & U.K. sign space agreement Astronomers discover pulsar thought to be only two centuries old A fast radio burst that beats every sixteen days Enigmatic layering and chasms on Mars Etta James – At Last June 16, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra schedules next launch attempt Three Starship prototypes in line for testing Two new multi-wavelength Hubble images of planetary nebulae New Florida company to offer stratospheric tourist balloon flights Three Dog Night – Mama told me not to come A bunch of new contracts for smallsat rocket companies A gravel pile floating in space that might hit the Earth Spitfire – ‘The Michael Jordan of Dogs’ DOJ attorney refuses to resign as announced by Attorney General Barr Oklahoma Supreme Court gives Trump permission to hold political rally June 19, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Truth, Justice, and the American Way The blind continuing panic over COVID-19 Dale Watson – I Lie When I Drink China’s Long March 3B launches GPS-type satellite Trump official skeptical of point-to-point suborbital transportation Local authorities in Scotland have approved spaceport concept Perseverance: update on launch rehearsal and helicopter More strange terrain in the Martian “Death Valley” Laura Ruhí Vidal – Theme from Star Trek Do high water and design flaws threaten China’s Three Gorges Dam? Ocasio-Cortez wins primary with 70% of vote Astronomers claim discovery of six exomoons Michael Mann finally loses in DC court Relativity Space gets Iridium launch contract SpaceX tests 7th Starship test prototype to failure Made in Space purchased by venture capital company Redwire Appeals court orders hack judge to dismiss Flynn case A host of new solar systems Obama took lead from beginning on Flynn frame-up Ink In Motion The press continues to lie about COVID-19 to generate fear June 23, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Perseverance launch delayed two days India’s space agency creates new bureaucracy to encourage commercial space Axiom hires European company to help build private ISS module Two super-Earths found orbiting nearby red dwarf star The Mamas & The Papas – Monday Monday COVID-19 hospitalizations dropping across the board Russia signs deal to for first space tourist spacewalk Privately-built Japanese smallsat successfully tests new technology Dragon capsule on ISS doing better than expected UK to bid for purchase of bankrupt OneWeb Extensive fraud found in New Jersey mailed ballots Biden would use presidential power to force everyone to wear masks California Democrats vote to allow all forms of discrimination The rediscovery of Leonardo da Vinci’s lost “Salvator Mundi” Some quick and easy evidence proving masks are unhealthy Sierra Nevada starts installing thermal tiles on Tenacity NASA tests SLS backup tank to failure June 26, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Yutu-2 travels 62 feet during 19th lunar day Politicians continue to lie about COVID-19 to generate fear Masks = virtue signaling Russia to lower launch price of new Angara rocket A minor rill on the Moon When Michael Caine met John Wayne Giant dark starspots explain Betelgeuse’s dimming last year NASA awards Northrop Grumman contract for more SLS solid rocket boosters Calling this exoplanet alien is an understatement With Americans under attack where are Trump and the Republicans? SpaceX successfully launches GPS satellite for Space Force Paul Revere and the Raiders – Kicks Perseverance launch delayed to July 30, 2020 Starship prototype #5 passes cryogenic test Russia to consider building reusable stages for Angara Space Force restructures/reduces former Air Force command structure SpaceX’s reusable first stages and their dramatic impact on the bottom line Boeing’s Starliner aces parachute test Firefly honors the man who saved it from bankruptcy Visa blacklists business for having incorrect opinions Two wedding cakes on Mars Korman & Conway – Undercover cops On the radio June 30, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: Behind the Black Blue Origin delivers its first BE-4 rocket engine China announces target launch date for its Tianwen-1 Mars rover Defense Department cancels small rocket contract awards Arianespace delays Vega launch seven more weeks Aurora – Animal Courts twice today rule against COVID-19 over reach Midnight repost: “What ever you do, don’t ‘shut up.'” China launches Earth observation satellite United Kingdom partnership buys bankrupt OneWeb LightSail-2 extends mission New storm outbreak on Jupiter NPR: “Coronavirus is more common and less deadly” A hanging crater on Mars Are health agencies changing criteria to fake higher COVID-19 infection numbers? Thomas Jefferson — The meaning of the Declaration of Independence Midnight repost: The Fantasy of Extreme Weather How Beautiful We Were The Declaration of Independence Kate Smith – God Bless America Rocket Lab launch failure Midnight repost: “We stand for freedom.” COVID-19 update: CDC says virus close to losing epidemic status China launches another Earth observation satellite Midnight repost: Obama’s legacy of hate Israel launches reconnaissance satellite It appears we will have a comet show in July! Update on Starship test program: First tests for prototype #5 Sunspot update: More evidence of an upcoming weak maximum Have you fallen in love with your fear of COVID-19? Gomberg Seltzer Works – Brooklyn’s Last Seltzer Men July 3, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: NASA, the federal budget, and common sense Air Force looking to buy flying cars Rover update: Curiosity’s future journey COVID-19 is dying; no evidence of second wave On the radio July 5, 2020 Zimmerman podcast on Task Force Gryphon Sheku Kanneh-Mason – The Swan Midnight repost: No obscenities on Behind the Black InSight’s mole is bouncing again Proposed House NASA budget flat, with some surprising support for Artemis Results from Yutu-2 determine “gel-like” rocks are impact melt NASA completes Starliner review, finds more issues Putin gov’t arrests journalist working as advisor to Roscomsos July 7, 2020 Zimmerman Space Show appearance Spring at the Martian South Pole Roxana Küwen – 5 balls hands and feet Midnight repost: Mars! China launches communications satellite Solar Orbiter operational, first images to be released Falcon 9 landing leg falls during retraction Genocide is coming to America Cagney & Hope – Dance routine July 8, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: Switching to Linux Launch failure for China’s new Kuaizhou-11 rocket COVID-19 and launchpad issues delay Ariane 6 A great hike to do on Mars! Robert John – Sad Eyes Police seize guns of Missouri couple used to defend their home from rioters Midnight repost: Al Gore and the silencing of debate Problems at Europa Clipper Russia’s next module for ISS passes tests July 10, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: The think tank culture of Washington COVID-19 update: Though deaths up slightly, CDC says outbreak no longer qualifies as epidemic Midnight repost: Doing the Grand Canyon right Comet Neowise: NOW is the time to go see it SpaceX about to set reuse record for fastest turnaround ever Student senate condemns student for daring to criticize the Black Lives Matter organization The mask of ignorance Martian swirls and curlicues Update on the investigation of the coup attempt against Trump In-flight camera analysis of Soyuz launch abort in October 2018 Midnight repost; The utter childishness of modern intellectual discourse Launch delays for SpaceX and UAE More indications of the decline of Russia’s space effort A journalist blasts the New York Times in resignation letter Monument Valley on Mars Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic Jerry Jeff Walker – Mr Bojangles Fake BBC report: Population to crash by end of century Midnight repost: The Lie that is Orion Northrop Grumman launches U.S. reconnaissance satellites Martian acne? Marcel Remy – 94 years old and back on the summit July 14, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Seismic signal from recent Martian impact detected by InSight? Midnight repost: A visitor’s look at Israel IG report: NASA’s Orion is a program of lies Solar Orbiter’s first images, the closest ever of Sun Starship prototype being prepped for first hop Deaths from COVID-19 in hospitals is dropping NASA confirms Webb launch delay to October 2021 Ballot harvesting in Oregon’s vote-by-mail system demonstrates Democratic strategy to steal elections Omar in trouble in Minnesota? Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You Midnight repost: It’s the hate, not the violence Launch update on Mars missions Victory in NY for socialist/communist Actual data: COVID-19 is only a threat to the old AND sick More polygons on Mars! Louie Schwartzberg – The beauty of pollination NASA: Dragon crew will return to Earth August 2nd Midnight repost: Murder for the sake of climate idealogy British Airways retires 747 fleet Obama misused intelligence agencies for years to spy on political opponents July 17, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: The uncertainty of climate science UAE’s Hope Mars Orbiter successfully launched No TMT construction until 2021, according to its builders More COVID-19 good news Midnight repost: The absolute uncertainty of climate science Why the UAE’s Hope Mars Orbiter is really a US mission for UAE’s students Texas Republican Party ousts leader to give Allen West the job SpaceX successfully launches South Korean military satellite St. Louis couple charged for defending their home from trespassers MeTrónomoS – One Small Step Midnight repost: A flag in the dust The magnetic field of a spiral galaxy SpaceX successfully catches both fairings from a launch Active volcanoes on Venus? Utopia Planitia, the prime landing site for China’s Tianwen-1 Mars rover Tianwen-1 launch set for July 23rd Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue Midnight repost: Shut down fascism in the Smoky Mountains After releasing its Ryugu samples Hayabusa-2’s mission will continue Rover update: Curiosity pauses to drill Denying Americans the simple pursuit of happiness Blind Melon – No Rain Tianwen-1 successfully launched, on its way to Mars Midnight repost: Elon Musk and the forgotten word Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS July 21, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Moving ripples on Mars Cubesat uses thruster to avoid collision Break in fuel line caused LauncherOne failure First image of multi-exoplanets around young sunlike star A July 4th Hubble image of Saturn Slip-sliding away – on Mars Study: Heaviest social media users enjoy hurting others Marcin Patrzalek – Asturias Midnight repost: Squeal like a pig Dragon update for the ongoing and next mission Astra ships next rocket to Alaska for launch NASA’s safety panel expresses concerns about Starliner SpaceX to raise another billion in private investment capital Covington teenager settles with Washington Post Penn Republicans surrendering to mail-in voting Today’s fake news in space Another university researcher arrested for spying for China It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World – Then & Now Midnight repost: Freedom dying China launches Earth observation satellite Watching the splashdown of the first manned Dragon capsule Northrop Grumman about to launch second mission extension robot China admits Three Gorges Dam deformed under flood pressure Midnight repost: Buy dumb! July 24, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: “If you have wrongthink, you will not be allowed.” Martian eroding ridges amid brain terrain Smarter Every Day – Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics Midnight repost: “They’re coming for you next.” Weather good for July 30th launch of Perseverance NASA announces third Dragon flight crew COVID-19: Bad policy rules! Alanis Morissette – Uninvited Midnight repost: A society run by mob rule Glacier country on Mars John Lennon & Elton John – Whatever Gets You Thru The Night Live stream of Perseverance launch tomorrow Academia proves it can fake presidential speeches Midnight repost: American Kristallnacht ULA’s Atlas-5 successfully launches Perseverance to Mars Neutron star left over from Supernova 1987A? Astronomers find freshly fallen meteorites based on tracking their fall House rejects Artemis; Senate funds Artemis Perseverance’s planned journey in Jezero Crater Russia’s Proton rocket launches two communication satellites Manned Dragon return on August 2nd threatened by weather Robots July 29, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: A scientist’s ten commandments Yutu-2 completes 20th lunar day on Moon Starship fifth prototype set for first 500 foot hop Jupiter’s south pole New model predicting solar flares is 56% accurate Black Rifle Coffee – The Star Spangled Banner Electrical disconnect caused Rocket Lab’s July 4th launch failure Midnight repost: The real meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image Live stream of Dragon undocking and splashdown July 31, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russians sign deal to fly two tourists to ISS Endeavour safely splashes down Private Japanese lunar lander redesigned, flight delayed one year Study: Mars’ meandering canyons formed under ice Sunspot update: Hints of the next maximum Masks, social distancing, and mass hysteria The Cleverlys – Born To Be With You Starship hop today? Virgin Galactic again delays first commercial flight The dry barren plains of Tyrrhena Terra Fifth Starship prototype flies! Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman – Simba Government routinely warned against mask use — before it was political Out hiking Update on China’s future and on-going interplanetary missions Scientists make first rough estimate of Mars’ internal structure Lightning and mushballs on Jupiter Gunhild Carling – Jazz on a bagpipe August 4, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Filled and distorted craters on Mars China launches Earth observation satellite Astronomers use Hubble to detect ozone on Earth Jeff Bezos sells $3 billion more in Amazon stock SpaceX and ULA get launch contracts from SES Study: Lava tubes on Mars and the Moon will be gigantic California & Space Force to encourage private launches at Vandenberg Slushy floor of southern Martian crater? What do you do when all four engines on a 747 fail in flight? SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites OSIRIS-REx preps for final rehearsal of sample grab Russia to ship Nauka to Baikonur launch site August 10 Hayabusa-2’s future asteroid targets The hateful violent Antifa/Black Lives Matter rioters Ascraeus Mons, Mars’ second highest mountain Air Force limits future launch bidding to SpaceX and ULA Kid Kyle & The Students – So Young European health officials: Masks are useless, maybe a health problem Dentists: Serious health issues from overuse of masks Thank you for your support! Air Force terminates development contracts to ULA, Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Cryovolcanism on Ceres still ongoing? It ain’t the national elections in November that matter Natalie Cole & Nat King Cole – Unforgettable August 7, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast August 7, 2020 Zimmerman/Finding Genius podcast SpaceX to build resort near Boca Chica “The disease may recede, but the stigma lingers.” TESS completes primary mission The edge of Mars’ south polar layered cap Snapped cable damages Arecibo radio telescope Blind Willie Johnson – Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) SpaceX prepares sixth Starship prototype for hop Martian sand traps and elongated dunes The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Endeavour at Cape, being prepped for next flight OSIRIS-REx completes closest sample grab rehearsal The four companies (one a Chinese government operation) aiming for first orbital launch in 2020 Betelgeuse dimming caused by outburst Giant impact covered almost half of Gandymede’s surface Engineers recharge Ingenuity’s batteries on its way to Mars UAE to establish full diplomatic ties to Israel Catastrophes on Mars and Earth Ivashka and Baba-Yaga SpaceX begins first tests of Starship’s thermal tiles Minor FBI official pleads guilty of altering evidence in Russian collusion hoax Corroded Martian southern highlands Luke Aikins – Sky diving without a parachute from 25,000 Feet Ariane 5 launches three payloads into orbit NASA targets October 23rd for next manned Dragon flight Criminal investigation begun against former NASA manned program head SpaceX ups fund-raising effort from one to two billion Another Starship/construction update at Boca Chica Skyrora completes first test launch from Iceland Oumuamua wasn’t made of hydrogen ice Juno’s 28th fly-by of Jupiter Bottom edge of Martian glacier? 2CELLOS – Mombasa More data from Sweden demonstrates failure of lock downs everywhere else SpaceX launches three commercial plus more Starlink satellites Rocket Lab planning private Venus mission Stanford drops basic admissions tests for applicants Mars: A small volcano at the base of a big volcano Salut Salon – Competitive Foursome Conservative firebrand Loomer easily wins Republican primary Australia finally okays Hayabusa-2 capsule return Tiny asteroid sets record for closest fly-by of Earth Majestic dunes on Mars Another SLS screw-up related to Europa Clipper Hope completes first course correction on trip to Mars Nauka finally arrives at launch site, thirteen years late Movie of OSIRIS-REx’s last rehearsal before sample grab The Association – Cherish August 18, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Musk: 100+ reuses of Falcon 9 1st stages possible Dying Democratic Cities Tests this weekend to pinpoint slow leak on ISS The Mash Report – Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying “Hello” UK spaceport in north Scotland approved Chinese company successfully completes 300 meter hop of first stage Blue Origin-led partnership delivers lunar lander mockup to NASA Russia to continue bilateral space negotiations with U.S. Mars: On the floor of Valles Marineris Hubble photographs Comet NEOWISE New analysis: COVID-19 was already widespread before the lock downs The Bee Gees – Jive Talkin’ August 20, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ULA’s Vulcan rocket: problems with Blue Origin’s rocket engine China’s Long March 2D rocket launches Earth observation satellite COVID-19: The epidemic is ending, why do government restrictions remain? John Downer Productions – Half a billion monarch butterflies Another professor arrested for lying about ties to China Four American launches in the four days Russia to spend $470 million to restore Sea Launch Sixth Starship prototype completes static fire engine test A nuclear battery that never needs charging? Report: Astronomy threatened by satellite constellations The colors of Mars The Who – You Better You Bet Virgin Galactic searching for profits outside of space tourism Wormlike glacier on Mars NASA/Boeing set summer ’21 for first manned Starliner mission Five charts prove the continuing COVID-19 panic unwarranted The view from the cockpit What OSIRIS-REx will grab from the asteroid Bennu in October Delta 4 Heavy launch scrubbed Astronomers discover three merging supermassive black holes UAE’S Hope Mars Orbiter images Mars Skylab astronaut Gerry Carr passes away at 88 Canada proposes new global treaty to control mining in space Hubble maps giant gas halo around Andromeda It is the PARTY of Biden that must lose big in November More glaciers and eroding gullies on Mars Billy Preston – Will It Go Round In Circles August 26, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Democratic voters swamp CSPAN to say they are switching to Trump Five American launches in two days! NASA’s first Orbiting Geophysical Observatory to burn up in atmosphere FCC approves expansion of OneWeb constellation to 2,000 satellites SpaceX wins launch contract for unmanned lunar lander Curiosity captures a dust devil Cracks and scallops on the lowland plains of Mars Boeing’s CEO vows to hire based on race, not qualifications AI software beats real pilot in simulated dogfight Another Chinese national arrested for spying Foster Brooks Roasts Don Rickles ULA’s Delta 4 Heavy: Launch abort at T-3 seconds tonight Confirmed: SpaceX plans two launches for tomorrow Problem with InSight’s weather station SpaceX scrubs first launch today due to weather August 28, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor SpaceX scrubs Starship prototype hop SpaceX successfully launches Argentina satellite Rocket Lab successfully launches a commercial radar satellite What really happened this past weekend in American rocketry Revisiting Mars’ glacier country Radiohead – Creep COVID-19 is simply not life-threatening A collapsed Martian crater in a glacier? The History Guy – Dandelions and Civilization COVID-19 illnesses after half million people attend Sturgis rally: almost none Musk gives update on Starship/Super Heavy The longest lava tube in the solar system? A nation of control freaks Biggest black hole merger yet detected by gravitational waves COVID-19 numbers surge after mask mandate in Hawaii Puddles Pity Party – Stairway To Gilligan’s Island Arianespace’s Vega rocket successfully launches 53 satellites SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launches 60 Starlink satellites Northrop Grumman successfully tests SLS solid rocket booster SpaceX attempting another Starship hop today FAA issues Wallops Island launch license to Rocket Lab Another successful Starship prototype hop Bright-tipped perplexing terrain on Mars Luna Lee – Sultans Of Swing A star with giant misaligned rings China launches its version of X-37B Rocket Lab reveals it also launched its own satellite on August 30th Newly upgraded solar telescope sees first light InSight has buried its Mole The icy Erebus Mountains near where Starship will land on Mars September 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast September 3, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Three Dog Night – Eli’s Coming China successfully lands its reusable version of the X-37B China launches another remote sensing satellite; crashes 1st stage near homes Update on Starship development India sets early 2021 for launch of lunar lander/rover Sunspot update: More evidence of an upcoming maximum Strange glacial flow features on Mars? The Highwaymen – Highwayman Astronomers look at one patch of sky and see no signs of alien life Russia wins spacesuit contract for India’s Gaganyaan manned mission Sweden declares victory over COVID-19 State Dept employee destroyed evidence in Russian collusion hoax Another pit on Mars! The Democratic Party: The party of riots, looting, and stolen elections Peter Frampton – Do You Feel Like We Do NASA solicits lunar landers to bid on bringing science instruments to Moon Bennu tosses particles from its surface routinely The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work A Martian starburst spider Larkin Poe – Black Betty No coronavirus illnesses after 1,000 HS football games The mystery of rust on the Moon “We quarantined the healthy, and we exposed the sick.” Sharp Martian ridges sticking up from the dust Texas sees 400% increase in homeschooling Northrop Grumman shuts down Omega rocket program ULA pinpoints cause of Delta launch abort, reschedules launch Boeing strikes deal to avoid harsher ethics probe in NASA’s lunar lander scandal John Ford’s The Searchers September 9, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA to buy lunar mined material from private companies Astra scrubs launch attempt Japan delays launch of new rocket one year September 11, 2001 through the Eyes of a Child CDC admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19 The alien Red Planet and the scientific method Another Arab country normalizes relations with Israel Camille and Kennerly – Metallica’s “One” Astra’s first orbital launch test fails China’s Kuaizhou-1A rocket fails at launch September 11, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Tiny amount of rare chemical found on Venus; it is NOT a sign of life Next Starship test flight to go to 60,000 feet The frozen and changing mid-latitudes of Mars Natalie Merchant – Wonder China launches rocket from ocean launch platform Japan chooses Hayabusa-2’s next asteroid target College English Department to only accept students studying “Black Studies” Empty Chinese apartment complex overrun with plants and mosquitoes Trump: He kept his promises Scientists declare solar minimum over, with next sunspot maximum coming Unexplored Mars Robots playing soccer Seven weeks after mask mandate, 40% of Ohio counties show an INCREASE in COVID-19 Martian crater filled with lava California wildfire threatens Wilson Observatory Astronomers detect the first exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf ULA reveals Chinese-owned company attempted to steal rocket data Umbilical Brothers – The Flat Nashville authorities cover up proof bars & restaurants do not spread COVID-19 Anti-maskers invade Target, demanding everyone “Take off that mask!” Dynetics’ manned lunar lander requires multiple launches and in-space refueling Modern fascist America: No mask, no healthcare Practically no COVID-19 illnesses among professional athletes Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger September 16, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab completes first full launch dress rehearsal at Wallops Hubble snaps new hi-res photo of Jupiter NASA reorganizes its manned space bureaucracy Due to Wuhan panic, India might launch no rockets in 2020 Reality show to fly contestant to ISS SpaceX raises Falcon Heavy launch price for U.S. military A hint of unexpected fresh ice on Enceladus Les Paul & Mary Ford – There’s no place like home Mt Wilson Observatory survives wildfire Members-only resort club teams up with Space Perspective for stratospheric balloon rides First manned Artemis Moon mission might not go to south pole September 18, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 4B launches ocean observation satellite Rocks from Vesta on Bennu? A UV aurora found on Comet 67P/C-G Martian channels within Martian channels Despite fading epidemic governments vow to maintain lockdowns Michael Nesmith – Joanne Ryugu, like Bennu, appears to have rocks from other asteroids UAE to train astronauts at NASA OneWeb announces new launch schedule, cancels Ariane 6 launch NASA lays out Artemis budget and plan to get astronauts to Moon A patch of chaos in the Martian cratered southern highlands Ray Stevens – The Quarantine Song New Shepard test flight set for tomorrow The first Starlink user test results Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks Anchor drop total failure Survival rates for COVID-19 California to ban all gas-powered vehicles On the radio September 23, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Corroding glacier in crater rim gully? OSIRIS-REx team confirms date for sample grab from Bennu Blue Origin scrubs New Shepard flight today Axiom, SpaceX, and NASA finalizing first wholly private manned mission SpaceX destroys Starship prototype #7, as planned Tuba Skinny – Yes Sir That’s My Baby Leak hunt continues on ISS An ice-covered mountain on Mars? German instrument on Chang’e-4 documents dangerous radiation levels It WAS a coup attempt Funny or Die – This Is Why Eating Healthy Is Hard September 25, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China and Russia launch a bunch of satellites U.S. military okays use of Falcon 9 reused boosters UAE outlines new plans in space Martian channels formed by water? by ice? by lava? New study confirms liquid water under Mars’ south pole George Strait – Amarillo By Morning ISS air leak still unlocated UAE leader confirms goal to land rover on Moon by ’24 NASA & SpaceX set Oct 31st for next manned Dragon mission The liquids in Titan’s lakes stratify into different density layers Big scallops in the Martian southern latitudes Emerson Lake & Palmer – From The Beginning On the rim of Mars’ Grand Canyon Leak on ISS located? Changes in engineering and procedures for next manned Dragon flight Andy Kaufman does Elvis Presley Endless technical issues force Delta 4 Heavy launch scrubs SpaceX launch aborts at T-18 seconds Parker completes record-setting sixth Sun fly-by Firefly completes static fire test of its Alpha first stage Crew for next Dragon manned flight name capsule “Resilience” Starship prototype #8 on launchpad Hubble creates time lapse movie of fading supernova Doctors: COVID-19 case counts, hospitalization numbers, and death counts are “meaningless” Don Gibson – Woman Sensuous Woman September 30, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Cygnus launch scrubbed less than 3 minutes from launch Two launches scheduled for tonight, 27 minutes apart Sunspot update: Practically no sunspots for a month Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal Canvas – The Simpsons theme song Antares launches; Falcon 9 aborts October 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A donut on the Moon Criss-crossing Martian ridges hit by new impacts Trump proves COVID-19 is nothing to fear Engineer Guy – Building the Titantic “N-Word Science” Proves You’re a Racist! SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites Two dozen exoplanets superior to Earth for life? Musk to personally review SpaceX launch procedures Leak search on ISS narrows further Cygnus freighter arrives at ISS Cliffs of Martian ice CIA in 2016 briefed Obama on Clinton campaign false Trump/Russian collusion claim “When someone says he wants you dead, he wants you dead.” André Rieu – Nearer, My God, to Thee Trump orders release of all Spygate documents, with no redactions China releases images of Tianwen-1 on way to Mars Radio astronomers claim negative impact from satellite constellations Government takes down pro-Trump sign on private property, without permission October 6, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A typical mid-latitude Martian crater with glacial features Henry Mancini – Pink Panther theme Military considering using Starship for point-to-point transportaion Starliner Commander steps down from first manned mission Momentus to go public Musk: Starlink about to roll out commercial service World’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge to open in ’21 The idiocy, ignorance, and corruption of California’s Governor Newsom Boom unveils its first half-scale prototype commercial supersonic jet Yodeling! Starship prototype #8 passes tank tests; engine installation next Branson picks West Virginia to build test hyperloop underground train More results about Bennu from OSIRIS-REx Flying over Jupiter More Martian pits! On the radio John Branyan – The Three Little Pigs Next manned Dragon launch delayed October 9, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 3B launches another remote sensing satellite Zvezda both leaking and heating up A mile-long trail of human footprints about 12,000 years old SpaceX begins installing Raptor engines on Starship prototype #8 A lunar landslide October 11, 2020 Zimmerman/Commander Cobra podcast NASA charging Estee Lauder $17,500 per hour for filming its perfume on ISS The Navy’s overreaction to COVID-19 Florida proves (again) the stupidity of mask mandates After months of encouraging lockdowns WHO officials now condemn them Bill Hammack – The Aluminum Beverage Can CDC study: Masks do nothing to stop COVID-19 infection Blue Origin successfully completes another unmanned suborbital test flight of New Shepard Rogozin: Russia mostly bowing out of Gateway Astronomers watch star’s destruction as supermassive black hole eats it HBO to create six-part “scripted” series on Musk and SpaceX A massive Martian glacier that looks just like a glacier on Earth Eddie Van Halen – Eruption Guitar Solo Russia launches new crew to ISS Juno science team proposes fly-bys of Jupiter’s moons Lava cones, fissures, and channels from Olympus Mons MetaBallStudios – Fictional spaceships by size Seven countries join the U.S. in signing the Artemis Accords Pluto’s mountains are white-capped but with methane not ice NASA announces broadcast schedule for OSIRIS-REx’s sample grab at Bennu First scientist chosen to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo October 13, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia oxygen regeneration system on ISS fails Possible collision today of two big pieces of space junk NASA awards $370 million to 14 companies to develop new space capabilities Mercury probe BepiColombo probe flies past Venus First full static fire test of SLS’s core stage scheduled for November 14 FAA releases new commercial space licensing rules Biden-Harris campaign staffers test positive for COVID-19 The real reason most polls in this election are not trustworthy Fingerprints on Mars! Study: Almost impossible to contract COVID-19 on an airplane Irene “Granny” Ryan – I’m a woman Threatened collision between two big pieces of space junk does not happen Update on InSight’s mole: It is now underground Leak on ISS traced to “fracture” Old launch tower burns down at Firefliy launchpad at Vandenberg ArianeGroup completes testing of all three Ariane 6 rocket engines Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 awake for 23rd lunar day on far side of the Moon Modern science: Celebrating a “high priestess” instead of data Joshua Wong – The New Politics Delta 4 Heavy launch now delayed indefinitely due to launchpad issues Spaceport America in New Mexico fires its head Another high altitude balloon company enters the space tourism market SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites Russian astronauts repair oxygen regeneration unit October 16, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The big lie of “systematic racism” in America The edge of Martian chaos Mnozil Brass – lonley boy SpaceX completes static fire test on Starship prototype #8 Leak on ISS still leaking even after being temporarily sealed with tape China outlines its updated space ambitions for the 2020s The face on Jupiter Today’s OSIRIS-REx sample grab from Bennu Weird crater on Moon Sample grab appears to be a success at Bennu Penguin highway The dying COVID-19 epidemic Images taken during OSIRIS-REx sample grab on Bennu JeffHK – Taking a big ship through the Panama Canal October 20, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ISS crew returns safely to Earth in Soyuz Russian oxygen regenerator malfunctions again Lockheed Martin to move its smallsat rocket launch project to the UK SpaceX wins partial approval to provide Starlink service in Canada Why Barrett’s confirmation went fast: Senate Republicans finally grew a spine The beauty of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Was there a catastrophic flood in Kasei Valles on Mars? New Trump executive order suggests major house-cleaning should he win Jean Sibelius – Finlandia On the radio India’s Mars orbiter confirms global dust storms speeds atmosphere loss Starship prototype #8 gets its nosecone Space officials, from in and out of NASA, meet to plan Biden administration space policy Sudan joins UAE and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel US sets new record of COVID-19 cases in one day OSIRIS-REx sample grab so successful they are losing material MadTV – Windstorm 97 Why Do Stupid People Not Realize They Are Stupid? SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites October 23, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rogozin shakes up Vostochny management, again Reviewing the development of Starship/Super Heavy Russia launches new GPS-type satellite Jewish pro-Trump convoy attacked repeatedly in New York Firefly gets two new launch contracts; completes testing on 1st stage Vostochny official arrested on fraud charges Studies: COVID-19 mortality plunging in hospitals Seven recent examples of leftists threatening to murder their opponents New data: The asteroid Psyche is rusting Water molecules detected on Moon Joe Biden is just not qualified, for health reasons “Flow-like” feature in the Martian lowlands China launches three military satellites Luca Sestak – Swanee River Boogie Woogie Blue Origin pinpoints problem with BE-4 engine SpaceX identifies problem with several engines on booster, requiring replacement Europa Clipper to be delayed because of SLS bottleneck The sad story of Virgin Galactic Initial price for Starlink: $99 per month? Analyzing the evolving “small” storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere The Dock “That is a blatant lie.” NASA and ESA ink Lunar Gateway deal Bringing life to the slumping lifeless slopes of Mars Scientists finally map Philae’s full route to its final landing site on Comet 67/C-G More evidence the number of COVID-19 deaths is greatly exaggerated Bazooka Charlie – WW2s Strangest Tank Buster Rocket Lab successfully launches 10 smallsats SpaceX finds clogged valves in several Merlin engines Is this the planned landing site of China’s Mars rover? Russian astronaut: ISS crack could be result of Zvezda module’s age OSIRIS-REx engineers successfully place sample collector in return capsule Hayabusa-2’s impactor shook Ryugu Meteor over Alaska sets off volcano sensors Twelve graphs prove masks are useless against COVID-19 OSIRIS-REx completes storage of Bennu sample ESA maps out first launch schedule for new rockets Jay Proctor – Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie October 28, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast War between two Spanish space balloon companies Russian astronaut: Crack on ISS could be from “external impact” U.S. court orders India’s s space agency ISRO to pay $1.2 billion Scientists confirm another 44 black hole mergers detected by gravitational waves New data: young red dwarf stars are not nice stars for life A buried crater on Mars Jessica Farnsworth – The most famous man you never heard of October 30, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Climate scientists are science’s biggest frequent flyers Another movie of OSIRIS-REx’s sample-grab-and-go at Bennu SpaceX to live stream 50,000 foot hop of Starship Vote for Trump, but even more, vote Republican across the board Sunspot update: An active October heralds the likely end of solar minimum Layered mesa on Mars Yes, Prime Minister – If the right people don’t have power… Signal to Voyager-2 confirms upgrade of NASA’s Deep Space Network NASA officially expresses concerns about proposed private communications constellation In Europe, the use of masks leads to more COVID-19 cases And now we wait Peter Gabriel – The Boy in the Bubble Russians aim for Dec for fixing ISS leak permanently New owners for Vector to revive company First fast radio burst detected in Milky Way Why Martian mountains are different than on Earth Lyrebird sings Australia Overview of China’s lunar sample return mission Bezos sells another $3 billion of Amazon shares Starship hop tentatively set for Nov 9-11 Terraced mesa inside Martian depression Rocket Lab will try to recover 1st stage on next launch SpaceX launches Space Force GPS satellite Die Twinnies – Bayernmädels November 4, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast On the radio China launches ten satellites for Argentinian company United Arab Emirates announce plans for lunar rover mission Company defends its satellite constellation from NASA criticism NASA offers public chance to experience next manned mission virtually The Dzhanibekov effect November 5, 2020 Zimmerman Space Show podcast India successfully completes first launch in 2020 Chinese pseudo-company launches first satellite Canada’s government approves Starlink service Boeing hires former SpaceX software engineer November 6, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Jupiter’s stormy southern polar regions Second cable failure further disables Arecibo radio telescope Apophis: the asteroid that may someday hit the Earth Meteorite stolen five years ago from Australian museum recovered Leftist election theft must lead to war, if only so freedom can survive The Moon Loungers – Mr Bluesky Firefly delivers rocket to launch site for Dec 22 launch Relativity completes testing of rocket engine Giant iceberg heading to possible collision with South Georgia Island Gateway already behind schedule and mismanaged Rover update: Curiosity on the move again Herbie Hancock – On musical creativity New Hampshire legislature flips from Democrat to Republican Lock down madness prevents approval of cancer drug NASA officially approves operational Dragon manned missions Update on continuing engine testing of Starship prototype #8 Senate fails to fully fund manned lander for Trump’s 2024 lunar mission A field of Martian knobs John McDermott – The Green Fields of France November 11, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hubble sees too much infrared energy from gamma ray burst Private space company announces new upgraded tug for moving satellites in orbit China today launched a new communications satellite MAVEN finds water loss on Mars faster than expected The disputed elections must recounted properly, or the states should refuse to certify the results Samara Ginsberg – Inspector Gadget for 8 cellos Russian spacewalk to inspect leak in Zvezda Ukraine signs Artemis Accords A majestic terraced butte on Mars ULA successfully launches reconnaissance satellite with Atlas 5 Brandon Acker – Canario Weather forces one day delay in launch of Resilience with four astronauts Elon Musk gets contradictory COVID-19 test results Arecibo’s status appears to be worsening Most recent engine test on eighth Starship prototype had issues November 13, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First US Rocket Lab launch delayed until ’21 Watch today’s launch of SpaceX’s Resilience manned capsule WordPress goes after politically conservative website SpaceX successfully launches four astronauts to ISS New study: Lockdowns & masks are useless and might even increase COVID-19 spread The Apollo 12 crew’s excursions on the Moon, 51 years ago Buried mountain on Mars Quick November Fund-Raiser for Behind the Black: Thank you! Justin Johnson – I’ve been everywhere Resilience has docked with ISS Arianespace’s Vega rocket fails again at launch Israeli fighter pilot to fly on Axiom’s first private Dragon launch in ’21 Virgin Galactic cancels its announced November suborbital flight Long March 5 moves to launchpad for Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission COVID-19 deaths plummeting worldwide If election issues are not fixed, elected state Republicans must refuse to certify Debussy plays Debussy – Clair de Lune Officials in Detroit refuse to certify election results Arianespace: Cause of Vega launch failure “human error” Scientists: Major measles outbreaks likely because of COVID-19 lockdowns Venus results suggesting life downgraded New model suggests ringed nebula caused by star merger Study: Cloth masks provide “statistically insignificant” protection Sierra Nevada delays first Dream Chaser launch to ’22 Study: Children are so immune to COVID-19 that even after extensive exposure they test negative Amin Toufani – Gratitude ESA completes new parachute test for its 2022 Mars rover Arecibo Observatory to be shut down permanently Russian astronauts complete spacewalk to prepare ISS for Nauka The SpaceX fleet of Dragons NASA fixes SLS issue, prepares for full hot fire engine test of core stage Relativity raising $500 million in new search for investment capital Stratolaunch begins construction of hypersonic plane Republicans in Wayne County rescind their votes certifying Detroit results Trump lawyers detail extensive election fraud Frost on a Martian hillside Arizona gov says he will not certify results until all lawsuits are settled Midlife Jazzband/Swiss Dixie Jazzer – Tiger Rag Successful Rocket Lab launch and descent of 1st stage November 18, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Despite permanent repair of crack, air still leaking from Zvezda India’s first mission to Venus delayed a year The left is now reaping what it sowed Curiosity data suggests the occurrence of mega floods in Gale Crater “I’d rather die from COVID than loneliness.” Eva Vergilova – Free Bird SpaceX launches oceanography satellite Study: Asymptomatic and secondary infected individuals do not infect others Israel’s Netanyahu meets with Saudi Arabia’s bin Salman Glacial eddies on Mars? New York: Oppression imposed because of almost no COVID-19 deaths China successfully launches its Chang’e-5 lunar sample mission Eiro Nareth – Interstellar Faulty valve on one Soyuz causes Russians to delay second Soyuz launch Regulators coming after SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility and Starship New data makes past nova too bright, but not bright enough to be supernova Rocket Lab declares first attempt at recovering a 1st stage a success November 20, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chiquita Banana – The original commercial SpaceX sets numerous launch records in placing 60 more Starlink satellites in orbit Starship 50,000 ft hop now scheduled for Nov 30th Giant wind eddies in the sands of Mars The coming purge Buster Keaton – Elevator chase Russian company proposes new Russian space station post-ISS Hayabusa-2 prepares for sample return drop-off December 5th Happy Thanksgiving! Summary of mass voter fraud in Georgia Study: Absolutely NO excess deaths from COVID-19 Frank Sinatra – The House I Live In November 25, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Problems discovered in new Japanese H3 rocket engine Orbit of pristine comet in outer solar system is shifting inward Next Virgin Orbit LauncherOne test flight set for late December Eroded and possibly wet Lohse Crater Arizona state legislators to hold public hearing on election fraud WWII Russian POW remembers the Americans who helped him Wealthy environmentalist picks his preferred UK spaceport Chang’e-5 now in lunar orbit Japan launches experimental military communications satellite Starship hop now set for December 2nd Election fraud update A place on Mars where lakes, snowfall, and rivers once existed Mark Korven & Tony Duggan-Smith – The Apprehension Engine The election has been stolen New problem found on Orion that could delay its launch by a year Arecibo’s suspended instrument platform has collapsed onto dish Chang’e-5 lands on Moon LRO looks at Yutu-2 A spray of Martian meteorites The muzzle of oppression El Paso mayor blames spike in COVID-19 cases on Big Box retailers Tor Andre Børresen – Norway by drone Arianespace launches UAE military satellite, using Russian Soyuz rocket Change’-5 successfully gets sample from drilling Rocket Lab provides detailed update on successful recovery of first stage after splashdown Sagging cliffs on Mars First images from Chang’e-5 on the Moon On the radio Wendy Law – Comparing cellos: Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Russian Soyuz-2 launches Russian communications satellites Chang’e-5 completes sample collection; lifts off from Moon Starship 9-mile-high flight now set for no earlier than December 4th Space tourism balloon company raises $7 million ESA signs contract for 1st space junk removal New Gaia data release tracks distance and motion of 1.8 billion stars Study: Canada’s nationalized health killed nearly 1,500 Canadians waiting fruitlessly for treatment Aram Chaos: Illustrating the puzzle of Mars Strong video evidence of election law violations in Georgia during count Strong evidence of election tampering in Arizona in sample audit of 100 ballots Strong evidence in Michigan that many ballots were scanned multiple times Nandi Bushell – Rock and Grohl December 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast December 3, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast World’s largest drone unveiled for launching smallsats First sunspot image from Inouye Solar Telescope Trump administration asks Senate to remove SLS requirement for Europa Clipper Hubble captures 20-year fading of planetary nebula India’s space agency signs deal with private Indian smallsat company Ice-filled crater on Mars? Arizona legislative Republican leaders call for election audit of Maricopa County Astra sets December 7th for next test launch of its orbital rocket Mark Felton – Flying a glider across the Atlantic during World War II December 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast LRO snaps picture of Chang’e-5 on Moon Hayabusa-2’s samples from Ryugu land in Australia Arizona House Speaker refuses to recall legislature to choose electors Chang’e-5 sample capsule docks with return vehicle in lunar orbit “It’s a slap in my face!” China launches military surveillance satellite NASA considering commercial communications satellites for Mars Chang’e-5’s return vehicle and sample capsule separate from orbiter SpaceX successfully launches Dragon freighter to ISS Audit of Dominion machine found it routinely shifted votes to Biden Redwire successfully 3D prints ceramic parts in space Weather delays Starship hop to December 8th; Musk arrives in Boca Chica Newsom’s new lockdown in California triggered by totally normal numbers A new hard aluminum alloy resistant to space radiation? Terby Crater and its drainages into Mars’ basement Pearl Harbor: The Last Word Chuck Yeager, 1923-2020 Scientists find method to store natural gas as a solid Chang’e-5 ascender sent to crash on Moon SpaceX’s Starlink constellation wins $885 million in federal subsidies About 300K excess deaths in 2020 based on untrustworthy CDC data Sunspot update: November most active sunspot month since 2017 Landslides on the edge of Mars’ youngest lava field Update on audit of Dominion tabulators in Michigan county Launch abort for Starship high altitude flight 1st countdown dress rehearsal of SLS core stage scrubbed BouzoukXp – Belenos Musk confirms he has left California for Texas Mysterious object in solar orbit identified as upper stage for Surveyor 2 Starlink dark coating reduces reflectivity by half German smallsat startup raises $91 million for new rocket ESA funds construction of its own X-37B, dubbed Space Rider Cryptic Terrain on Mars Watch the attempted first high altitude flight of SpaceX’s Starship Key legal issues behind the Texas petition to Supreme Court re election issues Starship flies! The Diamonds – Little Darlin’ December 8, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two science satellites with its Long March 11 rocket Beresheet-2 will have two landers instead of one Smallsat rocket startup Obex raises $24 million Watch ULA try again to launch its Delta-4 Heavy Starship: Old-fashioned American know-how Video: How election officials can cheat with Dominion voting software Morocco agrees to Abraham accords, normalizing relations with Israel Arizona state senate to hold official hearing tomorrow on election Elise Trouw – The Girl from Ipanema ULA’s Delta-4 Heavy successfully launches reconnaissance satellite Boeing and NASA delay again the 2nd unmanned demo flight of Starliner Strange crater in the basement of Mars Breaking: Starship prototype #9 tips over inside assembly building New data confirms and localizes uplifted lunar dust as seen by Apollo astronauts Henry V arrowhead removal December 10, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Supreme Court dismisses Texas suit on election Indonesia & SpaceX considering launchsite there Virgin Galactic’s first Unity launch from New Mexico fizzles SpaceX successfully launches commercial radio satellite Chang’e-5 on its way back to Earth Data: Hospitals underwhelmed by 2nd COVID wave, as they were with 1st Antrim County election audit: Dominion machines unreliable, evidence suggests vote tampering Russia successfully completes second Angara rocket launch Confirmed: Martian glacial features are ice Glenn Yarbrough – Baby The Rain Must Fall Rocket Lab successfully launches Japanese radar satellite Scientists confirm Hayabusa-2’s return capsule brought back material from Ryugu SpaceX in preliminary negotiations for another big fundraising round Ancient and recent volcanoes on Mars A good summary of the status of the election political battle Subpoena issued to audit all Dominion machines in Phoenix area of Arizona Astra test launch almost reaches orbit Voorhees Choir – Three Hanukkah Songs December 15, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Scientists confirm ample Ryugu material in first Hayabuse sample chamber Study: Wearing used mask worse than no mask at all Dark storm on Neptune changes direction unexpectedly Cones on Mars! ESA funds ArianeGroup prototype vertical landing hopper SpinLaunch expands operations at Spaceport America in NM InSight: Mars’ crust is thin, and its interior is many layered with a molten core Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron Chang’e-5 sample return capsule successfully recovered in China India successfully completes second launch in 2020 House passes bill that attempts to protect Apollo Moon sites An update on the testing of SLS’s core stage Election fraud in Nevada United kicks family off plane because 2-year-old won’t wear mask The audit in Arizona December 15, 2020 Zimmerman Space Show podcast Using origami to design spaceship fuel bladders A splat on Mars Lockdowns likely leading to an increase in suicides among the young Astronomers detect radio signal from an exoplanet’s magnetic field Ambosspolka Russia successfully launches another group of OneWeb satellites ESA confirms cause of November Vega launch failure First flightworthy BE-4 engine delivery now expected in summer ’21 Pennsylvania: zero or little evidence open gyms or restaurants spread COVID-19 Terraced mesas in Martian crater Dominion CEO responds to Antrim audit in hearing NASA decides to fly Orion with failed power unit Subaru Telescope photographs Hayabusa-2’s next target asteroid Maricopa County election board defies state subpoenas The Piano Guys – Emmanuel SpaceX completes 25th orbital launch in 2020 Mysterious signal detected possibly coming from Proxima Centauri Samples from space! December 18, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lockheed Martin buys Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4 billion Update on Starship protype #9 Oregon protest live Werner Klemperer & John Banner – Silent Night China completes first launch of Long March 8 rocket Russia recovers boosters dropped on Russia Chang’e-5 lunar orbiter heading to Sun-Earth Lagrange point NASA budget passed by Congress rejects ’24 lunar landing The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, as seen from the Moon A Mars mosaic from Curiosity using its close-up camera New Mexico sheriff covering Albuquerque rejects lockdown order Georgia state senate: Election “untrustworthy” and should be decertified Arizona GOP responds (?) to election board’s defiance to subpoenas A Martian polliwog Billy Preston – You Can’t Beat God Giving SpaceX puts Starship prototype #9 on launchpad Axiom chooses Houston for its astronaut training and space station construction facility Another SLS core stage abort during dress rehearsal Nanoracks’ commercial airlock installed on ISS Anna Weatherup – Be Thou My Vision December 22, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First look at Ryugu samples Nationwide analysis suggests masks increased the spread of COVID-19 Kathy Mattea – Mary did you know Alan Jackson – Amazing Grace Thailand government proposes space program James Doohan’s ashes have been on ISS for the past dozen years Georgia election officials predict senate election count will take weeks China’s Long March 4C rocket launches military reconnaissance satellite Starship #9 update: 1st flight targeted for shortly after the new year Indian private company test fires its own solid rocket motor Fauci admits to lying in his public statements about COVID-19 Striped dunes in crater on Mars California, home of masks and harsh lockdowns, has highest COVID-19 infection rate in nation PA: Number of votes exceeds the number of voters by more than 200K Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust Published results from Curiosity as it traversed Vera Rubin Ridge Arianespace uses Soyuz rocket to launch French military satellite from French Guiana The seas of Titan, deep and alien Summer at the Martian south pole Simpals Animation Studio – Dji Death Sails Puerto Rican government commits $8 million to rebuild Arecibo Air leak in Russian section of ISS continues Witness announces his team has hacked Georgia election runoff polling machines Surprisingly low number of observation proposals from astronomers for Webb telescope Verdi – Libiamo ne’ lieti calici The seasonal cloud over Arsia Mons on Mars Musk: Super Heavy will land on launchpad, caught by launch tower The state of the global rocket industry in the 21st century Straight No Chaser – Auld Lang Syne Auld Land Syne – Freedom mix Data Scientists: Outright fraud in Georgia election U. S. Army Band – Bugler’s Holiday Eleven senators announce decision to challenge election results Data scientists: In PA more than 400K Trump votes removed during tabulation Is the ultimate Republican Party failure theater about to happen? Sunspot update: December sunspot activity once again higher than predicted A Martian “glacier” made of volcanic ash China targets 40-plus launches in ’21 Make it Move – Stellar Updates on Starship development: next 50K foot flight this weekend? Tianwen-1 to arrive in Mars orbit February 10 Louis Armstrong – A Kiss To Build A Dream On NASA targets Jan 17th for full static fire test of SLS core stage A glacier filled canyon on Mars? Margaret Thatcher does “Yes Minister” skit January 6, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starship prototype #9 completes first static fire test DARPA cubesats damaged in mishap at SpaceX facility Rover update: Curiosity on the shore of a sand sea Yesterday Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows SpaceX launches Turkish communication satellite January 7, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Momentus forced to delay its first mission due to FAA bureaucrats Draping moraines on Mars Colliding galaxies! Tan Ce Ding – The Masseuse The new dark age of silencing Another new rocket startup, ABL Space, to launch its rocket in ’21 Congress frees Europa Clipper from SLS We are about to find out who our real friends are Partly engulfed Martian craters Stevie Nicks – Landslide NASA moves up static fire test of SLS core stage Hayabusa-2 begins journey to two asteroids NASA extends mission of Juno and InSight probes Update of Starship prototype #9: Flight delayed until January 15 Astronomers discover first periodic erupting supermassive black hole The colorful and bright knobs of Ariadnes Colles on Mars Dream Chaser first flight delayed to ’22 Squirrel vs Physicist Starlink begins rollout in United Kingdom; blocked in Russia U.S. and Japan formalize partnership on Gateway Blue Origin announces next New Shepard flight for January 14th Giant iceberg from Antarctica breaking up Space Force picks Alabama for its future headquarters The target landing ellipse on Mars for Perseverance Starship prototype #9 completes three static fire tests in one day Pearl Jam – Off he goes Blacklists are back and the Democrats have got ’em January 13, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Scientist pleads guilty of lying about ties to China Live stream of New Shepard flight: Successful flight These rioters in the Capitol are not Trump protesters Craters in slush on Mars The Grass Roots – Temptation Eyes Leftist activist arrested for inciting riot at Capitol Another professor arrested for hiding ties to China InSight scientists give up on heat sensor mole Blue Origin aims for first manned suborbital flight in April SpaceX replacing two engines on Starship prototype #9 Styx – Fooling Yourself SLS core stage static fire test aborts after only one minute January 15, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne successfully reaches orbit Where I was this past weekend Pioneers and the future Today’s new member of the blacklist: conservative radio host Robert Pratt Beals Science – Resurrecting a carbide lamp Chang’e-5’s lunar samples less dense than expected Mysterious colors on Mars, near the landing site of Europe’s rover More evidence Mars’s glaciers formed across many ice ages Today’s blacklisted conservative: Lawyer who represented Trump fired by university New daily record for search engine DuckDuckGo SLS static fire abort not caused by malfunction but too-tight parameters China completes first launch in 2021, launching communications satellite Herman’s Hermits – There’s A Kind Of Hush SpaceX and Rocket Lab complete launches Update on China’s pseudo-private commercial launch industry SpaceX buys two floating oil rigs for Starship/Super Heavy Hints that NASA will redo the SLS static fire test An empty Biden inauguration for a false victory Today’s new blacklist member: Senator Josh Hawley Curiosity checks out its wheels Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Guns, and Money Three aborted static fire tests yesterday for Starship prototype #9 The slowly disappearing dry ice cap at Mars’ south pole Today’s blacklisted conservative: Professor at Florida University to be fired for wrongthink Ladyva – Für Elise January 20, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast January 21, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Northrop Grumman successfully test solid rocket booster for ULA’s Vulcan Parker completes 7th solar fly-by, sets new records Chinese government gives wrist slap to powerful scientist on fraud and plagiarism charges The pit caves of Mars: Can humans someday live in them? Today’s blacklisted American: Laura Loomer “The solar system is open for business” New leak located in Zvezda on ISS Sergei Vasiliev – Russian Cyberpunk Farm SpaceX enters business of drilling for natural gas Falcon 9 successfully places 143 satellites into orbit Japan’s new H3 rocket is almost ready for launch in ’21 The strange moated mesas of the Kasei Valley on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: A blogger about babies The Carol Burnett Show – Star Trip Boeing & NASA set March 25 as launch date for second unmanned Starliner flight Starship update: Next test flight set for tomorrow New Democrat head of House subcommittee covering NASA says he supports Artemis OSIRIS-REx to make one last observation of Bennu before heading back to Earth Axiom names crew for its first private manned mission to ISS Back to Mars’ glacier country Today’s blacklisted American: Evangelist Franklin Graham Foxes & Fossils – Harvest Moon Axiom’s first passengers to ISS paying $55 million each Space Force ends development contracts with Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman Antarctica data adds weight to hypothesis that glaciers shaped Mars SpaceX and Amazon in cat-fight over internet satellite constellations The freaky floor of Mars’ Hellas Basin Today’s blacklisted Americans: Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Blue Origin reveals full throttle long duration test of its BE-4 engine New analysis: It wasn’t even phosphine detected at Venus The Association – Never My Love January 27, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Scientists: Gale Crater never had flowing surface water and was always cold Today’s blacklisted American: Literary agent fired for having Parler & Gab accounts Watching Starship #9’s flight FAA bureaucrats block SpaceX Starship test flight How a recording-studio mishap shaped ’80s music China launches three military satellites Biden Justice Dept investigating SpaceX over hiring of non-citizens Roscosmos’ commercial division to market tourist seats on Soyuz New radar technology now available for radio astronomy Commercial satellite launched only weeks ago fails Today’s blacklisted Americans: Anyone who worked in the Trump administration On the edge of Mars’ giant volcanic flood plain Eddy Goldfarb – The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys NASA to do another static fire test of SLS’s core stage January 28, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA delays lunar lander contract award India is targeting ’21 for first unmanned test launch of manned system Environmentalists cheer FAA blocking of Starship test flight More weird features and changes on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow Billionaire buys of entire SpaceX launch for tourist flight and charity Nathan Evans – The Wellerman Rocket of Chinese pseudo-private company fails on 2nd launch Watching Starship #9’s flight, take 2 Virgin Galactic almost lost its 2nd SpaceShipTwo in 2019 flight Today’s blacklisted American: Liberal fired for posting stupid tweet SpaceX live feed of Starship #9 flight Smallsat rocket company Astra to go public Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO Bell Labs – The Transistor Russian launches military satellite Hans Koenigsmann, 4th person hired by Musk at SpaceX, retiring Russia & China negotiating increased cooperation on the Moon Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired from journal he founded Ten finalists in public Chinese contest to name Mars rover The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites February 3, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX competitors lobbying to kill FCC subsidy for Starlink Firefly shakes up board of directors New theory to explain the Martian seasonal streaks Today’s blacklisted American: Democrats working to fire civil servant Evanescence – Bring Me To Life China’s Long March 3B rocket launches military satellite Biden administration endorses Artemis program NASA awards Firefly lunar contract Starlink now has over 10,000 users The new invasion of Mars begins next week! ULA’s CEO advocates old way of doing things Betelgeuse is closer and smaller than previously thought Hydrazine on the surface of Saturn’s moon Rhea? Tianwen-1 takes first picture of Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Journalist Andy Ngo FlippinDingDong – Trailer Annie February 5, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starship update: Prototype #10 being readied for launch Lockheed Martin picks ABL’s rocket to make its first UK launch The Icy Surface of Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Chase Bank blacklists Pro-Trump Covfefe Coffee OSIRIS-REx has begun its return to Bennu Steve ‘n Seagulls – Nothing else matters UAE’s Hope or Al-Amal Mars Orbiter orbital insertion Musk: Starlink to go public once operational Fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 14 lunar landing SLS-backer Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) to retire ESA contracts Airbus to build three more Orion service modules Sunspot update: January activity returns to expected levels Today’s blacklisted Americans: All Republicans who questioned the November election count Another “What the heck?!” image on Mars Wild Cherry – Play that funky music Falcon Heavy wins contract to launch 1st two Gateway modules China’s Tienwen-1 enters Mars orbit Turkey to do lunar mission, send astronaut into space Jupiter’s southern jet streams The lie that was COVID Today’s blacklisted American: Peter Pan and Dumbo Inexplicable ridges in Hellas Basin on Mars Scientists confirm distance to farthest known solar system object Josh Tanner – Decommissioned Europa Clipper to fly on commercial rocket, not SLS Saudi government considering Moon and Mars missions Possible exoplanet detected in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri A? Today’s blacklisted American: Disney fires actress for noting the Nazis killed Jews The coming death of NASA’s Space Launch System The Hindley Street Country Club – More than a feeling February 10, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rover update: The rovers are coming! The rovers are coming! Today’s blacklisted American: New conservative organization at Illinois Tech blacklisted by students Abraham Lincoln – an annual tribute February 12, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast 1st Vulcan test core stage arrives at Kennedy UAE releases first Al-Amal image of Mars Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS Today’s blacklisted Americans: All religious schools New paper: Underlying ice layer seen in Martian gullies at LOW mid-latitudes Funny Ballerina SpaceX launches sixty more Starlink satellites; plus an installation report from one customer SpaceX in Starlink negotiations with the Philippines Watching Perseverance’s landing on Mars Axiom raises $130 million in investment capital Momentus signs deal to deliver two private cubesats to lunar orbit Strange corroding features on Mars Today’s blacklisted Americans: Ivy league students & teachers demand revocation of all degrees earned by Republican politicians An update on coronavirus from an Arizona doctor Notched sticks: Recording your taxes in medieval England SpaceX raises another $850 million in investment capital Enigmatic channel on Mars Russia denies visa to NASA manager in retaliation for claimed similar denial by U.S. Today’s blacklisted American: Biden sign language interpreter blackballed for also translating for conservative outlets Hungarian company awarded NASA contract to develop Moon mini-rover A historian’s memorial to Rush Limbaugh Bluegrass Large Family Band – Foggy Mtn. Rock February 17, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Texas power outages delay Starliner but not Starship Perseverance’s possible travel route on Mars Eroded mound in Mars’ glacier country Today’s blacklisted American: The sci-fi publishing company Baen Books Perseverance has successfully landed Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda Da Vida February 18, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Bloomberg editorial: Scrap SLS! Today’s blacklisted Americans: Any lawyer who defended Trump Partly ice-filled Martian crater? Bypassing the blacklist: Robert Pratt’s new podcast Optical Illusion Dance Northrop Grumman successfully launches Cygnus to ISS Roscosmos head: Russia to launch 29 rockets in ’21 Giant Antarctic iceberg disintegrates, missing South Georgia Island Ham picks up signal from China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter Update on Starship: Flight of prototype #10 possible this week All systems on Perseverance so far check out good New 3D atlas of all binary stars within 3,000 light years of Sun Today’s blacklisted American: Amazon blacklists book for criticizing transgender movement The COVID epidemic really IS ending Movie of Perseverance’s descent and landing George Washington – “I did!” NASA postpones second SLS static fire test First panorama from Perseverance Second passenger chosen for private manned SpaceX mission Firefly gets another launch contract SpaceX delays all launches while it investigates failed booster landing Rumors: Biden considering former Senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator Astronomers detect 1st evidence of neutron star left behind after 1987 supernova Martian pits or dark splotches? San Fran school board abandons plan to blacklist Lincoln & Washington Today’s blacklisted American: Pro-life news organization blacklisted by Google’s YouTube Carol Burnett Show – Rancid Harvest Starship #10 completes launch dress rehearsal & static fire test China’s Long March 4C rocket launches three military satellites First air leak crack on ISS has not grown Tianwen-1 enters parking orbit around Mars India officially delays both its manned mission and next lunar lander Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist journalist who called for blacklisting finds his work blacklisted by YouTube Land of rovers Parker looks at Venus After a year there is zero evidence government edicts slowed the spread of COVID-19 Another detailed essay demanding SLS be cancelled Glenn Miller Orchestra Scandinavia – American Patrol February 24, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China commits to building its own SLS Today’s blacklisted Americans: Two educators in NYC fired for refusing to do Black Panther salute Searching for ice in the Martian low latitudes First launch of Blue Origin’s orbital rocket delayed to ’22 Starship #10 completes another static fire test after quick engine swap Apollo 16 Lunar Rover “Grand Prix” Relativity touts next generation rocket before its first generation rocket has even launched Virgin Galactic delays its next suborbital flight again Skiing dry ice boulders on Mars, captured in action! Today’s blacklisted American: The pioneers who settled the west Study: Only 10% chance of catching COVID from infected person within household Military admits F-35 is impossible to use, expensive, and an utter failure Bob Dylan – Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man February 25, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra wins three-launch contract from NASA India & Russia successfully launch satellites Rocket Lab about to go public SpaceX: No 1st stage footage on tonight’s Starlink launch Looking into one of Jupiter’s smaller cyclones A deep south Martian dune with bright patches Biden fires Boeing on SLS; gives job to Acme Today’s blacklisted American: Bi-racial make-up artist fired for singing a rap song as requested by black actor State legislatures proposing repeals of 2020 election revisions that made fraud easy Stockholm 1913 Booster landing failure on Feb 15 Falcon 9 launch began with engine issue during lift-off Update on ISS leaks: Several to be drilled & sealed over next 5 days Rocket Lab to build new bigger rocket What is wrong at Blue Origin? Cave boxwork on the Martian surface Today’s blacklisted Americans: McDonald’s aggressively discriminating against white men Sunspot update: February activity declines to predicted values Dire Straits – Industrial Disease AZ Dept of Ed: 3-month-old white babies are already racists Scheduling conflicts at ISS delay Starliner unmanned demo flight till May Watching Starship prototype #10’s test flight Piece of foam caused launch failure according to pseudo-private Chinese company SpaceX to build Starlink factory in Austin, Texas Maezawa looking for volunteers for his Starship flight around Moon Perseverance’s first high resolution panorama Mining country on Mars? Starship #10 aborts at launch Today’s blacklisted American: Non-profit blackballs student for daring to defend free speech The Starship has landed! Bell Telephone: Explaining mobile phone technology, c1946 March 3, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites China releases first Tianwen-1 images of rover landing site NASA lunar rover experiences big budget overruns Today’s blacklisted American: Student blackballed for saying “a man is a man, a woman is a woman” Dao Vallis: A giant river of ice on Mars Andreas Hellkvist – B3 Boogie Virgin Galactic’s chairman sells all of his stock in the company NASA increases ISS prices to commercial customers by 700% Rover update: Panorama from Curiosity; Perseverance unwinds Today’s blacklisted American: YouTube strips Epoch Times from making money on its videos Ice-filled Martian sinkhole Goose house – Country Roads Perseverance begins journey with 1st test drive February Birthday fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black: THANK YOU Starship update: #11 about to roll out; #10 landing analysis Yutu-2 and Chang’e-4 reactivated for 28th lunar day on Moon OSIRIS-REx begins last approach of Bennu Mars: Planet of many glaciers Today’s blacklisted great literature: Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, and Western Civilization itself Hubble goes into safe mode The Outlaws – Waterhole Meteorite recovered in driveway in UK only days after landing Russian astronauts begin work to seal 2nd Zvezda leak on ISS SpaceX requests FCC permission to expand Starlink service to trucks, ships, & planes A iceberg of water ice floating on a Martian dry ice sea Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist professor who demanded others be fired for their conservative opinions has now been fired for her leftist opinions China and Russia sign partnership agreement for lunar exploration Starship #11 moves to launchpad Steve Harvey – Foolproof Excuses When Late for Work NASA forges deal with private company to put American on Russian Soyuz NASA completes assembly of SLS’s first two solid rocket boosters First results from UAE’s Al-Amal/Hope Mars orbiter Today’s blacklisted Americans: Conservative student journalism conference shut down by city of Alexandria, Virginia Nicaragua forms space agency Strange ridge ripples on the windswept plateau above Mars’ biggest canyon Mechanimations – It’s Worth It SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites NASA sets March 18th for next SLS static fire test A proposal to rebuild Arecibo as a better radio telescope MEV-2 about to dock with communications satellite to extend its life Space Force awards launch contracts (two each) to ULA and SpaceX Curiosity faces the mountains Today’s blacklisted Americans: South Alabama University suspends 3 professors for 2014 Halloween costumes China successfully launches new Long March 7A rocket Military band joke Hubble about to resume science operations even with new issues Russia: Air leaks fixed on Zvezda Today’s blacklisted American: Students condemn UConn student president for defending free speech How the blobby craters on Mars help map the planet’s existing accessible water The Offspring – Self Esteem China launches three military ocean reconnaissance satellites Air leak continues despite repairs on Zvezda module of ISS SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites Starship update: Prototype #11 could fly tomorrow Today’s blacklisted Americans: 30,000 videos banned by YouTube for stating COVID conclusions that disagree with health authorities Hubble’s wide field camera returns to operation Tom Scott – The Library of Rare Colors A cracking Martian glacier? Today’s blacklisted Americans: In Iowa the oppressed fight back Private Snafu – Coming!! New hypothesis: Mars didn’t lose water, it got trapped chemically in its crust China to build spaceport for its pseudo-commercial space sector Musk confirms goal of orbital Starship flight this year Scallops of Martian ice Today’s blacklisted American: Bi-racial HS student punished for refusing to condemn his white half Quakes on Mars as seen by InSight David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World March 17, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast What it sounds like when Perseverance moves SLS static fire test today Russia offers to partner in Turkey’s space program A drainage channel on Mars The changing seasons of Saturn Today’s blacklisted Americans: California Democrats to blacklist all conservative or religious policemen SLS core stage successfully completes 8-minute static fire test Jordi Bertran – Le petit bonhomme en mousse SpaceX narrows Mars landing site for Starship to four prime locations Biden nominates former senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator NASA confident Webb will launch in October SpaceX & NASA agree to better coordinate their satellite constellations to avoid collisions Update on SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster Today’s blacklisted Americans: Virginia teachers & parents who oppose teaching children that whites are evil and minorities cannot be racist Volcanic badlands on Mars Motorcycle Chariots Glynn Lunney, R.I.P Clouds over Gale Crater March 19, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast March 20, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launches 38 commercial satellites Another Starhip update: Static fire test today for #11 Today’s blacklisted Americans: The oppressed fight back at Boise State A visit to Cydonia on Mars On the radio Dave Matthews Band – Ants Marching Rocket Lab completes second launch in 2021 Yutu-2 & Chang’e-4 complete 28th lunar day on Moon Perseverance dumps debris shield in preparation for Ingenuity deployment March 23, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast Twisted and tilted bedrock in Martian crater Today’s blacklisted Americans: Anyone who worked for Trump A data-based broad look at the entire COVID epidemic, one year later MOS – JOJO’s Bizarre Adventure SpaceX successfully launches another 60 Starlink satellites Ingenuity to fly on Mars no earlier than April 8th India’s SSLV new smallsat rocket fails during static fire test Scientists: Mars is losing water seasonally through its atmosphere ESA awards UK’s Orbex 7.45 million euros to fund rocket development Today’s blacklisted Americans: Lincoln and Washington, by Chicago’s Democratic mayor Layers upon layers of Martian volcanic ash Doreen’s Jazz Band – The House of The Rising Sun Soyuz-2 launch from Vostochny successfully orbits 36 OneWeb satellites March 23, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The 1st image of a black hole’s magnetic field Mars’ polar ice canyons are young and the source for mid-latitude ice Today’s blacklisted American: Professor suspended by university for having opinions Ice-filled crater in Mars’ glacier country The Carbonaro Effect – The Most Compact Survival Backpack Georgia state legislature passes new election laws Starship prototype #11 launch attempt today-SCRUBBED Firefly’s 1st Alpha rocket almost ready for launch Redwire to go public Radar images of Apophis during its March close approach of Earth Today’s blacklisted Americans: Democrats go after Parler and its investors Baffling ridges on Mars Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone Bigelow sues NASA for $1 million South Korea’s leader announces his nation’s goals in space Another launch attempt for Starship #11 today OneWeb to initiate commercial services in Canada by end of year Deployment process of Ingenuity begins More data: Lockdowns did nothing to slow COVID Today’s blacklisted Americans: California’s ethnic studies uses Nazi language to demonize Jews Martian glaciers flowing off interior walls of Renaudot Crater Genesis – Los Endos Starship prototype #11 crashes at landing Congress taking aim at SpaceX and Starship testing Biden administration to form its own National Space Council NASA in contact with China to get the orbital data of its Tianwen-1 Mars Orbiter Today’s blacklisted Americans: Conservative news organizations, as proposed by Columbia journalism professor Al-Amal reaches science orbit Friday Freakout – Super Sketchy Zipline BASE Jump March 30, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 4C launches Earth observation satellite Last two passengers on 1st entirely private manned spaceflight revealed Three new German smallsat startup rocket companies vying for market share FAA says it will “lead” investigation into Starship #11 crash yesterday X-rays from Uranus detected for the 1st time Ice under Mars’ biggest volcanic ash field, at the equator? Today’s blacklisted American: Former President Donald Trump John Prine – When I Get to Heaven March 31, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Industry group representing big tech demands Starlink be blocked in India Shetland spaceport application rejected by local monument authority Sierra Nevada will build space stations and a manned version of Dream Chaser Ingenuity unfolded and ready for placement on ground Very peculiar flow features on Mars Today’s blacklisted Americans: Conservatives on the email provider MailChimp Ever wonder how the Internet is made? Tianwen-1’s engineers set mid-May for rover landing on Mars InSight detects additional 3+ magnitude quakes on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: the David Horowitz Freedom Center and its webpage FrontPage Two pits at opposite ends of Mars’ big volcanoes BBC Earth – Hamsters! April 2, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russian gov’t okays extension of U.S cooperative space treaty to ’30 Falcon 9 upper stage debris lands on Washington farm Sunspot update: Higher than predicted activity continues Ingenuity released from Perseverance More leaks found in Russian Zvezda module on ISS Resilience successfully moves from one ISS docking port to another Methane tank leak caused Starship #11 failure Today’s blacklisted Americans: Coca-Cola’s racist policies that discriminate against whites Colorful mesa in the Martian northern lowland plains Ingenuity survives first night on its own on Mars Melanie Oesch – From a Jack to a King Rocket startup ABL Space gets giant Lockheed Martin launch contract Russia’s first private space tourism company shuts down SpaceX’s decision to build launchpad with Starship tanks proves the rocket will be cheapest ever built Today’s blacklisted American: Whites at Cornell University Study: a Martian crater lake fed by glacial run-off The Carol Burnett Show – The Hitman Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 reactivated for 29th lunar day Watching Ingenuity’s flight SpaceX successfully launches another sixty Starlink satellites Perseverance as seen from orbit Today’s blacklisted Americans: Anyone under 50 in Vermont who is not a minority OSIRIS-REx completes last close-fly of Bennu Jolie Môme – C’est Si Bon April 6, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Europe and China discussing future space cooperation Investigation: Top German scientist fabricated data New data suggests muon is more magnetic that predicted Today’s blacklisted American: Cinderella, because cast was “too white” Mars’ icy high latitudes Cat Stevens – Moonshadow Soyuz-2 launches three astronauts to ISS Rocket Lab to recover 1st stage on next flight Commercial Japanese company about to test orbital space junk removal X-37B testing beamed solar power from space Starship and Super Heavy update Today’s blacklisted American: Dennis Prager and his organization PragerU Starship #11 debris fuels environmentalist opposition Biden administration’s proposed ’22 NASA budget boosts spending in all programs Lava flooded mountains on Mars Bird Box Studio – Streat Ingenuity’s flight schedule Ingenuity test flight delayed April 9, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast CDC admits its almost impossible to catch COVID from surfaces UAE picks two more astronauts Today’s blacklisted Americans: Trump supporters blackballed by employers The start of avalanche season at Mars’ north pole NASA/Boeing begin prepping SLS core stage for transfer to Florida Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 successfully completes docking to commercial satellite Mr. Skeleton – Good Golly Miss Molly Ingenuity requires software update before flying Commerce increases sanctions on Russia impacting space commerce and trade New calls for reworking or replacing Outer Space Treaty Today’s blacklisted American: A congresswoman because she speaks her mind A lonely dry lava spring on Mars Yes – Round About UAE hires Japanese company as partner for its ’22 lunar rover mission SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy wins launch contract for VIPER lunar rover More delays to Boeing’s Starliner manned capsule schedule Today’s blacklisted American: A black conservative professor, because he is black Blue Origin completes another unmanned suborbital test flight of New Shepard Evidence of glaciers in the Martian equatorial regions? Mark Rober – Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer April 14, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia to build own space station; admits Zvezda is failing SpaceX raises another $1.16 billion in private capital Branson sells off more of his Virgin Galactic stock Phantom Space raises $5 million in investment capital Sierra Nevada to make its space operations a separate company Today’s blacklisted American: A movie about the dark side of Planned Parenthood New OSIRIS-REx photos of Bennu sample site after sample grab Lisa Ferraro & Houston Person – Teach Me Tonight InSight pauses science operations to conserve power Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired without due process for lamenting the poor education often received by blacks SpaceX wins competition to build Artemis manned lunar lander, using Starship Dave Mason – All Along The Watchtower April 16, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity successfully completes rapid spin test Soyuz capsule returns three astronauts Russia hands over last rocket engines to ULA Ingenuity first test flight scheduled for 3:30 am (Eastern) tonight! The rovers’ view of Mars Ingenuity flies! Starship prototype #15 readying for flight, possibly tomorrow Boeing confirms next Starliner unmanned demo flight delayed until August Today’s blacklisted American: Anyone who is white, Christian, or male at Cigna Spring arrives on the northern polar cap of Mars Mask madness even as scientists confirm once again their uselessness Amazon signs ULA’s Atlas 5 for first 9 Kuiper satellite launches Willie Nelson – Hit Medley Video of Ingenuity’s flight, taken by Perseverance Study: U.S. mortality rates suggest background radiation actually beneficial NASA’s choice of Starship proves government now fully embraces capitalism in space Today’s blacklisted American: Liberal black journalist Juan Williams for not being “black enough” Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath Weather delays next manned flight on Endeavour capsule one day Four more flights for Ingenuity in the next eleven days. The anti-satellite missile the Soviet Union designed for one of its early space stations Momentus losing contracts due to security concerns The upcoming first launch of China’s space station NASA to buy spacesuits from commercial market Astronomers detect largest flare ever, on Proxima Centauri Today’s blacklisted American: John Schnatter, founder of Papa John’s Pizza Glacial layers in a northern crater on Mars Perseverance technology experiment produces oxygen from Mars’ atmosphere Ian Berry – Painting with denim April 21, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First images of Ingenuity’s second flight SpaceX accuses OneWeb lobbyist of making false claims about a Starlink and OneWeb satellite close approach China developing 13,000 satellite communications constellation Today’s blacklisted American: Democrat wants IRS to shut down conservative organization Bumps and holes in the Martian mid-latitudes June Foray & Bill Scott – Rocky & Bullwinkle Endeavour successfully launches four astronauts to ISS Jupiter’s changing and unchanging Great Red Spot Gale Crater’s small mesas were formed by wind, not liquid water Today’s blacklisted American: Police officer fired for making anonymous donation to another man’s defense fund Polygons and an inexplicable depression in ancient Martian crater floor April 21, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast Utopia April 23, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity’s third flight late tonight China names its Mars rover Zhurong, after traditional fire god China and Russia sign agreement to build moon base Curiosity’s mesa-top view of Gale Crater Soyuz-2 rocket launches 36 more OneWeb satellites Ingenuity completes third flight! Bill Nelson: now an advocate of private commercial space? The devastating epidemic that simply wasn’t devastating Study: increase in seasonal Martian streaks after 2018 global dust storm suggests dust not water is their cause Today’s blacklisted American: There are now so many that an online database now exists ULA’s Delta-4 Heavy successfully launches NRO spy satellite John Woodfield RC Gliders Blue Origin protests Starship contract award for lunar lander German smallsat rocket startup wins launch contract China launches nine satellites using Long March 6 rocket SpaceX leases bigger space at LA port for processing Falcon 9 boosters after launch The commercial history of Russia’s Proton rocket Starship prototype #15 completes static fire test Today’s blacklisted American: Any business in a Massachusetts town that does not genuflect to BLM and its Marxist agenda Martian pit on top of Martian dome Dynetics has joined Blue Origin in protesting Starship contract by NASA Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa – Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet) Perseverance as seen by Ingenuity Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has passed away at 90 Today’s blacklisted American: Student is persecuted by university for asking a question Twisted taffy in the basement of Mars Peggy March – I Will Follow Him April 28, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites; China launches Tianhe station module Arianespace’s Vega rocket launches six satellites Ingenuity’s fourth flight today Launch of Intuitive Machine’s first lunar lander delayed Eutelsat invests $550 million in OneWeb Starship prototype #15 completes 2nd static fire test, waits FAA approval for flight Virgin Orbit signs deal with Brazil to launch from that country Today’s blacklisted American: Law professor under investigation for criticizing China The crack that splits the giant volcanoes on Mars Ingenuity fails to take off on 4th flight Mattias Lindström (Swebounce) – Robot chair Stratolaunch’s Roc, biggest plane ever, makes 2nd flight FAA approves next three Starship test flights with prototype #15 Nelson confirmed as NASA administrator Blue Origin ticket sales on New Shepard begin next week Fourth flight of Ingenuity set for today; shifting to operational phase Today’s blacklisted Americans: Any conservative trying to get published by Simon & Schuster Ingenuity’s fourth flight today a success NASA suspends Starship lunar lander contract award due to protests Olga Jegunova – Mozart’s Piano Sonata No 11 in A Major K331 April 30, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s 21-ton Long March 5B core stage to make uncontrolled re-entry China’s Long March 4C rocket successfully launches Earth observation satellite SpaceX to attempt first night splashdown since Apollo 8 in 1968 Resilience successfully splashes down in Gulf of Mexico Sunspot update: Sunspot activity continues to exceed predictions Virgin Galactic delays quarterly earnings report Long March 5B crash estimate as of today A river of lava on Mars as long as the Columbia Today’s blacklisted American: controversial Nick Fuentes 4-Mation: 3D Zoetropes SLS core stage arrives in Florida Rocket engine startup Ursa Major Technologies Firefly raises $75 million in investment capital Today’s blacklisted American: Any conservative on Twitter SpaceX successfully launches another 60 Starlink satellites Fresh washes on Mars? Long March 5B crash window narrows, aims for U.S. Sierra Nevada gets clearance to land Dream Chaser in Florida Elvis Costello – She Blue Origin to auction the first seat on the first New Shepard tourist flight Virgin Galactic under investigation by law firm Revised Long March 5B crash window Cats love illusory boxes too Today’s blacklisted American: Football coach fired for criticizing Democrat Breakthrough Listen finds no signs of alien transmissions from 60 million stars How to watch the first flight of Starship prototype #15 Starship #15 launches AND lands successfully Alejandro Aguanta – Zorba’s Dance May 5, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Bezos sells $2.4 billion in Amazon stock Long March 5B booster reentry prediction still centers on evening of May 8th off coast of Australia Today’s blacklisted American: NJ cop fired for calling Black Lives Matter rioters “terrorists” Martian volcanic eruption thought to be only 50,000-210,000 years old No plans to shoot down Long March 5B booster; revised prediction Boeing and NASA set July 30th for 2nd unmanned Starliner demo mission Devo – Uncontrollable Urge China Long March 2C rocket launches military satellite Ingenuity’s fifth flight later today Long March 5B booster reentry prediction narrows again A Martian mud volcano Today’s blacklisted American: You are supporting the blacklisting of someone, no matter what you do The Largest Stirling Engine On The Market Long March 5B core stage falls to Earth SpaceX launches and lands 1st stage for record 10th time Ingenuity completes fifth flight; lands in new location May 7, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA officially increases prices for commercial use of ISS by 700% NASA and Axiom finalize contract for private tourism flight to ISS Today’s blacklisted American: Anyone in Hollywood who is white The layers of Mars’ north pole icecap Hilary Hahn – Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 OSIRIS-REx on its way back to Earth Virgin Galactic reveals issue with WhiteKnightTwo A look at Ingenuity’s legs The atomic hydrogen in Mars’ atmosphere Today’s blacklisted American: The Catholic Church A crater with wings! Ethiopia’s Chapel in the Sky NASA: Commercial demand exceeds supply at ISS SpaceX to refly Starship prototype #15 next? Today’s blacklisted American: Mom criticizes school board, gets blacklisted by Facebook & Instagram, fights back and wins Martian glacial run-off? Rocket Lab launch on May 15 will attempt a second ocean recovery of 1st stage Alizee – J`en Ai marre May 12, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast More delays for Webb telescope? Company offers luxurious 3-day astronaut training vacations Senate committee mandates NASA award 2nd lunar lander contract Roscosmos announces two commercial tourist flights to ISS Today’s blacklisted American: Conservative commencement speakers at all American universities Tampering and serious discrepancies found in Arizona election audit The Insane Engineering of the X-15 SpaceX in FCC filing outlines first orbital flight plan for Starship Today’s blacklisted American: The Spectator magazine, by Google’s YouTube and Vimeo The flaking and cracked floor of a Martian crater Vikki Carr – It Must Be Him May 14, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Zhurong rover successfully lands on Mars Rocket Lab launch fails SpaceX launches 52 Starlink + 2 customer satellites Today’s blacklisted American: Space Force officer fired for criticizing Marxism and condemning bigotry Why no visual confirmation of the landing on Mars of China’s Zhurong rover? Where is China’s Zhurong Mars rover? Texas: No masks, no restrictions, now no COVID deaths! The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays Flash! SpaceX to use a NEW Falcon 9 1st stage! China rolls out rocket for next space station launch NASA gives an American the seat on Dragon flight that it had been holding for Russian ULA successfully launches military reconnaissance satellite Today’s blacklisted American: New Apple hire fired immediately because other Apple employees considered his writings “unsafe.” Martian mesas made entirely of dry ice! BBC Earth – Swarms of ten million starlings in Rome China’s Long March 4B rocket launches oceanography satellite 1st pictures from Zhurong finally released Discovery channel to launch contest to fly winner to space Senate revises NASA authorization to protect lunar lander award to SpaceX’s Starship Pennsylvania votes to severely limit governor’s emergency powers Today’s blacklisted American: Long-time scholar banned for questioning gender fluidity Typical but still mysterious gullies in a crater on Mars Don Williams – Good Ole Boys Like Me May 19, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Bidding for ticket on first New Shepard manned suborbital flight reaches $2.8 million Ingenuity to make sixth flight next week Parker makes course correction Today’s blacklisted American: Former Trump official Sebastian Gorka SpaceX begins stacking Superheavy prototype for flight China scrubs launch of Tianzhou freighter to its Tianhe station module The steep sudden foothill of Olympus Mons Moranbong Band – Csardas & Gypsy Airs SpaceX grabbing 90% of the launch contracts to the Moon China scrubs launch of station cargo freighter again Delays force ULA to replace Vulcan rocket with Atlas 5 on military launch ESA proposes constellation of lunar communications and navigation satellites Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired for reading anti-slavery novel to students Curiosity climbing Mount Sharp Election audit in New Hampshire confirms unreliability of machine tabulators A Icelandic volcanic eruption, for the people May 21, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Virgin Galactic finally makes manned flight from New Mexico Zhurong rolls onto Martian surface Sierra Space signs up its first customer for its commercial space station Today’s blacklisted American: Tenured professor objects to segregated-by-race training classes at university; school investigates and punishes her GAO finds more NASA cost overruns in Webb, SLS, and Orion Folded ballots caused many (but not all) of the tabulator errors in New Hampshire vote Formula 1 Pit Stops: 1950 vs Today A detailed review of Virgin Galactic Bernie Sanders throws a wrench into Senate bill forcing NASA to award two lunar lander contracts The arrival of routine flights of commercial space passengers to orbit now makes the meaning of the word “astronaut” very unclear The big cliffs of Gediz Vallis on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: All conservatives on Facebook Ryugu’s most primitive boulders Axiom announces astronaut to command its second commercial manned flight Heart & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Alone Roscosmos finally approves ISS module Nauka for launch Viasat asks FCC to block further launches of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites SpaceX successfully launches another 60 Starlink satellites Today’s blacklisted Americans: Biden administration working to blackball fossil fuel companies from obtaining financial services Glacial flows covering a crater on Mars? Yutu-2 data suggests Moon’s far side is “bombarded more frequently” than the near side Leroy Anderson – Syncopated clock May 26, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starship prototype #15 removed from launchpad; likely not to fly again China creates company to build mega-satellite constellation Lockheed Martin and General Motors partner to design manned lunar rover Starship will fuel a shift of spaceports to the Earth’s equator New Chandra mosaic of galactic center reveals spider-web of magnetism Today’s blacklisted Americans: No whites allowed during some events in Massachusetts school district The strange flows in Shalbatana Vallis on Mars Sommerrodelbahn im Stubaital – Mountain Coaster Ingenuity has issues on sixth flight South Korea signs the Artemis Accords Canada to build a Moon rover for NASA Today’s blacklisted American: Classic philosophy and literature banned at Howard University and across academia A lopsided spiral galaxy Russian Soyuz rocket launches 36 OneWeb satellites Anne Reburn – Mr. Sandman China successfully launches 1st cargo freighter to its space station Today’s blacklisted American: High school group canceled by Democratic Party for criticizing Chinese government A visit to a crater near the non-face on Mars Make Mine Freedom New Zealand signs Artemis Accords SpaceX barrelling like a juggernaut toward first Starship/Superheavy orbital flight this year Today’s blacklisted American: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It for the Boy Tiny object hits robot arm on ISS Pentagon getting serious of hauling cargo with Starship New Zealand government blasts Rocket Lab for employment violations, even as it waives its own strict COVID border rules for the company Axiom strikes tourist deal with SpaceX for three more flights Sunspot update: Activity in May continued to exceed predictions From masks to the origins of COVID, Anthony Fauci is a liar and a fraud Today’s blacklisted American: Right-of-center books banned by Amazon Inexplicable ridges north of China’s Mars rover NASA picks two missions to fly to Venus later this decade Foreigner – Waiting For A Girl Like You June 2, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 3B rocket launches new weather satellite Problem with Ariane 5 rocket causes Arianespace to delay Webb telescope launch United Airlines buys 15 Boom Supersonic airplanes FAA grants Rocket Lab permission to resume launches following launch failure SpaceX successfully launches cargo Dragon to ISS Today’s blacklisted American: The American flag Kurt Vonnegut – the Shapes of Stories Third set of new results from Parker released New investment capital pours into commercial space Curiosity’s dramatic path forward Today’s blacklisted American: Doctors fired and blackballed for calling for race-neutral policies in medicine Dad vs Daughter June 4, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches commercial radio satellite with reused Falcon 9 Bezos to fly on first manned New Shepard suborbital flight in July Astra buys space tug company that builds electric engines More evidence the COVID-19 panic was just that: an unwarranted panic Today’s blacklisted American: College volley ball player blackballed for her opinions Mini-volcanoes (mud or lava?) near Zhurong’s Mars landing site Hanson – MMM Bop Investors sue Virgin Galactic for stock fraud Relativity raises $650 million in investment capital to build bigger rocket China releases orbital image showing Zhurong on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Veteran pilot under investigation by American Airlines for expressing his opinions Taxi -Jim Spikes Louie’s Coffee Juno takes first close-up images of Ganymede since 2000 Senate passes NASA authorization that calls for second lunar lander contract Tens of thousands of Georgia Biden ballots were likely just duplicate copies of one ballot Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist radical feminist Naomi Wolf Eroding Martian lava? Sean Rowe – To Leave Something Behind June 9, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity completes 7th flight on Mars China rolls rocket to launchpad for first manned mission to station SpaceX’s focus shifts from Starship hops to the first near-orbital flight Russia announces new tourist flight options to ISS Sierra Space makes deal with UK spaceport for Dream Chaser landings Today’s blacklisted American: College endorses segregation against whites, turning former coffee shop into blacks-only haven Evidence of past underground water in the Martian equatorial regions? Training WWII gunners to hit moving planes from a moving plane China’s Long March 2D rocket launches 4 satellites Europe to fly mission to Venus to study its volcanoes “The Endless SLS Test Firings Act” Update on Perseverance’s future travel plans Zhurong finally located on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist academic suspended by college for expressing her opinions Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs – Wooly Bully June 11, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blue Origin sells first tourist seat on New Shepard for $28 million China releases more images from Zhurong Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket launches military satellite Russian astronaut fired for opposing filming of movie on ISS Today’s blacklisted American: Black Congressman blacklisted by Congressional Black Caucus Boxwork in the basement of Mars Jerome Robbins – Mistake Waltz Northrop Grumman launches three military satellites using Minotaur rocket Today’s blacklisted American: Business that makes American flags blackballed by Paypal, Facebook, and Shopify Behind the Black supporters can now subscribe or donate using Patreon The Miracles – Love Machine Brazil signs Artemis Accords Rocket Lab wins contract to build two Mars smallsat planetary probes First manned mission to new Chinese space station to launch June 17th Some Starlink units shut down if weather gets too hot Another smallsat startup announces plans to build its own orbital space tug FAA, local Texas DA, and environmental group out to get SpaceX and Starship The Mountains of Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Wells Fargo blacklists Republican candidates for Congress Hubble in safe mode due to computer problem New studies: Plexiglass does nothing; masks carry diseases; lockdowns destroyed 40% of all small businesses Jalan Crossland – Moonshiner Chinese astronauts successfully launched into space June 16, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches GPS satellite for Space Force Manned Shenzhou capsule docks with Tianhe Astronomers propose explanation the dimming of Betelgeuse in 2020 Spacesuit issues prevent spacewalk from completing new ISS solar panels installation SpaceX confirms it is shifting to Starship orbital test flights Russia announces it is shifting its manned operations on ISS to yearlong missions China and Russia outline long term plans for building joint lunar base New data confirms lack of dark matter in one galaxy Today’s blacklisted American: NY accounting program for high school students bans whites U2 – Mysterious Ways China’s Long March 2C rocket launches three military satellites Japan passes law protecting property rights in space Japanese scientists complete inventory of Ryugu asteroid samples Today’s blacklisted American: George Mason University to blackball whites and men in hiring A confused river of ice on Mars A Millennial Job Interview June 18, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First attempts to fix Hubble fail Astronauts complete installation of 1st set of new solar panels on ISS GAO: Problems with Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine threaten ULA’s Vulcan rocket Today’s blacklisted American: International food festival bans Israeli vendor for being Jewish Long March 2F booster that launched astronauts lands on public road in China Space Perspectives completes first unmanned test flight of its manned balloon, Neptune Removing a bee swarm Hubble remains out of commission, with no repair date in sight Ariane 6 inaugural launch date appears to be delayed again Today’s blacklisted American: Eric Clapton, for daring to express his own opinions A sample of typical but strange Martian northern lowland plain geology Update on attempts to bring Hubble back to life Maxi Borgaro – Unchained Melody Zhurong’s travels during first three weeks on Mars A detailed look at Russia’s suffering and shrinking space program Ingenuity completes 8th flight, moving south with Perseverance Today’s blacklisted American: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin The beauty of controlled explosions June 23, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Study proposes new radiation standards in space ULA to temporarily stop using new engine nozzle because of vibration issue 2,000 nearby stars found that see the Earth cross in front of the Sun Balloon company begins selling tickets for high-altitude flights Chinese official outlines that country’s Mars exploration plan Curiosity’s mountainous view Today’s blacklisted American: Christian nonprofit denied tax exempt status by IRS because such teachings are “partisan Republican” Andrey Vinogradov – A dark medieval ballad played on a hurdy-gurdy FAA approves commercial launch license for Virgin Galactic Astronomers discover “comet” bigger than the largest comets approaching inner solar system Today’s blacklisted American: Attendees at conservative event attacked by Antifa thugs Many of Mars’ geological mysteries, all in one photo Russia launches new military satellite Hubble update: Still no solution Naudo – Staying Alive June 25, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast June 25, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast China releases more images & videos from Zhurong June 27, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast on blacklisting Scientists question existence of liquid water lake under Martian south pole OneWeb signs deal with BT, Britain’s biggest telecommunications company Today’s blacklisted American: Rudy Giuliani loses law license for daring to represent Donald Trump Paisley terrain on Mars Linda Ronstadt & Johnny Cash – I Never Will Marry Study: Venus’ atmosphere too dry for life First orbital Raptor engine delivered to Boca Chica Today’s blacklisted American: Mayor in Colorado bans pledge of allegiance and anyone who dares recite it during public comments Comet spewed out an unusual amount of alcohol during solar flyby Hand Clap Skit Russians launch Progress freighter; Virgin Orbit launches seven commercial satellites SpaceX launch scrubbed because airplane strayed into what Musk calls “an unreasonably gigantic” launch zone. Gravitational wave detectors see two different black holes as they swallowed a neutron star Dust covering solar panels threatens to end InSight mission Astronomers detect a white dwarf that is both the smallest and most massive ever found Paypal lowering fees charged to sellers Today’s blacklisted American: Journalist Andy Ngo blackballed again, this time by SoundCloud SpaceX successfully launches 88 smallsats, marking a renaissance in rocketry in 2021 Hubble update: Engineers narrow possible failed hardware to one of two units Alan Jackson – Mercury Blues June 30, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches another 36 OneWeb satellites Astra completes SPAC merger, goes public Relativity signs deal to expand rocket facility Russia: Progress freighter and SpaceX rocket/satellite to have near miss Scientists solve methane data conflict on Mars Judge rules SpaceX must comply with Justice subpoena Al-Amal detects Martian aurora Today’s blacklisted American: Rappers have song banned by Spotify & SoundCloud for criticizing BLM, government lockdowns, and the modern perverse sexual movement Bezos invites original female candidate for Mercury program to fly on New Shepard flight July 20th David Frazer – The Deal Bezos vs Branson: Virgin Galactic to do suborbital flight on July 11th carrying Richard Branson More delays in India’s space program Perseverance’s most recent view of Jezero Crater Today’s blacklisted American: YouTube blacklists group exposing Chinese genocide in its Xinjiang region Progress docks with ISS 1776 – Hatching an Egg China launches five military surveillance satellites More parachute problems for Europe’s Franklin Mars rover Next Ingenuity flight to push envelope significantly Sunspot update: The hot streak continues China launches weather satellite Sun unleashes strongest solar flare since last solar maximum First images from Ingenuity’s 9th flight today Today’s blacklisted American: Baseball bans man for expressing his opinion at baseball games with banner Sublimating scallops on Mars Veritasium – Newton reinvents how to calculate pi Today’s blacklisted American: What the last six months has revealed The Family Sowell – Carried Me With You China launches communications satellite for space effort SpaceX drone ship arrives in California NOAA struggles with concept of letting private commercial space build its satellites Today’s blacklisted American: Students demand blacklisting of university trustee because he donated to Trump’s campaign Springtime on Martian dunes near the north pole Enrollment in public schools plunges Loudon Wainwright – One-man Guy July 7, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Update on Ingenuity’s 9th flight Problems with Blue Origin’s engine force more delays of ULA’s new Vulcan rocket Today’s blacklisted American: Facebook to punish users who link to peer-reviewed science it dislikes Engineers successful complete simulation of Hubble repair Curiosity looks across at the alien landscape of Gale Crater Brook Benton – Rainy Night In Georgia FAA initiates new prelaunch air space clearance system China targets 2024 for next lunar sample return mission NASA to scientists: Don’t expect to use SLS for science missions for at least a decade British startup rocket company wants to recover only satellite launched by UK Watching Virgin Galactic’s suborbital flight on July 11th Ingenuity’s view of Jezero Crater during its 9th flight Today’s blacklisted American: YouTube shuts down channel that routinely broadcasts Trump rallies Euler’s Disk China launches 5 military reconnaissance satellites Northrop Grumman wins contract to build Lunar Gateway’s habitable module July 9, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Virgin Galactic finally flies Richard Branson on its reusable suborbital Unity spacecraft Israeli nonprofit that built Beresheet-1 raises $70 million for Beresheet-2 The bell of freedom rings in space Today’s blacklisted American: History professor slandered and ostracized for noting the many historical errors of the NY Times 1619 project Gregory Abbott – Shake You Down Virgin Galactic shares crash after Branson flight FAA approves Blue Origin’s license for commercial suborbital passenger flights Superheavy passes first tank test House slams military for not reforming contracting for space missions SpaceX unveils third drone ship for landing Falcon 9 boosters Today’s blacklisted American: YouTube shuts down conservative channel during its annual conference Scientists successfully predict resumption of bursts from magnetar Clashing layers in Mars’ largest canyon More evidence of shocking fraud in Georgia’s 2020 election tally Jalan Crossland – Trailer Park Fire Facebook gets out of satellite business; “sells” its employees to Amazon NASA awards three contracts to develop nuclear propulsion concepts Craters on Ganymede’s striped surface Hubble update: Engineers pinpoint issue, prepare to fix it Today’s blacklisted American: School district fires teachers for expressing their opinions publicly Blue Origin distributes $19 million of the $28 million earned for its July 20th suborbital flight Evidence found proving Georgia ballots were counted multiple times in 2020 election July 14, 2021 Zimmerman on Pratt on Texas Joey Helms – The Curious Story of Fagradalsfjall July 14, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA threatens shutdown of SpaceX’s Starship program at Boca Chica Bezos donates $200 million to Air & Space Museum India successfully completes static fire testing of rocket engine for human flights Thailand’s government approves new space law New research: COVID is harmless to children Winner of Blue Origin auction for suborbital flight will not fly on July 20th Today’s blacklisted Americans: Opponents of critical race theory in Virginia subjected to harassment campaign Arizona election audit uncovers more evidence of malfeasance in November 2020 election The French Family – Highway 40 Blues New images from Zhurong on Mars Engineers report Hubble fix appears successfully Thales Alenia to build first two modules of Axiom’s commercial space station NASA pushing for an SLS launch before the end of the year Maezawa reveals status of competition to join him on a private Starship mission to Moon Juno team creates dramatic animation of Ganymede/Jupiter fly-by Dictatorship overthrown in Michigan Today’s blacklisted American: Booksellers want to burn a book they do not like First attempts to map the layered geology of Mars How It’s Made: Rubber Balls July 16, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hubble returned to science operations China test flies reusable suborbital spacecraft The lacy rocks of Mars China launches four satellites The future of SLS? Cracks, chaos, and maybe caves in one place on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: 19th century poet Walt Whitman Musk donates more big money to revitalizing downtown Brownsville Watching New Shepard’s first manned commercial flight tomorrow People Are Awesome, 2017 Blue Origin completes first commercial suborbital flight SpaceX completes first static fire test of Superheavy prototype #3 Rocket Lab identifies cause of May launch failure; ready to launch again On the radio tonight Today’s blacklisted American: Catholic hospitals threatened with cancellation by University of California Ice-filled craters in Mars’ glacier country? Israel: Airborne High Power Laser Weapon test Russia launches Nauka, its first new ISS module in 11 years Democrat proposes new tax on private manned spaceflight NASA funds hopper to jump into shadowed lunar craters and find ice Today’s blacklisted American: Army chaplin, threatened with punishment for criticizing Biden administration, sues and wins Pyrrhic victory Another “What the heck?” photo from Mars New studies show that the biggest risk to kids from COVID are the policies of governments The Bangles – You Were On My Mind July 21, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast July 21, 2021 Zimmerman podcast interview on Pratt on Texas It’s drill time for Perseverance! Astronomers detect for the first time an accretion disk around an exoplanet China successfully lands rocket fairings softly Today’s blacklisted American: Baltimore’s attorney attempts, and fails, to get FCC to silence and censor local Fox radio station Russia’s new module for ISS, Nauka, in trouble after launch The wind-swept volcanic ash plains of Mars Illinois Adventure – Cahokia Mounds Scientists refine Martian interior based on quakes detected by InSight Court rejects Viasat’s effort to stop SpaceX Starlink launches Global dust storm on Mars brought on an early spring in southern hemisphere Nauka issues apparently resolved? Today’s blacklisted American: Democrats introduce Senate bill demanding companies censor social media Ice, lava, quakes, and faults, all in one Martian image SpaceX wins contract to launch Europa Clipper to Jupiter The Oort Cloud: what little is known Making sandals using used motorcycle tires July 23, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity’s next flight set for today Update on Ingenuity’s 10th flight and Perseverance’s first sample drilling Deleted Russians detach Pirs module in anticipation of Nauka arrival to ISS 1st water vapor in Ganymede’s atmosphere, detected using data from Hubble A hiker’s view from Mount Sharp Today’s blacklisted American: Mob tries to blacklist actress for shaking Trump’s hand Bezos offers to waive $2 billion in payments to get lunar lander contract The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody An astrophysicist explains cosmology’s theoretical failures FCC tightens rules for giving grants to broadband companies Today’s blacklisted American: Tenured professor fired, given no due process, because one student didn’t like what he was doing On the Space Show tonight Fractured crater close to the Phoenix lander on Mars The Music Man – Till There Was You German startup rocket company raises $75 million Blue Origin working to make 2nd stage of New Glenn reusable July 27, 2021 Zimmerman Space Show podcast Today’s blacklisted American: Twitter bans all election audit accounts in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin The nearest hill to China’s Zhurong Glen Campbell – William Tell Overture July 28, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab returns to flight, launching an American military test satellite Nauka finally docks with ISS China’s Long March 2D rocket launches earth observation satellite India officially delays launch of its next lunar rover to ’22 Scientists: Clay, not liquid water, explains radar data under Martian south icecap For the first time astronomers measure the rotation of exoplanets Today’s blacklisted American: Democrat endorses racial discrimination and press censorship aimed at whites Atomic oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere, as seen by Al-Amal The view of Jezero Crater, from both Ingenuity and Perseverance Nauka engines fire unexpectedly after docking; forces cancellation of Starliner launch Louisiana Jazz Band – All Of Me Apollo 11 lunar ascent stage might still be in orbit around the Moon Inmarsat to launch new low orbit communications satellite constellation United Kingdom passes comprehensive spaceflight regulations Apollo: When Americans last did some real exploring Today’s blacklisted American: Town tries to silence Trump supporter; he sues Peter, Paul and Mary – Don’t Ever Take Away My Freedom July 30, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Arianespace successfully completes first Ariane 5 launch in almost a year GAO rejects protests by Blue Origin and Dynectics over lunar lander award Russia offers conflicting causes for Nauka engine firing Zhurong continues south, inspecting dunes Sunspot update: Another month of greater activity than predicted Upcoming Zimmerman public lecture available for all – Last Call! Today’s blacklisted American: Biracial physician demoted by hospital for criticizing the left The sublimating surface of Mars’ northern plains? Blender FLIP Fluids Addon Nauka shook up ISS more than first revealed Starliner launch scrubbed; no launch date yet set SpaceX installs 29 Raptor engines on Superheavy #4 Two flybys of Venus set by two spacecraft on August 9th and 10th Martian lava flooded crater? The annual July fund-raising campaign: Thank you! Curiosity’s wheels: a good news update Today’s blacklisted American: 65,000 Americans censored by social media Chinese pseudo-private rocket fails during launch Superheavy prototype #4 rolls to orbital launchpad Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine Gil Levin passes away Ingenuity’s 11th flight scheduled for tonight Today’s blacklisted American: Cybersecurity experts want people fired for expressing unpopular opinions on line White blobs on Mars Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Lonesome Polecat August 4, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Details on the Russian movie to be shot on ISS in October China’s Long March 6 launches two military technology test satellites Curiosity: Nine years since landing on Mars and the way forward As thousands of teachers endorse critical race theory, home schooling surges Ingenuity successfully completes 11th flight Michael Martin Murphey & the Rio Grande Band – Wildfire China launches military communications satellite Virgin Galactic reopens suborbital ticket sale, raises price, delays next flight Astra to attempt orbital launch later in August SpaceX stacks Starship on top of Superheavy Zhurong travels another 700 feet on Mars The trials and tribulations of Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine Having an off day Rodney Dangerfield on the Tonight Show August 6, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Perseverance’s first sample grab fails Scientists: Betelgeuse dimmed because of giant dark spot on surface Rocket Lab shifts another launch from Virginia to New Zealand New data suggests Gale Crater was never filled with lake Hawaiian TMT protesters found not guilty of obstructing the road they obstructed Today’s blacklisted American: For too many, it ain’t my problem Peeling thin layers on a Martian plateau Evidence proves lockdowns bad; Democrats scream, “We must have more lockdowns!” Marty Robbins – El Paso Starliner launch scrub: 13 of 24 of the capsule’s propulsion valves failed to work Space Force adds three more rocket startups to its rapid launch program Update on SLS: launch prep continues, launch in 2021 remains doubtful China gives vague hints about its manned lunar lander Eric Berger: FAA regulators should get out of the way Today’s blacklisted American: Medical student expelled for expressing political opinions Inspector general slams NASA spacesuit program Don McLean – Vincent Antares rocket successfully launches Cygnus freighter to ISS Rocket Lab to launch three times in one month, beginning in late August Intuitive Machines awards SpaceX another lunar lander launch contract India begins countdown for 1st GSLV rocket launch since 2019 Today’s blacklisted American: YouTube blacklists U.S. senator for saying things YouTube dislikes Glacial ice sheets on Mars? OSIRIS-REx scientists refine Bennu’s future Earth impact possibilities Jim Nabors – Impossible Dream India’s GSLV rocket fails in first launch since 2019 August 11, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Confirmed: Perseverance sample was too crumbly and poured away China to fly asteroid sample mission in ’24 The number of new smallsat rocket startups continues to grow Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist activist group wants Fox News banned A chain of Martian sinkholes Talk Talk — It’s My Life Branson sells more than ten million shares of Virgin Galactic Russians accuse American astronaut of drilling hole in Soyuz South Korean company invests $300 million in OneWeb Boeing to return Starliner to factory Curiosity looks backwards Today’s blacklisted Americans: Farm banned from farmers market because owners are Christian One Voice Children’s Choir – America the Beautiful August 13, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity’s next flight Georgian election official resigns who announced fake water main break China, politics, and space Today’s blacklisted American: Illinois University now proudly discriminating according to race A Martian river of ice Regional Martian dust storms help suck water from Mars Doc Severinsen And The Tonight Show Band – Ode to Billie Joe Arianespace’s Vega rocket successfully launches five satellites Blue Origin files lawsuit against Starship lunar contract award Ingenuity’s 12th flight successful Saturn’s core is a slushy mix of rocks and liquid Today’s blacklisted American: Big time comic book artist and screenwriter Frank Miller banned from British comic convention Lacy patterns in the high north of Mars Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall – Musical medley Zhurong completes its planned 90-day mission on Mars Russian space junk hit Chinese satellite in March Curiosity produces new 360 degree hi-res panorama Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired by university for having opinions A dry bedrock Martian crater floor? Revolt in San Diego over Democrat-imposed mask and vaccine mandates? Arizona’s governor moves to block any local school mask mandates or closures Jack Webb & Johnny Carson – Dragnet Clapper Caper April 18, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two more military surveillance satellites Firefly hires noted SpaceX engineer The knives aimed at SpaceX are getting sharpened Today’s blacklisted American: Priest removed by Catholic Church for condemning Democrats who violate actual Catholic teachings A weak avalanche season on Mars? The Rolling Stones – Bob Wills Is Still The King Two new smallsat rockets now set for launch Japan to attempt sample return mission to Martian moon NASA freezes work on SpaceX’s lunar lander version of Starship Perseverance’s next drill attempt China’s astronauts complete 2nd spacewalk at Tianhe space station British court dismisses billionaire’s lawsuit against Sutherland spaceport Today’s blacklisted American: Unvaccinated students at Quinnipac University to be punished New cracks across old Martian lava flows Top engineers and managers fleeing Blue Origin Steve’n’Seagulls – The Trooper August 20, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia delays launch of next unmanned lunar probe Trump says he “single-handedly” decided to move Space Force command from Colorado to Alabama Russia launches another 34 OneWeb satellites Asteroid discovered with shortest orbit yet Update on Starship/Superheavy preparations for orbital test flight Curiosity’s coming mountainous target Two smallsat orbiters to launch in ’24 to study Martian upper atmosphere Why only NOW is there mounting concern over President Biden’s mental health? Boeing to buy part of Virgin Orbit for $3.2 billion Today’s blacklisted American: Illinois threatens to cancel doctor’s license because it doesn’t like his opinions Soft Cell – Tainted Love Ispace’s 3rd lunar lander to be larger, built entirely in U.S. ISS spacewalk postponed due to “minor medical issue” First hi-res radio wavelength images of metal asteroid Psyche Wind-blown dark material on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: A man’s life destroyed because he visited the Capitol on January 6th China completes two launches Caroline Jones – Rise (Sing It Loud) Blue Origin BE-4 engine delayed again Musk’s Boring Co offers to dig tunnel for resident transportation during launch closures Perseverance’s upcoming targets: sand ripples, rocks, and a lot of dust Today’s blacklisted American gets an apology from Illinois regulators for threatening his medical license for opinions they didn’t like James Brown & Charlie Daniels – Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag/I Got You (I Feel Good) August 25, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blue Origin successfully completes another unmanned suborbital flight with New Shepard Spanish judge invalids agreement to build TMT in Canary Islands ULA rolls Vulcan core first stage to launchpad for tank tests Today’s blacklisted American: World’s top vaccine expert censored by Twitter & LinkedIn and punished by the CDC Webb telescope finally completed, ready for shipment to launchpad Voces8 – Lux Aeterna Amazon protests SpaceX’s Starlink plan to FCC ULA to no longer sell Atlas-5 launches Rocket Lab becomes third rocket company to go public China studying the construction of large-scale structures in space FAA’s space bureaucracy chief touts desire to limit his agency’s regulatory fist Another mountain view from Curiosity Today’s blacklisted American: Conservative student disqualified from student government because he’s conservative Astra rocket aborts at launch today Sweden — land of no lockdowns or mandates — is doing best of all European nations against COVID George C. Scott’s Patton speech August 27, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Successful orbital engineering test of magnetic space junk removal technology Astra third launch attempt fails just before 1st stage engine cutoff SpaceX successfully launches cargo Dragon to ISS Astra launch failure caused by one of five 1st stage engines shutting down at liftoff An ancient curving channel on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Chase Bank closes Lt. General Mike Flynn’s credit card accounts because they don’t like his opinions Report: 43K of 61K absentee ballots in Georgia county were counted despite being illegal The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star German rocket company successfully tests first stage to failure New cracks discovered on a different Russian ISS module Zhurong completes 100 days on Mars South Korea to launch its own rocket in October Today’s blacklisted American: Mother of slain soldier censored by Instagram and Facebook Stucco on Mars! Tommy Shaw & Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland – Blue Collar Man Prep of first SLS rocket continues to suggest no launch in ’21 Launch schedules impacted by shortages and delivery delays of oxygen/nitrogen A Martian sunset in Jezero Crater Today’s blacklisted American: Cancelled by his bank for being pro-life, he started his own Rose Royce – I Wanna Get Next To You September 1, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Flight anomalies occurred during Branson’s suborbital flight in July China building Ingenuity copycat Firefly set for first orbital launch today Prototype of reusable suborbital spaceplane from new startup completes five flights The troubled politics of ground-based astronomy Today’s blacklisted American: Lyft driver fired because his radio was tuned to a black conservative A peanut-shaped crater in the northern plains of Mars Southern Raised – Sixteen Tons Firefly first launch attempt fails after liftoff, shortly before stage separation The problem Starship poses to NASA and Congress Today’s blacklisted American: Whites to be segregated at American University FAA grounds Virgin Galactic pending investigationn Perseverance’s 2nd drill attempt to get sample appears successful House committee votes to postpone move of Space Force HQ to Alabama Caving in remote Nevada Righteous Brothers – You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling September 3, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly House NASA budget cuts all funding for lunar lander but adds billions for “infrastructure” China Long March 4C rocket launches satellite Ingenuity completes 13th flight China’s Chang’e-5 orbiter returning to lunar space Today’s blacklisted American: The National Archives blacklists the Constitution and Declaration of Independence Debris from Firefly launch rains down near launch spectators Cyndi Harvell – Strongest Man Alive Firefly confirms launch failure due to the premature shutdown of one engine Astronomers discover white dwarf stars still burning hydrogen Update on status of first orbital Starship/Superheavy Today’s blacklisted American: Head of software game company forced out because he expressed a pro-life opinion Report: NASA’s bad management of infrastructure projects routinely leads to cost overruns and delays NASA now targets December 18, 2021 for launch of Webb Glaciers and mesas on Mars John Williams – Star Wars Suite September 7, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The boom in commercial space continues Roscosmos declares film crew fit for launch to ISS Today’s blacklisted American: Unvaccinated Americans should be denied health care, according to television show host Jimmy Kimmel Sacred and Profane Choral Group – The Beatitudes List of lawyers for fighting mask and vaccine mandates Launches by China and Russia Smoke and fire alarms in Russian ISS module Zvezda Rocket Lab negatively impacted by New Zealand’s Wuhan panic lockdowns Questions raised about Branson’s most recent Virgin Galactic stock sale Radio outbursts near center of Milky Way baffle astronomers Facebook and Ray-Ban selling sunglasses able to take pictures also Today’s blacklisted American: Two flight attendants fired by Alaska Airlines for asking questions Sunspot update: Activity declines in August to just above prediction On the edge of Mars’ glacier country Door-to-door canvas of voters in Arizona finds extensive evidence of vote tampering Data from Opportunity suggests surface dew periodically appears even in the dry equatorial regions Tommy Emmanuel – My Life As A One-Man Band September 10, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Another technical problem identified in Virgin Galactic spaceship DC swamp moving to cancel Trump effort to cut red tape at FAA? Today’s blacklisted American: Man demoted, essentially fired, for simply requesting religious exemption from COVID vaccination An example why scientists think there were catastrophic floods on Mars Matchbox Twenty – Parade SpaceX successfully launches another 51 Starlink satellites Utilizing a commercial lunar probe to reach geosynchronous orbit around the Earth Make concrete on Mars using human blood? Today’s blacklisted American: Professor who uncovered academic incompetence has been forced to resign from Portland State University The layered history of Mars as revealed in Valles Marineris Russia launches another set of OneWeb satellites Robert Preston – Dying in movies September 14, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Watching the first all-private commercial manned orbital spaceflight Today’s blacklisted American: Father whose 16-year-old healthy son died right after getting COVID vaccine banned from social media Lozenge-shaped hole in Martian crater Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb – Still within the sound of my voice The real human exploration of the solar system began on September 15, 2021 Astronaut’s mission on ISS will be extended to almost a year SpaceX leases several large facilities in Brownsville, Texas NASA awards small design lunar lander contracts to five companies Chinese astronauts undock from space station in return to Earth Curiosity: Into the mountains! Today’s blacklisted Americans: Any tenant not vaccinated in Florida apartment complex Argent – Hold Your Head Up China’s three astronauts land safely Inspiration4 has raised $130 million so far for St. Jude out of $200 million goal India signs deal with private rocket startup FAA now taking public comments on the licensing of SpaceX to launch Starship/Superheavy from Boca Chica Today’s blacklisted American: Conservative teacher fired for being conservative and colorblind Badlands on the floor of a Martian crater Ben Folds – A Song for Orchestra In Only 10 Minutes September 17, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Inspiration4 passengers scheduled for return to Earth tonight Inspiration4 safely splashes down SpaceX targeting 6 commercial manned flights per year China launches unmanned Tianzhou freighter to its space station Glacial falls on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Gun stores in Boston suburb banned Echo And The Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar NASA reviewing a dozen commercial proposals for future government space stations SpaceX schedules likely first static fire tests for orbital Starship and Superheavy Landing site chosen for VIPER lunar rover Today’s blacklisted American: Blackballed professor at NC State sues How to discover interesting things on Mars Luca Stricagnoli – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik September 21, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast NASA reorganizes bureaucracy of manned programs Starliner unmanned demo flight likely delayed until ’22 Galaxies in the early universe don’t fit the theories NASA awards Aerojet Rocketdyne contract to build 20 Orion main engines Firefly selling its rocket engines to Astra Martian mountaintop Today’s blacklisted American: Weatherman fired after 33 years for not getting COVID vaccine The Romantics – One in a million Wuhan panic continues to shut down India’s space agency Fired flight director accuses Virgin Galactic of lying about problems on July suborbital flight Today’s blacklisted Americans: Republicans blacklisted 53 to 1 over Democrats on social media A clue to the Martian history of volcanic eruptions September 22, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Arion Press – Making books by hand InSight detects the three more large quakes on Mars, the most powerful measured so far Rocket Lab wins contract to launch space junk removal satellite Northrop Grumman says six customers have bought missions using its upgraded orbital repair robot News flash! Union lobbyists wants to influence Biden against non-union SpaceX Today’s blacklisted American: Garden hoes banned by Facebook! Glaciers in the Martian south latitudes Ralph Vaughn William – 5th Symphony September 24, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches Earth observation satellite ULA successfully launches Landsat 9 Today’s blacklisted American: Unvaccinated students at Penn State banned from remote classes Rivulets in Martian lava Data suggests the winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot are changing Billy Ocean – Caribbean Queen China’s Long March 3B successfully launches satellite, which then fails Satellite company Terran Orbital to build big satellite factory in Florida Blue Origin sets October 12th for next suborbital tourist flight United Kingdom’s new comprehensive space strategy: develop a robust private sector BepiColombo about to make first of six Mercury flybys Perseverance as seen from orbit Today’s blacklisted American: New cancel culture database lists more than 1,400 examples of censorship and blacklisting in academia Hazygreyart – All SpaceX Launches From KSC in 4 Minutes 20 Seconds Government shutdown threatens Lucy asteroid mission Flooding from crater lakes on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Suspended for refusing to exempt black students from finals, UCLA professor sues A Mars mesa carved by floods and lava? Swing Out Sister – Breakout September 29, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity’s 14th flight scrubbed by helicopter FAA clears Virgin Galactic to fly Yutu-2 and Chang’e-4 successfully complete another lunar day on the Moon Orbit of biggest comet ever detected refined FAA extends comment period for SpaceX Starship/Superheavy environmental reassessment Former Blue Origin employee blasts company for sexism and safety issues Today’s blacklisted American: Private school threatened with shut down by Colorado Paul Simon and Willie Nelson – Homeward Bound Dennis Praeger asks: Do you know anyone whom you could trust to hide you from the Nazis? Biden signs budget continuing resolution, preventing shutdown Two nearby asteroids found with more precious metals than Earth’s entire global supply Today’s blacklisted American: Louisiana health company to punish employees with unvaccinated spouses The Arizona election audit found significant issues that could easily have changed the final result Inactive volcano vent on Mars Billy Paul – Me and Mrs. Jones NASA issues request for commercially-built spacesuits for its Artemis program BeppiColombo’s first images of Mercury William Shatner to fly on next New Shepard suborbital flight Italy switches from Arianespace to SpaceX for launch contract Today’s blacklisted American: Chief editor on Oklahoma State U’s student newspaper forced to resign for holding a dissenting opinion Land of Martian slope streaks October 1, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Tom Scott – The last aerial ropeway in the UK Worldview to once again develop stratospheric tourist balloon flights Russia launches movie director and actor to ISS UAE to launch probe to asteroid belt Russia imposes new restrictions on any reporting of Roscosmos Space Force payload problems force delay until ’22 of next Falcon Heavy launch Due to cracks, Russia will no longer use Zvezda’s docking port 2018 review by Blue Origin suggested changes that were not adopted Sunspot update: The boom in sunspots returns! Today’s blacklisted American: Football scout fired for refusing to get vaccinated Neil Finn – Dizzy Heights Military satellite imagery to be obtained from competitive commercial market The wavy and beautiful edge of the northern ice cap of Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Woman denied kidney transplant in Colorado because she is unvaccinated Millions have gotten COVID, almost none have died Jay Sekulow Band – Long Time October 6, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Honda developing reusable rocket NASA shifts Starliner crew to Dragon to get them in space Biden administration to streamline regulations for commercial military satellites Report: Reduce contamination restrictions for some future Mars missions Advocacy group in India calls for criminal prosecution of Musk and Starlink SpaceX to double its fleet of reusable manned Dragon capsules Today’s blacklisted American: Seattle runs segregated critical race theory classes, teaching that whites are evil James Hill – Billie Jean Chang’e-5 lunar samples youngest ever found Astronauts name next new Dragon capsule to fly “Endurance” Data from Perseverance confirms Jezero Crater once held a lake Today’s blacklisted American: Policeman suspended for four months for praying Off day Numberphile – The Strange Orbit of Earth’s “Second Moon” October 8, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Update on Boeing’s investigation into Starliner valve issue New Horizons discovers two binary asteroids in Kuiper Belt SpaceX now valued at $100 billion, the world’s 2nd most valuable private company As expected, Pluto’s atmosphere is freezing as its orbit takes it from the Sun Putin reduces budget for Roscosmos by 16% OneWeb to use India’s rockets for satellite launches Weather delays New Shepard’s Shatner launch one day Washington Post slams Blue Origin Today^s blacklisted American: Volunteers at the Art Institute of Chicago fired for being mostly white Ancient fossil river in the very dry equatorial regions of Mars Michael Knowles – Celebrating Columbus Astra schedules next launch attempt Starship/Superheavy update Shetland spaceport gets 10-year launch contract from new British rocket company Today’s blacklisted American: Trump’s former lawyer and anyone associated with him shunned and censored Dusty chaos in Martian canyons The Bangles – Hazy Shade Of Winter October 12, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Watching the New Shepard suborbital flight with William Shatner Australia to build unmanned lunar rover for NASA Today’s blacklisted American: Brownstone Institute blackballed by LinkedIn for associating with famed Harvard epidemiologist Astronaut blood samples suggest long-term exposure to weightlessness causes brain damage Webb telescope finally arrives at launch site in French Guiana Chaka Kahn – Ain’t Nobody Russia launches another 36 OneWeb satellites Shatner vs today’s America Today’s blacklisted American: Thomas Jefferson blacklisted by NY mayor de Blasio A gecko on Mars Hubble data detects persistent water vapor on one of Europa’s hemispheres Igudesman & Joo – Rachmaninov had big Hands China launches eleven satellites on Long March 2D rocket Virgin Galactic delays next Unity suborbital flight until next year Watch launch of next crew to Chinese space station High altitude tourist balloon company, Space Perspective, raises $40 million FAA announces details for SpaceX Boca Chica environmental public hearings China successfully launches three astronauts to its space station Today’s blacklisted American: Fired from a school for having a “Keep America Great” bumper sticker Dry Martian chaos California environment overregulation sole cause of shipping backup Patrick Dykstra – Chasing Ocean Giants Thrusters on Soyuz docked to ISS fire improperly October 15, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ULA’a Atlas-5 successfully launches the Lucy asteroid probe Russian filmmakers safely return to Earth Monaco’s government establishes “Bureau of Space Affairs” A Lucy solar panel on Lucy fails to latch properly after deployment NASA document: Starship orbital flight in March ’22 China gets failed satellite to proper orbit Early solar system had gap separating its inner and outer regions Rocket Lab reschedules next launches Today’s blacklisted American: Doctor banned from seeing patients because he has natural immunity The icy Phlegra Mountains on Mars Nat King Cole – September Song Update on Lucy: panels generating more than 90% of expected power Parker probe completes fifth Venus flyby First FAA hearing on Starship environmental assessment dominated by supporters Scientists resume communications with U.S. Martian rovers Did China test a hypersonic weapon in August? Today’s blacklisted American: The massacred Alamo defenders were a myth, because they were white! Boeing to take Starliner apart, remove two valves Senate committee: NASA must choose two companies to build manned lunar lander Crowded House – Weather With You October 19, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Israel & UAE sign deal to work together on space projects Rocket Lab to attempt another recovery of 1st stage on next launch Russian filmmakers describe their experience of filming a movie in space Today’s blacklisted American: Teacher suspended and transferred for opposing racial segregation and bigotry A collapsing north wall in Valles Marineris Stuart Hamm – The greatest bass solo ever FDA hearing and comment period for giving COVID vaccines to children 5 to 11 South Korea’s new Nuri rocket fails during first launch The COVID lies of governments and scientists Today’s blacklisted American: Connecticut HS teacher of the year to be terminated because of vaccine mandate Curiosity’s new mountain views Nebraska AG report blasts FDA and NIH positions on COVID treatment Mati Ventrillon – Making sweaters from the softest wool Nanoracks and Lockheed Martin to partner in building commercial space station China resumes communications with Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter Ukraine and Nova Scotia to partner in spaceport deal Pop-up clouds on Jupiter Today’s blacklisted American: Teacher suspended for criticizing students for being offended over nothing Next Ariane 5 launch postponed NASA sets target launch date for SLS in February ’22 Musk: Starship orbital flight could happen as soon as next month Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas – The Boxer October 22, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Arianespace and Chinese launches this weekend Space Adventures fails to find customer for Dragon orbital flight First exoplanet detected in another galaxy? On the radio… Sierra Space teams up with Blue Origin to build its Life space station Today’s blacklisted American: Doctor fired for refusing vaccine Layered glaciers in Mars’ glacier country Boy Meets Girl – Waiting for a Star to Fall Japan launches GPS-type satellite Smallsat rocket startup ABL raises $200 million in anticipation of 1st launch Russians certify Dragon for flying its astronauts Firefly approves design of its unmanned lunar lander China resumes communications with Zhurong Mars rover Today’s blacklisted Americans: Los Angeles government bans the unvaccinated from society How deadly is COVID-19, really? Elli Siitonen – Popcorn Ingenuity completes 14th flight on Mars Russian engineers to dock next Progress to Zvezda to test it China’s Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket successfully launches a remote sensing satellite Poland becomes thirteenth nation to sign Artemis Accords Water and carbon monoxide detected in exoplanet’s atmosphere Today’s blacklisted American: American Geophysical Union rejects candidates for awards because they are white Curiosity marches on into the mountains October 25, 2021 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Eddie Van Halen – Another greatest guitar solo ever Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS Starliner delays have cost Boeing another $185 million October 27, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra’s 4th attempt to reach orbit now scheduled for early November One last look at a Martian mountaintop Today’s blacklisted American: ULA fires leader of protest against its COVID shot mandate New results about Jupiter published from Juno Major solar flare from the Sun Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed Solid dry ice in Moon’s permanently shadowed craters? Drop in aviation during COVID lockdowns caused no change in high cirrus clouds, contrary to predictions of climate models VC of Joint Chiefs: Not one, not two, but “hundreds” of Chinese hypersonic tests! Today’s blacklisted American: Surgeon fired after telling school board its mask mandate on kids was wrong Holes in snowy ice on Mars? ABL leases space at Port of Los Angeles The Haunting October 29, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hubble in safe mode again Dragon crew launch to ISS delayed due to weather Enrollment decline continues in urban public schools Astronomers: If there are artificial Dyson spheres out there, we can detect them An example of good public school education Sunspot update: Sun continues its higher than predicted activity Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist actor/rapper Icecube forced from Sony film rather than get a COVID shot Curiosity looks back across the alien landscape of Mars Dragon manned launch delayed again Amazon picks rocket startup ABL to launch 1st two prototype Kuiper satellites Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Riviera Paradise History Unplugged – The Age of Discovery 2.0 Falcon Heavy gets another contract SpaceIL issues contract for construction of Beresheet-2 Evidence from nearby white dwarfs suggest rocky exoplanets are alien to Earth Chinese pseudo-private company buys engines for its reusable rocket UN committee approves UK proposal on developing rules for military space activities Today’s blacklisted American: PJMedia banned by Twitter for calling a man a “man” Two skylights into connected Martian lava tube? Harriet Krijgh – Kabalevsky’s 1st Cello Concerto China’s Long March 2C rocket places two earth observations satellites in orbit Hubble still in safe mode Astronomers detect water in the very very early universe November 2, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt space update Today’s blacklisted American: Parents threatened by Child Protective Services for protecting their kids from COVID Level 42 – Something About You November 3, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Boeing wins FCC approval for its own satellite internet constellation Landing site chosen for Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Skimming over the cloud tops of Jupiter Astronomers release fantasy proposals for government telescopes in the 2020s Court denies Blue Origin’s suit against NASA lunar lander contract award to SpaceX Today’s blacklisted American: Ivy league professor to fail two students for not wearing masks November 4, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast on blacklists Lisa Hannigan – Undertow Weather forces another delay for Endurance launch to ISS Astra proposes its own 13,000 satellite internet constellation History Unplugged – The Age of Discovery 2.0: Episode 2 SpaceX begins filling tanks at Starship orbital launchpad NASA runs out of money for building second SLS mobile launcher Today’s blacklisted American: Rutgers bars student from remote classes because he had not gotten COVID shots The strange surface of Mars’ north pole icecap China launches Landsat-type satellite using Long March 6 Mentour Pilot – SAS flight 751-the Gottröra Miracle November 5, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 2D rocket launches three earth observation satellites Ingenuity next flight will begin route retracing its path Endeavour and crew to return to Earth tomorrow Virgin Orbit signs deal with Japanese company to launch satellites in Japan China begins in-orbit test of what it claims is a “space debris mitigation” satellite Ingenuity completes 15th flight Curiosity: Approaching the saddle Endeavour undocking from ISS delayed one day; Endurance launch still set for November 10th Crew on China’s space station complete first spacewalk New catalog of 90 gravitational wave detections published Today’s blacklisted Americans: If you are unvaxxed you are banned from hospital care in Colorado Frozen lake bed in the Martian high latitudes? Hubble camera back in operation MonaLisa Twins – Drive My Car Endeavour safely splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches nine smallsats Lucy’s solar panel problem could be due to strap Viasat to buy Inmarsat for $7.3 billion Today’s blacklisted Americans: Hiring white men a sin at major investment firm NASA admits manned lunar landing can’t happen before ’25 New space tug to launch in January ’22 At Last the 1948 Show – Policewomen Sketch History Unplugged – The Age of Discovery 2.0: Episode 3 Spinlaunch conducts first prototype test launch Viewing tonight’s Endurance launch with four astronauts Today’s blacklisted American: UCLA threatens to expell remote student for not revealing his COVID shot status A volcanic extrusion on the floor of Valles Marineris? Imogen Heap – Blanket A quick one week fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black: Thank You! SpaceX successfully launches four astronauts to ISS November 10, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ISS to maneuver around space junk leftover from Chinese anti-satellite test The stormy atmosphere of Jupiter Today’s blacklisted American: Professor forced to undergo mental examination because students didn’t like exam question Scientists: Asteroid in an orbit entwined with the Earth might be Moon rock History Unplugged – The Age of Discovery 2.0: Episode 4 Corporal Matthew Creek – The Last Post South Korean lawmaker proposes his country build a reusable rocket Today’s blacklisted Americans: Parents threatened with doxxing by school board for criticizing the board’s mask policies Snow on Martian dunes SpaceX completes Starship static fire test with all six engines Glen de Vries, fellow suborbital passenger with Shatner, dies in plane crash Allison Young – Where Is My Mind? November 12, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Russian astronaut id’s possible leak location in Zvezda China building floating sea platform for rocket launches Zhurong’s continuing travels on Mars NASA IG: Artemis manned lunar landing will likely not happen in ’25 Today’s blacklisted American: Texan denied COVID healthcare because he is white Russian anti-sat test creates 1500 more pieces of space junk FAA targets finalizing Starship environmental report by end of year Celtica – Celtic Spirits Arianespace’s Vega rocket launches three French military satellites Branson sells another $300 million in Virgin Galactic stock Today’s blacklisted American: HS student sues after being punished for saying there are only two genders Craters in the soft Martian northern lowland plains Russia confirms and defends anti-satellite test Hubble operations contract extended to 2026, even as engineers work to fix it History Unplugged – The Age of Discovery 2.0: Episode 5 4 Non Blondes – Spaceman UAE to raise private money to help refurbish Baikonur launchpad Europe joins U.S. in condemning Russian anti-satellite test NASA expected to finally certify Rocket Lab’s Virginia launchpad by end of year Ingenuity’s 16th Martian flight is now scheduled for November 18 UAE Al-Amal Mars orbiter finds surprising variations in Mars atmosphere Today’s blacklisted American: David Horowitz Freedom Center banned from Breakers hotel in Florida Volcanic vent on Mars Haley Reinhart & Casey Abrams – Time of the Season Rocket Lab successfully launches two satellites; recovers 1st stage in ocean November 17, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Musk lays out Starship testing plan Axiom sets launch date for first private commercial manned mission to ISS NASA awards Intuitive Machines another contract to deliver science instruments to Moon Europe’s Solar Orbiter to make last flyby of Earth Today’s blacklisted American: Professor defends free speech, is canceled by MIT and attacked by students, yet fights back and wins Hubble’s 2021 survey of the outer solar system Watching Astra’s next launch attempt tonight Chris Stapleton – Cold November 19, 2021 Zimmerman appearance with Bill Bartholomew Lucy update: Instruments all working, no action yet on solar array Sierra Space raises $1.4 billion in investment capital Court: Blue Origin bid for NASA’s lunar lander contract a failure on all counts Scientists: NASA needs to catch up to SpaceX for using its Starship for future manned and unmanned missions Video of Ingenuity’s 13th flight Today’s blacklisted American: School bans all pro-Israeli clothing Watching Astra’s launch attempt tonight The Fixx – Saved by Zero November 19, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra successfully completes first orbital launch China’s Long March 4B rocket launches Earth observation satellite Nanoracks signs deal to be first customer for Canadian spaceport Senate Democrats trying to sneak $10 billion payoff to Bezos’s Blue Origin in military budget History Unplugged – The Age of Discovery 2.0: Episode 6 Today’s blacklisted American: Army cadet with natural immunity forced from West Point Posting will be light… Webb launch delayed four days because of “incident” during stacking Gregory Porter – Concorde China launches another Earth observation satellite Second camera on Hubble returned to science operations Pink – What’s Up SpaceX successfully launches NASA asteroid mission Russia successfully launches Progress with new docking hub for ISS Rocket Lab to attempt 1st stage recovery by helicopter, beginning early next year Ingenuity completes 16th Mars flight Anastasia Huppmann – Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor movement 3 November 24, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches military reconnaissance satellite China’s Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches classified government satellite Engineers: Webb undamaged by “incident”, ready for December 22nd launch Martina McBride – Blessed China’s Long March 3B rocket launches military communications satellite The United States Army Field Band – The Battle Hymn of the Republic Nice overview of space tourism options The NYTimes does real journalism! No fear of COVID in Michigan yesterday Chicken Little update! A new COVID variant! Russians set December 8th for launch of next ISS tourist flight Engineers recover a third Hubble instrument Sara Evans – I Could Not Ask For More NASA postpones ISS spacewalk due to debris from Russian anti-sat test Musk shakes up Raptor engine development Data: Vaccines don’t stop COVID, but COVID is not that dangerous Sade – Smooth Operator Sculptured lava south of Olympus Mons? Allison Young & Josh Turner – Stardust December 1, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia threatens to destroy U.S. GPS satellites Mars Express successfully relays data from Zhurong to Earth Rocket Lab to attempt quickest turnaround yet on next launch Nissan reveals prototype lunar rover Rocket Lab unveils its new big rocket, Neutron Ingenuity’s images from 16th flight on November 21st Astronauts successfully complete spacewalk, replace broken antenna Today’s blacklisted American: Kyle Rittenhouse temporarily forced out of ASU NASA awards contracts to three private space station projects Dropkick Murphys – The Season’s Upon Us SpaceX completes Starlink/BlackSky Falcon 9th launch More delays for SLS? Weird storms on Jupiter Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired for mistakenly confusing the names of two black students Sunspot update: Sun continues to be more active than predicted Black Pumas – Colors BE-4 engine delayed until ’22 NASA buys more Dragon manned flights SpaceX begins construction of Starship launchpad in Florida Another obvious hoax paper published by peer-review journal Arianespace launches two Galileo GPS-type satellites Yutu-2 continues its travels on Moon’s far side Stop being afraid! Astronomers discover galaxy with no dark matter Mean Mary James – Iron Horse ULA and China complete launches Astra’s next launch to be in Florida Curiosity moves into a mountain gap Today’s blacklisted American: The American Heart Association censored by Twitter Hubble resumes full science operations Kickstarter campaign for video game based on Pioneer begins January 18, 2022! On the radio 5 Things You Don’t Know – Pearl Harbor Russia launches two tourists to ISS Where Ingenuity and Perseverance presently sit in Jezero Crater NASA upgrades software for monitoring potentially dangerous asteroids Today’s blacklisted American: Colorado Democrats move to blacklist all mascots and imagery honoring the American Indian Strange eroded glacial flows in unnamed crater on Mars Rocket Lab successfully launches two more BlackSky Earth observation satellites Led Zeppelin – Thank You December 7, 2021 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast December 8, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches NASA X-ray telescope NASA issues vague update on Lucy’s solar panel deployment issue. Stratolaunch wins military research contract Orbex begins construction of launch platform India outlines new schedule for lunar and manned missions Curiosity takes a close look at a Martian cliff Today’s blacklisted Americans: Whites and Asians at Washington & Lee U Christmas Food Court Flash Mob – Hallelujah Chorus China launches two satellites with Long March 4B Russia selects first astronaut to fly on Dragon How It’s Made – Candy Canes December 10, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor New Shepard completes another suborbital passenger flight FAA to discontinue program to issue wings to everyone who flies in space Mexico signs Artemis Accords Russia’s Proton rocket launches two communications satellites Curiosity looks back at its entire journey Time magazine names Elon Musk as its “Person of the Year” for 2021 Viola Brand – Ballet on a bicycle China launches second communications satellite for its manned space station missions Boeing switches Starliner service modules for unmanned demo flight Superheavy prototype #4 installed on orbital launchpad NASA approves Axiom’s second commercial flight to ISS More delays for Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine Conflict in Hubble constant continues to confound astronomers 99.9% of all mass at center of Milky Way is found in central black hole Enrollment plunges when students are no longer forced to take critical race theory class Andrea Bocelli – Panis Angelicus Webb launch delayed two days because of ground equipment issue Scientists confirm Parker entered Sun’s corona in April 2021 Visible clean water ice on Mars Today’s blacklisted Americans: Google to fire anyone who refuses COVID jab Alison Krauss & Yo-Yo Ma – The Wexford Carol December 15, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Kuaizhou-1A rocket fails during launch Scientists discover underground reservoir of hydrogen, likely ice, near Martian equator Pushback against blacklists: Harvard students relaunch conservative newspaper Cracking glaciers on Mars Dido – Thank You Perseverance scientists: First volcanics then water in Jezero Crater SpaceX proposes new launchpads for Starship at Kennedy SpaceX accused of sexual harassment by same “Woke” venue that accused Blue Origin Pushback: NY gym owners will not comply with new mask mandates Ingenuity successfully completes its 18th flight Foxes and Fossils – I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day December 17, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX in launch of 52 Starlink satellites reuses a 1st stage for the 11th time Space Perspectives to build new balloon manufacturing facility in Florida SLS likely facing another launch delay SpaceX completes 2nd launch in less than 16 hours Webb launch confirmed for December 24, 2021 Japanese tourists return to Earth after 12 days in space Class action securities fraud lawsuit filed against Virgin Galactic Curiosity: Through the notch and looking back Today’s blacklisted American: Denver elementary school brings back segregation Queen – You’re My Best Friend SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS using new 1st stage FAA approves license for launchpad in Camden, Georgia Oh no! 132 SpaceX employees in California come down with colds! Pushback against blacklists: Boeing cancels mandate to fire workers who don’t get COVID shot Scala & Kolacny Brothers – California Dreamin’ ESA delays Webb launch one day due to weather SpaceX begins testing of launch procedures for Superheavy prototype #4 The barren rocky terrain in the mountains of Gale Crater Astronomers detect 70 to 170 free floating exoplanets Today’s blacklisted American: College football coach fired for putting up hand-written sign saying “All lives matter.” Japan’s H-2A rocket launches communications satellite Do You Hear What I Hear – Whitney Houston December 22, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast December 22, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA’s approval of SpaceX’s Starship operations delayed at least a month Identity of $28 million bidder for New Shepard flight revealed Local judge blocks Camden spacesport A detailed review of SLS’s present launch status Pushback against blacklists: Employee resistance force hospitals nationwide to abandon COVID shot mandates Bobby Brown – Every Little Step December 23, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two military satellites with its Long March 7A Webb telescope reaches launchpad on Ariane 5 + how to watch launch The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir – Psalm 34 Webb successfully launched A Christmas Carol China’s Long March 4C rocket launches Earth observation satellite Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launches 36 OneWeb satellites Today’s blacklisted Americans: School board votes to pay whites less than non-whites Webb: Course correction burn and main antenna deployment both a success The Hatterine – Swinging by the Christmas tree Upper stage fails during 3rd test launch of Russia’s Angara rocket China attacks SpaceX, claiming Starlink satellites threaten its space station Pushback against blacklists: Man sues Trader Joe’s for firing him for not getting COVID shot FAA delays final approval of Starship environmental reassessment till Feb 28th Natalie Merchant – Kind and Generous Deployment of Webb’s critical sunshield has begun Today’s blacklisted American: NY elementary school bans singing “Jingle Bells” Slope streaks in frozen lava flows on Mars Kings Return Music – Ave Maria China completes two launches to make 2021 the most active year in rocketry ever Virgin Orbit merger produces only half the investment capital expected Starship prototype #20 completes another static fire launchpad test U.S. military adds Blue Origin to its point-to-point space cargo development program Finalists announced in the ’21 Illusion of the Year contest Pushback: Citizens create open Christmas soup kitchen when official food drive bans unjabbed The badlands on the floor of Valles Marineris December 30, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Iran launches orbital Simorph rocket, does not reach orbit Firefly forced to postpone next launch because of security issues Ray Stevens – Everything is Beautiful 1st stage of Webb sun shield deployment completed SpaceX raises another $337 million in investment capital Wall Street financial firm condemns Astra as bad investment A small victory in Nevada against COVID mandates illustrates the ongoing corrupt politicizing of all of American culture Thank you to all my readers and supporters and a Happy New Year! Cameron Taylor – Auld Lang Syne Andrea McArdle – Tomorrow The unfurling of Webb’s sun shield begins Iran finally admits rocket launch on December 30th was a failure Biden administration commits to operating ISS through 2030 A review of China’s space program Sunspot update: The Sun blasts off! 2021: The year that private enterprise took over rocketry Jeff Lynne – When I was a Boy Update on Starship/Superheavy development South Korea pinpoints cause of October launch failure Webb deployment resumes, with continuing success ArianeGroup ships the 1st Ariane-6 core and upper stages to French Guiana Ice canyons at the Martian north pole Webb: Sun shield deployment completed Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things Starlink temporarily backs out of India due to regulatory snafu China takes the global lead in fusion research Debris from Russian anti-satellite test threatens more than ISS Ingenuity’s next flight and the plans beyond Today’s blacklisted American: A short list of just a few of the academics fired for having opinions Webb engineers successfully deploy the telescope’s secondary mirror NASA finally makes available to the aerospace industry its new flight termination software Sheryl Crow – Strong Enough January 5, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Webb deploys heat radiator Engineers replace engine controller on SLS core; launch to be delayed Space Force wants to pay commercial space to remove space junk The very first observations of dying star before, during, and after it goes supernova More Spaceport America corruption allegations flung about in New Mexico Today’s blacklisted American: Reuters fires long time employee for criticizing BLM Ice-filled crater on the Martian north polar ice cap SpaceX completes the first launch in 2022 Stupid Pet Tricks – Playing Dead Ariane-6 finally wins more launch contracts Virgin Galactic stock crashes China tests space station robot arm Pushback: Children in England are refusing to wear masks or get tests Yutu-2 approaches boulder, has now traveled more than 1,000 meters A Martian cliff Metal Ball Studios – How deep is the ocean? January 7, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Debris in Perseverance core sample equipment Webb’s primary mirror successfully deployed Data from China’s Chang’e-5 lander detects very tiny amounts of water in lunar soil Today’s blacklisted American: Boston policewoman suspended for leading opposition to COVID shot mandate Strange land forms on the flanks of Mars’ Arsia Mons volcano Alanis Morissette – Thank U An independent Russian private space company? SpaceX pushing to launch 2nd generation Starlink satellites by March An oblong exoplanet? A tumbling 1,100-foot-wide asteroid A butte on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Space historian and science journalist blackballed for opposing COVID shot mandates Disney – Four artists paint one tree InSight recovering from safe mode caused by Martian dust storm NASA’s safety panel claims management expertise in ’21 annual report, demanding that NASA run Artemis using a “top-down” approach Orbit Fab wins contract to refuel Astroscale’s satellite repair robots Scientists discover that mid-sized dunes near Mars’ north pole move Roscosmos struggles to figure out how private enterprise works Pushback: Former employee sues Smith College for discrimination and harassment because she is white Lucy update: Engineers testing solar panel fix on ground Danielle Nicole Band – Purple Rain January 12, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 105 satellites on its third smallsat launch India gets a new head of its space agency Astronomers detect interstellar object invading another distant solar system Curiosity’s wheels holding up despite very mountainous and rocky terrain Today’s blacklisted child: McDonald’s evicts unjabbed children with cancer from Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver Virgin Orbit successfully launches seven satellites U2 – 40 Virgin Galactic wants to borrow $500 million from investors to stay afloat House Democrats attempt end-around of filibuster to pass election law using NASA bill Today’s blacklisted American: Four-year-old rejected by Make-A-Wish for not getting COVID shot A cracking and collapsing glacier on Mars Texas grants $5 million grants to two spaceport regions Study: Weightlessness might produce long term anemia Les Paul interviews and plays with ZZ Top January 14, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The plan for clearing Perseverance’s sample carousel of debris Stratolaunch’s giant Roc airplane makes third test flight China launches military test satellite Russian researchers: ISS home to more than 20 types of microorganisms Pushback: For calling parents “terrorists” National School Board Association facing “collapse” Matt Herskowitz – The Banjo Japan delays launch of JAXA’s new rocket Carbon isotope signature detected in Curiosity data suggests possible ancient life, or not Update on SLS: Still aiming for very unlikely March launch Philippino presidential candidate meets with SpaceX officials Launch of Kickstarter campaign for Pioneer game delayed till Feb 1 Pushback: New VA Attorney General shows Republicans the right way to fight the left On the radio… Kathy Loves Physics – Why the U.S. uses 120 volts and not 220 volts SpaceX launches another 49 Starlink satellites Boeing and NASA still aiming for a May launch of unmanned Starliner test demo Russian astronauts locate another leak on Zvezda Israel approves Artemis Accords Chinese pseudo-company preparing first launch of methane-fueled rocket NASA: Russian anti-satellite test in November doubled the threat to ISS Debris apparently cleared from Perseverance’s sample carousel January 18, 2022 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Freedom is under siege, and the besiegers have now told us they have no mercy Dale Watson – David Buxkemper January 19, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity’s 19th flight delayed due to Martian weather Upper stage of ABL rocket explodes during ground test Flight dates for SpaceX’s next two manned flights to ISS revised SpaceX now blocked from Pakistan; OneWeb signs deal to operate in India Radian raises $27.5 million to develop single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane Yutu-2 scientists find soil “cloddy” during its journey NATO issues new space policy filled with blather Freaky badlands on Mars Gehrels/Swift space telescope enters safe mode Restoring a Japanese hanging scroll painting by Kitagawa Utamaro Axiom & UK entertainment company propose film studio in space Judge clears way for land acquisition for Georgia spaceport Contact restored with InSight after dust storm Debris from Russian anti-sat test just misses Chinese satellite NRO to buy radar data from private companies SpaceX’s Starship gets Air Force point-to-point cargo study contract Latvian/Bulgarian commercial partnership to launch cubesats to monitor space weather NASA: No further Artemis Moon landings for at least two years after first in 2025 It is finally time to end the Wuhan panic of the past two years ULA successfully completes its first launch of 22 Junior Senior – Move Your Feet January 21, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Confirmed: All debris cleared from Perseverance sample tube Astra completes 1st static fire dress rehearsal countdown of Rocket-3 at Kennedy Pseudo-private rocket company in China raises $200 million from Chinese investors Today’s blacklisted American: Christian preschool shuttered by California for not keeping masks on two-year-olds at all times Another study says Mars does not have liquid water under its south pole U-shaped meandering Martian ridge Webb successfully inserted in final orbital position at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point Dire Straits – Tunnel of Love Startup building satellite electric thrusters signs deal with startup building refueling tankers NM legislators propose sales tax on Virgin Galactic tourist flights Falcon 9 upper stage to impact Moon Strong opposition to new proposed regulation by federal safety board Axiom awards construction contract for building Houston space station factory Ukrainian rocket company signs deal with Portuguese spaceport organization Mars’ youngest lava flow Pushback: Class action lawsuit against NY’s racial discriminatory COVID policy Yes Prime Minister – The MPs Pay Rise Planetary scientists fight back: “Pluto is a planet!” Update on the video game Pioneer 2140CC & its February 1st Kickstarter launch Long March 4C launches Earth observation satellite Lucy update: cause of solar array issue identified Isar Aerospace wins $11.3 million in EU innovation competition FTC moves to block Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne Today’s blacklisted American: Minnesota Bank & Trust closes all accounts of Mike Lindell of My Pillow, because he has opinions One doctor’s perspective on COVID Eta Carinae: The star that proved Hubble was fixed Stratolaunch wins Air Force hypersonic research contract Oman signs deal with companies to build and launch its first probe beyond Earth orbit Astroscale stops orbital capture demo after detecting “anomalous spacecraft conditions” Frederick Caper – Midnight, the stars, and you January 26, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China tests space junk removal robot in geosynchronous orbit New Arianespace Vega-C rocket being prepared for first launch in April Russia schedules July 23rd for launch of its first unmanned lunar lander in decades Scientists: Liquid surface water might have existed on Mars as recently as 2.3 billion years ago Pushback: Blacklisted doctors opposed to present Biden/CDC/FDA policies testify to Congress ABL test explosion to delay 1st launch three months Linda Ronstadt – Desperado A Chinese space plane? SpaceX aiming to launch 52 times in 2022 India’s new Vikram lunar lander almost ready for launch Will SpaceX recover Superheavy on land or at sea? China’s plans to dominate space revealed in a new Chinese government white paper Today’s blacklisted American: United suspends pilot and prohibits her from getting another job for refusing COVID shot Glaciers in the Phlegra Mountains on Mars A galactic starship Enterprise Coldplay – Viva La Vida January 28, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Israel, overrun with Covid, proves the vaccines have failed and must be abandoned Ispace extends schedule for its 1st two private moon lander missions NASA’s second SLS mobile launch tower now behind schedule Data: COVID shots are killing little kids Today’s blacklisted American killed himself because of the slander campaign against him at NC State When looking at Mars’ images you must never jump to conclusions SpaceX successfully launches Italian civilian/military radar satellite Dobie Gray – Drift Away Coast Guard investigating cruise ship that violated SpaceX launch zone Astra’s 1st launch from Kennedy scheduled for Feb 5 New Mexico legislature dumps space tourism sales tax proposal The first signs of a coming revolution for freedom — from the next generation Pioneer game update: Kickstarter campaign delayed again The Jack Benny Show – Casting For Television Special Another SLS delay Blue Origin successfully tests fairing for New Glenn rocket Astronomers confirm asteroid discovered in 2020 is an Earth Trojan Sunspot Update: The Sun quiets down, but just a little SpaceX’s failure to win space station NASA contract reveals where the company is weak Today’s blacklisted American: HS student suspended for expressing opinions in private texts SpaceX launches spy satellite using new first stage The Partridge Family – I think I love You February 2, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Orbex applies for UK launch license ISS government partners give okay to Axiom’s first commercial crew to station ISRO to launch Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander mission in August NASA and SpaceX investigating parachute issue from recent Dragon missions NASA outlines plans for ISS deorbit and the transition to commercial stations Pushback: Cop wins $75K settlement for being punished for praying SpaceX successfully launches another 49 Starlink satellites Hot spot in northern Martian crater? Webb mirror alignment begins with first photons detected by instrument The Dodo – Cora Rose: the poodle who lost her front legs Former NASA insiders form commercial company to launch satellites to lunar orbit Iceye raises $136 million in private investment capital Alien and barren Mars Pushback: Doctor suspended for opposing mandates sues hospital Engineers determine failed gyroscope caused Gehrels-Swift shutdown Seal – Kiss from a rose Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launches military satellite InSight resumes limited science operations February 4, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astronomers organize lobbying group to block satellite constellations Pushback: Huge increase in homeschooling in VA Astra launch aborts at T-0 Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda – Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? Lockheed Martin wins NASA contract to build Mars rocket Rogozin’s salary rockets upward Space tug company picks Falcon 9 for test flights Pushback: Conservative Hispanic student defeats effort to blacklist her Random Martian ridges on a lava plain Beki Hemingway & Robin James Hurt – Keep Your Distance February 8, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Pioneer game update: Full demo of game released Ingenuity completes 19th flight Swiss startup raises $29 million to build a hypersonic commercial plane Have astronomers discovered an asteroid with three moons? Pushback: Oral surgeon sues state for shutting down his practice for refusing COVID shots Mars: Glaciers on top of glaciers on top of glaciers Parker images the surface of Venus Amira & Friends – My Way Forty just-launched Starlink satellites lost because of geomagnetic storm February 9, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China plans more than 50 launches in 2022 Earthlike exoplanet in habitable zone detected orbiting nearest star SpaceX stacks Starship on Superheavy on orbital launchpad NASA/NSF express collision concerns for SpaceX’s Starlink constellation Arianespace launches 34 OneWeb satellites Astra launch fails when upper stage starts tumbling after stage separation Today’s blacklisted Americans: Private school makes enemies list of parents Watching Elon Musk’s update on Starship tonight Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Empty Promises Musk: “We need to seize the opportunity and do it as quickly as possible.” Judge blocks Camden spaceport land purchase pending March 8th vote First image from Webb released ESA selects Ariane-6’s first payloads Global image of Mars from UAE’s Al-Amal orbiter The Eagles – Seven Bridges Road February 11, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket stage to hit Moon is from Chinese rocket, not Falcon 9 upper stage India’s PSLV rocket launches radar satellite plus two cubesats Lockheed Martin cancels merger with Aerojet Rocketdyne SES and Jio Platforms form partnership to launch broadbrand satellite constellation A floating Martian rock The lie that was COVID FAA delays Starship approval again Krisztina Vellai – Aerial Silk Act SpaceX and Jared Isaacman announce another private Dragon flight Russia launches Progress to ISS Astronomers form lobbying group to block development on Moon’s far side SpaceX begins filling methane tanks at Starship launchsite in Texas Orbex installs launchpad at test site Curiosity looks out across the mountains First image from IXPE Mike Rowe – Can You Be There By Nine? A rebranded Virgin Galactic to reopen ticket sales China wants a formal hot line with U.S. and its companies to avoid space collisions OneWeb sued by businessman for not paying him China tests lunar orbital maneuvers using last in-space component of Chang’e-5 sample return mission Pushback: Three school board members recalled in San Francisco Cracking ice on Mars? Alberta Hunter – My Handy Man February 16, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chandra in safe mode EU advances proposal to build its own broadband satellite constellation FAA administrator, a Trump holdover, announces resignation Firefly savior Max Polyakov gives away his stock Today’s blacklisted American: Wyoming school bans pictures of its kids learning to shoot rifles Daisy The Great & AJR – Record Player ESA dithers, forming committee to study concept of building its own manned capsule Shetland spaceport in Scotland delayed Blue Origin’s CEO wants to build more suborbital New Shepard spacecraft Astroscale about to resume space junk capture test Sierra Club official arrested for vandalizing Brownsville public mural with anti-SpaceX graffiti You can now buy payload space on a lunar rover! Protests by union teachers forces Indiana legislature to gut bill banning critical race theory Gehrels-Swift returns to science operations Hugging galaxies Nightmare Song from Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe February 18, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Virgin Galactic chairman resigns Northrop Grumman launches Cygnus freighter to ISS SpaceX launches 46 Starlink satellites, reuses 1st stage for 11th time Pushback: Why are ANY parents sending their kids back to Loudoun County schools? Deformed Martian craters Bonnie Raitt – Burning Down The House Northrop Grumman to launch new satellite serving mission in ’24 on Falcon 9 China denies the rocket stage about to hit the Moon comes from its rocket Have astronomers found an exoplanet with raining metal and gems? Curiosity’s coming travels across the rocky Greenheugh Pediment Today’s blacklisted American: Seattle school board to hold segregated meetings to pick new school superintendent A thumbnail bio of George Washington Astra releases update on February 10th launch failure Pushback: Federal court grants injunction against United Airlines COVID shot mandate Dry barren ground in Martian northern lowlands? Trudeau’s grab of the bank accounts of his political enemies might have crashed the Canadian banking system Viet View – In The Year 2525 February 23, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity update: Dust storm caused issues; 20th flight upcoming The deadly impact of Russia’s Ukraine invasion on commercial space, on ISS, and beyond Today’s blacklisted American: 9-year-old boy denied kidney transplant because donor hasn’t gotten COVID jab 16 hands 2 pianos – Dublin International Piano Competition SLS launch delayed again Stratolaunch’s Roc successfully completes 4th test flight Space spat between Biden and Rogozin over Russian invasion of Ukraine Curiosity images the Martian version of a cave formation SpaceX successfully launches 50 Starlink satellites Pushback: Professor, fired for having an opinion, sues university Scientists: Martian topography in one region suggests the past existence of lakes and river networks, but not a large single ocean Seasick Steve – Roy’s Gang Russia suspends Soyuz-2 launches from French Guiana February 25, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity’s 20th flight a success Musk activates Starlink in the Ukraine, will send terminals there China successfully launched rockets twice today Today’s blacklisted American: Jan 6th demonstrator apparently commits suicide due to Biden administration persecution Chandra’s camera remains in safe mode Rocket Lab successfully launches Japanese radar satellite First delivery of new Starlink terminals arrives in the Ukraine Steely Dan – Home at last ESA: ExoMars launch in ’22 “very unlikely” due to Russian invasion of the Ukraine Russia suggests sanctions will force to end ISS partnership in ’24, rather than ’30 OneWeb launches from Russia threatened by Russian war in the Ukraine Scientists: Yutu-2 spots tiny glass globules similar to those found by Apollo astronauts Rocket Lab to build new Neutron rocket at Wallops Island in Virginia Shetland spaceport construction to begin in March NASA buys three more manned Dragon flights from SpaceX The Democrats now prove there never was any science behind their mandates ULA successfully launches NOAA weather satellite Eddie Money – Two Tickets to Paradise NASA IG: SLS/Orion cost per launch equals $4.1 billion and is “unsustainable” Rogozin halts launch of OneWeb satelllites planned for March 5 Germany turns off its instrument on the Spektr-RG orbiting X-ray telescope Romania signs Artemis Accords Sunspot update: The Sun rages on Martian crater overwhelmed by glacier? Cyndi Lauper – I Drove All Night March 2, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 47 Starlink satellites OneWeb scraps further launches from Russia Satellite photos suggest Iran had a launch failure with rocket explosion on launchpad Former CEO of Virgin Galactic sued over his pump-and-dump stock sale Shetland spaceport gets third launch customer Launch of two South Korean satellites threatened by Russia’s Ukraine war Today’s blacklisted Americans: Hundreds of nurses fired or quit over hospital’s COVID shot mandate The layered Martian history exposed in Valles Marineris Russia blocks future rocket engine sales to U.S. Boogie Woogie Queen (Ladyva) – Public piano Confirmed: Tomorrow’s OneWeb launch on Soyuz-2 rocket cancelled UK rocket startup Skyrora badly impacted by the Ukraine War Today’s blacklisted American: American Indians force the removal of an American Indian from Marquette University’s school seal Thank you all for making this year’s February birthday fund-raising drive the best yet! Paul Brandt – Convoy March 4, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches seven satellites with Long March 2C rocket Chinese rocket stage impacts Moon Astra completes investigation into February 10th launch failure Bahrain signs Artemis Accords Pushback: Christian HS student sues school for persecuting him because of his religion Fractured terrain on Mars Rush – Time Stand Still Iran launches military satellite Today’s blacklisted American: Renowned cancer researcher fired for wearing Halloween costume 13 years ago Local Texas state/city politicians pressure congressmen to get Starship approved by FAA Monitoring one glacier flowing off a mesa in Mars’ glacier country Ben Rich, Skunk Works, & the F117 Stealth fighter SpaceX successfully completes 10th launch in ’22 Georgia voters kill Camden spaceport project Today’s blacklisted American: Protesters force Obama’s Homeland Security head to withdraw as speaker at Vassar Nugent & Belle – Little Prayers March 9, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast UK bans all space-related exports to Russia Blue Origin expands its rocket engine factory in Alabama Virgin Orbit signs deal to launch Welsh-built satellite from Cornwall in ’22 Today’s blacklisted American: FBI drops trumped up charges that caused January 6th protester to commit suicide More thumbprints on Mars! The actual state of the Ukraine War Whitney Houston – How Will I Know Software company aims to launch 250 satellite weather constellation Startup Astrolab unveils its manned lunar rover design Russia to lose seventeen launches due to Ukraine sanctions NASA: committed to forcing everyone to use gender pronouns demanded by its employees Today’s blacklisted Americans: Multiple lawsuits against Collin College in Texas for firing any teacher who expresses an opinion Ingenuity completes 21st flight on Mars March 11, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast CHVRCHES – Never Ending Circles March 11, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Supernova discovered in Cartwheel galaxy Russia today confirmed it will return NASA astronaut as planned Pushback: Teacher sues for being suspended for defying pronoun demands Mesa in the Martian northern lowlands Nick Uhas – World Record Elephant Toothpaste Dumping Windows and Apple and switching to Linux Entire Russian communications satellite industry threatened by Russia’s Ukraine invasion Astra successfully completes its second orbital launch Mark Vande Hei sets new record for longest American space flight India successfully tests solid rocket booster for its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle OneWeb and Arianespace scramble to find a rocket to launch satellites Today’s blacklisted American: Second-grade child punished for talking about Christianity Launching a rocket using atomic explosions? Tatiana Eva-Marie & Avalon Jazz Band – Si Tu Vois Ma Mère NASA extends Ingenuity’s mission through September ’22 China tests rocket engine for the next Long March 5B launches Overview of the impact Russia’s invasion is having on the Ukraine’s space industry Recent avalanche on Mars Pushback: Professor sues University of Illinois officials for suspending him for doing his job Solar scientist Eugene Parker passes away at 94 Alignment of segments in Webb’s primary mirror completed Rob Paravonian – Pachelbel Rant March 16, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches military reconnaissance satellite NASA adds another antenna to its Deep Space Network The world’s two biggest rockets move to their launchpads! Pushback: Pilots sue CDC over Biden mask requirement on planes Update on the actual state of the Ukraine War MonaLisa Twins & Mike Massé – Africa SLS arrives at launch site Orbit Fab wins contract to outfit U.S. military satellites for refueling Sierra Space signs Mitsubishi as partner in private Orbital Reef space station project Russia launches three Russians to ISS on Soyuz-2 rocket Elon Musk targets 2029 for first Starship manned mission to Mars ESA makes official the split with Russia The journey so far of China’s Zhurong Mars rover Today’s blacklisted American: Man who found Hunter Biden’s laptop harassed, threatened, and driven to bankruptcy Vivaldi’s Bassoon Concerto In E Minor March 18, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 53 Starlink satellites Rogozin: Lift sanctions by end of March or else! OneWeb signs deal with SpaceX to launch its remaining satellites, replacing Russia Pushback: Judge rules university officials can be held personally responsible for firing a professor for his political opinions Colorful Mars Geobeats – Tuck the Crow Russia launches military communications satellite with Soyuz-2 rocket Sharpest radio image ever taken of newly discovered space object SpaceX ends future business with launch services company Spaceflight South Korea to build its own unmanned lunar lander Musk says Starship will be ready for first orbital launch in May Scientists: Enceladus’ tiger stripes come from underground ocean NASA: Europa Clipper’s cost rise; Mars sample return delayed The unbelievably rough and wind-swept surface of Mars’ Greenheugh pediment Today’s blacklisted American: Emmett Till opera canceled because lyrics were written by a white Tokyo Groove Jyoshi – Funk No.1 Starlink raises its prices Local state legislators introduce bill to disband Camden spaceport authority SpaceX switches to newer Starship and Superheavy for orbital test Firefly raises $75 million, targets May for next launch attempt Blue Origin’s engine division manager leaves company; first BE-4 engines arriving in May Startup rocket company begins delivering engines ISS: Breaking up is hard to do Ingenuity completes 22nd flight; Perseverance on a roll Today’s blacklisted American: Conservatives and the religious blackballed at Disney Roscosmos to only accept future payments in rubles Update on the lie that was COVID Animusic – Aqua Harp March 23, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blue Origin delays 1st New Glenn launch again NASA solicits proposals for second commercial manned lunar lander SpaceX’s fourth manned Dragon capsule named “Freedom” Biden administration demands that all NASA grantees hire minorities/women SpaceX raises launch prices Today’s blacklisted American: Forbes terminates journalist for documenting Fauci’s salary The Ukraine War: Another week, little change Aretha Franklin – Freeway Of Love Ingenuity completes 23rd flight on Mars Arianespace and SpaceX adjust to the new commercial launch market, without Russia Solar Orbiter takes closest image of Sun so far Ukraine War energizes commercial orbital remote sensing industry Pushback: Lawsuit by teacher fired for his opinions to be heard by VA Supreme Court FAA again delays decision on environmental reassessment of SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility Austin McConnell – The Absurd 2nd Century Space Opera You’ll Never Read March 25, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ISRO pinpoints cause of August ’21 failure of India’s GSLV Curiosity presently traveling over broken sandstone from an ancient dune field SpaceX to freeze its manned Dragon capsule fleet at four The seeds of today’s madness were planted decades ago Today’s blacklisted American: TV reporter fired for covering protest objectively Ice sheets on Mars below 30 degrees latitude? Green Book – Orange Bird Piano scene Singapore signs Artemis Accords China successfully launches Long March 6A for the first time Japanese satellite startup Synspective raises $100 million Scientists: Ice layers in Burroughs Crater confirm Martian orbital climate cycles Five European and Canadian teams win ESA contest to develop lunar rovers Surprise! NASA’s ’23 budget request asks for more money! Today’s blacklisted American: Vassar’s college newspaper retracts story because it quoted “too many whites” Emily Linge – A Day In The Life China’s Long March 11 rocket launches three satellites Soyuz capsule returns three astronauts safely, completing Mark Vande Hei’s 355 day mission Europe’s deep space communications network to support India’s next two missions beyond Earth orbit Active volcanoes on Pluto? March 30, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Another update on the lie that was COVID Beach Boys – California Girls New Shepard completes another commercial suborbital flight Astronomers think they have detected the most distant star ever Scientists: On Mars surface elevation doesn’t matter that much in terms of radiation protection A large Martian river basin with delta Pushback: University’s blacklisting of a student quickly ends when confronted by lawyers The Ukraine War: Increasing Ukrainian gains in the past week Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record break in Snooker Will XCOR’s Lynx’s spaceplane be reborn as smallsat launcher taking off from California airport? SpaceX successfully launches 40 smallsats into orbit Today’s blacklisted American: Biden’s Labor Board attempts to silence conservative news outlet for making bad Twitter joke Strange terrain at the Martian equator Sunspot update: Sunspot activity continues to outpace predictions SLS dress rehearsal begins, with press coverage limited by NASA How to Replace Blinker Fluid March 30, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast April 1, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab launches two BlackSky Earth observation satellites Rogozin tweets: ISS cooperation to end NASA aborts fueling in SLS dress rehearsal countdown Upcoming Event: The impact of the Ukraine War on the global space industry The most valuable real estate on the Moon Pushback: Musk — offended by Twitter censorship — becomes its biggest shareholder Astronomers directly image the orbital motion of Jupiter protoplanet 531 light years away The Seekers – Georgy Girl SLS dress rehearsal countdown scrubbed an hour before T-0 Amazon announces launch agreements with Blue Origin, Arianespace, and ULA Rogozin proposes Russia launch modules to China’s space station More than 4,000 people apply to Japan’s JAXA space agency to become astronauts UAE wants to prioritize private enterprise for its space effort Looking down into a Jupiter hurricane Today’s blacklisted American: Whites aggressively blocked from attending health dept meeting Sonny & Cher – I Got You Babe Ingenuity completes its 24th flight on Mars NASA postpones next SLS dress rehearsal countdown attempt to next week Rocket Lab to attempt 1st stage recovery by helicopter on next launch Astronomers discover a solar twin whose sunspot cycle changed into a grand minimum Commercial Orbital Reef space station passes NASA’s design review Ukrainian rocket development for Nova Scotia spaceport unhindered by war Europe to put instrument on Japanese rover being launched and landed on the Moon by India Scientists decide propaganda and commercials are better than good research results Inspector General: NASA’s lunar rover VIPER mission on schedule, with some cost increases Curiosity’s upcoming rough terrain Today’s blacklisted American: Georgetown University to hold segregated black-only events Pioneer 2140CC Kickstarter campaign shuts down Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days April 6, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China and Russia successfully launch satellites Breaking: Army Corp of Engineers suspends SpaceX’s Boca Chica permit process Spinlaunch wins suborbital launch contract from NASA ISRO once again delays first launch of its new SSLV rocket Update on SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy operations at Boca Chica Commercial imaging satellites prove their military worth in the Ukraine War Connecting the dots of the COVID lie The Ukraine War: Russia in retreat in the past week Video of panel discussion of Ukraine War’s impact on the global space industry Woody Allen & William Buckley do comedy together SpaceX successfully launches Axiom’s first commercial flight to ISS Relativity still targeting a ’22 first launch Starlink delivers 5,000 terminals to Ukraine; loses license in France French company raises €2 million to launch commercial solar sail New data contradicts accepted standard model of particle physics Pushback: NJ gym-owners who refused to obey COVID edicts regain business license Splonk went the crater! From Deep Space 9 – Do-Re-Mi April 8, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA will not load fuels in SLS upper stage in next dress rehearsal countdown attempt Astroscale demo to test space junk removal struggles with failed thrusters Perseverance arrives at Three Forks at the base of Jezero Crater’s delta Today’s blacklisted American: News staffers at CBS demand network blacklist Republican Funny concert moments ISRO hires company to build future PSLV rockets Rocket Lab breaks ground on Neutron rocket factory Neptune’s cooling when it should be warming Curiosity retreating from Greenheugh Pediment Russia backs off its threats to leave ISS partnership Interstellar meteor impacted Earth in 2014 ULA orders 116 rocket engines from Aerojet Rocketdyne for its Vulcan upper stage Pushback: Black waitress sues NYC mayor over COVID shot mandate MAVEN and Al-Amal scientists sign agreement to collaborate Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love April 12, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astronomers confirm comet with largest nucleus ever found Space Perspectives unveils luxurious interior of Neptune high altitude balloon On the road Webb’s coldest instrument reaches operating temperature A tour at rocket startup Phantom Space Today’s blacklisted American: Seattle’s public schools to hold “listening tours” that exclude whites Frozen lava in Mars’ volcano country Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Refugee Europe removes its science instruments from future Russian lunar missions SpaceX goes full speed ahead on construction of Starship launchpad in Florida The spread of the oceans’ sea floors appears to be slowing Today’s blacklisted American: Twitter blocks Libs of Tik Tok for the crime of reposting actual leftist statements Third SLS dress rehearsal countdown scrubbed before completion Designer John Galliano’s Objects of Affection April 14, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 3B/E rocket launches communications satellite TASS: China has suspended science partnerships with Russia Boeing and NASA set May 19th for second Starliner unmanned demo launch Ingenuity completes 25th flight, the longest yet Don’t launch it! Don’t spin it! Fire your orbital payloads from a gun! China’s astronauts to return after six month mission Today’s blacklisted American: Two colleges hold segregated debate tournament that bans whites from competing The spiral galaxy M91 Apollo 16 on Moon, as visualized by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The Ukraine War: Little change in the past week Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – Are You Lost In The World Like Me? Astronauts return from Chinese station; China launches satellite NASA abandons 4th attempt to complete SLS dress rehearsal countdown SpaceX successfully launches military satellite Pieces of old Long March 3B rocket fall in India White sediment in Martian slot canyon Pushback: Threatened with blacklisting, a conservative student fought back so hard she is now in charge Dawn on the Moon Sheryl Crow – The First Cut is the Deepest Return of first Axiom commercial crew from ISS delayed SLS launch now definitely delayed until July, at the earliest Biden administration vows to cease anti-satellite tests Perseverance spots its parachute Pushback: College that demanded professor use fake pronouns loses lawsuit, must pay him $400K Hubble looks at a tight cluster of five galaxies Red Side: If the planets replaced the Moon Axiom again cancels return of manned mission due to weather Delta testing Starlink use on its airplanes Spinlaunch releases video of its 7th test launch Planetary scientists propose next NASA boondoggle Today’s blacklisted American: Assistant principal harassed and forced to resign for rejecting school’s insistence that all whites are racists Perseverance captures solar eclipse by Phobos Anne Murray – Snowbird April 20, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New schedule announced for landing of AX-1 crew and launch of NASA crew OneWeb signs deal to launch additional satellites using India’s GSLV rocket South Korea raises its space budget by 19% NASA awards contracts to six companies for its future orbital communications Astrobotics unveils nearly complete Peregrine lunar lander ESA successfully tests controlling a robot on Earth from orbit Two space companies fight in the Ukraine war SpaceX successfully launches another 53 Starlink satellites Astronomers discover new type of stellar explosion Pushback: Baseball scout sues over COVID shot mandate that got him fired Lucy team schedules attempt to complete solar panel deployment Unintentional ASMR – Very Thorough Table Tennis Racket Tester Starlink gets its first airline customer Blue Origin rethinking plans for landing its first stage? ULA begins stacking Atlas-5 rocket that will launch Starliner on demo mission The gigantic lava flows off of the solar system’s biggest known volcano Colliding galaxies Today’s blacklisted American: Rhode Island Democrats propose oppressing everyone who hasn’t gotten COVID shots Led Zeppelin – The Ocean (Cover) by Ellen, Yoyoka, Eva, Mateo Return of Axiom mission delayed again because of weather Ispace secures first insurance deal for private lunar lander Endeavour splashes down successfully Today’s blacklisted American: The media knives are now out for Elon Musk The icy Reull Valley of Mars NASA extends eight planetary missions, including sending OSIRIS-REx to the asteroid Apophis AmazingViz – American X-planes SLS rocket rolled back to VAB InSight scientists publish paper describing last year’s big Martian quakes SpaceX’s signs up another airline to use Starlink Wi-Fi on its planes Scientists: Dry ice glaciers at Mars’ south pole ice cap are active and moving Pushback: Judge rules lawsuit from professor suspended for refusing to favor black students can proceed Nelson Brothers – Garden Party Watch first flight of SpaceX’s fourth capsule, Freedom, carrying four NASA astronauts SpaceX successfully launches 4 astronauts into orbit Ingenuity photographs Perseverance’s abandoned parachute on 26th flight Pushback: Three Idaho University students sue school for punishing them for having opinions AcroDuoBallet – Arabian Dance April 27, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast April 22, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ukrainian rocket for Nova Scotia spaceport so far unaffected by war SpaceX’s Freedom spacecraft docks with ISS Dunes on Jupiter’s volcano moon Io? China plans a constellation of communications/GPS-type satellites around Moon Today’s blacklisted American: Jewish professor fired for describing anti-Semitism at college As Curiosity retreats from rough country, scientists look at the future geology it will see Cabaret – Married Rogozin: Expect delays for future Russian lunar probes China’s Long March 2C rocket launches two Earth observation satellites NASA decides to end airborne SOFIA telescope operations Launches of UK rocket company delayed by red tape in Iceland Momentus gets FCC license for May launch of its Vigoride space tug Watch today’s launches by SpaceX and Rocket Lab Axiom signs deal with the UAE to fly one astronaut to ISS in ’23 Surprise! FAA delays SpaceX approval at Boca Chica another month Today’s blacklisted American: 15-year-old kills himself after school ignored cruel bullying based on false rumor he hadn’t gotten COVID shots. SpaceX launches another 53 Starlink satellites Brain terrain in Mars’ glacier country April 29, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Size Comparison: from Ceres to the entire Universe China and Russia each successfully complete launches Update on Dream Chaser Navigating a rover on Mars Watch Rocket Lab launch and attempt to capture first stage with helicopter Pushback: Sports anchor sues ESPN for punishing her for expressing opinions on her own time Rocket Lab successfully catches first stage with helicopter Toto – Hold The Line Berger: The media should ignore Rogozin Space Force awards 125 small contracts to develop space junk removal and satellite repair Zhurong travels another 1,300 feet Viasat once again demands government block its competitor Starlink Sunspot update: The Sun roars on, making the scientists wrong Biden’s NASA administrator slams the cost-plus contracts he endorsed when he was a senator Today’s blacklisted American: College fires director of its free speech institute for advocating free speech Alchemistic Records – The Ultimate James Bond Medley ESA: ExoMars will likely be delayed till ’28 at the soonest Old Russian Proton rocket engine explodes in orbit, creating more space junk South Korean smallsat rocket startup to launch first suborbital test flight Fish & Wildlife documents now reveal its objections to SpaceX Boca Chica facility Pushback: Computer repairman who exposed Hunter Biden’s laptop sues media for slandering him A quake south of Starship’s prime landing sites on Mars Benny Hill – Wife-Swap May 4, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Endurance undocks from ISS for splashdown tonight; Watch here China’s Long March 2D rocket launches 8 satellites NASA to conduct second SLS launch dress rehearsal in June Phantom Space orders more than 200 rocket engines from Ursa Major Stratolaunch completes 5th test flight of giant Roc airplane Axiom buys robot arm grapple points from the Canadian company MDA Pushback: Woman sues Antifa member for falsely saying she had criminal record Boeing moving headquarters from Chicago to DC Angela Lansbury – Tale as Old as Time Endurance successfully splashes down, returning 4 astronauts after a 6 month mission SpaceX launches another 53 Starlink satellites SLS launch delayed until August, at the earliest Virgin Galactic delays commercial suborbital flights again Citizens enlisted to find changes to Comet 67P/C-G during Rosetta mission Lunar samples from Chang’e-5 confirm fuel and oxygen can be mined from surface Today’s blacklisted Americans: Conservative Supreme Court justices doxed and threatened by pro-abortion protesters Looking for someone who can create an index for one of my books The Ukraine War: Reassessing the situation after another month Why a big Earth mountain would hardly be noticed on Mars October Project – Ariel May 6, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity in trouble May 6, 2022 Zimmerman podcast with Countdown to the Moon Chinese pseudo company Linkspace to try suborbital vertical rocket test this year China releases to the public some of the datasets from the Chang’e-5 lunar mission The payload’s view during a Spinlaunch test Curiosity climbing out of Gordon Notch hollow Pushback: Lawsuit forces Rhode Island to let oral surgeon to reopen his practice China launches Tianzhou freighter to space station Ellen Alaverdyan – Bass cover for Rush’s Tom Sawyer Yawn: Rogozin tweets threats to Musk, Musk shrugs Astra signs deal to launch from SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland South Korea’s new president wants bigger space effort closely tied to U.S. Momentus gets final launch permits for its space tug InSight detects 5 magnitude Martian quake, the largest detected so far Blue Origin announces passengers on next suborbital New Shepard flight CAPSTONE Moon satellite shipped to New Zealand by Terran Orbital Scientists propose new theory to explain mysterious slope streaks on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: College in Illinois establishes black-men-only academy, no others need apply Kristin Diable & the City – I’ll Make Time for You The future factions in space become clearer Orbex unveils a full-scale prototype of its Prime smallsat rocket Virgin Orbit to expand its fleet of 747s used with its LauncherOne rocket Pushback: Arizona parents sue over school board’s attempt to silence and intimidate them The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates Mountains, Mesas, and Box Canyons on the floor of Valles Marineris Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne fight over cause of Starliner valve problem Mike Massé & Matt Hepworth – Home by the Sea May 11, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First radio image of event horizon of Milky Way’s central black hole Zhurong data suggests a more watery Martian environment more recently that previously thought SpaceX CEO: Starship could launch as early as June Scientists grow plants in lunar soil brought by from Apollo missions Lisa Hannigan – Lille Chinese pseudo company Ispace experiences another launch failure Astra reveals vague details about its next larger rocket NASA corrupt safety panel once again blathers on Are the COVID vaccines killing people over time? The data suggests yes. Today’s blacklisted American: Professor’s suspension for having an opinion now more than 100 days long, with no end in sight SpaceX successfully launches another 53 Starlink satellites Bobby Troup – Route 66 May 13, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites on a new Falcon 9 rocket FAA approves Huntsville airport as landing site for Dream Chaser Update on SLS preparations for next dress rehearsal countdown ISRO successfully tests human-rated solid rocket booster Study: Russian astronauts on ISS have better techniques for protecting the brain Elon Musk gives another tour of Starbase Curiosity climbs on! Today’s blacklisted American: School district investigates three children for using wrong pronouns Caroline Jones – Being A Woman (Is Like Being the Sun) Launcher fills customer list for first flight of its space tug More Chinese space junk crashes in India Aerojet Rocketdyne reprimands its executive chairman for trying to oust CEO Pointy rocks on Mars Musk abandons the Democrats, will vote Republican in November Pushback: Parents & teachers sue to prevent California schools from teaching anti-Semitism Mahma Comparisons – Biggest volcano eruptions known SpaceX successfully launches 53 Starlink satellites InSight likely to shut down by the end of summer ABL completes and ships new upper stage only 4 months after test explosion NASA bans American spacewalks on ISS because of chronic spacesuit issues NASA announces new possible launch dates for first SLS launch May 18, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast The tuffy ground in the foothills of Mount Sharp Pro-abortion advocates threaten to storm the Supreme Court, burn it down, and murder justices Today’s blacklisted American: Student expelled for not getting COVID booster, despite proof the booster for her was medically risky A giant elliptical galaxy Tedeschi Trucks Band – Midnight in Harlem May 18, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches military satellite with Soyuz-2 rocket Puzzling telemetry from Voyager-1 suggests problem Technical issue on New Shepard delays fifth passenger flight Watching Boeing’s Starliner launch tonight ESA releases new images from Solar Orbiter Pushback: Two Alaska Airlines flight attendants fired for asking questions file lawsuit ULA’s Atlas-5 rocket successfully launches Starliner into orbit Charles Ives – Symphony No. 2 Starliner reaches proper orbit despite thruster problems Zhurong goes into hibernation India delays launch of manned mission to do two abort tests first Perseverance’s upcoming travel plans Pushback: Five bowling alleys sue Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer Dry flows on Mars? A pair of spiral galaxies Starliner successfully docks with ISS TT Isle of Man Street Race May 20, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 2C rocket launches three satellites Mitsubishi develops technology to 3D print cubesat antennas in space using sunlight Boeing uninterested in finding customers for Starliner outside of NASA? SpaceX seeking another $1.725 billion in investment capital Pushback: Professor fired for having opinions wins total victory Mars: Are these eroding glaciers or impacts in lava? Blondie – The Tide Is High Software issues delay Psyche launch seven weeks Finding ways to clean ISS and future interplanetary spaceships U.S. and Japan agree to send Japanese astronaut to Gateway and the Moon Chinese scientists plant seeds bred on Tiangong space station Scientists: Plow the solar system through a dense-enough interstellar cloud and the heliosphere would no longer protect the Earth Pushback: Total victory for The Federalist against attempt by Biden’s Labor Board to silence it Martian ridge sticking up out of a lava flood plain Dave Grohl – Everlong May 24, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Watch Starliner’s return to Earth NRO awards major satellite contracts to BlackSky, Maxar, and Planet Axiom signs deal with Italy to add an Italian module to its commercial space station Pushback: Navy loses in attempt to fire officer who refused COVID shots Chinese expert calls for China to find ways to destroy Starlink constellation SpaceX launches 59 smallsats and tugs into orbit Starliner successfully lands in New Mexico Women Of Country – Coal Miner’s Daughter Astronomers: Shut down satellite companies so we don’t have to adapt! Today’s blacklisted American: Churches vandalized by leftists for their beliefs Another grand galaxy imaged by Hubble Suzi Quatro – If you can’t give me love NASA blesses Starliner as ready for manned missions Stratolaunch unveils first Talon-A test vehicle Update on Relativity’s operations and first launch attempt Spaceflight’s Sherpa-AC tug successfully deploys satellites Part 2 of Elon Musk’s most recent tour of Starbase Today’s blacklisted American: Teacher threatened with loss of license for expressing an opinion Shawn James – Wild Turkey, Trout, Forest Garden A high mountain inside Valles Marineris May 27, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SLS next dress rehearsal countdown scheduled for June 19th First test flight of Momentus’s orbital tug has issues Engineers rethinking Ingenuity operations to keep it alive through the winter Astroscale to deorbit OneWeb satellites, funded by the European Space Agency Did SpaceX’s Endeavour capsule have issues with its heat shield during its most recent return to Earth? Flaky Martian rock MAVEN out of operation since February Environmentalists sue local Boca Chica officials for closing beaches for SpaceX China begins preparing Long March 5B for launch of next space station module India’s press: End the endless launch delays at ISRO Egypt to create a “space city” for space research and development Boeing picks company to manufacture flight suits for passengers on Starliner The new satellite industry, energized by freedom Today’s blacklisted American: College punishes student for telling others about her religious exemption from COVID jab Freedom Toons – Jordan Peterson sings Evanescence FAA once again delays approval for launching Starship from Boca Chica Rogozin: Russia’s first lunar lander in decades to launch by end of September Astronomers discover pulsar with slowest rotation rate of any known neutron star Pushback: HOA demands flag be removed; Neighbors rally and raise their own flags On the radio… The Brothers Comatose & AJ Lee – Harvest Moon Webb to release first science images July 12th Blue Origin reschedules next New Shepard flight Astronomers used Japanese weather satellite to monitor the dimming of Betelgeuse Curiosity on a steep slope Today’s blacklisted American: Long Beach to discriminate against any employee who refuses COVID jab Doctor Who – The Master Summons the Sea Devil June 1, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches nine satellites for commercial data constellation Ursa Major announces new rocket engine to replace what Russia previously provided MAVEN returns to full operation SpaceX wins more NASA manned flights to ISS NASA awards Axiom & Collins Aerospace contracts to build spacesuits A rock stows away on Perseverance India’s first private satellite manufacturing facility opens Today’s blacklisted American: Teacher fired in retaliation for speaking out at school board meeting Belinda Carlisle – Leave A Light On Russia launches Progress to ISS Sunspot update: In May we had sunspots, sunspots, and more sunspots! A look at World View, one of two balloon companies about to offer high altitude tourist flights The oppressive and ignorant blacklisting culture that now dominates politics Punch Brothers – Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald June 3, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Shepard flies six passengers on suborbital hop Russia to take control of German telescope on space orbiter China launches three astronauts to Tiangong station SLS rolled back to launch site for dress rehearsal countdown Victory against blacklisting: School district drops attempt to punish children for using wrong prounouns Spiders galore on Mars! Heart – Alone Fuel leak scrubs launch of Dragon cargo capsule this week Woman arrested for trespassing at SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility France re-approves Starlink service The Ukraine War: After a third month of fighting the battlelines clarify Today’s blacklisted American: Georgetown University succeeds in blacklisting conservative for having opinions The Cure – Why Can’t I Be You France signs Artemis Accords Russian company S7 ends project to build private rocket South Korea cancels probe to asteroid Apophis Rogozin suggests Russia will stay on ISS till at least ’24 Musk: Starlink will not go public until ’25 at the earliest Pushback: Parents and teachers sue Virginia school board for teaching queer sex to kids and lying about it to parents Jet streams on Jupiter SpaceX successfully launches Egyptian communications satellite Close-up on another flaky Martian rock Turbo – Happy Birthday Webb gets its first large micrometeoroid impact Vulcan likely delayed until ’23 Progress in completing the deployment of one of Lucy’s solar panels Russia and Venezuela sign space cooperation agreement Amino acids found in asteroid samples brought back from Ryugu Chinese scientists detect a fast radio burst that defies the theories SLS’s 2nd mobile launcher to cost more than $1.5 billion, 3x what was initially budgeted Today’s blacklisted American: Republican candidate for Michigan governor arrested by FBI June 9, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Amy Macdonald – Let’s Start A Band Update on Starship in Texas and Florida Delay in Psyche launch wrecks smallsat asteroid mission Stratolaunch test flight of Roc ends prematurely Dusty Gale Crater in the winter Today’s blacklisted American: School officials attempt to censor and shut down conservative club at Utah high school June 10, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast How tennis balls are made in a Pakistan factory Russian government gives Roscosmos permission to negotiate astronaut barter deal Rotation of Earth’s inner core oscillates back and forth over time compared to surface Momentus’s space tug successfully deploys two smallsats, despite communications issue Russia proposes restart of ExoMars partnership with ESA Astra launch a failure when upper stage shuts down prematurely Perseverance gets close to its first cliff FAA finally releases its environmental reassessment of SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility Today’s blacklisted American: Professor, discriminated because of his race, forced to resign from South Florida University Nana Visitor – Fever Test of solar sail for de-orbiting smallsat ends successfully Momentus concedes its Vigoride tug will probably not be able to deploy more satellites An eccentric debris disk circling a nearby star Today’s blacklisted American: Scientist destroyed because he dated a co-worker Ingenuity successfully completes its 29th flight on Mars June 14, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Tracey Thorn – Why Does the Wind? Sierra Space developing crewed version of Dream Chaser; will train astronauts Dragon cargo launch now delayed until July to fix fuel leak Evidence of explosion in ’21 detected from orbital images of Chinese launchpad South Korea postpones tomorrow’s second test launch of its Nuri rocket DNA tests of 800-year-old gravesite in Kyrgyzstan suggest that region was source of Black Death OneWeb successfully tests airplane wi-fi using its satellites Our oppressive federal government really does want to squash SpaceX Curiosity: Into the mountains Today’s blacklisted American: Biden administration purging conservatives from FBI Capturing the Corleones – Through the Lens of Photographer Steve Schapiro June 15, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SLS dress rehearsal countdown set for June 20th with launch delayed again Lucy gets a bonus asteroid during its tour of the Trojans Russian scientists defy Rogozin, will not reactivate German instrument on Spektr-RG telescope First look at the new Starliner flight suit being made by Dover Today’s blacklisted American: Arizona State University blacklists American flag for flags promoting the queer agenda and the evils of America Rock growths on Mars! Mister Rogers – Garden of Your Mind NASA shuffles crew for first Starliner manned mission Stratolaunch completes seventh test flight of Roc TESS discovers solar system of rocky super-Earths only 33 light years away Firefly founder stepping down as CEO SpaceX launches another 53 Starlink satellites Ariane-6 rocket delayed again Musk sued even as a handful of employees organize to slander him Scheduled maintenance for Friday afternoon… Today’s blacklisted American: Biden administration increases closures of gun stores by 500% Wildfire reaches Kitt Peak National Observatory Cheap Trick – Stop this Game Wavy crescent ridges on Mars June 17, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches German military satellite Kitt Peak telescopes undamaged from wildfire South Korea reschedules launch to June 21 after fixing sensor issue UAE’s Rashid lunar rover getting ready for November launch SpaceX completes its third launch in less than 48 hours SLS dress rehearsal countdown begins ISS forced to dodge space junk from Russia’s November ’21 anti-sat test SLS dress rehearsal countdown continues, though T-0 delayed two hours NIH to discriminate against whites in awarding research grants Martian mountains, near and far Perseverance peers towards the rim of Jezero Crater Water and dry ice at the Martian north polar ice cap David Bull – David’s Choice SLS dress rehearsal countdown ends at T-29 seconds South Korea successfully launches its Nuri rocket Today’s blacklisted American: Student gov’t demands blacklisting of every club that does not endorse the queer agenda Has work begun on a dedicated helicopter mission to Mars? Tim Weisberg – Summertime China’s Kuaizhou-1A smallsat rocket launches technology test satellite Psyche software issue could prevent launch this year The battlelines and alliances shift over big satellite constellations in space InSight team decides to shorten lander’s life to operate seismometer longer A telescope using a liquid mirror about to become operational Today’s blacklisted American: School board threatens parent with lawsuit if she doesn’t shut up A snakelike Martian ridge B-52s – Rock Lobster June 22, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China and Europe complete launches Blue Origin determines New Shepard ticket prices by who you are and what you can pay A major update from Curiosity’s science team Pushback: University of Houston forced to allow free speech to settle lawsuit by conservatives Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine set for “commissioning” tests Raymond Crowe – Shadow puppets OneWeb to resume satellite launches this year, complete constellation by mid-2023 NASA blocks Starship/Superheavy launches at SpaceX’s new Florida launchpad LRO scientists locate impact on Moon from rocket stage believed to be Chinese NASA halts sale of Apollo 11 Moon dust, claiming ownership NASA now targeting late August launch of SLS Perseverance’s first climb Today’s blacklisted Americans: Lawyers who won NY gun rights case in Supreme Court blackballed by their law firm Yasuo Yamamoto – Making real soy sauce June 24, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Psyche will not launch as scheduled Blue Origin abandons plans to land New Glenn first stages on purchased cargo ship Cygnus freighter fires engine, adjusts ISS orbit for first time German smallsat rocket startup signs orbital tug startup as launch customer Iran claims it has completed a second suborbital test of new rocket NASA completes suborbital launch from commercial spaceport in Australia New research suggests flowing water existed intermittently on Mars from 2.5 to 3.6 billion years ago. Pushback: Supreme Court rules in favor of HS football coach fired for praying A thick and syrupy flow on Mars Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp – This is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr Did pieces of a Chinese upper stage land in middle of Mediterranean last week? China and Rocket Lab complete successful launches Virgin Orbit signs deal to launch from Brazil Scientists claim rocket launches are going to damage ozone layer Pushback: Students win major settlement with college for denying them their free speech rights Science! Psychology researchers discover that kids make friends with those who sit next to them in school Lainey Wilson – Things A Man Oughta Know SpaceX preps for final engine tests before first orbital Starship/Superheavy flight Scientists want your help cataloging the clouds on Mars Axiom leases former Fry’s retail building housing fullscale mock-up of ISS Sierra Space signs partnership deal with Turkey The lava tubes on the western slopes of Alba Mons as potential Martian colonies Today’s blacklisted American: Lincoln bust and Gettysburg Address plaque removed from Cornell library because “someone complained” SpaceX launches SES communications satellite Linda Ronstadt – Tumbling Dice June 29, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India’s PSLV rocket completes launch, putting nine satellites into orbit Amazon to FCC: Consider limiting SpaceX’s Starlink constellation for our benefit Rocket Lab’s Photon upper stage completes 3rd of 7 engine firings to get CAPSTONE to Moon Astronomers: A supermassive black hole rotates far slower than expected Mirror comparable to Hubble’s ready for JPL balloon astronomy mission The utter failure and total evil of government policies during the Wuhan panic Today’s blacklisted American: Amazon employees demand company blackball everyone who disagrees with them Glacial features in a Mars crater at 29 degrees south latitude? Alison Krauss & Union Station – The Lucky One FCC approves Starlink for moving vehicles; rejects DISH’s request to use Starlink wavelength ISRO chief: India’s manned mission will be delayed OneWeb signs up startup rocket company Relativity for future satellite launches New research confirms long term bone loss during long missions in weightlessness Kepler signs up D-Orbit’s orbital tug for its next two satellites Today’s blacklisted American: University of Arizona gives free tuition to American Indians; All other races must pay Strange pitted and isolated ridges on Mars In 2022 freedom continues to fuel the launch industry towards new records Old Korean Jar Factory – Making the Korean traditional jar July 1, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast July 1, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Virgin Orbit puts seven Space Force smallsats in orbit Lucy solar panel almost completely open One of Perseverance’s two wind sensors damaged by wind-blown material Why we really celebrate the Fourth of July Rocket Lab’s Photon completes course corrections, deploys CAPSTONE to Moon The new damage on Curiosity’s wheels Mike Rowe -The One Percenters Sunspot update: For the first time in 2022, sunspot activity eases Victory Boyd – The Star Spangled Banner Food fight! China denies NASA chief’s charge that it wants to dominate space South Korea ships its first lunar orbiter to U.S. for August launch Scientists: Comet 67P/C-G’s make-up matches the rest of the solar system ArianeGroup chosen by Europe to develop reusable rockets Europe’s new long term space strategy calls for its own independent and competing manned program Today’s blacklisted American: Democrat politicians threaten local Aspen newspaper for its news coverage Engineers lose contact with CAPSTONE on its way to Moon How to find the least dishonest politician to vote for Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Wayfaring Stranger On the radio Engineers propose flying gliders on Mars Rocket Lab to launch twice in 10 days for NRO China begins construction of commercial spaceport Contact with CAPSTONE re-established Today’s blacklisted American: Google blacklists Republican Party fund-raising emails How did sand dunes get to the top of a Martian mesa? July 5, 2022 Zimmerman appearance on the Space Show Paweł Zadrożniak – The Floppotron 3.0 July 6, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Having regained communications with CAPSTONE, engineers prepare for first mid-course burn SpaceX launches another 53 Starlink satellites Russia launches GPS-type satellite Virgin Galactic is replacing its WhiteKnightTwo mother ship U.S. missile test explodes 11 seconds after launch Scientists: Impacts on rubble-pile asteroid are different than on planets CAPSTONE completes mid-course correction Today’s blacklisted American: Thomas Jefferson and other important American historical figures banned by Cleveland school authorities From the rim to the floor of Valles Marineris Lesley Gore – You Don’t Own Me X-37B sets new in-orbit record Dish Network condemns Starlink and SpaceX study OSIRIS-REx’s sample grab at Bennu in 2020 proved the rubble-pile asteroid has far less cohesion than predicted NASA announces the targets picked for Webb’s first science images Blacklisted Americans fight back The colorful layers of the Martian north pole icecap The Strawbs – The Winter Long July 8, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A galaxy with swirling arms Elon Musk gives a tutorial on the Raptor-2 engine SpaceX launches another 46 Starlink satellites Biden to unveil first Webb science image today More lacy Martian rocks Today’s blacklisted American: Lake Superior State University bans free speech Collapse pits on Mars First science image released from Webb Jonny Lang – Rack ’em up Superheavy prototype #7 explodes during tanking test More Webb images released India inaugurates its own space debris tracking facility Today’s blacklisted American: Scientists questioning Big Bang theory protest censorship of their work The highest point on Mars China launches another communications satellite for its space program Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – She’ll Change Rocket Lab & ESA complete launches OneWeb agrees with SpaceX: Dish’s ground-based plans a frequency threat ABL completes static fire test of first stage of its new RS1 rocket Roscosmos forbids its astronauts from using Europe’s robot arm Ariane-6 mock-up installed at launchpad for tests Pushback: Doctor blacklisted by Twitter for citing peer-reviewed research threatens lawsuit Icy scarps in the high southern latitudes of Mars July 12, 2022 Zimmerman/Bartholomew podcast How the localized nature of Democrat vote tampering will influence the 2022 election Bobby Goldsboro – Honey July 13, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Hawaiian law takes control of Mauna Kea away from astronomers No more Ingenuity flights until August Comet K2: big and doing unexpected things Today’s blacklisted American: University of California discriminates against everyone but American Indians Webb infrared image of Jupiter & Europa Falcon 9 launches cargo Dragon to ISS Dave Koz & Keiko Matsui – Beneath the Moonlit Sky Rogozin removed as Roscosmos’ head Masten lays off staff, apparently shuts down Virgin Galactic leases facility in Arizona to build up to six of its reusable suborbital space planes Saudi Arabia signs Artemis Accords Pushback: Blacklisted small businessman sues Biden administration for its racist contracting policies Layered mesa on Mars Indian Larry – Custom motorcycle builder July 15, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA and Roscosmos finalize barter deal for flying astronauts to ISS China launches two Earth observation satellites SpaceX completes 31st launch in 2022, matching its entire output in 2021 Chinese university tests hypersonic space plane UAE earmarks $820 million for space-related projects Pushback: PA school board settles lawsuit and will pay $300K for censoring critics Theresa Andersson – Birds fly away NASA delays launch of its VIPER lunar rover to over concerns about commercial lander Russia may delay its Luna-25 lander again The May micrometeoroid impact on Webb’s mirror Long March 5B rolls to launchpad, carrying China’s next large space station module Relativity signs deal to launch Impulse Space’s missions to Mars Perseverance gains a little height Picking the Republican candidates to vote for in the Arizona August 2nd primary Bee Gees – Too much heaven NSF to do environmental impact statement on TMT NASA awards SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch contract for Roman Space Telescope Ispace now aiming for a November ’22 launch of its lunar lander NRO delays Rocket Lab launch Pushback: Flight attendant fired for having opinions wins big against airline and union Martian terraces Rogozin’s order banning Russian astronauts from using European robot arm cancelled Van Johnson – Flim Flam Floo July 20, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast On the radio NASA sets tentative launch date for SLS Axiom signs deal with Hungary Northrop Grumman delays next Cygnus cargo mission The earliest galaxy so far seen? Perseverance spots a string on Mars! SpaceX launch aborted 46 seconds before launch Using the Wuhan panic to kill children Angel City Chorale – Africa Draper wins NASA contract to put a lander on the Moon’s far side Isar Aerospace signs deal to launch from French Guiana China rethinking its proposed heavy lift rocket to make it a Starship clone Collapsed dunes in Jezero Crater SpaceX successfully launches another 46 Starlink satellites A large majority of today’s college students think blacklisting is a good thing The Poor Refugee Who Invented Patek Philippe NASA’s safety panel questions NASA commitment to commercial space stations China releases one photo of Phobos taken by its Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter Watch China’s launch of next big module to its Tiangong space station July 22, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China successfully launches new large module to its Tiangong space station SpaceX launches another 53 Starlink satellites Curiosity looks back Completely misunderstanding Trump’s influence in the Republican Party OneWeb and Eutelsat negotiating possible merger Long March 5B core stage from July 24th launch remains in orbit Curiosity looks ahead The corruption of medical science is surges on Dean Martin & Rick Nelson – Rio Bravo Tentative crash date for Long March 5B core stage: July 31st UAE names astronaut to fly on six month commercial ISS mission, purchased from Axiom OneWeb and Eutelsat sign merger deal Childhood vaccinations in ’20 and ’21 declined the most in 30 years New boss of Roscosmos confirms decision to leave ISS in 2024. Today’s blacklisted American: Pro-abortion terrorists vandalize 77 churches and pregnancy centers in last ten weeks The very end of an 800-mile-long Martian canyon Mike Oldfield – The Source of Secrets China launches new rocket NASA: Russia has not officially notified it of its exit from ISS partnership Hyundai signs deal with South Korean government research agencies to develop lunar rovers Another Webb galaxy found even closer to the Big Bang A crowd of Jupiter hurricanes A Martian slot canyon! The growing revolt against the bigoted left across the entire education community Amy Macdonald – Born to run July 27, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Update on Long March 5B core stage crash prediction NASA/ESA revise plan to recover Perseverance core samples from Mars Boeing adds another $93 million charge against earnings for Starliner manned capsule Space Perspective unveils design of its Neptune tourist balloon capsule Russia backs off ’24 ISS exit NASA is apparently withdrawing its permit for Starship launches in Florida Today’s blacklisted American: January 6th rally attendee commits suicide New paper: Glaciers on Mars could have been extensive, despite the lack of expected subsequent landforms The big storms at Jupiter’s poles are coherent and stable Earl Scruggs & all the great banjo players in 1971 – Foggy Mountain Breakdown Long March 5B core stage crash window narrows to 12 hours Long March 2D launches two military satellites for China Space Foundation: Global space economy grew by 9% compared to last year Update on status of first orbital Starship/Superheavy Pushback: Teacher wins victory against Rhode Island school district that tried to blacklist her Study: The Moon’s poles might not be the only places to find lunar water Inverted Martian tadpole Gerard Hoffnung – The Bricklayers Story July 29, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Long March 5B stage reentry window narrowed to two hours Space junk thought to be service module of Dragon manned capsule found in Australia Long March 5B stage falls to Earth near Malaysia China’s Tiangong-3 space station, as seen from the ground Another blacklisted American sues school board for banning and censoring him Ice in the Martian equatorial region? Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) Sunspot update: Activity recovers mostly from last month’s decline Russia launches military satellite Long March 5B pieces crash near villages in Malaysia and Indonesia First Webb infrared image of Cartwheel Galaxy Flying car gets approved by FAA Curiosity heads into the pass Today’s Twitter links 500 healthcare workers, fired for refusing COVID jab, win $10.3 million lawsuit The Spinners – Rubberband Man Thank you All! Australian Space Agency confirms debris is from SpaceX Dragon capsule The scattered debris from Perseverance’s landing, now being tracked by the rover Momentus has now deployed seven of ten customer payloads from its Vigoride tug NASA imposes new rules for any private launches to ISS Where to get legal help if you have been blacklisted by today’s control freaks Today’s quick space links Sam Dodge – the Mitchell BNCR camera August 3, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab launches second NRO surveillance smallsat in three weeks China launches three satellites with Long March 4B rocket ULA launches Space Force reconnaissance satellite Lucy science team ends attempt to deploy solar array Next private SpaceX manned targeting December launch New Shepard completes another suborbital passenger flight Environmentalists opposed to Starship at Boca Chica appeal dismissal of their lawsuit Axiom signs deal with New Zealand Today’s blacklisted American: Supreme Court Justice Thomas forced to quit as lecturer at GWU Glacial flows pushing out through a Martian crater rim China launches “reusable experimental spacecraft” SpaceX launches South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids – Fortunate Son Conscious Choice now available as either a hardback or a paperback Astra cancels all launches with its Rocket 3.3 rocket Virgin Galactic once again delays commercial suborbital operations Curiosity celebrates ten years on Mars Pushback: Forsyth County school board in Georgia sued for censoring parents during public comment Strange terrain southwest of Jezero Crater Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine FCC decides to expand its power in space SpaceX raises another $250 million in investment capital India’s new SSLV rocket fails on first launch attempt Further damage to Curiosity’s wheels Mapping the break-up and impact of one of the first asteroid’s tracked from space to the ground Sri Lanka blocks docking of Chinese spy ship as requested by India Today’s blacklisted American: Doctor jailed for entering Capitol on Jan 6 and expressing opinions August 8th quick space links David Bowie – Starman August 5, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia and China complete launches Northrop Grumman partners with Firefly to make Antares entirely U.S. made The Democratic Party of thugs and goons Debris from Russian anti-sat test causing numerous near Starlink collisions Rocket Lab considering further targets for in-space Photon upper stage August 9th quick space links The Jacksons – Shake Your Body SpaceX successfully launches 52 more Starlink satellites Superheavy prototype #7 and Starship prototype #24 undergo static fire tests China’s Long March-6 rocket launches 16 satellites into orbit UK regulators to investigate Viasat-Inmarsat merger InSight’s power status holding steady on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: The ’21-’22 school year saw nearly 200 new blacklisting events on American campuses Fractures in the Martian northern lowland plains FCC cancels $900 million award to Starlink Thelma Houston – Don’t leave me this way August 10, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX gets FCC communications license for Starship orbital launch ISRO successfully tests engines for Gaganyaan manned launch abort system A typical Martian rock on Mount Sharp A union official’s opinion of blacklisting: “I am all about targeted assassinations.” August 11, 2022 quick links Device Orchestra – Sweet Dreams Another and this time longer static fire tests for Superheavy prototype #7 InSight seismometer data suggests no underground ice at landing site Curiosity finally looks out into Gediz Vallis Pushback: Blacklisted doctors join lawsuit against Biden administration COVID censorship SpaceX launches 46 more Starlink satellites Formula 1 crash right after start August 12, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Professional software hacker demonstrates how to hack Starlink terminals Biden administration to formulate new regulations governing in-space commercial activities August 14, 2022 Quick space links Russia unveils small model of its proposed space station Russia to launch Tunisian astronaut to ISS A distant cliff and a rocky path forward Today’s blacklisted American: White teachers blacklisted by union contract in Minnesota August 15, 2022 Quick space links Cones south of Starship’s prime landing sites on Mars Lucas Vaskange – Infinite Zoom Merger deal between Italian orbital tug company D-Orbit and Breeze canceled China’s radar ship finally docks in Sri Lanka Dust and clouds in the Martian atmosphere, as seen by UAE’s Al-Amal orbiter More evidence of recent active volcanism on Venus Jupiter’s internal structure, based on Juno data Jury awards Roy Moore $8.2 million, declares he was defamed by Democrats August 16, 2022 Quick space links Counting Crows – Angels of the Silences InSight’s power status continues to hold steady on Mars SLS arrives at launchpad Astrobotic makes bid to buy assets of bankrupt Masten Samples from Ryugu prove the truly delicate and long-lived nature of the rubble-pile asteroid Redwire to launch first commercial and private greenhouse in space A detailed description of Rocket Lab’s private Venus mission Pushback: Doctor files $25 million defamation lawsuit against Houston Methodist for its COVID slanders Get above 30 degrees latitude on Mars and you can find ice everywhere ABBA – Waterloo August 17, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russian spacewalk ends earlier due to spacesuit power problem August 18, 2022 Quick space links Today’s blacklisted American: UC-San Diego to hold segregated events, excluding whites and Asians Universe’s most massive star is found to be less massive than previously believed A “What the heck!?” crater on Mars Roy Clark & Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special Starship gets its first communications satellite customer Maritime Launch Services signs land lease for its Nova Scotia spaceport Raytheon & Northrop Grumman successfully complete the second flight of a hypersonic missile prototype Firefly completes a dress rehearsal countdown of Alpha rocket; schedules launch Indian company delivers Gaganyaan fairing and high altitude launch abort motor to ISRO Dragon cargo freighter undocks from ISS An armored manta-ray-shaped small submarine for commercial and military applications Strings in Perseverance’s drill? Today’s blacklisted American: Conservatives blackballed with enthusiasm from Harvard SpaceX and China complete launches Lucky Chops NYC August 19, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity gearing up for 30th flight NASA lists 13 candidate landing sites for Artemis-3 manned mission Update on Starship/Superheavy prototypes at Boca Chica Another Webb infrared image of Jupiter released NASA again approves design concept for Orbital Reef commercial space station August 22, 2022 Quick space links Today’s blacklisted American: Christian chaplain for Austin fire dept fired for believing in Christianity Johnny Rivers – Memphis Tennessee China’s Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches satellite SpaceX to use both Falcon 9 and Starship to launch 2nd gen Starlink satellites A global map of Mars’ future mining regions Storm fronts on Jupiter Pushing back harder: Blacklisted oral surgeon Skoly amends lawsuit against Rhode Island to note CDC new guidelines August 23, 2022 Quick space links Ingenuity completes 30th flight InSight power levels remain steady on Mars Chic – Le Freak China launches hi-res Earth observation satellite NASA describes Starship’s first unmanned test lunar landing Two Chinese pseudo-companies pursuing suborbital tourist market Perseverance gets a glimpse into the history of Jezero crater SpaceX remounts Superheavy prototype #7 on launchpad Indian research project for China’s space station threatened by Chinese-India military conflict There are no permanent political victories A pit in the dry-ice polar cap of Mars August 24, 2022 Quick space links Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – Never Gonna Dance August 24, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Webb detects carbon dioxide in atmosphere of exoplanet How SLS reveals the difference between state-run propaganda and real journalism Pushback? BLM murderer of retired black St. Louis police captain found guilty Eroding glacial ice on Mars, dipping in the wrong direction Chuck Yeager – Breaking the Sound Barrier T-Mobile and Starlink to team up Starliner manned launch delayed until 2023 Cost overruns at Lockheed Martin threaten smallsat Lunar Trailblazer orbiter FCC commissioner questions legality of FCC cancellation of SpaceX’s $900 million subsidy Today’s blacklisted American: Blacklisting is not enough, leftists now aim to get conservatives killed by police Swirls and mesas in Valles Marineris The Cardigans – You’re The Storm August 26, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Federal court rejects lawsuit by Dish/Viasat against Starlink Artemis-1 countdown begins SpaceX launches 54 Starlink satellites into orbit SLS launch scrubbed Curiosity in the valley of Gediz Vallis Today’s blacklisted American: Democrat politicians demand the blackballing of anyone who votes Republican August 29, 2022 Quick space links August 29, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Stephen Stills – Treetop Flyer Astra gets contract to provide engines to OneWeb satellites Changes on Mercury detected by Messenger over four year time period Martian auroras as seen by UAE’s Al-Amal orbiter Today’s blacklisted American: Post Office forces Christian worker to quit rather than work on Sunday The Ukrainian War: After Six Months InSight power levels continue to hold steady Next SLS launch attempt set for September 3, 2022 Groucho Marx & Marilyn Monroe – Love Happy SpaceX launches another 46 Starlink satellites into orbit Engineers fix problem that caused data to arrive garbled from Voyager-1 Orbit Fab to offer orbital depot for refueling hydrazine fuel in satellites SpaceX signs deal with Royal Caribbean to use Starlink on its cruise ships Starlink experiences major outage lasting hours Webb’s infrared view of a face-on spiral galaxy Ursa Major makes rocket engine deal with Air Force Today’s blacklisted American: Pfizer creates segregated program that purposely excludes non-minorities Perseverance: Evidence of both past lava and liquid water on the floor of Jezero Crater August 31, 2022 Quick space links Motis & Chamorro quintet & Scott Hamilton – Meditaçao August 31, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA awards SpaceX new $1.4 billion contract to launch its astronauts Axiom gets NASA approval to fly second commercial manned mission to ISS NASA thinks engine issue on SLS launch caused by misreading sensor Experiment on Perseverance has successfully produced oxygen repeatedly Webb obtains first direct infrared images of exoplanet SpaceX completes static fire test of three engines on Superheavy prototype #7 Musk tweets that SpaceX wants to complete 100 launches in 2023 Today’s blacklisted American: Google scholarship sets racist quotas favoring minorities On Mars you can find glaciers everywhere in the mid-latitudes Delta Goodrem – In This Life SLS countdown resumes Rocket Lab completes first static fire test of previously flown rocket engine NASA is paying Boeing twice as much as SpaceX for its manned flights Chinese astronauts complete first spacewalk using new Wentian module Pushback: Maine parent wins lawsuit against school board for attempting to ban him Sunspot update: Solar activity continues to exceed sunspot predictions September 2, 2022 Quick space links Foxes and Fossils – Can’t Let Go September 2, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SLS test launch scrubbed again OneWeb lost $229 million when Russia canceled its launches and confiscated its satellites China’s Long March 4C rocket launches military satellite Ingenuity’s flight plan for its next and 31st flight Taking Starlink on a vacation sailing trip NASA to roll SLS back to assembly building, delaying launch by weeks at minimum SpaceX launches another 51 Starlink satellites and orbital tug Indian rocket startup raises $51 million in private investment capital India’s space agency successfully tests prototype for controlling descent of spent 1st stages September 5, 2022 Space quick links Today’s blacklisted American: Fire chief fired for attending a Christian-affiliated leadership conference Gullies and glaciers in a crater on Mars Heart – Barracuda China launches two satellites with its Kuaizhou-1A rocket More static fire tests of Starship/Superheavy expected this week Webb’s infrared view of the Tarantula Nebula Inouye Solar Telescope begins science operations South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter successfully makes course correction The evidence continues to pile up: The government’s strongarm policies against COVID were utter failures September 6, 2022 Quick space links The Hollies – I Can’t Let Go China’s Long March 2D launches two military satellites Computer model: Glaciers move slower in Mars’ gravity Rocket Lab gets contract with military to study point-to-point cargo transport Research: Flies on ISS benefited greatly from simulated gravity Pushback: Libs of TikTok threatens Twitter with lawsuit if banning continues 1-in-5 Democrats and 1-in-3 women Democrats think men can get pregnant An example of the youngest big lava flow on Mars Ingenuity completes 31st flight Axiom chosen by NASA to build first Artemis moonsuits Arianespace’s Ariane-5 rocket launches communications satellite Lawrence of Arabia Russia confirms Luna-25 delayed till next year September 7, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Today’s blacklisted American: Modern Hollywood now celebrates McCarthyism and blacklisting September 8, 2022 Quick space links Ronald Binge – Elizabethan Serenade NASA wants to launch SLS in September; needs range safety office waiver to do it FCC proposes new regulation requiring satellites to be de-orbited five years after mission end SpaceX successfully test fires all six engines on Starship prototype #24 Today’s blacklisted American: Fox blacklists news reporter for not getting jab A “what the heck?!” mesa in the southern polar regions of Mars Counting Crows – Catapult September 9, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA and NTSB sign deal dividing turf for investigating space accidents Defense to help Commerce create its own ability to track orbital objects SpaceX launches 34 Starlink satellites plus commercial satellite for AST Mobile CAPSTONE in safe mode Firefly scrubs launch of Alpha rocket The Ukraine’s big victory this past week was no accident Blue Origin suborbital flight aborted during ascent September 12, 2022 Quick space links Crazy badlands in the equatorial region of Mars InSight’s power level goes up! Alison Krauss – Down to the River to Pray NASA revises its SLS launch schedule, pending approval of the range’s safety office China’s Long March 7A launches communications satellite; dumps debris on Philippines SpaceX appeals FCC decision that cancelled Starlink subsidy Today’s blacklisted American: Two students harassed and blackballed from a “sexual assault survivor’s club” because they were Jewish September 13, 2022 Quick space links Matchbox Twenty – Overjoyed InSight’s power levels rise again Update on CAPSTONE, still in safe mode Astrobotic acquires bankrupt Masten Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine experiences more delays The shattered cliffs of Mount Sharp Pushback: Teacher files class-action lawsuit against Texas A&M for favoring non-Asian minorities in hiring The new in-space repair and refueling industries that are about to revolutionize space exploration September 14, 2022 Quick space links How to use a laser light to switch off a room’s lights September 14, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Update on SpaceX’s Starship and Superheavy Company providing satellite engines for smallsats raises $28 million Astronomers propose method for predicting the stars that will go supernovae Overlapping galaxies Billionaire wants to build spinning space station for testing artificial gravity Pushback: Fraternities break free from USC’s draconian supervision Rocket Lab successfully launches commercial radar satellite September 15, 2022 Quick space links Ursula Ricks – Early One Morning CAPSTONE update: Situation improved but not resolved New theory: Saturn’s rings came from a lost and destroyed moon Starlink being tested in Antarctica Today’s blacklisted American: USC professor suspended because one common Chinese word he was teaching sounded like the “N-word” Deep inside the youngest flood lava event on Mars September 16, 2022 Quick space links Max Ehrman – Desiderata September 16, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ABL completes dress rehearsal countdown for its first RS1 rocket launch NASA issues call for new manned lunar lander proposals SpaceX now offers more expensive high performance Starlink for residential customers SpaceX launches 54 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 Webb takes its first infrared image of Mars SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie passes away Valeri Polykov, holder of the record’s longest stay in space, passes away Orbital tug company signs launch agreement with German rocket startup Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist thugs at University of New Mexico threaten conservative speaker and audience with violence InSight’s seismometer detects its first new impact on Mars Interstellar clouds backlit by nearby massive star SpaceX fires seven engines on Superheavy prototype #7 September 19, 2022 Quick space links Randy Travis – Pray For The Fish Webb instrument has technical issue partly preventing its use Some scientists make educated guess as to the number of ants on Earth Astrobotic to build solar power grid for use by others on Moon First meeting of all 21 nations who have signed Artemis Accords Researchers develop strongest-yet 3D printed titanium The strange scattered rocks of Gediz Vallis on Mars NASA releases new overall objectives for exploration of solar system Today’s blacklisted American: Republicans and conservatives increasingly unwilling to talk to pollsters out of fear Jupiter’s endless interweaving storms September 20, 2022 Quick space links Tom Scott – The Aéroplume InSight’s power level holding steady Russia launches three astronauts to ISS; China launches Earth observation satellite Hydrogen leak detected during today’s SLS tank test OneWeb announces delivery of 36 satellites to India for launch Webb’s first infrared image of Neptune Saudi Arabia buys two seats on Dragon for Axiom commercial flight to ISS Launch startup Spinlaunch raises $71 million more in private investment capital Want to do a virtual hike in Jezero Crater on Mars? You can! Hilton chosen to design hotel suites on Nanoracks’ Starlab private space station Ingenuity completes 32nd flight Another model attempts to show how liquid water could have once existed on Mars Pushback: NY cops fight city’s COVID jab mandate Martian layers everywhere! September 21, 2022 Quick space links Gregory Porter – Revival SLS fueling test completed Nova Scotia spaceport signs deal with British rocket startup Roscosmos head: Russia likely to remain ISS partner through 2028 Musk: Starship orbital attempt by November, at the latest Today’s blacklisted American: Google, Paypal, Venmo team up to blacklist a gay organization How private enterprise is solving the vulnerability of satellites to military attack September 22, 2022 Quick space links September 21, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday Confirmed: Saudi Arabia buys two seats on next Axiom commercial flight to ISS Astrobotic gets ESA’s first commercially purchased lunar lander payload Voyager Space signs cooperative deal with Azerbaijan Watching DART impact asteroid on September 26, 2022 A hot wave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere has been discovered, flowing away from the pole Pushback: Professor fired for making joke wins $165K settlement from university Range gives NASA waiver to launch SLS on September 27th, despite a questionable flight termination system Above ground and underground Martian drainages The Jack Benny Show – November 4, 1951 September 23, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA managers scrub September 27th SLS launch Indian smallsat rocket startup hopes to complete 1st launch this year Two launches from U.S. set for this afternoon ULA’s Delta Heavy successfully launches spy satellite for NRO SpaceX successfully launches 52 Starlink satellites NASA managers might forego SLS rollback and aim for Oct 2nd launch China’s Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches two satellites Ganymede as seen by Juno NASA managers decide finally to roll SLS back to assembly building Watch DART smash into asteroid today Astroscale to partner with UK companies to develop mission to remove two defunct orbiting satellites NASA and ESA sign simple lunar exploration agreement A galaxy slowly being eaten by its black hole Excerpt of Conscious Choice published by The Federalist The rising federal Gestapo Zig-zag ridges on Mars September 26, 2022 Quick space links DART hits Dimorphus Hans Zimmer – Pirates Of The Caribbean Medley Two Chinese launches: Long March 2D and Long March 6 put satellites into orbit Radar data from Zhurong finds no ice to a depth of 260 feet First ground-based telescope view of DART impact on Dimorphus Today’s blacklisted American: Arrested in 2020 for letting her kids play in park, a mom is still being prosecuted by Idaho Republicans More glaciers in Mars’ glacier country September 27, 2022 Quick space links The Bangles – September Gurls Celestron to modify commercial amateur telescope for space use Is China-Russia partnership to build lunar base dead? Part 1: The ugly corrupt lie of the experimental COVID jab September 28, 2022 Quick space links Ingenuity completed 33rd flight this past weekend September 28, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra’s last rocket failure pinpointed to upper stage engine Hubble & Webb make first coordinated observations, tracking DART impact of Dimorphus Initial Webb results revised because telescope wasn’t yet fully calibrated SpaceX to upgrade 2nd Kennedy launchpad for manned launches Chang’e-5 samples suggest lunar meteorite impacts took place the same time as big Chicxulub impact Jupiter’s north pole cyclones appear as stable as those at the south pole Lunar mountains and wrinkle ridges Part 2: How the liars spread the ugly corrupt lie of the COVID jab September 29, 2022 Quick space links Master Du – A donkey gets a manicure Firefly to try again to complete first launch of its Alpha rocket SpaceX and Jared Isaacman offer private mission to NASA to raise Hubble’s orbit NASA releases first Juno image from the first close fly-by of Europa in decades FCC approves new regulation requiring defunct satellite deorbit in five years A look back at Virgin Galactic’s failed history Part 3: Against the COVID liars and their strong-arm edicts the wheels of justice are grinding forward slowly September 30, 2022 Quick space links Speakeasies Swing Band – Angelina September 30, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Watching Firefly’s next attempt to launch tonight Firefly successfully completes first orbital launch of its Alpha rocket NASA now aiming for SLS launch in November Head of Commerce’s space office questions new FCC regulations on space junk Fabric debris spotted on Ingenuity during 33rd flight India’s Mars orbiter mission ends after eight years On the air tonight… Sunspot update: Activity again exceeds prediction but ramp up pauses Interacting galaxies Tiny cobbles on Mars Europa in true color Today’s blacklisted Americans: All normal girls banned from locker room because one cross-dressing boy demanded it Two days after DART’s impact of Dimorphus, ejected dust extends like a comet tail out more than 6,000 miles October 3, 2022 Quick space links Malinda – The Sound of Silence Spinlaunch completes 10th test launch, this time for outside customers Chandra takes an X-ray look at early Webb infrared observations Today’s blacklisted Americans: UC-Berkeley law school clubs ban Jewish speakers October 4, 2022 Quick space links ULA successfully launches two communications satellites Mitch & Mickey – When You’re Next to Me SpaceX successfully launches astronauts to ISS Virgin Orbit ready to launch from Cornwall, United Kingdom Firefly wins Space Force launch contract Pushback: Cornell’s library lifts its blackballing of Abraham Lincoln October 5, 2022 Quick space links Another “What the heck?” formation on Mars SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink satellites Celtic Woman – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring October 5, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Satellite about to burn up because Sherpa orbital tug has done nothing Falcon Heavy to finally launch again? Engineers still struggling to regain full control of CAPSTONE Pushback: Because of Yale Law School’s enthusiasm for blacklisting, more than a dozen judges now refuse to hire its graduates Important Roscosmos official endorses continuing cooperation with US in space Martian crater and mesa sculpted by ancient flow October 6, 2022 Quick space links María Dueñas & Itamar Golan – Fauré: Après un rêve Startup smallsat rocket company signs spaceport deal with Brazil Endurance docks at ISS Rocket Lab successfully launches NOAA satellite Today’s blacklisted American: Black playwright blackballed because he honestly told the story of racism in the Jim Crow south China’s Long March 11 launches from floating sea platform Thick flow exiting dramatic canyon on Mars October 7, 2022 Quick space links Danny B. Harvey – The Surfer Girl October 7, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Engineers regain full control of CAPSTONE InSight shut down temporarily because of lack of power SpaceX launches two Intelsat communications satellites China launches solar science telescope Soyuz-2 launches new Russian GPS-type satellite New computer simulation of theorized impact that created the Moon The dam is about to break on the COVID shots Icebergs of Martian lava October 10, 2022 Quick space links Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story InSight’s power levels rise very slightly Alternatives to PayPal for supporting Behind the Black Deadly climate change on Mars! New rocket startup focusing on new concepts to make upper stage reusable Engineers test fly prototype balloon for Venus Volcano on the Moon Webb gets first direct infrared image of exoplanet Voting in Arizona in 2022 October 11, 2022 Quick space links DART’s impact shortened Dimorphus’s orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes MonaLisa Twins – Please Mr. Postman/Wipe Out October 11, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Japan’s Epsilon rocket fails during launch Russia’s Proton rocket successfully launches communications satellite NASA sets November 14th as next SLS launch date SpaceX fully stacks Starship/Superheavy in preparation for launch Shells of dust surrounding massive binary star Will Tom Cruise ever actually shoot a movie in space? Dennis Tito signs deal to fly on 2nd manned Starship mission around Moon Pushback: Teacher suspended for not submitting to queer agenda immediately reinstated when hundreds protest at board meeting An icy hollow on Mars October 12, 2022 Quick space links October 12, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast on blacklisting Justin Johnson – Voices from the Attic October 12, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ispace targets November 9-15 launch window for first commercial lunar lander China launches Earth observation radar satellite TESS enters safe mode The known near Earth asteroid catalog now tops 30,000 Pushback: Chants of “Vote them out!” overwhelm school board meeting Changing slope streaks on Mars Final decision: Arecibo will not be rebuilt Barrington Pheloung – Morse’s Oxford Watching return of ISS crew on Freedom Skyrora’s first suborbital rocket launch fails shortly after liftoff Lucy to fly past Earth on October 16th Perseverance spots Phobos Pushback: Central Florida U forced to end censorship and blacklisting Two solar eclipses coming to the U.S. next year Freedom successfully splashes down in the Atlantic Timelapse: 26-days building a retaining wall October 14, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches communications satellite TESS resumes normal operations China launches military satellite OSIRIS-REx does mid-course correction Russia launches military satellite using Angara rocket; new global record for launches Government to Musk: “Nice business you got here, shame if something happened to it.” Jets from baby stars Blacklisting in academia has been going on for decades unseen October 17, 2022 Quick space links Anne-Sophie Mutter – Bach’s Gigue from Violin Partita No.2 in D minor After 30 years the Geotail solar probe appears dead Gemini/Apollo astronaut Jim McDivitt passes away at 93 ESA looking to SpaceX to launch Euclid space telescope Both the Pentagon and Europe are looking for ways to fund Starlink for the Ukraine Rocket startup Orbex raises another $45 million OneWeb gets deal to provide internet on airplanes Today’s blacklisted American: Students demand professor be fired for stating a fact Inverted river on Mars October 18, 2022 Quick space links Aldo Nova – Fantasy SpaceX engineer injured during engine test in January JAXA reveals cause of Epsilon rocket failure Isaacman’s next private mission to space now scheduled for March ’23 The first Greek star catalog discovered hidden in medieval parchment SpaceX simplifies smallsat rideshare program, effectively slashing prices Webb takes infrared image of Hubble’s Pillars of Creation Twelve years of data from WISE Moderna CEO admits to past lies: “COVID is simply the flu, harmless to the healthy.” A pseudo-oblique view of Jupiter’s cloud-tops October 19, 2022 Quick space links October 19, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Helene Fischer – Jeden Morgen wird die Sonne SpaceX launches 54 Starlink satellites ESA delays first Ariane-6 launch to late in 2023 NASA approves use of American spacesuits for spacewalks after investigation Hubble spots double tail of debris from DART impact of Dimorphus Nurses fired and blacklisted for either being white or Christian October 20, 2022 Quick space links Frozen lava flows around Martian hills Kathia Buniatishvili – from Bach’s Cantata BMV 208 InSight status: Barely hanging on Chandrayaan-3 now scheduled for summer 2023 Rate of micrometeorite impacts on Webb holding as expected Astronomers discover an exoplanet with the density of a marshmallow Ukraine officials in direct negotiations with Musk about Starlink Teachers fired and blacklisted for opposing the queer agenda in childcare and elementary schools October 21, 2022 Quick space links Bedrock layers in Terby Crater on Mars Virtual Railfan – 55 Trains in 5 Minutes! October 21, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches two military satellites ESA asks member nations to build lander for Franklin Mars rover NASA buys 3 Orion capsules from Lockheed Martin for $2 billion India’s GSLV-Mark3 rocket launches 36 OneWeb satellites Russia launches 4 satellites with Soyuz-2 rocket from Vostochny OneWeb paid ISRO about $130 million for two GSLV launches Spanish high altitude tourist balloon company prepares for first test flight A hole in space Who and What to vote for in Arizona in 2022 October 24, 2022 Quick space links Madison Cunningham – All At Once Virgin Orbit gets UK marine license for its Cornwall launch Researchers figure out how to make the Starlink constellation a GPS-type constellation ISS dodges space junk from Russia’s November 2021 anti-satellite test Relativity edges closer to first launch China’s Long March 5B rocket with new space station module is now at launchpad Pushback: Nationwide group fights university blacklisting of those who refuse COVID shots October 25, 2022 Quick space links Jerry Reed – Lord Mr Ford Russian Progress freighter successfully launches to ISS InSight still hangs in, barely After 50 years Edward Stone retires as the project scientist for Voyagers 1 and 2 Lucy’s view of the Earth-Moon system during its October fly-by Orbit Fab, the company building gas stations in space, gets new investor Today’s blacklisted American: School officials in Florida and Michigan retaliate against parents for being involved in their kids’ schooling Martian rectilinear ridges National Geographic – Alien Body Invader October 26, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Boeing’s write-off due to Starliner delays goes up to nearly $900 million European nations struggle with the new private commercial space station concept Russian government okays ISS partnership through ’27 Increasing push back against NYU’s firing of a chemistry teacher for demanding excellence from students Annie Marie Lewis & Danny B. Harvey – House of the Risin’ Sun A glacier sea on Mars SpaceX successfully launches another 53 Starlink satellites ULA breaks ground on new facility in Alabama Past tree ring spikes in carbon-14 were likely not caused by solar flares InSight detects and dates large impact on Mars Paypal losing customers at an alarming rate, even as it blacklists Hong Kong pro-democracy group Swimming with orcas October 28, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches classified technology test satellite NASA sets new launch date for Psyche asteroid mission NASA & ESA pick site for Perseverance to deposit its samples for pickup Stratolaunch’s giant Roc airplane flies for 1st time with Talon engineering vehicle attached Watching the launch of the final large module to China’s Tiangong-3 space station Al-Amal orbiter tracks unusual northern summer dust storm on Mars Distant interacting galaxies Today’s blacklist victim: Distinguished scientist and long-time journal editor forced to resign due to threats CAPSTONE makes course correction, now on target for lunar orbital insertion on November 13th The knobby floor of a Martian crater Speakeasies Swing Band – Black Swamp Village October 31, 2022 Quick space links Falcon Heavy launches successfully for 1st time since 2019 Mengtian module docks with China’s Tiangong-3 space station Orbex signs 50-year lease at Sutherland spaceport Lockheed Martin invests $100 million in startup satellite maker Terran Orbital Astronomers discover a new large potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid Japanese private lunar lander HAKUTO-R now scheduled for launch on November 22nd Today’s blacklisted American: Amazon blacklists book because it says something someone at Amazon doesn’t like Streaks on the Moon November 1, 2022 Quick space links The Revenge: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot InSight status update: still alive! Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launches military early warning satellite Rocket Lab to attempt 1st stage recovery on November 4th launch Two Saudi passengers to fly on Axiom’s second commercial flight to ISS The crash of China’s Long March 5B core stage: first rough prediction Curiosity begins a detour Vermont news outlet blacklists its own story to protect the queer agenda at a local school November 2, 2022 Quick space links Freefall: an antenna company for space Bob Fosse – Cuarto de la Banda November 2, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast American freedom sets a new yearly record for rocketry Crash prediction for Long March 5B core stage narrows NASA delays first manned Starliner mission again Mengtian moved to its permanent port on Tiangong-3 Travel agency buys two Space Perspective high altitude balloon flights Sunspot update: The pause in the ramp up to solar maximum continues Perseverance leaps forward November 3, 2022 Quick space links FCC chief proposes agency reorganization of its space-related bureaucracy Today’s blacklisted American: Instagram bans pro-life student group at Auburn for being pro-life Carly Simon – You’re So Vain November 3, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Watching Rocket Lab’s launch and attempt to recover its first stage Long March 5B core stage crashes in Pacific Remains or DNA samples of numerous Star Trek actors/creators to be sent into space Orbital tug company signs launch agreement with German rocket startup Isar Aerospace Virgin Galactic losses 3x higher than last year Rocket Lab successfully launches but fails to catch first stage The weirdly eroded rocks of Mount Sharp Pushback: “I do not consent to your attempt to blacklist me.” November 4, 2022 Quick space links Moyun Long March 3B launches communications satellite Iran test launches first stage of new solid-fueled rocket Midnight repost: How the localized nature of Democrat vote tampering will influence the 2022 election Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket launches Cygnus freighter to ISS Hubble takes a long exposure of spiral galaxy Pre-election repost: Who and What to vote for in Arizona in 2022 One of two solar panels on Cygnus capsule fails to deploy November 7, 2022 Quick space links The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field Hurricane threatens SLS on launchpad Webb’s mid-infrared instrument restored to full operations India’s first private rocket company prepares for its first test suborbital launch JAXA test fires Japan’s new H3 rocket Bad news for Branson Japan issues license allowing Ispace to do private business on Moon Pushback: Doctors sue to kill California law making it illegal to disagree with government SLS launch delayed until November 16 On the radio Cygnus freighter continues to target ISS rendezvous tomorrow Taylor Davis – Nostalgia Cygnus successfully berthed at ISS Virgin Orbit’s first launch from UK delayed by red tape Tianzhou-4 freighter undocks from Tiangong-3, while Tianzhou-5 prepares for launch German rocket startup unveils 2nd stage Astra to lay off 16% of its workforce Another Indian rocket startup tests engine Arizona court kills local government’s real estate deal for World View India about to do first drop test of its home-built version of an X-37B Erosion at the edge of Mars’ biggest volcanic ash field Not one climate model predicts global temperature; all predict too much warming Time for another Wuhan panic update Rocket Lab leases engine test facility at Stennis China switches heavy-lift Long March 9 from expendable to reusable November 9, 2022 Quick space links Andy Kim – Rock Me Gently November 9, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Atlas-5 completes last launch at Vandenberg Rocket Lab sets date for 1st launch from Wallops A cliff face of volcanic erosion on Mars November 10, 2022 Quick space links Today’s blacklisted American: Student mob shuts down Ann Coulter speech at Cornell Poulenc – Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon Divers for documentary discover large piece of Challenger SLS rides out hurricane; engineers now assessing damage UK govt requests public comment on Shetland spaceport Advanced Space wins lunar orbiter contract with Air Force Pushback: VMI alumnus cancels $1 million bequest because of the school’s support of critical race theory and its slandering of those who disagree China: We like dumping out-of-control rockets on your head! November 11, 2022 Quick space links The Battle of Samar November 11, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches two Intelsat communications satellites China launches Tianzhou freighter to Tiangong-3 space station China launches environmental satellite X-37B returns successfully to Earth after 908 days in orbit CAPSTONE successfully enters lunar orbit SLS launch early on November 16th remains uncertain Several major rocket companies to the FCC: stay out! Thank you for your generous support! The Martian cycles of climate change, as shown in just one crater Spire offers way to track ships even when they are trying to hide Time to face some hard truths about America’s political future November 14, 2022 Quick space links The Allman Brothers – One Way Out NASA managers okay SLS launch attempt November 16th China launches remote sensing satellite ABL scrubs first launch attempt Superheavy prototype #7 undergoes 14 engine static fire test Watching the first SLS launch tonight Martian helicopters of the future November 15, 2022 Quick space links Joe Bonamassa – Boogie Woogie Woman November 15, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA’s SLS rocket successfully launches Orion toward the Moon The lunar surface is arid Chinese pseudo-company Galactic Energy launches five satellites into orbit NASA awards Starship a second manned lunar landing contract UK awards launch license to Cornwall airport A hidden baby star, seen in infrared Today’s blacklisted American: Half of today’s students support the death penalty for some speech Glaciers everywhere in Mars’ glacier country November 16, 2022 Quick space links Heart – Crazy On You Ten cubesats released by SLS on way to Moon; one has problems Canadian rocket startup with balloon for 1st stage wins launch contract Rocket Factory Augsburg signs deal to use German engine test facility Ispace announces new launch date and landing site on Moon for Hakuto-R lander Webb finding more galaxies in early universe than expected Slowly the Ukrainians continue to regain their country Today’s blacklisted American: Anti-Semitic attacks skyrocket on college campuses November 17, 2022 Quick space links The Highwaymen – Loving Her Was Easier ABL’s RS1 rocket aborts at ignition SpaceX cancels launch after reviewing static fire test data 1st suborbital launch by Indian private company Japan to stay on ISS to 2030 in exchange for an astronaut flight to Gateway Boeing announces major reorganization LightSail-2 completes three-plus year mission, burning up in atmosphere Colliding glaciers Pushback: Court orders school board to stop censoring and banning parents November 18, 2022 Quick space links Clara Cernat & Thierry Huillet – Monti Csardas November 18, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lucy engineers again attempt to complete deployment of solar array Chinese seize space debris being towed by Filippino sailors Orion successfully enters its preliminary lunar orbit Smeared colliding galaxies New serious damage to Curiosity’s wheels? InSight still alive Kathia Buniatishvili – Debussy’s Claire de Lune ABL’s RS1 rocket has another abort at launch CAPSTONE enters its planned lunar orbit Astronomers spot asteroid mere hours before it burned up in Earth’s atmosphere Six of the ten cubesats launched toward the Moon by SLS still working Curiosity’s wheels: Maybe not so bad after all Pushback: Court rules against college’s attempt to censor students November 22, 2022 Quick space links Dick Cavett – Burt Lancaster in the circus SpaceX successfully launches communications satellite for Eutelsat Controllers lose contact with Orion for almost an hour France, Germany, and Italy agree on allowing competition from European rocket startups First commercial passenger spacewalk on Dragon will involve depressurizing entire spacecraft Webb makes its first detailed survey of an exoplanet’s atmosphere Frozen glacial eddies on Mars? Hungary to pay $100 million to Axiom for astronaut mission to ISS Today’s blacklisted American includes anyone at a Vermont high school who dares say a boy is a boy November 23, 2022 Quick space links Charo – Malagueña November 23, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity completes 34th flight using new hazard avoidance software Rocket Lab wins launch contract abandoned by Astra Perseverance data so far finds no evidence of lake in Jezero Crater A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Launch of Ispace’s Hakuto-R lunar lander delayed two days ESA commits more than $100 million to encouraging private space companies JAXA: one of Japan’s astronauts fabricated data in ground-based experiment Monitoring the tiger stripes on Martian dunes Government lies versus COVID truths November 25, 2022 Quick space links Orion enters retrograde lunar orbit Lucy Thomas – Hallelujah India successfully places 1 satellite and 8 smallsats in orbit Smallsat rocket startup Phantom Space gets NASA launch contract SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launches Dragon freighter to ISS November 26, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket startup Agnikul Cosmos opens first commercial launchpad in India Dragon freighter docks with ISS Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired by University of Louisville for expressing his opinion A ghost goddess in space Russia launches last GPS-type satellite in its present Glonass constellation November 28, 2022 Quick space links Alice In Wonderland – I’m Late China sets new annual record with launch of manned Shenzhou-15 to space station Virgin Orbit’s cash problems continue Today’s blacklisted American: Massachusetts hospital network to deny healthcare to those who say things it doesn’t like A Martian knife mesa with terraces SpaceX conducts successful static fire test of Superheavy November 29, 2022 Quick space links Deepest underground structures China launches military satellites using Long March 2D rocket NASA awards construction company $57 million development contract for lunar construction SOFIA finds no phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere ESA’s commitment to launch Franklin rover to Mars by ’28 will require U.S. participation China completes construction of world’s largest solar radio telescope array Traveling in the mountains of Mars Musk’s success vs Trump’s failure November 30, 2022 Quick space links InSight continues to just hold on Haley Reinhart – Creep November 30, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX postpones launch of Ispace’s Hakuto-R lunar lander Soyuz-2 rocket launches Russian military satellite Scientists: Viking-1 might have landed on a field of Martian tsunami debris Webb and Keck telescopes track clouds on Titan Expanded craters in Martian ice Rogozin returns, playing a soldier in the Ukraine! Today’s blacklisted American: Princeton considering blacklisting John Witherspoon, Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence December 1, 2022 Quick space links Allison Williams – Nature Boy Orion fires engine, leaves lunar orbit Delays threaten Europa Clipper mission FCC puts the squeeze on SpaceX’s Starlink Sunspot update: The Sun’s unprecedented pause to maximum continues Martian glaciers below 30 degrees latitude Pushback: Kroger must pay $180K to two Arkansas workers, fired for refusing to support the queer agenda December 2, 2022 Quick space links Fieldsports Britain – Rat removal using dogs December 2, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast December 4, 2022 Quick space links The uncertainties surrounding India’s proposed first manned mission Curiosity’s recent and future travels amid the Martian mountains The steep interior rim of Aristarchus Crater Today’s blacklisted American: Pernicious anti-white bigotry controls the government in Seattle December 5, 2022 Quick space links Sara Evans – No Place That Far Orion completes burn to send spacecraft back to Earth Ukrainian rocket startup targets ’23 for first launch The Middle East in Space Martian dunes, as far as the eye can see NOAA gives Maxar permission to photograph things in space Today’s blacklisted American: Richmond restaurant to the Family Foundation: “No Christians served here!” Reitze Smits – J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia in C minor InSight’s low power levels holding steady Ingenuity sets altitude record on 35th flight Computer modelers predict millions will die if China relaxes its zero COVID lockdowns policy China’s Kuaizhou-11 rocket launches test satellite Virgin Orbit schedules launch from the UK, despite no permit Blue Origin-led team bids for NASA manned lunar lander contract Pushback: Judge rules flight attendant must be rehired by Southwest, but reduces her award significantly A Martian ship’s prow December 7, 2022 Quick space links Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike December 7, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast UK regulators block Virgin Orbit launch Sweden upgrading suborbital launchsite for orbital business New gamma ray burst violates the explanations of scientists Update on Starship/Superheavy testing at Boca Chica China’s possible plans for expanding Tiangong-3 What a Martian impact looks like on a sheet of slushy ice Pushback: Professor wins big against Auburn for punishing him for his opinions SpaceX successfully launches 40 OneWeb satellites Webb’s infrared view of the Southern Ring Nebula December 8, 2022 Quick space links Sam Cox – The Doodle House China completes two launches successfully Last 747 rolls off assembly line Billionaire Maezawa chooses his passengers for Starship lunar flight Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander passes launch tests NASA awards Collins contract to build spacesuits for space station spacewalks SOFIA to retire to Arizona museum Astronomers confirm Webb galaxies from the early universe Pushback: Students win $90K from University of Idaho for restricting their free speech Ancient lava flows down the flanks of the solar system’s largest volcano December 9, 2022 Quick space links Lidija Bacic Lille – Stop December 9, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese upper stage disintegrates in orbit NASA extends Boeing’s contract to produce more SLS rockets SpaceX successfully launches Ispace’s Hakuto-R private mission to Moon Orion successfully splashes down in the Pacific China’s Long March 4C rocket launches two satellites Update on the ten cubesats launched by SLS Remembering Apollo 17, fifty years after the last manned mission to the Moon A wall of smoke, as seen by Hubble New bill imposes new and odious regulation on private space stations and satellites NOAA once again over-predicts the hurricane count Today’s blacklisted American: Judge orders Philadelphia to stop blacklisting Christopher Columbus Strange terrain on the eastern floor of Gale Crater December 12, 2022 Quick space links Third Coast Percussion – Madeira River InSight still going, but barely Bezos and Blue Origin to star in animated kids show Another space station company, ThinkOrbital, enters the competition NASA approves $1.2 billion asteroid-hunting space telescope Research: Those who get the jab are intolerant and eager to discriminate Today’s blacklisted Americans: Archaeologists go underground to practice their research The featureless volcanic ash plains of Mars December 13, 2022 Quick space links Ariane 5 successfully launches three satellites DiDuLa – Arabica Hakuto-R sends first image back to Earth Rwanda and Nigeria to sign Artemis Accords NASA, Boeing, and the UAE negotiating partnership for building Lunar Gateway airlock Space Force and South Korea set up joint office to monitor North Korea Juno snaps heat image of Jupiter’s volcano-covered moon Io Curiosity looks down Gediz Vallis Today’s blacklisted American: Book touting Judeo-Christian values blacklisted from libraries The first launch of China’s Zhuque-2 rocket ends in failure Scientists publish papers describing largest Mars quake from May December 14, 2022 Quick space links American Giants – Restoring a Paul Bunyan Giant Soyuz manned capsule docked to ISS is apparently leaking something December 14, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches classified remote sensing satellite France orders Eutelsat to stop broadcasting Russian channels Perseverance records sound of dust devil Today’s blacklisted American: Conservative students and pro-speech law firm slandered and threatened at University of Kansas Sunken butte on Mars December 15, 2022 Quick space links Tom Jones & Helene Fischer – Sexbomb SpaceX launches oceanography satellite China launches test satellite Russian official: Soyuz leak possibly caused by micrometeorite hit More results from DART impact of Dimorphos Ingenuity completes 36th flight; preps for its 37th Astronomers determine that two super-Earths are not as rocky as previously believed NASA loses contact with one hurricane satellite in constellation of eight A barred spiral galaxy with distorted galaxy The edge of the Martian south pole ice cap December 16, 2022 Quick space links SpaceX launches two communications satellites Big Rude Jake & The Jump City Diplomats – Song for Lilly Christine December 16, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russians test thrusters on leaking Soyuz SpaceX completes third launch in less than two days South Korea’s Danuri orbiter enters lunar orbit North Korea releases two images taken during suborbital missile test Temperature in leaking Soyuz capsule drops Former SpaceX manager quits UK startup Skyrora after only six months L3Harris to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7 billion. South Korean rocket startup to launch suborbital test rocket Weather forces Rocket Lab to scrub first launch from Wallops Blobs in space Could the Apollo 11 lunar module still be orbiting the Moon? Big sink near the Martian south pole Today’s blacklisted American: Law firm fires lawyer of 44 years for expressing the wrong opinion December 16, 2022 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast December 19, 2022 Quick space links Helene Fischer – Feliz Navidad InSight fails to respond during scheduled communications session Russians preparing replacement Soyuz for launch to ISS Astronomers identify what they think are the Milky Way’s first stars Rocket Lab reschedules first Wallops launch to January Perseverance’s planned route up onto the Jezero Crater delta A congregation of Martian dust devils Pushback: Blacklisting Virginia Tech soccer coach loses effort to get lawsuit dismissed December 20, 2022 Quick space links Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel Launch failure for Arianespace’s Vega-C rocket Virgin Orbit finally receives launch license from British bureaucracy ISS spacewalk postponed because controllers had to maneuver station to avoid space junk Kepler’s first discovered exoplanet is spiraling into its aging star SpaceX and the Ukraine resolve funding issues for Starlink terminals The same region on Ganymede, as seen by Voyager-1 in 1979 and Juno in 2021 The Wuhan panic underlines how scientists have abandoned the search for truth Webb in safe mode intermittently during the past two weeks InSight mission ended December 21, 2022 Quick space links Kelly Clarkson – Silent Night December 21, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Perseverance deposits first core sample for pickup later India buying land for new spaceport on India’s southern tip Update on upcoming first launch of Relativity’s Terran-1 rocket Australian rocket startup Gilmour preps for first test launch Bursting lava bubbles on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: The FBI’s purge of conservatives forces one agent to sue December 22, 2022 Quick space links Jars of Clay – Worlds Apart Perseverance experiment generates new record of breathable oxygen on Mars Juno experienced data download issue during most recent Jupiter close flyby NASA requesting proposals for raising Hubble’s orbit Soyuz hole not caused by a Geminid meteor Newly passed Senate bill requires consultation between industry and government on space junk Crater at the edge of the Martian south pole ice cap Attack that injured Rogozin in the Ukraine also killed two Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired by a North Carolina school for having opinions Anastasia Gladilina and Sretensky Monastery Choir – Kyrie Eleison December 23, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Monkees – Riu Chiu Voces8: J.S Bach’s Jesus bleibet meine Freude A long-armed galaxy Today’s blacklisted American: Violence against churches and religious institutions skyrockets since 2018 Cones, mounds, and layers of Martian ice? December 26, 2022 Quick space links Sinéad O’Connor – All apologies China launches Earth observation satellite SpaceX has about 100 Starlink terminals working in Iran Finding Martian glaciers from orbit Today’s blacklisted American: Black scientist blacklisted for doing good research Anne-Sophie Mutter – J.S. Bach’s Partita in D minor SpaceX launches 54 more Starlink satellites Russian investigators conclude leak on Soyuz caused by external impact Using reflected light from Jupiter to photograph Ganymede’s night side Today’s blacklisted American: Computer maker Raspberry Pi boycotted because it hired a former policeman December 28, 2022 Quick space links A “What the heck?” glacier image on Mars Lex Fridman – Playing Guitar in a Self-Driving Car China’s Long March 3B rocket launches “experimental satellite” Royal Astronomical Society ends blacklisting of James Webb China to build giant ground-based optical telescope A hint at Mars’ past climate cycles Pushback: Catholics sue Michigan for imposing queers and the queer agenda in religious schools December 29, 2022 Quick space links Beth Hart – Jazz Man SpaceX successfully launches Israeli imaging satellite South Korea test flies a solid-fueled missile Philippines issues warning about Chinese rocket debris from launch A spray of Martian hollows Pushback: University eliminates “bias reporting” option that allowed any student to anonymously squelch dissent Manualist John Twomey on The Tonight Show, New Year’s eve, 1986 Sunspot update: The most sunspots since 2014 Hakuto-R successfully completes second mid-course correction Rocketry went BOOM! in 2022, but in a good way On the radio plus under the weather John Williams – The Cowboys Overture SpaceX starts 2023 with first launch of year SpaceX raises another $750 million in private investment capital Largest volcanic eruption in years detected on Io The soft icy Martian northern lowland plains China releases first update on status of Yutu-2 since September Pushback: Court denies school principal immunity from lawsuit for squelching free speech January 3, 2023 Quick space links George Winston – Thanksgiving January 3, 2023 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Drainage out of a Martian crater Backlash against MIT’s blacklisting of teacher forces it to adopt Free Speech Resolution January 4, 2023 Quick space links David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World January 4, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Updates on India’s space effort Voyager signs deal with Airbus to build its private space station Cornell confirms its plan to punish students for disrupting Coulter speech The dry and dusty equatorial regions of Mars Virgin Orbit completes $37 million stock sale Lavinia Meijer – Metamorphosis Who wants to help me publicly challenge an unjust blacklisting? Virgin Orbit’s launch from Cornwall finally scheduled for January 9th Impulse’s first demo space tug scheduled for launch Private lunar rover to fly on private lunar lander General Atomics wins Air Force contract to build technology test lunar satellite January 6, 2023 Quick space links Styropyro – The brightest laser pointer in the world! January 6, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches twice today to start its 2023 year Decision on leaking Soyuz and its replacement to be made by Russia on January 11th Musk: SpaceX is now targeting late February/March for 1st orbital launch of Starship Two nearby galactic neighbors Steady decline for decades in the publication of “disruptive science” Webb finds “wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe” Defrosting Martian Dunes January 9, 2023 Quick space links Virgin Orbit launch a failure today from Cornwall, Great Britain Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Leftover Blues SpaceX successfully launches 40 OneWeb satellites China’s Mars orbiter and rover in trouble January 10, 2023 Quick space links Johnny Carson – Carnak routine c1981 Starlink and National Science Foundation sign deal coordinating spectrum use ABL’s first launch attempt fails Leaking Soyuz to return empty; Unmanned Soyuz to be launched to replace it TESS finds a second Earthsize planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a star World View gets new lease from Pima County Ingenuity about to fly up onto the delta A new hotspot map of Io, based on Juno data A collapse on Mars January 11, 2023 Quick space links Astronomers discover more than 800 new supermassive black holes Cindy Cashdollar & her 1927 Hermann Weissenborn Koa wood slide guitar January 11, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Saudi Arabia withdraws from Moon Treaty Russia and Europe negotiating return of rockets and satellites American camera snaps picture of shadowed floor of Shackleton crater China is planning 60-plus launches in 2023 German rocket startup signs deal with UK spaceport First exoplanet confirmed by Webb Racing above the clouds of Jupiter The modern American blacklist culture is wide and deep, and will require a lot of dredging to clear January 12, 2023 Quick space links The best news in the world China completes two launches today Lunar Flashlight cubesat in trouble Construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii remains in limbo FCC votes to create its own space bureaucracy, despite lacking statutory authority Searching for surface changes caused by the biggest recorded Martian quake Pushback: Blacklisted Virginia Tech soccer player wins $100K settlement Chinese company based in Hong Kong signs deal to build spaceport in Djibouti, Africa Touring the largest organ in the world January 13, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Sweden cuts ribbon on Esrange spaceport Stratolaunch’s Roc airplane completes 2nd captive-carry test flight China’s Long March 2D rocket launches 14 satellites Russia delays three planned lunar probes because of sanctions SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches Space Force satellites Starlink service scheduled for South Korea later this year A Martian river canyon? Pushback: Southwest flight attendant demands Southwest be sanctioned for violating the terms of her court victory The Weavers – So Long SpaceX to build five Starship/Superheavy prototypes in 2023 Hakuto-R completes five of ten milestones on test flight The sea of dunes surrounding the Martian north pole January 17, 2023 Quick space links American astronaut seat liner shifted to Dragon temporarily Katie Webster – I’m bad January 17, 2023 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast SpaceX launches GPS satellite Oman building its own spaceport A review of Boeing’s struggling space effort Alabama roadside rest stop about to lose its Saturn-1B rocket Curiosity climbs onto the Marker Band The COVID jab: An emerging health disaster whose name cannot be spoken January 18, 2023 Quick space links January 18, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Heart – Stairway to Heaven Astronauts complete Soyuz seat liner installation inside Endurance SpaceX completes first Starlink launch of 2023 ABL completes investigation of January 10th launch failure Geotail mission finally ends after 30 years Today’s blacklisted American: Court clerk fired despite having valid health and religious reasons to refuse jab Machete Mesa on Mars January 19, 2023 Quick space links The Rolling Stones & Sheryl Crow – Honky Tonk Women Lucy team suspends efforts to complete deployment of unlatched solar panel Investment in space dropped 58% in 2022 The only rocket stage recovered during the 1960s space race returns to Florida Ingenuity completes 40th flight Today’s blacklisted American: Minnesota to blacklist all Christians, Jews, or Muslims from teaching The youngest flood lava on Mars, flowing past a crater January 20, 2023 Quick space links Metal Church – Beyond The Black First launch from Shetland Islands predicted for the fall First Vulcan rocket arrives at Cape Canaveral Animation of Jupiter’s clouds Martian crater with mound of ice? mud? hardened sand? Today’s blacklisted American: Game publisher fires employee for expressing conservative opinions January 23, 2023 Quick space links Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 Communications issue shuts down one of Webb’s instruments New evidence suggests the Earth’s inner core no longer rotates faster than the planet’s outer layers Today’s blacklisted American: Pro-parent event silenced by threats of violence from leftist queers Jupiter and two of its Moons, as seen by Cassini during 2018 fly-by January 24, 2023 Quick space links Curiosity’s drill fails for the fourth time to drill into the marker band layer on Mt Sharp Fender – recreating the classic “Brownie” Stratocaster used by Eric Clapton Rocket Lab successfully completes first launch from the U.S. Russians successfully test replacement Soyuz capsule for leaks Classified Chinese test satellite releases second object in orbit Stacked Starship and Superheavy complete first full wet dress rehearsal countdown Roscosmos predicts Russia’s new space station will launch by 2027 Arianespace’s chief condemns the idea of independent private European rocket companies ISRO about to test land a prototype of India’s own version of the X-37B A dry lakebed on Mars? Today’s blacklisted American: Thin blue line banned on flags in Los Angeles and suburban Philadelphia Cher & Tina Turner – Shame on You! Japan’s H2A rocket successfully launches radar surveillance satellite January 25, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches a record 56 Starlink satellites Lucy team adds 10th asteroid to the spacecraft’s tour German rocket startup Isar Aerospace gets first American customer NASA and Russian engineers meeting to discuss status of leaks on ISS’s Zvezda module A Martian bear! Pushback: Two reporters sue ESPN for terminating them for not getting jabbed January 26, 2023 Quick space links Lalo Schifrin – Mission Impossible The twin asteroid Janus probes, stranded by Psyche delay, might go to Apophis Glaciers or taffy on Mars? Today’s blacklisted American: Jesus painting at U.S. Merchant Marine Academy covered to avoid offending others Norah Jones – Come Away With Me January 27, 2023 Quick space links January 27, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A cloud on Mars Curiosity looking back Today’s blacklisted American: Professor quits because of the leftist takeover of his college January 30, 2023 Quick space links Gary Wright – Love Is Alive Juno’s camera experiences temperature problem Viewing the Green Comet Perseverance completes placement of first ten samples for later pick up SpaceX successfully launches 49 Starlink satellites and a D-Orbit space tug Today’s blacklisted American found innocent of federal trumped up charges The next chapter in my own personal blacklisting story That ain’t snow on Mars January 31, 2023 Quick space links Linda Ronstadt – You’re No Good Developments at the Houston Spaceport industry park Webb instrument back in operation Astronomers discover twelve more Jupiter moons Ingenuity successfully completes 41st flight Galaxies without end A Martian hill of pillows Pushback: Student appeals conviction for distributing Constitution on public campus Two die at Northrop Grumman facility that makes solid rocket boosters Is Amazon’s Kuiper Constellation project in trouble, or is it fleeing Seattle? February 1, 2023 Quick space links Buried silo on Mars? Petula Clark – Sign Of The Times February 1, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches 53 Starlink satellites South Korea officially cancels Russian launch contract, signs Vega-C instead ISRO completes investigation into failure of its SSLV rocket on first launch Diesel fuel spill at Air Force surveillance facility on Hawaiian mountaintop Fire in South Korean rocket facility Today’s blacklisted Americans: Catholic students kicked out of Air & Space museum for wearing pro-life hats Dramatic layers in Valles Marineris February 2, 2023 Quick space links Leon Redbone – Old Familiar Blues Researchers discover a new kind of water ice China to build space ground stations in Antarctica Yuma funds and applies for spaceport Spanish airport to become a rocket spaceport Curiosity spots foot-wide meteorite on Mars NASA switches lunar landing site for Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander Today’s blacklisted American: Comic book writer slandered and then canceled because of the slanders Sunspot update: Sunspots in January went through the roof! Razor butte on Mars February 3, 2023 Quick space links Yanni – Aria: Ode to Humanity February 3, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia’s Proton rocket launches weather satellite Space station builder Voyager raises $80 million in private investment capital Today’s blacklisted American: CVS fires nurse for refusing to violate her religious beliefs A Martian slope streak caused by a dust devil? February 6, 2023 Quick space links ULA closing facility in Texas that makes parts for the retiring Atlas-5 rocket Chuck Berry & Etta James – Rock and Roll Music SpaceX successfully launches commercial communications satellites Russian engineers recommend staying with ISS through 2028 Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo mother ship unveiled after major overhaul Japan’s H3 rocket’s first launch delayed due to problem in “flight system” Space Force to do major cleanup of diesel fuel spill on Hawaiian mountaintop Perseverance and Ingenuity begin the journey up onto Jezero Crater’s delta Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist professor fired by university for questioning its racist agenda February 7, 2023 Quick space links David Bowie & Freddie Mercury – Under Pressure Relativity’s Terran-1 rocket on launchpad for final tests prior to first launch Virgin Orbit narrows cause of launch failure to $100 component ULA stacks Vulcan-Centaur rocket for ground tests prior to first launch The landing sites for two upcoming lunar landers Today’s blacklisted American: Previously blacklisted Oregon professor sues university for being further blacklisted because he tweeted “all men are created equal.” Dormant volcanic vent on Mars February 8, 2023 Quick space links Midori- Variations on “The Last Rose of Summer” by Ernst Engineers struggle to salvage Lunar Flashlight cubesat Update on CAPSTONE in lunar orbit Progress freighter launched to ISS Astronomers find ring around distant dwarf planet Quaoar ESA successfully unfurls solar sail from cubesat FCC approves the first 3,000+ satellites in Amazon’s Kuiper constellation UAE engineers shift Al-Amal’s orbit to do fly-bys of Mars moon Deimos ISRO successfully test fires a throttleable version of an engine used in two of its rockets Curiosity scientists find evidence of lake water higher on Mount Sharp than expected SpaceX completes 33-engine static fire test today of Superheavy prototype #7 Pushback: Civil rights complaint filed against California school district for running segregated program February 9, 2023 Quick space links February 9, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Dionne Warwick – I Say A Little Prayer India successfully launches its SSLV rocket on 2nd attempt NASA awards launch contract to Blue Origin’s unlaunched New Glenn rocket Curiosity takes high resolution panorama of the canyon it will soon enter Terraced serrated layered mesas on Mars February 10, 2023 Quick space links Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock’n’Roll February 10, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Shortly after new Progress freighter docks with ISS, older Progress loses internal pressure SpaceX launches 55 more Starlink satellites One of Saudi Arabia’s two Axiom passengers later this year will be a woman Trio of colliding galaxies A real blacklist designed to choke ad profits from conservative and legitimate news organizations First picture of hole that occurred on Soyuz in December Cracked ash-filled Martian terrain February 13, 2023 Quick space links Kylie Minogue & Paul McCartney – Dance Tonight Intuitive Machines completes merger with SPAC as it goes public China aiming to complete 80 launches in 2023 Canadian rocket startup dies because of opposition to noise produced by its engine tests Winter finally ends for Ingenuity Today’s blacklisted Americans: Religious pro-lifers prevented from viewing Bill of Rights because National Archives forbids free speech A glacial river on Mars SpaceX abandons plan to convert floating oil platforms into Starship/Superheavy landing spots February 14, 2023 Quick space links OTTA-Orchestra – Royal Safary Dislodged fuel filter identified as cause of Virgin Orbit launch failure Imaging satellite builder Maxar signs contract with Umbra to use its radar satellites Perseverance’s depot of core samples, ready for pickup India’s government plans to sell tourist tickets on its future manned flights Stop participating in the delusions of the insane “What the heck?!” swirls on Mars February 15, 2023 Quick space links Roscosmos will launch unmanned Soyuz to ISS on February 21 Robin Williams first appearance on the Johnny Carson Show February 15, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA outlines its expected needs as a space station customer The endless volcanic ash of Mars’ Medusae Fossae Formation Today’s blacklisted American: Rhode Island still pushing racist hiring practices despite civil rights complaint Ingenuity completes 43rd flight on Mars, the longest in almost a year Tanya Tucker – Two Sparrows In A Hurricane First launch of Japan’s H3 rocket aborts at T-0 The February 2023 Behind the Black fund-raising campaign-THANK YOU For only 7th time, searchers find meteorite immediately after fall China releases data sets from Chang’e-4 lander A galaxy’s structure of gas and dust, as seen in the infrared by Webb Today’s blacklisted American: Professor sues University of Texas for threatening his job because he criticized it publicly SpaceX launches 51 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg February 17, 2023 Quick space links Bruce Hornsby & The Range – The Way It Is February 17, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches an Inmarsat communications satellite Inspection of leaking Progress after undocking detects no obvious damage First orbital tug from the startup Launcher fails shortly after deployment India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander/rover passes radiation testing For the 4th time Curiosity’s drill fails to penetrate marker layer Splashed lava from a Martian impact Today’s blacklisted American: Georgetown Law School tried to destroy a student simply because he asked questions about its COVID jab and mask policies February 20, 2023 Quick space links Los Lobos – Don’t Worry Baby China’s continued silence about Zhurong suggests Mars rover is dead VLT takes picture of exoplanet Solar Orbiter captures Mercury crossing in front of the Sun Pushback: Home appraiser sues professors who called him racist without evidence Russians release image of coolant system hole in Progress A lunar lava avalanche three miles wide and one mile long February 21, Quick space links The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica Despite a complete lack of any customers, Spaceport America in New Mexico now plans to build a “reception center.” Japanese startup enters the high altitude balloon space tourism business NASA signs deal to launch Israel’s first space telescope mission SpaceX ready to launch Starship prototype #24 into orbit Cliffs inside 285-mile-wide Schiaparelli Crater on Mars The new normal: persecuting an expert witness because he testified for the defense in a political-charged trial February 22, 2023 Quick space links Kathleen Battle – Voices of Spring February 22, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 3B rocket launches communications satellite MAVEN experiences problem with attitude control system Webb spots massive galaxies in the early universe that should not exist at that time What to expect when SpaceX launches Starship on its first orbital flight Astronomers discover dwarf binary star system invisible to the human eye Soft Martian buttes Today’s blacklisted American: Policeman forced to resign simply because he is Christian February 23, 2023 Quick space links Russians launch unmanned Soyuz to ISS Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves Ingenuity completes 45th flight; Perservance races to keep up China places classified satellite into orbit using Long March 2C rocket ULA now targets May 4th for first Vulcan launch Scientists pin down Venus’s most likely active volcanic regions Many carbon-based molecules identified in Ryugu samples Puerto Rico’s Ports Authority is looking for an operator to run the island’s own spaceport Meandering ridges in Greg Crater Where to get legal help if you have been illegally blacklisted February 24, 2023 Quick space links Jonathan Winters Tells Drinking Stories February 24, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast IBEX in safe mode Manned Endeavour launch tonight on Falcon 9 scrubbed at T-2:12 Astroscale raises $76 million in private investment capital from Mitsubishi, space tourist Maezawa, and others New company aims at providing floating ocean-going spaceports for rocket companies Galaxies afloat in space Drilling success for Curiosity in the marker layer? The shift away from government schools, at all levels, accelerates SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches 21 second generation Starlink satellites Ten Years After – I`m going home Ispace provides update on its Hakuto-R1 lunar lander on the way to the Moon NASA names solar scientist as its new science head ESA invites private companies to build lunar satellites for communications and navigation Perseverance snaps picture of its scout Ingenuity Today’s blacklisted American: University tells student it will block her speech, even off campus and on her private time Layers upon layers on Mars AJR – Making of Bang!/Bang! February 28, 2023 Quick space links No resolution in sight for Blue Origin’s investigation into New Shepard flight abort Researchers develop liquid nitrogen spray that removes lunar dust A Russian Mars airplane? UK bureaucracy provisionally clears Viasat-Inmarsat merger Intelsat develops airplane WiFi antenna that can access both Intelsat and OneWeb satellites Today’s blacklisted Americans: Pro-lifers banned from the Washington Monument because it is a “First Amendment-free zone” ULA about to be sold? March 1, 2023 Quick space links The barren and icy northern lowland plains of Mars Stevie Nicks – Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around March 1, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches its Endeavour capsule carrying four astronauts UK’s bureaucracy blasted for delaying Virgin Orbit launch Rocket Lab might forgo use of a helicopter in recovering its Electron 1st stages Scientists publish their results from the impact of Dimorphos by DART A Martian glacier waterfall? Denial in the post-COVID era Srna Kocevska & Alexandra Gjoreska – the Charleston Endeavour docks with ISS JAXA reschedules first H3 rocket launch following investigation ESA attributes Vega-C launch failure to faulty nozzle from the Ukraine Sunspot update: After going through the roof last month, sunspots drop into the attic this month SpaceX launches another 51 Starlink satellites into orbit AGs from 22 states blast Biden’s attempt to illegally insert racial quotas and climate change into federal contracting law Sightseeing in the region near the Starship Mars landing zone March 3, 2023 Quick space links Eartha Kitt – Think I’m Being Had March 3, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ISRO attempting controlled reentry of old satellite originally lacking in such plans Juno captures close-up images of Jupiter’s moon Io A confused spiral galaxy An inactive volcanic vent on Mars IBEX leaves safe mode and returns to full science operations A blacklist victory? Professor wins million dollar settlement for being blacklisted March 6, 2023 Quick space links Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou Japan’s new H3 rocket’s second stage fails during first launch Newly discovered comet could be brightest object in sky in October ’24 Curiosity’s most recent cloud campaign South Korea commits $38 million to support space startups UK awards $1.9 million in development grants to universities and private companies Fuel spill cleanup begins at Space Force telescope facility in Maui, Hawaii America’s blacklist culture: Republican in Florida proposes bill to regulate speech Flat-topped mesas in the icy northern lowland plains of Mars March 7, 2023 Quick space links Forgotten Weapons – Winchester Thumb Trigger Rifle Watching the first launch attempt of Relativity’s Terran-1 rocket Post-Artemis-1 report: heat shield ablated more than expected; power system issued unexpected commands; damage to launchpad ISRO successfully de-orbits defunct satellite Webb finds another galaxy in early universe that should not exist Cracks in Martian lava America’s blacklist culture: Survey finds almost half of America’s major corporations are eagerly willing to blacklist others Relativity scrubs launch attempt today March 8, 2023 Quick space links Donna Summer – I feel love March 8, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ISS maneuvers to avoid satellite Space Force assigns launchpads to four smallsat rocket startups Another orbital tug & servicing company raises investment capital Pushback: Texas A&M to stop favoring minorities in hiring & admission policies Ice volcano in the Martian high northern latitudes? SpaceX successfully launches 40 OneWeb satellites March 9, 2023 Quick space links Weird Al Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana China’s Long March 4C rocket launches two Earth observation satellites Russia considering bringing Soyuz launched on February 23rd home earlier House subcommittee proposes five bills that would change FCC operations Biden administration proposes more budget increases for NASA Ingenuity completes 47th flight, scouting ahead of Perseverance Today’s blacklisted American: Mother sued by teacher’s union for requesting her child’s kindergarten curriculum March 10, 2023 Quick space links The Doors – Love Me Two Times March 10, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Live stream of the first launch attempt of Relativity’s Terran-1 rocket Endurance undocks from ISS with four-person crew Some space startups threatened by Silicon Valley Bank failure Relativity scrubs launch today again Curiosity looks ahead: Which way to go? Russia and China launch satellites Hubble looks at a nearby dwarf galaxy Chinese pseudo-commercial rocket industry gearing up to launch numerous times from interior spaceport The sad state of free speech in America illustrated by three top universities March 13, 2023 Quick space links Splats on Mars! Antonio Breschi & Ronnie Drew – Irlanda Space startups get their SVB assets back when Feds move in LeoLabs to establish radar facility in Argentina Potential Artemis-3 landing site on the Moon Today’s blacklisted American: Eventbrite routinely blacklists conservative events A Martian crater, ice, and dust devil tracks March 14, 2023 Quick space links SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS Sade – No Ordinary Love NASA agrees to Axiom’s third planned commercial passenger mission to ISS Firefly wins its second NASA contract to land payloads on the Moon Perseverance captures a movie of Ingenuity’s 47th flight on Mars Geological evidence of past glacier found in Mars’ dry equatorial regions Pushback: Legal and public pressure forces California college to cancel plans to fire employees for not getting jab March 15, 2023 Quick space links Mary Travers & The Kingston Trio – Where Have All The Flowers Gone March 15, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 11 rocket launches classified Earth observation satellite Virgin Orbit pauses operations; seeks funding Dragon freighter docks with ISS Reassessed fuel measurements give Mars Odyssey until 2025 before it runs out Another study finds evidence of active volcanism on Venus Student cubesat demonstrates how to use a solar sail for satellite deorbit Today’s blacklisted American: Rhode Island school district blacklists Christian afterschool club because it is Christian Endless ripple dunes in Mars’ third largest impact basin Ashley McBryde – Four songs Rocket Lab and China launch satellites successfully Astra asks for more time from Nasdaq before its stock is delisted Both India’s Chandrayaan-3 and Intuitive Machine’s Nova-C lunar landers pass vibration tests The ubiquitous presence of ice in the Martian mid-latitudes SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink satellites Pushback: Smithsonian ordered to no longer violate the First Amendment Starship launch still stalled by FAA SpaceX launches two SES communication satellites Phil Cunningham – Overture/The Farther Shore March 17, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blobs and jellyfish in space Pushback? University of North Carolina pretends to ban ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ requirements in hiring A verde valley on Mars Weaponizer – Kunai knife out of old leaf spring steel South Korean private rocket startup completes first suborbital rocket test A half-mile high Martian cliff on the verge of collapse Today’s blacklisted American: Vermont’s organization of principals bans Christian school for being Christian On the radio Betsy Palmer, Robert Goulet, & Bess Myerson – “I’ve got a secret” Hakuto-R1 enters lunar orbit Virgin Orbit resumes limited operations Russia’s Luna-25 unmanned lunar lander to be delivered to Vostochny in early June Webb detects “hot sand clouds” in atmosphere of exoplanet Dimorphus is dry, based on data obtained before and after DART hit it Samples from Ryugu found to contain uracil, one of the four nucleobases in RNA No ice inside permanently shadowed crater near Moon’s south pole? Pushback: Doctors blacklisted by government for disagreeing on its COVID mandate policies now fighting back Confused glaciers in a Martian crater Nena – 99 Luftballons March 22, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Second stage on Relativity’s first launch fails to fire Russia launches military satellite First set of SpaceX’s second generation Starlink satellites experiencing issues Italy funds development by Avio of smallsat rocket and methane engine SpaceX might get investment capital from Saudi and UAE investors NASA engineers continue to struggle to save the Flashlight lunar probe Ingenuity completes 48th flight on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Black DEI administrator fired by college for demanding accuracy and color-blind policies Where the flood lava of two gigantic Martian volcanoes meet Rush – The Trees March 21, 2023 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Rocket Lab and SpaceX successfully launch Starliner’s first manned mission to ISS delayed again Sierra Space pops another inflatable test space station module Musk denies SpaceX is seeking investment funds from UAE and Saudi Arabia Hubble spots long term seasonal changes on Uranus Blue Origin releases results of investigation into New Shepard flight failure The invulnerability of today’s academic blacklist culture Ancient Martian landslides Spike Jones – Tchaikovsky Medley March 24, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India launches 36 OneWeb satellites NASDAQ gives two more space companies delisting warning Momentus reports successful use of its new water-based thrusters on its orbiting Vigoride-5 tug Are launch prices up, or is the demand continuing to be high? Curiosity heads to the west of the Hill of Pillows A multitude of strange galaxies Pushback: One doctor’s experience gives us all a ray of hope A Martian crater with a surface pattern that resembles hanging draperies Rick Wakeman – Summertime Scientists detect water inside lunar samples returned to Earth by Chang’e-5 German rocket startup raises $168 million in private investment capital Leaking Soyuz capsule returns unmanned to Earth Virgin Orbit extends pause in operations, having failed to get new financing Webb finds Earth-sized exoplanet likely too hot to have atmosphere NASA goes woke! Mars’ largest mountain region Zladko “Zlad” Vladcik – Elektronik Supersonik Midnight repost: Genocide is coming to America Israel launches spy satellite Hakuto-R1 snaps first picture of Moon from lunar orbit Looking back from the foothills of Mount Sharp New map of the volcanoes of Venus Zhurong: Small polygons on light curved dunes indicate regular atmospheric water interaction SpaceX launches another 56 Starlink satellites The chaos between galaxies following their head-on collision Boeing & NASA; 1st Starliner manned mission to now launch on July 21 Psyche asteroid mission now scheduled for October 2023 launch In U.S. sales of dumb phones are up Joan Blondell & Etta Moten – Remember My Forgotten Man March 29, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches classified military satellite H3 failure delays Japan’s entire space program New startup unveils 3D printer for making rocket tanks and fairings Frank Rubio’s flight to ISS will exceed a year, setting a new American record A bubbly cauldron on the surface of Mars Virgin Orbit shuts down Procol Harum – Something Magic Two launches by China Spain’s government officially establishes a Spanish space agency Sponge terrain on Mars March 31, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Hoof GP – Instant relief Midnight repost: The Democratic Party of thugs and goons Update on MOXIE’s two years on Mars, producing oxygen Lunar rover startup signs deal to send rover to the Moon using Starship Stratolaunch’s Roc airplane completes another test flight SpaceX and Chinese pseudo-company complete launches India successfully lands its own version of the X-37B on a runway Japan officially delays next H2A rocket launch because of H3 launch failure Starship and Superheavy readied for orbital flight NASA names four astronauts to fly on first manned Artemis mission around Moon NASA policy for naming missions now discourages honoring individuals Pushback: University will hire no one who supports “critical race theory” Sunspot update: Activity remained high in March Ingenuity completes 49th flight on Mars A journey into Martian chaos April 3, 2023 Quick space links Raquel Welch – Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy Lockheed Martin picked by Australia to build two military communications satellites English company buys land in Ohio for astronaut training facility FAA issues travel advisory for Boca Chica for April 10, 2023 Starship launch The outermost edge of Mars’ north polar icecap Judges expand hiring boycott of elite law colleges that allow violent protests and censorship Gamazda – Pink Floyd’s Time on the piano Scientists try to model what would happen if Ryugu hit Earth Shetland Spaceport now faces same regulatory hurdles that destroyed Virgin Orbit First binary quasar found Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 1 Pushback: Republicans move to expel Democrats who gave aid to rioters in Tennessee statehouse April 5, 2023 Quick space links Robert Tiso – Toccata and Fugue in D on Glass Harp April 5, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Spaceplane startup flies small-scale prototype for the 1st time using new rocket engine China tests vertical landing of small rocket from barge at sea Webb snaps infrared picture of Uranus Global warming scientists whine about India defunding climate research center University of Arizona opens major facility for building and launching satellites Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 2 Pushback: Missouri school libraries sue to keep porno on their shelves; Missouri lawmakers zero out library budget April 6, 2023 Quick space links Tennessee House expels two of three representatives who aided rioters Butch Miles – Drum Solo SpaceX successfully launches Intelsat communications satellite Chinese pseudo-company succeeds in reaching orbit again after three straight failures Axiom sets date for next commercial manned flight to ISS Venezuela agrees to join China’s lunar base project Starship now stacked on launchpad Japanese businesses face major losses due to Virgin Orbit bankruptcy Pushback: University president forced out because she fired professor for including Muhammad images in classwork Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 3 Bond – Victory April 7, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Earth hangs above the Moon Report recommends Congress allow full regulation of commercial human spaceflight Pushback: Catholic college moves to end its need for any federal funding Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 4 April 10, 2023 Quick space links Glenn Miller Band – I’ve got a Gal in Kalamazoo Starship orbital test flight delayed one more week due to FAA delays Startup proposes capturing space junk with a satellite operating like a whale Startup aims to provide Space Force a satellite that can study the satellites of other countries Weird surface cracking in the Martian northern lowland plains What will the Republicans controlling Tennessee’s statehouse do now that Nashville’s City Council has reinstated their expelled representative? April 11, 2023 Quick space links Natalie Merchant – Carnival SpaceX announces it will be providing a webcast for Starship’s first orbital flight Relativity ends Terran-1, will move to developing more powerful Terran-R Does India’s new space policy shift operations from the government to the private sector? FCC makes official its regulatory power grab beyond its statutory authority Tennessee’s Republicans move to represent the left, not their constituents Triple crater on Mars April 12, 2023 Quick space links April 12, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Band Maid – Thrill Hakuto-R1 now scheduled to land on Moon on April 25th Museum offers $25k for recovery of meteorite that landed in Maine April 8th German students about to attempt launch of suborbital hybrid rocket Blacklist followup: Rhode Island school district fails to respond to lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against Christians A pyramid on Mars Sterling Cottam, Mike Massé, Jeff Hall – Can’t Help Falling in Love April 13, 2023 Quick space links Arianespace launches JUICE mission to Jupiter Curiosity gets a software update that will speed its travels and better protect its wheels Lucy snaps its first pictures of four of the Trojan asteroids it will visit Ingenuity completes its 50th flight on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Licensing authorities use power to deny doctors freedom of speech The very icy high northern latitudes of Mars April 14, 2023 Quick space links FAA issues Starship launch license; SpaceX schedules launch for April 17th SANS ICS HyperEncabulator April 14, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX successfully launches 51 payloads using Falcon 9 Watching the launch of Starship/Superheavy Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed Perseverance catches up with Ingenuity A classic spiral galaxy China launches weather satellite, dumps debris near Taiwan April 17, 2023 Quick space links The developing trench war in Ukraine Watching the second attempt to launch Starship/Superheavy to orbit The Chantay’s – Pipeline Orbit Fab raises $28.5 million in private investment capital Lockheed Martin tests in-orbit cubesat rendezvous Rocket Lab introduces a suborbital version of its Electron rocket for hypersonic flight testing Ingenuity in close-up after two years on Mars The peeling floor of a crater in the southern cratered highlands Modern bigotry in Canada: Simon Fraser University declares math “racist” April 18, 2023 Quick space links Bastille – Pompeii SpaceX launches 21 second generation Starlink satellites Axiom offers package space program deals for other countries ILC Dover to provide spacesuits and “softgoods” for Sierra Space’s LIFE space station NASA’s Mars Sample Return project now overbudget Jumbled floor of ancient Martian channel Today’s blacklisted Americans: NY bans whites from honoring American Indians in school nicknames April 19, 2023 Quick space links An ordinary person’s view of the Starship/Superheavy countdown Amazing Saxophone Solo April 19, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Superheavy/Starship clears tower but fails at stage separation Ohio local authorities approves land sale for future private astronaut training facility North Korea claims it is about to launch a spy satellite Rocket Lab to reuse previously flown engine on upcoming launch ULA delays first launch of Vulcan to June at the earliest Aerojet Rocketdyne wins contract from Lockheed Martin to build more Orion engines New research expands lethal zone around supernovae A spray of small impacts melting Martian ice? April 20, 2023 Quick space links Massive Attack – Teardrop Scientists predict solar maximum to arrive one year early India’s Modi government releases its new space policy The strange terrain in the basement of Mars Starship/Superheavy did not explode! April 21, 2023 Quick space links The view from the racecar of the Le Mans race course, as seen in 1968 April 21, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India’s PSLV rocket successfully launches two Singapore satellites Update on lunar orbiter CAPSTONE Al-Amal snaps first close-up images of Martian moon Deimos The climb into Gediz Vallis Ingenuity snaps picture of Perseverance during its 51st flight on Mars Pro-life students attacked with eggs at the University of Arizona Rick Wakeman – Journey To The Center Of The Earth April 24, 2023 Quick space links Watching live the landing of Hakuto-R1 on the Moon China once again outlines its lunar base plans; Russia out? Project delayed? Astra confirms it is buying Ursa Major rocket engines for its Rocket-4 upper stage Review of InSight data allows scientists to further refine their model of Mars’ interior Hakuto-R1 lands on Moon but ceases communications at touchdown The breakup of a Martian glacier Today’s blacklisted American: Student destroyed because mob accepted false slanders against her April 26, 2023 Quick space links Samba – Bamboleo One instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ends its mission Rocket engine company Ursa Major raises $100 million in private investment capital SpaceX leases second launchpad at Vandenberg NASA awards 12 companies small development contracts with total value $14.5 million The inexplicable tail of the asteroid Phaethon is from sodium, not dust NASA announces winners in its annual school manned rover design competition Experimental NASA high altitude balloon circles Antarctica in ten days Frozen waves of lava on Mars Pushback: Student’s lawsuit against college officials for suppressing her First Amendment rights moves forward April 26, 2023 Quick space links Fiona Apple & Elvis Costello – I Want You SpaceX successfully launched 46 upgraded Starlink satellites Czech Republic to sign Artemis Accords Engineers extend Voyager-2’s life by tapping into reserve power supply SpaceX and Canadian phone company Rogers sign deal Astronomers discover 25 more repeating fast radio bursts, doubling the number known If global warming doesn’t kill us the fog will! With the federal bureaucracy gleefully sharpening its knives to shut down Boca Chica, SpaceX should quickly shift Starship/Superheavy operations to Florida April 26, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast April 27, 2023 Quick space links Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny Big space Raytheon shifts gears to compete in the new space market Maxar’s Worldview-3 satellite snaps in-orbit pictures of Landsat-8 satellite Glacier layers on the border of Hellas Basin Pushback: FIRE sues school for banning students from wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” shirts April 28, 2023 Quick space links SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral The Thornton Quarry in Illinois April 28, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Radar antenna on Europe’s JUICE probe to Jupiter stuck Musk press conference on Starship/Superheavy launch SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy completes second launch in 2023 Viasat drops launch contract with Ariane-6 Galaxies without end Environmentalists sue FAA, demanding it shut down Boca Chica and Starship Exploring just one small corner of Valles Marineris, Mars’ Grand Canyon May 1, 2023 Quick space links AC/DC – Thunderstruck Suborbital rocket explodes four seconds after launch in New Mexico Irish startup lobbies for Irish spaceport A nearby aging galaxy with an active supermassive black hole at its center Private college allows its students to blacklist refugee from Communist China Sunspot update: April activity drops steeply The cliff wall of ancient Martian lava channel May 2, 2023 Quick space links Exploring Arizona’s Abandoned Highway 60 and the Claypool Tunnel Astronomers record moment star eats planet SuperBIT balloon circling Antarctica snaps more high resolution astronomical pictures May 2, 2023 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Pushback: Court rules that PA school district denied parent public documents in “bad faith” In a Martian cold cauldron, boil and bake May 3, 2023 Quick space links Rollerman – Downhill extreme May 10, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 56 Starlink satellites into orbit Maxar sale closes and company goes private Two Russian astronauts shift airlock on ISS during 7-hour spacewalk Two interacting galaxies, both with active supermassive black holes at their center Today’s blacklisted American: Biden administration threatens to shut down Catholic hospital system because of a candle Weird dome near Starship candidate landing zone on Mars May 4, 2023 Quick space links Hozier & Annie Lennox – Take Me to Church / I Put a Spell on You ESA finally admits — sort of — that private enterprise can do it better Lockheed Martin reorganizes its space divisions to better compete in the new commercial market Celestis recovers astronaut’s remains from suborbital rocket explosion Hubble captures shadows on star’s outer accretion disk cast by inner accretion disk Brain terrain on top of Martian mountains The modern corrupt legislative way of doing business: Know nothing, fund everything! May 5, 2023 Quick space links May 5, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Brick Experiment – 20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless Lego Machine Rocket Lab successfully launches two NASA hurricane monitoring cubesats China’s X-37B copy lands successfully after 276 days in orbit Sinuous ridge inside Martian canyon May 8, 2023 Quick space links Webb takes infrared image of the disk of dust and debris surrounding Fomalhaut Chris Isaak – Wicked Game Momentus test orbital tug successfully raises orbit using water-ionized thrusters NASA now demolishing the obsolete mobile launch platform used during Apollo Space junk removal company ClearSpace signs deal to launch on Vega-C Paperwork on Mars Momentus and Astroscale team up to propose Hubble servicing mission Jupiter’s clouds in 3D Pushback: School board forced to restore contract it tried to cancel because it hates Christians May 9, 2023 Quick space links Redd Volkaert – Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line China launches cargo freighter to its Tiangong-3 space station UK regulators give okay on Viasat’s purchase of Inmarsat Meteorite crashes through roof of NJ home UAE asteroid mission will rendezvous with seven asteroids and will include lander Scientists: Real women are better to send to Mars than real men SpaceX to launch Vast’s first space station module as well as two manned missions to it SpaceX successfully launches another 51 Starlink satellites Hiking in a most unusual way, for others A rash on Mars May 10, 2023 Quick space links Zorro – One In a Million Moments From Nature May 10, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Scientists: Stars orbiting close to Milky Way’s supermassive black hole do it alone Is this ice or lava in the death valley of Mars? China’s X-37B copy appears to have tested docking and rendezvous while in orbit Court victory in PA requiring a clean-up in voter rolls will do nothing to fix that state’s voter tampering May 11, 2023 Quick space links Ana Popovic – Some blues improv Astronomers find largest explosion yet discovered Space Perspective buys ship to use for launching and recovering its passenger balloons Ariane-6’s first launch now likely delayed again, until 2024 Perseverance data suggests a strong river rushed down the delta in Jezero Crater Scientists rediscover the advantages of nuclear power for moving probes through the solar system Pushback: Three teachers blacklisted by Rhode Island for refusing the jab score total victory in court Endless dunes amidst Mars’ giant volcanoes Saturn now has 145 known moons May 12, 2023 Quick space links Engineers free stuck radar antenna on Juice probe to Jupiter’s big moons Etta James, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody’s Business May 12, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast May 13, 2023 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Intuitive Machines’ first mission to land on Moon delayed Another study suggests Saturn’s rings are young, much younger than the planet SpaceX launches another 56 Starlink satellites into orbit Stratolaunch’s giant airplane Roc successfully completes first drop test of payload NASA’s second super pressure balloon develops leak, forcing termination of mission Today’s blacklisted American: Father gets fired immediately after speaking at school board against queer agenda Glacial sinkhole in the Martian southern cratered highlands? May 15, 2023 Quick space links Julie Andrews segment during of Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special Italy awards $256 million contract for testing in-orbit robotic satellite servicing Private company developing concept for resurrecting Spitzer Space Telescope Rocket Lab completes Photon transport spacecraft for Varda’s private returnable space capsule Surprise! The mainstream press still refuses to admit there was never any evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians Brain terrain in and around pedestal crater on Mars May 16, 2023 Quick space links Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald China’s Long March 3B puts another GPS-type satellite into orbit ULA’s first Vulcan rocket returns to assembly building after fueling tests Italy delays restart of its gravitational wave detector Virgo What kind of barred spiral galaxy is the Milky Way? Astronomers make first radio observations of key type of supernova Today’s blacklisted American: 12-year-old sent home from school twice for understanding the 1st amendment better than his teachers May 17, 2023 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Alien textured Martian lava May 17, 2023 Quick space links Liza Minnelli – New York, New York May 17, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Student model rocket doubles altitude record Final assembly of Chandrayaan-3 begins for launch still targeting mid-July Astronomers discover Earth-sized planet 90 light years away Chaos in the southern cratered highlands of Mars May 18, 2023 Quick space links The old blacklisting against Jews has now been enthusiastically renewed on American campuses Zbigniew Rybczyński – The Orchestra (final scene) SpaceX launches another 22 upgraded Starlink satellites into orbit NASA picks Blue Origin’s partnership for building second manned lunar lander Lucy makes course correction in preparation for 1st asteroid fly-by Capstone does lunar fly-by, takes first lunar pictures, completes main mission Starship prototype #25 is rolled to launchpad for static fire engine tests Pushback: Arizona drops trespassing charges against student for handing out the Constitution at Arizona State U Buried dying glacier in the Martian dry equatorial regions? May 19, 2023 Quick space links Don McMillan – Comedy for scientists May 19, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 5 Iridium and 16 OneWeb satellites SpaceX launches Axiom’s second commercial manned mission to ISS China launches two satellites yesterday, one for Macau Indian company joins the high altitude balloon tourist race Three government agencies now investigating the safety of methane-fueled rockets Jellyfish galaxy plowing its way through the intercluster medium Ancient volcano vent in the Martian southern cratered highlands? Pushback: California loses big for trying to force churches to violate their religious beliefs May 22, 2023 Quick space links Dido – White Flag SpaceX files to join FAA as defendant in lawsuit trying to shut down Boca Chica Air Force awards Ursa Major rocket engine development contact Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots Hakuto-R1 impact debris on Moon “The deaths that we saw, I’m afraid, were medical malpractice at best and murder at worst.” Frozen waves of Martian lava? May 23, 2023 Quick space links Webb and Chandra take composite X-ray/infrared images of four famous objects Ekaterina Yukhnova – Sarabanda Russia launches Progress with cargo to ISS Bankrupt Virgin Orbit is dead, its assets purchased by a variety of different companies Launch of Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser now scheduled for six month window opening in August Spaceport startup launches small amateur rockets from ship Knobs on the floor of a Martian caldera May 24, 2023 Quick space links Naomi Priest & Saskia van Gerven – The Boxer May 24, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SuperBIT high altitude astronomical balloon completes mission Relativity and Impulse are now targeting ’26 launch window for 1st private mission to Mars Nova Scotia spaceport gets another launch contract Watch a still brightening new supernova only 20 million light years away As parents and students continue to flee public education the consequences are both good and dire South Korea successfully launches its Nuri rocket for the second time The eroding north wall of glacial-filled Harmakhis Valles Blue Man Group – Drumbone Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifts two more NASA hurricane monitoring satellites into orbit Virgin Galactic completes first manned suborbital flight in two years Ispace publishes results of its investigation into Hakuto-R1 lunar landing failure Vulcan launchpad static fire engine test aborted NASA’s corrupt safety panel doubts Starliner is ready for its first manned flight in July Betelgeuse continues to fluctuate in unexpected ways Satellite fuel company Orbit Fab signs Impulse to build part of its fuel depot Northrop Grumman wins $45.6 million contract to launch Space Force weather smallsat NASA inspector general finds more cost overruns in the agency’s SLS rocket program A fractured spot in Mars’ northern lowland plains May 26, 2023 Quick space links Russia launches radar imaging satellite How 500 horses get to Mackinac Island each spring May 26, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches Arabsat communications satellite India’s space agency ISRO launches GPS-type satellite North Korea notifies Japan of orbital rocket launch; Japan and South Korea protest China unveils next Shenzhou launch date and crew to its space station How real is the Texas legislature’s proposed ban on the racist “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs at colleges? Cracking pedestal crater near Mars’ north pole Sinking the Bismarck China sends a new crew to its Tiangong-3 space station Chinese launch yesterday set record for number of humans in space Webb detects large water plume released from Saturn’s moon Enceladus SpaceX confirms Starship prototype to fly on next Superheavy test flight The grooved surface of Ganymede A typical glacier, on Mars New data gives the same result as old data: Like the flu, COVID hurt NO ONE who was young and healthy May 30, 2023 Quick space links Ray Bolger & Judy Garland – If I Only Had a Brain AX-2 commercial passenger flight to ISS splashes down safely SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink satellites Spain becomes 25th nation to sign Artemis Accords Russia delays launch of its Luna-25 mission one month to August North Korean rocket fails in attempt to put spy satellite into orbit Curiosity looks back again as it climbs higher onto Mount Sharp Pushback: If the young are beginning to resist the leftist queer agenda, then there is real hope May 31, 2023 Quick space links Bob Lind – Elusive Butterfly Sierra Space powers up its Dream Chaser mini-shuttle for the first time Viasat completes merger with Inmarsat ESA to live-stream image downloads from Mars Express Pushback: Christian adoption agency wins against NY’s attempt to force it to send kids to queer families Martian rootless cones June 1, 2023 Quick space links Sunspot update: May activity once again far above prediction Clara Cernat & Thierry Huillet – Porumbescu Balada May 31, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Newly discovered Starliner issues delay launch again Shadowcam on South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter sees no obvious ice in the permanently shadowed interior of Spudis crater Avalanche to the east of Gale Crater on Mars America’s Iron Giants – The World’s Most Powerful Metalworkers June 2, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast On the radio SpaceX launches 22 2nd generation Starlink satellites SpaceX successfully launches cargo Dragon to ISS Russian communications satellite in trouble Three astronauts return to Earth safely from China’s Tiangong-3 space station German rocket startup successfully completes full duration engine test of upper stage Astronomers think they have completed the census of Near Earth asteroids Researchers successfully transmit electricity from space Barren land on Mars Pushback: Court victory for volleyball student and coach father who were blacklisted for disagreeing with queer agenda Dean Martin – That’s Amore Russia to launch Luna-25 on August 11, 2023 Tianzhou unmanned freighter completes month-long free flight, re-docks with Tiangong-3 NASA: Psyche asteroid mission now targeting October ’23 launch Hubble snaps picture of another jellyfish galaxy Martian dust devil where none had been before The explanation as to why Democrats today are fearless in proposing insane policies On the radio-CANCELLED Heart – Crazy on You Space Show appearance rescheduled for June 8, 2023 NASA names winners in annual student rocket competition OneWeb offers its satellite constellation broadband service to the maritime industry Firefly delays NASA launch to August Gemini telescope in Hawaii fixed, captures nearby supernova Astronomers downsize their proposal for rebuilding Arecibo Who blew up the dam in the Ukraine? Distorted floor of a Martian crater Morgan James – Dream On June 7, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese pseudo-company launches its rocket for 2nd time ULA completes dress rehearsal launch countdown and static fire test of Vulcan Boeing sued for stealing specialized tooling to assembly SLS Webb’s first deep field infrared image reveals hundreds of very early galaxies Scientists claim to identify cause of Sun’s fast solar wind Ice-filled fissure on Mars? Pushback: Racial quotas on corporate boards, imposed by California Democrats, struck down by court Abbott & Costello – Modern Math China’s Kuaizhou-1A solid-fueled rocket launches satellite Study: Long periods of weightlessness caused changes in the brain X-ray telescope on ISS develops light leak Space Force awards SpaceX and ULA contracts for six launches each Firefly buys orbital tug company Spaceflight NASA worried FAA launch permit delays to Starship/Superheavy will delay first lunar landing Eroding glacier on Martian slope? June 8, 2023 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Zac Brown Band – Knee Deep June 9, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China tests parachutes on recent Long March 3B launch Astronomers admit new satellite constellations “are not a threat” to Hubble SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink satellites A faint irregular cloud of stars The evidence shows clearly that Biden has worked to squelch Elon Musk and SpaceX SpaceX launches 72 smallsats; lands a Falcon 9 1st stage for the 200th time June 12, 2023 Quick space links Forgotten Weapons – Girardoni Air Gun Japanese government adopts revised space policy emphasizing defense New House bill proposes giving FAA responsibility for monitoring space junk Boeing gets NASA contract to develop new airplane wing design Rimstone dams in Mars’ youngest lava deposit Today’s blacklisted American was arrested for quoting the Bible June 13, 2023 Quick space links Arianespace signs deal to study the possibility of using Orbex’s commercial rocket for launches Celine Dion & Josh Groban – The Prayer BepiColumbo about to do third Mercury flyby World Economic Forum decides its business is running space too! Astronomers detect vaporized elements in atmosphere of hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet Drainage channel between two Martian hollows Hank Williams – Cold Cold Heart June 14, 2023 Quick space links June 14, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches 41 satellites on single launch, a record for that country Arianespace signs deal with Spanish rocket startup PLD Scientists detect evidence of phosphorus coming from the interior of Enceladus Taiwan company issues letter of intent to build cubesat facility in California city House proposed cuts pose no threat to NASA, despite the screams of agony Cape Canaveral, version 2.0 Some real pushback: Former Starbucks employee, fired to give Starbucks a white scapegoat, wins $25 million in lawsuit Tomorrow’s final launch of Europe’s Ariane-5 rocket delayed indefinitely June 15, 2023 Quick space links Ally Venable – One Side Understanding A private Russian rocket? Axiom delays launch of first space station module to ’26 ESA transfers its Artemis-2 Orion service module to NASA Rocket Lab about to launch a secret mission Lightning on Jupiter The icy mesas of Mars’ glacier country June 16, 2023 Quick space links Kevin Stone – Life Size Steel Dragon June 16, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast PLD’s first suborbital test launch aborted just prior to launch Rocket Lab completes first suborbital test launch of its Electron rocket SpaceX successfully launches Indonesian broadband satellite NASA official in charge of its manned program denigrates the idea of fixed-price contracts Pushback: Judge blocks race-based program of Biden administration A Martian crater with a wake of lava John Williams – Imperial March China launches classified experimental satellite Looking down a canyon on Mars Fake pushback: Texas passes law banning DEI at the state universities June 20, 2023 Quick space links Steve Martin – King Tut BepiColumbo completes third Mercury flyby Russia gets a launch contract! Northrop Grumman’s robotic servicing satellites gets third contract, this time from Intelsat FAA finally reduces airspace restrictions for some launches out of Cape Canaveral Rocket Lab’s payload on its first suborbital test launch of its Electron rocket Two new European rocket startups sign deal with France to launch from French Guiana A lava flow on a Martian lava plain Greta Thunberg: All humanity is now extinct on Earth, because we didn’t do anything about global warming June 21, 2023 Quick space links Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence June 21, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 47 Starlink satellites into orbit ULA launches Delta-4 Heavy rocket on next-to-last flight Ecuador becomes 26th nation to sign Artemis Accords Intelsat and SES end negotiations to merge Startup orbital tug company experiences technical issues on demo flight More direct images released of exoplanet 87.5 light years away Update on SpaceX’s work leading to next Starship/Superheavy test launch A spectacular Martian glacier Biden administration announces India will sign Artemis Accords Why is this rare? School board members react in horror when hearing the porn they allow in schools Geoff Castellucci – Sixteen Tons SpaceX launches 56 more Starlink satellites Ariane-6 engineering test rocket at launchpad for engine tests Two ultraviolet images of Mars, taken six months apart House Democrats propose and Republicans approve Space Force increasing spaceport fees Rocket Lab to attempt full recovery of first stage on next launch Will the wreck of the submersible Titan and the death of its five passengers impact space tourism? Determining whether a Martian crater is impact or volcanic Real pushback: Thirteen university-run child mutilation clinics to shut down this year June 23, 2023 Quick space links Tiny Tim’s first appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson June 23, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Webb makes first detection of one particular carbon molecule Japan’s military tests using Starlink for communications A northern lowland ice sheet on Mars? The insidious presence of porn in K-12 public schools Remember Monday – Fat Bottomed Girls Russians launch weather satellite and 42 smallsats South Korea recovers North Korea’s failed spy satellite SpaceX completes six-engine static fire test of Starship prototype #25 China conducts parachute tests for returning asteroid sample to Earth The last Ariane-5 launch scheduled for July 4th Surprise! The cost for the Mars Sample Return mission is ballooning! Zhurong data shows very weak magnetic field at landing site Spring near the Martian north pole Today’s blacklisted American: Anyone who dares to criticize the left at Bakersfield College June 27, 2023 Quick space links Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – Amarisi Europe successfully tests rocket engine to be used in its first reusable rocket Las Vegas developer touts spaceport plan Host galaxies for two quasars in early universe detected for the first time Another tourist site for future Starship passengers on Mars Sierra Space says first Dream Chaser will be ready for launch by December Perseverance spots a doughnut-shaped rock Google employees (!) force the company to drop sponsorship of queer event The Highwaymen – Ghost Riders In the Sky June 28, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Redwire gets new contract to build two more replacement solar panels for ISS MOXIE instrument on Perseverance sets new record for oxygen production Using pulsars scientists detect background signal of the universe’s gravitational waves Blue Origin negotiating with India to use its rockets and capsule for Orbital Reef space station King Charles III proposes his own vision for space, focused not on private enterprise but on achieving a globalist utopia The icy floor of one of Mars’ most ancient craters A new theory for making liquid water once possible on Mars In Pennsylvania Democratic Party politicians just proved their fascist anti-first amendment beliefs June 29, 2023 Quick space links Voices of Music: Andante from Bach’s Flute Sonata in E Minor Webb takes infrared (heat) image of Saturn Dragon cargo freighter safely splashes down in Atlantic Africa’s space agency wants to build an empire Curiosity tops a ridge to see its rough path forward Another layered mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars A blacklisted American wins in court TheDailyWoo -The Day The Music Died June 30, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches Europe’s Euclid space telescope Galaxies at the dawn of time Ingenuity responds after 63 days of silence ISRO aborts first static fire test of prototype of a new upper stage rocket engine Another flying car gets FAA approval for flight testing A spiral galaxy as seen by Hubble A Martian volcanic ash field covering an ancient lava flow Dude Dad – If Toddlers Had Lawyers Sunspot update: June saw the most sunspots in more than two decades Parker completes 16th orbit of the Sun SpaceX and FAA seek dismissal of lawsuit against Starship at Boca Chica More evidence found suggesting supernovae occurred near the solar system during its formation Instrument designed to detect lightning releases first data Why we really celebrate the Fourth of July The Cactus Cuties – The National Anthem South Korea: North Korean spy satellite of “no military utility” Scientists: Quasar data shows time running five times slower in the early universe Curiosity’s most damaged wheel appears to be surviving the rough terrain on Mount Sharp Alien Mars Pushback: Federal judge confirms and shuts down censorship campaign of Biden administration Europe’s Ariane-5 rocket completes its last launch July 5, 2023 Quick space links Duane Eddy – Rebel Rouser July 5, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Scientists claim discovery of most distant supermassive black hole yet Swirls draining into a Martian crater Pushback: Non-profit legal firm warns 200 law schools they will be sued if they defy the Supreme Court’s decision ending all racial quotas July 6, 2023 Quick space links Isabel Martínez – Capricho árabe Update on preparations at Boca Chica for next Starship/Superheavy test launch Large mass of granite unexpectedly detected on Moon Students complete first suborbital launch from new Nova Scotia spaceport Taiwan wants and needs Starlink, but local law is blocking a deal SpaceX launches another 48 Starlink satellites Puzzling crater on alien Mars The coming rise of an American royal class, as incompetent and as privileged as all past royalists July 7, 2023 Quick space links Self Sufficient Me – 10 Reasons Why NOT to Keep Ducks July 7, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches classified technology test satellite SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites using a first stage for 16th time ISRO to transfer ownership of its smallsat SSLV rocket to a private company Orbex to expand facilities in Scotland and Denmark New Australian government cancels $1.2 billion program to launch four government satellites The inconceivable scale of Mars’ canyons July 10, 2023 Quick space links Otta orchestra – Shades of Red NASA awards new spacesuit contracts NASA gives up on finding a new asteroid target for Janus Voyager Space’s space station will use India’s manned capsule as ferry To raise cash Astra will sell off some of its stock ESA to issue contract for new lander for its Franklin Mars rover Zhurong found Mars drier than expected and less eroded than the Moon A Martian crater with a very weird rim Pushback: Parents in droves reject the queer agenda and bad education of the public schools in Iowa All UN climate models vastly over-estimate warming in the U.S. Citizens are fleeing cities run by Democrats in record numbers Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine explodes during test July 11, 2023 Quick space links Top Secret Corp Band vs Royal Marines Corp Band Chinese pseudo-company successfully completes first orbital launch of methane-fueled rocket Black Georgia Democrat switches to Republican Party ISRO completes launch rehearsal for Chandrayaan-3’s launch on July 14th The Earth and Moon, as seen by Mars Express in Mars orbit Amidst the mountains on Mount Sharp on Mars Real pushback: Montana’s library withdraws from ALA because it elected a Marxist/Queer leader More sightseeing in Valles Marineris on Mars July 12, 2023 Quick space links Elaine Paige – Memory July 12, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Viasat geosynchronous communications satellite in trouble Final close-out of all science research at Arecibo Extremely Large Telescope in Chile marks halfway point in construction Australian industrial space park threatened with shut down Senate committee approves Biden’s FCC nominees A Martian gully formed by disappearing glacial ice? Enthusiastic censorship and blacklisting at St. Philip’s College in Texas July 13, 2023 Quick space links Repost: Freedom is under siege, and the besiegers have now told us they have no mercy The Turtles – Happy Together India successfully launches Chandrayaan-3 Solid-fueled second-stage motor for Japan’s new Epsilon-S rocket explodes during static fire test ULA officially admits first Vulcan launch is delayed to end of year Rocket Lab gets two-launch deal with Japanese satellite company UK government reluctantly admits its space regulatory framework is a problem NASA survives first budget review in Congress Another look at the vastness of Valles Marineris on Mars Farewell Skipper Chase Hiller – Skateboarding down a mountain in Columbia July 14, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast House committee imposes major cuts to Justice, FBI, Commerce SpaceX launches using its second Falcon 9 first stage on its sixteenth flight An apparent rocket section washes up on Australian coast Chandrayaan-3 completes second orbital maneuver California Democrats retreat on their effort to defend child slavers Flat-topped Martian mesa July 17, 2023 Quick space links Fatoumata Diawara – Nterini Rocket Lab launches seven satellites; recovers first stage from ocean SpaceX to raise another $750 million in stock sale; earnings rise to $8 billion in ’23 The results of one in four medical clinical trials are probably fraudulent or unreliable Glacial evidence in the dry equatorial regions of Mars? Ohio Attorney General to college administrators: Discriminate and YOU will be personally liable July 18, 2023 Quick space links Graham Mackenzie – Josh’s Jigs Venezuela officially signs onto Chinese lunar base project Astronomers detect white dwarf star with two faces Stanford president resigns due to research fraud allegations Pushback: Arizona State University loses major donor for its anti-first amendment actions Ancient lava vent high on a Martian volcano Priscilla Ahn – The Boobs Song July 19, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 15 more Starlink satellites into orbit Scientists discover in archival data a slowly pulsing object that has been beating since 1988 ISRO successfully tests propulsion system of Gaganyaan’s service module SpaceX gets license to provide Starlink service to Malaysia NOAA pays smallsat company PlanetiQ $60 million for its weather data The possibility of more than one exoplanet sharing the same orbit Hubble image shows several dozen boulders flung from Dimorphos China’s Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches four satellites Unknown Mars Real pushback: Stanford Law forces out administrator who aided and abetted a mob July 20, 2023 Quick space links FanTECHstic – How Reese’s PB Cups Are Made Viking cemetery found at new Saxavord spaceport in Scotland South Korean researchers turn simulated lunar soil into building blocks Chandrayaan-3 completes fourth engine burn in Earth orbit Strings of Martian cones The corporate fad to impose racial quotas appears to be fading fast July 21, 2023 Quick space links Jethro Tull – For Michael Collins Jeffrey and Me July 21, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two smallsats Indian company Skyroot conducts rocket engine test Weekend repost: The Democratic Party of thugs and goons China’s Long March 2D rocket places four satellites into orbit SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites Spirals within spirals No, that is not a sunspot on Mars! The trench war continues in the Ukraine July 24, 2023 Quick space links Tina Turner – Proud Mary Rocket Lab delays its private mission to Venus two years to ’25 NASA awards 11 small development contracts to a variety of companies JPL employee admits he used COVID money fraudulently to grow pot ESA: Ariane-6’s launch systems tests “progressing well” Swirling layers in the basement of Mars The grassroots revolt led by mothers July 25, 2023 Quick space links Dusty Henricksen’s snowboard run in 2020 U.S. Open House rejects FCC bill because the bill approved FCC’s recent power grab Varda blocked from bringing its capsule back to Earth by FAA New Space Force language would give it the power to take over all commercial space assets A third spaceport approved in Scotland Houston mission control loses contact with ISS for about 90 minutes A Dragon cargo capsule had a valve issue at ISS in June Infrared Webb image of a binary baby star system and its surrounding jets and nebula Optical image of accretion disk around baby star, taken by ground-based VLT Giant glaciers in the northern Martian mid-latitudes Democrats now favor oppression and censorship by almost 3 to 1 July 26, 2023 Quick space links Steve Ibsen – The Kitty Cat Dance FAA: No Starship/Superheavy launch until we say so! OSIRIS-REx completes last major mid-course correction before sending its sample capsule back to Earth Boeing’s total losses due to Starliner now equal $1.5 billion Juno’s next fly-by of Io coming on July 30 FTC will not block the purchase of Aerojet Rocketdyne by L3Harris Astronomers chemically map a significant portion of the Milky Way Scientists think they have finally discovered what makes the Sun’s corona so hot Endless dunes in the dry Martian equatorial region Pushback: City in Georgia forced to rescind a law that required permits for any protest July 27, 2023 Quick space links Justin Johnson – Ghost of the Mountain SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches another 22 Starlink satellites Argentina signs Artemis Accords Contact lost with Voyager 2, hopefully temporarily Rocket Lab revises design of its new Neutron rocket NASA changes have cost Northrop Grumman $36 million on its Lunar Gateway module NASA puts off planetary mission competition for budget reasons Trial operations begin for China’s new radio array for observing the Sun Meandering ridge exiting glacier on Mars Black diversity administrator fired for demanding color-blind policies files lawsuit against university China’s Long March 2D rocket launches three satellites July 28, 2023 Quick space links James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti – It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches the heaviest geosynchronous communications satellite ever July 28, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast July 26, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ESA successfully completes controlled re-entry of its Aeolus satellite Momentus completes deployment of all payloads launched on board its Vigoride-6 tug India’s PSLV rocket places seven satellites into orbit India officials confirm Australian beach debris comes from an old PSLV rocket Euclid’s first images look good Scientists increasingly put politics over uncertainty in their research papers Monitoring the gullies on Mars for changes July 31, 2023 Quick space links Busby Berkeley – By a Waterfall Biden reverses late Trump decision to move Space Force headquarters Chandrayaan-3 is now on its way to the Moon Eruption on comet results in its tail splitting as it brightens by 100x Teachers, parents, and even school districts sue PA Ed Dept over Marxist guidelines The wind-scoured dusty and cratered dry tropics of Mars August 1, 2023 Quick space links Sunspot update: In July the Sun continued its high sunspot activity Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket successfully places Cygnus freighter into orbit Phil Collins – Two hearts NASA detects weak signal from Voyager 2 Bones of the biggest ever whale species possibly found? Satellite startup Planet lays off 10% of its workforce, most located in San Francisco Senate committee gives NASA and Commerce responsibility for removing space junk The first glacial evidence found on Mars back in 2007 Voyager Space partners with Airbus to build its Starlab space station Unless Congress acts soon, the unelected administrative state will rule unopposed August 2, 2023 Quick space links Rosie Hodgson & Rowan Piggott – Dancing At Whitsun August 2, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 4C launches weather satellite; SpaceX launches communications satellite New software detects its first potentially dangerous asteroid Perseverance snaps new close-up of Ingenuity A grateful thank you to all who contributed during July’s fund-raising campaign The dry and mountainous terrain west of Jezero Crater Pushback: Student wins against school officials who tried to suppress her first amendment rights August 3, 2023 Quick space links Leanne Morgan – When You Go To Concerts With Old People Update on the technical progress at Boca Chica, preparing for the next Starship/Superheavy orbital test Despite good first images from Euclid, the orbiting telescope has a problem NASA agrees to let Axiom fly a fourth private manned mission to ISS Scientists release infrared image of the Ring nebula, taken by Webb Proposed exclusion zone restrictions revealed for new Sutherland spaceport in Scotland A hiking paradise on Mars! Today’s blacklisted American: Pediatrician fired for raising questions about COVID jab at public meeting August 4, 2023 Quick space links Engineers regain full control over Voyager 2 Inside a Mellotron M400 and how it works August 4, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra lays off 25% of workforce, mostly in its rocket departments Chandrayaan-3 enters lunar orbit SpaceX tonight successfully launches another 22 Starlink satellites ISRO releases first images of the Moon from Chandrayaan-3 SpaceX conducts static fire test of Superheavy and its launchpad systems Lockheed Martin opens factory to build smallsats on an assembly-line basis A ghostly bullseye galaxy Curiosity under the shadow of a Martian mountain Today’s blacklisted American: Chase bank politically cancels the accounts of several doctors, their families, and their employees Russia launches new GPS-type Glonass satellite Boeing delays first manned Starliner flight again, until March of 2024 August 7, 2023 Quick space links REO Speedwagon – Roll With the Changes SpaceX successfully launches another 15 Starlink satellites Rocket Factory Augsburg raises $33 million in private investment capital Momentus is now selling a version of its orbital tug simply as a service module for satellites Dish and Echostar to merge Japanese startup signs deal to provide its smallsat thrusters to South Korean university Startup orbital tug company signs deal from startup solar panel company Ingenuity completes 54th flight, a short hop after previous flight ended prematurely Scientists repeat fusion power experiment that produced more energy than spent Land of Martian springs? Real pushback: Judge slams Southwest Airlines for violating settlement terms of free-speech court case NOAA lifts many restrictions on the release of commercial Earth observation images August 8, 2023 Quick space links Ella Roberts – Wild Mountain Thyme China’s Long March 2C rocket launches “disaster reduction” satellite NASA engineers still struggling to understand why Orion’s heat shield ablated so much First stage of Chinese rocket crashes in Chinese city ESA official confirms first Ariane-6 launch will not occur until 2024 South Korea’s KARI space agency releases new images taken by its Danuri lunar orbiter Ingenuity snaps picture of Perseverance during 54th flight Martian craters or volcanoes? Pushback: Judge rules that libel suit against two black professors for slandering white real estate assessor can proceed August 9, 2023 Quick space links Smothers Brothers – Hippie Chick Clip August 9, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese pseudo-company Galactic Energy launches seven satellites Update on the development of a new first stage for Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket Astronomers: Binary system creates tidal waves on star’s surface 3x larger than our own Sun Juno gets new close-up images of Jupiter’s moon Io The icy mountains close to where SpaceX hopes to land Starship on Mars Today’s blacklisted American was fired for refusing to participate in company’s programs that purposely excluded whites August 10, 2023 Quick space links Russia launches Luna-25 to the Moon Tower of Power – Me & Mrs Jones SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites Retractions of peer-reviewed scientific papers has risen 13,750% in this century India approves new spaceport for private launches of SSLV rocket Perseverance videotapes Ingenuity’s 54th flight, a short hop up and down Scientists: Saturn has rainstorms of ammonia lasting hundreds of years Today’s Blacklisted American: Best Buy joins the bigotry crowd On the radio on Sunday night The flat and mostly featureless flood lava plains of Mars August 11, 2023 Quick space links Real Engineering – The Secret Invention That Changed World War 2 August 11, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 3B launches radar satellite China’s solid-fueled Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches five smallsats Axiom signs deal with Poland and ESA to send Polish astronaut to Axiom’s future space station Chandrayaan-3 completes next-to-last orbital maneuver before releasing Vikram lander Scientist creates longest time-lapse movie of exoplanet circling its star China makes available to the international community Chang’e-5’s lunar samples Residual ice on the shaded north-facing slope of northern Martian crater Today’s blacklisted American: Gestapo police in Kansas raid home of 98-year-old newspaper owner, causing her death August 14, 2023 Quick space links Busby Berkeley – Tap dance sequence from Lullaby of Broadway Intuitive Machines sets mid-November launch date for its Nova-C lunar lander Webb confirms galaxy as one of the earliest known in the universe Ingenuity’s 55th flight completed The impact that almost cracked Mars open We are becoming a nation of barbarians August 15, 2023 Quick space links James Kennerley – John Philip Sousa’s Liberty Bell March Chandrayaan-3 reaches final lunar orbit for landing Russia considering flying Proton rockets after 2025 Astra scrambling to find investors as its cash reserves dwindle SpaceX report on first Starship/Superheavy launch failure submitted to FAA Scientists discover in Alaska the largest dinosaur track site in U.S. An avalanche in the West Virginia of Mars West Virginia University: to save money it eliminates 32 majors instead of its bloated overhead August 16, 2023 Quick space links Two-thirds of all approved cancer drugs do nothing for patients Tim “Randm” Salaz – Modern dance SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral August 16, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander separates from its propulsion module; Luna-25 in lunar orbit Scientists: Neptune’s clouds appear to ebb and grow in conjunction with sunspot cycle The ups and downs of capitalism in space Ball Aerospace purchased by BAE Systems The inexplicable behavior of Martian dust devils Today’s blacklisted American: California city harasses Rabbi for having guests over for dinner August 17, 2023 Quick space links Swingrowers – That’s Right! August 17, 2023 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Luna-25 takes first image of lunar surface Commercial spaceport in Australia signs its first launch contract Regulatory problems for Saxavord spaceport in Shetland? Mars’ endless cycles of glacial activity Movies when our culture was not run by barbarians Hazegrayart – A visual comparison of the space age’s unbuilt rocket concepts August 18, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hacker attack on Gemini North telescope in Hawaii shuts down many U.S.-run telescopes Luna-25 fails to enter orbit for landing on Moon Luna-25 lost after crashing on Moon China’s Long March 4C rocket places Earth observation satellite into orbit Watch the landing attempt of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander on August 23, 2023 A Martian wedding cake surrounded by brain terrain Axiom raises $350 million in private investment capital It is time to devalue the software research of climate models August 21, 2023 Quick space links On the radio tomorrow, twice! Sophie B. Hawkins – Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites using Falcon 9 Russian engineers pinpoint approximate crash site of Luna-25 Space Force awards multi-satellite contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Redwire to build biotech lab in Sierra Space’s LIFE space station Proposed Las Vegas spaceport signs deal with launch startup The very tip of a thousand-mile-long crack on Mars August 22, 2023 Quick space links I will NOT wear a mask, part two VisioRacer – Audi’s Audi’s Supercharged V16 racecars of the 1930s Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS August 22, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India successfully lands Vikram on the Moon Space junk that ESA demo mission intends to de-orbit as been struck by another piece of space junk First mission in Isaacman’s private space program delayed again August 22, 2023 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Where the Martian landscape begins to dry out Blacklisted 12-year-old appeals lower court decision saying he has no free speech rights August 23, 2023 Quick space links Amy Winehouse – Back To Black Rocket Lab launches a satellite reusing one rocket engine from previous flight India’s Pragyan rover has successfully been deployed on the lunar surface North Korea fails again to get a military reconnaissance satellite into orbit Biden’s Justice Department sues SpaceX Big mountains everywhere inside Valles Marineris Today’s blacklisted American: Real estate company fires a mother for expressing her opinions August 24, 2023 Quick space links The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky China launches remote sensing satellite using rocket from pseudo-company Both Vikram and Pragyan functioning as planned on the Moon Flow channels on Mars SpaceX completes successful 6-second static fire test of Superheavy Reality strikes: Democrats in Democratically-controlled cities complain about the consequences of Democratic Party policies August 25, 2023 Quick space links Jim Morrison of The Doors, as described by his father and sister August 25, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites Update on ESA’s much delayed Space Rider X-37B copy JAXA scrubs launch of X-Ray telescope & SLIM lunar lander due to high winds Vikram finds temperatures of lunar soil varies significantly, depending on depth Residue ice in southern mid-latitude Martian crater? Bank of America blacklists Christian nonprofit for what appears to be political reasons August 28, 2023 Quick space links Gerry & The Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone NASA reveals three year delay in its New Frontiers planetary mission program Boom begins taxi tests of a one-third scale prototype of its proposed supersonic passenger plane InSight team releases a global map of Mars’ seismic zones The prevailing winds in Mars’ volcano country Update on the ongoing research of the closest supernovae in a decade Pushback: Court rules against East Lansing’s attempt to blacklist Christian for following his beliefs August 29, 2023 Quick space links Van Morrison – Moondance Pragyan snaps first pictures of Vikram sitting on the Moon Starlink makes deal with Japanese cell phone company Scientists believe they have recovered the first known interstellar meteorite Buried ridges at the bottom of a Martian abyss Reviewing a book blacklisted by Amazon because it dared say things Amazon doesn’t like The utter ignorance of modern educators on proud display the last two days in Colorado August 30, 2023 Quick space links Minh Ngọc Ng – Handel’s Passacaglia August 30, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China’s Long March 2D launches 3 satellites Soviet satellite from 1991 breaks up Vikram takes movie of Pragyan rover as it roves Firefly notifies Space Force that it is ready to launch military payload at a moment’s notice Webb takes infrared image of Supernova SN1987A The splatter surrounding a mid-latitude Martian crater Pushback: Class action discrimination lawsuit filed against Gannett newspaper August 31, 2023 Quick space links The Rat pack – Birth of the Blues SpaceX successfully launches 22 more Starlink satellites Amazon investors sue company for not considering SpaceX as potential launch provider LRO spots Luna-25 crash site on Moon Ingenuity completes 56th flight on Mars Petrified dunes on Mars? Real pushback: School district immediately cancels ban on prayer when threatened with lawsuit September 1, 2023 Quick space links Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah September 1, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast India successfully launches its first solar observation satellite SpaceX launches 13 satellites for the Space Force Pragyan rover moves more than 300 feet away from Vikram ESA successfully test fires upper stage engines of new Ariane-6 rocket The sunspot count in August demonstrates fully the utter uncertainty of science Engineers place Pragyan into sleep mode SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites Engineers had Vikram do short flight hop prior to shutting down Endeavour Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts safely splashes down JAXA schedules last H-2A rocket launch, carrying X-Ray telescope and lunar lander A triangular spiral galaxy Marilyn Lovell, wife of Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell, passes away at 93 Bubbling but frozen terrain on Mars Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi Japan reworking law that limits its space agency from awarding contracts to private companies The New York Times suddenly allows two scientists to admit the Big Bang theory might be wrong Martian mounds surrounded by moats Chinese pseudo-company launches four satellites from offshore launchpad Pushback: Doctor partly reinstated after health officials threaten him for stating obvious facts about COVID September 5, 2023 Quick space links Sarah McLachlan – Blackbird LRO takes image of Vikram on Moon Firefly wins three launch contract from L3Harris Starship and Superheavy: Ready for launch but still blocked by the White House Martian ice islands amidst a Martian ice ocean Why are news organizations still asking advice from the COVID liars of 2020? September 6, 2023 Quick space links Japan successfully launches XRISM X-ray space telescope and SLIM lunar lander China’s Long March 4C rocket launches classified remote sensing satellite September 6, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Johnny Winter – Be Careful With A Fool Targeted layoffs at Blue Origin MOXIE completes its last run on Mars, producing oxygen from the atmosphere Ingenuity flies on, completing its 57th flight Layered glaciers in two small Martian craters Judge to blacklisting Maine governor: The lawsuit against your COVID jab mandate will continue September 7, 2023 Quick space links Dry Bar Comedy – Dumb song lyrics Senate approves Biden’s FCC nominee, giving him a Democrat majority on FCC GAO blasts NASA for purposely failing to control the budget of its SLS rocket Good news? FAA issues own report on April Starship/Superheavy launch Curiosity’s upcoming travels on Mount Sharp Today’s blacklisted American: Law professor fired and escorted by police off campus for being conservative September 8, 2023 Quick space links Mark Felton – The Bombed British City Beneath New York September 8, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites Two launches today, one by ULA and one by China A galactic cloud On the radio today The actual truth behind the so-called “hidden figures” of the early space race Ridge in Martian lowland plains Real pushback: Defiance from all sides to New Mexico’s unlawful suspension of the 2nd amendment September 11, 2023 Quick space links Astrud Gilberto – The girl from Ipanema SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites Frank Rubio on ISS sets new record for an American in space Lucy gets first images of its first target asteroid, Dinkinesh Repeating moonquakes on Moon found to be caused by remaining sections of Apollo 17’s LM Ingenuity completes 58th flight on Mars Weird rocks on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Innocent man sentenced one-year in prison for appearing as George Washington in the Capitol on January 6 September 12, 2023 Quick space links Jools Holland and the Playboys – Highwire The orbits of the nearest stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole are impossible to predict Starlink and SES team up to provide broadband service to cruise lines Astronomers discover two new polar-ring galaxies New Shepard remains grounded, a year after launch failure Update on the status of Vulcan, Ariane-6, and New Glenn Chandra: New X-ray composite images of galaxies and supernovae remnants The drying out of Mars’ tropics Pushback: The momentum builds against the Marxist American Library Association Moon’s south pole permanently shadowed regions are younger than expected September 13, 2023 Quick space links Cyndi Lauper – She Bop September 13, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starship/Superheavy 2nd test launch likely delayed until next year by federal bureaucracy and White House German govenment blocks Chinese takeover of startup satellite company 23 Indian companies bid for ownership of ISRO’s SSLV rocket Webb captures new infrared image of bi-polar jets shooting from baby star Polygons and scallops in the high mid-latitudes of the Martian lowland plains One of two major law firms sued for running segregated training programs backs down September 14, 2023 Quick space links Bonnie Raitt – Runaway Firefly completes second orbital launch Russia launches 3 astronauts to ISS Germany signs Artemis Accords New analysis of Chandrayaan-1’s lunar orbital data might explain its detection of widespread surface hydrogen on the Moon A triangular Martian hill Today’s blacklisted American finally wins his four-decade-long fight against the federal government FAA confirms: No Starship/Superheavy launch license until Interior approves Virgin Galactic sets Oct 5th launch date for its fifth commercial suborbital flight in ’23 September 15, 2023 Quick space links Don Rickles, Ruth Buzzi, and Arte Johnson – bloopers from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In September 15, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites China launches military reconnaissance satellite Russian investigators pin down cause of Luna-25 failure India’s Aditya-L1 solar telescope initiates some science observations Federal government continues to block the return of Varda’s commercial capsule, carrying drugs to treat HIV Two galaxies merging The American Geophysical Union shows off its ignorance of the scientific method September 18, 2023 Quick space links Tchaikovsky – Waltz of the Flowers Electron rocket fails during launch OSIRIS-REx makes last course correction before releasing asteroid sample return capsule SpaceX sues to get Justice’s discrimination suit thrown out on constitutional grounds Update on Curiosity’s journey in Mount Sharp, including its future route Ingenuity completes 59th flight, a hop setting a new altitude record The emerging long term ramifications of the Ukraine War The northern interior rim of the largest volcano in the solar system September 19, 2023 Quick space links Adele – Set Fire To The Rain SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites, flies a first stage for a record 17th time Update on Blue Origin’s New Glenn Environmentalists appeal dismissal of their lawsuit against the FAA and SpaceX High School students discover new orbital changes from asteroid impacted by DART German space plane company completes test program of prototype Image released of permanently shadowed floor of Shackleton Crater Another enthusiastic review of Conscious Choice Visible ice layers in a crater in the lower mid-latitudes of Mars? September 20, 2023 Quick space links Wedding String Quartet – Le Onde by Ludovico Einaudi September 20, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese pseudo-company experiences launch failure NASA requests proposals from private industry for deorbiting ISS FAA and FCC now competing for the honor of regulating commercial space more A close-up of the giant crack that almost splits Mars SpaceX shows off a Raptor-2 engine during local Texas parade Pushback: Professor blacklisted by North Texas U wins in Federal court September 21, 2023 Quick space links The Waifs – Crazy Train Independent review: NASA’s Mars sample return mission is in big trouble Webb infrared data suggests Europa’s C02 comes from within House speaker Kevin McCarthy proposes bill to extend “learning period” for rocketry Pushback: California county sued for using cellphones to track movements of church-goers Strange wormlike tube features on slopes of Martian shield volcano September 22, 2023 Quick space links MetalBallStudios – Lithium resources at scale September 22, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites, flying its second booster for a 17th time OSIRIS-REx Sample from Bennu successfully recovered Almost all of Mars’ geological mysteries in one spot SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Pushback: Pennsylvania HS students stage walk-out protesting rule allowing boys inside girls’ bathrooms September 25, 2023 Quick space links Manon – Act I, ‘Bedroom’ Bob Smith out at Blue Origin SpaceX donates used Merlin engine and Falcon 9 grid fin to Smithsonian A mountain buried by lava on Mars Lacking funds to build its spacecraft, the VERITAS project team goes to Iceland Pushback: Federal court rules against ban of Christian student group by San Jose Unified School District Sierra Space raises another $290 million in private investment capital Gunhill Road – I Got a Line in New York City China launches classified satellite using its Long March 4C rocket Three astronauts return to Earth safely, completing 371 day mission Giant Magellan Telescope begins fabricating its seventh mirror Small group of astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds, accusing Magellan of racism India successfully tests upgraded upper stage engine for manned mission Nearest supernova in a decade confirms such stars lose mass prior to exploding Expect long delays after third Artemis mission Iran launches spy satellite Ingenuity completes 60th flight, sets new speed record The base of the long and deep south rim of Valles Marineris Today’s blacklisted American: Hollywood’s new racist discrimination employment policies which blacklist whites September 27, 2023 Quick space links Real Engineering – The World’s Oldest Construction Project: Sagrada Familia Septemer 27, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Anti-matter falls down, just like matter More than a year after the New Shepard accident, the FAA finally closes its investigation SpaceX’s military version of Starlink wins $70 million Space Force contract Another retraction looms of research claiming the discovery of superconductivity at room temperature Webb takes an infared look at Saturn The global wind patterns on Mars, determined by the orientation of dunes A gully in Mars’ glacier country California school district blacklists Christian club from elementary school Josh Groban – Pure Imagination Ispace wins $55 million NASA contract for lunar landing mission Orbital Reef partnership between Blue Origin and Sierra Space in trouble Parker completes 17th close fly-by of the Sun, setting new records Hubble data shows expansion of supernova remnant Is this the source of the sand for the giant dune sea that surrounds the Martian North Pole? Today’s blacklisted American: Coach fired by Vermont school for simply expressing some facts during a civil conversation Updated map of Yutu-2’s travels on far side of the Moon September 29, 2023 Quick space links Hadar Nehemya – Song of Songs September 29, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX puts another 22 Starlink satellites into orbit Stopgap budget bill includes three-month extension of regulatory “learning-period” Perseverance spots a Martian dust devil Layered ice sheets on Mars? Pushback: Gestapo police chief who raided Kansas newspaper in August suspended October 2, 2023 Quick space links ESA completes investigation of Vega-C rocket failure The Petersens – You’re Still the One SLIM leaves Earth orbit and is on its way to the Moon Psyche engineers discover and fix a major thruster problem only two weeks before launch Northrop Grumman cancelling its NASA space station project? FCC fines Dish for failing to put a geosynchronous satellite in its proper graveyard orbit FAA issues new revised regulations for private commercial manned space Sunspot update: Activity rises in September but not significantly The Netherlands says it will sign Artemis Accords Today’s blacklisted American: Anti-religion group insists college football coaches have no 1st amendment rights October 3, 2023 Quick space links Armstrong and Miller – The Art Historian’s Most Clumsiest Moments Nova-C ready for launch in mid-November NASA awards small study contract to orbital tug company Starfish Space Axiom partners with clothing fashion company Prada on its spacesuit design Japan’s space agency JAXA studying new reusuable rocket concepts Enigmatic terrain amid camera problems on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Today’s blacklisted American: Man’s life ruined because a black man slandered him for profit October 4, 2023 Quick space links On the radio Lonnie Johnson – Another Night to Cry October 4, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches classified remote sensing satellite SpaceX successfully launches 22 Starlink satellites China to expand Tiangong space station Northrop Grumman abandons its own proposed space station; partners with Voyager’s Starlab A nearby active galaxy, viewed head on by Hubble Satellite data shows this year’s ozone hole one of the biggest on record Distorted Martian craters Texas medical college mandates ineffective COVID jab October 5, 2023 Quick space links Nicole Scherzinger & Lang Lang – Reflection Stoke Space raises $100 million in private investment capital Another lawsuit filed against SpaceX India’s government confirms its policy to transition to private enterprise in space Italy’s biggest bank will invest in SpaceX ULA’s Atlas-5 rocket launches first two Kuiper satellites Astronomers detect baffling blue transient far outside any galaxy Gale Crater as seen by Curiosity from the heights of Mount Sharp Real pushback: Student walkout in September forces school board to rescind queer bathroom policy October 6, 2023 Quick space links Tate Naugle – Dad Jokes October 6, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Spanish rocket startup successfully completes first suborbital test launch Software patch saves Europe’s Euclid space telescope Arianespace’s Vega rocket successfully launches 12 satellites SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites Ingenuity completes 61st flight on Mars Pushback: Court rules that schools cannot punish or suspend students who defy queer agenda Azerbaijan signs to cooperate on China’s lunar base project ArianeGroup demands more money from ESA for Ariane-6 Michael Knowles – Celebrating Columbus Another Russian module develops leak on ISS SpaceX blasts FAA for claiming falling satellites could by 2035 kill someone every two years Aerojet Rocketdyne satellite power units are chronically failing October 12 Falcon Heavy launch of Psyche probe faces bad weather Broken Martian ice sheets? October 10, 2023 Quick space links Tanya Tucker & Delbert McClinton – Tell me about it Astrobotic resumes suborbital test flights of assets purchased from Masten bankruptcy South Korea is in final negotiations to cancel two Russian launch contracts Massive landslide in Martian canyon You can’t negotiate with someone who wants to kill you October 11, 2023 Quick space links Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Take A Pebble October 11, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Launch of Psyche asteroid mission delayed by weather India schedules Gaganyaan launch abort test for October 21st Long delayed and overbudget NASA satellite refueling mission expects more delays and further budget overruns Space Force puts a halt to the use of AI because of security issues Martian pseudo-frost terrain Pushback: Naming the names of the leftist haters supporting Hamas in America Alexander Sevastian – Bach’s Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor Falcon Heavy successfully launches Psyche asteroid mission First manned Starliner mission now delayed to April 2024 NASA delays two ISS spacewalks as Russian engineers assess now stopped leak on Nauka module SpaceX to offer Starlink for cell phones Engineers use lasers to create paving material from simulated lunar soil Ancient flood lava on the upper slopes of the solar system’s largest volcano California creates segregated system that favors rescuing black children over whites October 13, 2023 Quick space links Icehouse – Great Southern Land October 13, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes second launch today, placing another 21 Starlink satellite into orbit Telecommunications company sues Commerce and Defense Departments $39 billion for theft China’s Long March 2D rocket launches military satellite Update on Starship/Superheavy: Lots of work, no sign of FAA launch approval Astronomers detect nano-sized quartz crystals in atmosphere of exoplanet The public wakes up, but the window for freedom will remain open for only so long NASA: Budget cuts to Hubble/Chandra under consideration October 16, 2023 Quick space links Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich – Drum Battle ISS Russians to do spacewalk on October 25 to investigate Nauka coolant leak NASA to award small contracts to develop universal payload interfaces China to launch its second lunar relay communications satellite next year Blue Origin announces another big project, with few details New Io images from Juno More Martian inverted rivers? Very bad things are on the verge of happening October 17, 2023 Quick space links Daniele Vitale – Playing the biggest sax in the world SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites, using a first stage flying for the 16th time Ingenuity completes 62nd flight on Mars India rocket startup Agnikul raises $26.7 million in new private investment capital Russian geosynchronous spy satellite making close-up inspections of other commercial satellites Review of orbital images confirms source of largest Mars quake was not an impact Location of mud volcanoes in Martian chaos terrain suggest past existence of mud lake Israel negotiating with SpaceX to use Starlink Erosion revealing ridges on Mars? Our utterly bankrupt “mainstream” press Redbone – Come And Get Your Love October 18, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX to push for more than 140 launches in 2024 At Senate hearings numerous launch companies complain of regulatory bottleneck Posting shall be light today… October 19, 2023 Quick space links Musiquizzers – Guess that song: 60’s Japan awards Ispace $80 million to develop larger lunar lander Russia announces revised schedule for its lunar unmanned projects Blocked by its own American government, Varda now looks to Australia Webb detects high altitude jet stream above Jupiter’s equatorial band Astronomers detect what they think is the most distant known fast radio burst yet The fractured floor of the south Utopia Basin October 20, 2023 Quick space links Metalball Studios- All metric system distance units at scale India’s Gaganyaan launch abort test aborts at T-0 October 20, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Gaganyaan abort test flight flies successfully after short delay The reshuffling of Blue Origin’s management continues First Bennu asteroid samples recovered from OSIRIS-REx return capsule SpaceX successfully completes two Starlink satellite launches today Scientists: The activity at the few known fast radio bursts suggests they resemble earthquakes Space Perspective unveils restroom for its high altitude tourist balloon Near collision of Australian satellite with Chinese military satellite Ingenuity completes 63rd flight on Mars A low mid-latitude crater on Mars apparently filled to overflowing with ice “Formerly clandestine Nazis will continue protesting, sometimes violently” October 23, 2023 Quick space links Cab Calloway – Minnie the Moocher China launches classified satellite NASA issues update on repairs/fixes to Starliner Varda signs deal with Australian private spaceport operator to land its capsules Lucy’s first asteroid fly-by coming on November 1st Belarus joins China’s lunar base project India releases on-board camera views during its Gaganyaan launch abort test Scientists: The solar cycle was only 8 years long during the Maunder Minimum in the 1600s At the moment our modern Nazi movement appears to be winning More Io images by Juno, enhanced by citizen scientists October 24, 2023 Quick space links Mark Knopfler – Going Home ULA sets Christmas Eve as launch date for first Vulcan rocket launch No Starship/Superheavy launch likely until January? Axiom signs deal with the United Kingdom to fly all British mission SpaceX gets ESA contract to launch up to four of its Galileo GPS-type satellites A dance of three galaxies Perseverance looks ahead, beyond Jezero Crater Has the tide actually turned? Boeing losses total almost a billion dollars this quarter Swirling galactic-sized streams surrounding a pair of supermassive black holes The hull of Axiom’s first space station module nears completion October 25, 2023 Quick space links Spicy110 – The Rolleron from an Aim-9 Sidewinder missile China launches new three-man crew to its Tiangong-3 space station Russian astronauts locate coolant leak on spacewalk Further data adds weight to the dust outburst theory for explaining Betelgeuse’s dimming in 2019 ABL preparing for second launch attempt of its RS1 rocket Rocket Lab expects to resume Electron launches before end of year Australia and the U.S. agree to facilitate rocket launches in Australia New data better maps the supernova remnant SN1006 The icy terrain near one of Starship’s prime candidate landing spots on Mars Pushback: Fired director of college’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion department accuses movement of promoting bigotry October 26, 2023 Quick space links October 25, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Belén Bandera & Carla Motis – El Testament d’Amèlia Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches military satellite No launch of Starship/Superheavy until February? UK awards German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg $4.3 million for first launch Is a recently discovered near Earth asteroid a piece from the Moon? Giant airship gets clearance for test flights A new global map of the near-surface ice on Mars The son of one of the co-founders of Hamas tells it like it is October 27, 2023 Quick space links Conversations with a Calvinist – Denominations Order Coffee October 27, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Intuitive Machines delays launch of its Nova-C lunar lander two months SpaceX successfully launches another 22 Starlink satellites An infrared view of the Crab Nebula by Webb Two mouse embryos successfully grown on ISS A spiral galaxy giving birth to a lot of stars Don’t forget: The protesters supporting the Hamas mass murderers are all Democrats Chandra X-rays a giant hand in space October 30, 2023 Quick space links SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio in G minor for violin strings and organ Chinese crew completes five-month mission on Tiangong-3 after return to Earth Scientists detect salts and carbon-based molecules on Ganymede On the Space Show tonight Ingenuity completes 64th flight on Mars Israel’s Pearl Harbor Scour pits of volcanic Martian ash October 31, 2023 Quick space links The Bride of Frankenstein China successfully launches classified satellite A Martian splash crater in the northern lowland plains Gadsden flag kid sues school and its officials for violating his first amendment rights November 1, 2023 Quick space links Lucy completes fly-by of main belt asteroid Dinkinesh October 31, 2023 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Sunspot update: October activity drops almost to predicted levels Kylie Minogue & Ricky Martin – Livin La Vida Loca November 1, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The Netherlands signs Artemis Accords Space Force awards SpaceX and ULA new launch contracts worth $2.5 billion A seasonal map of the cloudy parts of Mars Senate passes bill that gives NASA and Commerce responsibility for removing space junk During landing Shenzhou’s single parachute appeared damaged The goal of Hamas (and its supporters) is to kill all Jews November 2, 2023 Quick space links Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head Lucy discovers second small asteroid orbiting Dinkinesh Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly passes away at 87 Iceland signs Artemis Accords Norway inaugurates its Andoya spaceport Musk: Starlink “has achieved breakeven cash flow” Sierra Space: Tenacity is complete and ready for ground testing Hubble snaps an ultra-violet view of Jupiter China launches military satellite Real pushback: “We won’t hire your bigots!” say 42 law firms to top universities Mars geology that only makes sense by digging deeper Ingenuity completes very short 65th flight November 3, 2023 Quick space links SpaceX launches 23 Starlink with a 1st stage flying for a record-setting 18th time Fran Blanche – A Desperate Light: Moore’s Tubes November 3, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astra defaults on debt agreement Commercial hi-res Earth imaging satellite constellations limiting Gaza imagery to the public Galaxies within galaxies within galaxies Middle East Arabs know Hamas is wrong and Israel is right, even if America’s stupid college students don’t November 6, 2023 Quick space links Martian lava that buried a crater Sing with me! Astra secures temporary investment funding to keep it afloat Two Russian satellites — one thought defunct — have been tracked in rendezvous maneuvers Japan delays asteroid mission due to its rocket problems Three European nations sign deal with Arianegroup for use of Ariane-6 ESA commits to a zero space junk policy The grand Valles Marineris of Mars While 100 universities condemn Hamas, the Ivy League is condemned for looking the other way November 7, 2023 Quick space links Kid Creole & the Coconuts – Stool Pigeon SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites Lucy: Dinkinesh’s moon is actually a contact binary Bulgaria to sign Artemis Accords Virgin Galactic trims staff and spending Kazakhstan introduces Starlink to its schools FCC raises questions about SpaceX’s application to link cell phones to Starlink Strange meandering ridge amidst Martian glaciers The Democratic Party and its voters endorse bigots and murderers November 8, 2023 Quick space links Berlin & Teri Nunn – Take My Breath Away November 8, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab schedules next launch, plans 22 launches in 2024 Japanese billionaire finally concedes his Starship Moon mission won’t happen in 2023 Next X-37B launch now scheduled for early December on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Firefly wins Australian payload for its second Blue Ghost lunar lander mission Federal judge throws out Justice’s discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX NASA awards company contract to develop new advanced solar panels China’s Long March 3B rocket launches communications satellite The strange craters in the high northern latitudes of Mars Intellectual dishonesty caused the experts to misread the Gaza military situation Stephanie Trick & Paolo Alderighi – Home in Pasadena SpaceX successfully launches a cargo Dragon to ISS FCC extends SpaceX’s communications license for Starship/Superheavy launch November 9, 2023 Quick space links Samson’s flying car completes its first test flight Frank Borman, an old-fashioned American of the highest order, passes away at 95 November 10, 2023 Quick space links Irwin Allen – The Time Tunnel November 10, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 90 payloads on its ninth smallsat Transporter mission SpaceX successfully launches two communications satellites Spanish court indicts two high-altitude balloon companies for stealing from third Curiosity looks back at Gale Crater one last time before month-long communications break Real Pushback: Conservative family sues Biden Justice Department for “‘Malicious and Retaliatory Prosecution” November 13, 2023 Quick space links Michael Martin Murphey & the Rio Grande Band – Wildfire Musk: Government approval for 2nd Starship/Superheavy launch expected before Friday NASA “pauses” Mars Sample Return mission Real pushback? 1600 Harvard alumni demand the university take action against campus anti-Semitism The caldera wall of a Martian giant volcano November 14, 2023 Quick space links Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings ESA firms up space station partnership with Voyager Space Intuitive Machines will attempt to launch 3 lunar landing missions in 2024 Rocket Lab wins military hypersonic suborbital launch contract Scientists: More evidence cosmic rays come from nearby supernova remnants Japan to spend $6.6 billion over ten years to develop its space industry Gamma ray burst 1.9 billion light years away was powerful enough to affect Earth’s atmosphere November 14, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lava/ice eruptions on Mars FAA and Fish & Wildlife approve further launches of Starship/Superheav at Boca Chica The right’s general lack of unity and support November 15, 2023 Quick space links Donovan & Crystal Gayle – Catch The Wind On the radio China launches ocean observation satellite Biden White House proposes major expansion of the regulations governing commercial space Saxavord spaceport gets launch deal from German rocket startup Jupiter’s Great Red Spot continues to shrink, possibly to its smallest size ever measured Starship/Superheavy test launch delayed to November 18, 2023 Amazon’s first two Kuiper satellites in orbit worked exactly as planned November 16, 2023 Quick space links Thank you to all who donated during short two-week November fund-raising campaign John Tams – Over the hills and far away Sierra Space shakes up its staffing House committee delays vote on commercial space bill due to new White House proposal German rocket startup signs deal with Norwegian spaceport Researchers confirm it was a Chinese rocket stage that impacted Moon in 2022 Salt glaciers on Mercury? The southernmost extent of Mars’ youngest lava flood event November 17, 2023 Quick space links Not A Pound For Air To Ground – The Slick Chick November 17, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites SpaceX successfully launches Superheavy and Starship SaxaVord spaceport on Shetland Islands experiencing funding/regulatory problems SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites Webb: Needles scattered near the center of the Milky Way Jan 6th tapes prove Biden prosecutors knowingly falsified the charges that caused Matthew Perna to kill himself Musk: Starship/Superheavy launchpad essentially undamaged after launch November 20, 2023 Quick space links Chiara Kilchling – The Rain Song Musk: Next Starship/Superheavy test launch could happen in only 3 to 4 weeks India now plans robotic lunar sample return mission Rocket engine startup Ursa Major enters solid-rocket motor business High altitude balloon company World View will not go public North Korea announces it will attempt orbital launch of spy satellite this week Will libertarian Javier Milei actually be able to institute his revolution in Argentina? Ancient volcanic vent on Mars November 21, 2023 Quick space links Austin Brown – Unchained Melody SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites North Korea launches spy satellite NASA laser communication experiment succeeds in sending data from beyond Moon Eutelsat-OneWeb gets license approval in India Real pushback: Soldiers punished by Biden for refusing jab now sue for billions Martian ice sheets sublimating like peeling paint? November 22, 2023 Quick space links Kaja Mianowana – O zapomnieniu November 22, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Abraham Lincoln proclaims a day of Thanksgiving in the middle of the Civil War China launches classified satellite China delays till ’25 the launch of its Hubble-class optical space telescope Miracle on 34th Street Ariane-6’s core stage completes full 7 minute engine test Striped terrain on Mars Did the Capitol police instigate violence by firing on peaceful January 6th demonstrators? Erik Wernquist – One revolution per minute Russia launches military satellite Blue Origin begins third major expansion of Huntsville facility Mars’ giant sinkholes November 27, 2023 Quick space links Bahar Amrollahi playing Persian Qanun SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites British scientists get their own Bennu sample to study Starlink now operating for Israel in Israel and Gaza Pentagon is now all-in on capitalism in space Postwar in Gaza: some educated guesses Close-up of Helene, one of Saturn’s many many moons November 28, 2023 Quick space links J.S.Bach – Toccata in F major Space industry expresses opposition to White House regulatory proposal Dragonfly mission to Titan delayed by a year because of budget shortfalls SpaceX buys the company that makes its Dragon parachutes NASA to fly Indian astronaut to ISS next year Japan’s space agency JAXA was hacked this summer Thick windblown ash in Mars’ largest mountain region Blacklisting is no longer enough, now the goal is justifying mass murder November 29, 2023 Quick space links Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – A Taste Of Honey November 29, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hubble in safe mode due to gyroscope problem Communications resume with Mars orbiters and rovers House committee passes its new commercial space act on partisan vote Astronomers: A solar system with six Earth-sized planets orbiting in perfect resonance Real pushback: Corporate America eliminating college degree requirements for new hires ESA admits Ariane-6 will not fly until the summer of 2024 Lava-filled Martian crater November 30, 2023 Quick space links Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra – Djelem Djelem Russia launches Progress to ISS Update on Blue Origin activity at Cape Canaveral Ursa Major raises $138 million in private investment capital Intelsat partnering with both Starlink and OneWeb Sutherland spaceport reconfigures design in effort to satisfy environmental concerns GAO: First Artemis manned landing likely delayed to 2027 Former Blue Origin engineer sues the company for wrongful termination SpaceX launches 25 payloads, including South Korea’s first five homebuilt surveillance satellites Angola signs Artemis Accords, becoming the 33rd nation to join the alliance Minnesota school brings sanity back to the classroom by banning smart phones December 1, 2023 Quick space links Sunspot update: The Sun continues to prove that solar scientists understand nothing Keep It Real – Mercedes Benz G 63 AMG 6×6 December 1, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX again launches 23 Starlink satellites Amazon signs launch contract with SpaceX Boeing dropped from competition for Air Force “doomsday” plane China launches Egyptian Earth observation satellite South Korea successfully test launches a new solid-fueled rocket Italian subcontractor for Arianespace misplaces two rocket tanks Cowardice and fear from Western leaders; Courage and determination from Israel and its Arab allies December 4, 2023 Quick space links Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel China launches two satellites Stratolaunch completes first test captive carry flight with powered Talon hypersonic vehicle Ingenuity completes its 67th flight on Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes another look at the non-face on Mars Pushback: Macy’s sued for its illegal discriminatory hiring policies Jerry Granelli Trio – Linus and Lucy December 5, 2023 Quick space links December 5, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor/Livingston podcast about Apollo 8 Iran and China complete orbital launches NASA completes investigation into the failure of the OSIRIS-REx drogue parachute Psyche takes its first pictures Big Martian gullies partly filled with glacial material Another example of the inability of Democrats to condemn bigotry December 6, 2023 Quick space links Pentatonix – Mary, Did You Know? SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites December 6, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX initiates new round to obtain from $500 to $750 million in additional private investment capital The big 25th anniversary of ISS is really still two years away Musk touts SpaceX’s gigantic lead in sending mass to orbit in 2023 Americans might finally be noticing the depravity in academia that has existed for more than two decades The steep mountain slopes inside Valles Marineris December 7, 2023 Quick space links Rachell Ellen Wong & Coleman Itzkoff – Hanukkah Medley SpaceX launches 22 more Starlink satellites Hubble to resume science operations using three gyros Pakistan creating a national space policy NASA to allow bidders on de-orbiting ISS to work under cost-plus contracts GAO wants the FAA to exert more control over future launch mishap investigations NIH workers vote to form union Today’s blacklisted American: The University of Washington proudly says “no whites need apply!” December 8, 2023 Quick space links J.S. Bach – Christmas Oratorio, excerpt December 8, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches three satellites using methane-fueled rocket Momentus fails to deploy three satellites on SpaceX’s multi-smallsat launch China’s Long March 2D rocket launches classified remote sensing satellite ULA likely to delay first Vulcan launch to January launch window Webb takes infrared false-color image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A Galaxies in a row Craters in a row December 11, 2023 Quick space links Mannheim Steamroller – Silent Night Voyager-1 has computer issues The Polaris Dawn private space mission now targeting an April ’24 launch Chinese pseudo-company successfully completes second rocket vertical take-off and landing Martian crater or mud caldera? December 12, 2023 Quick space links Hila Ben David – Avinu Malkeinu A tour of Blue Origin’s Huntsville Machine Shop & Manufacturing Facility NASA updates status of three private space stations Stripped screws preventing access to Bennu samples Russia & China appear to time their secret space operations to American holidays JAXA identifies cause of Epsilon-S solid-fueled engine failure during test In 2023 scientists set a new record for the most papers retracted FCC denies Starlink $886 million grant The rot in academia is very deep-rooted The end of a 400-mile-long Martian escarpment December 13, 2023 Quick space links – All Russia today Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby – Jingle Bells December 13, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight Amazon files to have shareholder lawsuit dismissed The scrub of this week’s Falcon Heavy launch of X-37B Musk fires back at FCC decision to cancel its $886 million Starlink grant award The scientific results from South Korea’s first lunar orbiter Danuri Perseverance looks at Jezero Crater in high resolution The long term deep-rooted bigotry at MIT, sadly typical of modern academia China launches its X-37B copy on its third mission December 14, 2023 Quick space links Ofra Haza – Jerusalem of Gold Rocket Lab returns to flight, successfully launching a Japanese commercial radar satellite China’s Long March 5 launches classified satellite; core stage liable to crash anywhere on Earth Update on Starship/Superheavy work at Boca Chica NASA: The flight plan for Dream Chaser Tenacity’s first demo mission to ISS Another minor canyon on Mars that would be a world wonder on Earth Is the pushback against the bigots in academia finally and actually becoming real? December 15, 2023 Quick space links Chevrolet – A Holiday to Remember December 15, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches weather satellite Environmental groups file another complaint attempting to stop SpaceX launches at Boca Chica Chinese pseudo-company launches satellite UK finally gives Saxavord spaceport a license Webb takes another infrared image of Uranus A galaxy of violence The nearest star-forming region, as seen in infrared by Webb What makes a Nazi? December 18, 2023 Quick space links Margarita Sipatova – All I Want For Christmas Is You SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites China’s X-37B copy deploys six independent satellites Laser communication tests with Psyche have now included a cat video Firefly schedules second launch in 2023 Spain’s new space agency A land of buttes on Mars Pushback? Deal between Republicans and Wisconsin University to shift away from DEI December 19, 2023 Quick space links The Choir of King’s College – Sussex Carol Launch of Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander delayed until February First segments of Extremely Large Telescope have shipped to Chile A bubbly dwarf galaxy Congress passes short term extension of commercial space regulatory “learning period” Ingenuity’s most recent flight, the 68th, a mystery The Biden war against Musk is a war against America Glacial layers in Mars’ glacier country Céline Dion – O Holy Night December 20, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starship prototype #28 completes full duration static fire test Russia launches military satellite A movie of 14 years of gamma ray observations from space White House issues “policy framework” to lobby for its space regulatory proposal ULA’s Vulcan rocket fully stacked for the first time Ingenuity’s engineers explain what they have learned flying the helicopter on Mars New Hubble image of Saturn A glacial lake on Mars? December 21, 2023 Quick space links The Fendertones – Little Saint Nick Spectacular 2,300-year-old wall mosaic found in archaeological dig in Rome Chinese astronauts do spacewalk to repair Tiangong-3 solar panel Firefly successfully launches for the second time in 2023 Curiosity takes a close-up of distant cliffs December 22, 2023 Quick space links Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Eve/Sarajevo December 22, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites SpaceX launches two German military radar satellites Repost: The real meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image China launches four weather satellites Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Japan’s SLIM lunar lander enters orbit around Moon Japan & NASA negotiating plan to put Japanese astronaut on later Moon landing mission Stonebriar Orchestra and Choir – O Come O Come Emmanuel December 19, 2023 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast China launches three classified satellites into orbit Core stage of China’s Long March 5 launched on December 15th about to hit the Earth China launches two GPS-type satellites Galaxies galore, near and far The violent animals on the left who support Hamas Record-setting Falcon 9 1st stage booster lost after landing December 26, 2023 Quick space links Jóhann Jóhannsson – A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder Russia launches military satellite Update on Ingenuity Isolated mesa on Mars China launches four more weather satellites All I feel is fury at the bankruptcy of academia decades ago December 27, 2023 Quick space links Elthin – Je vivroie liement Japan’s space agency JAXA schedules next H3 rocket launch The uncertainty of science as proven by the Webb Space Telescope Japan’s SLIM lunar lander releases its first pictures of Moon Juno’s closest image of Europa suggests recent surface activity Mapping the major lava flood events in Mars’ volcano country Today’s blacklisted American wins $185K settlement from college that fired him December 28, 2023 Quick space links Mike & The Mechanics – Silent Running SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches the Space Force’s X-37B SpaceX completes its second launch in less than 3 hours at Cape Canaveral Navaho Indians attempt to claim ownership of the Moon, delay Vulcan launch Russia and NASA agree to extend ISS astronaut exchanges on each other’s spacecraft through 2025 China completes work on first dedicated “commercial” launchpad Kazakhstan approves Russia use of Baikonur through 2024 Curiosity science team releases movies of Mars from dawn to dusk The ancientness of rocks on Mars Republicans propose another deep state bureaucracy to enforce civil rights laws SpaceX successfully completes static fire tests of both Superheavy and Starship December 29, 2023 Quick space links The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin – Auld Lang Syne China launches “test satellite for satellite internet technologies” India completes first launch of 2024 First Juno images of Io from December 30th fly-by Don McLean – Vincent The global launch industry in 2023: A record third year in a row of growth, with dark clouds lurking Dunes on the floor of Valles Marineris January 2, 2023 Quick space links Margarita Sipatova – Du Hast SpaceX launches six next generation Starlink satellites Sunspot update: Are we now in the next solar maximum? January 3, 2024 Quick space links Carly Simon – That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be SpaceX launches commercial communications satellite January 3, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast National Labor Relations Board files complaint against SpaceX Hubble detects changes in atmosphere of exoplanet The mining potential on Mars John Batchelor highlights Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 Can the Democrats offend enough people to make even their aggressive election tampering impossible? January 4, 2024 Quick space links Jara – Tiempo y Silencio China’s Kuaizhou-1A solid-fueled rocket launches four weather satellites NASA and one private company respond to Navaho nation’s demand to cancel lunar mission Japan delays launch of Mars sample return mission due to problems with its H3 rocket Researchers propose method for removing toxic perchlorates from Martian water Japan’s XRISM X-ray space telescope releases first data SpaceX sues to have NLRB complaint dismissed Canyons formed from the giant crack that splits Mars January 5, 2023 Quick space links 6-Figure Revenue – How To Start a Blueberry Farm Business January 4-5, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast discussing Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 January 5, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA: UAE to build airlock module for lunar station plus have astronaut fly there SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites ULA’s Vulcan rocket successfully places payload in orbit on first launch Scientists: Suspended iron minerals floating in Venus’s atmosphere explain dark UV streaks One spiral galaxy eating another Americans push back against government overreach with some real defiance Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander suffers major failure Layered volcanic vent on Mars Roberta Flack – First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Artemis lunar program likely to be delayed further China launches X-ray space telescope Rocket Lab gets contract to build 18-satellite constellation for U.S. military JPL lays off 100 contractors due to expected budget cuts UK spaceports to UK government: There’s too much red-tape! Proposed removal of William Penn statue proves the Democrats really are anti-American The Surt volcano on Io Nightwish – Last Ride of the Day NASA makes it official: The entire Artemis schedule is delayed SpaceX: Ready to launch Starship/Superheavy by end of January but it won’t Another giant star undergoes dimming Peregrine only has hours left, its fuel leaking away Private spaceport proposed on coast of Oman NASA awards more money to two private space station proposals Democrats get a taste their own vicious swatting tactics Endless ash fields on Mars Secretariat – Triple Crown Races January 10, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Engineers succeed in releasing two fasteners that blocked access to OSIRIS-REx Bennu samples China successfully launched twice today Update on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander Blue Origin moves first stage of its New Glenn rocket from factory to launchpad hanger Astronomers discover Earth-sized exoplanet roasted by a Sunlike star Webb infrared data detects unexpected structure inside debris disk of Beta Pictoris Fauci: Now an admitted liar as well as incompetent scientist Double-ringed crater near the Starship landing zone on Mars Dave Brubeck Quartet – Golden Brown Boeing completes Starliner parachute drop test Japan’s H2A rocket launches military surveillance satellite A new plan to send a probe to interstellar object Oumuamua A cluster of strange terrain in Martian glacier country Another look at the increasing regulatory burden impacting commerical space Ed Sussman – How the Beach Boys used the Theremin January 12, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Momentus delays next orbital tug mission due to lack of funds Peregrine still operational but expected to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere Elon Musk’s employee update released January 12th SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites SpaceX launches again, this time from Cape Canaveral The divide in a giant Martian lava river Can the shift in black vote to Trump overcome the Democratic Party’s vote tampering? Yamma Ensemble – Kondja mia SpaceX’s Starlink: More satellites in orbit but fewer close encounters Indian satellite startup opens new satellite factory Gullies and avalanches in Martian crater Toxic and incompetent academia January 16, 2024 Quick space links Uriah Heep – The Wizard Military awards satellite contracts worth $2.5 billion to three companies Private satellite tracking companies track both China’s and the Pentagon’s X-37Bs Webb confirms the unusual shape of early galaxies as seen by Hubble Next manned mission to ISS to launch tomorrow College professors insist all private activity in space must be regulated, by them A rock tadpole on Mars The lawless left China launches cargo ship to Tiangong-3 station SpaceX requests 43 acres of nearby Boca Chica State Park, offering to expand another park by 477 acres January 17, 2024 Quick space links VisioRacer – The Napier Deltic 2-Stroke Diesel Engine January 17, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astronomical high-altitude balloon flight now exceeds two weeks SLIM lowers orbit in preparation for January 19, 2024 lunar landing SpaceX files for permits to build a shopping center and restaurant at Boca Chica Scientists: Evidence of large deposits of buried ice along Martian equator More academics demand that space activity be controlled and regulated, by them SpaceX successfully launches four astronauts to ISS on Axiom private mission January 18, 2024 Quick space links Moby – Extreme Ways Astrobotic’s Peregrine burns up in Earth’s atmosphere Chinese pseudo-company successfully completes rocket hop test SLIM lands on the Moon JAXA: SLIM soft landing successful but will likely die prematurely after landing Today’s blacklisted American: Parents sue school and principal for punishing their son for being a football fan January 19, 2024 Quick space links Jordan Golson – 9 simultaneous SpaceX launches January 19, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ingenuity’s status uncertain but likely healthy Scientists finally look at prime samples captured by OSIRIS-REx of the asteroid Bennu Iran launches another satellite Engineers shut lunar lander SLIM down in hope sunlight can recharge its batteries Perseverance looks back at the floor of Jezero Crater Merging galaxies More evidence that smart phones are destroying minds Another apparent splat on Mars LuLu & Maurice Gibb – First of May China launches five satellites Ingenuity team confirms the helicopter is healthy Sierra Space confirms burst test of its fullscale inflatable module was successful Numerous research papers from Harvard found filled with errors and false data An ancient Martian river system now meandering ridges Ray Manzarek – the creation of “Riders on the Storm” SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites on fifth try Belgium signs the Artemis Accords First two stages of New Glenn assembled for the first time Florida legislature considering bills to expand territory of its commerical Florida spaceport Europe signs up four rocket startups to provide it launch services Saw-toothed razor rocks on Mars Six questions too many Democrats refuse to answer Thomas Dolby – One of Our Submarines January 24, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SLIM landed on the Moon softly, but upside down! Space Force issues contract to assess New Glenn rocket for military launches Surprise! Activist objections force delay in land swap at Boca Chica Combined effort by amateurs and JPL predicts small asteroid destruction over Germany Starliner launch in mid-April continues on target The shaky ground near the Moon’s south pole Harvard’s response to evidence of errors and fake data in papers poor and slow All climate models continue to be wrong, overstating warming to significant degrees African lawfare to take control of space Ingenuity’s mission on Mars is over Emma Kok with Andre Rieu’s orchestra – Voilà Lockheed Martin & Boeing get Space Force satellite development contracts Northrop Grumman writes off $100 million on its fixed-price Lunar Gateway contract Lucy’s upcoming travels leading to its exploration of the Trojan asteroids NASA’s useless safety panel once again sticks its nose where it isn’t qualified to go Ingenuity’s final resting site on Mars Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs SLIM on the Moon Major donor to Cornell pulls funding, demands firing of university president Rodgers & Hammerstein – There is Nothin’ Like A Dame The future of astronomy, as seen by PBS News in 1991 January 26, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Another Chinese pseudo-company vertically lands a prototype 1st stage Iran launches three satellites on single rocket Bi-partisan bill proposed giving space traffic management to Commerce, not FCC SpaceX completes two launches on Sunday Communications with SLIM lunar lander re-established The internal structure of 19 galaxies, as seen in the infrared by Webb The FBI must be wiped clean, or wiped out, on Day One of the next Repubican administration January 29, 2024 Quick space links We Five – You Were on My Mind The dark matter in the Milky Way is not behaving as its supposed to The Pentagon picks Northrop Grumman’s orbital refueling port as its standard India and France sign deal to partner selling flights on their rockets SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule to ISS Spain awards rocket startup PLD $43.8 million grant A plateau of friable rock on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: U.S. Court rules against coach fired for simply stating a fact in a casual conversation January 30, 2024 Quick space links Glen Hansard & Lisa O’Neill – Fairytale Of New York Rocket Lab launches four commercial satellites China’s Chang’e-7 lunar mission will target the rim of Shackleton Crater Private company in India aims to build its own manned capsule and astronaut training facility Tank explosion in Shanghai injured three Pentagon in discussions with SpaceX about buying a Starship outright for military missions Scientists: No obvious ice in the permanently-shadowed interior of Shackleton Crater Shoddy Harvard — home of plagiarism and bigotry — loses another big donor Have these Martian dunes changed in sixteen years? Voyager signs SpaceX’s Starship to launch its Starlab space station January 31, 2024 Quick space links Tracy Chapman – Fast Car January 31, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Update on Jared Isaacman’s upcoming Polaris Dawn manned mission Japan and India team up for unmanned lunar lander mission Another exoplanet found in habitable zone A soft but dim spiral February 1, 2024 Quick space links Billy Joe Royal – Down In The Boondocks Texas state court rules in favor of activist lawsuit against SpaceX Japan’s lunar lander shuts down for long lunar night One last engineering test planned for Ingenuity Collins Aerospace tests its new spacesuit on the Zero Gravity airplane Sunspot update: The Sun in January acted like solar maximum is here February 2, 2024 Quick Space links Daniel Madnick – The Biggest Man In Baseball February 2, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China completes two launches yesterday Curiosity looks ahead at very rough terrain higher on Mount Sharp A sign of hope and disaster: Students rip out tampon dispenser in boy’s bathroom 20 minutes after it was installed A spot where the surface of Mars cracked The failure of the COVID jab and the people who pushed it Asteroid that landed near Berlin found and identified February 5, 2024 Quick space links. Ed Wynn, Julie Andres, Dick Van Dyke – I Love to Laugh Weather stops everything by SpaceX in the last 24 hours A pin falls off Virgin Galactic’s mother ship during most recent passenger flight Juno completes its closest approach of the Jupiter moon Io Perseverance snaps its first picture of grounded Ingenuity SpaceX’s revenue estimate for 2024 is $13.3 billion Curiosity’s damaged wheels continue to appear stable despite the rough Martian terrain Pushback: Help send 9-year-old KC Chiefs fan, slandered as bigot by media, to Super Bowl February 6, 2024 Quick space links The Village Stompers – Washington Square JPL to lay off 8% of its work force plus 40 contractors Computer problem on Voyager-1 remains unsolved Freedom capsule undocks from ISS with AX-3 commercial crew A small Martian volcano? Pushback: Fired by Disney for noting Nazis killed Jews, actress sues, her lawyers paid for by X February 7, 2024 Quick space links Michael McDonald & Phobe Snow – Knock On Wood February 7, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches NASA ocean research satellite Scientists: We think the Saturn moon Mimas may have a young underground ocean Vibration testing of Sierra Space’s Tenacity mini-shuttle completed Solar-orbiting asteroid that is a quasi-moon of Venus gets a name India to do 19 launches through March 2025 India’s proposed space station now has a name: Bharatiya Antariksh Station Pieces of a defunct ESA Earth-observation satellite will hit the Earth A galaxy with a tail of star-forming clusters Pushback: Parents of 9-year-old slandered by Deadspin reporter sue More hiking possibilities on Mars! Herman’s Hermits – Henry the VIII/Mrs. Brown Russia completes its first launch of 2024 SpaceX denies Russian claim that Starlink terminals sold illegally will work in the Ukraine Axiom commercial manned mission to ISS splashes down safely Status of ULA sale offer, as seen by bankers Pushback: Paypal’s blacklisting causes it to lose significant business February 8, 2024 Quick space links Astoria String Quartet Cover – Blank Space February 9, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites Greece signs Artemis Accords Ukraine: Russia using Starlink; Musk: No we don’t allow it The volcanic world of Io, as seen by Juno in all its fly-bys Pushback: 9-year-old slandered by left goes to Super Bowl wearing face paint Martian dunes with strange splotches February 12, 2024 Quick space links Abraham Lincoln – an annual tribute to celebrate his birthday SpaceX has caused a 77% drop in price for transferring data by satellite The core and upper stages of the first Ariane-6 rocket are now on the way to French Guiana Musk: 3rd Starship/Superheavy test launch expected in early March Botswana bans Starlink Water found on two main-belt asteroids? German-built mini-rover for Japanese Phobos mission shipped to Japan Are decent ordinary Democrats finally recognizing the terrible power-hungry corruption of their political party? February 13, 2024 Quick space links Abbott and Costello – Who’s on First? One instrument on Perseverance has a problem Update on SpaceX preparations for 3rd Superheavy/Starship orbital test launch Many launches in the next 24 hours, even with some having been scrubbed SpaceX announces plans to build $100 million office complex in Brownsville Orbital perturbations caused by passing stars might very well have caused past extinctions Despite big bucks from the U.S., the stalemate in the Ukraine continues, with only minor Russian gains Spiders on the rim of a Martian crater SpaceX launches two military prototype satellites February 14, 2024 Quick space links Gordon Lightfoot – Beautiful Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS SpaceX successfully launches Intuitive Machines Odysseus lunar lander February 14, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Varda finally gets FAA permission to land its capsule SpaceX moves its corporation home from Delaware to Texas Space Force cancels major satellite contract with Northrop Grumman OSIRIS-REx brought home twice as much material from Bennu than planned SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites February 15, 2024 Quick space links The shoreline of a Martian lava sea Gene Pitney – 24 Hours From Tulsa Uruguay signs Artemis Accords China targets May 2024 for launch of its Chang’e-6 lunar sample return mission India deorbits a defunct satellite early, in a controlled manner The Washington swamp suddenly discovers that Russia has anti-satellite capabilities Rocket Lab begins maneuvers to bring Varda’s capsule back to Earth The alien surface of Mars Enrollment drops force major cuts to academic but not DEI programs at UNC Greensboro Maurice Jarre – Lawrence of Arabia February 16, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchor podcast Japan and India successfully complete launches Rocket Lab successfully launches Japanese commercial space junk demo satellite ESA awards Spanish launch startup PLD a million-plus development contract Alternating dark and light terraces inside Valles Marineris There is no diversity in American academia, none at all Dave Mason – We just disagree Roscosmos: Russia will do 40 launches in 2024 Australian rocket startup raises $36 million in private investment capital How SpaceX got Indonesia’s business India proposes to send its own helicopter to Mars Astronomers: a 9,000-light-year-long stream of gas and dust ripples like a wave due to the Milky Way’s gravity It is hardly news that Joe Biden is mentally incapable of being president Martian gullies caused by glacial and water erosion The Doobie Brothers – Jesus Is Just Alright with Me SpaceX launches Indonesian communications satellite Firefly: Software caused failure of upper stage in December ISRO: Upper stage engine of largest rocket now approved for Gaganyaan manned mission Space Perspective unveils test balloon capsule for unmanned test flights Tomorrow’s landing of Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus lunar lander Curiosity’s view of Gale Crater from its new heights on Mount Sharp Why the public continues to lose faith with the medical community Paul Davis – I go Crazy February 21, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Complete New Glenn test prototype now vertical on launchpad Live stream of landing of Odysseus on Moon Varda’s space capsule lands successfully in Utah Ariane-6 arrives in French Guiana Frozen lava rapids on Mars Pushback: Stalinist St. Philip’s College in Texas loses 2nd lawsuit, reinstates teacher fired for daring to teach basic biology Today is George Washington’s birthday; He is the man we should always honor, not “presidents” Odysseus appears to have landed successfully Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing SpaceX and China complete launches Webb: Infrared data sees neutron star remaining after 1987 supernova, the nearest in more than 4 centuries Vast to compete with Axiom for NASA’s limited slots for commercial manned missions to ISS How park volunteers in Tucson illustrated the growing resentment to unjustified authority Mars’ flaky rocks Golden Earring – Twilight Zone February 23, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Odysseus is on its side, some antennas blocked SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites LRO locates and photographs Odysseus on lunar surface SLIM survives lunar night! China to attempt 100 launches in 2024 NASA high altitude science balloon sets new endurance record The coming April 8, 2024 total eclipse Have modern space engineers forgotten the importance of keeping things simple? Carmesí Guitar Duo – Danza from La Vida Breve Ingenuity broke off one blade entirely First image from Odysseus on the lunar surface India names four astronauts, three of whom will fly on its first manned mission FAA announces it has rubber-stamped SpaceX’s investigation of the November Starship/Superheavy test launch A recent volcanic eruption on Mars? Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Walk On Tonight’s Space Show cancelled due to computer hack Odysseus’ tip-over likely caused because it landed without good elevation data Major layoff expected at Northrop Grumman’s facility at Redondo Beach, California ULA begins stacking Atlas-5 rocket for launching the first manned mission of Starliner Astra’s founders slash their offer price to buy the company Update on Starship/Superheavy preparations at Boca Chica Rocket Lab unveils a family of four different service modules for all kinds of satellites “Thar’s gold in them there asteroids!” Today’s blacklisted American: “Progressive” leftists in Seattle can’t even take a joke, blackballing four comedians Inspector General: Mars Sample Return mission in big trouble Spanky & Our Gang – Sunday Will Never Be The Same February 28, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches weather satellite plus eighteen smallsats National Science Foundation decides to fund only one giant telescope Final images from Odysseus, lying on its side Air leak in Russia’s half of ISS continues and has increased slightly A Martian cliff of ash, flushed by wind Today’s blacklisted American: Event by UC-Berkeley Jewish organizations is shut down by violent pro-Hamas rioters Marilyn Monroe – Happy Birthday/Thanks For The Memories The Space Show is back up February 29, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX and China complete launches Local county now in full support of SpaceX land swap Astronomers discover new moons around Neptune and Uranus Ingenuity’s final resting place on Mars NASA shuts down Goddard $2 billion demo refueling program SLIM put back to sleep for second lunar night Carlos Santana & Rob Thomas – Smooth Lockheed Martin offers to buy startup satellite maker Terran Orbital German rocket startup ships suborbital test rocket to Australia for launch Watch video from Varda’s return capsule as its comes back to Earth SpaceX successfully launches four NASA astronauts to ISS In the NASA budget now approved, Congress demonstrates once again its utter bankruptcy A sunflower crater on Mars Real pushback: Faced with a legal requirement to end its DEI programs, University of Florida shuts them down The beat goes on: SpaceX launches twice today Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse – Gotta Dance Texas approves SpaceX land swap JPL requests proposals from the private sector for Mars exploration Australian rocket startup gets government approval for its spaceport SpaceX almost completes dress rehearsal countdown of Starship/Superheavy Scientists: Europa produces oxygen on its surface, but less than expected Blue Origin is targeting a first unmanned landing of its manned lunar lander in 2025 March 4, 2024 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Amazingly Justice actually charges two leftist activists with felonies for defacing the display case holding the Constitution Another helicopter mission under development for Mars? Harp & VolfgangTwins – Paint It Black Is the Saxavord spaceport in the UK about to finally get approved for launches? More orbital tugs reach orbit New orbital image of Curiosity on Mount Sharp Is this really a spiral galaxy? If Trump wins in November, expect a real insurrection from Democrats Ann-Margret – Dancing to Tequila March 6, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX: We want to fly next Starship/Superheavy test launch on March 14, 2024 Irish company wants to establish spaceport in Ireland UK government to invest £10 million in Saxavord spaceport Blue Origin completes first round of launchpad/New Glenn tanking tests NJ man arrested for trafficking 675 Starlink terminals illegally Another woman sues SpaceX for sexual discrimination and retaliation The really really strange landscape of Cydonia on Mars Hamas anti-Semitic bullies shut down physics class because the professor was Israeli Carole King – So Far Away Sierra Space confirms its Tenacity spacecraft successfully completed vibration testing Astra’s board agrees to deal to take the company private Budget bill includes very short extension of commercial space “learning period” Two Democrats in Congress go after SpaceX for the alleged Russian theft of Starlink terminals Update on rocket startup Stoke Space’s effort to make completely reusable rocket A No Labels third party 2024 presidential ticket will give Americans a chance to replace the failed Democratic Party Stringspace Jazz Band – Hit The Road Jack March 8, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchlor podcast First manned Starliner mission slips to May Grateful thanks to everyone who donated during this year’s February fund drive Japanese rocket startup scrubs first launch attempt Stratolaunch completes first flight of its Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle Two SpaceX launches yesterday evening, on opposite coasts and only five hours apart Hubble and Webb confirm decade-long conflict in universe’s expansion rate United Airlines diversity quotas finally begin paying off in disaster The strange surface of the perennial dry ice cap at Mars’ south pole Ferris Akel – One beautiful bird pesters another, to music Rocket Lab launches radar satellite ISS crew splashes down safely Rocket startup Phantom Space completes another investment capital funding round Sunspot update: The Sun continues what appears will be a weak maximum FAA lists possible launch windows for Starship/Superheavy launch The “news” outlet that slandered a 9-year-old football fan is no more Another United airplane makes an emergency landing A Martian tadpole Patsy Cline – Walkin’ After Midnight First launch of Japanese rocket startup fails The investors behind Space One, the Japanese commercial rocket company that had a launch failure yesterday There likely is little or no ice in the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters Lucy’s first encounter with an asteroid produced surprises Scientists: Mars’ mysterious slope streaks and seasonal recurring lineae are caused by dust SpaceX announces launch time tomorrow for 3rd Superheavy/Starship launch Defiance: Blacklisted Portland professor joins New College in Florida Girl with the dogs – A cat on an emotional rollercoaster March 13, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China has launch failure SpaceX’s Superheavy/Starship successfully launches Engineers report progress in restoring proper communications with Voyager-1 Betelgeuse dimming again Mapping the layered geology of Mars Pushback: Judge rules again that awarding federal grants based on race is illegal March 14, 2024 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Procol Harum – Whiter Shade of Pale The payloads to be carried on the first Ariane-6 launch The DEI disaster now appears to be hitting American Airlines Simon Sinek – How great leaders inspire action SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites March 15. 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast What to expect on the next few Starship/Superheavy test launches The vast Martian plains of lava Voidwalkeraudio – Desire SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Scientists: DART impact of Dimorphos changed its orbit and reshaped the asteroid India’s Vikram lander disturbed the lunar surface the least of all landers Gehrels Swift space telescope now in safe mode Apollo astronaut Tom Stafford passes away at 93 Make no mistake, Israel is about to begin the final defeat of Hamas in Gaza March 19, 2024 Quick space links Celtic Thunder – Whiskey In The Jar China launches communications orbiter towards the Moon ESA: Euclid vision cleared after being fogged by ground ice, after launch Indian rocket startup to attempt suborbital test launch this week Orbit Fab announces price tag for installing its refuelling port on satellites A relatively dim star is expected to become one of the brightest in the sky later this year SpaceX’s next Superheavy/Starship launch, according to SpaceX Spanish high-altitude balloon company to fly fullsize prototype capsule from Saudi Arabia Is the Republican Party finally doing the election due diligence it should have been doing since 2020? Cracking terraces in Valles Marineris March 20, 2024 Quick space links Seasick Steve – Walkin’ Man March 20, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab launches classified smallsat for National Reconnaissance Office China Long March 2D launches “group of satellites”; Russia scrubs manned Soyuz launch Six launch companies give updates on the status of their rockets Citizen scientist project discovers 16 active asteroids Mob of Democrats threatens violence against conservative students at the University of Memphis Some more “What the heck?” geology on Mars SpaceX launches a cargo Dragon to ISS March 21, 2024 Quick space links Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Tijuana Brass Medley ISRO completes second drop test runway landing of its own mini-reusable shuttle Private Indian company scrubs suborbital test launch Australia moves to make skin color and sex more important in hiring space engineers than skill or knowledge Martian vent or sink? March 22, 2024 Quick space links Vivaldi – Spring March 22, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russians launch three astronauts to ISS SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Antenna for joint NASA-ISRO radar satellite needs fix, delaying launch Boom’s one-third-scale prototype supersonic jet finally takes off UK Space Agency proudly grows The tangled view of astronomers South Texas booming due to arrival of SpaceX France to award four rocket startups launch contracts worth as much as 400 million euros Part 1: The expected upcoming election chaos caused by the left’s hatred of any opposition Pushback: Smithsonian to pay Catholic students $50K and publicly apologize for ejecting them from Air & Space for wearing pro-life hats March 25, 2024 Quick space links Ricky Rialto & the Green Rats – Rockin’ Daddy SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites Intuitive Machines: Odysseus is dead Orbital tug startup ExLabs plans mission to asteroid Apophis in 2028 Report: 3D printing in space Bursting bubbles of water gas on Mars Part 2: A further list of upcoming Democratic Party election chaos March 26, 2024 Quick space links Neil Diamond – Holly Holy China’s Long March 6 rocket launches remote sensing satellite Engineers resolve issue on IXPE space telescope The spiraling magnetic field surrounding the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole Members of Texas Space Commission unveiled Data from Perseverance suggests the delta in Jezero Crater was formed by a wide variety of different “fluvial” events Scientists release detailed geological map of the landing site for Europe’s Franklin rover Part 3: The expected tantrum of madness should Biden actually lose the election March 27, 2024 Quick space links Real Space – Every Space Station Size Comparison March 27, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SLIM survives its second lunar night, re-establishes contact The remnant of the supernova from 1181, as seen in multiple wavelengths Martian waves of ridges and cracks A detailed look at the international partners for China’s Moon base Japan awards development agreements with four rocket startups Leftist students take-over building illegally and by force at Vanderbilt March 28, 2024 Quick space links Fred Astair & Ginger Rodgers – The yam dance Head of France’s space agency blames too many subcontractors for high cost of Ariane-6 Ispace, which built the lunar lander Hakuto-R1, has raised $53 million in investment capital China working to save classifed lunar mission from launch failure The Martian view from high on Mount Sharp Arizona city shuts down church program that fed the hungry for the last 25 years March 29, 2024 Quick space links Al Flores – Engraving a headstone Varda releases results of its in-orbit test for producing pharmaceuticals in weightlessness March 29, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes two launches in three and a half hours; third launch scrubbed Russia launches Earth observation satellite Australian spaceport on sourthern coast prepares for launch Interacting galaxies Boeing’s problems are only the tip of the iceberg April 1, 2024 Quick space links Cissie Redgwick – Gimme That Swing SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites De-orbiting debris from ISS hits a house in Florida Video shows Astra rocket exploding on launchpad during early 2020 launch attempt Sunspot update: The weak solar maximum continues Patches of volcanic Martian ash covering patches of frozen volcanic dunes April 2, 2024 Quick space links Bach – Concerto for three harpsichords in D minor China launches a “remote sensing” satellite First manned Starliner mission now targeting a May 6, 2024 launch Roscosmos approves design of Russia’s proposed new space station White House tasks NASA to create a clock standard for time on the Moon Technical issues with Lockheed Martin’s Orion capsule to delay next Artemis mission An abandoned module from one of China’s manned capsules burns up over California Biden’s anti-Christian Easter proclamation means the Democrats believe their November victory is certain Complex ridged terrain in ancient Martian crater April 3, 2024 Quick space links Little Eva – The LocoMotion Engineers confirm IXPE is fixed and resuming science observations NASA picks three commercial companies to build manned lunar rovers Gilmour’s Eris rocket now assembled and ready for launch from Bowen spaceport in Australia Pushback: The legislative effort in Texas to end DEI in state colleges is beginning to work April 4, 2024 Quick space links The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’ April 3, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites Voyager-1 still out of commission Thailand joins China’s partnership to build a lunar base on the Moon Mitsubishi joins private consortium building the Starlab commercial space station The taffy terrain in Mars’ death valley April 5, 2024 Quick space links Jean Harlow April 5, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast April 5, 2024 Zimmerman appearance on the CJN Speaks podcast Soyuz capsule safely brings three astronauts back from ISS Varda quickly raises $90 million after completing its first orbital manufacturing mission SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites, with 6 capable of direct-to-cell service Argentina demands right to inspect Chinese antenna facility Musk provides update to his Boca Chica crew SpaceX launches 11 commercial payloads Today’s eclipse Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps a smeared image of South Korea’s Danuri lunar obiter A whirlpool half-hidden by dust What are Israel’s strategic military goals with its latest pull back from Gaza? April 8, 2024 Quick space links Primal Space – The Longest Eclipse Ever ESA awards Thales Alenia contract to build Mars lander for Franklin rover New startup to launch a new design for inflatable modules Turkey to join China’s lunar base program ULA completes last Delta-4 Heavy launch The foot of a Martian glacier April 9, 2024 Quick space links Art Garfunkel – All I Know SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Japan to sign deal with NASA to fly two Japanese astronauts to Moon Angara launch scrubbed for the second day in a row China successfully tests new propulsion system for satellites Idiocracy has arrived Rocket Lab to refly a recovered first stage Activists file lawsuit to prevent land swap at Boca Chica John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison – Baby Please Don’t Go April 10, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia and SpaceX complete launches Japan and NASA ink lunar deal TESS in safe mode Rocket startup Relativity foregoes bidding on present round of military launch contracts A local California commission looks to restrict launches at Vandenberg A squeezed Martian landscape April 11, 2024 Quick space links Natalie Imbruglia – Torn Switzerland to sign Artemis Accords China: Quequiao-2 is successfully operating in lunar orbit Swiss company tests three-legged hopper for asteroid exploration on zero-G airplane Amazon: First operational launch of Kuiper satellites delayed LA Times: Can California’s coastal commission stop SpaceX launches from Vandenberg? Remember: The climate data foisted on us by NOAA is based 30% on nonexistent weather stations April 12, 2024 Quick space links Junshatang – Making a Yixing purple clay teapot SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites with 1st stage on record-setting 20th flight April 12, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches remote sensing satellite Obama: The man behind today’s Middle East madness A Martian river of sand A face-on barred spiral galaxy A Martian rock with holes Assuming students sign up, plagiarist Claudine Gay to teach “reading and research” class at Harvard The value of Trump’s Abraham Accords once again proven April 15, 2024 Quick space links Salomé’s Dance NASA: The piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida house came from ISS, and we released it NASA admits that its Mars Sample Return project needs new ideas Using Gaia data scientists discover the heaviest stellar black hole ever found Scientists: Any ice trapped in Ceres’ permanently shadowed craters has to be very young Isolated flat-topped mesa inside large Martian crater April 16, 2024 Quick space links Joe Bonamassa – The Last Matador Of Bayonne Engineers say goodbye to Ingenuity NASA approves Dragonfly mission to the Saturn moon Titan Sweden signs Artemis Accords Confirmed: California’s coastal commission is looking for ways to block SpaceX launches at Vandenberg Io on Juno’s 60th close fly-by of Jupiter SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites; but with streaming issues April 17, 2024 Quick space links Cascade – Hotel California April 17, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast TESS has resumed science operations Rocket startup Orbex raises another $16.7 million in private investment capital Today’s blacklisted American: Former Trump lawyer, already disbarred in California because he took Trump’s case, now blackballed by his banks Ancient flood lava in the Martian cratered highlands SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites FAA to now require that reentry spacecraft get landing license before launch April 18, 2024 Quick space links The O’Jays – Love Train Analysis of Io’s atmosphere suggests it has been volcanically active for its entire 4+ billion year history Boeing to reduce staffing for SLS due to overall delays in Artemis Blue Origin completes delivery of the two BE-4 engines for ULA’s second Vulcan launch April 19, 2024 Quick space links Ladyva – Boogie Woogie April 19, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Slovenia signs Artemis Accords Update on SpaceX’s preparations for the 4th test flight of Superheavy/Starship Computer models suggest there is no life in Europa’s underground ocean China launches “remote-sensing” satellite Patchy arms in a nearby spiral galaxy On the left, certainty and violent passion; On the right, doubt and fearful timidity; This must change! Neil Diamond – Solitary Man Voyager-1 back on line after software patch works PLD Space announces its upcoming plans German rocket startup Hyimpulse’s first suborbital rocket arrives in Australia Hubble celebrates 34 years in orbit with a new photo of the Little Dumbbell Nebula Scientists think methane detections by Curiosity come from the salts in the local soil Infeeder to a Martian paleolake It is simple: Conservatives don’t have the votes Jonathan Scott – Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries SpaceX and Rocket Lab complete launches SLIM survives its third lunar night More partners join China’s International Lunar Research Station Several new missions to the asteroid Apophis proposed by commercial and governments Movies of two supernovae remnants produced from two decades of Chandra X-ray images Flat tadpole depression in ancient Martian crater Kazuho Monster – Dance like Octopus April 24, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astroscale wins contract to complete removal of large piece of space junk First and second stages of first Ariane-6 rocket are now assembled and on the launchpad China releases new geological atlas of the Moon UK’s CAA gives Saxavord on Shetland Islands its range license Russia vetos UN resolution put forth by U.S to ban nuclear weapons in space China reveals its rough plans for building its manned moon base. Numerous layers in the interior slopes of Argyre Basin on Mars These are the idiots WE have put in power China launches three astronauts to its space station Billie Holiday – Fine And Mellow Hubble in safe mode NASA: first launch of New Glenn is targeting a September 29, 2024 launch date Astroscale releases image of abandoned upper stage taken by its ADRAS-J orbital tug during rendezvous operations France’s space agency puts out calls for rocket companies to lease the French Guiana launchpad formerly used by Russia’s Soyuz rocket Scientists: computer modeling suggests one lunar crater is the origin of a nearby asteroid Martian dunes with frost and a sublimating dry ice mantle Good news: The nature of the riots this election year suggest the leftist rioters are losing steam Charles Berthoud – My Way April 26. 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A molecule found by Rosetta on Comet 67P/C-G proves discovering life on exoplanets will not be easy ESA shuffles the management and structure of its ClearSpace-1 space junk removal mission SpaceX launches two Galileo satellites, part of Europe’s GPS-type satellite constellation SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites Webb takes an infrared look at the mane of the Horsehead Nebula The plan for SpaceX’s first demo in-orbit refueling mission of Starship Why the release of the EU’s own space law has been delayed The new Nazis and the coming genocide they are planning April 29, 2024 Quick space links Petula Clark – Downtown ESA is taking the Vega rockets away from Arianespace and giving it to the company that builds it SES to buy Intelsat for $3.1 billion NASA wants to know the important technology the commercial space industry needs NASA announces launch coverage for the first Starliner manned capsule launch on May 6, 2024 Webb maps the global temperature and water vapor of a hot exoplanet Voting by conservatives HAS made a difference, just not enough so far Lava land on Mars April 30, 2024 Quick space links Harry Chapin – Taxi Hubble out of safe mode and resumed science observations Shocker! Scientists tried and failed to infect people with COVID who had natural immunity Southwest Airlines is deservedly in financial trouble Another Mars location being considered for future helicopter mission A. Piazzolla – Libertango May 1, 2024 Quick space links May 1, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Astroscale to go public Private Nova Scotia spaceport company opens spaceport to all rocket companies The EU’s government-owned satellite constellation is faltering in its attempt to compete with Starlink and OneWeb NASA IG: Major technical problems with Orion remain unsolved Sunspot update: A minor uptick in sunspot activity in April Pro-American UNC frat boys: Don’t hold a party, use the money more effectively! SpaceX launches two commercial Earth imaging satellites May 2, 2024 Quick space links Kaito – Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) China launches Chang’e-6 sample return mission to the far side of the Moon Lockheed Martin withdraws bid to buy Terran Orbital Scientists observe orangutan use plant to heal a wound Curiosity’s journey in Gediz Vallis approaching its end SpaceX last night launched another 23 Starlink satellites The pro-Hamas campus mobs were almost as barbaric as Hamas itself Alpha Divers – Kin Ha cavern in Mexico German rocket startup Hyimpulse completes suborbital test launch May 3, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia to NASA: We’ll wait a bit before putting our astronauts on Starliner Another Starship/Superheavy update Watching the first manned launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule A supernova factory SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites Another non-story about Venus May 6, 2024 Quick space links The long delay in Israel’s final Gaza offensive has harmed everyone except the terrorists Violet Orlandi & Malinda Kathleen Reese – May It Be Starliner launch scrubbed due to valve issue China successfully completes first launch of new Long March 6C rocket Rocket Lab delays first launch of new Neutron rocket SpaceX unveils the spacesuit Jared Isaacman will use to do the first private spacewalk A quarter century after it was lost in orbit an American military test satellite has been rediscovered Musk: SpaceX and Starlink don’t use artificial intelligence Scientists: Restrict all exploration on Mars to protect our future work! Apparently rioting in support of murderous terrorists does not win the hearts and minds of the public Swirls of layers and dunes at the bottom of Valles Marineris Sweden’s Esrange spaceport gets its first orbital customer May 7, 2024 Quick space links Hauser – Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 TESS resumes science operations Launch of first manned flight of Starliner rescheduled for May 17, 2024 Chang’e-6 enters lunar orbit Orbital tug startup Starfish Space wins $37.5 million contract from Space Force Redwire developing a satellite designed to fly in extremely low orbits Webb data suggests a super-Earth might have an atmosphere A former SpaceX employee gives a fascinating account of what it is like to work there SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites Taffy terrain in Mars’ death valley Another COVID “vaccine” withdrawn due to its sometimes fatal side effects May 8, 2024 Quick space links Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb China launches earth observation satellite May 8, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A French rocket startup enters the competition ULA signs contract to build a second transport ship for its Vulcan rocket Proposed private GPS-type satellite constellation raises $19 million Biden abandons Israel to appease student rioters and help Hamas survive The edge of a vast frozen lava sea on Mars May 9, 2024 Quick space links Dusty Hanes – What a Friend We Have in Jesus SpaceX launches 20 more Starlink satellites Starlink revenue in 2024 estimated at $6.6 billion Pentagon: SpaceX effectively blocking Russian illegal use of Starlink German startup loses prototype of aerospike spaceplane during test Update of the reusable cargo capsule by the French company, The Exploration Company The spiral dust streams within the Andromeda galaxy Perseverance looks ahead, out of Jezero Crater May 10, 2024 Quick space links Rush – The Camera Eye May 10, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA and Air Force initiate new environmental impact statements for Starship/Superheavy launchpads in Florida Serbia joins China’s lunar base project Significant water found in samples from China’s Chang’e-5 Moon mission China today launches “experimental” satellite SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites ISRO to land its Chandayaan-4 lunar sample return mission near where Chandrayaan-3 landed A detailed look, using satellite imagery, of North Korea’s coastal spaceport A galaxy’s net of dust The left begins recognizing Biden is going to lose May 13, 2024 Quick space links Arlo Guthrie – I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You XRISM X-ray space telescope functioning despite closed “aperture door” Air Force sends letter of concern about Vulcan to ULA A planet with the density of cotton candy? Curiosity looks forward and back SpaceX launches 20 more Starlink satellites Atlas-5 launch of Starliner slips to May 21, 2024 Ispace gets a new payload for its first NASA lunar landing mission UN slashes in half its death count of women and children for Gaza A database for identifying pro-Hamas anti-Semites May 14, 2024 Quick space links André Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra – Seventy-Six Trombones FAA schedules first three public meetings for Starship/Superheavy impact statement review The aurora as seen looking down from space Juno looks down at Jupiter Why are so many conservatives such downers? May 15, 2024 Quick space links Swing Ninjas – I Wanna Be Like You Lithuania signs Artemis Accords Congress passes new authorization bill for FAA that includes short extension of “learning period” Potentially serious problem on BepiColombo Mercury mission Private satellite snaps picture of ISS in orbit Earth-sized exoplanet discovered orbiting dwarf star 55 light years away Scientists: No evidence of obvious changes on Europa AST SpaceMobile makes deal with ATT to use its cell-to-satellite constellation NASA versus Isaacman/SpaceX on upgrading Hubble Another “rightwing COVID conspiracy theory” proves to be true May 16, 2024 Quick space links May 15, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Emmy Russell & Lukas Nelson – Lay Me Down Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches classified payloads NASA signs new agreement with ESA to partner on Franklin Mars rover A really really big landslide on Mars A Catholic threatened with blacklisting because he gave an unapologetic Catholic speech at a Catholic university to a class of Catholics: How dare he! May 17, 2024 Quick space links Starliner launch delayed again, to May 25, 2024 An Engineer’s Guide to Cats 2.0 – The Sequel May 17, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites NLRB suspends case against SpaceX Piece from SpaceX Dragon service module falls on Canadian farm China launches four satellites Blue Origin resumes manned suborbital New Shepard flights Pushback: NJ gym wins total victory in court after refusing to obey illegal COVID mandates Former head of NIH admits 6-foot social distancing rule had no scientific basis at all Court rules COVID jab mandate unconstitutional Solar storms are simply no longer a threat May 20, 2024 Quick space links David Bowie – Cat People ESA narrows Ariane-6 launch date to first two weeks in July Sierra Space’s Tenacity mini-shuttle arrives at the Cape China’s Kuaizhou-11 rocket launches four satellites Air Force proposes installing seven more telescopes on Hawaiian peak Glacial tributaries draining south on Mars May 21, 2024 Quick space links Original Enigma Voices – Sadeness Starliner manned launch delayed again; no new launch announced SpaceX launches NRO reconnaissance satellite(s) ESA awards contracts to two companies to build unmanned orbital freighters Emails prove NIH officials engineered coverup of COVID origins in 2020 May 22, 2024 Quick space links Grace Bowers – Red House SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Two of Voyager-1’s four instruments resume science operations Boeing/NASA now targeting a June 1, 2024 launch of Starliner SpaceX to FAA: Let us launch Starship/Superheavy before you complete the red-tape for the previous flight Psyche gets clean bill-of-health after completing six-month checkout since launch Euclid releases new images and first science results Astronomers discover nearby Earth-sized exoplanet only slightly hotter than Earth North Carolina university system repeals DEI policies May 22, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast May 23, 2024 Quick space links Darrell Scott – You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites SpaceX tentatively announces a June 5, 2024 Starship/Superheavy launch date NASA/Boeing/ULA confirm new June 1st launch date for Starliner Democratic Party voters fire Soros-backed DA in Portland Harvard Corporation overides its pro-Hamas faculty; denies graduation to pro-Hamas rioters May 24, 2024 Quick space links Ferris Akel – Snow Geese Takeoff, March 20, 2021 May 24, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab launches NASA climate satellite North Korea notifies Japan of planned orbital launch China’s X-37B releases object in orbit South Korea establishes its own version of NASA Visiting a galactic bar Today’s Blacklisted American: To celebrate Memorial Day, a federal official bans the American flag Pressure from free-speech law firm forces Chase to eliminate language that allowed it debank conservatives North Korea’s orbital Chollima-1 rocket explodes shortly after launch Dwayne O’Brien – We Remember SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Scientists confirm 2023 data that suggested active volcanism on Venus Dry ice and carbon monoxide detected on asteroids beyond Neptune Chinese pseudo-company files plans for 10,000 satellite constellation Need a kidney transplant? You better be poor according to new DEI proposed rules A Martian lava flow so strong it eats mountains The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations SpaceX launches European/Japanese climate satellite China launches four satellites from sea platform Avio completes static fire test of the upper stage of its grounded Vega-C rocket SLIM goes dark OSIRIS-APEX survives closest fly-by of the Sun on its way to the asteroid Apophis Botswana approves Starlink Chang’e-6 to attempt landing on Moon’s far side on June 1st The “Vulcan” exoplanet discovered in 2018 now refuted Scientists propose three scenarios for the creation of Dinkinesh’s contact-binary moon Selam The wind-carved north edge of Mars’ largest volcanic ash field Celine Dion – That’s The Way It Is Launches by China and Russia A second Indian rocket startup completes suborbital launch Astronomers find another record-setting most distant galaxy Supreme Court votes 9-0 in favor of NRA’s 1st amendment rights Gully erosion in a Martian dune field Will Braden – Henri 2 Paw de Deux Chinese pseudo-company launches five satelites Starlab space station signs cargo contract with French startup Peru and Slovakia sign Artemis Accords Engineers lose contact with Japan’s Akatsuki Venus orbiter SpaceX completes second Starship/Superheavy dress rehearsal countdown; no launch licence yet from FAA Watching the first manned launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule The recovered diary of Columbia’s Israeli astronaut now on loan to Israel’s national library May 29, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Beware the cornered rat! Jess Erskine – The Prisoner Intro, re-visited May 31, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Boeing Starliner launch scrubbed at T-3:50 Hubble once again in safe mode due to gyro problem SpaceX last night launched 23 more Starlink satellites Japanese billionaire cancels his “Dear Moon” Starship mission Chang’e-6’s lander successfully soft lands on far side of the Moon NASA confirms June 5th as new launch date for Starliner China releases movie taken by Chang’e-6 during its lunar descent Sunspot update: In May the Sun went boom! June 3, 2024 Quick space links Haley Reinhart – I Put a Spell on You Chang’e-6 ascender carrying lunar samples lifts off Moon SpaceX now targeting June 6, 2024 for Starship/Superheavy launch French startup captures Russian satellite maneuvering close to another geosynchronous satellite ESA requests information from European rocket startups Today’s blacklisted American: Teacher sues his union because it bans whites from running for some leadership positions Research continues to find the COVID jab caused more deaths than it prevented FAA issues launch license for the fourth test orbital launch of Starship/Superheavy June 4, 2024 Quick space links Billy Joel – She’s Right On Time SpaceX and Rocket Lab complete successful launches ULA’s Atlas-5 launches Boeing’s Starliner capsule on its first manned mission Hubble goes to one-gyro mode, limiting the telescope’s observational capabilities; NASA rejects private repair mission ESA schedules first Ariane-6 launch for July 9, 2024 Paper: Not one government policy during the COVID epidemic accomplished anything to stop the disease’s spread Hugh Laurie – St. James Infirmary June 5, 2024 Quick space links June 5, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Firefly gets a major 25-launch contract from Lockheed Martin SpaceX successfully launches and lands Starship and Superheavy Lunar samples transferred to Chang’e-6 return vehicle Telescope removed from Mauna Kea on Big Island as local Hawaiian council rejects new telescopes on Haleakala on Maui Webb detects carbon in early galaxy, far earlier than expected Boeing’s Starliner successfully docks with ISS ESA signs deal with Vast to use its Haven-1 space station June 6, 2024 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline Iran to build coastal spaceport Chinese pseudo-company raises $207 million A close-up of rocks on Mars Today’s blacklisted American: Biden’s Justice Dept prosecutes doctor who blew the whistle on child mutilation at hospital June 7, 2024 Quick space links MetaBallStudios – Comparing explosive weapons used in war Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, 90, killed in plane crash June 7, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes two Starlink launches hours apart After only seven commercial flights, Virgin Galactic retires Unity Bill Anders, the thoughtful astronaut who liked to go fast June 10, 2024 Quick space links Anastasia Tyurina – Dance of the Goblins French startup gets another space station cargo contract Starliner’s stay at ISS extended several days Scientists: Water frost detected in calderas of four Martian volcanos Evidence of giant asteroid collision in debris disk surrounding the star Beta Pictoris Today’s blacklisted American: Federal court rules conservative kids have no free speech rights June 11, 2024 Quick space links Moonlight Sonata Starliner at ISS: One thruster shut down, another helium leak found, and a new valve issue Ed Stone, who ran the Voyager missions for a half century, passes away at 88 Stoke Space test fires its first stage engine for the first time Research suggests a Mars mission will permanently damage a person’s kidneys Pentagon wants to buy from SpaceX its own 100-satellite Starshield constellation The gullies on Mars are caused by a variety of factors, linked to both water and carbon dioxide SpaceX retrieves its Dragon debris that fell in Canada in February Curiosity sees evidence of solar storm hitting Mars Perseverance looks up at the rim of Jezero Crater A new Chicken Little report: The mega satellite constellations are going to destroy the ozone layer! June 12, 2024 Quick space links Armenia signs Artemis Accords Al Stewart – Year Of The Cat June 12, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA accidently airs simulated medical emergency on ISS, panicking the public Review of 4th Superheavy/Starship flight; FAA clears SpaceX for next flight FAA announces schedule for new EIS public meetings on SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy operations at Cape Canaveral Astronauts cancel ISS spacewalk due to “spacesuit discomfort issue” A new lawsuit filed against Elon Musk by former SpaceX employees June 13, 2024 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Study: Dust removal at Jezero 9x greater than InSight landing area June 13, 2024 Quick space links Arthur Brown & Hamburg Blues Band – I Put A Spell On You Starliner’s return delayed again Voyager-1 now returning science data from all working instruments Space Force names SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin as its launch providers for the next five years Perseverance looks back at downstream Neretva Vallis Archaeologists discover 35 glass jars at Mount Vernon from 1700s, most containing edible preserved fruits New evidence suggests some titanium on Boeing and Airbus planes might be fake Today’s blacklisted American: Entire family kicked out of Catholic school because their 13-year-old son supported patriotism to America June 14, 2024 Quick space links Sylcom Light – Venetian glass artistry June 14, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast German rocket startup looking for alternatives to Saxavord spaceport Webb produces false color infrared image of the Crab Nebula Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps picture of Chang’e-6 on far side of the Moon Just remember: These obnoxious disturbers of the peace are all Democrats The insane mountain slopes of Mars’ deep canyons June 17, 2024 Quick space links Luca Stricagnoli – For A Few Dollars More On the radio Rocket Lab gets a new 10-launch contract from Japanese satellite company Once again, the first known binary of two supermassive black holes flares as predicted Surprise! Scientists discover that eating cheese makes you happier in old age! Starliner return delayed again to June 26th Kansas sues Pfizer for lying about the safety and effectiveness of its COVID jab Massive Martian landslides June 18, 2024 Quick space links Hothouse Flowers – I Can See Clearly Now SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites Slovenia becomes 23rd member nation of the European Space Agency Scientists release first image from Hubble in one-gyro mode Astronomers see a quiet galaxy become active for the first time June 18, 2024 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Pro-Hamas lefty arrested for several arson attacks on UC-Berkeley campus Nini – OverMortal June 19, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast German rocket startup Isar raises another €65 million in investment capital Blue Origin signs deal to fly Nigerian on New Shepard suborbital flight Update on SpaceX activities leading to the next Superheavy/Starship orbital test flight 2,000-year-old wine found in Roman tomb June 20, 2024 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Rocket Lab launches five smallsats for French commercial constellation The intellectual dishonesty of Democrats proven once again June 20, 2024 Quick space links SpaceX launches commercial geosynchronous satellite for SES Yes – It Can Happen Japan’s space agency reveals it was hacked in 2023 New debris from another Dragon service module discovered in North Carolina Nova Scotia spaceport approved for new government grants SpaceX announces a mini-version of Starlink designed for backpackers Italy approves new space law Spanish high altitude balloon company releases artwork of its proposed passenger capsule Emerson College in Boston leads the way in supporting Hamas and losing enrollment June 21, 2024 Quick space links Family whose home was damaged by NASA battery ejected from ISS files claim Galapagos Islands – Blue footed Boobies dancing Starliner return delayed again, until July June 21, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches gamma-ray space telescope SpaceX completes two launches today, from opposite coasts India’s prototype X-37B, dubbed Pushpak, completes third successfully drop test runway landing Spacewalk on ISS canceled due to spacesuit issue China’s successfully completes full 10K hop of 3-engine launch test rocket France’s CNES space agency begins work adapting commercial launchpad at French Guiana for specific startup rocket companies Are Chang’e-6’s lunar samples on the way back to Earth? Reparations: Taking money from people who never owned slaves and giving it to people who never were slaves The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Something For Nothing Chang’e-6 brings back the first lunar samples from Moon’s far side Firefly to launch from Wallops instead of Cape Canaveral Scientists surprised by new Webb data of the upper layers of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Airbus forced to write off almost a billion dollars More garbage science about wildfires and global warming from Nature SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NOAA weather satellite Katelyn Emerson – Dupré’s I Preludio: Allegro agitato French rocket startup wins $16 million grant from French government Collins reportedly in the process of canceling its NASA spacesuit contract Blue Origin to FAA: Limit future SpaceX Starship launches at Cape Canaveral Arianespace calls for Europe to require all European space payloads use European rockets An island of hundreds of scour pits in Mars’ largest volcanic ash field Rita Hayworth – Put The Blame On Mame June 26, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, using a first stage for the 22nd time ULA replaces Sierra’s mini-shuttle with dummy payload to launch Vulcan in September Firefly signs deal to launch its Alpha rocket from Esrange spaceport in Sweden Breakup of defunct Russian satellite forces astronauts on ISS to retreat to lifeboat capsules NASA awards SpaceX $843 million contract to de-orbit ISS Collins officially backs out of contracts to build spacesuits for NASA Chang’e-6 sample return capsule opened in China Engineers revive instrument on Perseverance SpaceX now valued at $210 billion Juno infrared data confirms existence of at least eleven lava lakes on Io Japanese government proposes 300-mile-long conveyor belt for moving packages Supreme Court to SEC: Use of in-house administrative law judges unconstitutional Susan Boyle – I Dreamed a Dream Amazon delays offering Kuiper broadband service to ’25 China: Chang’e-6 collected more than four pounds of material from Moon Russian inspector satellite now approaching its eleventh communications satellite European weather satellite company cancels launch contract with Ariane-6, switches to SpaceX Indonesia government offering proposed launch site to SpaceX and others New update on SpaceX’s preparations for future Starship/Superheavy test launches Sixteen Nobel economists once again prove that our “expert” class is expert at nothing Clap Yo’ Hands – Fred Astaire & Kay Thompson June 28, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX and China complete launches France awards contract to French startup to launch two robotic satellite servicing missions Chinese first stage breaks free during static fire test; launches, crashes Japan’s H3 rocket launches successfully for the second time Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander completes thermal vacuum testing SpaceX studying changes to de-orbit procedures for Dragon service module New Polish suborbital rocket to be test flown from Andoya spaceport in Norway PLD pushes for first orbital launch from French Guiana in 2025 Is last week’s Biden-Trump debate a game-changing moment or not? Sunspot update: The Sun keeps its boom going July 1, 2024 Quick space links Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song Blue Origin expands deal to fly citizens free on New Shepard Florida approves expansion of spaceport territories Webb takes false-color infrared image of bi-polar protostar nebula Geology on Mars is not always what you think it is Centrifuge research on ISS suggests some artificial gravity can mitigate negative effects of weightlessness Democrats: You got what you asked for when the Supreme Court ruled presidents have absolute immunity for official actions July 2, 2024 Quick space links Lexington Lab Band – Waiting for a Girl Like You SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites Las Vegas space-related resort (claiming it will be a spaceport) gets FAA airport license SpaceX gets NASA contract to launch gamma-ray space telescope Two German-built spy satellites apparently failed immediately after launch Firefly postpones its next launch attempt to review data Pushback: Jury awards former BlueCross researcher almost $700K for firing her vindicatively for not getting the jab July 3, 2024 Quick space links Focus – Hocus Pocus Firefly’s Alpha rocket launches eight smallsats into orbit July 3, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Survey: Major shift rightward in Israel since October 7 Isaacman’s Polaris Dawn mission to launch July 31, 2024 Payload for the last launch of Avio’s Vega rocket now heading to French Guiana Space Force adds Stoke Space and Blue Origin to its list of smallsat launch companies Repost: Why we really celebrate the Fourth of July July 4 mid-day pause: 1776 Orson Welles – Battle Hymn of the Republic China launches “satellite group” of Earth observation satellites Kazakhstan joins China’s lunar base project ESA approves taking the Vega-C rocket away from Arianespace European Parliament member demands cancellation of launch deal with SpaceX A drainage gully on Mars? Coeur d’Alene’s regional chamber proves it hates the First Amendment and free speech Brian Wilson – Love and Mercy SpaceX releases new video of the fourth Starship/Superheavy test flight in June Can you spot the supernova? New print edition of Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 Study: Mortality rates higher for those who got the COVID jab On the radio SpaceX launches Turkey’s first homebuilt geosynchronous communications satellite OK Go – This Too Shall Pass July 8, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast $243.6 million plea deal allows Boeing to avoid a criminal trial Watch the first launch of Europe’s Ariane-6 rocket Webb: Hot Jupiter exoplanet has atmosphere with the smell of rotten eggs Japan dithers about capitalism in space A jumble of blocks in the middle of a Martian flood lava plain Europe at last launches Ariane-6 Columbia University continues to willingly condone anti-semitism among its bloated faculty and staff Larkin Poe – Mad As A Hatter Webb: An exoplanet in the habitable zone with a possible nitrogen/CO2 atmosphere and water ocean Astroscale’s ADRAS-J test spacecraft continues successfully maneuvers around abandoned rocket upper stage Japanese company proposes building a module to add to Axiom’s space station Radar movie produced of 500-foot-wide asteroid Astronomers: A black hole weighing 8,200 solar masses likely sits at the center of the Milky Ways’ largest globular cluster Reanalysis of Apollo seismic data finds 22,000 previously undetected quakes Iran provided financial support to the pro-Hamas demonstrators Starliner return delayed until after ground thruster tests are completed and analyzed India now has its own private company building space station modules Launch failure for Chinese pseudo-company Ispace Axiom signs $125 million deal with startup Gravitics to build a module for its space station India picks astronauts to train for manned mission to ISS The real reason the propaganda press is finally reporting Biden’s long-known mental decline A ridge that runs right over a Martian mesa Night Ranger – (You can still) Rock In America July 9, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Archeologists find the musket balls fired in the first shots of the Revolutionary War SpaceX launch experiences a failure of upper stage Europa Clipper mission threatened by faulty transistors Spanish rocket startup PLD gets $34 million loan to build orbital rocket South Korea: Numerous close calls between its lunar orbiter and others China planning an asteroid collision mission similar to DART Russia arrests three Europeans this week for trespassing at Baikonur spaceport A penguin and egg, as seen by Webb and Hubble FAA is apparently starting a new environmental impact assessment for Boca Chica Musk: European Union attempted to blackmail X into censoring tweets Yellow Dandies & Miss Moonshine – Buckdancing to Fastest Bluegrass Fiddle Tune Ever July 12, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA to “investigate” SpaceX launch failure Radar detects tiny moon of asteroid More delays for first test hops of Europe’s Themis reusable first stage Webb infrared spectroscopy detects differences between morning and evening on tidally-locked exoplanet A blob in space Part 1: The cultural silver lining around the Trump assassination attempt appears large and sustaining Don Ellis – Concerto For Trumpet ESA announces asteroid mission to Apophis Martian taffy terrain Part 2: The left’s lies are now exposed to the non-political general public Musk: SpaceX is moving its headquarters from California to Texas July 16, 2024 Quick space links Valentina Lisitsa – Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Europe targets 2031 for the first mission of its own lunar lander SpaceX to FAA: Allow launches to resume before completion of July 11th launch failure investigation Layered Martian mesa inside crater Today’s blacklisted American: Marvel bans all Jewish or Israelis characters A pit on the Moon reveals some really bad journalism July 17, 2024 Quick space links Ron Kenoly- Ancient of Days NASA cancels its VIPER payload on Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander CEO of Firefly removed Update on Cape Canaveral work by multiple launch companies Europe’s Gaia space telescope in trouble Astronomers discover an exoplanet with the most eccentric orbit so far found Researchers discover an anti-aging drug that extends the lives of rats 25% Curiosity looks up Gediz Vallis as it starts its journey out Columbia University donors fleeing because of its apparent willingness to tolerate bigotry and pro-Hamas mobs Scientists: Biden has infused DEI and racial quotas throughout the entire federal science bureaucracy July 18, 2024 Quick space links Leonid & Friends – Superstar July 18, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA and Boeing complete ground static fire tests of Starliner China launches earth observation satellite Astra goes private Rocks broken by Curiosity’s wheels contain the first pure sulfur crystals found on Mars ESA’s Juice probe to Jupiter prepares for first Earth+Moon slingshot fly-by The Trump assassination attempt provides another illustration of our bankrupt press/media John Williams – Gilligan’s Island Original Theme Song July 19, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA suspends all U.S. spacewalks on ISS due to water leak A classic spiral galaxy UK distributes cash to space sector to keep them in the UK July 22, 2024 Quick space links They Might Be Giants – Instanbul (Not Constantinople) On the radio Astroscale wins contract to deorbit OneWeb satellite Russia releases timeline for its Russian Orbital Station to replace its ISS operations New collection of X-ray false-color Chandra images More great hiking on Mars Everything connected to Washington and the Democratic Party stinks like a rotting corpse July 23, 2024 Quick space links Ann Miller – I’ve Gotta Hear That Beat Scientists find hydrogen molecules in Chang’e-5 lunar samples Axiom hires British astronaut Tim Peake SpaceX’s contract to de-orbit ISS reveals the inability of the older space companies to compete Webb takes infrared image of exoplanet Judge issues injunction against NLRB in favor of SpaceX The mountains of Mars July 23, 2024 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast July 24, 2024 Quick space links The anti-Semitic Pro-Hamas Democratic Party shows its colors again Merle Haggard – If I Could Only Fly July 24, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Saxavord: We will get our last required spaceport license by September Hungary/Axiom finalize deal to fly a passenger on its AX-4 commercial manned mission to ISS NASA/Boeing: Cause of Starliner thruster failure identified Sierra Space successfully completes 2nd test-to-failure of a full scale LIFE inflatable module Webb: Carbon monoxide detected on surface of Uranus’s moon Ariel suggests an underground ocean Zebra layering in the Martian high southern latitudes July 25, 2024 Quick space links SpaceX announces completion of investigation of July 11 Falcon 9 second stage failure Tim Simek & Marl Edelman – Whiskey Before Breakfast Do Kepler’s sunspot drawings tell us the length of the solar cycle in the 17th century? Perseverance finds intriguing geology, and the press goes crazy Report: Law enforcement officers nationwide no longer trust the FBI, and will not work with it July 26, 2024 Quick space links Avery “Drummer” Molek – Wipe Out July 26, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX’s Falcon 9 resumes launches, successfully launching 23 Starlink satellites To guarantee no capsule debris hits inhabited areas, SpaceX to move its manned splashdowns to Pacific Local billionaire landowner renews his oppposition to the Sutherland spaceport SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites SpaceX launches another 20 Starlink satellites Boeing completes full series of static hot fire engine burns on Starliner while docked to ISS Senate gives NASA cash to stop its tantrum FAA releases proposed environmental assessment of Boca Chica permitting more Starship/Superheavy launches Google monitors and censors Gmail and Googlegroup emails for political content it dislikes Meandering Martian ridges flowing down from crater rim July 29, 2024 Quick space links Emerson Lake & Palmer – Show Me the Way To Go Home ULA completes its 4th launch this year and last Atlas-5 launch for the Space Force Secret Service agent reveals the edifice of incompetency and stupidity that permeates the entire federal government July 30, 2024 Quick space links John Anderson – Seminole Wind China scientists propose both a communications and GPS-type infrastructure on the Moon A review of Japan’s effort to create a commercial space industry Boeing names new CEO, set to take over on August 8, 2024 Unlike the white community, a real politcal conversation is finally happening among blacks July 31, 2024 Quick space links J.S. Bach – Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052 July 31, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First flight of government-built hopper to test vertical landings delayed two years ULA squelches independent photography of its launches Update on Starship/Superheavy at Boca Chica Vast announces first two customer payloads on its Haven-1 space station Research from DART impact mission determines approximate ages of the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos My heart bleeds: The new head of the Secret Service is hurt because his people are “hurting” August 1, 2024 Quick space links Inspector General: Roman Space Telescope is meeting the budget overruns and schedule delays NASA predicted Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy – Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites China launches “high-orbit internet satellite” NASA/Boeing push back final decision of Starliner return Arianespace finally schedules last Vega launch Treaty allowing U.S. rockets to launch from Australia goes into effect Chinese scientists discover thin-layered graphene in Chang’e-5 lunar samples Rocket Lab successfully launches commercial Earth observation satellite A frozen bubbly caldron on Mars Charges against pro-Hamas rioters have routinely been dropped nationwide August 2, 2024 Quick space links Ferris Akel – Great Blue Heron August 2, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites SpaceX launches Cygnus cargo freighter to ISS Sunspot update: In July the Sun produced the most sunspots in almost a quarter century August 5, 2024 Quick space links Toploader – Dancing in the moon light Otta Orchestra – Gretela August 6, 2024 Quick space links China launches first 18 satellites in a new Starlink-type internet constellation Next manned Dragon mission to ISS delayed until September 24, 2024 Thank you to all who donated to Behind the Black in July Lufthansa signs deal with Airbus to train its astronauts for the Starlab space station Axiom changes its CEO European aerospace company Safran to open production facility in U.S. Orbital tug startup Impulse Space increases the kinds of satellites it will offer rides to geosynchronous orbit A supernova overpowers a spiral galaxy NASA has decided to consider bringing Starliner down unmanned Firefly wins a 20-launch contract from L3Harris Another “what the heck?” image from Mars Students win settlement against college for censoring their speech illegally August 7, 2024 Quick space links Arvo Pärt – Summa August 7, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX sets August 26, 2024 as new launch date for Polaris Dawn private manned mission Gaia space telescope identifies more than 350 asteroids with candidate moons Chinese Long March 6A upper stage breaks up into debris shortly after deploying satellites Rocket Factory Augsburg completes 2nd static fire test of first stage Brooklyn startup wins NASA contract to develop wireless communication technology for use on the Moon PLD targets October to begin construction of launch facilities in French Guiana Scientists propose much more efficient method for warming Mars to habitable temperatures Archeology on ISS? Florida proves that too many professors at public colleges might be better employed as dish washers Climax – Precious And Few WISE/NEOWISE space telescope mission ends after fourteen years Rocket Lab completes first static fire test of new more powerful rocket engine French startup Exploration Company has so far obtained almost $800 million in contracts NASA inspector general blasts Boeing’s management relating to its work on SLS’s new more powerful upper stage Crazily eroded rock on Mars SpaceX’s new Raptor-3 methane-fueled engine is so advanced the CEO of ULA doesn’t understand it Are these Martian terraced mesas or pits? Johnny Cash – Hurt August 9, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches an additional 21 Starlink satellites Rocket Lab launches commercial radar satellite SpaceX launches two broadband satellites for the Space Force and Norway FAA red tape apparently stalling the next Starship/Superheavy orbital test launch SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites Dawn Aerospace completes new round of flight tests of its small-scale rocket-powered airplane A galaxy with a ring FAA cancels scheduled public meetings to review new Boca Chica environmental assessment Trump to sue Justice Department over Mar-a-Lago raid and subsequent indictments The strange carbon dioxide ice cap of Mars’ south pole August 12, 2024 Quick space links Georg Friedrich Händel – The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba SpaceX announces another commerical passenger flight on a Dragon capsule Portugal’s air traffic agency signs deal with company wishing to build spaceport in Azores Axiom’s next commercial manned mission to ISS delayed until 2025 Orbital tug startup Astroscale expands partnership with European aerospace giant Airbus More bad journalism, this time about a hypothesized “underground ocean” on Mars It’s the audience that counts Buried peaks in a sea of Martian sand Let’s take a look at the college teachers and students who support Hamas and the torture and murder of little children 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In Intuitive Machines wants to land VIPER rover on Moon Update on status of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket Webb data suggests the possibility of ice and hydrated minerals on surface of Psyche The future route of Perseverance out of Jezero Crater NASA leaning now to send Starliner astronauts home on Dragon, in February 2025 Pushback: Former police chief who illegally raided local Kansas newspaper charged August 14, 2024 Quick space links Dorothy Dandridge – Cow Cow Boogie August 14, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches Progress cargo spacecraft to ISS SpaceX launches two commercial Earth observation satellites ULA losing launch crews to other rocket companies Rocket startup Stoke Space is saddled with the same red tape as SpaceX Astronomers discover a nearby star moving so fast it could even escape the Milky Way The continuing stalemate in the Ukraine War A tour of Blue Origin’s New Glenn factory Lockheed Martin to purchase satellite builder Terran Orbital Night Ranger – Goodbye India completes third and last test launch of its SSLV rocket NASA reconsiders cancellation of overbudget and behind schedule robotic refueling mission China launches new set of classified remote-sensing satellites Was the Chicxulub bolide 65 million years ago an asteroid from beyond Jupiter? New data continues to refine the margin of error for the Hubble constant Martian gullies flowing down to a Martian river of ice SpaceX launches 116 payloads on its eleventh smallsat Transporter mission August 16, 2024 Quick space links Laufey & Iceland Symphony Orchestra – I Wish You Love August 16, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab ships its two Mars Escapade orbiters to Cape Canaveral Sierra Space in negotiations to buy ULA Threatened with a lawsuit, Colorado lifts its ban of clothing with political messages Mining Mars August 19, 2024 Quick space links Jeff Kashiwa – The Night Is Young SpaceX launches 20 more Starlink satellites using a new first stage Rocket Factory Augsburg’s rocket fails during 9-engine static fire test SpaceX gets FCC okay for next Starship/Superheavy test flight Juice completes fly-by of Moon Court: Cop who arrested an innocent citizen illegally has no immunity What the heck caused these cones to align on Mars? August 20, 2024 Quick space links Tina Charles – I Love To Love Juice completes Earth fly-by, heads for Venus fly-by NASA delays Starliner return decision to end of month The North Star has spots! Astroscale signs deal with JAXA to de-orbit old rocket upper stage Pragyan data confirms theory that the Moon’s surface was once largely covered with molten lava oceans The massive scale of Mars’ biggest canyon Pushback: Parent sues Denver school board and four of its board members for slander August 21, 2024 Quick space links The Hollies – Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress August 21, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast First SLS/Orion manned mission faces new delays because of Orion heat shield issues Proposed commercial spaceport in Nova Scotia teams up with Voyager Space New port for big cruise ships dropped in Florida because it threatens space operations China launches communications satellite Chinese scientists find method to extract water from Chang’e-5 lunar samples Trump indirectly tells us the swamp WILL be drained if he is re-elected August 22, 2024 Quick space links Greg Lake – From The Beginning Starliner decision expected tomorrow, August 24 Rocket Factory identifies cause of failure during rocket static fire test Norway approves spaceport license for Andoya Amazon commits almost $20 million more to expanding its satellite production facility NASA adds three orbital tug startups to its contract bid list Finding beauty on Mars in all the strange places Robert Kennedy’s speech today, in which he suspends his campaign and endorses Trump August 23, 2024 Quick space link Ringo Starr, Robbie Robertson, & many others – The Weight August 23, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blue Origin delays first New Glenn launch two weeks to October 13, 2024 Update from Rocket Factory Augsburg’s CEO on first stage explosion on launchpad Starliner will return unmanned; crew will return in February 2025 on Dragon Rocket Factory Augsburg releases footage of 1st stage failure during static fire test JAXA finally shuts down SLIM operations after four months of no contact First high resolution images released from Juice’s fly-by of the Earth & Moon A real whirlpool in space The fall of DEI accelerates Launch of Jared Isaacman’s second spaceflight scheduled for tonight Phil Collins – Against All Odds August 26, 2024 Quick space links NASA reveals technical problem during solar sail deployment of test mission SpaceX blasts its satellite competitors for lobbying the government to shut down Starlink/T-Mobile partnership Firefly delivers its first Blue Ghost lunar lander for final environmental testing ABL completes investigation into launchpad fire in July D-Orbit newest orbital tug deploys four smallsats Webb finds six exoplanets, all flying in interstellar space without a star NASA IG: NASA’s effort to build new SLS mobile launcher is an epic disaster Judge: Vanderbilt student protester who violently took over a building can be prosecuted August 27, 2024 Quick space links Barry White & Love Unlimited Orchestra – Love’s Theme August 27, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Manned Polaris Dawn launch delayed due to weather SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites but loses first stage at landing Boom completes second flight test of one-third-scale prototype supersonic jet Musk: Starlink will be made available to all cell phones in emergencies Evidence of Martian near-surface ice in an unusual location Today’s blacklisted American: Woman arrested in Arizona for publicly criticizing a public employee FAA grounds SpaceX because of first stage landing failure early today August 28, 2024 Quick space links Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Chicken Train Chinese pseudo-company launches six satellites from off-shore barge NASA leans toward launching Europa Clipper as scheduled, despite transistor issue Lockheed Martin testing its own inflatable module design Has the FAA grounded SpaceX? Changing Martian slope streaks Pushback: Teacher fired for daring to attend rally on January 6th wins lawsuit August 29, 2024 Quick space link August 29, 2024 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Arcade Fire – Wake Up Starliner to return unmanned on September 6 NASA awards Intuitive Machines a new lunar lander contract NASA solar sail successfully deploys First New Glenn launch, set for October 13, 2024, only has an 8-day launch window NASA names revised crew for next manned Dragon mission to ISS The battle between a Brazil judge and Starlink/X escalates A cliff of ice on Mars August 30, 2024 Quick space links Rowan Atkinson on free speech FAA gets out of the way August 30, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX resumes launches with a bang! Rocket startup ABL lays off a significant number of staff Due to thruster problem, the Mercury orbiter BepiColombo will arrive at Mercury almost one year late A galaxy with a halo and a stupendous central black hole Sunspot update: The Sun continues to boom! John Gabriel & Nelson Riddle – El Dorado China launches “remote-sensing satellites” test satellites That sonar-type sound heard on Starliner’s speakers was simply feedback Largest corporate investor in rocket startup Rocket Factory Augsburg finalized deal to go private Scientists find oldest known reference to a solar eclipse dated approximately 6,000 years ago Two-lobed asteroid imaged by radar A frozen Martian splash Williams-Sonoma sued over its racist DEI hiring policies September 3, 2024 Quick space links If – Forgotten Roads Russia claims its next unmanned Moon mission, Luna-26, is on schedule NASA asks space industry for proposals on using the shelved Janus probes on mission to Apophis Private company launches small test rocket from privately run sea-based platform Sierra Space completes acoustic testing of Shooting Star cargo module that will fly on first Dream Chaser launch European rocket startup Maiaspace to begin tests of upper stage engine in ’25 A channel of ice, water, or lava? September 4, 2024 Quick space links Scary Pockets & Frankfurt Radio Big Band – Harder Better Faster Stronger Arianespace successfully completes the last launch of Avio’s Vega rocket September 4, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites NASA confirms Europa Clipper launch on October 10, 2024 with questionable transistors New Glenn’s 1st stage ocean-landing platform arrives in Florida China targets 2028 for its own Mars sample return mission New questions raised about the rocket startup Relativity Amateur astronomer detects changes in the reflective light coming off of NASA’s orbiting solar sail China significantly expands its international partners for its planetary program Mars loses hydrogen at very different rates, depending on the planet’s distance from the Sun Woman arrested at Arizona city council meeting for exercising her 1st amendment rights sues A former Democratic Party majority leader in California sees the light Curiosity takes another look south into Gediz Vallis September 5, 2024 Quick space links Fernando Ortega – Just As I Am SpaceX completes its second launch today China launches third batch of 10 satellites for proposed Starlink copycat constellation Czech government signs deal with Axiom to fly astronaut NASA confirms its giant solar sail is tumbling but doing so as planned NASA requests industry proposals for its canceled satellite refueling demo mission ESA releases images taken by BepiColombo during Mercury fly-by China lands its X-37B copycat reusable mini-shuttle Dust storm in Jezero Crater Local Texas authorities fine SpaceX for dumping potable water in Boca Chica Will NASA give up on Starliner after its present contracts are completed? Want to buy an original copy of the U.S. Constitution? NASA cancels launch of its two Escapade Mars Orbiters due to Blue Origin delays September 6, 2024 Quick space links John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Elvin Bishop – Blues Boogie Jam September 6, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starliner lands in New Mexico unmanned without problems Musk: First unmanned Mars Starship targeting a ’26 launch Today’s blacklisted American: Democrats demand Elon Musk be censored and arrested simply for disagreeing with them A crack on Mars more than 600 miles long Naomi SV – The Sounds of Silence Watch the launch of private manned Polaris Dawn Jared Isaacman’s private spacewalk manned mission launches on Falcon 9 Hurricane damages China’s new launch facilities at its coastal Wenchang spaceport In approving Europa Clipper’s launch, NASA and JPL claim its non-spec transistors will “heal” themselves in Jupiter orbit CEO of the German rocket statup Isar Aerospace pulls a Musk FAA delays launch license approval of next Starship/Superheavy test launch until late November A cloud atlas of Mars The reasons why Mars two polar caps are so different Why would anyone who wants a good college education ever go to Harvard? Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, Vince Gill, Albert Lee – Living on Tulsa Time September 10, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Engineers successfully switch thrusters on Voyager-1 Polaris Dawn successfully reaches highest orbit for a human since Apollo Space industry and Congress blast FAA for its so-called “streamlined” regulations Russia launches three astronauts to ISS Juno discovers new volcano on Io A map of Io’s hot spots based on Juno data A new study, commissioned by NASA, endorses giving NASA more power and money, even as NASA becomes more irrelevant September 11, 2024 Quick space links Junior Senior – Move your feet Two astronauts on commercial Polaris Dawn manned mission complete spacewalk SpaceX launches AST SpaceMobile’s first five operational cellphone satellites FAA attempts to justify its red tape Ispace targeting a December launch for its second attempt to softland on the Moon The UK awards space removal contract to Astroscale/Clearspace partnership NASA receives 11 VIPER proposals from the private sector Italian rocket company Avio outlines its future rocket plans Scientists re-create on Earth the sublimation of Mars’s winter mantle of dry ice A fluted mesa on Mars Heritage Foundation releases guide to colleges that teach instead of indoctrinate September 12, 2024 Quick space links Leonid & Friends – One Fine Morning SpaceX launches 21 more Starlink satellites Boeing employees reject deal of union and company and go on strike New gravity map of Mars released Intuitive Machines targeting January 2025 for launch of its next lunar lander Perservance looks back from on high Bad consequences from the medical profession’s panic/lies over COVID continue to build Sarah Gillis – Rey’s Theme September 13, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Resilience splashes down safely, ending Polaris Dawn commercial manned orbital mission Iran completes third orbital launch in 2024 Two Russian astronauts mark one year in orbit Investigation into upper stage failure during Ariane-6’s first launch completed What the Milky Way would look like if it was presently a star forming powerhouse Partisan Democrats hate so much they are willing to commit murder, and worse, now admit it openly September 16, 2024 Quick space links Monteverdichor Würzburg Orchestra – Finale from Handel’s Israel in Egypt Russia’s Angara rocket launches pair of classified military satellites France’s space agency aims to standardize its French Guiana commercial launchpad A space journalist suddenly notices that the FCC has no legal authority to regulate space junk FAA fines SpaceX $633K for acting without its permission Some new “What the heck?” geology on Mars September 17, 2024 Quick space links ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man/Tush SpaceX launches two more Galileo GPS-type satellites for Europe French rocket startup signs deal to use Australian spaceport NASA awards Intuitive Machines $4.8 billion contract to build Moon communication satellite constellation Musk: We will sue the FAA for “regulatory overreach” and “improper, politically-motivated behavior” Axiom in trouble? Pushback: Pastor who was arrested in Seattle for reading the Bible aloud wins in court September 18, 2024 Quick space links Indian government approves major space projects, including new rocket, missions to the moon, space station, Venus Rocket Lab has launch abort at T-0 seconds Sam and Dave – Hold On I’m Coming September 18, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Eutelsat awards multi-launch contract with Mitsubishi Sierra Space successfully tests equipment for extracting oxygen from the lunar soil FCC commissioner slams FCC for its partisan hostility to SpaceX Phobos rising and Earth setting as captured together by Curiosity Newly discovered potentially dangerous asteroid found to be a contact binary Webb takes an infrared look at a galaxy looked at by Hubble The Democrats: 28% think it would be a good thing if Trump were killed September 19, 2024 Quick space links China launches two GPS-type satellites Mireille Mathieu – La Marseillaise SpaceX launches 21 more Starlink satellites SpaceX and Elon Musk blast the FAA’s red tape again SpaceX finds a way to extend the launch window for Europa Clipper Brazil approves space bill that appears to crush that country’s future in space A review of Firefly’s new launch facilities in both the U.S. and Sweden Land of cracks September 20, 2024 Quick space links China’s solid-fueled Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches four satellites Boeing replaces the head of its defense/space/security division Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23: II Adagio September 20, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China and Rocket Lab complete launches Chinese pseudo-company almost succeeds in vertically landing test rocket Three astronauts return from ISS, landing in Kazakhstan SpaceX conducting salvage operations to recover a Superheavy booster in the Gulf of Mexico New Russian missile explodes during test Isar begins static fire tests of its Spectrum rocket More deterioration to Curiosity’s worst wheel September 23, 2024 Quick space links Nina Simone – My Way China launches eight satellites from offshore barge Blue Origin completes first static fire test of New Glenn upper stage Bioengineered heart samples on ISS confirm that weightlessness weakens and ages the heart Observations of solar flares do not match the standard model used to explain their origin Layered mesas in Martian chaos September 24, 2024 Quick space links FAA administrator claims SpaceX wasn’t following regulations; SpaceX says that’s false Eric Sahlström Institute – Nyckelharpan SpaceX launches 21 more Starlink satellites China launches five satellites New Zealand’s new government abandons promise to streamline red tape A puzzling striped rock on Mars Amateur gets new image of China’s X-37B copy in orbit Researchers identify the oldest cheese so far found, from 3,600 years ago Monitoring gullies on Mars for changes The real insurrection on Jan 6, 2021 was within the government, against Trump September 25, 2024 Quick space links Kenny Rankin – Blackbird September 25, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Japan launches reconnaissance satellite Lockheed Martin drops out of commercial manned lunar rover consortium The mess that presently exists in science The jet 3,000 light years long that causes nearby stars to explode NASA inspector general: Air leak in Zvezda module on ISS increased significantly in 2024 Musk and Shotwell once again blast red tape against the company September 26, 2024 Quick space links Skid Row – I Remember You Orbital tug startup D-Orbit raises another 150 million euros Starlink now has four million subscribers Rocket Lab completes new capsule for Varda Scientists locate lunar impact crater produced by LCROSS in 2009 Crazy swirling Martian landscape September 27, 2024 Quick space links Crosby Stills Nash – Judy Blue Eyes September 27, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches two astronauts to ISS, setting new annual launch record for the U.S. SpaceX pauses launches after de-orbit of Falcon 9’s second stage misfires China unveils proposed spacesuit for its planned manned lunar landings Proposed commercial spaceport in Azores launches two suborbital demonstration rockets Curiosity spots a corroded weathered rock Perseverance looks uphill Course carnage at Harvard as more than 30 queer and Marxist classes get axed September 30, 2024 Quick space links Canned Heat – Let’s Work Together FAA grounds SpaceX again During fly-by Juice snaps picture of Earth’s radiation belts Data from two different studies suggest Betelgeuse has a Sun-sized companion star Gogo buys competitor Satcom Direct Astronomers detect exoplanet half as massive as the Earth around second closest star system Busy cooking October 1, 2024 Quick space links Heart – Mistral Wind Engineers shut down one science instrument on Voyager-2 to conserve power Russia delays first launch of new Soyuz-5 rocket to 2026 Carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide found on the surface of Pluto’s moon Charon Orbital tug startup Impulse Space raises $150 million ISRO reveals design of its Chandrayaan-4 lunar sample return mission ESA awards Polish rocket startup €2.4 million contract Scientists detect jets of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide from asteroid Mid-October date for the 5th Starship/Superheavy test orbital launch? The strange terrain of the Martian southern ice cap Sunspot update: Sunspot activity crashes in September October 2, 2024 Quick space links Santana – Flor de Luna October 2, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Viewing Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Water on the Moon? New data analysis from two different lunar orbiters say yes European phone companies demand the FCC stop SpaceX’s cell-to-satellite Starlink plans Scientists confirm theory that thunderstorms on Earth also produce gamma ray bursts A new map of the magnetosphere of Mercury ULA’s big plans for 2025 Pushback: Fired teacher wins $575K free speech settlement from school board October 3, 2024 Quick space links Van Halen – Jump ULA successfully completes second test launch of its new Vulcan rocket FAA: No Starship/Superheavy launch before late November Engineers set new laser communications record to asteroid probe Psyche Avio completes testing of new redesigned nozzle for its Vega-C second stage Sierra Space wins Air Force contract to develop orbital cargo delivery system NASA pushes discrimination to favor minorities in its education workshops Frozen Martian eddies at the confluence of two glacier rivers October 4, 2024 Quick space links Jayne Mansfield – Concerto No. 6 in A Minor SpaceX launches Europe’s Hera asteroid mission Spanish rocket startup PLD unveils a proposed family of rockets plus crew capsule FAA and the Biden administration proves it is out to destroy SpaceX October 7, 2024 Quick space links Evie Sands – Take me for a little while Dominican Republic signs the Artemis Accords SpaceX says it is targeting October 13, 2024 for 5th Starship/Superheavy launch More details revealed of computer hacking of Japan’s space agency last year Scientists: both liquid water and ice shaped Gale Crater Curiosity’s upcoming travel route Donations to Columbia University continue to plunge in response to the pro-Hamas anti-Semitic protests on campus October 8, 2024 Quick space links Evan Nicole Bell – Catfish Blues Astronomers find another galaxy that shouldn’t be there in the early universe Monitoring a changing spot on Mars The bad consequences to the bad COVID policies in 2020 continue to pile up MonaLisa Twins – Dream A Little Dream Of Me October 9, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appears to jiggle like Jello on a 90-day cycle Viewing Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS when it enters the evening sky Judge rules for 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan, allowing his lawsuit against Deadspin to go forward Vast unveils its first preliminary design for the interior of its Haven-1 space station China launches what it claims is “high-orbit internet services satellite” EPA to NASA: We intend to regulate how you dispose ISS, and that’s only the start The pimpled floor of Isidis Basin on Mars October 10, 2024 Quick space links Danny B. Harvey & Annie Marie Lewis – You Win Again Mitsuibishi’s H3 rocket wins launch contract from UAE NATO to issue new space strategy to address growth in commercial sector Arianespace sets December 3, 2024 for the next Vega-C launch On-going manned test flights of Boom’s prototype supersonic plane inching towards the supersonic Fringe activists in Texas sue SpaceX to prevent further launches of Starship/Superheavy California officials: SpaceX shouldn’t be allowed to launch from Vandenberg because we hate Elon Musk Study proves that more than a decade after passage the promises of Obamacare were all a pack of lies October 11, 2024 Quick space links Eric Burdon & War – Spill The Wine October 11, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA approves launch license for tomorrow’s SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launch SpaceX Starship/Superheavy test flight achieves 100% of its goals Musk says SpaceX will sue California Coastal Commission Estonia signs Artemis Accords Congress: NASA violated the law by awarding grants that were used by Chinese scientists Uzbekistan signs Outer Space Treaty ESA awards D-Orbit €119.6 million contract to complete Europe’s first robotic service mission SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Europa Clipper mission Vast unveils its proposed full space station concept Even as the left ramps up its effort to cancel Columbus, new DNA data suggests he was born of Jewish parents October 14, 2024 Quick space links Lucille Ball – Jitterbug Bite SpaceX completes two launches last night from opposite coasts First test images sent back by Hera asteroid probe NASA extends the mission of the lunar orbiter Capstone to the end of 2025 China releases its planned space science program through 2050 Army successfully completes one-year commercial satellite pilot program China launches “satellite group” using Long March 6A rocket The evidence strongly suggests FAA top management is working to sabotage SpaceX October 15, 2024 Quick space links On the Space Show tonight OrtoPilot – Bittersweet Symphony China launches “Earth observation satellite” ESA releases first section of grand mosaic of the sky to be produced by Euclid Astrolab unveils small prototype unmanned rover NASA appears to be about to drop Boeing’s Starliner from its manned mission schedule in 2025 NOAA and NASA declare the Sun has reached solar maximum Proposed commerical spaceport in Nova Scotia signs launch deal with rocket startup Reaction Dynamics Airbus to eliminate 2,500 jobs in its space and defense divisions October 15, 2024 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Spring etch-a-sketch near the Martian south pole Axiom unveils its spacesuit design The Rolling Stones – Midnight Rambler October 16, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX sues California Coastal Commission NASA to phase out its government-built communications satellite constellation, rely on commercial services Sierra Space wins NASA contract to develop trash compactor for use in space Scientists: most asteroids come from a limited number of earlier break-ups Rocket Lab wins launch contract to launch quickly, within two months Musk: We will attempt to catch Starship like Superheavy, “hopefully early next year” NASA assembles two new panels to review its Mars Sample Return mission plans A water sprinkler in space Sinwar’s elimination is merely one small win in Israel’s new quest for total victory October 17, 2024 Quick space links Train – Drops Of Jupiter ULA recovers nozzle debris that fell off during second Vulcan launch ESA awards OHB Italia a preliminary contract to build Ramses probe to Apophis Commerce loosens regulations, allowing American space companies easier use of international facilities GAO: Next SLS Artemis launches will almost certainly be delayed A different kind of chaos on Mars October 18, 2024 Quick space links SpaceX launches 21 more Starlink satellites Minh Ngọc Ng – La Valse d’Amélie October 18, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space Force awards SpaceX big launch contract Good news: The European Union’s space law is delayed SpaceX successfully launches twenty OneWeb satellites Oman: 1st launch from Duqm spaceport by the end of the year Young lava on the Moon? A galaxy squashed as it plows its way through the intergalactic medium Perseverance’s future increasingly rocky road Intelsat satellite breaks up in geosynchronous orbit October 21, 2024 Quick space links Donations and applications to Harvard drop significantly Player – Baby Come Back Chile to sign Artemis Accords China launches three radar satellites SpaceX asks FCC for license revision for launching nearly 30,000 Starlink satellites The obvious visual evidence for assuming Mars once had catastrophic floods Have Americans finally awakened? Early voting suggests yes October 22, 2024 Quick space links Eric Clapton – Cocaine ULA begins stacking Vulcan for military launch, anticipating Pentagon approval A slight bend in one boom delays NASA solar sail flight A pointy mesa once washed by theorized Martian ocean October 23, 2024 Quick space links Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites October 23, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Review of the four private space stations presently under construction Dragon Endeavour undocks from ISS to bring 4 astronauts home Cyprus signs Artemis Accords Boeing forced to take another $250 million charge on Starliner JPL unveils website for viewing all high resolution imagery so far taken of Europa Spaceport startup SUAS Aerospace signs deal to launch small suborbital rocket from west coast of Ireland SpaceX rolls out the next Superheavy for sixth test orbital launch But will loyal Democrats actually abandon their beloved party? History says no October 24, 2024 Quick space links Bee Gees – Please Please Me SpaceX launches reconnaissance satellite for NRO Four astronauts complete 7-month mission and return to Earth The uncertainty of science: New research suggests first image in ’22 of Milky Way’s central black hole is likely not accurate Sutherland spaceport submits another revised plan to local council Using spectroscopic data, astronomers create 3D map of ancient supernova remnant Boeing considering selling its space division Taking the day off… Gina Lollobrigida – Pagan dance October 25, 2424 Quick space links One unidentified astronaut hospitalized after return to Earth today October 25, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space News buries the lede SpaceX yesterday launched another 23 Starlink satellites Unidentified astronaut from recent ISS mission released from hospital ISRO head unveils new timeline for major missions Old rockets clash with new rockets in Europe NASA picks nine lunar south pole candidate sites for Artemis-3 manned landing As if on cue, the Democrats now go after Musk for daring to campaign for Trump Hohnerklang – Silence and I October 28, 2024 Quick space links New issue with Voyager-1 ExoAnalytic now identifies more than 500 pieces from Intelsat satellite breakup Two cubesats on Hera signal home Perseverance looks across Jezero Crater from on high Lab tests suggest water brines could also exist on large asteroids Successful deployment of large array antennas on all five AST’s satellites Arecibo telescope collapsed because of a surprising engineering failure that inspections still should have spotted A return to Phantom and the reminiscences of an Apollo astronaut Pushback: Workers fired from San Fran’s subway for refusing jab win $1 million jury award China launches new crew to its space station October 29, 2024 Quick space links Richard Marx – Hazard October 29, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Sutherland finally gets the okay from local council JAXA confirms first hop of Callisto delayed until ’26 SpaceX launches 20 more Starlink satellites “What the heck?” lava on Mars SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites October 30, 2024 Quick space links Swingrowers – Midnight SpaceX: Only five more launches needed to complete Starlink direct-to-cell constellation Nearly four dozen anti-SpaceX activists organize to flood public meeting Russia launches military satellite Post-collision images of two galaxies Has there been a wave of fraudulent election ballots swamping PA? Let’s find out! Weird ring-mounds in one of Mars’ largest craters October 31, 2024 Quick space links House on Haunted Hill European Commission finally awards contract to build its government Starlink-type constellation Hypersonic engine manufacturer Reaction Engines goes bankrupt North Korea launches test ballistic missile for the 1st time in almost a year Scientists use Hubble and Webb to confirm there are as yet no planets forming in Vega’s accretion disk Boeing finally shuts down its DEI division A somewhat typical but strange crater in Mars’ Death Valley Another model proposed for explaining flowing liquid water in the distant Martian past November 1, 2024 Quick space links Riccardo Cocchi &Yulia Zagoruychenko November 1, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket startup Relativity experiencing money troubles Japan launches military communications satellite Australia issues licenses for two spaceports Three Chinese astronauts return to Earth Polaris Spaceplanes begins test flights of its second Mira prototype Australia cancels $7 billion satellite contract with Lockheed Martin A 2017 supernova as spotted by Hubble Farewell to America November 4, 2024 Quick space links Sunspot update: in October solar activity increased after September’s crash Judith Durham – Danny Boy Three launches last night WISE/NEOWISE burns up in the atmosphere Parker to make its last fly-by of Venus Astronomers call for the FCC to halt all launches of satellite constellations Expect fewer and less violent protests should Trump win Meandering channels on Mars November 5, 2024 Quick space links Jeff Daniels – Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech The first cubesat launched using wood for its side panelling FCC issues first deep space communications license to private asteroid mining company Ghana approves a government space policy Freedom: What Trump’s election will mean for America’s space policy November 6, 2024 Quick space links Mary Spender & Josh Turner – Sultans of Swing No posts till late today Next Starship/Superheavy test flight now targeting November 18th November 7, 2024 Quick space links SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites War – Low Rider Vast signs astronaut agreement with Czech government NASA denies press reports that Sunita Williams on ISS has health issues Giant dunes in a dune sea inside a Martian crater November 8, 2024 Quick space links Sierra Space announces plans to build a second Dream Chaser cargo spaceplane Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful November 8, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites China launches four remote-sensing satellites A defunct satellite is now in an unexpected orbit, and no one knows how it got there Off to the south rim of the Grand Canyon Linda Ronstadt – Blue Bayou SpaceX launches twice today from different Florida launchpads Returning to the Canyon again today Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Polaris completes first inflight ignition of its aerospike engine November 12, 2024 Quick space links Cargo Dragon docked to ISS boosts station JPL to layoff 5% of its workforce, the third major layoff this year Firefly raises $175 million in new private investment capital The dim future of SLS indicated at space business symposium Rocket Lab announces first launch contract for its new Neutron rocket Another cool hiking location on Mars Major court decision could invalidate many federal environmental regulations November 13, 2024 Quick space links A Climber’s Perspective – Stacking of a 490′ Self-Supporting Tower via helicopter SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites China and SpaceX complete morning launches Denmark joins the Artemis Accords Pakistan to fly a small rover on China’s Chang’e-8 lunar lander NASA reveals that it and Russia disagree about the danger posed by the airleak on ISS Boxwork in the dry Martian tropics November 14, 2024 Quick space links Lynyrd Skynyrd – T For Texas China launches Tianzhou cargo freighter to its Tiangong-3 space station NASA begins search for new headquarters building FAA forming new committee to revise its launch licensing regulations AST Spacemobile signs multi-launch agreement with Blue Origin Blue Origin links the first and second stages of New Glenn for the first time SpaceX and Amazon take their lawsuits against the NLRB to a higher court SpaceX scraps its land swap offer to Texas New thermal protection system developed by Sierra Space Rocket startup ABL abandons its effort to build a rocket Orbital tug startup Impulse Space buys three SpaceX Falcon 9 launches November 15, 2024 Quick space links Insider Food – How New York’s Best Bagel Shop Makes 100,000 Bagels By Hand Every Week November 15, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX delays 6th Starship/Superheavy launch one day to November 19, 2024 NASA’s annual audit is not only not as great as NASA claims, it illustrates how the poison of DEI permeates the agency SpaceX launches Australian geosynchronous communications satellite European cargo capsule startup raises $160 million in private investment capital Oh no! Starship/Superheavy is loud! A spiral galaxy as seen from the side A new geologic map of one of the Moon’s largest impact basins SpaceX successfully completes two launches today Part 1: The sleeping giant of the American public has finally awakened Louis Armstrong – Mack The Knife Dawn Aerospace small-scale rocket-powered airplane breaks the sound barrier ESA awards four European rocket startups contact extensions worth €44.2 million total Judge rules that Ligado’s $39 billion lawsuit against federal government can proceed Part 2: The waking sleeping giant lurks not just in public places Freedom wins again: SpaceX completes the 6th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy Lynda Carter – Rhumba Girl November 19, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Flights into Brownsville sold out prior to SpaceX’s sixth test flight of Starship/Superheavy NASA to award SpaceX and Blue Origin contracts to deliver cargo to the Moon FAA approves revised launch rate for Boca Chica; schedules public meetings Part 3: Fixing our bloated federal government and the administrative state is going to take decades Sade – The Sweetest Taboo November 20, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast French rocket startup wins multi-launch contract Russia and SpaceX complete launches The space agencies of India and Australia agree to cooperate in recovering Gaganyaan A U.S. startup building a returnable capsule raised $44 million in investment capital Space Perspective wants to launch its balloon from the Middle East Musk: Starship will likely attempt a chopstick landing on the eighth test launch ESA gives its big space rocket company, ArianeGroup, a big subsidy Gophers dropped near Mt St. Helens for one day cause a gigantic bloom of plant life 40 years later If ordinary people don’t show up at those upcoming FAA Starship/Superheavy public meetings they WILL be screwed November 19-20, 2024 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast Vince Gill, Gregg Allman, Zac Brown – Midnight Rider The next two Vulcan launches for the Pentagon slip to 2025 China’s plan to land astronauts on the Moon NASA once again gambling on the lives of its astronauts for political reasons ESA and JAXA sign agreement to increase cooperation and accelerate development of Ramses mission to Apophis Starship gets contract to deliver Lunar Outpost’s rover to Moon Distinct gully draining the side of a Martian crater Ferris Akel – Napping Raccoon November 22, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Glenn on the launchpad and vertical for the first time SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites Unloading of new Progress docked to ISS delayed due to “toxic smell” Launches galore in the past twelve hours Italy to resume use of its San Marco spaceport off the coast of Kenya Martian mountains amidst a deep sea of sand November 25, quick space links Jefferson Airplane – Crown Of Creation SpaceX wins launch contract for Dragonfly mission to Titan France to resume suborbital launches at French Guiana Engine for Japan’s new Epsilon-S rocket explodes during static fire test Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander now targeting mid-January launch window Hubble vs Webb, or why the universe’s secrets can only be uncovered by looking at things in many wavelengths Etched terrain on Mars Rick Beato – The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse November 26, 2024 Quick space links Two launches early today Engineers restore Voyager-1 after communications issue Judge dismisses lawsuit against SpaceX by activists ESA flies suborbital rocket from Swedish spaceport FCC approves use of Starlink for direct cell-to-satellite T-Mobile service American spaceplane startup signs deal with Australian spaceport startup NASA: forcing it to fly VIPER would cause it to cancel funding to 1 to 4 other commercial lunar landers Trump’s picks to run all the federal health agencies guarantees major change is coming Unusual light-colored Martian dunes November 27, 2024 Quick space links Stan Ridgway – Camouflage November 27, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lincoln proclaims a day of Thanksgiving — in the middle of the Civil War UPDATE: Launch did not occur Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land “Toxic smell” at Progress hatch was hypergolic fuel Update on Astroscale’s mission to de-orbit a OneWeb satellite Strange mesas in the glacier country of Mars Russia launches radar satellite November 29, 2024 Quick space links Mae West – I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites SpaceX launches for NRO Construction begins for 3rd spaceport in Scotland China completes first launch of its Long March 12 rocket New stars shaped by old stars The real proof that the American political scene is about to experience a new revolution Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald China launches communications test satellite Varda wins $48 million Air Force contract The uncertainty of science: Star refuses to erupt when predicted Analysis of Chang’e-6’s lunar samples suggest the giant impact that caused Aitken Basin occurred 2.83 billion years ago PLD obtains a new loan, this time for $11.6 million Perseverance on the verge of leaving Jezero Crater December 3, 2024 Quick space links November 7, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX looking to raise more private investment capital The Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down to Georgia Two launches completed of the seven launches expected in the next 24 hours Orbex gives up on the Sutherland spaceport, switches to SaxaVord Japan awards $32.5 million contract for lunar GPS-type satellite constellation to startup Trump picks billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA The strange beginning of a 300-mile-long meandering canyon on Mars December 4, 2024 Quick space links Malinda – Lucky Two more launches completed today December 4, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Another record-setting launch day worldwide Airbus cuts almost 500 jobs in Great Britain Republican California state legislator introduces bill to overturn California Coastal Commission’s effort to block SpaceX Yuma competing for up to $160 million in an NSF grant to establish its own spaceport Sierra Space signs deal using its Dream Chaser mini-shuttles for in-space manufacturing Union official accuses Boeing of more unsafe practices Next two Artemis missions delayed again, with the future of SLS/Orion hanging by a thread Europe’s Vega-C rocket returns to flight after being grounded for more than two years Frank Ifield – I Remember You Why Orion’s heat shield problems give Jared Isaacman the perfect justification to cancel all of SLS/Orion Japan’s space agency admits first launch of its new Epsilon-S rocket will be delayed ESA to provide ground station communications support for India’s manned Gaganyaan missions Hubble takes a different look at quasar 3C 273 Iran launches its Simorgh orbital rocket Strange flat layers on Mars Tim McLaughlin – NYC&C Scale Model Railroad SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites December 6, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ten stupid academic studies funded by the federal government “Thar’s ice in them hills!” December 9, 2024 Quick space links Kamila Valieva – Avatar Panama and Austria to sign Artemis Accords One of Australia’s proposed spaceports moves AST SpaceMobile’s satellite-to-cell constellation gets its second contract Superheavy to be used on next test flight completes 15-second static fire test Two congressmen demand FAA streamline its launch licensing process NSF punts on its two big telescope projects Reanalysis of Webb data discovers more than a hundred very small main-belt asteroids Part 1 of 2: What NASA’s next administrator should do if SLS and Orion are cancelled December 10, 2024 Quick space links ULA’s CEO outlines a bright 2025 for its Vulcan rocket ABBA – Chiquitita Ingenuity’s last flight: an accident investigation SpaceX recovers parts of Starship from its last test launch on November 19th Lucy about to do close fly-by of Earth in order to slingshot it towards the orbit of Jupiter Land-locked Zimbabwe wants a spaceport, and is asking the Russians to help build it Part 2 of 2: De-emphasize a fast Moon landing and build a real American space industry instead A review of the last half century of major ice calving events in Antarctica detects no trend December 11, 2024 Quick space links ADRAS-J gets within 50 feet of abandoned rocket stage Daryl Hall – Can We Still Be Friends December 11, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches five satellites to test the design of a planned laser communications constellation A satellite startup in Oman signs on to China’s lunar base partnership Ispace signs agreement with lunar mining startup Chinese citizen arrested for flying drone illegally over Vandenberg ESA continues to dither about building a heavy lift rocket Io’s volcanoes get their lava from separate magma chambers, not a global underground ocean of magma Land of knobs Head of FAA resigns December 12, 2024 Quick space links Grissini Project – Merry go round of Life SpaceX requests special election to make Starbase at Boca Chica a city Rocket startup Stoke Space completes static fire test of first stage engine Curiosity begins to round the corner out of Gediz Vallis Perseverance reaches top of Jezero Crater rim December 13, 2024 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel December 13, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive is over. Big thanks to everyone who donated! Juno spots changes on Io’s surface in just a two-month span Boeing to take more than a decade to refit two 747s for Air Force One FAA eliminates a stupid licensing requirement imposed when it “streamlined” its launch licensing regulations China launches first set of satellites for planned internet megaconstellations Ispace awarded $5.83 million loan from Japanese government Northwestern University joins Giant Magellan Telescope consortium Another American rocket startup gets a multi-launch contract The Insight lander on Mars as seen from orbit over six years A galactic eye in heaven On the Space Show tomorrow December 16, 2024 Quick space links Faith Hill – A Baby Changes Everything China and SpaceX complete launches Thailand signs the Artemis Accords T-Mobile initiates direct-cell-to-satellite texting using Starlink New computer simulations suggest Saturn’s rings are not young but formed at the same time as the solar system Europe to spend $11 billion to build its own Starlink government constellation Starlink revenue in 2025 now projected to be $11.8 billion Ranking the four private space stations under construction Barlow Girl – Carol of the Bells Using a new first stage booster, SpaceX launches two communications satellites December 17, 2024 Quick space links FAA issues license for SpaceX’s seventh test flight of Starship/Superheavy Second launch attempt by Japanese rocket startup fails about 90 seconds after liftoff Dragon cargo capsule returns from ISS New manned Dragon capsule forces NASA to shuffle ISS crew launch and return schedules Astronomers discover 1st binary star system orbiting Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole Curiosity looks down and across Gale Crater SpaceX launches reconnaissance satellite Amy Grant – Breath of Heaven December 18, 2024 Quick space links Axiom to speed up assembly of its space station December 17, 2024 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast December 18, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese pseudo-company launches four satellites ESA awards Avio three contracts worth $372 million for its Vega rockets Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander wins its fourth lunar NASA contract Activists sue Texas commission for allowing SpaceX to use its Superheavy deluge launch system Alabama Republican congressman introduces spaceport funding bill to help a non-spaceport More evidence SLS and Orion are on the way out Vast signs deal with SpaceX for two ISS tourist missions Pushback: Blacklisted doctor gets lawsuit reinstated by higher court Land of dust devils December 19, 2024 Quick space links Xaver Varnus – Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor Oh no! The sonic booms of SpaceX are coming! Perseverance takes its first good look west at its future journey China launches a communications test satellite December 20, 2024 Quick space links Enrollment in colleges nationwide dropped 5% in 2024 Sydney Philharmonia Choir & Orchestra – Handel’s Hallelujah December 20, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX experiences a launch abort at T-0 SpaceX and Rocket Lab complete two launches overnight Liechtenstein signs the Artemis Accords Defunct Pentagon weather satellite breaks up NASA awards four companies contracts to provide communications for operations in Earth orbit SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites Dubai-based AI/3D printing company successfully test fires an aerospike engine Using Hubble to monitor a fading supernova A Martian river of sand Post COVID data in the UK: Those who got the jab substantially increased their chances of death December 23, 2024 Quick space links Binbam – What is Hanukkah? December 24, 2024 Quick space links Repost: The real meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise image Handel – For unto us a child is born Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Russia launches earth resources satellite Rich Mullins – You Gotta Get Up (It’s Christmas Morning) The known history of the Colossus of Rhodes New climate research debunks CO2’s ability to warm the atmosphere, even as other research shows CO2 greens the Earth Just one of many potential hiking trails down into Valles Marineris December 26, 2024 Quick space links Gaiea Sanskrit – Prayer song/Ambā Parameśwari Chinese solid-fueled rocket fails during launch Parker probe phones home, signalling it has successfully survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun Eutelsat-OneWeb stock plummets Why this place in Valles Marineris is NOT a good place to establish trails and inns Blue Origin finally gets FAA license to launch New Glenn, now targeting January 6, 2025 December 27, 2024 Quick space links Adam Sandler: The Hanukkah Song III Blue Origin completes first full dress rehearsal countdown and static fire test of New Glenn Roscosmos buys Earth observation data from private Russian satellite company SpaceX completes two launches tonight from opposite coasts China replaces head of its space agency ESA approves a slightly smaller preliminary budget for 2025 India launches its first attempt to do an in-space docking demo A fading supernova 650 million light years away Beware the DEI shell game December 30, 2024 Quick space links India gets nine bids involving 30 companies on proposal to build satellite constellation Toronto Bach Festival Orchestra – So sheep may safely graze SpaceX launches another set of Starlink satellites Chinese pseudo-company gets major cash influx for its Starlink copycat constellation Italian government awards former Ukrainian startup a $1.14 million development loan A strange dune in the high southern latitudes of Mars December 31, 2024 Quick space links Space Force starts environmental impact study of SpaceX’s launches at Vandenberg Angelo Kelly & Family – Auld Lang Syne Seventh Starship/Superheavy test launch now targeting January 10, 2025 An apparent rocket part falls in Kenya January 1, 2025 Quick space links Neil Young – Old Man A detailed look at SpaceX’s investors and its stock valuations The global launch industry in 2024: A year of amazing highs and depressing lows, with the best yet to come Sunspot update: Is this sunspot maximum over, or will it become another doubled peaked maximum? India and SpaceX announce their planned launch goals for 2025 January 2, 2025 Quick space links On the radio Sergei Prokofiev – Dance of the Knights A detailed review of space-related legislation in the ending session of Congress Parker confirms it gathered science data during its record-breaking solar fly-by on December 24th FAA cancels one of three public meetings on the Starship/Superheavy environmental reassessment Mars gives us another “What the heck?” image Scientific American is looking for a new and “diverse” editor-in-chief! January 3, 2025 Quick space links Baumgartner Restoration – The Hole Nine Yards January 3, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FBI investigating reports of an effort to bomb SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starship facility SpaceX successfully completes the first launch in 2025 ISRO delays its unmanned docking in orbit two days Italy’s military negotiating with SpaceX to use its Starlink constellation for communications Trump administration considering major positive changes at NASA SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites January 5, 2025 Quick space links Chase – Open Up Wide China completes its first launch in 2025 Sierra Space CEO suddenly announces retirement The members of Trump’s NASA transition team Toyota invests in rocket startup NASA is considering two options for getting Perseverance’s Mars samples to Earth BepiColombo to fly past Mercury again on January 8, 2025 January 7, 2025 Quick space links Mozart – Requiem: Lacrimosa & Amen SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites; delays 7th Starship/Superheavy launch several days Japan identifies a Chinese hacker group as the source of 210 attacks since 2019 India appoints a new leader for its space agency ISRO Blue Origin fined by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for using its launch deluge system Oman plans three more suborbital launches in ’25 from its proposed spaceport site Graceful beauty found within the mid-latitude glaciers of Mars January 8, 2025 Quick space links Rush – Limelight January 8, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast January 7, 2025 Space Show panel discussion from the show’s advisory council The biggest members of ESA cut their annual contributions to the partnership DeSantis: Put NASA headquarters in Florida JPL shuts down due to threat from California fires SpaceX is now targeting January 13, 2025 for 7th Starship/Superheavy test launch Correction: SpaceX DOES NOT launch 21 more Starlink satellites ESA releases three images taken by BepiColombo during its Mercury fly-by yesterday The mysteries buried in the Martian south pole ice cap The new conservatives who have been mugged by a wildfire January 9, 2025 Quick space links Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dance #5 ISRO moving ahead with Spadex docking Rocket Lab’s new Neutron rocket added to NASA’S contract bidding list Cruz reveals another area where red tape is blocking SpaceX at Boca Chica: roads Hubble captures a nice example of intergalactic microlensing SpaceX completes two launches, reusing first stage a record number of times The old media logjam has broken: Even the left is now getting its news from new media January 10, 2025 Quick space links Overview Effect – Spin Gravity Compared January 10, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New Glenn launched delayed one more day because of rough seas Live stream of first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket-Launch scrubbed! January 10, 2025 Zimmerman appearance on the UAP Crossfire podcast China completes second launch in 2025 SpaceX launches another 21 Starlink satellites After more than two years, Australian rocket startup thinks its launch approval is about to finally arrive Ridges from fractures at the head of a 300+mile-long Martian drainage channel Malinda Kat and Rachel Hardy – Into the West Boom about to go supersonic Mars geology at its strangest Launches galore! Is China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover dead? January 14, 2025 Quick space links Katherine Jenkins – Abigail’s Song January 14, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Live stream of SpaceX launch of two lunar landers SpaceX successfully launches two commercial lunar landers Varda flying its second returnable capsule JPL survives LA fires Spadex’s unmanned docking faces possible two month delay 7th Starship/Superheavy test launch delayed one day Bursting ice sheets on Mars January 15, 2025 Quick space links Cicely Parnas & Annie Jacobs-Perkin – Barber of Seville Live stream of first New Glenn launch Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn India’s Spadex mission completes docking Stoke Space raises another $260 million, more than doubling its private capital Blue Ghost operating as expected on its way to the Moon Rocket Factory Augsburg gets conditional licence for launching at Saxavord One Martian ridge among many Live stream of the 7th test orbital flight of Starship/Superheavy Starship lost near end of its orbital burn; Superheavy successfully captured by chopsticks January 16, 2025 Quick space links Pink Floyd – Us And Them China launches three satellites, one for Pakistan U.S and Norway sign deal to allow U.S. companies to launch from Andøya Hubble’s biggest image yet, of Andromeda FAA demands SpaceX do “mishap investigation” into the loss of Starship yesterday Has the tourist balloon company Space Perspective gone belly-up? January 17, 2025 Quick space links Veritasium – The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong January 17, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast January 17, 2025 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas appearance A 360 degree view from Perseverance Chinese pseudo-company completes launch Did a high altitude Grasshopper rocket test last week by China fail? Meandering channel inside a larger glacial-filled valley Anna Lapwood – Hans Zimmer’s Cornfield Chase & Saint-Saëns’ Sinfonie #3 Organ finale SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites Trump picks Janet Petro of Kennedy to be acting NASA administrator, not Jim Free of headquarters SpaceX launches 27 mini-Starlink satellites Japan’s government wants its private sector to do all its future space station work, not its space agency JAXA General Atomics successfully tests fuels to be used in an in-space nuclear propulsion system South Korea’s space bureaucracy attempts to encourage private sector development To my readers Moniuszko School of Music Symphony Orchestra – Barber’s Adagio Finland signs Artemis Accords Fast radio burst unexpectedly traced to dead and old elliptical galaxy Blue Ghost completes first main mid-course correction engine burn Fake news teams up with European childishness to attack Elon Musk MonaLisa Twins – Edelweiss January 22, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches 6th group of 18 satellites for its Spacesail internet constellation Rocket Lab wins launch contract with German satellite constellation NASA quickly shutters its DEI offices Congresswoman calls for moving NASA headquarters to Florida Peeling flood lava on Mars Thomas Gabriel – Folsom Prison Blues Report predicts both Boeing and Airbus will sell off their space divisions this year AST SpaceMobile raises $400 million in capital Space Perspective needs new investors China and SpaceX complete launches Engineers confirm OSIRIS-APEX successfully completed its second of six close fly-bys of the Sun European rocket startups team up to send letter to ESA outlining their priorities Today’s blacklisted American: Queer protesters force cancellation of a speech against men playing women’s sports January 24, 2025 Quick space links Anna Lapwood – How does a pipe organ actually work? January 24, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Strap-on booster of Long March 3B launched yesterday crashed next to home Barren Mars January 27, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches another 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra – Lulle Lulle Firefly planning five launches from Vandenberg in 2025 Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 test plane breaks the sound barrier Arianespace to launch Ariane-6 five times in 2025, with the first launch targeting February 26th Pushback: The left discovers it doesn’t have the right to break the law The blobby bottom of Utopia Basin January 28, 2025 Quick space links Air Supply – Making Love Out of Nothing At All India launches GPS-type satellite Blue Ghost makes second orbital burn, setting up transfer from Earth to lunar orbit United Kingdom awards rocket startup Orbex $25 million Juno detects the largest volcanic event on Io yet 200-foot-wide asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of hitting the Earth in 2032 Musk posts a silly tweet saying Trump wants SpaceX to rescue the Starliner astronauts and the press goes stupid again Apple joins T-Mobile’s project to use Starlink satellites as orbiting cell towers January 29, 2025 Quick space links Astroforge names the target asteroid for its first commercial interplanetary mission Andrea Bocelli & Céline Dion – The Prayer SpaceX launches Spanish communications satellite January 29, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Ariane-6 gets more launch contracts Update on upcoming Starship/Superheavy test flights Samples from the asteroid Bennu reshape entirely our understanding of the solar system’s early make-up A big crack on Mars January 30, 2025 Quick space links Morgan James – Human The crew and passengers for Axiom’s fourth tourist flight to ISS Ispace posts first picture taken by its Resilience lunar lander Malaysia begins spaceport study NASA’s useless safety panel makes another useless announcement about Starliner SpaceX and Vast jointly request research proposals for first mission to Vast’s Haven-1 space station Hardened dunes or eroded lava? Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) now demands “forced mandatory vaccinations” January 31, 2025 Quick space links Fabio Pacucci – Newton’s three-body problem explained January 31, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites Japan’s H3 rocket successfully completes its fifth launch Indian navigation satellite stranded in wrong orbit OneWeb is years behind schedule in activating its service in the Falklands British rocket start-up Orbex wins two-launch contract from Italian orbital tug company D-Orbit Satellite startup Astranis awards SpaceX another launch contract Is SpaceX routinely stiffing its outside construction contractors in Boca Chica? Curiosity’s view from the heights The first real Republican president in a half century Barcelona Guitar Trio – Billie Jean SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Boeing writes off another half billion dollars due to Starliner NASA suspends numerous advisory committees to comply with Trump executive orders NASA calls for the private sector to launch VIPER to the Moon Astronomers find galaxy with nine rings Gullies on crater wall Curt & Diva Smith – Mad World SpaceX launches two high resolution Earth imaging reconnaissance satellites Russia completes first launch in 2025 UAE hires Thales-Alenia to build its airlock for Lunar Gateway ISRO considering doing more docking tests with Spadex satellites Rocket Lab wins another multi-launch contract New Mexico’s Spaceport America loses another customer The uncertainty of science: Scientists now say eating eggs reduces your chances of a heart attack Sunspot update: Sunspot activity continued its decline in January Martian hardened dunes untouched by dust devils Trump has finally taught Republicans how to fight Life in a nutshell February 5, 2025 Quick space links February 5, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Putin fires head of Roscosmos German startup Atmos gets FAA approval to launch its orbital research capsule Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander gets commercial rover to replace NASA’s VIPER rover SpaceX withdraws from process to bring Starlink to South Africa Michael Nesmith – Joanne February 6, 2025 Quick space links Vast delays launch of Haven-1 space module to May 2026 SpaceX to use older Dragon capsule for next manned launch because of issues with new capsule The weird landscape in Mars’ glacial country Arthur Clarke in 1964 predicts the future in 2000 Boeing notifies SLS employees of impending layoffs ULA swapping Vulcan for Atlas-5 for first 2025 launch More indications balloon company Space Perspective is about to go bankrupt New calculations raise odds from 1.2% to 2.3% that asteroid will impact Earth in ’32 SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites Rocket Lab launches 5 Kinéis satellites for its constellation for the internet of things February 7, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Falklands public wants the freedom to choose between OneWeb and Starlink Germany commits almost a million dollars to build off-shore launch platform The payloads on Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander, including a hopper and a rover It won’t be Democratic Party stupidity that will give Republicans victories in ’26 and ’28 A pimple on Mars Cliff Richard – We Don’t Talk Anymore SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites February 10, 2025 Quick space links Blue Ghost leaves Earth orbit A Pakistani rover will fly on China’s Chang’e-8 mission to the Moon Astronomers catalog large ring systems surrounding 74 stars China and SpaceX complete launches Maybe the only way to reform academia is to shut it down and start over Judy Garland – Old Man River Orbex scouts Saxaford in advance of first launch Firefly wins $8.2 million grant from Texas Space Commission NASA announces March 12, 2025 as new launch date for next crew to ISS Modern academia: “We aren’t going to hire another white guy, are we?” Hal Holbrook – Lincoln’s second inaugural address, in honor of his birthday February 12, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast European underwater neutrino telescope detects most powerful neutrino ever Judge okays vote on whether SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility can incorporate as city French rocket startup signs Spanish rocket engine startup to provide attitude thrusters Chinese pseudo-company GalaxySpace successfully tests its cell-to-satellite system Rocket Lab delivers its third service module for Varda’s orbiting capsules Another Democrat demonstrates her stupidity and ignorance, demanding NASA’s acting administrator revoke Musk’s access to headquarters Pits formed from sublimating underground ice on Mars? The movement to ban smartphones in schools widens Heart – Silver Wheels/Crazy On You Blue Origin’s CEO lays off 10% of Blue Origin’s workforce to reduce “bureaucracy” Astronomers demand more regulations to prevent industry from ruining the Moon’s “environment” A rose in space Watching a Falcon 9 liftoff from an airplane passenger seat Starlink Falcon 9 launch sets new reuse record for first stage February 14, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Texas commission rejects anti-SpaceX calls to deny company its Starship deluge water permit Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit, targets March 2, 2025 for landing Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander completes lunar flyby in preparation for entering lunar orbit Starlab space station wins $15 million grant from Texas ESA astronaut with no right leg cleared by medical board to fly to ISS British rocket startup Skyrora targets ’26 for its first orbital test flight Glacial material even in Mars’ Death Valley With CBS helping him, under no condition should Trump settle his $10 billion lawsuit against the network February 17, 2025 Quick space links Marcin Patrzale – 1st movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, on a Guitar SpaceX engineers given task to review FAA air traffic operations ISRO’s head touts private construction of PSLV rocket Another “What the heck?” image on Mars, this time a mystery on both small and large scales Blue Ghost lowers its lunar orbit while shooting a movie of the Moon February 18, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites; landing first stage on drone ship in the Bahamas Sam & Dave – Soul Man On the Space Show tonight Rocket Lab launches another Blacksky commercial reconnaissance satellite ULA & Northrop Grumman complete static fire test of Vulcan strap-on booster SaveRGV drops lawsuit against SpaceX’s Boca Chica operations New data from Webb shows the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole flares multiple times per day Musk: Biden delayed the return of Starliner’s astronauts “for political reasons” Alaskan spaceport sues insurance company over delayed rocket clean-up claims February 18, 2025 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast The broken edge of Mars’ largest volcanic ash field Australian rocket startup Gilmour Space appears to have finally gotten its launch license February 19, 2025 Quick space links Andrés Segovia – J S Bach: Sarabande & Gavotte en Rondeau February 19, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast The uncertainty of science: Astronomers keep changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 Boeing announces a new round of layoffs related to its SLS NASA contract The man who has been running NASA’s manned Artemis program resigns French startup The Exploration Company wins major contract from Germany Ghouls and Monsters in Gaza February 20, 2025 Quick space links Spanish rocket startup PLD signs deal for a second launch site at Oman’s proposed spaceport Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites German rocket startup Isar Aerospace completes ground testing of Spectrum rocket Justice Department drops absurd Biden-era discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX New observations reduce odds of asteroid 2024 YR4’s 2032 Earth impact to practically zero Billionaire who fought Sutherland spaceport now owns at least half of competing Saxavord spaceport Airbus writes off $314 million for unnamed space program losses Musk: ISS should be de-orbited quickly! And he may be right. A Martian glacier of dust February 21, 2025 Quick space links Alison Balsom – Introducing the Baroque Trumpet February 21, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China and SpaceX complete launches Blue Ghost instrument proves Earth-orbiting GPS-type satellites can be used to track location from the Moon Gilmour announces target date for first launch of its Eris rocket Rocket startup Interstellar receives another grant from Japan Thales Alenia completes the habitable module for Lunar Gateway Eutelsat-Oneweb uses its satellite constellations to test technology for phone-to-satellite capabilities Close-up of Blue Ghost’s landing zone on the Moon Hubble takes a close look at one tiny part of the Veil Nebula SpaceX now targeting February 28, 2025 for 8th Starship/Superheavy test orbital flight Bumpy frozen lava on Mars February 24, 2025 Quick space links The Hollies – Bus Stop More changes in NASA’s upper management New calculations now say asteroid 2024 YR4 will almost certainly not hit the Earth in 2032 Australia’s government proposes subsidies to build spaceport in Western Australia Curiosity looks uphill into canyon Pushback: North Carolina University quickly backs down when challenged over its remaining DEI policies February 25, 2025 Quick space links Yo-Yo Ma – Bach’s Cello Suite No.1: Prelude The Europa Clipper team prepares for Mars fly-by Lucy takes first picture of its next target asteroid AST SpaceMobile successfully tests cell-to-satellite calls transmitting video Rocket Lab’s shares lose 10% because of a negative assessment by stock analyst More voices in Florida lobby to move NASA HQ there Juno data proves volcanism on Io involves numerous lava lakes Intuitive Machine’s Athena lunar lander to launch later today February 26, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander Sean Mann – Little Wing February 26, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX and China complete launches All is so far well with Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander House committee holds hearing to protect its Artemis pork Exploring the canyons and plateaus of Valles Marineris Russia successfully launches new Progress freighter to ISS February 27, 2025 Quick space links Alison Balsom and the Balsom Ensemble – excerpt NASA’s newly launched Lunar Trailblazer orbiter having power and communications problems Varda’s successfully returns its 2nd capsule from orbit Rocket Lab unveils its modified barge its Neutron rocket will use for ocean landings SpaceX reschedules the 8th Starship/Superheavy orbital test flight to March 3, 2025 Polaris Spaceplanes wins contract to develop “a fully reusable hypersonic research vehicle” Musk: Verizon’s upgrade of air traffic system failing; proposes Starlink instead Perseverance looks to the far west February 28, 2025 Quick space links Sting – Fields of Gold FAA issues launch license for 8th Starship/Superheavy test flight Update from Astroforge about its communications problems with its Odin asteroid spacecraft Live stream of the lunar landing of Firefly’s Blue Ghost February 28, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Blue Ghost successfully completes a soft landing Astroforge’s Odin spacecraft tumbling and probably be lost Russia and SpaceX complete launches A galaxy surrounded by clusters of hot massive stars Watch the 8th orbital test flight of SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy rocket Sunspot update: Sunspot activity remains high but stable March 3, 2025 Quick space links Falklands government approves changes that will allow SpaceX to provide Starlink service Starship/Superheavy test launch scrubbed Jeff Beck – Cause we’ve ended as lovers Ispace targets June 6, 2025 for the Moon landing its Resilience commercial lander Falcon 9 first stage lost after landing yesterday SpaceX reschedules Starship/Superheavy launch to March 5, 2025 Scientists: X-rays from the Helix Nebula caused by the destruction of a planet The real underlying battle between Trump and Zelinsky March 4, 2025 Quick space links The Teskey Brothers – Take My Heart Blue Ghost: Earth’s GPS constellations work on the Moon France opens public comment period for adapting old French Guiana launchpad for commercial rockets Watch the landing of Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander on the Moon tomorrow Watch the eighth orbital test launch of SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy Psyche captures Jupiter and Mars on its way to asteroid Psyche Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps picture of Blue Ghost on the Moon Democrats: A party so filled with hate it can’t even cheer a child because Trump introduced him Engineers turn off one more instrument on each Voyager spacecraft Tim McGraw & Faith Hill – I Need You Blue Ghost lunar surface operations proceeding as planned Europa Clipper completes Mars fly-by Future now very dim for Lunar Trailblazer India’s space agency ISRO begins construction of second spaceport Ariane-6 successfully launches for the second time Scientists discover the oldest known crater on Earth Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander touches down softly; engineers are assessing spacecraft condition Is a supermassive black hole is hidden in the Large Magellanic Cloud? Athena sits at an unknown angle on the Moon, hampering operations March 6, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX’s eighth orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy ends like the seventh flight Samantha Fish – No Angels March 5, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Webb captures infrared view of a baby binary star system and its bi-polar jets French official lauds Ariane 6 launch; demands Europe have its own launch capability Once again the leftist propaganda press takes out its knives to stab SpaceX and Musk India’s Vikram lunar lander: Data suggests there could be more water impregnated in more places on the Moon Intuitive Machines confirms Athena fell over at landing; ends mission March 7, 2025 Quick space links Ballinator – History & Lore of 32nd of an Inch Bolts March 7. 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space Force’s X-37B completes seventh flight, lasting 434 days China launches classified communications test satellite After a decade of development, ESA finally starts testing a part of its Callisto grasshopper Anonymous sources: Starship will need a major rebuild after two consecutive failures A galactic ball and spiral interact Blue Ghost landed almost dead center within its target zone Expect no end, no slowdown, in Trump’s non-stop offensive Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now Blue Ghost activates NASA drill, prepares for hot lunar noon Space Force awards development contracts to eight startups SpaceX officials provide cause of loss Falcon 9 first stage after successful landing NASA shuts down three unneeded departments, including its DEI office Europe’s Hera probe to fly past Mars tomorrow Poland fires head of its space agency Astronomers have discovered four sub-Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star Relativity provides detailed video update on the development of its Terran-R rocket Athena located from lunar orbit Liz Callaway – Meadowlark SpaceX launches NASA space telescope plus four solar satellites; China launches 18 communication satellites Astronomers discover 128 more moons around Saturn SpaceX inks Starlink deals with India’s two largest telecom operators Chinese man convicted of flying drone over Vandenberg illegally Thank you to everyone who donated during my February birthday fund-raising drive Graceful isolated dunes at the edge of the sea of dunes that surrounds Mars’ north ice cap Billy F Gibbons, ZZ Ward, & Orianthi – Sharp Dressed Man SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites but scrubs manned Dragon launch NASA releases Blue Ghost movie landing while Firefly prepares lander to observe solar eclipse of the Moon by Earth ULA pinpoints reason a nozzle fell off a Vulcan rocket side booster during last launch Ohio lawmakers lobby Trump to move NASA headquarters there Indian engineers successfully undock its two Spadex robot satellites Is the nomination of Jared Isaacman as NASA’s administrator facing political headwinds? March 12, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast John Fogerty – Have You Ever Seen the Rain? Blue Ghost watches the Earth eclipse the Sun from the Moon Launch window for first launch of German rocket startup Isar rocket revealed Pick a perfect March Madness bracket and SpaceX will award you a trip to Mars Ghana hires Axiom to help it develop its space industry Europe’s Hera asteroid probe sends back data from Mars fly-by Scientists issue new map of land below Antarctica’s icecap Florida’s two senators introduce bill to move NASA HQ to their state Dovydas – Dreams March 14, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches new crew to ISS Four more launches, two by SpaceX, following manned launch Norway questions Sweden’s plan to launch orbital rockets from Esrange spaceport Russia launches classified satellites Chinese pseudo-company launches 8 satellites Firefly’s Blue Ghost ends its mission, having achieved all its mission goals Varda’s third capsule begins orbital operations Norway awards the German rocket startup Isar Aerospace a two-satellite contract Avio to begin testing its own Grasshopper prototype later this year Webb captures infrared images of five exoplanets orbiting two different stars The next time someone tells you Mars lacks water, show them this picture March 17, 2025 Quick space links Jerry Lee Lewis – No headstone on my grave Rocket Lab launches the last of five missions for French satellite company SpaceX’s manned Freedom capsule has undocked with ISS with its crew of four Curiosity’s newest view from the heights Isar confirms March 20, 2025 for first launch More surprises from the Wolf-Rayet star numbered 104 and known for its pinwheel structure SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, including 13 with phone-to-satellite capabilities March 18, 2025 Quick space links Freedom capsule splashes down successfully Billy Joel – The Downeaster Alexa Firefly releases movie of lunar sunset High ridge down the center of a big Martian crack March 19, 2025 Quick space links Camille Saint-Saëns – from the Symphony No. 3 March 19, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA’s still undecided as to Starliner’s next flight March 20, 2025 Quick space links Beto and the Fairlanes – Right Clickin’ China and SpaceX complete launches Oxygen found in the most distant known galaxy, too soon after the Big Bang New research finds cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere cause of the ignition of lightning The insane left keeps shooting itself in the foot! March 21, 2025 Quick space links Gamazda – Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters March 21, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA drops its DEI emphasis on race and sex in describing who will fly on first Artemis lunar landing Perseverance spots a rock made of many tiny spherules South Korean rocket startup Innospace details successful tests of its portable launchpad Rolling Stone provides more details about Jared Isaacman and his nomination as NASA administrator New Webb infrared image reveals galaxy hidden behind outflow from baby star SpaceX launches reconnaissance satellite for National Reconnaissance Office March 24, 2025 Quick space links Eric Clapton – Change The World ESA announces competitive program to encourage new European rocket startups Firefly awards Blue Origin subsidiary contract to build rover for third Blue Ghost mission Scientists believe they have found evidence of largest carbon molecules yet in Curiosity drill sample Martian stucco NASA confirms DOGE contract cancellations totaling about $420 million March 25, 2025 Quick space links Valentina Lisitsa – Mozart’s Fantasie In C Minor Rocket Lab launches eight satellites for constellation to monitor wildfires Survey of protoplanetary disks finds their size varies significantly Isar launch several times scrubbed due to high winds, rescheduled for tomorrow Webb images in the infrared the aurora of Neptune Parker completes 23rd close fly-by of Sun, matching record set by its previous fly-by As Space Force switches to capitalism model for its satellites, it will also not name the companies it hires A major very public protest against Hamas by Gazans March 26, 2025 Quick space links Restoring a historic racing yacht after buying it for a dollar March 26, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space Force finally certifies ULA’s new Vulcan rocket for commercial military launches Two more launches today NASA: Cygnus capsule damaged in transit to launchpad is too damaged to launch UK government continues to dither about fixing its serious red tape issues relating to space Webb finds more elements not possible so soon after the Big Bang March 27, 2025 Quick space links Charlie Daniels – Long Haired Country Boy Boeing now faces criminal trial for two 737-Max crashes that killed 346 NASA experiment on Blue Ghost demonstrates the ability to repel the Moon’s abrasive dust NASA/Boeing: More Starliner ground engine tests throughout 2025; Next flight likely in 2026 Democrats: “We have the right to vandalize Teslas, and if you try to stop us you are fascists!” March 28, 2025 Quick space links Al Stewart – On the Border March 27, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches classified communications test satellite Airbus wins contract to build lander for Europe’s long delayed ExoMars Franklin rover Next SpaceX commercial manned flight set to launch on March 31, 2025 NASA approves SpaceX’s Starship to bid for some launch contracts Isar Aerospace’s first launch attempt fails seconds after lift-off CEO of rocket engine startup accused of bankrupting company by misuse of funds Blue Origin completes investigation of the failed landing of New Glenn’s 1st stage March 31, 2025 Quick space links Soojin Ha – Chopin Nocturne No.20 in C minor SpaceX launches four commercial private citizens on the first manned polar orbital mission SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites; China launches test internet satellite Twenty years of Hubble data map one long season on Uranus Chinese man who used drone illegally over Vandenberg, spying for China, given slap on wrist in sentencing Sunspot update: NOAA scientists try to hide how wrong they have gotten things Another example of the weird taffy terrain in Mars’ death valley Sugarloaf – Green Eyed Lady April 1, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Fram2 passengers take their first pictures of Earth’s polar regions ESA isn’t forcing private companies building cargo capsules to hire contractors from all its partners Starliner’s troubles were much worse than NASA made clear April 2, 2025 Quick space links National Opera of Ukraine – Nutcracker ‘Grand Pas de Deux – Adagio’ China launches radar-related satellite Senate schedules hearing to review Jared Isaacman’s nomination as NASA administrator Update on the private Fram2 manned orbital spaceflight Webb infrared data increases odds asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact Moon in 2032 ULA and Amazon schedule first Kuiper satellite launch for April 9, 2025 Iran accelerates plans for new coastal spaceport Fantasyland: Turkey to establish its own spaceport Terraces within one of Mars’ giant enclosed chasms Hamas and American leftists: both driven solely by mindless hate Hamas proves its death toll numbers are a lie April 3, 2025 Quick space links The World’s Most Famous Unknown Band SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites China: samples from the near and far sides of the Moon are different Engineers use simulated moon dust to make glass White dwarf binary discovered only 150 light years away is a major supernova candidate in about 23 billion years Fram2 private manned mission splashes down safely Another “What the heck?!” image on Mars April 4, 2025 Quick space links Cody Townsend – Best ski line of the year April 4, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space Force awards SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin $13.7 billion in launch contracts SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites Fram2: The first X-ray image taken in space British MP proposes his government’s vast bureaucratic skills be given the power to regulate all space Soil bacterium from Earth can both make and repair bricks made from Moon-materials The mighty scale of Mars’ geology April 7, 2025 Quick space links Burton Cummings and many others – No Time SpaceX launches 27 more Starlink satellites using a new first stage Russia launches three astronauts to ISS Bangladesh signs Artemis Accords Space Force gives SpaceX launch originally contracted to ULA Ted Cruz: Isaacman in interview commits NASA to getting Americans to Moon fast Astronomers: Potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 YR4 originally came from main asteroid belt Firefly wins Space Force contract to test orbital maneuvers with its Elytra space tug April 8, 2025 Quick space links Eagles – All She Wants To Do Is Dance Isaacman’s nomination hearing reveals nothing of note April 9, 2025 Quick space links Average White Band – Pick Up The Pieces April 9, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Juno enters and then recovers from safe mode Anti-Musk terrorists damage Musk statue in Brownsville Lunar Outpost unveils its proposed “Eagle” manned lunar rover Chinese scientists say the lunar far side appears drier than the near side Curiosity climbs into a new Martian canyon Congress: Let’s throw some more astronaut lives away so we can preen for the camera! April 10, 2025 Quick space links Rumpus Machine – Down to the Waterline China launches another technology test communications satellite payload Vast signs three more customers to fly payloads on its first space station Indian satellite thruster manufacturer opens American factory New Trump executive order requires Pentagon to “prioritize commercial solutions” Is the Democratic Party even losing ground in their hardcore strongholds? April 11, 2025 Quick space links Dave Loggins – Please Come to Boston April 11, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes two launches today SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Italy awards Italian company contract to design constellation of radio telescopes orbiting the Moon NASA-Roscosmos barter deal to fly each other astronauts to ISS extended The structure of a ringed planetary nebula revealed in the infrared Maybe it finally is time we actually made these major budget cuts at NASA April 14, 2025 Quick space links Louis Jordan – Saturday Night Fish Fry Lucy’s next asteroid fly-by on April 20, 2025 Myriad flows on mountainous inner crater wall on Mars April 15, 2025 Quick space links Billy Idol – White Wedding Blue Origin completes ground simulation of Orbital Reef space station German rocket startup Rocket Factory Augsburg replaces its CEO China successfully tests a three-satellite constellation in lunar space First images ever of a live transparent colossal squid in its natural environment Curiosity marches on The Bahamas suspends further Falcon 9 1st stage landings pending environmental report Astronomers discover a well-developed spiral galaxy too soon after the Big Bang April 16, 2025 Quick space links Khatia Buniatishvili – Beethoven’s Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Rondo April 16, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Northrop Grumman launches reconnaissance satellite Astronomers detect chemicals on exoplanet that on Earth come from life Texas lawmakers now lobbying to move NASA headquarters to Houston Japan’s Hayabusa-2 asteroid probe in safe mode Oman announces aggressive ’25 launch schedule and public viewing area at its new Duqm spaceport An American government program to get to the Moon is simply not necessary; If we let them Americans will do it on their own April 15, 2025 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast April 17, 2025 Quick space links Laszlo Buring – If Mark Knopfler & David Gilmour had a little jam NASA’s useless safety panel suddenly notices that there are leaks on ISS Two different states in India announce space policies Curiosity drill cores suggest there are more carbon-based minerals on Mars than previously believed April 18, 2025 Quick space links Griggs Farms – How A Cotton Picker Works April 18, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches six technology test satellites SpaceX launches another classified satellite for National Reconnaissance Office Soyuz safely returns three astronauts from ISS Northrop Grumman’s first Mission Extension Vehicle completes first commercial undocking in space SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS; Problems with Tenacity? India’s Spadex mission completes second autonomous docking Rocket Lab gets two big military contracts, from the Space Force and the UK Martian ridges that imitate rivers April 21, 2025 Quick space links Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn SpaceX launches three payloads First images from Lucy’s fly-by of asteroid Donaldjohanson Africa opens the office building in Egypt of its African Space Agency Trump cuts to NOAA include major shake-up on how it gathers weather data April 22, 2025 Quick space links Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara – 2024 World Figure Skating Pairs Transiting exoplanet appears to be losing matter with each transit Rocket startup Astra wins $44 million development contract to build its Rocket-4 More wheel damage detected on Curiosity Eroding lava layers in Mars’ volcano country April 23, 2025 Quick space links Teddy Swims – Lose Control China launches three astronauts to Tiangong-3 space station A Malaysian state plans spaceport, working in partnership with China China accelerates its schedule for its upcoming Moon/Mars missions while admitting its lunar base will take longer Viasat wins contract to build ESA lunar communications constellation Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander completes all maneuvers prior to entering lunar orbit A telescope picture of blackness April 24, 2025 Quick space links The Beatles – Twist And Shout April 23, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites Trump cuts apparently shutting down NASA’s climate office in New York Rocket startup MaiaSpace picks Polish institute to build its rocket’s upper stage engine Your smartphone apps are tracking you Curiosity’s recent travels as seen from orbit Axiom signs deal with medical company to do diabetes monitor research on its next manned mission to ISS April 25, 2025 Quick space links Nigel Stanford – Automatica (Robots Vs. Music) April 25, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Axiom replaces its CEO China and SpaceX complete launches NASA re-releases a slew of Hubble images to celebrate its 35th anniversary Hubble snaps picture of barred spiral galaxy April 27, 2025 Quick space links Watch Atlas-5 launch of Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper satellties ULA launches Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper constellation satellites; SpaceX launches more Starlinks The Beach Boys – Fun Fun Fun Texas legislators vote down bill giving SpaceX power to close Boca Chica roads Since last night four more launches globally Head of the FAA’s commercial space office takes Trump buy-out Astronaut Don Pettit, 70, wants to fly more missions in space Weather scrubs first test of experimental vertical take-off/landing rocket built by Middle Eastern startup Firefly launch fails The American Geophysical Union: the privileges of government-paid scientists must come above the Constitution and the ordinary citizens who pay the bills April 29, 2025 Quick space links The Rentals – Forgotten Astronaut Chinese crew returns safely after six months in space Jared Isaacman’s nomination approved by Senate committee Psyche asteroid probe experiences an unexplained engine problem April 30, 2025 Quick space links The Speakeasies’ Swing Band – I’ve Found a New Baby April 29, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Startup that builds maneuverable surveillance satellites raises $260 million in private investment capital Scandal at Great Britain’s first spaceport at Cornwall airport Astronomers discover a cluster of a thousand very young stars that is flying apart for unknown reasons A Martian river of ice Giant galactic magnetic filament disturbed by pulsar May 1, 2025 Quick space links Scorpions – Still Loving You SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites Rocket startup Radian now also building commercial reentry capsule Ursa Major wins contract for hypersonic test flight of its Draper rocket engine Space Force awards twelve companies satellite development contracts worth $237 million Trump administration releases its proposed NASA budget for 2026 FAA okays increase in SpaceX launches from Vandenberg from 36 to 50 per year Trump bypasses Boeing to get an newly refurbished 747 Air Force One May 2, 2025 Quick space links Eli Crystal Glass – Vase with Rectangular Murrine May 2, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Local voters approve establishing the town of Starbase at Boca Chica SpaceX launches a record 29 Starlink satellites It only took $22 billion and 19 years: Lockheed Martin proudly announces the completion of the first Orion capsule capable of manned flight NASA engineers complete 17-day balloon flight, testing a new “super pressure” technology May 5, 2025 Quick space links Andrei Shushkov- Invention of Love ESA’s issues a non-reaction to Trump’s proposed NASA cuts Australia’s first rocket company continues to be blocked by red tape Stratolaunch completes first hypersonic test flight for Pentagon Astronomers measure the vibrations of a star 21 light years away Update on launch schedule for India’s manned space program FAA approves SpaceX request to increase Starship launch rate at Boca Chica Sunspot update: Activity rises slightly in April May 6, 2025 Quick space links Fernsehballett – Boléro SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites NASA cancels VIPER solicitation Ispace’s Resilience lander successfully enters lunar orbit India tightens its satellite regulations for foreign companies Seepage coming from under an ancient Martian flood lava flow? May 7, 2025 Quick space links Huey Lewis And The News – The Power Of Love May 7, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX gets approval to sell Starlink in India Russia signs space agreement with Venezuela Europe and India sign agreement to work together on manned space flight The French startup, The Exploration Company, ships its next cargo capsule prototype for launch Update on Vast’s space station plans Israeli non-profit suspends its effort to build a second Beresheet lunar lander Bright material on the high points of a Martian mountain May 8, 2025 Quick space links Tokyo Groove Jyoshi – Funk No. 1 Crash prediction for Soviet-era Venus probe narrows Rocket Lab’s as-yet unlaunched new Neutron rocket gets military contract China hints that it is moving forward with expansion of Tiangong-3 space station Academics in space community scheme to continue their racist DEI policies May 9, 2025 Quick space links North By Northwest (1959) Filming Locations, then and now May 9, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes two launches today Crash prediction for Venera failed lander now reduced to four hours China launches classified satellites for military remote sensing Poland completes suborbital test launch May 12, 2025 Quick space links Milk’n Blues – Miss You & Another Brick in the Wall SpaceX launches twice last night, with one launch using first stage for record 28th time NASA releases thermal image of Mars taken by Europa Clipper NASA engineers end second super pressure balloon flight early Lockheed Martin invests in new solid-fueled rocket startup Pentagon raises the list of companies that can bid on space infrastructure projects to almost two dozen China launches communications test satellite Gilmour finally gets launch license from Australian bureaucrats May 13, 2025 Quick space links Scientists: Martian gullies formed by CO2 frost, not water flows The global distribution of dust devils on Mars The Jubalaires – Noah Starlink gets approvals to operate in Saudi Arabia, Scotland, and Bangledesh Varda’s third capsule returns to Earth, completing hypersonic test for Air Force AST SpaceMobile: It will be launching satellites almost monthly in the second half of ’25 China and SpaceX complete launches Astronomers observe cloud changes above the northern polar lakes of Titan SpaceX committing millions to develop the town of Starbase at Boca Chica Engineers reactivate thrusters on Voyager-1 that have been out of commission since 2004 May 14, 2025 Quick space links Kabardinka Ensemble – Dance of the Black Sea Circassians May 14, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Axiom’s next commercial manned flight to ISS delayed at least one week Norway signs the Artemis Accords Gilmour scrubs launch attempt today NASA: Perseverance observed the first visible-light aurora in March 2024 Curiosity looks uphill at boxwork and future travels May 15, 2025 Quick space links Barcelona Guitar Trio – Entre dos Aguas SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites Premature fairing release cancels first launch of Gilmour’s Eris rocket Kazakhstan denies rumors that Russia plans to abandon Baikonur FAA issues revised launch window and flight restrictions for future Starship test flights Astronomers detect evidence of numerous protoplanetary disks in three molecular clouds near the galactic center May 16, 2025 Quick space links CARinfo3D – The rotary or Wankel engine May 16, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast What satellite did the Varda capsule fly past during its return last week? Two launches last night, by China and Rocket Lab Third stage of India’s PSLV rocket fails during launch Chinese pseudo-company completes another launch from sea platform Ispace borrows $35 million New research suggests the two types of streaks on Mars are caused by dry events In telling us why they are fleeing Trump America, three Yale professors prove they are unqualified for their jobs Audioslave – Gasoline May 19, 2025 Quick space links China launches communications satellite Air Force issues draft approval of second SpaceX launchpad at Vandenberg Space station startup Voyager Technologies about to go public More missions to Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029? May 20, 2025 Quick space links Restless Viking – The Metz Fire of 1908 SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites China reports discovery of new microbe on its Tiangong-3 space station Astronomers detect evidence of exoplanet in weird orbit China launches six satellites South Africa courts Starlink; Musk says no Fish & Wildlife has expanded its regulatory rule to every tree in much of the U.S. Terraced Martian butte May 21, 2025 Quick space links Rush – La Villa Strangiato May 21, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space Force to cut civilian workforce by 14% Perseverance moves across the barren outer rim of Jezero Crater May 22, 2025 Quick space links Firefall – Just Remember I love You SpaceX confirms 9th test flight of Starship/Superheavy now scheduled for May 27, 2025 Russia launches classified satellite Pentagon official blasts ULA’s slow Vulcan launch pace to Congress NASA continues to push Biden-era interpretation of Artemis Accords Dawn Aerospace begins offering its suborbital spaceplane to customers Astronomers discover another object in an orbit so extreme it reaches the outskirts of the theorized Oort Cloud Astronomers discover a perfect sphere in radio Cargo Dragon undocks from ISS Boeing and Justice Department reach new deal on criminal prosecution for 737-Max crashes SpaceX launches another 27 Starlink satellites Johannes – The Most Beautiful Wingsuit Flight I’ve Done May 23, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Axiom signs deals with Egypt and the Czech Republic Senate schedules vote for confirming Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator Orbital tug startup Impulse Space wins contract with satellite company SES SpaceX launches more Starlinks Cargo Dragon splashes down and is recovered successfully A galactic pinwheel The real reason we celebrate Memorial Day “Was this trip necessary?” Live stream of Elon Musk’s speech to SpaceX employees today The Sun’s surface, in high resolution SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites Supreme Court declines case of blacklisted student who declared “There are only two genders”, proving the large leftist blob is not going away no matter what Trump does May 27, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches Starship/Superheavy on ninth test flight, but experiences issues in orbit Falco – Rock Me Amadeus SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Engineers pinpoint and bypass fuel line problem on Psyche Astronomers discover a star radiating in X-rays and radio in ways that fit no known explanation Scientists: Jezero Crater’s theorized lake overflowed intermittently four times in the past The canyon that Curiosity will eventually climb China launches its first asteroid sample return mission A positive endgame in Gaza begins to loom May 28, 2025 Quick space links Katica Illényi – Bubamara May 28, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New data suggests Europa’s surface is constantly changing South Korea rocket startup launches small prototype rocket China launches classified satellite Scientists believe they have detected the actual process in which Mars loses its atmosphere Chinese pseudo-company completes successful hop test of rocket Just as I refuse to say “native American”, I refuse to say “Gulf of America” Elon Musk’s presentation “The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary” May 29, 2025 Quick space links Dafna Kol – The Story of Nicholas Winton Northrop Grumman invests $50 million in Firefly and new rocket NASA unwittingly reveals its bankruptcy by its reliance on AI SpaceX: We are targeting 170 launches in 2025 SpaceX launches GPS satellite for military SES cleared by the United Kingdom to buy Intelsat Supreme Court unanimously rules the federal government’s regulatory overuse of environmental impact statements is wrong Webb spots a new record-setting galaxy, only 280 million years after the Big Bang May 30, 2025 Quick space links The Highway Man – Driving the world’s longest overwater Bridge May 30, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Judge rules that SpaceX’s lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission can go forward In demanding an investigation by SpaceX into the Starship failure on this week’s test flight, the FAA puffs up its chest and pounds it like a chimpanzee Trump budget proposes putting a final end to the delayed and blocked Thirty Meter Telescope SpaceX launches 27 more Starlink satellites Trump is withdrawing Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA administrator New calculations suggest Andromeda might not collide with Milky Way Proposed Australian spaceport changes name Trump’s NASA budget cuts and rejection of Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator signal a very bright future for American space Texas legislature gives Starbase power to close Boca Chica beaches June 2, 2025 Quick space links Jerry Lee Lewis – What I say Two launches today by American companies New ground-based images of the Sun’s surface Sunspot update: The Sun confounds the predictions again! June 3, 2025 Quick space links Joe Bonamassa – Drive Proposed commercial spaceport in Nova Scotia gets launch customer Voyager announces first public stock offering, valued at $1.6 billion Axiom’s fourth commercial passenger flight to ISS delayed another two days Orbital tug startup Impulse raises $300 million in private investment capital Japanese lunar lander startup Ispace signs deal to build lander for ESA Understanding Trump’s proposed NASA cuts, in the larger context of the overall federal budget Two giant clusters of galaxies on target for second collision June 4, 2025 Quick space links Clara Cernat & Thierry Huillet – Zigeunerweisen/Gipsy Airs June 4, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Watch the landing attempt of Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander Scientists release the first year’s data from the Pace orbiter Scientists discover another exoplanet that theories say should not exist Landing of Ispace’s Resilience lander uncertain June 5, 2025 Quick space links The Commodores – Easy China launches another set of satellites for one of its giant internet constellations Ispace confirms that its Resilience lunar lander has failed, apparently crashing on the Moon Long delayed ESA project to build a reusable first stage delayed again The Senate, led by Ted Cruz, endorses NASA’s failed SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway Air Force issues impact statement for SpaceX’s proposed Cape Canaveral Starship/Superheavy launch site June 6, 2025 Quick space links Alex Ball – The David Bowie Flanger June 6, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another radio satellite for SiriusXM SpaceX launches 26 more Starlink satellites Starlink approved for India White House issues new orders to streamline federal broadband regulations Axiom charges $70 million per ticket to fly to ISS The dusky mountains of Mars The happiest cat I’ve ever known June 9, 2025 Quick space links Foggy Mountain Spaceship – Riders On The Storm SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites Scientists increase the odds asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact the Moon in 2032 Blue Origin again delays 2nd launch of New Glenn Trump eliminates restrictions against supersonic flights over the U.S. Mexican officials demand investigation into Starship/Superheavy debris on its beaches June 10, 2025 Quick space links Simon & Garfunkel – The Dangling Conversation Axiom’s fourth commercial manned mission scrubbed due to leak Rocket Lab launches commercial imaging satellite Europe approves SES purchase of Intelsat Two spaceports in Alaska sign partnership agreement Chinese robotic servicing satellite now approaching another Chinese servicing satellite House committee moves to eliminate Trump budget cuts to Space Force June 11, 2025 Quick space links The Waifs – Lighthouse June 11, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Axiom manned mission delayed further because of new Zvezda leaks on ISS Europe’s Solar Orbiter takes first images of the Sun’s south pole Voyager Technologies raises nearly $400 million in first public stock offering Why Kennedy’s decision to fire everyone at the CDC advisory panel was only a start June 12, 2025 Quick space links 2Cellos – Thunderstruck June 12, 2025 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas appearance SpaceX launches 26 more Starlink satellites Kazakhstan moves west French startup The Exploration Company launches its own recovery ship SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites The mad mountains of Mars June 13, 2025 Quick space links Brian Cox – The world’s biggest vacuum chamber June 13, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Axiom manned flight to ISS rescheduled; NASA attempts to clarify ISS leak situation China launches science satellite to study Earth’s electromagnetic fields Cruz’s pork/budget bill also adds new taxes to rocket launches ULA scrubs 2nd Kuiper constellation launch due to technical issue Spinlaunch signs deal to build its spin launch facility on island in Alaska June 16, 2025 Quick space links Emilio Piano & Lucie – Maison SpaceX launches 26 more Starlink satellites Rocket Lab gets a quick launch contract from unnamed customer Under Trump FCC shifts from regulating satellite construction and de-orbit to streamlining red tape Honda’s grasshopper rocket successfully completes vertical take-off and landing Mars will be mystery until we can walk its surface June 17, 2025 Quick space links Al Kooper & friends – Something going on SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites NASA/Axiom announce another four-day launch delay for Axiom’s fourth manned mission Europe’s old aerospace industry struggles with the concept of competition Another company enters the military’s hypersonic test market Astronomers claim radio data detects much of the universe’s “missing mass” A blacklisted American wins in court France’s space agency agrees to let Spanish rocket startup PLD establish its own launch site at French Guiana June 18, 2025 Quick space links Anastasia Huppmann – Chopin’s Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor Major explosion during preparations for static fire test of Starship prototype June 18, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia launches classified military satellite using its Angara-5 rocket Starlink begins or expands service in three more countries Monaco-based startup unveils its proposed European-built lunar rover Ground-based imagery now suggests China has completed a docking and undocking of two robotic servicing satellites Why should anyone listen to people who behave like infantile toddlers? Sublimating ice in the Martian dry tropics? June 19, 2025 Quick space links Martina McBride – Where Would You Be NASA delays Axiom manned mission again China launches communications satellite India transfers ownership of SSLV rocket from space agency to government-owned private aerospace company Chinese pseudo-company Landspace completes static fire test of 1st stage of its Zhuque-3 reusable rocket France government invests big in Eutelsat-OneWeb The source of a Martian glacial canyon 750 miles long New nova spotted and now visible to the naked eye Two lunar orbiters spot the crash site of Ispace’s Resilience lander June 20, 2025 Quick space links Clickspring – Recreating the ancient engineering that built the Antikythera Mechanism June 20, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX provides update on Starship explosion while fueling for static fire engine test ESA partners with French company to build space plane “demonstrator” Scientists discover unexpected mineral in Ryugu asteroid sample SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satelites ULA launches the second set of Kuiper satellites into orbit NJ Boy scouts win first prize in international rocketry competition Isaacman hints of future space plans The new Rubin telescope releases its first images France’s space agency awards ArianeGroup contract to build methane-fueled engine Parker completes its 24th close fly-by of the Sun June 23, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX completes another smallsat Transporter launch, launching 70 payloads Dorothea Taylor – Down With The Sickness Ispace: Resilience’s failure was due to a hardware issue in laser range finder 2nd test flight of French cargo capsule prototype “partial success” NASA sets another new date for Axiom’s Ax-4 commercial manned mission to ISS Another permanently shadowed crater on the Moon shows no obvious ice A graceful spiral galaxy June 24, 2025 Quick space links Schiller – Ein Schoner Tag SpaceX launches Axiom’s fourth commercial manned mission to ISS Rocket Lab wins launch contract from the European Space Agency German rocket startup Isar Aerospace secures $174 million in financing Curiosity’s future travels uphill SpaceX launches 27 more Starlink satellites Astronomers look at the Andromeda Galaxy in many wavelengths June 25, 2025 Quick space links John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Gary Moore – So Many Roads June 25, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Axiom’s manned mission docks with ISS Mexican president threatens action against SpaceX at Boca Chica Webb takes infrared image of exoplanet French startup Latitude to spend $9.3 million on building its French Guiana launch facility Nozzle blows off of Northrop Grumman SLS solid rocket booster during static fire test The sagging flank of one of Mars’ giant volcanoes Rocket Lab launches four radio surveillance satellites June 26,2025 Quick space links Caroline Campbell – Skyfall June 26, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast OSHA investigating the collapse of a crane at SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility European Union proposes new space law to supersede national space rules Another blacklisted professors wins big in court June 27, 2025 Quick space links Ed Sheeran – Perfect Two American launches this evening More successful launches today Orbex delays first launch from Saxavord until 2026 Blue Origin completes another New Shepard suborbital flight Update on SpaceX’s plans to resume Starship/Superheavy flight testing Baby stars illuminating the dust that surrounds them June 30, 2025 Quick space links Richard Strauss – Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Overture Mitsubishi wants to cut launch price of H3 rocket to $35 million NASA still hoping to save its Lunar Trailblazer mission Speculation on future New Glenn launch schedule China releases images of Earth and Moon, taken by its Tianwen-2 asteroid probe Webb detects unexpected “little red dots” in the early universe Upcoming appearances on both the Space Show and Coast to Coast July 1, 2025 Quick space links Todd Rundgren – Hello It’s Me SpaceX yesterday completed two launches Senate reconciliation budget bill includes Cruz’s big spending additions to NASA July 1, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Methane climate satellite fails Astronomers discover supernovae that apparently exploded twice Another interstellar object identified entering the solar system Sunspot update: Sunspot activity rebounds somewhat in June New data: the ozone hole occurs mostly because of the sunspot cycle and cosmic rays, not CFC pollution July 1, 2025 Zimmerman/Space Show appearance July 2, 2025 Quick space links Coldplay – Viva La Vida Two more former SpaceX employees sue the company for harassment and discrimination China launches technology test satellite European capsule startup wins $15 million grant Mars is not dry! Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS EPA employees who publicly signed letter opposing Trump’s agenda have now been put on leave July 3, 2025 Quick space links Daniel Roy – 10 Levels of Sleight of Hand July 3, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A nation founded on the idea of allowing people to pursue happiness ULA finally begins stacking Vulcan for next launch A Martian meteorite discovered in Africa is up for auction Two Russian satellites are maneuvering toward an American military satellite 1776 – Hatching an Egg ESA picks five rocket startups for future launch contracts Air Force won’t land rockets on a Pacific island as part of its program to test point-to-point rocket cargo delivery Woke heads of Merchant Marine Academy who banned painting of Jesus fired Astronomers link fast X-ray bursts with gamma ray bursts and supernovae Returning to Mars’ glacier country Jackie Venson – Rollin’ On July 7, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites Spanish high altitude balloon company to fly tourist flights from South Korea SpaceX gets launch contract from Globalstar Canadian rocket startup hopes to fly first suborbital launch from its proposed Newfoundland spaceport in August COVID health slanderer gets fired for wishing death on Texans because Texas voted for Trump The Handsome Family – True Detective Theme ISRO successfully tests thrusters to be used on its manned Gaganyaan capsule ESA tests parachutes and guidance system for its proposed Space Rider reusable mini-shuttle Coalition of space companies begs Congress to fund office designed to track satellites The walls of Jericho blocking Trump’s effort to streamline government have now fallen Sightseeing near Starship’s candidate Martian landing sites Donnie Iris & The Cruisers – Ah Leah! July 9, 2025 Quick space links July 9, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast New census of inverted channels on Mars strongly suggests the planet once had more water SpaceX finally passes final regulatory hurdle to sell Starlink in India Why did Trump suddenly pick Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to become temporary head of NASA? SpaceX gets approval to build oxygen plant at Boca Chica Another scientist blacklisted by the Biden CDC ends up in charge Primal Space – The Underground Clocks of Paris July 10, 2025 Quick space links Varda raises another $187 million in private investment capital Senate committee moves to cancel most of Trump’s proposed NASA budget cuts Weird drainages on Mars André Rieu – Scotland the Brave & Amazing Grace July 11, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast July 11, 2025 Quick space links First suborbital launch of Taiwan rocket startup fails Judge narrows SpaceX lawsuit against California Coastal Commission SpaceX launches geosynchronous satellite for unnamed customer Dragon capsule undocks from ISS carrying four Axiom’s passengers Suborbital test launch from Oman’s Duqm spaceport scrubbed LIGO detects gravitational waves of largest black hole merger yet Third Indian state announces a space policy to encourage private enterprise A distant globular cluster Renewing the heroic Superman of America July 14, 2025 Quick space links Cat Stevens – Bitterblue China launches cargo ship to its Tiangong-3 space station Axiom’s commercial manned mission to ISS splashes down safely House follows Senate in canceling most of Trump’s proposed NASA budget cuts Webb spots aftermath of collision of two galaxies The failed MethaneSat climate satellite apparently had problems from launch Another win for a blacklisted professor July 15, 2025 Quick space links First good image released of interstellar object 3I/Atlas as it plunges through the solar system Popa Chubby – Rollin’ and tumblin’ SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites SpaceX completes its first launch for Amazon SpaceX planning to use Starship for manufacturing in space Scientists: The Sun’s bright corona acts to impede coronal mass ejections Axiom’s ticket price for India’s astronaut on Ax-4 mission: $59 million Mars meteorite sells at auction for $5.3 million Poll: A near majority of Americans are now disgusted with the Ivy league July 16, 2025 Quick space links James Cox – The Silver Swan Russia: Commercial satellite constellations providing help to the Ukraine are now targets July 16, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Satellite companies SES and Intelsat complete their merger New Space Force policy will encourage a robust private industry to build the capabilities it needs South Korea to push for a lunar base and Mars missions by 2045 Proposed North Sea offshore launch platform gets ESA okay Astronomers detect first evidence of gas condensing to molecular solids in baby solar system Musk: 10th Starship/Superheavy launch in “about three weeks” July 17, 2025 Quick space links Oliver Anthony – Scornful Woman Polish rocket startup signs second spaceport deal this week Founder of Saxavord spaceport diagnosed with terminal cancer Update on eye research at ISS 2016 documents now prove Obama and his top intelligence officials conspired to create the Russian collusion hoax July 18, 2025 Quick space links Classics IV – Stormy July 18, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites Is SpaceX doing ocean salvage operations near Boca Chica? Government employees: The most spoiled and privileged individuals on Earth A galaxy surrounded by galaxies July 21, 2025 Quick space links The Waterboys – The Whole of the Moon Local county abruptly stops delivering water to Boca Chica Have astronomers observed a black hole twice gobble from the same star? Astronomers detect exoplanet shaping the protoplanetary disk surrounding a baby star SpaceX launches two SES communications satellites First Hubble images of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas released July 22, 2025 Quick space links Lucie Horsch & The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century – Bach Trump administration moving to reduce rocket launch environmental regulations Senegal to sign Artemis Accords One of China’s big satellite constellations appears in trouble Rocket Lab’s new Neutron rocket faces red tape delays at Wallops SpaceX launches NASA’s twin Tracers solar wind monitoring satellites Curiosity amid the boxwork July 23, 2025 Quick space links Nils Lofgren – Valentine July 23, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast JAXA/Mitsubishi test upgraded engines for H3 rocket Study identifies range of interference produced by Starlink satellites Rocket startup IRocket mergers with investment company Mexico’s president says it will investigate SpaceX for doing salvage operations off its coast T-Mobile makes its Starlink capability available to everyone The glaciers on Mars are almost pure ice with only a thin cover of dust and debris July 24, 2025 Quick space links Dionne Warwick – A House Is Not Home Russia launches two weather satellites Spain offers $470 million to move Thirty Meter Telescope to Canary Islands Like the Senate the House appropriation committee rejects Trump’s NASA cuts, but differently Starlink went down for almost 3 hours yesterday Dassault lobbies ESA to fund its Vortex reusable mini-shuttle The journal Science retracts 15-year-old paper that proposed arsenic as basic element of life Mars and its two moons seen in the infrared by Europa Clipper July 25, 2025 Quick space links American Battlefield Trust – Famous Civil War Photos in 360° July 25, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Europe and SpaceX complete two launches late yesterday NASA’s work force is shrinking by about 4,000 One of NASA’s two Tracers satellites just launched has an issue Texas Space Commission hands $5 million to proposed spaceport in the middle of Texas Another two launches by SpaceX and China Bankrupt balloon company Space Perspective bought by European company South Korea transfers its government-built Nuri rocket to private company Galaxies without end July 28, 2025 Quick space links Wang Leehom – More I Cannot Wish You Chinese pseudo-company launches classified payload Firefly hopes to raise more than $600 million in initial stock offering Third star destroying part of expanding shells surrounding binary Wolf-Rayet stars Starlab partners with the interior design company Journey Gilmour’s first launch a failure The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites Firefly wins new NASA lunar lander contract, worth $176.7 million Thales Alenia ships the orbit insertion module for the Mars sample return mission Next Starship moves to launchpad for static fire testing A Webb false color image of a planetary nebula Curiosity looks back India and China complete launches July 30, 2025 Quick space links Beth Hart – A Change Is Gonna Come July 30, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Launch of next manned mission to ISS on Falcon 9 and Endeavour capsule China launches Earth observation satellite for Pakistan Ontario cancels Starlink contract in retaliation to Trump’s tariffs Smithsonian opposes order to transfer space shuttle Discovery to Houston Russians: Air leak on ISS reduced but still on going California Coastal Commission to reconsider SpaceX’s Vandenberg launch proposal The word that best describes our present NASA lunar program is “delusional.” New data raises doubts about exoplanet having chemicals that on Earth come from life July 31, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches 19 more Starlink satellites Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy Endeavour launched successfully, carrying four astronauts to ISS Russia desperately lobbies the U.S. to continue and expand its space partnership Echostar issues contract to build satellites for direct-to-phone constellation August 1, 2025 Quick space links B1M – Building the newest biggest neutrino telescope August 1, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast On the road volunteering SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites August 4, 2025 Quick space links Bananarama – Cruel Summer Rocket Lab and China complete launches Firefly raises stock price for its initial public offering Amazon’s Kuiper constellation wins contract from Australian telecom 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite August 5, 2025 Quick space links NASA awards small orbital tug study contracts to six companies Duffy touts nuclear power for lunar base Astroscale awarded patent for its space junk removal technology Confusion reigns as to what shuttle will be moved to Houston, if any NASA officially ends failed Lunar Trailblazer mission Sunspot update: The Sun appears ready to once again confound the experts August 6, 2025 Quick space links Josh Turner – Long Black Train August 6, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Firefly’s stock sells at price higher than expected Acting NASA head Duffy reshapes NASA’s space station plans China completes landing and take-off tests of its manned lunar lander Hera photographs two main belt asteroids on its way to Didymos/Dimorphos Italy to fly experiments on first Starship flights to Mars New Hubble observations of Comet 3I/Atlas refine its size Virgin Galactic delays first flight of its new suborbital craft while cutting workforce Strange rocks on Mars Astronomers claim to discover biggest supermassive black hole yet India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter photographs Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander Sources suggest major job layoffs and salary cuts about to sweep Russia Webb: Evidence of gas giant exoplanet orbiting the central star of Alpha Centuri Intuitive Machines buys long-established space navigation company Kinetx Jason Colacino and Katie Boyle – Honky Tonk Thank you all! ULA’s CEO provides update on Vulcan and the company’s launch plans Azerbaijan officials hold cooperation talks with SpaceX Rocket Lab to unveil its completed Neutron launchpad by end of August Firefly’s stock value far exceeds the predicted price Sending Juno to fly past interstellar comet 3I/Atlas? Indian rocket startup Skyroot tests solid-fueled motor Jim Lovell, the world’s first space cadet, passes away at 97 Jay Leno’s Garage – 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra Competition August 8, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches another 11 satellites for one of its mega-constellations Endurance capsule splashes down safely, returning four astronauts from ISS Starlink now available in Israel FCC eliminates red tape for both satellite companies and space stations Toyota extends its partnership with Japanese rocket startup Interstellar On the radio SpaceX launches 24 more Kuiper satellites for Amazon Radar images of near Earth asteroid as it zipped past the Earth August 11, 2025 Quick space links Munich Bach Orchestra – Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major,3rd movement Two companies to study ways for extending the life of the Gehrels Swift space telescope Two Japanese shipping companies are developing floating landing platforms for rockets France’s military awards orbital tug startup contract for transporting its “inspector” satellites Virginia’s politicians whine about a NASA plan to close the visitor center at Wallops August 12, 2025 Quick space links Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose – Treat Her Like A Lady Two launches today less than 20 minutes apart Portugal issues spaceport license to Santa Maria Island New developments at Canada’s two competing spaceport projects China completes eighth launch of its Guowang internet satellite constellation Founder of SaxaVord spaceport passes away Axiom completes first set of underwater tests of its commercial spacesuit Starlink expands in the Ukraine, starts in Kazakhstan, but hits roadblock in Lebanon When Martian lava meets a Martian mountain New study: Both PR departments and the press love to speculate wildly about science, even when the scientists don’t August 13, 2025 Quick space links Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King August 13, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX completes two launches, reaching 100 successful orbital launches in 2025 Trump orders the federal agencies regulating space to review and streamline regulations Update on next Starship/Superheavy launch Webb: An Earth-sized exoplanet in habitable zone appears to lack an atmosphere SpaceX donates $4.4 million to upgrade beach access at Boca Chica Slope streaks within Mars’ largest mountain region Jared Isaacman proves in an op-ed today why Trump dumped him Candy Dulfer & Jan Van Duikeren – Jazz improvisation Upper stage of Chinese rocket fails during launch California’s Coastal Commission again rejects an increase in SpaceX’s launch rate at Vandenberg Space Force preps for the next X-37B mission Gullies on a crater wall in the icy north of Mars August 15, 2025 Quick space links Primal Space – The water system of the ancient city of Granada August 15, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast A protest of boats now intends to violate the range and prevent the next Starship/Superheavy test launch China completes two launches today Japanese rocket startup Interstellar signs five customers for first orbital launch Kazakhstan looking for commercial rocket startups outside Russia to launch from Baikonur Colorful spiral galaxy SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites Oh by the way, the FAA has approved the August 24th launch of Starship/Superheavy August 18, 2025 Quick space links The Yardbirds – Shapes of Things China launches seven classified satellites Proposed Australian commercial spaceport signs land lease Scientists link near Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu to much larger main belt asteroid Psyche snaps picture of Earth-Moon system Student suborbital rocket fails in first student attempt to reach space Webb discovers another “oldest black hole” August 20, 2025 Quick space links Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler – I’ll see you in my dreams/Walk of Life August 19, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Starmer government consolidates the UK Space Agency into larger agency Court rules in favor of SpaceX’s lawsuit against the NLRB’s legal status Spinlaunch raises $30 million for its Meridian broadband satellite constellation Russia launches returnable capsule for month-long biology research mission Bank officials: Obama and Biden demanded we blacklist Republican customers Meteorite that crashed through roof of home in Georgia dated to beginning of solar system August 20, 2025 Quick space links Kalandra – Borders Russia launches classified military payload Firefly studying feasibility of launching from northern Japanese spaceport India now targeting December for first unmanned test flight of Gaganyaan Avio gets 10-year lease from France to launch its Vega-C from French Guiana Slumping landslide in Mars’ glacier country Using Webb astronomers have for the first time identified the source of a fast radio burst August 21, 2025 Quick space links The Platters – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes SpaceX launches X-37B for Space Force New Horizons placed in hibernation, possibly forever Study: Car design has worsened, increasing blindspots which cause accidents SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites Junk science now dominates the reporting of the propaganda press Texas brewery tries brewing beer and growing barley on ISS SpaceX gets major tax credit for the jobs its new Starship factory will create. Saturday Night Live – Washington’s Dream August 22, 2025 Quick space links August 22, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Off to the Grand Canyon and Colorado Rocket Lab successfully launches a private payload Misconduct alleged in management of Square Kilometer Array in Australia SpaceX launches a cargo Dragon to ISS India completes 1st complete Gaganyaan capsule parachute drop test Tenth Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed due to ground equipment issue Contact re-established with Jupiter probe Juice after a month Wind-eroded terrain on the edge of Mars’ largest volcanic ash field August 25, 2025 Quick space links Tenth orbital test flight of Superheavy/Starship scrubbed due to weather Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra -Peter Gunn TV show theme Cargo Dragon docks with ISS Webb and SPHEREx space telescopes observe interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas China launches 10 more satellites in its Guowang constellation On the road today The beauty of Mars’ many-layered northern icecap August 26, 2025 Quick space links Kiss – Black Diamond The most powerful rocket ever, built and financed by a private company, has a near perfect tenth test flight Both before and after its Starship launch yesterday, SpaceX also completed two Falcon 9 launches Sand dunes inside the Martian north polar icecap August 27, 2025 Quick space links Jools Holland & Doctor John – Boogie Woogie Twins Another great hiking location on Mars August 28, 2025 Quick space links Alan Jackson – Summertime Blues SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites while setting a new reuse record for a Falcon 9 1st stage Trump ends unions for federal employees at NASA and other agencies Mars’ interior is more chaotic than Earth’s Perseverance looks west A baby star and its protoplanetary disk August 29, 2025 Quick space links Idealized Science Institute – Which ramp reaches highest final speed? August 29, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites Exoplanet detected inside gap in accretion disk surrounding a Sunlike star Scientists pinpoint the origin of the energetic electrons thrown out by the Sun South Korea’s space agency requests big 15% budget increase Juice successfully completes Venus fly-by “What the heck?!” glaciers on Mars September 1, 2025 Quick space links Al Green – Tired Of Being Alone An interesting look at why the British government decided to eliminate its space agency European Commission calls for a fast launch capability from its new rocket startups Trump once again moves Space Force HQ from Colorado to Alabama September 2, 2025 Quick space links Hoobastank – The Reason Website issues today SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites Two more launches in past 24 hours, by Israel and SpaceX Australian rocket startup Gilmour Space confirms successful operation of its first satellite France startup wins contract to build Starlink competitor Juno detects the aurora of the moon Callisto in Jupiter’s atmosphere Radar images reveal near Earth asteroid to be a contact binary Patterned frozen lava in Mars’ volcano country September 3, 2025 Quick space links The Addams Family – The Wednesday Dance September 3, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Cargo Dragon completes test burn to raise ISS’s orbit SpaceX gets FAA approval to double its annual launches from Cape Canaveral Spanish startup signs three customers for first flight of its returnable capsule Yesterday’s Senate hearing on Artemis: It’s all a game! Gemini South telescope captures Comet 3I/Atlas’s growing tail Sunspot update: In August sunspot activity continued to rise The beginnings of the first political coup in American history A glittering false-color image from Webb Bulgaria & Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra – Cosmic Voices SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites Amazon gets first airline customer for its Kuiper constellation A simple phone device for kids Astrobotic signs launch deal with Norway’s Andoya spaceport September 5, 2025 Quick space links The Cracker Barrel kerfuffle proves the now powerful reach of the alternative/conservative press Volonaut – Test flight of Airbike prototype China yesterday completed two launches Two more launches today EchoStar sells spectrum licenses to SpaceX for $17 billion while buying into Starlink Has Curiosity stumbled upon a small slope streak? Clumps of dust in a star-forming cluster September 8, 2025 Quick space links Camille Saint-Saëns – The Swan China launches 11 more satellites for its Geely satellite constellation NASA inspector general: Dragonfly mission is vastly overbudget and behind schedule China launches classified satellite China proposes its own mission to Apophis New study of 300,000 people in Italy proves COVID jab caused gigantic increase in cancer cases Keith Emerson & Oscar Peterson – Honky Tonk Train Blues South Korea military begins project to develop a methane-fueled rocket engine India’s government finalizes deal to transfer operation of its SSLV rocket to a private company Rather than streamline red tape, a UK government committee proposes it should fund its space industry directly Croatian startup moves up the launch date for two subscale returnable capsules Scientists detect methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune NASA promotes the non-discovery of life on Mars by Perseverance Update on what SpaceX learned about Starship’s tiles during the 10th test flight September 10, 2025 Quick space links Democrats today showed us their murderous colors SpaceX launches military payload for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency Gentle Giant – The Advent Of Panurge September 10, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA bans Chinese citizens from its facilities or operations Russia launches Progress to ISS America’s educational system is failing because it no longer teaches students how to think September 11, 2025 Quick space links Dennis James – Mozart’s Adagio for Glass Harmonica SpaceX launches Indonesian commercial communications/broadband satellite Italian rocket company Avio commits $469 million to expand operations House committee support for threatened NASA missions is actually quite questionable The left’s face of evil September 12, 2025 Quick space links Greg Howard – Tomorrow Never Knows/Norwegian Wood September 12, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two launches in the past day SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus freighter to ISS Space station startup Vast endorses NASA’s new strategy that no longer requires a continuous human presence in space Starlink down for about an hour last night Progress docks safely with Zvezda module at ISS Russia further centralizes and consolidates its shrinking space sector Bubbling lava frozen in a Martian crater The central star-forming cauldron of M82, the most well known star-forming galaxy Silvana Mangano – Mambo Court throws out environmental lawsuit against SpaceX, FAA, and Starship/Superheavy Spanish rocket startup PLD completes test of prototype first stage The causes behind the launch failure of Firefly’s Alpha rocket in April China launches “test satellite for satellite internet technology” Scientists at JPL now predict a major long term uptick in sunspot activity Lucy scientists name the features on asteroid Donaldjohanson Europe once again delays test flights of its Callisto 1st stage hopper Isar outlines what caused the failure on the first launch of its Spectrum rocket Strange unexplained polarization shifts in M87’s supermassive black hole September 16, 2025 Quick space links Taylor Swift – Love Story September 16, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Premature engine cutoff forces postponement of Cygnus berthing to ISS Monitoring the largest recent impact detected by InSight’s seismometer September 17, 2025 Quick space links Mr. Mister – Kyrie NASA and Northrop Grumman work out rendezvous plan to get Cygnus to ISS ISS research suggests weightlessness accelerates aging in stem cells Perseverance data suggests multiple past wet periods occurred in Jezero Crater SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites Astronomers refine the spin and size of Hayabusa-2’s next target asteroid At last some real pushback against the left’s slander culture September 18, 2025 Quick space links Hans Zimmer – The Battle Russia’s Bion-2 capsule returns to Earth after a month in space Japan closes down its Akatsuki Venus orbiter mission Astra is now targeting mid-’26 for first launch of its new Rocket-4 rocket Luxembourg cargo capsule startup Space Cargo raises $32 million in private investment capital Inexplicable very large patterns found in Saturn’s upper atmosphere FAA releases proposed revisions to environmental assessment at Boca Chica to accomodate full orbital testing and return of both Superheavy and Starship September 19, 2025 Quick space links Derek Macara – Morning Light September 19, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 24 Starlink satellites Blue Origin wins contract to bring NASA’s Viper rover to the Moon SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites Avio wins U.S. launch contract for its Vega-C rocket South Korean rocket startup Innospace wins launch and marketing contract with German broadcast company Failed launch by Iran The swamp comes up with a swamp solution for promoting space A galaxy sunnyside up SpaceX launches classified reconnaissance payload The left’s hatred and violence is finally driving people away September 22, 2025 Quick space links Rodney Crowell – Earthbound Universities in Taiwan and the United Kingdom sign partnership deal Australian satellite startup to fly an instrument on private mission to Apophis NASA’s new class of astronauts illustrates its increasing shift to capitalism Google admits to bowing to Biden censorship, and vows to end all bans Blobby Martian crater filled with ice The real pushback against Disney, ABC, and Kimmel continues September 23, 2025 Quick space links Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagoruychenko – 2018 Fred Astaire Cup Latin dance competition Two launches by China and SpaceX Canadian rocket startup to try suborbital launch today after yesterday’s launch was scrubbed due to a fire on the launchpad NASA now targeting a February-to-April launch window for first manned Artemis mission Firefly’s stock sags due to poor revenue numbers in 1st quarter report Chinese satellite photographs commercial Maxar satellite Another day, another leftist sniper; Another day, another Democrat incites violence Starbase to take control of nearby beaches Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein September 24, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA awards orbital servicing startup Katalyst contract to save the Gehrels Swift space telescope Starlab selects Vivace to build the primary structure of its proposed space station Two launches this morning Axiom hires Redwire to build the solar panels for its first station module European engineers develop a tumbling rover design moved by the Martian wind A Martian landscape of volcanic pimples September 25, 2025 Quick space links On the radio tomorrow with Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas Elvis Presley – Burning Love SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites NASA cancels Sierra Space’s contract for Dream Chaser cargo missions to ISS Germany’s military commits to spending $41 billion on space through 2030 Canadian rocket startup Nordspace postpones first suborbital test launch Astronomers detect the spiral motion of the accretion disk surrounding a star 515 light years away Leftist mob attacks conservatives at Tennessee State University September 26, 2025 Quick space links The Beach Boys – God Only Knows, a cappella September 26, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China completes two launches SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites Avio wins $47 million study contract to build reusable upper stage rocket New study finds ice is better at dissolving iron than liquid water Two Japanese startups partner to fly the first private lunar sample return mission Webb: Accretion disk surrounding exoplanet rich in carbon molecules Modeling suggests Uranus’s moon Ariel needed underground oceans to shape its known surface Study suggests low dose radiation reduces severe knee pain September 29, 2025 Quick space links The Cars – Just What I Needed China launches two “test satellites” Firefly loses first stage for next launch when it explodes during static fire test Next Starship/Superheavy test set for October 13, 2025 Inspector General: The state of NASA’s spacesuits on ISS is becoming critical September 30, 2025 Quick space links Natalia Osipova and Carlos Acosta – Giselle: Act II Axiom successfully tests two of its lunar spacesuits underwater Belgium company joins Starlab space station consortium Varda signs deal for more capsule landings in Australia International Astronautical Congress meeting in Australia produces several international agreements Astronomers snap picture of a baby exoplanet Analysis of archived Cassini data finds a new slate of carbon-based molecules in the plumes of Enceladus The growing mystery of the little red dots in the early universe Climategate global-warming activist Michael Mann resigns from PennU after celebrating murder of Charlie Kirk October 1, 2025 Quick space links Shocking Blue – Venus October 1, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Update on the plans to observe interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas using interplanetary spacecraft Satellite propulsion startup Portal successfully tests new and radical thruster design Sunspot update: For one month the Sun does what the scientists predicted! Distractions October 2, 2025 Quick space links Renée Zellweger – Roxie SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites October 3, 2025 Quick space links David Bull – Taking a close look at an 1896 wood block print October 3, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Gilmour to attempt first launch again next year Space Force awards SpaceX and ULA seven launches worth more than a billion dollars Firefly Aerospace buys defense contractor SciTec ESA looks to global private sector for its next ISS cargo mission A galaxy with a starburst ring within its nucleus October 6, 2025 Quick space links The left only has a short window remaining to stop its violence before the hammer strikes it hard Chuck Mangione Quartet – Land of Make Believe SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites The Juno mission at Jupiter is almost certainly over Martian boxwork on the flanks of Mount Sharp Is the fate of the independent live streams in Boca Chica uncertain? October 7, 2025 Quick space links Melanie – The Nickel Song Japanese satellite company extends its launch contract with Rocket Lab SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, reuses 1st stage for 29th time First image from Mars of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Stoke Space said to be raising as much as $500 million in private investment capital Canadian rocket startup Nordspace obtains expanded ground station contract Fresh slope streak on Mars Martian winds are faster than expected October 8, 2025 Quick space links Prince – Play that funky music AST SpaceMobile signs up Verizon to use its constellation for phone-to-satellite service New study claims the giant impact that created the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin was oblique, from the south Congressional budget action appears to just save two of seventeen on-going NASA missions Saturn as seen by Cassini in 2004, four months before orbital insertion Dominion Voting Systems purchased by American company run by Republican election reform activist October 9, 2025 Quick space links Asleep At The Wheel – Roly Poly October 8, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Is Trump considering re-nominating Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator? Canadian rocket startup Nordspace signs deal for its mission control center Astronomers take first radio image of the supermassive binary system OJ287 Orbital tug company Momentus gets two NASA contracts New research confirms the steady decline of Martian ice with each glacial cycle October 10, 2025 Quick space links Business Insider – The Rise And Fall Of The American Diner October 10, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches three satellites from ocean platform Rocket Lab gets two-launch contract from Japan’s space agency JAXA Watch the eleventh orbital test flight of SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy rocket Germany’s space agency DLR delivers one prototype leg for Europe’s Callisto grasshopper Faced with loss of the federal gravy train, Lowell Observatory makes major changes Welsh university delivers spectometer for Europe’s Franklin Mars rover Michael Knowles – Celebrating Columbus Another round of layoffs at JPL I love love love my toy chicken!!! Eleventh Starship/Superheavy a complete success Swarm satellite constellation detects changes in the Earth’s magnetic field during the past decade PLD issues detailed update on its preparations for first launch in 2026 Three launches in the past day The hurricane season in 2024 confounded the predictions again October 14, 2025 Quick space links Lena Haarberg – Fall Into You Space Force approves Vandenberg environmental assessment, allowing SpaceX’s to launch as much as 100 times annually Orbital tug startup Impulse Space to develop its own unmanned lunar lander New Morgan Stanley report reflects Wall Street’s generally optimistic view of Rocket Lab Peeling brain terrain in Martian crater October 15, 2025 Quick space links Alexis Dahl – How to ship 800 billion pounds of rock fast October 15, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Indian rocket startup Skyroot hires Exolaunch to handle satellite integration and deployment Three launches since yesterday Thailand studying feasibility of establishing its own commercial spaceport Scientists find that three normally incompatible substances can interact in the alien conditions on Titan South African red tape will likely delay Starlink there for years to come ESA awards contract to Italian company to provide an ocean landing platform Layers of Martian ash October 16, 2025 Quick space links JD ‘FollowCam’ – Just “wing” it! China launches 18 satellites If there is any microbiology on Mars, new research says it will be found in the red planet’s ample ice Meandering channel in Mars’ southern cratered highlands October 17, 2025 Quick space links Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup Oman streamlines its launch license regulations The three launches completed today including two major new achievements South Korea issues launch license to Korean rocket startup Innospace Debris from suspected Chinese rocket discovered in western Australia Was it a piece of space junk that broke a United plane windshield in flight last week? The “No Kings” demonstrations this past weekend showed the future belongs to the right October 20, 2025 Quick space links The 5.6.7.8s – I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield Fake blather from NASA administrator Sean Duffy to hide more Artemis delays October 17, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Small fresh impact on Mars’ youngest major lava flow October 21, 2025 Quick space links Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites Duffy’s shiny object worked A somewhat typical volcanic vent on Mars October 22, 2025 Quick space links What bad news is NASA hiding about the heat shield it will use on the next Orion/SLS manned mission around the Moon? The Guys Downstairs – How Long Has This Been Going On October 22, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Hungary becomes the 57th nation to sign the Artemis Accords Lockheed Martin invests in rotating detonation rocket engine startup Venus Aerospace The second known asteroid discovered orbiting closer to the Sun than Venus Betelgeuse’s long predicted companion star confirmed European companies Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales merge their satellite divisions Weird “What the heck?!” pedestal crater on Mars China launches a “communication technology test” satellite October 23, 2025 Quick space links Eivør & Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Trøllabundin SpaceX launches communications satellite for the Spanish government Two lawsuits filed against NASA at its Marshall Space Flight Center October 24, 2025 Quick space links Deconstructed – How the bathyscaphe Trieste was the first to reach the ocean’s deepest point October 24, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, sets new annual launch record Nova Scotia spaceport wins $10 million credit line from Canadian government Japan launches a new upgraded version of its HTV cargo freighter Two more launches, by China and SpaceX respectively Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander delayed again Ispace signs deals with companies in India and Japan Luxembourg capsule startup Space Cargo signs partnership deal with French startup New data supports theory of dark matter, but suggests inexplicably that it acts differently depending on the galaxy’s mass Russia claims to have successfully tested a low-flying nuclear-powered cruise missile October 27, 2025 Quick space links Ozzy Osbourne And Lita Ford – Close My Eyes Forever SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites The Philippines and Malaysia sign Artemis Accords Voyager Space buys satellite electric propulsion company Exoterra SpaceX settles Cards Against Humanity lawsuit against it European think tank pushes passage of proposed and very Byzantine space law The base of the Democratic Party has truly become nightmare to behold October 28, 2025 Quick space links The Hollies- On A Carousel Lockheed Martin completes first flight of X-59 supersonic test plane Startup semi-conductor manufacturer Besxar signs deal to use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first stage as production platform during its short flight Blue Origin officials provide update on their lunar lander program SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites The alien landscape of Mars’ north polar ice cap October 29, 2025 Quick space links “Weird Al” Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana October 29, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lawsuit against Amazon for favoring Blue Origin over SpaceX to launch Kuiper satellites gets new hearing AST SpaceMobile signs 10-year deal with Saudi Arabia A slew of propaganda today from China’s state-run press attempts to hide the delays in its manned lunar program Roscosmos forced to replace next manned Soyuz capsule due to damage during test Colorado sues the Trump administration over its decision to move Space Force headquarters to Alabama SpaceX: Starship will be going to the Moon, with or without NASA October 30, 2025 Quick space links New orbital radar data confirms large ice deposits in Phelgra Mountains near Starship landing zone Geoff Castellucci – Monster Mash Latvia signs Artemis Accords China launches three astronauts to its Tiangong-3 space station Webb captures spectacular false-color image of planetary nebula ISS study suggests that weightlessness impacts the eyes of men more than women Two former NASA administrators express wildly different opinions on NASA’s Artemis lunar program October 31, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites Annie Marie Lewis – Headless Horseman October 31, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two overnight launches China launches “remote sensing” satellite, setting a new national record for annual launches Update on Vast’s first planned space station, Haven-1 Is the German government holding up Rocket Lab’s purchase of German space communications company Mynaric? A think tank releases its detailed review of the American satellite communications industry November 3, 2025 Quick space links Eric Clapton – She’s Waiting China will launch its upgraded manned Mengzhou-1 capsule in 2026 MDA invests $7 million to become part owner of proposed Nova Scotia spaceport First unmanned test flight of India’s Gaganyaan capsule likely slips to next year Intuitive Machines buys Lanteris, formerly Maxar More Washington shenanigans over who will be NASA’s next administrator Someone is apparently considering putting a helicopter on Starship when it goes to Mars November 4, 2025 Quick space links Sunspot update: Solar activity continues to decline as predicted Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – Mas Que Nada China delays return of Shenzhou 20 crew due to possible capsule damage from “space debris” Arianespace launches European radar satellite Trump renominates Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator This typical cliff on Mars just happens to match the walls of the Grand Canyon November 5, 2025 Quick space links Sue Foley & others – Okie Dokie Stomp November 5, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two American launches today, setting several new launch records Starlab picks Leidos to assemble, integrate, and test its space station prior to launch State Department blasts the European Union’s proposed Space Act China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter snaps fuzzy picture of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas SpaceX and Arianespace make launch predictions for ’25 and ’26 Judge approves plea deal related to Boeing’s malfeasance that caused two 737-Max crashes killing 346 November 6, 2025 Quick space links The McCoys – Hang On Sloopy One launch today by SpaceX, while ULA scrubs for the second time in two days FAA issues a launch curfew due to the shutdown Echostar sells more of its licensed spectrum to SpaceX U.S. budget cuts shifts Blacksky’s satellite imaging business to international customers Webb tracks volcanic eruptions on Io Profits for Luxembourg satellite company SES drop due to U.S. budget cuts and shutdown Crazy layers inside a Martian crater November 7, 2025 Quick space links Dusty Lumber Company – No talking just precision carpentry November 7, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Three launches since yesterday, with a fourth upcoming today [scrubbed] Isaacman shows up as surprise speaker at Turning Point USA event in Alabama Two launches from China, one of which failed Curiosity looks downhill at past travels November 10, 2025 Quick space links Dean Martin & Caterina Valente – One Note Samba SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites First launch of Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket delayed until 2026 New company formed to run proposed North Sea offshore launch platform Avio to provide solid-fueled motors to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon China’s Zhuque-3 reusable rocket now ready for its first launch Kazakhstan expanding its access to multiple internet satellite constellations On the Space Show tonight The edge of Mars’ north polar ice cap November 11, 2025 Quick space links PDQ Bach – Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Goldstone antenna damaged and out of service Canada’s Nova Scotia spaceport schedules a suborbital launch for November India tests Gaganyaan parachutes again SpaceX signs Starlink deal with major African telecommunication company First Soyuz-5 rocket arrives at Baikonur The leftist protest at Berkeley this week: Feel the hate! November 12, 2025 Quick space links Saturn’s rings, warped by one of Saturn’s moons Lena Horne – Stormy Weather November 12, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Firefly identifies cause of first stage explosion during static fire test in September Uzbekistan signs deal to possibly fly astronauts on Vast’s Haven-1 space station Space energy startup Star Catcher successfully tests power beaming using lasers German rocket startup Isar Aerospace is getting ready for 2nd launch attempt in Norway The earliest observations ever of a supernova exploding suggest the blast was bi-polar Is China preparing to return its stranded astronauts in its damaged Shenzhou capsule? France’s president puts forth a new national space policy New Glenn successfully launches Escapade orbiters AND lands 1st stage November 13, 2025 Quick space links Sierra Space finally completes preflight tests of its Tenacity Dream Chaser mini-shuttle Historical proof that today’s public schools are nothing but indoctrination mills poisoning minds Home Free – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ULA’s Atlas-5 rocket launches Viasat communications satellite Amazon renames its proposed internet constellation from Kuiper to Amazon LEO China’s Shenzhou-20 crew on Tiangong-3 returns on Shenzhou-21 capsule Comet C/2025 K1 — NOT interstellar 3I/Atlas — breaks up as it passes closest to the Sun Bezos releases new video of the New Glenn first stage landing yesterday The orbital propulsion module for India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander drifts back into lunar orbit November 11, 2025 Zimmerman/Space Show appearance I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in November 14, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two more SpaceX launches Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter circling Mars gets images of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas SpaceX launches NASA ocean radar satellite FAA lifts airline and rocket launch restrictions China begins hurried preparations to launch rescue Shenzhou capsule to Tiangong-3 Europe finalizes transfer of Vega-C rocket back to its builder, Italian company Avio Thailand rejects Starlink Perseverance moves on The crippling effect of “woke” on historians November 17, 2025 Quick space links Leonid & Friends – Stay the Night Echostar subsidiary Hughesnet now sending its customers to Starlink Will China launch a rescue Shenzhou capsule to Tiangong-3 in one week? Blue Origin targeting from 12 to 24 New Glenn launches in 2026 German rocket startup Isar wins another launch contract Cracking scallops in the Mars Mexican anti-Musk activists whine about SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch operations November 18, 2025 Quick space links Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather SpaceX and China complete launches Canada commits a half billion to European Space Agency projects Senate demands a second hearing before voting on Isaacman as NASA administrator More criticism and opposition to Europe’s proposed space law Looking for avalanches on Mars November 19, 2025 Quick space links Marilyn Monroe – Lazy November 19, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Katalyst picks Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket to launch its Swift rescue mission NASA releases numerous images of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas India tests new and better restart method for upper stage of its biggest rocket Webb captures spiraling shells around massive binary star system ArianeGroup confirms it is targeting about six Ariane-6 launches in 2026 Rocket Lab sets new annual launch record for the company Blue Origin announces plans to upgrade New Glenn to match SLS The DC swamp proposes beating China in space by creating another bureaucracy here on Earth Cracks on Mars November 20, 2025 Quick space links Sonny and Cher – I Got You Babe SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Spanish rocket startup PLD unveils the first qualification unit of its Miura-5 rocket Firefly to provide the launch rocket for Kratos’ hypersonic test vehicles Maritime Launch Services touts a second non-orbital launch from Spaceport Nova Scotia Moss placed on the outside of ISS for nine months was still capable of reproducing China launches a “communications technology test satellite” Superheavy intended for next test flight damaged during static fire test What might be the weirdest crater on Mars Bigoted academia upset that Trump won’t allow them to push the racist DEI agenda November 21, 2025 Quick space links Restless Viking – The Great Lakes Flight of MSgt William Wyman SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites SpaceX issues 1st statement regarding Superheavy test explosion Startup B2Space launches rocket from balloon SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites; 1st stage flies for first time A company that wants to shoot payloads into orbit with a cannon A magnificent barred spiral Two Middle Eastern startups sign deal to build a mini-shuttle dubbed Oryx Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt? NASA downgrades Boeing’s Starliner contract November 24, 2025 Quick space links Blue Origin’s Blue Ring orbital tug gets a customer Robert Goulet & Julie Andrews – My Cup Runneth Over NASA trims $768 million from Boeing’s Starliner contract China launches unmanned Shenzhou-22 capsule to its Tiangong-3 station A Midnight Repost: Farewell to America Vast signs deal with Colombia’s space agency Twin Escapade Mars orbiters take first images to test instruments NASA releases images during Osiris-Apex’s fly-by of Earth in late September Two suborbital test launches in Poland during the past month Russia launches classified military satellites New radar data shows no evidence of liquid water under Mars’ south pole ice cap The smooth and extremely calm methane lakes of Titan Predicting dust storms in the Starship candidate landing zone on Mars November 25, 2025 Quick space links Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen Vast signs preliminary astronaut deal with the Maldives Thirty Meter Telescope is finally considering a move to the Canary Islands New study claims to have detected dark matter inside the Milky Way South Korea successfully launches its Nuri rocket for the third time European Space Agency faces reality: Its partnerships with NASA are fading More glaciers on Mars November 26, 2025 Quick space links Josephine Baker – Dance Josie, Dance November 21, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast November 26, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation What AI thinks Thanksgiving looked like Russia launches three astronauts to ISS Thanksgiving repost: Miracle on 34th Street Russia’s only manned launchpad damaged badly during yesterday’s launch ESA’s member nations approve a major budget increase SpaceX launches another Transporter mission, including dozens of smallsats Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire – Swing Time China launches classified payload into orbit New Australian rocket startup completes suborbital launch South Korean rocket startup Innospace announces date for inaugural launch SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites Russia still using black market Starlink terminals on its drones After being linked for almost six months, China’s Shijian 21 and Shijian 25 separate A detailed look at Europe’s $1 billion commitment to its nascent commercial rocket industry Buffalo Bill: The greatest true boy adventure story that’s never been told December 1, 2025 Quick space links Little Cars – When Sweden Switched To Driving On The Right Two launches today, by Arianespace and SpaceX SpaceX gets Air Force approval to launch and land Starship/Superheavy at Cape Canaveral Senate Commerce committee to move up its vote on Isaacman’s nomination as NASA administrator German rocket startup Isar gets launch contract from ESA China reveals its plans for the damaged Shenzhou-20 capsule docked to Tiangong-3 All eight ports on ISS occupied for the first time; Longest manned mission about to start? Three new papers find sugars, “gum,” and lots of stardust in the samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu Blue Origin faces opposition renewing its permit to dump waste water at Florida launch facility Astronomers detect another galaxy that shouldn’t be there, so soon after the Big Bang December 2, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Jefferson Starship – Jane China’s Zhuque-3 copycat Falcon 9 reaches orbit on first launch; 1st stage crashes New data from VLT uncovers numerous debris disks around stars Russian astronaut kicked out of the U.S. for stealing proprietary SpaceX designs France’s space agency CNES found liable for environmental damage at French Guiana spaceport Sunspot update: Sunspot activity again crashes far below predictions Weird mottled terrain in the dry tropics of Mars December 3, 2025 Quick space links Larry Kimpel, Billy Cobham, & George Duke – Stratus December 3, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Yesterday’s Senate nomination hearing for Jared Isaacman was irrelevant; America’s real space “program” is happening elsewhere Ground-based telescope actually photographs an exoplanet The insane terrain inside Mars’ Death Valley December 4, 2025 Quick space links Boeing is still not off the hook for its malfeasance behind the two 737-Max crashes that killed 346 SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman “Blemish” on Orion hatch’s “thermal barrier” delays countdown rehearsal China launches two small test communications satellites New images of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Airbus signs China’s Qianfan or Spacesail constellation to provide internet on its airplanes House hearing on Artemis yesterday signals strong doubts about the program in Congress New data strengthens the conflict in the observed value for the universe’s expansion rate Perseverance moves west, into the barren hinterlands beyond Jezero Crater December 5, 2025 Quick space links David Hartley – Why Wichita Lineman is the greatest unfinished song of all time December 5, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches another set of Guowang satellites SpaceX to launch another secondary private stock sale, hints at going public SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites THANK YOU!! Russia and India agree to orbit their space stations in the same inclination, the same as ISS Japanese startup Ispace expands deal with Japan Airlines Korean Air and Hyundai Rotem sign deal to develop methane-fueled rocket engine More than 300 companies in discussions in connection Space Force’s “Golden Dome” project A small galaxy with lots of massive stars The war-mongers are always those in power December 8, 2025 Quick space links Astronomers detect a seven-hour-long gamma ray burst, the longest many times over SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry Soggy Bottom Boys – I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow Senate committee approves Isaacman’s nomination as NASA administrator China completed two launches today Three astronauts return from ISS in Soyuz capsule A new study blasts the European Union’s proposed space act Nova explosions appear to have multiple slow and fast explosive outflows New data detects potassium and chlorine in Cassiopeia supernova remnant Academia makes its first comprehensive attempt to plan science missions to Mars using Starship SpaceX completes its 11th launch this year for the National Reconnaissance Office December 9, 2025 Quick space links Eric Clapton – Signe Engineers lose contact with Mars orbiter Maven Unconfirmed anonymous sources at Reuters and Bloomberg claim SpaceX is planning a public stock offering Chinese astronauts complete spacewalk inspecting damaged Shenzhou capsule Abstract art produced by nature within Mars’ north pole ice cap Three launches today December 10, 2025 Quick space links Svetlana Zakharova – Nikiya’s Death in La Bayadère December 10, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Pentagon decides New Glenn must fly four times before its certifies it for military launches Yesterday’s posts are sadly lost Scientists map the outside edge of the Sun’s atmosphere French startup The Exploration Company now building an in-orbit servicing spacecraft Scientists posit that Neptune and Uranus might be rockier than previously theorized Astronomers: 70% of smaller galaxies don’t have supermassive black holes at their center December 11, 2025 Quick space links SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Stray Cats – Rock this town China launches nine more Guowang internet-of-things satellites Turkey begins construction of spaceport in Somalia Avio to build $500 million rocket facility in Virginia Iraq and SpaceX close to signing Starlink deal Space Force creates new naming system for its satellites The beginnings of a planetary nebula Leftist lawsuit against beach closures at Boca Chica appealed to higher Texas court December 12, 2025 Quick space links Sidetrack Adventures – World’s only moving geyser and its path of destruction December 12, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches recoverable capsule; satellite launched two days ago just misses Starlink satellite More details revealed about what caused the damage on that Russian launchpad South Africa lifts its racial quota rules for Starlink The two American launches today set a new global annual launch record exceeding 300+ SpaceX official confirms it is considering an IPO Vast opens Japanese office Components for the first Ariane-6 Amazon’s Leo launch shipped to French Guiana Software issue forces Russia to delay Proton launch until next year House joins Senate in proposing a new space bureaucracy here on Earth SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites An Impulse tug using Starfish equipment has successfully completed autonomous rendezvous maneuvers A ray of hope during a weekend of horror December 15, 2025 Quick space links Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel Updates on the status of two Mars missions, Maven and Escapade Two launches early today Update on SpaceX launchpad upgrades at Boca Chica France and U.S. militaries complete rendezvous maneuvers in orbit Astronomers propose a new explanation for “Bright Blue Outbursts” Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high resolution camera takes its 100,000 picture December 16, 2025 Quick space links Elahn Zetlin – Hanukkah in Jerusalem Three launches and one scrub overnight Two new NASA science spacecraft achieve “first light” European sea-level satellite releases first data A unique place where waves repeatedly crash against each other Jared Isaacman confirmed as NASA administrator December 17, 2025 Quick space links Geoff Castellucci – I’m dreaming of a white Christmas December 17, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab launches a set of technology test satellites for Space Force South Korean rocket startup Innospace signs deal to launch from Australia Station module builder Max Space announces new Thunderbird inflatable module Kenya to build its own spaceport More delays expected in India’s first manned Gaganyaan orbital mission Ancient Martian drainage into crater lake, now turned into ridges New study: AI is corrupting the minds of children December 18, 2025 Quick space links New Trump executive order today guarantees major changes coming to NASA’s Moon program Celtic Woman – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Something caused a Starlink satellite to tumble and its fuel tank to vent Scientists think they have detected a collision in the debris disk surrounding the star Fomalhaut A new commercial smallsat space telescope is now operational and offering its data to scientists Spherex completes first infrared map of the sky Curiosity’s exploration of boxwork on Mount Sharp December 19, 2025 Quick space links Toilet Cat, The Kiffness, & Juzzie Smith – Christmas Blues December 19, 2025 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches “communications technology test” satellite Axiom gets $100 million of investment capital from Hungarian company Rocket Lab completes its 7th launch for Japanese company iQPS Eutelsat/OneWeb to launch new 340 satellites by 2027 Japan launches a Japanese GPS-type satellite; upper stage fails however A tour of Stoke Space Third proposed UK spaceport gets conditional airspace approval Florida opposition grows against renewing Blue Origin’s wastewater permit Two very different galaxies There is little good will on the left, and the right seems eager to lose it too December 22, 2025 Quick space links Tory Bruno resigns as CEO of United Launch Alliance Handel – Pastoral Symphony from Messiah The first launch by South Korean rocket startup Innospace fails shortly after liftoff China’s Long March 12A launches but fails to land the first stage No contact with Mars’ rovers for the next month JAXA identifies cause of H3 rocket failure Starlink added a million new customers in just the past month Hubble images gigantic protoplanetary disk December 23, 2025 Quick space links Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Eve/Sarajevo India launches AST SpaceMobile’s sixth Bluebird satellite Recovering Maven appears increasingly dim Italian rocket company Avio wins two launch contracts valued at $117 million total Next Starship/Superheavy launch in March? Layers in the biggest canyon in the solar system December 24, 2025 Quick space links Kathy Mattea – Mary did you know Hanna-Barbera – Good Will To Men Russia launches classified weather satellite Avio wins launch contract from Taiwan to launch four satellites The SpaceX alumni that are reshaping the space industry Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol December 25, 2025 Quick space links The Pied Piper of Hamelin Brigham Young University Choir & Orchestra – Oh Come All Ye Faithful Japanese bank invests in Starlab Former ULA CEO Tory Bruno now working for Blue Origin China launches nine more satellites in Guowang constellation Marula Eugster Rigolo – One feather China launches weather satellite Russia launches more than fifty satellites Isar ready for second launch attempt Another American orbital capsule company turns to Australia for a landing spot ESA cancels call for commercial cargo services to ISS SpaceX pulls Starlink service from Papua New Guinea The headwaters of an ancient Martian channel December 29, 2025 Quick space links Rita Hayworth – Steal a Show China launches Earth mapping satellite Russia’s early warning satellite constellation is apparently no longer functioning European Space Agency hacked Colliding galaxies, as seen in the infrared and X-rays The up and down tale of two rocket startups, Vector and Phantom December 30, 2025 Quick space links Paolo Ercoli – Song for a winter’s night China launches two satellites for “new technology verification for space target detection” Space Force requests proposals for new Vandenberg launchpad for heavy and super-heavy rockets Turkey and Somalia confirm spaceport plans Archeologists find what they think is evidence of fire-making by early Neanderthals December 31, 2025 Quick space links Bing Crosby – Let’s Start the New Year Right The global launch industry in 2025: The real space race is between SpaceX and China The three week communications blackout from Mars has begun Sotheby’s – Two impossible watches that shouldn’t exist SpaceX to do a major orbital reconfiguration of its Starlink constellation ESA funds Danish lunar orbiter SpaceX doing trial runs of specialized barge for transporting Starship/Superheavy from Boca Chica to Florida Many Martian mysteries in one spot Peter Schickele performs Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach SpaceX completes first launch in 2026 India’s space agency: At least six launches in 2026 NASA: The leak in the Zvezda module on ISS has apparently been sealed SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, plus a review of its Falcon 9 first stage fleet Review of SpaceX’s 2026 Superheavy/Starship test flights Innospace releases preliminary results of launch failure The space station race: Startup Max Space to establish factory at Kennedy in Florida A UK law professor and news outlet prove the UK is not the place to launch rockets “Round Deposits” in Martian crater January 5, 2026 Quick space links Detection of the wake of Betelgeuse’s companion star Jonasquin – If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century Rocketdyne to reappear with sale by L3Harris of its civilian rocket engine division Sunspot update: Ramp down to minimum continues? Computer model: A thin ice cap can preserve liquid water on Mars An excellent summary of Europe’s rocket companies, both established and startups Scientists: We think the little red dots in the early universe are supermassive stars The growing X-ray shell of the 1604 Kepler supernova Veritasium – The Ames Window January 6, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Study: If Europa has an underground ocean, it is lifeless and dormant Rubin Observatory’s first observations detects more than 2,000 asteroids Scientists: Methane from spacecraft landing on the Moon could “obscure” evidence of life January 7, 2026 Quick space links John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – Summer Nights Zimmerman Op-Ed at PJ Media Medical issue forces NASA to postpone spacewalk and consider an early crew return Second Escapade Mars orbiter completes a delayed engine burn Billionaire to fund construction of an orbiting optical telescope larger than Hubble South Korean rocket startup Innospace signs deal with Portugal’s Santa Maria spaceport Icy Mars January 8, 2026 Quick space links ISS expedition 11 will return early due to medical issue Marshall Crenshaw – Whenever You’re On My Mind January 8, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese pseudo-company building 3/4 billion dollar rocket factory Another spiral galaxy that should not exist discovered in the early universe The first preliminary research into landing a Mars helicopter in the Starship landing zone Isaacman okays flying Artemis-2 manned, despite heat shield questions January 9, 2026 Quick space links SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites Stefan Langer – Compilation of glider low passes over beach, lake, and mountains ISS crew to return on Wednesday January 14, 2026 An outline of NASA’s present schedule leading up to the Artemis-2 manned lunar fly-by mission FCC approves SpaceX request to expand Starlink by 7,500 satellites French rocket startup MaiaSpace announces its launch schedule Space Force awards nine launch contracts to SpaceX SpaceX launches NASA’s Pandora exoplanet space telescope Former astronaut once again blasts NASA decision to fly Artemis-2 manned India’s PSLV rocket experiences the second launch failure in a row Space station Starlab gets major new investor China proposes building two new satellite constellations, each with about 100,000 satellites Comparing the global ground stations of China and the U.S. New research supports theorized intermittent ocean exiting Mars’ giant Valles Marineris canyon January 12, 2026 Quick space links SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites Christina Petrou – Ta Pedia Tou Pirea Isaacman makes it official: Artemis-2 will fly manned around the Moon, despite Orion’s heat shield concerns Portugal signs Artemis Accords Mitsubishi buys space on proposed Starlab space station No alien civilizations? After analyzing two decades of data SETI@Home produces 100 signals “worth a second look” China claims it has launched and landed a new suborbital reusable spacecraft Exposed weirdness on floor of Martian crater January 13, 2026 Quick space links China launches twice from today different spaceports HotPlays – Beethoven’s 5th Symphony NASA and Department of Energy agree to place nuclear reactor on Moon by ’30 ULA loses another launch contract to SpaceX A small European prototype re-entry capsule survived PSLV launch failure Another ESA rendezvous demo mission proposed Update on Starship launchpad construction in Texas and Florida SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Axiom has delayed the launch of its first space station module to ’28 January 14, 2026 Quick space links Because Boeing did nothing to replace a defective part, an airplane crashed killing fifteen Anabasis – Dead Can Dance Endeavour undocks from ISS, carrying the Expedition-11 crew January 14, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Expedition-11 crew splashdowns safely Indian startup raises seed money to build robotic satellite servicing “jetpacks” China launches classified military satellite in partnership with Algeria The European Space Agency and China hold the first joint meeting in almost a decade Lockheed Martin and General Electric complete tests of a rotating-detonation engine Martian glacier flowing past small peak January 15, 2026 Quick space links Chris Rea – The Road To Hell French rocket startup MaiaSpace wins ten-launch contract from Eutelsat China launches four satellites for another Chinese constellation The recent computer hack of the European Space Agency was bigger than it admitted Astronomers detect a bar of iron in the center of the Ring Nebula Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high resolution camera is showing its age January 16, 2026 Quick space links Gravity – Rocket Size Comparison as of 2024 January 16, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX yesterday completed one launch while China had two launch failures SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites China’s damaged Shenzhou-20 manned capsule successfully returned unmanned today Japan’s government gives Ispace a $125 million contract to build a high-precision lunar lander Startup focused on mining helium-3 on the Moon teams up with JPL for private rover mission China launches more satellites in its Guowang satellite constellation Japanese rocket startup Interstellar raises another $129.7 million in private investment capital A 10-mile-long avalanche on Mars “A new empire has sprung into existence, and there is a new thing under the sun.” January 19, 2026 Quick space links Badgerland Birding – Five things you didn’t know about Owls Another Zimmerman op-ed today at PJ Media New spaceport proposed in India independent of its space agency ISRO Update on NASA’s damaged Goldstone antenna Australian rocket startup Gilmour Space raises $145 million in investment capital Computer simulations suggest Jupiter and Saturn have fundamentally different interiors I will be on the Space Show with David Livingston tonight January 20, 2026 Quick space links Foreigner – Urgent JAXA releases preliminary results of investigation into December 2025 H3 rocket launch failure French startup The Exploration Company negotiating purchase of UK rocket startup Orbex January 21, 2026 Quick space links Haven-1 launch delayed until 2027 Communications resume with Mars Dionne Warwick, Hal David, Burt Bacharach – I Say A Little Prayer studio rehearsal January 21, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast January 20, 2026 Zimmerman/Space Show appearance SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites Orbital tug startup Starfish Space wins $52.5 million Space Force contract to de-orbit its defunct satellites Orbex’s Danish subsidiary to file for bankruptcy Rocket Lab experiences a tank failure during Neutron pressure test German startup Spark Microgravity to build first space-based commercial cancer lab French smallsat rocket startup Latitude targeting a first launch in early ’27 Isar postpones 2nd Spectrum rocket launch attempt, no new date set Rocket Lab completes its first launch in 2026 New gullies on Mars? January 22, 2026 Quick space links Blue Origin’s proposed TeraWave constellation: Is it really competition with SpaceX? Fake scientist Michael Mann slapped down hard by DC superior court Paul McCartney – Let It Be Blue Origin to reuse first stage on next New Glenn flight January 23, 2026 Quick space links 826aska – James Bond theme January 23, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast ESA awards startup Rocket Factory Augsburg a two-launch contract Russia delays launch of its own “Starlink” constellation Dragonfly’s rotors complete testing “AI isn’t getting smarter. We are getting dumber.” SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites Oman says it wants to sign the Artemis Accords The profound life’s work of Richard Rodgers January 26, 2026 Quick space links Restless Viking – When Michigan and Ohio went to war NASA makes it official: Oman signs the Artemis Accords NASA targeting January 31, 2026 for Artemis-2 dress rehearsal countdown Avio gets two new launch contracts for its Vega-C rocket Musk: Next Starship/Superheavy test launch in mid-March Astronomers use AI to discover hundreds of weird galaxies in Hubble archive Windswept Martian volcanic ash? January 27, 2026 Quick space links Scientists produce new estimate of the thickness of Europa’s icy crust Emmylou Harris – Tulsa Queen SpaceX launches GPS satellite Webb finds another unexpected galaxy in the very early universe Ariane-6 gets a new government launch contract German government hires German startup Polaris Spaceplanes to build reusable two-stage hypersonic plane New ground-based space antenna startup raises $100 million and wins $50 million Space Force contract Astronomers discover a “surprisingly mature” cluster of galaxies in early universe Saturn’s rings with two of its moons perfectly aligned The Warning – Dust To Dust/Dull Knives January 28, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Artemis-2 proves NASA learned nothing from the Challenger and Columbia failures SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites Pluto’s mountains of ice surrounded by a sea of frozen nitrogen January 29, 2026 Quick space links Doris Day – Shaking the Blues Away Varda capsule successfully returns to Earth after nine weeks in orbit Two American launches this evening NASA delays Artemis-2 wet dress rehearsal countdown due to weather Russian official says Soyuz launchpad repair likely delayed Orbex failure occurred partly because UK government withheld promised funding On Coast-to-Coast tonight FAA moves forward on its environmental assessment of SpaceX’s proposal to launch Starship/Superheavy from Kennedy Space Center Russian defunct military satellite breaks up in graveyard orbit Rumors: Musk is considering merging SpaceX with xAI and Tesla January 30, 2026 Quick space links General Electric – Conquest of the Cascades January 30, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches Algerian satellite Comet K1/Atlas has broken apart, not interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Amazon asks FCC for time extension for launching its Leo constellation Blue Origin shuts down New Shepard suborbital tourist flights Russia in discussions with Malaysian province about potential spaceport Axiom wins slot for next tourist mission to ISS SpaceX submits proposal to FCC for new constellation of one million satellites Sunspot update: Maybe solar maximum isn’t over? SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites; uses 1st stage for 31st time Amazon buys ten more launches from SpaceX to place its Leo satellites in orbit A galaxy’s swirling dust lanes February 2, 2026 Quick space links Musk: I have merged xAI with SpaceX Journey – Who’s Crying Now Fuel leaks cause Artemis-2 dress rehearsal countdown to terminate at T-5:15, several minutes early Falcon 9 upper stage has issue preventing de-orbit burn; SpaceX pauses launches NASA makes right decision and delays Artemis-2 launch to do a 2nd dress rehearsal countdown India schedules next PSLV launch for June, claims it knows cause of January launch failure Dumb science: Researchers claim Jupiter is 0.0028% thinner than previously measured Lawrence of Arabia: Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction Pluto and Charon come out of the dark Isaacman: SLS stands on very thin ice February 3, 2026 Quick space links Judy Garland -Trolley Song Midnight repost: Genocide is coming to America Commercial changes at France’s French Guiana spaceport A nice summary of all space-based research of reproduction in space One of Saturn’s many weird moons February 4, 2026 Quick space links SpaceX wants revisions to federal rural grant program that has awarded it $733 million Uncovered Past – Traditional charcoal making February 4, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: Truth, Justice, and the American Way German rocket startup Isar Aerospace opens new rocket testing facility at Esrange spaceport Astronomers use SphereX infrared space telescope to study interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Israeli weather satellite startup raises $175 million in investment capital French startup The Exploration Company completes first splashdown tests of Nyx capsule prototype Pluto’s implausible atmosphere, as seen in 2015 by New Horizons Stephen Sondheim – Someone in a Tree Voyager Technologies and Max Space team up to develop inflatable planetary structures Russia launches classified nine satellites Has the FAA officially approved Starship launches for Kennedy Space Center in Florida? A new American satellite constellation gets FCC approval One of Cassini’s first close-up images of Saturn’s rings February 6, 2026 Quick space links DW News – Mining the world’s most precious marble February 6, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Midnight repost: How the localized nature of Democrat vote tampering will influence the 2022 election India picks landing site for its Chandrayaan-4 lunar sample return mission Isaacman issues directive to shift power back to NASA and away from private sector China and SpaceX complete launches NASA provides update on Artemis-2 repairs for future dress rehearsal countdown FAKE Chandrayaan-2 images of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites A lava tube on Venus? How Saturn’s moon Enceladus causes an aurora on Saturn What life was really like in the American wild west February 9, 2026 Quick space links Cyd Charisse & Ricardo Montalban – Bar dance Voyager wins four-year $24.5 million ISS management contract from NASA Has Roscosmos gotten its Baikonur Soyuz-2 launchpad fixed already? Starfish gets a second satellite servicing contract from Pentagon First Vulcan rocket arrives at Vandenberg for launch later this year Hubble eyes the Egg Nebula February 10, 2026 Quick space links Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes China completes launch abort test of Mengzhou capsule; also vertically lands Long March 10A 1st stage in ocean British rocket startup Orbex goes under Rocket startup Stoke Space raises an additional $350 million in private investment capital OHB Italia wins $96 million contract to build Ramses probe to visit the asteroid Apophis ULA’s new management predicts it will achieve 18-22 launches in 2026 SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites A sculptured Martian landscape SpaceX completes extensive tank tests on next Superheavy booster February 11, 2026 Quick space links Tom Goes Nomad – How Victorians Built This Lighthouse at Sea February 11, 2026 special hour-long Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Engineers have shut down the Gehrels-Swift space telescope in a last attempt to save it British rocket startup Skyrora might buy Orbex assets Four launches today with mostly positive results New Zealand raises its annual cap of rocket launches from 100 to 1,000 February 12, 2026 Quick space links Vast wins sixth ISS slot for tourist mission Abraham Lincoln – a tragic and heroic life Axiom raises another $350 million in private investment capital SpaceX launches new crew to ISS FAA confirms “no significant impact” to environment for Starship/Superheavy at Boca Chica NASA testing SLS fuel leak repairs; UPDATE: Problems! February 13, 2026 Quick space links Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson February 13, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches another 24 Starlink satellites Chinese pseudo-company raises $729 million SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites Fairing from India’s Bahubali rocket launched in December found in Maldives Rocket Factory Augsburg getting close to launch A sinuous Martian ridge of uncertain origin Only the power-hungry truly lust for war February 16, 2026 Quick space links Elmer Bernstein – To Kill A Mockingbird Suite A realistic plan to send a spacecraft to interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas NASA now targeting February 19, 2026 for 2nd SLS wet dress rehearsal countdown Pluto’s floating mountains of frozen ice February 17, 2026 Quick space links Annie Lennox – There Must Be An Angel Bahamas allows SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 landings inside Bahamian waters UAE extends mission of its Al-Amal Mars orbiter Sorry about the lack of posts… February 18, 2026 Quick space links Billy Gibbons, Kingfish Ingram, & Orianthi – La Grange February 18, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Engine problems for Japan’s lunar lander company Ispace The dimmest galaxy yet found Chinese pseudo-company Landspace targeting April-June for 2nd Zhuque-3 launch Pluto’s splotched surface NASA on Starliner: Too much freedom caused the failure! February 19, 2026 Quick space links Dolly Parton, Stella Parton, & Cassie Parton – Break My Mind NASA today completes SLS wet dress rehearsal with few problems SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites First unmanned Gaganyaan mission facing delay Scientists: When a SpaceX upper stage burns up in the atmosphere, it burns up in the atmosphere! India negotiating a possible Gaganyaan docking at ISS February 20, 2026 Quick space links Jay Leno’s Garage – Randy Grubb’s Decopods February 20, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites Problem pops up during SLS roll back after wet dress rehearsal countdown SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites on 2nd launch today; sets new 1st stage reuse record Exolaunch integrates five satellites in Isar’s Spectrum rocket NASA to return SLS to assembly building tomorrow Wednesday First visual detection of another star’s heliosphere Webb imaged a star before it went supernova Saturn’s moon Enceladus, as seen during Cassini’s last close fly-by February 23, 2026 Quick space links Ethel Merman – Anything Goes Webb tracks Uranus’ atmosphere over 15 hours Chinese astronauts provide their perspective on the cracked Shenzhou-20 window The exterior of Gaudí’s church masterpiece now complete after 144 years of construction The weird landscape of Mars’ death valley February 24, 2026 Quick space links The Graystones & J8KE – Baker Street Medical company making artificial retinas buys payload slots on Starlab Two SpaceX launches since yesterday SLS begins trip back to Vehicle Assembly Building The shoreline of Pluto’s frozen nitrogen sea February 25, 2026 Quick space links Jude Kofie – Rock The Casbah February 25, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Space Force suspends use of ULA’s Vulcan rocket SLS is back in the Vehicle Assembly Building New analysis suggests Moon’s magnetic field shifted multiple times from weak to strong to weak Europe tests a new engine design aimed at nothing NASA’s corrupt Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel: NASA must be bigger and have more control! February 26, 2026 Quick space links Happy Childhood Dance Ensemble – Kalinka SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites; another booster reaches thirty flights Europe’s Jupiter probe Juice releases its first image of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas Isaacman announces major reshaping of Artemis program China outlines plans for manned space program Japanese rocket startup Space One to attempt third orbital launch this weekend Early notes of Galileo discovered in margins of Ptolemy’s most famous book Mars’ fast moving gigantic lava floods February 27, 2026 Quick space links Family Tree Nuts – Annie Moore, Ellis Island’s first immigrant February 27, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab completes another HASTE suborbital mission Cargo Dragon successfully returns to Earth SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites SpaceX completes its second Starlink launch today; Firefly scrubs launch Rocket Lab completes in-space commissioning of two Escapade Mars orbiters Indian rocket startup Agnikul completes static fire test of three-engine cluster Sunspot update: Sunspot activity tumbles in February, including the 1st blank days since ’22 Two moons of Saturn against its majestic rings March 2, 2026 Quick space links Glen Campbell – Galveston Russia completes repairs to Soyuz-2 launchpad at Baikonur Japan to do vertical tests of its own Grasshopper-type demo stage this month Old and new optical space telescopes team up to view the Cat’s Eye While Democrats rage against the American/Israel war on Iran, the PEOPLE celebrate Charon’s surface, completely unlike Pluto March 3, 2026 Quick space links MIT – Quicker than a Wink Engineers locate helium flow issue on SLS upper stage SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Varda rents new 200K-square-foot facility in California Spanish rocket startup PLD raises $209 million in new investment capital ESA asks for proposals on building its own space station The first orbiting private space telescope releases “first light” image South Korean rocket startup Innospace signs another spaceport launch deal The mysterious spokes in Saturn’s rings March 4, 2026 Quick space links NASA initiates new program to grab talent from the private sector The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil Third launch attempt by Japanese rocket startup Space One fails March 4, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Does weightlessness cause blood clots? The United Kingdom’s Labor government to spend £500 million on space The auroras of Jupiter and Ganymede The American Revolution, as seen from across the Atlantic Vast raises $500 million in new private investment capital New Webb data says asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032 March 5, 2026 Quick space links Patricia Neway – Climb Every Mountain Rocket Lab completes another launch yesterday Sierra Space raises $550 million in private investment capital ESA loses contact with the coronagraph satellite of its duel-satellite Proba-3 mission South Korean rocket startup Perigee signs deal to launch from the Philippines Curiosity looks uphill at its upcoming travels March 6, 2026 Quick space links Dart changed the orbit of the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroids around the Sun WFAA – The mystery of the stolen de Kooning painting worth $165M March 6, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast NASA awards ULA’s Centaur-5 upper stage for future SLS launches SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites The Senate cries “Uncle!” on SLS and big goverment with its latest NASA authorization bill Italian rocket company Avio wins $65 million War department contract Webb takes a look at a strange planetary nebula Thank you all for your support! Voyager to make “a multi-million-dollar strategic investment” in Max Space’s inflatable habitats Cyd Charisse, John Brascia, & Sammy Davis Jr. – Frankie & Johnny SpaceX launches EchoStar communications satellite Chinese scientists pinpoint a prime landing site for its manned lunar mission SpaceX now targeting early April for next Starship/Superheavy test flight Pluto’s cratered glacial terrain Who fired “the shot heard round the world”? March 10, 2026 Quick space links Jefferson Starship – Jane On the radio with Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas A nearby red dwarf star has a solar system of four planets, one in the habitable zone Fourteen-year-old NASA satellite about to burn up uncontrolled in the atmosphere Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is unusually enriched with windshield wiper fluid Iapetus: Saturn’s ying-yang moon March 11, 2026 Zimmerman/Pratt on Texas podcast Helen Mirren – On The Good Ship Lollipop March 11, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Firefly launches its Alpha rocket, almost a year after previous launch failure NASA’s Van Allen Probe A burns up over the Pacific FCC chairman blasts Amazon and its Leo satellite constellation Have astronomers spotted the collision of two exoplanets around a Sunlike star? China’s giant Spacesail constellation seeks more funding A close-up of the dark side of Saturn’s moon Iapetus Real change at the FCC? March 12, 2026 Quick space links NASA now targeting an April 1st launch of Artemis-2 Cubesat ultraviolet space telescope achieves first light Max Steiner – Casablanca suite China completes two launches early today German rocket startup Isar Aerospace wins launch contract from Astroscale China to begin construction of its Mars sample return spacecraft A day-by-day description of the entire Artemis-2 manned mission The new town of Starbase is canceling its May elections Miranda, the smallest of Uranus’ spherical moons March 13, 2026 Quick space links History of Everything – The Freshwater Paddle Carriers SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites; reuses 1st stage for 32nd time March 13, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites China completes two launches today Terran Orbital wins contract to build cubesat to go to Apophis with ESA’s Ramses probe New telescope array in Chile is financed entirely by private funds Astronomers discover a super-Earth-sized exoplanet covered by a molten ocean of lava A new startup proposes a giant 88,000 satellite data center constellation Continuing our tour of Uranus’ five biggest moons: Ariel March 16, 2026 Quick space links Lord Vinheteiro – Take on Me South Korean rocket startup Innospace pinpoints the cause of its first launch failure SpaceX completes two launches since yesterday Canada leases Nova Scotia spaceport for $200 million The first Artemis lunar landings might not go to the Moon’s south pole Modeling says the Small Magellanic Cloud passed through the Large Magellanic Cloud 200 million years ago Voyager-2’s only close-up image of Uranus’s moon Umbriel March 17, 2026 Quick space links The dancers of the Fandango Ballroom – Hey Big Spender Why are commercial space startups shifting their focus to the military? $185 billion is the answer Solar scientists: We finally think we know the location of the Sun’s dynamo Scientists detect the five chemicals that make up DNA/RNA inside Ryugu samples Tantalizing Titania, Uranus’s largest moon March 18, 2026 Quick space links Gilbert O’Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally) March 18, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Scientists: Shadowcam images suggest there is little water in permanently shadowed lunar craters Rocket Lab wins $190 million hypersonic test contract from War Department Update on SpaceX’s preparations for the 12th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy OHB wins $285 million contract to build weather satellite constellation for ESA German rocket startup signs deal to launch from SaxaVord spaceport in Scotland Uranus’s moon Oberon, of which we know little Scientists compile catalog of the 69 known rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone SpaceX completes a Starlink launch March 19, 2026 Quick space links Barcelona Flamenco – Dance and Flute Blue Origin files FCC application for its own 51,600 data center satellite constellation Engineers regain contact with Proba-3’s Coronagraph probe SLS/Orion have begun 12-hour trip from VAB to launchpad ESA to rent SpaceX Dragon capsule to do a European manned mission to ISS India’s second spaceport to be completed next year Kratos wins $446 million contract to build/operate ground system for Space Force satellite constellation Ursa Major test flies a new liquid-fueled missile engine for Air Force Uranus: one glimpse and that was forty years ago The FCC’s agenda at its next meeting includes an item for “Weird Space Stuff” March 20, 2026 Quick space links Space Force shifts another ULA Vulcan launch to SpaceX Gregory Peck – Harper Lee while filming To Kill a Mockingbird March 20, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two launches today by Rocket Lab and SpaceX Sweden’s Esrange spaceport signs launch deal with Swedish military Private mission to Apophis gets another customer, two student-built landers Canada cancels small lunar rover that was to fly on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander in ’29 Three launches today from three continents and three nations SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to build large-scale computer chip factory in Texas Growing damage to the wheels of the Curiosity Mars rover Changes to the Crab Nebula after a quarter century Juno data suggests lightning on Jupiter is a hundred to a million times more powerful than lightning on Earth The battle of Gettysburg as seen by those who lived it March 23, 2026 Quick space links Fair Play Crew – Video Game Progress docks with ISS Russia launches the first 16 satellites in its own internet satellite constellation Satellite repair startup Katalyst awards Arianespace and its Ariane-6 rocket a launch contract On the Space Show tonight Lunar Gateway dead as NASA announces major changes to its future space station, lunar, and Mars plans March 24, 2026 Quick space links Elina Garanca – When I hear the sound of the cymbal Intuitive Machines wins $180.4 million new NASA lunar lander contract Swiss orbital tug startup Pave Space raises $40 million Triton: Neptune’s largest moon Isar’s second launch attempt scrubbed due to abort at T-0 seconds March 25, 2026 Quick space links Michael Kiwanuka – Cold Little Heart March 25, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches two radar satellites Webb and Hubble take a look at Saturn All space stocks soar in anticipation of SpaceX’s impending IPO The space station part of Isaacman’s new program is facing push back, from industry and Congress Astronomers detect the first comet whose nucleus’ reversed its rotation March 26, 2026 Quick space links Proteus, Neptune’s second largest moon, discovered by Voyager-2 in 1989 Carl Perkins & Ringo Starr – Honey Don’t SpaceX launches another 25 Starlink satellites Ispace to replace engine on its lunar lander, delaying its NASA mission to 2030 War Department conducts classified suborbital missile test from Cape Canaveral China launches “test satellite” Neptune as seen by Voyager-2 in 1989, four days before closest approach March 27, 2026 Quick space links March 24, 2026 Zimmerman appearance on the Space Show The Ross Sisters – Solid Potato Salad March 27, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Rocket Lab launches GPS-type demo satellite for Europe Astronaut Mike Fincke finally reveals details of his medical emergency on ISS China’s government strengthens its commitment to space Another rocket startup in India hopes to launch from its own spaceport Two launches from China and SpaceX early today A soft barred galaxy with an active nucleus Voyager-2’s view of clouds on top of clouds on Neptune Brownsville’s mayor: SpaceX has brought billions of dollars to the region SpaceX launches first stage for record 34th time, passing shuttle Atlantis March 30, 2026 Quick space links Alex Guerrero – New York New York Countdown begins for the Artemis-2 mission around the Moon A 2nd Starlink satellite since December fails catastrophically India’s space agency requests proposals for building landing legs for its next new rocket Voyager-2 discovered Neptune to be a planet of quickly changing weather March 31, 2026 Quick space links Jewel – Standing Still March 31, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Watching the launch of the Artemis-2 mission Court dismisses lawsuit from victims of multiple Boeing 737-Max crashes April 1, 2026 Quick space links SLS successfully puts Orion into orbit Steve Lehto – The crazy legal problems w/the Turbo Encabulator SpaceX files initial paperwork for going public SpaceX: Amazon’s last Leo launch violated its license, forcing 30 Starlink satellites to maneuver to avoid collision Scientists: Saturn’s magnetic field is warped The new Rubin telescope discovers over 11,000 new asteroids in first observations America’s first foreign war on “the shores of Tripoli” has apparently never ended Neptune’s rings, as seen by Voyager-2 in 1989 April 2, 2026 Quick space links Orion fires engines and is now on its way around the Moon Chai Kichi & Spaul – Aheng Haheng SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Amazon responds to SpaceX’s FCC complaint about its last Leo satellite launch Russia launches classified military payload; China has a launch failure SpaceX delays next Starship/Superheavy orbital test flight by about a month Voyager-2’s most detailed look at Neptune’s moon Triton April 3, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Diana Damrau – Queen of the Night ULA launches 29 Leo satellites for Amazon Avio delays next Vega-C launch due to “technical issue” Japanese rocket startup Interstellar gets another $47 million grant from Japan Japan’s lunar lander startup Ispace wins contract with Korean rover startup Orion completes small mid-course-correction engine burn as it prepares to swing around behind the Moon Cracked bedrock on Mars? April 6, 2026 Quick space links Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra – O Magnum Mysterium SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites using new first stage Firefly signs deal with modular sea launch startup Seagate Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur-4 rocket launches three payloads for War Department Feathery eroding layers on Mars April 7, 2026 Quick space links Eagles – Lyin’ Eyes Orion completes short 15-second burn to refine its return-to-Earth Astroscale to fly mission to rendezvous and inspect two different satellites Orbital repair startup Starfish raises $100 million in private investment capital Spanish rocket startup PLD borrows $35 million Update on SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy launchpad improvements at Boca Chica April 8, 2026 Quick space links China launches 18 more Qianfan internet satellites Ririko Takagi & Kaoruko Igarashi – Akatonbo [Red dragonfly] April 8, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Russia’s latest plans for its post-ISS space station Saxavord spaceport lost about $7 million in both ’23 and ’24; Andoya launch scheduled for today ESA paid Arianespace about $96 million for an Ariane-6 launch European Union to restructure its space bureaucracy Martian mountains on Mount Sharp April 9, 2026, Quick space links Edgar Winter & Billy Strings – Fly Away Now on Starlink! China launches another set of satellites for its Guowang internet constellation India conducts another parachute drop test for its Gaganyaan manned capsule Amazon to begin commercial availability of Leo internet service in mid-2026 Orion’s risky return-to-Earth happens tonight at 8:07 pm (Eastern) April 10, 2026 Quick space links Orion survives re-entry, crew splashes down safe A military pilot’s perspective on downed pilot rescue in Iran Easter weekend April 10, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Three launches, two by SpaceX and one by China A pause in posting… April 13, 2026 Quick space links Andy Kaufman as Elvis Presley All is well Update on Superheavy/Starship: Both ships doing final static fire testing Scientists: First data from Europe’s Proba-3 satellites suggest the Sun’s slow solar wind is faster and more chaotic than expected Space Force selects Blue Origin as possible lessor of “Sudden Flats” site at Vandenberg for future heavy lift rocket launches Maria Callas – Bizet’s Carmen Habanera April 14, 2026 Quick space links Firefly’s delays launch of its Eclipse rocket to 2027 Three launches today, two by SpaceX and one by China Amazon buys Globalstar satellite constellation DESI telescope completes its nominal mission, mapping more than 47 million galaxies A very interesting and revealing interview of NASA administrator Jared Issacman A review of India’s government space program suggests it is behind schedule Sweden’s space agency signs cooperative licensing agreement with the FAA Voyager wins slot to fly tourist mission to ISS in 2028 Emma Kok & Matheu Hinzen – You’re The One that I Want Vast unveils a proposed docking port more than 3x larger than standard space station ports Saxavord spaceport faces new regulatory and financial issues India’s space agency: In ’25 it did 20 maneuvers to avoid collisions in space New data from Webb suggests two of Uranus’ outer rings are starkly different The movement of surface ash on Mars over a half century April 16, 2026 Quick space links Latvia to sign Artemis Accords Candy Dulfer – Lily Was Here Two launches since yesterday, by Russia and China The space station startups: NASA’s new space station plan is mistaken The space agencies of Canada and Europe agree to exchange classified information April 17, 2026 Quick space links Juan Luis Rubiales – Three knives Engineers shut down another instrument on Voyager-1 Final ground testing begins of Katalyst’s Swift rescue spacecraft EU releases revised Space Act proposal, and it is as odious as the earlier drafts New Glenn launches for 3rd time, reuses first stage and lands it, but fails to put satellite in correct orbit Hubble looks at the Trifid Nebula again NASA’s IG: With only Axiom building NASA’s future spacesuits, the agency’s lunar program faces great scheduling risk Dan Hartman – I Can Dream About You Two launches by SpaceX Japan to do test launch of its H3 rocket in June Erhan Shukri – Rasputin Jordan to sign the Artemis Accords Northrop Grumman lost $71 million from its bottom line because of its solid-fueled booster failures European startup Atmos raises €25.7 million to develop its orbital research capsules Curiosity looks at a small crater as it climbs Mount Sharp April 22, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Jeff Beck – A Day in the Life Rocket Lab launches satellites for Japan’s space agency JAXA SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites China picks two Pakistanis to train for a future Tiangong-3 mission Russia launches the smallest version of its Angara rocket ESA: Full-sized model of its Space Rider reusable capsule is ready for landing drop tests Isaacman before Congress: Speaking the truth to power Ted Nugent – Cat Scratch Fever China launches another “set of test satellites promoting internet technology” Blue Origin opens (secretly) its first foreign office, in Luxembourg New data says interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas IS different from comets in our solar system Lorne Greene – Describes working on Bonanza April 24, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Soyuz launch site destroyed at French Guiana Space Force issues twelve companies Golden Dome contracts worth $3.2 billion Two launches today, by China and Russia Why is Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft not ready for flight? Indian rocket startup Skyroot now shipping its Vikram rocket to launch site SpaceX launches 25 more Starlink satellites Two space station startups strengthen their positions Trump fires the entire governing board of the National Science Foundation Australian rocket startup Gilmour pinpoints cause of first rocket launch failure Avio makes more from its Vega-C rocket now that Arianespace is out of the picture Starlink returns to Papua New Guinea after court ruling An excellent overview of AST SpaceMobile following the New Glenn launch failure April 27, 2026 Quick space links Def Leppard – Rocket ULA launches 29 Leo satellites FAA to begin taxing launches by payload weight A cool crater in Starship’s prime candidate zone on Mars Dave Matthews Band – Corn Bread California Coastal Commission settles SpaceX lawsuit by apologizing and conceding all points Rocket Factory Augsburg submits license application for a Saxavord launch window opening on July 1, 2026 SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches Viasat communications satellite Canada cancels $72 million contract to build constellation to track wildfires Propaganda vs reporting in describing the battle over NASA’s budget Who really was Jay Gould? April 29, 2026 Quick space links Roglit Ishay: Vidui (Confession) April 29, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Two launches yesterday Morocco signs the Artemis Accords Falcon 9 upper stage to hit the Moon in August The present state of India’s space program April 30, 2026 Quick space links Carlos Santana – Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile) Ireland to sign Artemis Accords Russia completes 1st test, suborbital, of its new Soyuz-5 rocket House Appropriations committee approves NASA budget, with some cuts proposed by Trump FCC approves new spectrum rules to give new constellations more capacity Next Artemis mission will be later than promised SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites May 1, 2026 Quick space links No Starliner mission to ISS this year $2 bill that Gene Cernan carried on three missions sells for more than $90K EAA – Warbird From Scratch: A Homebuilt Spitfire May 1, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches South Korean Earth imaging satellite plus 44 other smallsats Is SpaceX buying a 200-plus square mile patch of Louisiana? China imposes extensive regulations on its pseudo-commercial space industry Sunspot update: The number of sunspot continues to decline May 4, 2026 Quick space links Gilligan’s Island, if done today Blue Origin’s 1st unmanned lunar lander completes ground testing Malta signs Artemis Accords Lockheed Martin joins partnership to build off-shore launch platform Two lawsuits against SpaceX, claiming company operations damage local homes May 5, 2026 Quick space links Low Darts – My Old School SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites Former NASA administrator Bridenstine moves from lobbyist to CEO of orbital tug startup The UK’s Sutherland spaceport now appears dead Curiosity unintentionally picks up a rock slab Will Canada’s Telesat really complete its Lightspeed constellation by 2028? May 6, 2026 Quick space links Ed Kowalczyk – Heaven May 6, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Indian rocket startup Skyroot raises $60 million in private investment capital Lockheed Martin fights request to ease 2018 restrictions on Northrop Grumman’s solid rocket business Russia arrests Angara contractor for fraud Multiple Russian, Chinese, and American satellites in maneuvering dance in orbit Juno flies past the Jupiter moon Thebe May 7, 2026 Quick space links Chris Isaak – Wicked Game Paraguay becomes the 67th nation to sign Artemis Accords Testing new high speed rotors for the next generation of Mars helicopters Louisiana state senator: Two unnamed aerospace companies are bidding for major land purchase Rocket Lab gets big launch contract for both its Electron and new Neutron rocket Rover startup Lunar Outpost raises $30 million in investment capital May 8, 2026 Quick space links USS Cobia – Its history and future May 8, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Katalyst completes final ground testing of its Swift rescue spacecraft Vast signs deal with Lithuania China launches Tianzhou freighter to Tiangong-3 station Psyche approaches Mars Springtime on the residual icecap of the Martian south pole May 11, 2026 Quick space links Metallica – Halo On Fire Two overnight launches from SpaceX and China OHB joins Dassault’s project to build a reusable mini-shuttle SpaceX and Google negotiating deal to launch data centers into space Curiosity looks closely at the broken slab that had been stuck on its drill bit May 12, 2026 Quick space links Canadian Brass – Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D minor May 12, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast on so-called Moon race between the U.S. and China SpaceX kind of confirms rumor it is considering purchasing 136,000 acres in Louisiana The 12th Starship/Superheavy test orbital flight now scheduled for May 19, 2026 AST SpaceMobile reaffirms its goal to launch 45 Bluebird satellites by the end of ’26 ESA announces new round of funding for new rocket companies New cost estimate for Trump’s Golden Dome exceeds $1 trillion over 20 years Corroding glacial features inside Martian crater May 13, 2026 Quick space links The Warning – Enter Sandman May 13, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Chinese pseudo-company launches its expendable Zhuque-2 rocket Pharmaceutical company to use Varda’s capsules to manufacture heart drugs in space Europa Clipper and Juice make simultaneous UV light observations of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas Japanese company NEC initiates its own orbital tug project Brain terrain on Mars? May 14, 2026 Quick space links Ilia Laporev & Estevao Gomes – Bach’s Air on a G String China launches five classified satellites Virgin Galactic releases ’26 first quarter financials; stock at new low under $3 Northrop Grumman completes successful test of new nozzle for its solid-fueled boosters Intuitive Machines buys British ground station company The barren hills west of Jezero Crater May 15, 2026 Quick space links SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS David Allan Coe – Tennessee Whiskey May 15, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast China launches another 18 Qianfan internet satellites SpaceX prepares for the biggest IPO in history Cargo Dragon docks with ISS The weird tilted layers on the floor of Danielson Crater on Mars May 18, 2026 Quick space links The Carpenters – Rainy days and Mondays Avio completes its first Vega-C launch for ESA Louisiana passes legislation favorable to aerospace rocket companies France’s space agency CNES gives ESA 5-year extension at French Guiana spaceport Astrolab’s Flip lunar rover will carry 4 NASA payloads Scientists: Europa’s theorized plumes of water vapor might simply be statistical noise New fuel startup unveils rocket and jet fuels that it says are as much as 32% more efficient Several major American satellite companies release a joint guide on “orbital safety” BUMPED: 12th Starship/Superheavy test delayed another day to May 21, 2026 May 19, 2026 Quick space links Contractor dies at Boca Chica falling eight feet from scaffold The Wallflowers & Bruce Springsteen – One Headlight Psyche completes its Mars fly-by SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites Sri Lanka’s government to formulate a space policy Vast unveils new high powered satellite bus to support the expected boom in satellite construction Frost on Mars May 20, 2026 Quick space links Lorin Hollander – 1st movement Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 May 20, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX files first IPO documents with SEC SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Space Force study says it needs a third spaceport besides Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Starfish finally gets a docking target for its Otter Pup 2 orbital tug demo Watching SpaceX’s 12th Starship/Superheavy orbital test flight today A Martian wormlike dune field on the floor of a triple crater An amoeba in space more than a light year in size May 21, 2026 Quick space links Starship/Superheavy launch scrubbed at T-40 seconds Muse – Starlight Rocket Lab wins $90 million Space Force contract to build two geostationary satellites Rocket Lab launches radar satellite for Japanese company Synspective Zvezda module on ISS is leaking once again Using Webb astronomers think they have detected daily weather changes on exoplanet Starlab gets another investor Watching SpaceX’s 12th Starship/Superheavy orbital test flight Isaacman rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic of NASA May 22, 2026 Quick space links SpaceX completes a largely successful 12th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy Nano Pirate – The butterfly under an electron mircoscope May 22, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast One of the three Chinese astronauts to launch this weekend will do a yearlong mission FAA clears New Glenn for launch On the Space Show twice this week! China launches three astronauts to its Tiangong-3 space station NASA practically eliminates any Starliner flights before ISS retires SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites The geology of the Moon’s far side, revealed in pictures taken during Artemis-2 An outcrop of many parallel layers on Mars May 25, 2026 Quick space links West Point Band and Glee Club – Mansions of the Lord SpaceX launches another 24 Starlink satellites Voyager wins $16.5 million DARPA contract to give solid-fueled rockets variable thrust Redwire completes testing on robot arm prototype for ESA NASA approves lunar habitation module design from Italy’s space agency Colorful Martian dunes NASA outlines new program of unmanned missions to Moon May 26, 2026, Quick space links Kansas – Dust in the Wind China launches communications test satellite German rocket startup signs deal with Nova Scotia spaceport A review of what happened and what’s next for Starship/Superheavy A call to my readers: Find the location of NASA’s lunar base! Space Force awards SpaceX $2.29 billion contract for military data constellation May 27, 2026 Quick space links Marilyn Maye – You’re Gonna Hear From Me/Cabaret May 27, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FAA grounds Starship/Superheavy pending completion of SpaceX’s investigation More opposition to the EU’s new space law, this time from European companies New study using Chandrayaan-2 data again suggests ice in crater near Moon’s south pole New long term analysis of solar activity suggests the Sun is undergoing some form of internal structural change An icy Martian crater filled with brain terrain My two appearances on The Space Show this week May 28, 2026 Quick space links Tuba Skinny – Jubilee Stomp Blue Origin’s next New Glenn rocket explodes during static fire test on the launchpad Hundreds of NASA-funded researchers violated the law that bans working with China South Korean rocket startup Innospace signs up another American satellite launch manager Curiosity drill samples taken at different elevations show different Martian climates Firefly announces new stock sale aimed at raising more than a half billion in new funds SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites May 29, 2026 Quick space links ULA’s Atlas-5 rocket launches 29 Leo satellites for Amazon Chemistry Simplified – A sunken treasure of logs May 29, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites Space Force awards SpaceX a $4.16 billion satellite contract, the second this week China launches satellite to test cell-to-satellite communications FAA releases more information about SpaceX’s proposed Starfall recoverable capsule China successfully completes maiden launch of its Long March 12B rocket An active galaxy peered at by Webb in the infrared June 1, 2026 Quick space links Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better Blue Origin CEO: “We will fly again before the end of this year.” France buys two manned missions from space station startup Vast NASA abandons core module idea for its commercial space station program Webb detects methane being released by interstellar comet 3I/Atlas Giant SpaceX barge for transporting Starship/Superheavy arrives in Texas Space station startup Voyager Technologies acquires lunar lander startup Astrobotic The wind speeds on seven exoplanets also suggest presence of magnetic fields Orbital tug startup Impulse Space raises $500 million in private investment capital Spanish rocket startup PLD raises the budget for its launch facilities in French Guiana to €35 million Sunspot update: May sunspot activity jumps June 2, 2026 Quick space links Willie Nelson – Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground Axiom’s CEO provides update on corrosion and the timetable for its space station NASA officially ends its MAVEN Mars orbiter mission Venturi Space expands investment in new French factory for building Astrolab’s rover SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites Gigantic slumping Martian cliffs On Coast to Coast with George Noory tonight June 3, 2026 Quick space links SRT (Synowiec, Robinson, Towne) – Stayin’ Alive June 3, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast German rocket startup HyImpulse signs deal to consider launching from Oman First parachute drop test for The Exploration Company’s Nyx capsule a success SETI confirms through extensive radio observations: Comet 3I/Atlas has no alien technology Axiom’s latest funding round raised $525 million, not $350 million as expected AST SpaceMobile: Blue Origin’s launch failures delays our commercial operations until 2027 SpaceX’s full IPO, aimed at raising $86 billion SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites Martian glacier flowing around a recent small crater impact Sutherland spaceport in the UK liquidated June 4, 2026 Quick space links Sade – Is It A Crime NASA astronauts ordered to shelter in Dragon while Russians repair air leak Astronomers measure weight of supermassive black hole 10 billion light years away Russia will charge about $27 million for future tourist flights China completes two more launches Musk’s answer when asked, “Why SpaceX going public now?” June 5, 2026 Quick space links NASA admits mismanagement and human errors caused 2025 Goldstone antenna damage Charles Laughton – The Gettysburg Address June 5, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast FCC grants waiver to Amazon Leo constellation, despite its failure to launch on time NASA clarifies air leak situation yesterday on ISS SpaceX launches 21 Starlink and 2 Starshield satellites Australia’s Southern Launch range gets another re-entry capsule customer NASA’s X-59 completes first no-boom supersonic flight, more than a year after a private company did it SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, uses 1st stage for record 35th time Czech Republic buys seat on Vast mission to ISS SpaceX’s IPO: A quick look at the financial world’s present take Curiosity’s looks up Valle Grande to its future travels June 8, 2026 Quick space links Phil Collins – Inside Out German rocket startup Isar raises $312 million; sets new launch date Chinese pseudo-company Landspace launches two satellites Astronomers find another quasar in the early universe that really shouldn’t be there Orbital tug startup Quantum raises $300 million by merging with a SPAC Update on SpaceX preparations at Boca Chica for next Starship/Superheavy test flight NASA announces crew and flight plan for Artemis-3 Earth orbit mission next year The rings of Saturn June 9, 2026 Quick space links Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 – Goin Out of My Head Science operations about to resume on Europe’s two-satellite Proba-3 space telescope China picks four of its pseudo-companies to launch its new Qingzhou cargo freighter India takes first step to privatize its largest rocket, the LVM3 or Bahubali Alan Hale, the co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, passes away at 67 Mitsubishi gets subsidy from Japan to develop its own orbital tug New Webb data suggests little red dots are supermassive black holes embedded in gas cloud A look back at a significant moment in human history: the first picture of the Moon’s far side June 10, 2026 Quick space links Katalyst’s Link rescue spacecraft installed on Pegasus rocket Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man June 10, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast Stoke Space successfully completes all tank tests for 1st stage of its Nova rocket Another unsuccessful suborbital launch from proposed Nova Scotia spaceport Evidence of supernova remnant near the center of the Milky Way? Two orbital launches today by China and SpaceX, plus a suborbital hypersonic launch by Rocket Lab Cosmologists: “We are STILL right! Dark energy does exist!” Parker makes 28th close fly-by of the Sun June 11, 2026 Quick space links Heilung – Anoana Two launches today by Japan and SpaceX A galaxy as seen by Hubble and Webb June 12, 2026 Quick space links Only half of all social science can be replicated Arquivo Curioso – 125 years of woman’s fashion June 12, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
The following was sent to A Science representative for a Congressman:
Ladies and gentlemen : the following E-mail was sent to Representative Grijalva science adviser with appropriate attachments. I do not expect to get a response but I may be added to their hit list along with the 33,000 signers of the Oregon Petition Project.
“Dear Mr.Edgerton: As the science representative for Rep. Raul Grijalva I assume you have a degree in some branch of science, like quantum physics, meteorology, chemistry mechanical engineering with studies is thermodynamics or other hard sciences that allow you to understand “atmospheric physics”. If you do not you can not properly advise the representative in the very complex study sometimes called “man-made global warming.
As a civil environmental engineer for the last 50 + years I have studied and applied all of the above “hard sciences” and more. I have done an experiment without any funding from any group, This experiment has been peer reviewed by many different Ph.D scientists and engineers to validate what it proves. The experiment proves that the Hypotheses of the “greenhouse gas effect” does not exist, therefore Man-made global warming is a political hoax/fairy tale, a lie what ever you want to call a scientific error that has been used to steal money from the people of the world.
The representative’s letter to the President of MIT has to be retracted and an apology made to the millions of scientists and engineers that have been telling the truth! Man-made global warming is a lie.
Thank God the weather has proved the Greenhouse gas effect does not exist.
The attached material is a small fraction of the truth scientific material that proof that there is a giant conspiracy to promote the Hoax.
Look up Apollo astronaut Walter Cunningham and about several dozen other former NASA employees that are sharing their knowledge on the subject”
The attachments are several thousand words long so are not included.
Hi Bob
Enjoyed your appearance on the Space Show and appreciate my subscription to BTB. Don’t know if you happened to hear about Dr. Damer’s Tedx Talk on SHEPHERD Asteroid retrieval (link below) but I think the concept is revolutionary. Thought the talk would be a good Evening Pause. See what you think.
Best
John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMHcUg36yc
Hi Mr. Zimmerman,
I enjoyed listening to you for the first time on Coast to Coast this morning and was hoping you could recommend a “good” starter telescope with the latest tech options?
Regards,
Tony
Pennsylvania
I am really not the person to ask. My best suggestion would to do some research at either Sky & Telescope or Astronomy, both of whom aim their advice to the amateur astronomer market.
Tony:
I’ll offer up some advice to you or anyone interested in buying a “good starter scope with the latest tech options.”
1) As Mr. Z noted; start reading Sky & Telescope, & Astronomy. >Get the hard-copy versions; notice the regular advertiser’s & request their catalogs. Both magazines also have regular columns & articles aimed at the “amateur” market. (S&T is perhaps a bit more techy-oriented but I personally have read both concurrently. They compliment each other in large part.)
2) Depending on your knowledge start-point, “buy the reference before you buy the hardware,” that is– invest a few bucks in a Reference-Book before you actually buy any hardware. (You would eventually be spending about $500 on equipment, “in-general,” better to spend $25-50 on a good reference, first. Save you money, time, & minimize the frustration-factor.)
3) Check to see if you have a local Astronomy-Club; these folks are a wealth of practical hands-on knowledge & you can look through & touch their equipment & learn from their mistakes. Nothing beats seeing/feeling a piece of equipment in actual use.
4) Taking this all in– figure out what you “want” in a small scope & then shop accordingly. What is it you want to be able to see?There are only a few brand-name manufacturer’s but plenty of distributers. Telescopes are generally a “specialized” consumer good; depending on your location you might be lucky enough to have a local shop that *just* sells telescopes & related tech. Hobby shops don’t generally tend to stock a full-array of telescopes– all the more better to interact with people who have the actual hardware you are considering.)
5) Know how the telescope in which you are interested, actually works. There are two basic types: reflector & refractor, & just variation’s on the two designs.
(Personally– I’d go with a 4-8 inch reflector with a few selected eyepieces, 12-inch gets to be a bit large for easy transport.)
6) I think it was Steve, (? sorry!) who recently acquire a 4 inch telescope– hopefully he will see this post & offer up some advice on his new toy!.
7) You can get as hi-tech as you want, or as “analog” & basic as they come. Just spend some time & learn what’s available. Last thing you want to do is spend a lot of $ & then have the thing sit in the closet. (been there…. did that!)
Good luck! (report back on your progress!)
Fan of you site and appearances on the John Batchelor show.
Just in case no-one has sent this to you
http://notrickszone.com/2017/05/29/80-graphs-from-58-new-2017-papers-invalidate-claims-of-unprecedented-global-scale-modern-warming/#sthash.FRCeo69o.80BreJ33.dpbs
Chris Lassiter: Thank you for the kind words. And thank you for the link. I posted a link to this story on June 6, though it has since been updated from 58 recent science papers to 80 that invalidate all the global warming models.
Robert
I’ve been a fan for a very long time. Something odd occurred today when I attempted to pull up your behind the Black web site today. I was greeted with a screen that your website could not be loaded. At first I thought I merely misspelled the URL. However when I clicked on the bookmark I have the same result appeared. Google searches did not result in any explanations nor any links to your site. I was leaning to the possibility it was a server glitch. Then I decided to change search engines. Using Duck Duck Go your site immediately popped up. Now I am not saying Google has decided to target your site just like they did to the Federalist and others and I can provide any supporting evidence as to such. But I find this at least at one level suspicious. All this could be easily explained by other means but I wanted you to know
There was a server issue last night that my webguy needed to fix.
Though it does not surprise me that Google lists me lower than DuckDuckGo. Any search on Google on any political issue will routinely exclude news sites that lean conservative, favoring the leftwing mainstream sites almost exclusively. It’s why I stopped using it. It is also why I am steadily using StartPage less and less. They protect my privacy, but they also use the Google search engine, which means their search results are as badly biased.
Robert,
Sorry there is a typo in my last comment. There is a line that should read,” I cannot provide any supporting evidence………” OOPS!