Five Facts About the Debt “When it was Chrysler secured bondholders objecting to getting defaulted on by the president’s auto task force, Mr. Obama denounced them as “a small group of speculators” who were “hopingContinue reading
Tag: NASA
A Short “How To” Link Dump
Lot’s of “How Tos” were read around here in the last week or so, and I’ve linked to some of the best ones. I was pretty excited to get Spotify too. This one may beContinue reading
Stuff You Should See– November 18th through December 6th
Death Taxes and Life Insurance – A principled argument against the death tax. Delaying Tax Vote Could Crash Stock Market – No duh. Can’t believe someone was able to write an entire article on thisContinue reading
NASA Robot Coolness
The SIL sent me this cool behind-the-scenes video of AstroRobonaut. COOL! Kind of makes you think that maybe there really are viable alternatives to manned space flight. As you can see in the video, thisContinue reading
The Shuttle Video You Really Wanted To See
Here’s my buddy Sam on NASA TV talking about the batteries the latest shuttle mission took up to the International Space Station. It’s ok…I zoned out a little when he was giving the dimensions too. IContinue reading
Discovery STS-131 Launch Video
We were very lucky Discovery launched this morning, considering there were a couple of no-go periods leading up to liftoff due to some communications issues. In order to make the 6:21 am launch we hadContinue reading
Obama’s NASA Talk Here in April
Prediction — a pretty short speech that’s very abstract on the details (hardly an outline) that is moving and uplifting…until you realize there aren’t any details. I’m guessing this is pretty much a political effortContinue reading
What. The. Hell?
The Write Stuff: NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become aContinue reading
The End of NASA’s Human Space Program?
From Florida Today’s Space Team Blog President Obama’s plan to end the space shuttle program and cancel the shuttles’ replacement is troubling enough. More worrisome: the White House budget released last Monday shows little signContinue reading
Last Night’s Shuttle Launch
Ok…I give up trying to take home video of these things that’s good enough to put on the web and be worth anyone’s time to watch. But it was really cool…like the sun rising. GladContinue reading
Slightly Better Space Shuttle Footage
I posted my video of the STS 129 launch a couple of weeks ago. The SIL just posted a link to this footage on her FB page. It’s slightly more dramatic than my video. ThenContinue reading
STS 129 Shuttle Launch
Well, clouds were low, so we couldn’t see every second, but it was nice weather to be out at the beach to watch the Atlantis launch for STS-129. And it was so windy that weContinue reading
Delicious Link Dump– October 5th through October 6th
Promiscuous dispersal of your email address – "Sure, you'll get a lot of spam, but deleting spam is a lot easier than finding customers." Wow. Playgrounds From the 70’s – Totally Awsumness 20,000+ Gmail, Yahoo,Continue reading
Shuttle and Rocket Launch Schedule
Driving down last Saturday, I missed the Shuttle launch by a few hours. I was in Macon Ga and could see a small flame going across the sky, but apparently it’s like the sun isContinue reading
