Archives for the 'politics' Category
A new NASA administrator, finally?
Published on 23 May 2009 at 11:32 am.
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Michael Griffin, NASA’s previous top administrator, stepped down January 20, 2009. NASA has been without a top administrator ever since. Now, that does not mean that NASA has been aimless or without leadership. Christopher Scolese has been serving as acting administrator since Griffin stepped down. But, an acting administrator is not the same thing as […]
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Earth Day
Published on 22 Apr 2009 at 1:57 pm.
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April 22 is Earth Day. The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. I was in school at the time. Earth Day had been announced nearly a year earlier. There were plans laid for teaching about ecology, protection of the environment, energy conservation, etc. We had an aluminum recycling […]
NASA to the Rear
Published on 20 Jan 2009 at 6:00 pm.
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Today marked the inauguration of our nation’s 44th president. In all of the media reports leading up to the event, I ran across an interesting note. NASA was to have a part of the parade! Now, this isn’t the first time that NASA was featured in a presidential inaugural parade. President Bush’s 2001 inaugural parade […]
Election Day
Published on 4 Nov 2008 at 5:58 am.
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Today is Election Day here in the United States. I live in Texas, and we have the opportunity to vote early during the two weeks before the week of the election day, so I voted early last week. That way, I won’t have to stand in line today to vote. For all of my readers […]
Earth Day 2008
Published on 22 Apr 2008 at 8:54 pm.
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April 22, 1970, I went to school as on any other day. Only that day, many of the lessons were on Earth and the environment. That was the first Earth Day. I remember that we had an aluminum recycling contest going on in the school that had been going on since Christmas […]
Decimating NASA
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 12:04 pm.
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My students (and others) often ask me why I don’t work for NASA. After all, I would seem to be qualified. I’ve got the right background to contribute something. I certainly have a passion for astronomy and space exploration (both manned and unmanned). So, why don’t I work for NASA? […]
Shooting down USA-193
Published on 15 Feb 2008 at 2:05 pm.
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Yesterday, the Pentagon announced that the US Navy would attempt to shoot down a US reconnaissance satellite that is out of control and spiraling back to Earth to an uncontrolled reentry into the atmosphere. The missile used to do the job is to be a modified Standard Missile 3, developed for use with […]
