by Dave Patterson | Nov 29, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) press office announced the launch of the “world’s first full-scale mission” to demonstrate and assess NASA’s ability to keep Earth safe from a collision with a comet, asteroid, or similar...
by Dave Patterson | Jun 7, 2021 | Articles, Military Affairs
Moving cargo to anywhere on the globe, providing just-in-time strategic offloads of military gear and supplies, is not a reality yet. But visionary Air Force Research Laboratory researchers and the U.S. Transportation Command planners are thinking about it. What makes...
by Andrew Moran | Feb 8, 2021 | Articles, Crime & Punishment
Elon Musk is, these days, perhaps the most controversial billionaire. With memes and cryptic tweets, he acts more like a troll on Twitter than a subdued and clandestine wealthy person espousing the 3×5 card of allowable opinions. Despite his unpredictable online...
by Dave Patterson | Jun 2, 2020 | Articles, Military Affairs, Politics, Science, Social Issues
America has launched its first commercial-NASA rocket and the first American-made manned space vehicle in more than a decade. The lift-off of the SpaceX Falcon Nine rocket and the Dragon Capsule rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) have ushered in a...
by Leesa K. Donner | May 27, 2020 | Articles, Military Affairs, Politics, Social Issues
Falcon 9 and the Dragon Capsule Spacecraft were set to leave Earth from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:33 pm EDT, taking NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station. This would have been the first launch of NASA astronauts...