Even though the terminal-hangar that will serve as the operational base for Virgin Galactic is slated for completion later this year, space travelers will have to wait at least two more years before experiencing zero-gravity aboard the commercial aircrafts.
With the construction of a “spaceport” underway in the southern New Mexico town of Upham, NASA has made moves to take advantage of the new flight center by striking a $4.5 million contract agreement with owners Virgin Galactic.
Though the mainstream media has left the story alone, reports of a new slick of oil spotted about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, near British Petroleum’s Maconda well, have many concerned.
A bill seeking to exempt depictions of deaths from Florida’s public records laws is making its way through the legislature, and freedom-of-information advocates are warning that the repercussions of such a broad measure could be detrimental to the public’s ability to hold law enforcement and government agents accountable. More…
This winter, environmental advocates cringed at every falling snowflake, knowing full well that climate change skeptics would point to them as a refutation of global warming, or even evidence of “global cooling.” (Donald Trump went so far as to call for the Nobel Committee to rescind Al Gore’s Peace More…
Really! The Republican Policy Committee in the Senate is distributing a two-page fact sheet on the stimulus called “Democrats’ Partisan $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill by the Numbers.” Among the abuses:
10,000: Jobs created at NASA at a cost to taxpayers of $1.5 billion under the Senate bill
The point, More…
The Orlando Sentinel has a really incredible story this morning about intransigence at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, is obstructing its efforts to get information and has told its leader that she is “not qualified” to
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