The hidden but essential lesson from Apollo 11
The real lesson from Project Apollo is grim, but if learned can help chart a new future for America.
manned space program
Why we have not gone into space. Why we must.
Why do we have nothing but a space station, doing little useful at great cost? What will eventually push us into space?
Celebrate Asteroid Day, about preventing death from the sky
Summary: Asteroid and comet impacts have changed the course of life on Earth, and will again until we prevent them. Which will happen, eventually, when we go deeper into space. On Asteroid Day, June 30, let’s learn about this risk, what steps we can take now to better prepare. Perhaps it is humanity’s role, our …
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Three things to know about asteroids, certain death from the sky (eventually)
Summary: Asteroid Day approaches (mark June 30 on your calendar), reminding us about the risk of death from the sky from asteroids and comets — one of the largest of the many shockwaves looming in our future. Here are the three things to know about this danger. This is a follow-up to Asteroid Day: reminding …
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Asteroid Day: reminding us of the threat, pushing us out into space
Summary: Asteroid Day approaches (mark June 30 on your calendar). To prepare, here are descriptions in film and literature of doom from the sky by comets and asteroids. Tomorrow’s post shows what we are doing in the real world to prepare. “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we …
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