Showing posts with label space program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space program. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Apollo 11

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From NASA: Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.” Most everyone knows these iconic words spoken by Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Arms...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Shoot the Moon?

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There is a proposal to land an astronaut on the moon again within five years.  If the motivation is to win public favor, the idea rests o...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Moonshot

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President Obama has compared the search for a cancer cure to the moon shot. PZ Myers writes at ScienceBlogs: Everyone admires John F. Ke...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Moon, Cancer, Nixon, Obama

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"Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer . Last month, he worked with this Congress to ...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Scientists and the Public

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Pew polled the general public and members of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science: [ B]oth the public and scientists are cr...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ex-Lawmakers and the Search for Extraterrestrials

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The following is an actual story -- not a parody -- by Chris Moody on Yahoo News: All the pieces of a formal congressional hearing were in...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Asteroid Politics

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NBC reports: It is time for the private sector to aid in the search for potentially city-destroying asteroid s and meteors , lawmakers sai...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Meteor Hearing

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The Hill reports: Congress hasn't stopped the sequester, but it is looking into how to stop A rmageddon by meteor. A House committee ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Congress and Meteors

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A previous post discussed the (remote) possibility of of meteor strike and the relative absence of government plans for a response.   One Ho...

Meteor

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The Russian meteor is a reminder that disaster can come suddenly from the sky. Some questions arise: Is the US government tracking near-E...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The Empire Strikes Back -- With a Press Release

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The president's decision not to build a Death Star has drawn a reaction from the Empire.   From the Star Wars blog: IMPERIAL CENTER,...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Best Document of the Whole Obama Administration

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Some 34,000 people have signed an online petition to build a Death Star .   Here is the White House response: The Administration shares y...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Death Star Petition

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An actual petition on the White House website: The whimsical petition relates indirectly to a real issue.  On June 28, 2010, The New Y...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Landing on Mars

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Our chapter on bureaucracy discusses some of the problems that the space program has encountered over the years.  But last night, NASA had a...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Presidents v. Space Aliens

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An actual press release: According to a new U.S. extraterrestrial survey from National Geographic Channel (NGC), more than 80 million Amer...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Space and Politics

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CBS reports on the economic impact of ending the space shuttle program: The Pew Research Center reports : On the eve of the final mission of...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Challenger

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In our chapter on bureaucracy and the administrative state, we discuss the organizational problems that led to the Challenger disaster. It ...