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Stimulus money for NASA
The economic stimulus package reportedly contains $1 billion for NASA. And $400 million is earmarked (is that a bad word?!) to narrow the gap between the retirement of the shuttle, and the first flight of its successor, Constellation. Possibly good news…but the U.S. will still have several years when it will be entirely dependent on [...]
My small space exhibit
I’ve been wanting to produce space exhibits for a long time. In the last few years, I’ve loaned some historic artifacts I own to the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. That was great—but I wasn’t curating. And I want to curate. Now, I’ve got a (small) exhibit showing in a library branch here in [...]
Help Brian get to Mars
Brian Shiro, an astronaut hopeful who made it through several rounds during NASA’s most recent selection process, is going to Mars. Well, sorta. Brian has been selected as a crewmember for the Mars Society’s next pseudo-Mars expedition to the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS). It’s on Devon Island in the Antarctic, where NASA has [...]
