Joe Bastardi no longer at Accuweather!

I'm bummed that Joe is no longer at Accuweather! He resigned yesterday and all his videos on Accuweather are gone. Good bye and Good Luck. Hope to hear from you soon!

Story at Watts here.

Spaceflight Now | Atlas Launch Report | Mission Status Center

Spaceflight Now | Atlas Launch Report | Mission Status Center

Friendship 7

Godspeed, John Glenn!

John Glenn orbits the Earth 49 years this day.

Death Valley Mystery stones

NASA / Space Shuttle "and for other purposes" Part 3

NASA / Space Shuttle... "and for other purposes" part 2

NASA / Space Shuttle... "and for other purposes" part 1

Challenger Memorial Ceremony

Challenger 25 years ago

Here is what I posted 5 years ago on the 20th.

Here is the Challenger STS 51L Accident History site by NASA.

The Space Shuttle Challenger Accident page (Davinder Mahal)here.

Apollo 1 Fire 44 years ago

Picture gallery from Space.com here.

There are three parks in the city of Fullerton named after the three Astronauts that died in the fire, Edward H. White II, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee.

Apollo 1 Memorial site here.

NASA Apollo photo site here.

My post from five years ago here.

My post the same day about Gus Grissom here.

NASA Day of Remembrance

NASA Link here.

The New Atlantis » In Search of a Conservative Space Policy

The New Atlantis » In Search of a Conservative Space Policy

JAXA H2-B Launch

From JAXA Mission site here.

OC Science article on Delta IV Heavy Launch

Here is the OC Science article on the Delta IV Heavy Launch.

Launch seen from OC Register in Santa Ana, CA.

Largest-Ever Rocket, With Secret Payload, Launched On West Coast « CBS Los Angeles

Largest-Ever Rocket, With Secret Payload, Launched On West Coast « CBS Los Angeles

Great report from Ch. 9 News.

USGS records and documents wildlife die offs

From the USGS web site here:

In 2010, the USGS NWHC documented eight die-off events of 1,000 or more birds. The causes: starvation, avian cholera, Newcastle disease and parasites, according to Sleeman. Such records show that, while the causes of death may vary, events like the red-winged blackbird die-off in Beebe, Ark., and the smaller one near Baton Rouge, La., are more common than people may realize.

And Sleeman should know – he directs a staff of scientists whose primary purpose is to investigate the nation's wildlife diseases from avian influenza to plague and white-nose syndrome in bats.

"The USGS NWHC provides information, technical assistance, research, education, and leadership on national and international wildlife health issues," Sleeman added.

(HT from Beyond the Black)

Good article on all the fish and bird kills

Thousands of dead turtle doves rained down on roofs and cars in an Italian town in the latest in a growing spate of mass animal deaths across the globe.

Residents in Faenza described the birds falling to the ground like 'little Christmas balls' with strange blue stains on their beaks.

Initial tests on up to 8,000 of the doves indicated that the blue stain could have been caused by poisoning or hypoxia.

Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, is known to cause confusion and illness in animals. It is also a common precursor to altitude sickness.

Experts said results from tests on the doves will not be available for at least a week.

They said that cold weather could have caused the birds' deaths as the flock was swept into a high-altitude wind storm before falling to the earth.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-Two-MILLION-dead-fish-wash-Maryland-bay.html#ixzz1ASRNd0SE

RIP Altaira

Now Ann Francis has passed away. Rest in peace Altaira.

Red Shrit Day!

Paul Calle RIP

NASA Artist Paul Calle passed away today. Here is the lunar landing stamp he did.

Forty years later, what has it meant to you to design the stamp that honored the first lunar landing?

Designing the First Man on the Moon stamp in 1969 was a great honor and especially significant because of my involvement in the NASA Fine Art Program. The design process was kept a secret until not long before the Apollo 11 launch I believe. I had been with the crew during their activities readying for the launch the morning of July 16, 1969, sketching their breakfast and suiting up and knowing that the engraved plates were traveling to the moon with the astronauts was exciting.

I remember when Armstrong stepped foot on the moon, my 8 year old son at the time Chris kept asking, "Where's the stamp? Where's the stamp!?"

From the moon 42 years ago....

1992 Shuttle Craft Ornament

Merry Christmas!

HT National Geographic here.

Apollo 8: First Broadcast from the Moon

Apollo 8 'Genesis' broadcast 1968, extended version

Apollo 8 Launch

Apollo 8 departs to Moon Orbit on this date in 1968

This day in History here.

Lunar Eclipse pictures

Lunar Eclipse/ Winter Solstice

Ht here at gizmoto.

Apollo 17 left the moon 38 years ago today

Dragon Capsule Returns From Space | AVIATION WEEK

Dragon Capsule Returns From Space | AVIATION WEEK

Lesile Nielsen RIP

HT Jeffbots here.

Happy B-Day Climate Gate!

This week marks the one-year anniversary of ‘ClimateGate,’ the release of thousands of damning emails between the most prominent alarmist ‘climate’ scientists, as well as computer code and annotations affirming that the books were being cooked. ClimateGate spelled the end for the global warming agenda in the U.S., at least through the front door of the cap-and-trade energy tax.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/16/on-climategate-anniversary-greens-try-new-science-tack/#ixzz15a8Ovp00

Missile Launch off the coast video

Mysterious Missile launch off LA

Question is whose is it? China or USA? News report here.

From San Diego here.

I'm a Denier!

Tea Party does not buy Global Warming

I guess I'm in the Tea Party. I don't buy Global Warming.

The dumbest criticism the Democrats’ media sheep make of Tea Party members is that Tea Partiers don’t accept the global warming nonsense that most Democrats and their media sheep have fallen for.

Most Tea Party members aren’t climate experts, but they are smart enough to recognize a political con when they see one. In business cons, police warn that if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. In political cons, if something sounds too bad to be true it probably is too bad to be true.

Like most con artists, the people attempting to continue Enron’s global warming scam try to oversell their claims. The global warming scammers are essentially saying that if we don’t stop producing the “evil” gas carbon dioxide God will flood the world like he did in the time of Noah.

Supporters of Enron’s global warming scam falsely claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) possesses some magical power to increase the temperature of the atmosphere by interacting with low energy infrared radiation (IR).

In the 90’s Enron paid scientists and so called environmental groups to claim that an increase in atmospheric CO2 would cause significant temperature changes even though CO2 comprises less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. Enron even wrote the Kyoto Accords for the Clinton administration.

Enron wanted the opportunity to make a fortune by trading what the company called “carbon credits”. Enron had previously made a fortune trading sulfur dioxide credits under a program set up to allow northeastern power plants to continue producing the pollution associated with acid rain.

I wonder why Enron failed. Now I know!

SHAC Jam World Record 3200 Rockets Launched 10.9.10

NEO Incoming!

There is an NEO to pass by Earth at 33,000 miles today here.

Night of the Living Trekkies

Jupiter at Opposition

Tonight Jupiter will be closest to Earth. It has been very bright in the Eastern sky after dusk for months. Uranus is also at its closest but 1' off and unseen from the unaided eye.

 From Space Weather.com

NASA 41 years of covering up Global Warming

The long-trusted formula has been used by climatologists without question – until now. The researchers report that the numbers used in those equations are the “first assumption that climate science makes when predicting the Earth’s temperature.”

The “Stefan-Boltzmann” equation is, apparently, remarkably simplistic and arbitrary, so much so that NASA actually abandoned the use of that equation when preparing for the Apollo Mission in the 1960′s. You read that right; this equation was deemed not good enough for NASA more than forty years ago. And yet it is still the equation upon which climate scientists base their assumptions.

The problem with the equation is that it does not factor in the earth’s crust varying capacity for absorbing heat; instead treating it as a two-dimensional, uniform “black body.”

NASA had found that daytime temperatures on the lunar surface were lower than expected because planetary bodies also conduct heat to their inside rather than radiating it all into space – an empirical fact that challenges the GHG theory. Computer models supporting GHG theory had predicted that such heat energy would be ‘blanketed’ above a planet’s surface.

In fact, the Apollo data proves the Moon’s surface temperatures throughout its two-week night were higher than predicted by the blackbody equations because the moon “feeds on” the heat it had previously absorbed.

Thus the success of NASA’s moon landings becomes evidence against the unreliability of the Stefan- Boltzmann equations in real world science.

Worse, however, than the flaw in the equation, is that this fact has remained covered up by NASA from the first Lunar landing until now, nearly 41 years.

HT Back to Basics here.

Shuttle Astronaut Bill Lenoir Dies

Hurricane Earl as Seen from ISS

Enterprise made of Recyled Ink Cartridges

HT from Inhabitant here.

Space X Drop Test of Dragon

The Dragon Capsule was dropped from 14,000 feet off the Central California Coast. Space-X release here.

AccuWeather.com - Weather Video - Joe Bastardi Channel

AccuWeather.com - Weather Video - Joe Bastardi Channel
Why Hurricanes are low this year. (So far).

WhiteKnightTwo landing gear collapses

WhiteKnightTwo's landing gear collapses on landing.

If there was a gay gene the human race would die out

Here is an article that debunks the gay gene theory. Logical I think. Darwin said those species who where the fittest would survive. Those that are weak die off. If the human genome had gay genes then eventually the species would die out.

Therefore, if an alleged “gay gene” did exist, the homosexual population eventually would disappear altogether. We now know that it is not scientifically accurate to refer to a “gay gene” as the causative agent in homosexuality. The available evidence clearly establishes that no such gene has been identified. Additionally, evidence exists which documents that homosexuals can change their sexual orientation.

Poison Pill: The New Senate Energy Bill

Poison Pill: The New Senate Energy Bill
Hat tip to Ice Cap on the American Thinker article here:

And then there is the section of the Senate bill dedicated to the new federal building code. Originally rolled out in the House's energy plan, the code -- which supersedes all state and local measures and is thoroughly detailed in my book, Climategate -- now has a name: "The Home Star Retrofit Act of 2010." This Act places a hard squeeze on every property owner to spend thousands of dollars in environmental compliance upgrades in a time of economic stringency and falling home prices.

Federal dollars will be paid to those who decrease their energy usage. With the Smart Meters being installed across the country (mandated in the 2005 energy law and capable of recording your energy usage minute by minute), the government will be able to accurately determine your carbon footprint. To entice you to reduce your footprint, rewards of $3,000 will be given for a 25-percent reduction in energy consumption, and $1,000 more for each 5-percent reduction achieved -- up to a maximum of $8,000. A similar plan is proposed for water consumption.

Additionally, federal rebates of up to another $8,000 per home are available for upgrading doors, windows, insulation, roofs, water heaters, air conditioners, etc.

Even with the government kickbacks, if you're still unable to afford all of the upgrades, Section 3015 declares that Fannie Mae will be the official lender to provide you with a "Home Star Efficiency Loan." This means taxpayer sponsored Fannie will be taking on even more debt.

As one who has written extensively about the ideological machinations of the environmental movement and its leaders, I can tell you that this Senate bill is everything they wished could have been packed into the original House proposal.

If the Senate bites on this legislation, an airsickness bag will be required. The bill will go to committee, be conjoined with the massive House plan, and be presented to a lame duck Congress who will ram the bad medicine down our throats.

We need to hound the Senate now. Tell them to keep this poison pill away from their lips.

Brian Sussman is a former television meteorologist and the author of Climategate: a veteran meteorologist exposes the global warming scam. He hosts the morning show on KSFO, 560AM, in San Francisco.

AccuWeather.com - Climate Change | Ice Free Arctic Ocean not much of a CO2 Sink

AccuWeather.com - Climate Change | Ice Free Arctic Ocean not much of a CO2 Sink
Co2 dissolves quickly in cold water and becomes an equal part to the amount in the atmosphere.

New research, just published in the journal Science, and led by a University of Georgia biogeochemist indicates that an ice-free Arctic's future value as a potential carbon dioxide "sink" may be short-lived at best and minor in terms of what the planet will need to avoid future problems.

The Little Robot That Could

The Face of Mars

NASA's Muslim Outreach Is Real | Government IT Blog | InformationWeek Government

NASA's Muslim Outreach Is Real | Government IT Blog | InformationWeek Government

Science Turns Authoritarian — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

Science Turns Authoritarian — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

In the past, scientists were generally neutral on questions of what to do. Instead, they just told people what they found, such as “we have discovered that smoking vastly increases your risk of lung cancer” or “we have discovered that some people will have adverse health effects from consuming high levels of salt.” Or “we have found that obesity increases your risk of coronary heart disease.” Those were simply neutral observations that people could find empowering, useful, interesting, etc., but did not place demands on them. In fact, this kind of objectivity was the entire basis for trusting scientific claims.

But along the way, an assortment of publicity-seeking, and often socially activist, scientists stopped saying, “Here are our findings. Read it and believe.” Instead, activist scientists such as NASA’s James Hansen, heads of quasi-scientific governmental organizations such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, editors of major scientific journals, and heads of the various national scientific academies are more inclined to say, “Here are our findings, and those findings say that you must change your life in this way, that way, or the other way.”

Once objectivity is lost, individual choice is lost also.

The Science of skeptics

From Robert Zimmerman's Behind the Black here:

Science, however, is founded on skepticism and doubt. In order for scientists to figure out what is going on, it is essential that they have the freedom of thought to question everything. To deny anyone that freedom is to deny them the very essence of science. Or as Francis Bacon noted

Truth is to be sought for, not in the felicity of any age which is an unstable thing, but in the light of nature and experience, which is eternal. . . . Let every student of nature take this as a rule — that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is be held in suspicion. [Novum Organum, sections 56 and 58]

That the editors, reviewers, and scientists of a modern peer-review journal do not understand this basic point about the scientific method speaks volumes about the corruption of modern climate research. It also explains why a scandal such as climategate could happen, and why there is such a willingness by so many scientists to cover the scandal up.

Unfortunately, it appears that climate research today is not about in seeking after truth, but in defending the personal theories of powerful scientists, regardless of facts.

AccuWeather.com - Weather Video - Joe Bastardi Channel

AccuWeather.com - Weather Video - Joe Bastardi Channel

Ice Baby Ice!

Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann hides atop the climate change ivory tower | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann hides atop the climate change ivory tower | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Godspeed Rocket Project!

Today is Launch day! Godspeed to Rocket Project.

Sony has taken eight promising high school students from across the US, given them Vaio laptops, and challenged them to use the devices to build and launch a rocket. Sounds pretty cool, but why did Sony do this?

To answer a question that had never occurred to me until the press release hit my inbox: Can Vaio laptops (which, Sony reminds us, feature Intel processors) launch a rocket? Considering analog devices of 1960s could, we're betting on the "yes" end of the spectrum. But it's still fun to watch.

Follow the Rocket Project here.

Rocket Project

35 years ago the Handsake in Space

Soviet, US astronauts mark 35 years since space handshake

Elderly US astronauts reunited with their Soviet-era counterparts in Moscow on Wednesday to mark the 35th anniversary of their epic "handshake in space" in 1975 at the height of the Cold War.

Apollo 11 landing

From the Guardian here:

Docking of LM and CM

from the Guardian here:

We have Liftoff! Apollo 11

From the Guardian here:

Moon Landing Sound Restored in Mission Control

Now film maker and Apollo aficionado Stephen Slater, working with London-based archive film company Footagevault, has painstakingly united the visual material with high-quality recordings of the original mission audio.

Footagevault, which sourced and supplied the archive material for the award-winning documentary film In the Shadow of the Moon, started this process with the film's editor David Fairhead back in 2006, but only attempted to lip-sync a few seconds of footage.

Slater has taken it to a new level, synchronising more than eight minutes of the Apollo 11 landing. "Some of this footage has become almost as iconic as the shots of the Saturn V launching, or the Earth rising over the moon," says Slater. "But as a film maker I was always rather disappointed with the way the mission control shots were used in such a generic fashion, without any sense that it was the actual moment that the Eagle had landed."

It's awesome to watch the 2 min. version here:

NASA remarks ridiculous - Opinion

NASA remarks ridiculous - Opinion

NASA Muslim Outreach program: Impedes rather than advances

From Real Clear Politics:

The Obama directive to NASA also revealed a mental tic common to liberals -- the tendency to universalize the African-American experience. Just as African-Americans were denied their rights and dignity, goes this reasoning, so today fill-in-the-blank are being persecuted or demeaned -- women, gays, Muslims, the handicapped, illegal immigrants, Palestinians, "people of color."

But this line of reasoning impedes rather than advances understanding. The African-American experience in America was actually very different from that of women, gays, the handicapped, illegal immigrants, or others here, to say nothing of the experience of Palestinians or "people of color" worldwide. Invoking the emotionally charged civil rights paradigm closes the door on nuance and context and encourages dogmatism.

That's why this policy is totally wrong! NASA's goals should be EXPLORATION for the USA into SPACE. It will not advance but impede.

Byron York Asks NASA about WH

Here is the question and response asked by Bryon York Wash. Examiner:

Well, then, I asked, is Administrator Bolden's description of his assignment from the president -- is that accurate?

I received this response:

NASA is focused on its core mission of exploration, from pushing the boundaries of known space to breakthrough innovations in science and technology here at home. Without question, that work includes collaboration with other nations who share our goals.

While space exploration may have once been a global competition, it is now a global collaboration. It is in this vein that Administrator Bolden has engaged with his colleagues around the world, to bring the world’s best minds and ideas together to expand our common knowledge and capabilities.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/NASA-responds-to-White-House-Outreach-mission-stands-98322919.html#ixzz0tfxPGfow

Gibbs says Bolden didn't get it from WH

OK then why does a NASA Chief go to a foreign country and speak on their media telling them before he became NASA Chief Obama wanted him to outreach Muslim nations? What? WH Press Sec. Gibbs said this:

"That was not his task, and that's not the task of NASA," Gibbs told reporters.

Distance. Getting too hot for Gibbs I guess.

Why you should be mad about Charlie's Bolden's Al-Jazeera interview

The Flame Trench | Space news and analysis from Kennedy Space Center | FLORIDA TODAY and floridatoday.com space team

Space Disgrace

From WALTER CUNNINGHAM's editorial in the Houston Chronicle Here:

The $19 billion for 2011 is less than 0.5 percent of the proposed federal budget, one-ninth of what it was at its peak in the 1960s. The $300 million increase eliminates the program of human space exploration and sentences the agency to the same starvation diet it has existed on for the past several decades. NASA needs a $3 billion increase to continue operating a viable human space program.

NASA spin is touting “new technology development programs to expand the capabilities of future explorers”— in-orbit fuel depots, rendezvous and docking, closed-loop life support systems, heavy-lift research and development of new engines, propellants, materials and combustion processes. These may sound new to someone unfamiliar with what NASA has been doing for 50 years, but (with one exception) they are pursuits for which NASA already has an unmatched reputation. Each of these would have played an essential role in the now canceled Constellation program. Without the focus of a specific mission, the raison d'être for these technologies is now “to advance the field of space science.”

In the place of the canceled Ares and Orion hardware, we now have increased support for education, increased spending on the discredited global warming hypocrisy and subsidies to several new commercial rocket companies. And, oh yes, don't forget a new outreach program to Muslim countries without established space programs.

In canceling Constellation with nothing to take its place, the president is saying the U.S. should not have its own human space program and is directing funds to the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, or COTS. If NASA wants to participate in human spaceflight, it will have to be through contractors.

Rep. Pete Olson Needs A New News Watcher - NASA Watch

Rep. Pete Olson Needs A New News Watcher - NASA Watch

Did Obama Officailly Charge Bolden?

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NASA and the Last Fig Leaf of Big Government

NASA and the Last Fig Leaf of Big Government

The Flame Trench | Space news and analysis from Kennedy Space Center | FLORIDA TODAY and floridatoday.com space team

The Flame Trench | Space news and analysis from Kennedy Space Center | FLORIDA TODAY and floridatoday.com space team

Jerry Pournelle Chimes in on NASA

From Transterrestrial Musings here.

Rush's comments on NASA Chief Bolden's remarks

from Rush Limbaugh here:

BOLDEN: Before I became the NASA administrator he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math. He wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.

RUSH: Now, a lot of people are saying, "Rush, the guy really didn't mean it, he's just out there, this is just a bunch of pap for the al-Jazeera audience, didn't really mean it." Of course he meant it, and of course Obama said it. There's no question. Why would he say it if he didn't mean it? He certainly meant it for the Muslim audience and al-Jazeera. And, by the way, would somebody show me any Nobel prizes for math or science from the Muslim world? I'm going to get in a lot of trouble for this, but that's what we do here, we make the complex understandable, we deal with the truth. Most of these claims about Muslim contributions to science and math are myths. Even, folks, the so-called Arabic numbers were actually invented by the Hindus in 500 AD. I looked this up this weekend. It was even before there was such a thing as Islam. The Hindus created the so-called Arabic numerals and you can find this in Wikipedia if you want to believe it. Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, he was asked, "Why are you here in the region?" "Well, I'm here to spread the Muslim outreach." He said it, he meant it. "He couldn't possibly have meant this." He did mean it.

Video: NASA, Bolden, and Al Jazeera Make the Daily Show - NASA Watch

Video: NASA, Bolden, and Al Jazeera Make the Daily Show - NASA Watch

If you watch Al Jazeera, you know Obama's new mission for NASA: To help Muslim nations 'feel good'

If you watch Al Jazeera, you know Obama's new mission for NASA: To help Muslim nations 'feel good'

Lack of Space Technology Is Not the Muslim World’s Problem

NRO The Corner

Lack of Space Technology is not the Muslim World's Problem by M. Zuhdi Jasser at the Corner (NRO).

Obama’s NASA - Jay Nordlinger - The Corner on National Review Online

Obama’s NASA - Jay Nordlinger - The Corner on National Review Online

White House Defends Bolden

The White House clams that NASA Chief Bolden misspoke when he gave the three main objectives that Obama wanted Charlie to initiate in NASA's Mission. What? From HotAir Here:

After NASA Administrator Charles Bolden got blasted for revealing the three objectives tasked for him by Barack Obama, the White House has decided to fight back — by basically claiming that Bolden misspoke. Jake Tapper reports from the White House that the Obama administration now claims that the mission will still be to “push the boundaries of exploration”:

Ed Morrissey is saying that NASA under Charles Bolden and Obama Presidency is giving up on:
1. Going Back to the MOON
2. Scraping Aries
3. Replacing the Shuttle (i.e. go to ISS on Russian launch vehicles.)

Again the three objects that Charlie is saying is none of them cover "Space Exploration!" Bolden's words here:

When I became the NASA Administrator — before I became the NASA Administrator — [Obama] charged me with three things: One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.

Morrissey is right in the mission of NASA is going off "the rails." We need new direction and a new NASA Chief!

Cernan wants Bolden to resign

HT Gateway Pundit. More here at NASA Watch.

The end of US Manned space program?

Is the Manned space program going to die? From Bob Zimmerman here:

Though it has appeared that many if not most members of Congress have been unhappy with the Obama administration’s efforts to shut down the Constellation program, I have always believed that in the end, Congress wouldn’t have the fortitude to force its desires on the President. The action yesterday by the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA to take a neutral position on Obama’s proposals demonstrates this. They are willing to give NASA the extra money that Obama propopses, but they also have said that a compromise between Congress and the President on the future of the manned program must be agreed to before the money can be spent.

Obama’s new mission for NASA: Reach out to Muslim world | Washington Examiner

Obama’s new mission for NASA: Reach out to Muslim world | Washington Examiner

“NASA is not only a space exploration agency,” Bolden concluded, “but also an earth improvement agency.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/obamas-new-mission-for-nasa-reach-out-to-muslim-world-97785979.html#ixzz0suLtDXif

NASA Muslim Outreach program

HT from Gateway Pundit. NASA's goal was to get us to the Moon and keep the USA in Outer Space. Our mission is to explore space not to build up Muslim self-esteem!

Satellite to Monitor space debris

From WSJ here.

DENVER—A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth.
[spacecam0703] Associated Press

Satellite made by Ball Aerospace and Technologies; the Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite in Boulder, Colo.

If all goes as planned, the Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite, scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Thursday, will have an unobstructed, around-the-clock view of the heavy traffic in Earth orbit—something the Air Force doesn't have now.

July snow falls on Mt. Washington - Local News Updates - MetroDesk - The Boston Globe

July snow falls on Mt. Washington - Local News Updates - MetroDesk - The Boston GlobeHere comes Global Cooling!

When I was in High School I went hiking on the John Muir Trail we were about 6,000 to 7,000 Feet and it is common for a snowfall to occur up in the Sierra's even in July.

Pleistocene Global Warming

Grazing animals produce methane through natural fermentation of feed in their guts. Today, cattle produce about 20% of annual global methane emissions. "This influence may have been greater in the Pleistocene epoch, when atmospheric methane concentrations were considerably lower," says the study.

What are they higher today because of Man?
HT Watts Up

The Black Hole - The Glory Hole

We Choose to go to the Moon

Retro Rocket

HT to Mars Blog:



Check out Space Cadet's here.

No sex for astronauts in space

No sex for astronauts in space
O Darn!

Israel launches new spy satellite

Israel launches new spy satellite

Armadillo Aerospace Free Flight

Not Your Father's Space Program - Magazine - The Atlantic

Not Your Father's Space Program - Magazine - The Atlantic
A great piece on how space advocates have matured and become more professional.

Space-X Launch a Success!

Great picture here on Twitpic.

The Coke and Mentos Rocket

The sink hole in Guatemala