Articles in the “news” category
Posted 7 months ago
This still has to go through Congress and a million hoops, but The NYTimes reports: President Obama is calling on NASA to cancel the program that was to return humans to the Moon by 2020, and focus instead on radically new space technologies. Mr. Obama’s 2010 budget proposal for NASA asks for $18 billion over [...]
Posted 8 months ago
On Air New Zealand’s new 777: When the so-called “friendly skies” are mentioned, a few airlines in particular come to mind: Virgin America, Singapore Airlines and Qantas, for starters. Starting today, you can safely include Air New Zealand in that discussion. In a bid to turn long-haul international travel on its head, the outfit has [...]
Posted 8 months ago
The privatization of NASA.
Posted last year, at the end of December
If only I was the chief public representative of a monarchic nation-state.
Posted last year, at the end of December
“The only way that this question with absolute certainty is if the data recorders are recovered and analyzed.”