Articles in the “news” category

Obama Calls for End to NASA’s Moon Program

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 [...]

Air New Zealand ‘revolutionizes’ coach cabins

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 [...]

WSJ: White House Decides to Outsource NASA Work

Posted 8 months ago

The privatization of NASA.

Full-text of the new TSA directive

Posted last year, at the end of December

If only I was the chief public representative of a monarchic nation-state.

The search for AF447 will resume in February

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.”