Just as private X business Space-DOGE has wanted all along.
#FundNASA!
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115457435715290482
Just as private X business Space-DOGE has wanted all along.
#FundNASA!
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115457435715290482
Space exploration is expensive. I know that. This is the first of what I hope will be many posts about why space exploration is worthwhile, despite the high price tag.
A properly tax-payer funded public space program, run by competent administrators, and staffed by Americans with the best science and engineering skills, would suck the life out of, and obviate the government's dependence on, certain other citizen's profit machines.
Some of whom may not have the nation's best interests in mind.
I was recently in Washington, D.C., as part of a group of ordinary citizens talking to Congress about why we love space and why we support NASA funding. Here are my final thoughts and reflections about this experience:
https://i-love-space.com/2024/05/10/mr-pailly-goes-to-washington/
I recently returned from a trip to D.C. to help advocate for NASA funding. I'll have more to say about that on my blog sometime next week.
But part of my trip got me thinking about the life of a writer, and that's my topic for this month's Insecure Writer's Support Group post.
https://i-love-space.com/2024/05/01/iwsg-real-reasons-vs-acceptable-reasons/
#IWSG #writingcommunity #space #science #NASA #FundNASA #PlanetarySociety
I am in DC today and tomorrow as part of a group advocating (as private citizens, not professional lobbyists) for space exploration.
NASA punched the sky ... and it worked.
Two independent measurements show that NASA's DART mission to deflect the trajectory of an asteroid succeeded.
Incredibly, DART's amazingly accurate long-shot punch to an asteroid's face was made even stronger than the impact alone by the force of the blast ejecting material from impact site. A real one-two punch that might *** save the planet *** someday.
#NASA #FundNASA #SpaceNews
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-dart-data-validates-kinetic-impact-as-planetary-defense-method