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Richard’s Items 1. 2. Europa Water Plumes Appear to Erupt From Jupiter’s Moon in New Photos 3. The Enterprise Mission – Europa 4. An unusual ‘black moon’ is coming Friday, but it’s not the end of the world 5. How to Follow Rosetta’s Grand Finale 6. Musk’s Mars moment: Audacity, madness, brilliance—or maybe all three 7. Neil deGrasse Tyson Comments on Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars 8. Pluto | PenguinRandomHouse.com Kynthea’s Items Keith’s Items Andrew’s Items […]
“Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says “Aw s*** they’re up.” – Dwayne Johnson Richard’s Items: 1. We’re ahead of schedule to turn Star Trek tech into reality 2. Mission to asteroid a ‘go’ for Thursday launch 3. Air Force Joins Investigation into SpaceX Rocket Explosion 4. NASA’s EM Drive Passes Peer Review, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up – Universe Today 6. Assange says Clinton leaks might come as early as next week Dave’s Items: 1. 2. 3. 4. Dave Distler Bio: Something beckoned me to begin reading every book I could about space […]
Richard’s Items: 1. NASA’s EmDrive thruster just took an important leap forward 2. Tropical storm may head toward Hawaii, coinciding with Obama visit 3. Earth-like planet near Proxima Centauri 5. Paul LePage, Besieged Maine Governor, Sends Conflicting Signals Over Intentions 6. Trump is heading to MEXICO Allan’s Items: Allan Weiner was born in Yonkers, New York. Fascinated with radio at an early age, he began building radio transmitters as a teenager. Weiner was operating an unlicensed station that he called WKOV, when he was contacted by a fellow teenaged radio pirate, Joseph Paul Ferraro. Ferraro’s station shared time with Weiner’s, with the two stations alternating back and forth on the channel. The stations were renamed “WFSR”, for the FallingStar Radio Network. Later, two FM stations were added to the network: Weiner’s WXMN and Ferraro’s WSEX. The network was renamed the American Radio Broadcasting System, and was the subject of an article in Rolling Stone. After the network was raided by […]
1. Here’s Why the SpaceX Rocket Landing Is Such a Big Deal [News] 2. Commercial Space websites of interest Nanoracks. This is the commercial company doing well that arranges all the commercial and there are lots of them experiments going to the ISS. They contract with NASA and handle all the integration and everything. Planet Labs. This is a San Francisco startup doing cubesats for earth imaging off the ISS. They launch small satellites from the ISS with NASAs help. SpaceX Blue Origin Made in Space has the only 3D printer in space on the ISS. Also known as additive manufacturing. SpaceVR. This is a new generation virtual reality company using space as their market. XCOR, suborbital spaceflight and tourism, science missions. Virgin Galactic; suborbital spaceflight, sounding rockets, space tourism, science missions. Interorbital systems, rocket company in Mojave. Orbital ATK: they have the COTS rocket resupply to the ISS, Antares. Swiss Space, They want to do a space debris launcher program and also space tourism. Project Possum, scientific […]
1. Elon Musk’s SpaceX returns to flight and pulls off dramatic, historic landing [News] Dr. Richard B. Spence is a Professor of History at the University of Idaho. His special interests include modern Russian, military, espionage and occult history and the history of anti-Semitism. One of his most popular courses deals with the role of conspiracies and secret societies in history. His major published works include Boris Savinkov: Renegade on the Left (East European Monographs/Columbia Univ. Press, 1991), Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly (Feral House, 2002) and Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult (Feral House, 2008). He also co-authored with Walter Bosley, Empire of the Wheel: Espionage, the Occult and Murder in Southern California (Corvos, 2011). In addition, he is the author of many articles in Revolutionary Russia, Intelligence and National Security, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal for the Study of […]
