Working Draft of the ''National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010''

Seeded on Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:54 PM EDT (www.nasaengineer.com)

A Senate committee is meeting this Thursday (June 15) to markup a 3-year appropriation bill for NASA, which is a significant departure from the President's plan to get NASA out of the rocket development business.

senate, nasa, science, national-aeronautics, space-act

NASA Rocket Development Approaching a Near Shutdown, Media Ignores It

Seeded on Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:27 AM EDT (www.nasaengineer.com)

Due to feuding between the admin and Congress, the NASA centers that design new rockets are about to go into a near shutdown for who-knows-how-long. People complain when things take too long and cost too much, and this is how things like that happen.

rockets, constellation, nasa, science

Workforce Reductions at NASA About to Happen

Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:59 AM EDT (www.nasaengineer.com)

NASA has been working on the Constellation (CxP) program for FY2010 while congress debates the President's FY2011 budget, which cancels it.

constellation, nasa, science, ksc, msfc, jsc, write-stuff, huntsville-times, anti-deficiency-act

New NASA Order May Force Shutdown of Constellation Early

Seeded on Wed Jun 9, 2010 9:23 PM EDT (Orlando Sentinel)

NASA has been working the Constellation program this fiscal year, even though Obama wants to cancel it in FY2011.

constellation, nasa, science, human-space-plight

Falcon 9, The Day After…

Seeded on Sat Jun 5, 2010 10:37 PM EDT (www.nasaengineer.com)

A discussion of the news about SpaceX's successful Falcon 9 launch yesterday that asks the question of why doesn't the news have any rocket scientists to talk to? It's usually just politicians!

nasa, science, spacex, rocket-scientist, falcon-9

NASA Debate Needs More Engineering, Less Politics

Seeded on Sun May 16, 2010 7:38 PM EDT ()

The debate over the future direction of NASA needs more input from engineer's like Steve Cook, and less from politicians! Here's the text of a good discussion about the direction of NASA from earlier this month...

constellation, nasa, us-news

On-line-Liberals Discuss, Conservatives Preach

Seeded on Wed May 5, 2010 8:49 AM EDT (The Nation)

Who knew? Liberals start websites to discuss things, conservatives to preach the "gospel!"

blogs, politics, internet, liberal, opinion, conservative

Belief In God Plummets Among Younger Generation

Seeded on Sun May 2, 2010 8:09 AM EDT (Daily Kos)

Religion is failing. People are getting smarter!

religion, atheism

If you're sick, don't call a Republican

Seeded on Sun May 2, 2010 7:50 AM EDT (Berkshireeagle.com)

This is something opponents of socialized health care can never answer...

bankruptcy, health, health-care, health-insurance

Atheists on the March....

Seeded on Sun May 2, 2010 7:35 AM EDT (Turkishpress.com)

This is pretty cool. The smarter people are getting tired of all the nonsense...

religion, atheism, atheists

Charges possible in lost iPhone prototype case

Seeded on Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:25 PM EDT (Examiner)

Authorities in San Mateo County in California may file charges against the seller that passed a lost prototype iPhone on to Gizmodo. What do you think? It seems if Apple lost it, then they lost it.

technology, gizmodo, prototype, iphone

Jerusalem- "Disneyland for the Faithful"

Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:46 AM EDT

Everyone should see Jerusalem at least once. It doesn't matter what you believe or don't believe, once you go there, you leave more of what you were before you went.This is my account from a few years ago after I went to Tel Aviv on business for a week.

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