Writing about space policy and politics, from the Space Coast of Florida. Now retired after ten years doing public education at Kennedy Space Center. You can also find me on Counter.Social at the same handle, and on Substack at TheSpacePundit.com. .. more
Writing about space policy and politics, from the Space Coast of Florida. Now retired after ten years doing public education at Kennedy Space Center. You can also find me on Counter.Social at the same handle, and on Substack at TheSpacePundit.com.
New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is lavishing praise on Trump, falsely giving him credit for achievements by Obama and Biden.
Read my latest #Substack article, "Talk is Cheap," for free at the link.
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From #NYTimes via Archive.ph: Trump is closing NASA's largest research library. The holdings will be sent to warehouses or trashed.
archive.ph/Ii6qS
The House Judiciary Committee also released eight hours of special counsel Jack Smith's testimony.
How courageous to release this on New Year's Eve when people are distracted. Better than nothing, I suppose.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-b...
The transcript of special counsel Jack Smith's testimonty to the House Judiciary Committee was released today. It's redacted in places.
judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
According to this @washingtonpost.com article, #NASA administrator Jared Isaacman was renominated because J.D. Vance was negotiating a truce between Trump and Elon so the GOP could access Elon money in 2026. The price was restoring Jared.
wapo.st/4qxBi9U
I've just posted a #Substack about our recent road trip to Lakeland's Silvermoon Drive In using the #Tesla Full Self-Driving. Read for free at the link. Please consider signing up for a free subscription.
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My latest The Written Trek #Substack looks at "The Galileo Seven," written by a once-blacklisted screenwriter, and saved by a toy model maker.
Read for free at the link. Please consider signing up for a free subscription.
www.thewrittentrek.com/p/the-galile...
This is a digitization of Sir Patrick Stewart's "Christmas Carol" two-disc CD set released in 1991.
Fill the house on a cold quiet Christmas Eve night with Sir Patrick's voice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFB6...
#CASIS is the non-profit that runs the US segment on the International Space Station. They just posted their highlights for 2025.
I've always said that CASIS is the secret sauce for the US space program.
issnationallab.org/press-releas...
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BREAKING from #NYTimes: Trump halts five wind farms under construction off the east coast of the US, falsely claims they pose a threat to national security.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
We all remember that dramatic moment in "Good Night and Good Luck" when Edward R. Murrow takes the Joe McCarthy story to his boss William Paley ... who kills it.
Murrow must be turning over in this grave.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
Murrow must be turning over in this grave.
From #CNN via Archive.ph: #CBSNews staffers are threatening to quit after a Trump-placed executive killed a #60Minutes story about deportees.
archive.ph/5DCSx
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Can we turn off gravity on Earth? The answer is no, but some people think NASA can.
Read my latest #Substack, "The Ups and Downs of Gravity," for free at the link. Please consider signing up for a free subscription.
www.thespacepundit.com/p/the-ups-an...
@cbsnews.com ten years ago tonight reporting on the first successful landing of an orbital-class booster by #SpaceX.
www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-...
The front page of #FloridaToday ten years ago tomorrow morning (December 22, 2015) after #SpaceX successfully landed a #Falcon9 for the first time.
Ten years ago tonight ... #SpaceX successfully landed a #Falcon9 first stage for the first time, at #CCSFS Landing Zone 1.
In my opinion, this was the most significant achievement in spaceflight to date in the 21st Century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqmg...
From #CNN via Archive.ph:
Inside the Patriot Front white supremacist compound i Tellico Plains, Tennessee. The group requires its members to wear masks in public. They regularly train in "fight club" style matches.
archive.ph/if8Eh
Today's #NASA town hall with new administrator Jared Isaacman.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdQi...