George Leopold

The Risks of Project Artemis Outweigh the Gains The tragic mistakes of the past are being repeated in the rush to return humans to the Moon.

America’s rush to return humans to the Moon discounts the hard lessons of the past. substack.com/home/post/p-...

#Russia invasion of #Ukraine using #China built reconnaissance satellite #StilSat1 www.thespacereview.com/article/5095/1 Likely indicates Russia lacks the capability to build its own.

George W. Bush, East Room, White House, August 2001. Whatever was beyond this wall is probably gone. The sonofabitch tore it down. #PeoplesHouse #EastWing

Aldo Leopold and the (New) Land Ethic Amid the chaos, a long overdue visit.

Aldo Leopold and the (New) Land Ethic
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Europe wants to launch a life-hunting mission to Saturn's icy ocean moon Enceladus The proposed orbiter-lander mission would launch around 2042 and arrive in the Saturn system in 2053.

If there is life in our solar system, this is the place to look #Enceladus www.space.com/space-explor...

#Redford to Bob Woodward: “At one time there was a long road ahead of me and now that road is a lot shorter, and I don’t have a lot of time to mess around. So you do the best you can with what you’ve got left.”

Female Ruby-Throated #Hummingbird at the feeder in Central WI

Miles Taylor fights Trump's order targeting him, calling it 'an attack on free speech' In 2018, an anonymous Trump administration official delivered a stark warning about the threat he said the president posed with his erratic behavior. The author was later revealed to be Miles Taylor. ...

This is what moral courage looks like: #MilesTaylor www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

MAGA = Make A Grifter Affluent... #Qatar

#ispace #Resilience

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Exclusive: @NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#SaveNSF #NSF

Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy over sharing military operational details in a group chat.

www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n... #HegsethResign

All well and good. The problem is AMS has never wanted to be seen as just another DC lobbyist. This is about 10 years late.

CM 020, the Apollo 6 unmanned command module, an ungodly mess of bad wiring that would come back to haunt #ProjectApollo

This image looks very familiar.... #CalculatedRisk

If the recent White House Executive Order regarding the Smithsonian Institution is fully implemented then things like this will disappear from The National Air And Space Museum and elsewhere. #WomensHistoryMonth #Astronomy @vrubinobs.bsky.social #Astronomy

The Atlantic article reveals that the Principals Committee was mostly discussing political considerations, not national security issues. They were more concerned about how an attack on the Houthis would be perceived rather than the military necessity for the attack. Clown show!

Remember not the sandwich, remember Grissom and Young maneuvering a spacecraft for the first time in history. #Gemini3

#MollyBrown

After outcry, #JackieRobinson story restored to #DoD website, presumably in response to media pressure. The Erasers of History (yet again) went too far this time: www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

Best Onion headline not mentioned in NYT review: 'No Way to Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This [Mass Shootings] Regularly Happens'

Book Review: ‘Funny Because It’s True,’ by Christine Wenc In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target.

NYT review purporting to explain origin of #TheOnion Forerunner was another Madison, WI, alternative rag, Takeover. Slogan: Don't take orders, takeover! Best Takeover headline: 'Thousands Lead Normal Lives!' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/b...

www.eetimes.com/appreciation... #Apollo #AlanBean

www.eetimes.com/appreciation... #Apollo #AlanBean

www.eetimes.com/appreciation... #Apollo #AlanBean

Correction: Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter and U.S. Surveyor 3 also observed Earth in front of Sun, according to ScienceNews... www.sciencenews.org/article/luna...

A first: Lunar eclipse as viewed from the lunar surface via Firefly/Blue Ghost. (Apollo 12 captured a partial eclipse on the way home.) #eclipse #Firefly #BlueGhost

A protester holding a sign that says "Fund Don't Freeze" in front of a large crowd and the Washington Monument. Photo by Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on Friday for Stand Up for Science, a rally to protest the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to the federal work force and to federally funded science. nyti.ms/3DruZlu