Outside the Beltway

He’ll soon have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads

Trump’s lack of focus may spare us the worst outcomes in this one instance.

Nuclear reactors to the moon!

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

They’re apparently ongoing. Who knew?

It’s taken more than two years to undo a silly, petty decision.

Putin is a monster, but he may also be just as irrational as the rest of us.

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

Another early COVID myth has been shattered.

SpaceX unveiled a model of the “starship” it would send to Mars but there’s still a lot of work to do.

We may have the first known case of a crime committed in space.

Some mysteries on the fourth rock from the Sun.

Over the weekend, the President took to Twitter and appeared to undercut the NASA policy that he himself endorsed just weeks ago.

For the first time in more than thirty years, NASA is preparing to unveil a program to allow civilians to travel to the International Space Station.

President Trump says he wants to see men back on the Moon by 2024, but NASA thinks it’s going to take longer than that.

Earlier this week, SpaceX deployed the first 60 satellites in a network that could result in Internet access from virtually anywhere in the world.

There are better ways to use surplus Pell funds.

A successful launch for SpaceX and NASA and a successful beginning to the return of American manned spaceflight.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

(Almost) live from Mars!

Elon Musk has apparently come to his senses. At least for now.

After a year in space, Astronaut Scott Kelly was no longer 100% genetically identical to his twin brother. However, the changes are not as significant as initial media reports made them out to be.

Yesterday’s Falcon Heavy Launch was a near-complete success and another amazing advance in the race to the stars.