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Space

Critic: NASA Should Abandon Moon Missions, And Develop Means To Fend Off Killer Comets, Meteoroids Instead

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Monday, June 2nd, 2008

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NASA should drop plans to visit and establish an outpost on the moon, and instead should focus on something more practical: saving mankind from extinction by a killer comet or asteroid, according to one observer. Gregg Easterbrook is contributing editor of The Atlantic and The New Republic, a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, D.C., and an author. Easterbrook cites work by Columbia University geophysicist Dallas Abbott that shows many more large space objects such as meteors…

Congress

House Republicans’ Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0 Includes $60 Billion For Defense

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for a third reconciliation bill that includes $60 billion for defense, a figure slightly below the Trump administration’s request to cover Iran war […]

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]