Conservative Pulse

Space tourist Richard Garriott to go on Sunday’s Soyuz shot

Video game designer Richard Garriott has paid $35 million (the majority of his money, he says) to be the next space tourist, launching on a Russian Soyuz capsule in only a couple of hours along with American Mike Fincke and Russian Yuri Lonchakov, each of whom will spend six months in space.  Garriott, the [...]

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SpaceX makes history in spaceflight

California-based SpaceX has gone where no space startup has gone before - it has launched the first privately funded liquid-fuel rocket to orbit the Earth.  Coming barely a day after China’s successful Shenzou-7 launch and spacewalk, this makes for an exciting weekend. This is the fourth try for SpaceX; the previous attempts resulted in crashes of [...]

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Shenzou-7 touches down after successful spacewalk mission

China is now the third nation in the world - after the US and Russia - to have independently launched an orbital spacecraft, conducted an Extra-Vehicular Activity excursion, and then returned the craft and its crew safely to Earth.  This is actually the third manned Chinese mission into space and their first mission involving a [...]

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NASA administrator email leaked

Mike Griffin, NASA head administrator, authored a frustrated email to several other top officials at the nation’s space agency. What was not planned, however, was that the email would leak and be published in the Orlando Sentinel and elsewhere. In the email, Griffin expresses his opinion that the next Administration will be forced to extend the [...]

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Obama flip-flops his position on space exploration and NASA funding

Barack Obama has said for some time that he planned to delay the Constellation program that would replace the Space Shuttle and return men to the Moon. Obama has proudly claimed that he planned to cut NASA’s budget and shift the funds into some sort of vague inner-city educational programs. But apparently, the presumptive Democratic [...]

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McCain recognizes the 50th anniversary of NASA’s creation

Today, Senator John McCain reaffirmed his robust support of America’s space agency as NASA celebrated their 50th anniversary. That’s in stark contrast to Barack Obama, who has gone on record saying that he feels space exploration should not be a high priority for America. Obama has said that he would not be in [...]

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