Recently CGTN America covered the UN Peacekeepers who have been in Haiti for over a decade and are now beginning to withdraw. As their mission concludes, we take inventory of their accomplishments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmwpu0F39EM "For more than a decade, United Nations Peacekeeping … [Read more...]

A friend of mine told a story about a television station that once promoted a story about NASA finding life out there.   It was not true at the time nor is it now.   It does however point to the fact that finding life beyond our humble planet, even a microscopic blob,  is like the quest for the Holy … [Read more...]

NASA has always been good about honoring the past.  Monday was no exception.  Space Agency Administrator Charles Bolden said in his remarks that it was arguably, "the most significant event in human exploration." Forty five years ago, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on … [Read more...]

John Zarrella reports on the Sherlock Holmes of Mars rovers looking for clues to life with elementary science. This mission could and should get them infinitely closer to answering the Mars life question, scientists say, than any previous Mars … [Read more...]

I'm going to be the emcee of the Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductions this year! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kPpD9gnuU   … [Read more...]

It is like nothing else built by man, that power of a rocket lifting off.   Whether it’s the first time or the one hundredth, it is jaw dropping.  It sits benign enough on the launch pad until the smoke and fire pours from its belly. Nature gives us that same feeling in the raw power of a … [Read more...]