Category: News
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WATCH LIVE: SPACEX SXM-8 MISSION
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, June 6 for Falcon 9’s launch of the SXM-8 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The one-hour and 59-minute launch window opens at 12:26 a.m. EDT, 4:26 UTC, and a backup launch opportunity is available on Monday, June 7 with the same one-hour and 59-minute…
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WATCH LIVE: SpaceX CRS-22 MISSION
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, June 3 for Falcon 9’s launch of the twenty-second Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-22). Liftoff is targeted for 1:29 p.m. EDT, or 17:29 UTC, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. A backup launch opportunity is available on Friday, June 4 at 1:03 p.m. EDT, or 17:03…
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June 4th is “NATIONAL DOUGHNUT (DONUT) DAY” (video)
National Doughnut Day, or National Donut Day — celebrated in the United States and in some other countries, is on the first Friday of June of each year, succeeding the Doughnut event created by The Salvation Army in Chicago in 1938 to honor those of their brave members who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. Soon after the US entrance…
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NASA Administrator Statement on Chinese Rocket Debris (video)
May 8, 2021 NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson released a statement Saturday regarding debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket: “Spacefaring nations must minimize the risks to people and property on Earth of re-entries of space objects and maximize transparency regarding those operations. “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible…
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FDA Seeks Further Investments in Critical Public Health Infrastructure and Medical Product Safety Programs
Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request Reflects Nearly 8% Increase from Previous Year and Focuses on Agency’s Immediate Priorities The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting a total budget of $6.5 billion as part of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget – a nearly 8% ($477 million) increase over the agency’s FY 2021…
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Historic UFOPac.org Lifts Off
AUSTIN, Texas and LOS ANGELES — A bipartisan group of public affairs specialists and business leaders have joined together to launch UFOPac.org, believed to be the nation’s first bipartisan political action committee related to UFOs. The political action committee will be dedicated to organizing millions of like-minded Americans into an effort to persuade the governments to disclose, declassify, and…
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21/Borisov Interstellar Comet? (video)
Back in 2019, a new interstellar comet was discovered… 2I/Borisov, originally designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), is the first observed rogue comet and the second observed interstellar interloper after ʻOumuamua. It was discovered by the Crimean amateur astronomer and telescope maker Gennadiy Borisov on 30 August 2019 UTC (29 August local time. 2I/Borisov has a heliocentric orbital eccentricity of 3.36 and is not bound to the Sun. The comet passed through the ecliptic of the Solar…
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New Video Raises More UFO Questions Ahead of Pentagon Report Release
TODAY For the first time, the world is getting a glimpse at leaked U.S. military radar readings that show more than a dozen objects swarming a Navy warship off the coast of California, and it comes as a deadline approaches for the Pentagon to tell Congress what it knows about UFOs. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz…
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NASA Administrator Statement on President’s FY 2022 Funding Request
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: “The Biden-Harris Administration’s fiscal year 2022 funding request is an investment in America’s future. Agency activities contribute to economies local and national, invest in the next generation through STEM education, and are essential to American leadership around the world. This budget request is evidence that…
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May 28 is National Hamburger Day (video)
May 28th 2021 celebrates one of this nation’s most iconic fast foods, the hamburger. Named after the city of Hamburg, Germany, the hamburger first appeared in the 19th or early 20th century. “Hamburger” Charlie Nagreen served the world’s first hamburger Seymour, Wisconsin, at the Seymour Fair of 1885 when he decided to flatten a meatball and place it between slices of bread to…