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Government Must Understand the Travel Effect

08/01/2013 15:30
    The U.S. Travel Association last week released its report on the unintended consequences of the U.S. government's off-target, ham-fisted crackdown on government employee...

Never Lose Infinite Hope

05/31/2013 09:40
  It's a well known-mantra of strategic planners, "hope is not a strategy." I think anyone responsible for making a payroll, keeping the factory doors open, or accountable for achieving a mission, knows this. No matter what your hopes are, it is your intentions,...

New Times, New Opportunities

05/01/2013 10:55
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ― Winston Churchill Even though I'm generally known to be a pretty optimistic guy, I don't mind...

Following in the Footsteps of Mark Twain

04/02/2013 16:22
  There are many variations on the famous Mark Twain "report of my death" quote, so let me set the record straight. Twain penned the original note in May 1897 and it reads thusly: "James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, in London, but is...

A Sea Monster in Colorado Springs

02/01/2013 10:20
  QUESTION: What weighs 21,000 pounds, lives at the bottom of the sea and is on its way to a new life in Colorado Springs? ANSWER: NASA's Scott Carpenter Station underwater habitat. The Scott Carpenter Station is an underwater habitat system that...

Realigning the Stars

01/08/2013 21:35
  Happy New Year -- unless you observe the Chinese or Gregorian calendars -- and welcome to 2013, a year in which we can expect to see a continued realigning of the stars where space programs, policies and organizations are concerned. While 2012 was a year of mixed...

School Buses Are Beautiful!

10/01/2012 14:43
  Wednesday, Sept. 19, was a huge day for us at the Space Foundation - the day that big yellow school buses began showing up at our headquarters, bringing students and teachers to the newNorthrop Grumman Science Center, featuring Science On a Sphere® (SOS).Grand Opening...

Life Begins at 30

09/04/2012 10:07
  In our youth-obsessed American culture, turning 30 can be a traumatic change-of-life event. I was curiously unaffected by turning 30, although I will admit that I was oddly unsettled by attaining the unremarkable age of 32. Since then, I've come to realize that 30...

Junkyard Dogs? Or Shit House Rats?

08/28/2012 14:26
  I Fear the Republic No Longer Functions... But We Must Keep our Faith I generally try to be as upbeat and positive as possible. I'm no Pollyanna, but I subscribe to Thomas Jefferson's theory that more gets accomplished through generosity than...

Optimism, Captain! Optimism!

07/05/2012 13:06
  If there's one important thing that a focused, optimistic and sustainable space exploration program can uniquely contribute to society right now, it is a sense of optimism that has long been missing in our media, our classrooms and the dimly-lit corridors of...
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