Video: Vice President Kamala Harris Calls NASA Astronaut Victor Glover on International Space Station
Video Caption: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris placed a special phone call to space this week when she spoke with astronaut Victor Glover who is aboard the International Space Station.
Glover, a crew member of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission, is the first African American astronaut to fly on a commercial spacecraft, and the first African American to fly a long-term mission aboard the orbiting laboratory. This is his first spaceflight since being selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013.
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Nice to see the new VP on board.
Of course, space has been a delegated-to-the-VP kind of thing since Dan Quayle, with the exception of Dick Cheney, I believe, and it seemed at the time Biden, too – hmm, so maybe not so standard. Pence was certainly into it.
Anyway, obviously Harris loved the black history connection, but she seemed enthusiastic about space, too. Now, show me the money 🙂 Or better yet, political capital, as there’s really plenty of money; it’s just being misdirected and/or poorly managed in a chunk of the recent flagship programs (SLS, Orion and James Webb).
All I ask for is a Neptune/Triton mission, HabEx, a commercial space station module, NASA getting on board with Starship and, well, heck, actually I want a lot of things 🙂 I’ll pass on the Bill Nelson though, thanks
Actually the connection between the Vice-President and space goes back to VP Johnson. President Kennedy only became interested when he saw it was a way to counter the Soviet Union without going to war.
What, no pony on that list? 🙂
How about that Green New Space Deal with space solar power as the solution to climate change?
Environmentalists and astronomers are complaining about Starlink, imagine the screams if you fill the Geo orbit up with huge highly reflective solar power satellites, satellites that will be visible all night not just around sunset.
Just imagine a string of 60 “lights”, each as bright as Venus according to a DOE study in the 1970’s, forming a line from horizon to horizon and visible all night and probably in the daylight as well. Astronomers will really go ballistic over ruining the night sky.
Oh shut up. Only the most ridiculous jackass would compare powering civilization carbon free with Musk strip mining Earth orbit.
Apparently not. You don’t see them as comparable. Theorem disproved. QED
You are so incredibly intelligent. It is staggering.
I know. There’s also no one more modest. But I pledge to use my powers only in the cause of good.
You, your political beliefs, your gullibility to cults, all are evil….no doubt of that.
This word “evil” – I do not think it means what you think it means.
Orwellian reversals are your game, not mine. You consider what is evil to be good, as your Trumpism blatantly shows.
SBSP is not fully a carbon-free energy source since, like wind turbines and solar voltaic systems, carbon is required for their manufacturing, especially the massive ground antenna, and transportation. The basic question is the amount of carbon used per unit of energy generated, plus all the other environmental impact of the system used.
The future for SBSP is not energy for Earth, but for orbital manufacturing using lunar/asteroid materials and the products dropped down the gravity well to Earth.
The future of SBSP is to solve the climate change problem. There is absolutely nothing that can be manufactured in space that cannot be manufactured cheaper on Earth- except SBSP. The “massive ground antennae” are just big antennae fields. Elon Musk likely does not like SBSP for the simple reason it is a mega project requiring state sponsorship and not his hands in it making it over at his god-like whim.
There being no “climate change problem,” there is, concomitantly, no need for a “solution.”
Not that SBSP will play no future role in Earth’s energy infrastructure, but it will do so in cis-lunar space, around Mars and in the Belt first.
As all Musk’s enterprises make plain, if Musk thinks some particular thing needs doing, he will unhesitatingly dive into doing it. His objections to SBSP have mainly to do with the low overall efficiency the chain of needed conversion processes impose on the system as a whole and its inferior economics anent Earth-based alternatives.
State sponsorship, beyond some desultory R&D, has never been forthcoming for any baseload power technology that is utterly novel. SBSP isn’t going to show up in Earth orbit until it has been amply proven on the Moon, Mars and for large space stations/habitats.
There are additional reasons to avoid putting too much of the total weight of Earth’s energy infrastructure on SBSP. The biggest is the vulnerability of SBSP to nuclear EMP attacks and/or Carrington events. Hardening SBSP against such may be possible, but perhaps not economically feasible. That will have to be proven, yea or nay, by prior use at significant scale in deep space.
Climate denier, Musk AND Trump worshiper…what a freak you are.
Nowhere near as freaky as you, though. There are millions within the combined overlap of the Venn diagrams for climate skepticism, Musk admiration and Trump admiration. Tens of millions most likely.
But there’s only one of you.
I don’t deny that there’s climate or even that it changes. What I do deny is that there is any serious cause-effect relationship between increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and whatever climate changes are actually going on. Climate alarmists – who are now the exclusive “practitioners” of “climate science” – having run anyone who doesn’t agree with them out of the profession – have been playing convenient games with both historical and new data to the point none of it is any longer trustworthy. If we can get to a point where climate science is done more like clinical drug trials – with those having a pecuniary interest in the outcome strictly separated from the collection and analysis of data, then we’ll have some basis for actual science-based policy. Until then – if ever – all we’ve got is a lot of special pleading by left-progressive activists with PhDs.
Agree except for that last part. Very little of what gets produced in space will be “drop-shipped” to Earth. The overwhelming majority of space manufactures will stay in space and be used there. Bezos is right that space manufacturing will be big. He’s quite wrong, however, in supposing space manufacturing will supplant that on Earth where the end-use is also to be on Earth.
You should be asking Kamala H., not us.
“Us” tells the whole story- you think it is all about your little schoolyard here where you and your gang can squat. Disgusting creeps.
You’re insulting my pronouns. I’m pretty sure that’s a no-no these days. Better not let the SJWs catch you.
Now that’s just rude!!!