Eighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “Science-The Endless Frontier.” In this report, Bush described the immense benefits of […]

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For those who may not have been paying attention, the sun has become quite active of late. In fact, the sun is more restive in terms of solar flares and […]

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Scientific spacecraft programs are too important to the United States' welfare and our leadership in the world to ever shortchange or undervalue them through poor policy decisions

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As the Sun becomes more active after a nearly three-year activity slumber, the massive solar storms that lie ahead of us for the upcoming several sunspot-cycle years will not respect any geographic boundaries or political borders.

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While humans have found a shared imperative in the fight against the coronavirus, we need something more than a common enemy to combat the isolation and loss that have come to define this pandemic.

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Today, the threat has never been higher of a new round of above-the-atmosphere (“exo-atmospheric”) nuclear explosions.

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The current capability of our technological society to predict space weather is primitive. Yet our national electric power grid, our thousands of satellites in Earth orbit and virtually all of our crucial electronic gadgetry are extremely vulnerable to the effects of severe space weather.

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Often the focus of NASA and other space agencies is the large, big-ticket flight projects. However, since the budgets for smaller missions are limited and projects are nimble, they can be accomplished at quite modest cost and low risk to the success of the overall program.

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