NASA Admits Censorship Occurred
The Bad Astronomy Blog reports that NASA has officially admitted that censorship did in fact take place there recently. In a letter to Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), NASA writes: …an internal inquiry...
View ArticleNASA Loses Moon Landing Tapes
Yes, that’s right. The moon landing may have been one of the most significant events of the Twentieth Century, but our original records of it seem to have been misplaced, as The Sydney Morning Herald...
View ArticleMissing Moon Tape Update
According to the AP, NASA announced Tuesday that it was beginning an official search for the missing tapes from the Apollo missions. Red-faced because the best pictures of its glory days are missing,...
View ArticleAnother Unqualified Bush Appointee at NASA
Oh boy, it just never stops with this administration and its contempt for science. Via Keith Cowing’s NASA Watch comes news of a, well, interesting new Bush Administration appointee at NASA: NASA...
View ArticleGeorge Deutsch to Testify at Upcoming Committee on Oversight and Government...
(See update here.) The Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform–chaired by Henry Waxman–will hold part two of its “Hearing to Examine Allegations of Political Interference with...
View ArticleHearing on Interference with Climate Change Science Interesting but Slightly...
Last week I mentioned an upcoming hearing by the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to “Examine Allegations of Political Interference with Government Climate Change Science.”...
View ArticleFact-Checking The Washington Post’s Claims About Its Role in Unearthing the...
A report by the NASA inspector general released earlier this week acknowledged that political appointees in the NASA press office censored climate scientists from 2004 to 2006. That would have been...
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Water on Mars, Part 1
Planetary geology is a fascinating area–particularly when it pertains to the search for extraterrestrial life. I wrote about it once during my brief stint as a student science writer, but it’s not an...
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Water on Mars, Part 2
Below is the second part of my interview with planetary geologist Bethany Ehlmann. In the first part, she discussed two of her recent papers on Martian geology (see citations below). In this segment,...
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