Tag Archives: space

Space, our future, and other issues of liberty

Posted on June 12, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

New Atlas recently discussed a Brit company (Sunbird) that plans to deploy a fusion engine for spacecraft within one to two years. Now, we’ve heard this all before. Nowadays from New Atlas, but for a century we’ve seen this kind … Continue reading →

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NASA continues to demonstrate government incompetence

Posted on June 3, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Apparently the entire Artemis lunar exploration and colonization program run by and done by NASA (with billions of your taxpayer dollars and hundreds of contractors, subcontractors, and other parasites) is again failing. Some green-propaganda-provider tells us that an “engine failure” … Continue reading →

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Government stupidity on display in near-earth orbit

Posted on July 8, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

It’s been up there for 24 years now. Hanging over our heads. We present the International Space Station. It looks huge, right? As manmade things in space, maybe it is. But it is actually tiny: about the size of a … Continue reading →

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Space – how costly can government make it?

Posted on March 18, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

People may get tired of libertarians preaching about government. we point out that government is not only corrupt, by its very nature tyrannical, a rebellion against God (and nature’s laws), and bad for most people. We also explain how government … Continue reading →

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Primitive – and why? America in space

Posted on May 11, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

The recent business concerning the reentry of the Chinese Long March 5B booster over the weekend (no deaths, no known damage) triggers some further thoughts about space. (Especially since I failed to comment on the 60th Anniversary of Gagarin’s magnificent … Continue reading →

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The bizarre Chinese rocket mystery

Posted on May 10, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

Chicken Little is famous for racing around screaming “We’re all gonna die,” because “The sky is falling.” Because a leaf fell on her. She has nothing on modern media outlets, writers and the twittersphere.

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Space – the dream still exists

Posted on June 8, 2020 by TPOL Nathan

21 July 2011 – STS-135. The last American Space Shuttle mission. 30 May 2020 – The first manned flight of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. About a month and a half short of nine years. NINE years. It is time to … Continue reading →

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United States Space Force – a positive vote by L. Neil

Posted on November 11, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

I am sure that I (as well as Neil) will be taken to task by more than a few people for linking to his recent article at the Libertarian Enterprise on The United States Space Force. In part, this will … Continue reading →

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Crumbling government

Posted on February 27, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Space.com recently reported that NASA has approved SpaceX sending a Dragon passenger-carrying spacecraft (capsule, really) with a dummy on a test flight to the International Space Station, scheduled for 2 March – just a few days from … Continue reading →

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The state and armed forces – in space

Posted on August 18, 2018 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton War in space? Military in space? We who have been associated with The Price of Freedom, like many lovers of liberty, have always been interested in the exploring and settling space. As have Americans and Brits (Aussies, … Continue reading →

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