Article in Popular Science "The New Space Rush".

In Popular Science's January 2010 Issue there was an 8 page story about fifteen (15) new Aerospace companies that are planning to launch flights starting next year, 2010 through 2014. These flights will be sub orbital as well as low earth orbits. Regardless, these flights will only contribute to increasing the size of the Ozone hole and accelerate Global Warming and increase the Climatic Weather Disasters that are happening throughtout the world today. The list of Aerospace companies and planned launch years are: 1. VIRGIN GALACTIC-2010. 2. SPACEX-2010. 3. ORBITAL SCIENCE CORP.-2010. 4. SCALED COMPOSITES-2011. 5. master space systems-2011. 6. ARMADILLO AEROSPACE-2011. 7. PLANETARY SOCIETY-2010. 8. BIGELOW AEROSPACE-2014. 9. XCOR-2013. 10. BLUE ORIGIN-2012. 11. A D ASTRA ROCKET CO.-2013. 12. INTERORBITAL SYSTEMS-2010. 13. ARCA-2014. 14. DA VINCI PROJECT/THE DREAMSPACE GROUP-2012. 15. SPACE ADVENTURES-2013. By adding these fifteen (15) companies to the world's already exsisting forty six (46) Aerospace companies the grand toal will be sixty one (61) Aerospace companies that will be launching satellites and tourists daily into the stratosphere. At this rate both the Artic and Antartic wil be ice free by 2015. There will be drought, rising sea levels, famine, excessive rains, sunami's, hurricanes, typhoons, eartquakes, volcanic eruptions and the end of mankind as we know it. We MUST stop these daily launchings or it will be lead to the end of this planet as we know it.

Icebergs head from Antartica for New Zealand

The above was a headline posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 in the Washington Post Newspaper: Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting towards New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said. The current floatilla of icebergs that split off Antartic ice shelves are slowly drifting in the direction of New Zealand. The nearest one, measuring about 330 to 660 feet (100 to 200 meters) long, was about 160 miles (260 kilometers) southeast of New Zealand's Stewart Island on Tuesday, Austrailan glaciologist Neal Young said.

My comments: Is it another coincidence that these ice shelves broke off just after The Space Shuttle Atlantis launch from Cape Kennedy on November 16th, Plus a Soyuz-U rocket Russian launch from Plesetsk on November 20th, An Atlas V 431 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on November 23rd, and a Proton-M/Briz-M Enhanced rocket launched from Baikonur Site in Russia on November 24th. Four launches within eight (8) days. Four additional hole bored/burned through the ozone layer. Numerous solar flares and winds enter through these additional holes. Is it a wonder why these artic ice shelves are breaking off and drifting towards New Zealand? The oozone hole in the Antartic is now at 16.8 million square miles. When these ice shelves begin to melt and the sea levels start to rise, then maybe someone other than myself will start to fiqure out that the frequent launchings are the cause of the problem.

Britain sees record rain, biblical flooding.

The above headline and the description below was posted on msnbc.com on November 20, 2009: Two hundred were rescued in one town, two bridges collapse; Irish castle, hotel swamped winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain. British soldiers conducted house to house searches for those trapped by floods as deep as 8 feet. Two hundred people were rescued in the hardest hit town, Cockermouth were about 1,000 homes were flooded and destroyed.
My comments: Just 4 days before (November 16, 2009) the above devastating flood occurred, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Atlantis from Cape Kennedy towards a northeastern trajectory that included Britain, Geenland and Iceland. In burning and opening a new hole in the ozone layer in this area of the upper atmosphere, the solar winds and flares that entered through this hole hit the jetstream. The jetstream then drove a cold front into a hot front. Conclusion, the devastating rains and floods that hit Britain on November 20, 2009. Another coincidence? No, just NASA in a hurry to try and complete construction on the International Space Station and conduct more experiments in weightlessnes for companies in order to receive more revenue at a $1,000,000.00 an experiment, times 20-30 experiments per launch.

Space Junk may drive up cost of Future missions.

An Article in New Scientist revealed that scientists fear a "blizzard" of space debris will make future rocket launches dramatically more expensive. With the U.S. now tracking 19,000 objects in orbit around Earth, Hugh Lewis of the University of Southhampton in the U.K. predicts a 50% rise in near-misses over the next decade and a 400% jump by 2059. By that year, his statistics show, satellite operators will have to take five times as many collision-avoidance measures as they will in 2019.
Have any of these scientists calculated the percentage of possible collisions and where the debris may fall onto the Earth? True that the majority of debris would fall into the oceans. But what if it falls on an airborne aircraft, ships in the oceans or possibly land where hundreds could be killed or injured. If you calculate the 19,000 pieces of satellites (Space Junk) divided by the past 29 years of excessive launchings that averages to 655 launches per year. Divide that by 365 days in a year and that averages to a launch every 1.8 days (or every other day). The worlds 46 Space Agencies with their 51 Spaceports located around the world must stop these excessive launches not only to reduce possible collisions, but to reduce constant depletion of the ozone layer.

Two Earthquakes in different parts of the World after two launches.

The national Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colarado reported an earthquake Saturday morning, August 30, 2009 in Summerville, South Carolina. Moderate tremors were felt for about 3 to 5 seconds around 6:38 a.m. and were followed by weaker secondary tremors. The magnitude of the quake was 3.5 on the Rector scale. On Wednesday, September 2, 2009. 15 people were killed and thousands were left homeless when a 7.0 magnitude quake hit 140 miles from the capital, Jakarta, Indonesia.

The Space Shuttle Discovery was launched on Friday near midnight from Cape Canaveral, FL 6.5 hours later the earthquake struct Summerville, S.C. where there had never been an earthquake recorded. The earthquake in Indonesia was due to the launch on August 31, 2009 of a Palpa-D communication rocket fired from Indonesia, site not named, two days later the quake occurred. Must we attribute these two launchings & earthquakes to coincidenses again? I don't think so. These Space Agencies are aware of what they causing, but they don't care because the are making tons of money. Lost lives and destruction means nothing to them.

NASA's goal of "inspiration" appears too expensive to execute.

Without another $50 billion, The U.S. won't put astronauts back on the moon by 2020 -- and even 2030 could be a stretch. That is the view emerging from the presidential commission charged with setting NASA's strategy for human spaceflight, and many of the options for speeding up the timeline -- including decommissioning the International Space Station -- appear politically unpalatable. "Unless the president is willing to step up and take a bold step like President Kennedy did, the manned spaceflight program is going to go in the ditch," says Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla. This report was in the New York Times on 8/24/09.

Do we need to spend another $50 billion to visit the moon again or other planets that can not sustain life? I don't think so. Spend that money towards health care, saving medicare & social security. My thoughts are that Bill Nelson is a huge NASA enthusiast, being he was given a ride on the shuttle several years ago, he is not looking out for it's constituents.

Three Tropical Depressions form off the coast of Africa.

Three tropical depression storms have formed off the west coast of Africa since August 12, 2009. One of the depressions (Bill) is expected to form into a category 4 or 5 hurricane headed for Florida or the eastern United States. The other tw0 (2) storms are also headed in that same direction. What has happened recently that caused these three (3) storms to develop? Lets take a look at recent launchings and what launches are planned for the remainder of August.

On August 11, 2009, both Russia And China launched satellites. The Russians & Americans (International Launch Services) did not specify what type of satellite they launched from the Baikonur Spaceport in Russia. China launched an AsiaSat 5 communications satellite, from somewhere in Asia, the actual site was not disclosed. Between August 17 through August 31, 2009 there are 19 launches scheduled. That averages out to more than one launch per day. Imagine how warm and hot the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans will get with 20 more new holes made in the ozone layer. Those holes will let in solar winds and flares that will disrupt the Jet Stream. It will also bring in heat from the sun to make the oceans warmer. This will certainly escalate storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and the sunami seasons as climatic weather disasters will increase throughout the world.

Artic ice cap could melt to record low this summer.

The above headline was displayed on page 2A of the St. Petersburg Times newspaper on Monday, August 10, 2009. The article said; An area the size of Indiana vanished each day in July, scientests say. Global average temperatures rose 1 degree in the past century, but artic temperatures rose twice as much or even faster, almost certainly in good part because of man-made greenhouse gases, researchers say. In late July the mercury soared to almost 86 degrees in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, near the artic ocean. "The water was really warm," veteran observer Eddie Gruben said. "The kids were swimming in the ocean."

The state of Indiana has 260,000 square miles within it's borders. Multiply that amount by the 31 days in July and that is a grand total of 8,060,000 square miles of ice that was lost this past month. Yet scientific researchers want to blame man-made greenhouse gases. The real blame needs to be attributed to the worlds 46 Space Agencies that have totaled 91 sucessful launches from January1st through July 31st of this year. That is an average of one launch every 2.2 days. Calculate how many solar flares and winds entered through those new 91 holes that were punched and the flames from the rockets that devasted the ozone layer. That is why the artic ice caps are melting, not by the man-made greenhouse gases as the scientific researchers are claiming. I call these researchers, conspiracy resarchers, because they are covering up the real truth so that the worlds space agencies will continue to make large sums of money while devastating this planet. GREED is the name of their game!

Greenhouse Gas Pretenses. Take a look at the FACTS:

Al Gore's theory of how Greenhouse gases are depleting the ozone layer is a myth!

Recall that back in the 1950's, 60's 70's & early 80's all the world's gasoline's contained lead.
During these years cars did not have catalytic converters. There was no controls on Freon,
Aerosol chemicals and refrigerant gases. All the electrical power plants were either coal, oil or gas fired power plants. All the vehicles, chemical companies and power plants were emmiting metric tons of CFC's daily. Yet from 1956 through 1976 there was no ozone hole. By 1980 the ozone hole size was 235,000 square miles. In 2009 the ozone hole is 16.8 million square miles. Today we have 141 Nuclear power plants that emit vapor (water) not CFC's. 80 of the old coal, oil and gas fired power plants have been closed including the additional 61 new nuclear plants. There has been no lead in gasolines from 1978 through today because of the Clean Air Act law that was passed in 1996. All the vehicles manufactured since 1975 have catalytic converters automatically installed at the factories. Freon, Aerosol spray chemical compositions and Refrigerants have been changed so as not to dispense any CFC's into the Atmosphere. Why would the size of the ozone hole increase from 235,000 sq. miles in 1980 to 16.8 million sq. miles in 2009 with all the changes mentioned that have transpired in the past 29 years?

The reasonable question is what has increased from 1980 through 2009? Answer, The Space Agencies. NASA, The Russian Space Agency, The European Space Agency and the remaining 43 other world space agencies that have 51 Spaceports located throughout the world. The launches from all these agencies last year in 2008 totaled 178 launches, that averaged one launch every 2 days. This year there have been 81 sucessful launches from January 1st through July 1st. There are 211 more scheduled launches slated from July 6, through December 31, of this year. Not to mention the grand total of 291 launches that will take place this year. That averages out to one launch every 1.3 days. There is quite a difference between 6 launches in 1980 to 291 launches in 2009. That is a 4,850% increase in launches in a period of 29 years. In 1980 the average was one launch every 60.8 days. Can anyone wonder why the ozone hole coninues to grow larger every year? The problem is not Greenhouse gases, it is the World's 46 Space Agencies that continue to launch weather, communication, GPS's and spy satellites through the ozone layer almost daily.

Opinion: Time to prepare for a lunar land rush.

With China, India, Japan and the U.S. all planning to send astronauts to the moon by 2020, the lunar landscape could see something of a traffic jam, says author Michio Kaku in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. "WE could get a bottleneck on the moon, he writes, "with manned and unmanned probes from several countries whizzing around it from different directions." With the Outer Space Treaty now more than 40 years old, Kaku says now is the time to rethink limits and protocols, "before national rivalries and tensions heat up as we approach 2020."
NOTE! Notice that the Russian Space Industry was not mentioned as a country planning to send their cosmonauts to the moon. The reason was that back in 1960's when NASA said they had landed on the moon, the Russian's said they would not attempt to send their spaceship & cosmonauts to the moon for fear of the radiation destruction when crossing through the Van Allen Radiation belts. To all of the countries mentioned above that want to explore the moon. Take care of this planet that we can all live on rather than launch more spacecrafts to explore the moon (where no one can live), those launches will enlarge the Ozone hole, devastate crops, increase melanoma cases and eventually destroy this beautiful planet.

Experts warn of growing collision threat in space

Defense News article on June 10, 2009 stated "Trackers of Orbiting Junk", There are 19,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball orbiting the Earth. They travel at about 17,000 miles per hour, fast enough for a relatively small piece of junk to destroy a satellite or even the Space Shuttle. There are 300,000 pieces of debris the size of a marble or larger according to Paul Graziani, CEO of Analytical Graphics, Exton, PA. With 2,200 additional satellite launches scheduled over the next five years, Graziani says he expects to see at least 10 more major collisions in space.
Note that nothing was mentioned about one of these pieces of space junk hitting the International Space Station, there would go $10 billion down to Earth, plus the lives of the astronauts within. They also did not mention that the 2,200 launches over a period of five years (60 months) would average out to a launch every day of the year, the current launches now average one every 2.7 days. What will be the size of the Ozone hole be after that 5 year period, 22 million square miles? We are at 17 million square miles currently. Why increase Global Warming, Climatic Weather Disasters and Ozone Depletion to a faster pace? The World's Space Agencies need to realize the damage they are doing rather than the money thay will make with these 2,200 launches. STOP all these launches and SAVE this planet.

Harris Corp. wins $736 million data center contract for weather satellites.

An article in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper on 5/27/09 stated that Harris Corp. could earn as much as $ 736 million under a National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contract to build data processing systems for advanced weather satellites. The Lockheed Martin-built satellites, scheduled to launch beginning in 2015, will use advanced sensor technology to provide meteorologists with up to 20 times more weather data."NOAA's satellites are a crucial tool for weather forecasters and scientists, saving lives and property and helping us understand our changing climate," said Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. "This award will ensure NOAA remains on the cutting edge in satellite technology."

More weather satellite launchings will create additional ozone depletion as well as more space junk orbiting our planet. Edward O'Lenic, Chief, Operations Branch NOAA-NWS-Climate Prediction Center recently stated "Meteorolsists can predict the weather accurately for 1-2 days, any predictions after that would be inaccurate." With all the thousands of weather satellites currently orbiting the earth, meteorologists can not predict the weather any better today than they could 40 years ago, before all the weather satellite launchings. Why waste an additional $736 million?
The reason why is for companies like Harris Corp. and Lockheed Martin to make more money, back to the word, GREED!

Russia to charge $51 million for U.S. astronauts on Soyuz flights.

The Russian Space Agency announced last week that it would charge NASA $51 millon for every seat occupied by an American astronaut in future space flights to the International Space Station. This will take place when the Shuttle fleet is retired in 2010 and the new Constellation Orion project begins in 2015.

This announcement proves that all the Space Agencies are in it for the money and nothing else. Why are the Russians charging NASA $16 million more for an astronaut's seat than they charge for a tourist's seat? GREED! NASA should back charge the Russian Space Agency for all those cosmonauts that rode free on past Shuttle missions.

Shuttle's mission littered with danger.

ABC News stated; In repairing the Hubble Telescope, astronauts will face more space debris than they have ever encountered, leading to "very real danger" for the week-long mission. "Something the size of of a pea could put a hole in the spacecraft," a former astronaut told ABC's "Good Morning America," noting that NASA usually tracks debris measuring two inches or more. "What you really worry about are the pieces too small to track, but big enough to do damage."

In knowing all of the information stated above, why did NASA proceed with this repair to the Hubble Telescope? Are the lives and safety of the seven astronauts worth taking a gamble with? What about the possibility of a piece of small debri hitting the Shuttle once it completes the repair and not any of the astronauts are aware of the damage. What do we have to look forward to then? Another Columbia like disaster? Is the repair worth all this? The Hubble has served its purpose and then some. Do not risk the lives of astronauts or destruction of the last three space shuttles to obatin additional information about the Universe. We can not live on any other planet in this Universe except Earth.

How Space Junk Threatens Us

The above article was in the "SAFETY" report in Sunday's May 10, 2009 St. Petersburg Times Newspaper Parade section. A spate of recent extraterrestrial incidents is giving new urgency to international efforts to decrease the danger posed by space junk, the remains of rockets and derelict satellites that have been accumulating in Earth's orbit for 50 years. NASA space shuttles and the International Space Station recently survived close encounters, and a U.S. communications satellite was destroyed in February when it hit an obsolete Russian satellite. "Unfortunately, we will see more collisions," says William Ailor, director of the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at The Aerospace Corporation. "There's an awful lot of debris up there." NASA currently follows 17,000 orbiting objects and has set rules to limit the litter its missions produce. Cleaning up the exsisting waste, however, remains a "a technical and economic challenge." NASA says space junk remains a threat to "the safety of persons and property in space and on Earth." Traveling at more than 20,000 mph, even a tiny piece of debris could cause catastrophic damage to spacecraft, including satellites that relay cellular phone calls and other critical voice and data communications around the globe.

Even if NASA would set rules to limit the litter its missions produce, who will set the same rules for the other 45 Space Agencies? I believe the solution is to stop launching useless satellites into orbit. How many more weather satellites do we need in orbit? Meteorologist can't seem to predict weather conditions any better now than before all those thousands of Weather satellites were launched. How many GPS's (Global Positioning Satellites) do we need to find a location? Why not depend on our minds, thats what we used prior to GPS's. How many Spy satellites do we or other nation's need to spy on each other? Isn't that an invasion of privacy that generally leads to problems that end up as countries breaking off relations with one another and eventually leading to War? STOP these useless launchings and save this planet.

Conflicting Stories, what can you believe?

The Wall Street Journal printed a story on April 29, 2009 that read; Shuttle program could receive $2.5 Billion to keep flying through 2011. Authorization by the House and Senate will allow the shuttle fleet to continue to operate through 2011, if necessary. The shuttle is scheduled to retire in2010. However, the $2.5 billion in funding will allow it to continue to complete missions to the International Space Station if its replacement is not ready.

Reuters News Service on April 30, 2009 stated; Shuttle retirement prompts NASA to start layoffs. The upcoming retirement of the space shuttle will prompt NASA to cut 900 jobs over the next five months. NASA will send the first notices of job cuts out today to contractors Lockheed Martin and ATK Thiokal, which build te shuttle's fuel tanks. NASA plans to retire the shuttle fleet after eight more missions.

As usual, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. I can almost guarantee that NASA will push flying the shuttle until the Constellation Orion is ready. The loss of revenue for NASA would be astronomical as well as job losses. What are the consequences for safety to the three shuttle's that remain in the fleet and the twenty one astronauts that fly in them?

Constellation program at "high risk," NASA reports

The headline above and report below was posted in the Wall Street Journal on April 21, 2009.
NASA says it is $1.9 billion short of the funding it needs to achieve an initial launch of the Constellation program by September 2014. The space agency's most pessimistic report to date is seen as strengthening the hand lawmakers who want to extend the life of the space shuttle beyond its scheduled 2010 retirement.

The lawmakers that want to extend the space shuttles life beyond 2010 to save the cost of $1.9 billion of the Constellation program, have they contemplated what the cost would be if one of the three shuttles is destroyed? What would be the cost for the lives of seven astronauts? I realize that the revenue NASA would lose in those four years of not doing experiments for companies in weightlessness would be costly, But look at the alternatives. There would be no risk in possible disasters with any of the three space shuttles and it would reduce climatic weather disasters as well as the ozone hole recovering by a couple of millon miles or more.

Global warming gases harmful, EPA declares.

Title above was on page 2A of the St. Petersburg Times newspaper on Saturday, April 18, 2009. The agency's move clears the way for madatory cutbacks on greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and five other emissions that scientest believe are warming the planet when they concentrate in the atmosphere: Methane (CH4), Nitrous oxide (N2O), Hydrofluorocarbons (HFC's), Perfluorocarbons (PFC's), and Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). These findings confirm that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations the report noted.

Greenhouse gas releases contribute to about ten percent (10%) of the global warming problem. The other ninety percent (90%) has to be attributed to the world's forty six (46) Space Agencies. They are the culprits that are continously depleting the ozone layer, emitting over 10,000 degrees F of heat/flames at every satellite launch. Not to mention the 70 tons of clorine that these satellite launchings release at every launch that now average every 2.7 days. Curtailing the release of just greenhouse gases will not stop global warming. Reduce or stop the numerous launches, THAT WLL slow and stop global warming.

Earthquake in Italy & Rocket launch in North Korea!

A devastating 6.3 earthquake that hit on April 6th in L'Aquila, Italy killing 235 people, injuring 1,255 and leaving between 17,000 and 25,000 others homeless. There are still many missing people that are unaccounted for. The region continues to receive violent aftershocks 42 hours after the main quake hit. The last earthquake (5.2) in this region occurred over four decades ago.
North Korea launched a satellite on Sunday, April 5, 2009. There have been many debates if the launch was sucessful or not. two thinngs are for sure; first, the thunderous force of over 5,000,000 lbs. of thrust emmited from launching the rocket generated vibrations that caused breaking and shifting of rocks along thousands of miles of fault lines. The location of the North Korean launch was located near the 38th parallel, go east a few thousand miles at that same parallel level and where are you? L'Aquila, Italy. Earthquakes are sometimes caused by shaking or trembling of the crust of the earth, generally caused by underground volcanic forces or by breaking and shifting of rock beneath the surface. Second, whether or not the staellite reached orbit, the rocket went high enough (45 miles) in the stratosphere that it poked another hole in our ozone layer. That means we received a double dose, a devastating earthquake and climatic weather disaster patterns throughout the world.

U.S. space industry not yet seeing economic slowdown.

An aricle in REUTERS said that the U.S. economy is in recession, but the satellite industry's prospects are still flying high -- at least for now, military officials and industry executives said on Tuesday. Space industry revenues were up $6 billion up to $257 billion in 2008, up from $187 billion three years ago. "Space activity has intergrated itself so throughly into broader business activity, with an array of services vital to communication,travel, broadcast and other industries, that the space industry is now part of the mainstream economy," the report found.


Wonderful news for the space industry. Disastrous news for weather patterns around the world. Compare the $257 billion profits made by the space industry in 2008 to the $557 billion in losses from the weather disasters that occurred throughout the world due to excessive space launchings This does not include the loss 220,000 of lives due to these weather disasters in 2008. What cost do we put on lives? What is more important and necessary, being greedy and making tons of money launching additional satellites, (now 0ver 18,000), or reduce launches, save lives, lessen property damages and costs, reduce ozone depleation and stop global warming?

Fargo N.D. Floods & Alaska Volacano eruptions.

The current news in the newspaper, radio and television has mentioned that the Red River would crest to a record 43 feet. Thousands of people are forced to flee their homes. The Volcano in Alaska that started erupting last week and continues to spew lava and ash today. Could these climatic weather disasters have been impacted by the ten rocket launches carrying 24 payloads from March 7th through March 26th 2009? The follwing ten rockets were launched in the following order; Delta II and Kepler from Cape Canaveral (3/7/09), Space Shuttle Discovery from Kennedy AFB (3/15/09), Rokot/Briz-KM from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia (3/17/09), THAAD from USS Tripoli near Barking Sands Missle Center in Hawaii (3/18/09), Two THAAD missiles from Barking Sands Missile Center in Hawaii (3/18/09), Black Brant XII from Poker Flats Missle Base in Alaska (3/20/09), Delta II from Cape Canaveral (3/24/09), Soyuz FG from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia (3/26/09). Ten additional holes that penetrated through the ozone layer allowed solar winds and flares to enter through these holes into our atmosphere and cause violent turbulance into the jet stream. These conditions worsen as a cold front hits a hot front, end result; snow, rain, wind and tornadoes.

Third of nation's bird species are threatened, study says.

Article from Nation & World printed on Friday, March 20, 2009 on page 5A in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper. Work is urgently needed to prevent "a global tragedy" of bird loss. Habitat destruction, pollution and other problems have left nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species endangered, threatened or in serious decline, according to a study issued Thursday. Described as the most comprehensive survey of American bird life, the report analyzed changes in the bird population over the last 40 years. "This report should be a call to action." Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a news conference in Washington.

There was a brief article that said, "Climate change will make things worse, and work is urgently needed to prevent "a global tragedy" of bird loss, the report added. Climate change over the past 40 years has made things worse. Ozone depletion is currently at 16.5 million square miles and continues to grow. We will lose the bird population, polar bears, low land gorillas and many other animals if NASA and the other 45 Space Agencies don't stop their frequent launchings that average every 2.7 days. They are the real culprits to blame for Climate change, not aerosol sprays or refigeration products.

Five-inch debris chunk causes space station evacuation.

Three astronauts from the International Space Station spent 10 minutes Thursday hunkered down inside a Russian Soyuz space capsule as a five-inch piece of space junk hurtled perilously close to the station. Traveling at an estimated 20,000 miles per hour, the piece of debris could have caused a fatal loss of pressure had it hit the space station. One NASA official said it was the closest call he could remember in more than 15 years of tracking debris. This article appeared in The Baltimore Sun Newspaper.
Is it just now dawning on NASA that with more than 18,000 pieces of space junk orbiting this planet that one of these objects could collide with the space station? With that amount of space junk in orbit from launches over the past 29 years is why Ozone Depletion is at a record high 16.5 million square miles, Global Warming continues to grow and Climatic Weather Disasters continue to escalate. NASA, The Russian Space Agency, The European Space Agency and the other 43 countries Space Agencies that are averaging a launch every 2.7 days MUST STOP launching useless satellites into orbit. When will it stop? When debris hits the space station, possibly destroying it or killing astronauts, or the debris falling to earth and killing innocent humans? Satellites and space explorations are not worth the destruction of this planet and its inhabitants.

GAO report blasts NASA spending.

This week auditors found that on nine projects alone NASA is nearly $1.1 billion over-cost estimates that were set in the last two years. Still, the new stimulas package gives NASA $1 billion for climate-watching satellites and exploration, among other things. In a statement, NASA said its missions "are one-of-a-kind and complex, which always makes estimating challenging. ... We do believe NASA is a good investment of federal funds and strive to provide the best value."
A second GAO report used NASA as one of its leading poster children for bad practices in estimating costs. The space agency has a budget of about $18 billion, needs "a more disciplined approach" to its projects, the GAO (Government Accounting Office) said.

The auditors did not mention the total cost and cost increases of these nine projects. That grand
total is $7,815,200,000.00. Plus the complete loss due to equipment failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on February 24, 2009, this satellitte was launched to study global warming. The loss of this satellite was $311 million. The next project Glory, slated to track global warming is scheduled to launch in June, 2009. Do not be surprised if this mission also fails to either equipment failure or technology problems on the satellite. All the projects and missions that have been scheduled by NASA to track global warming in the past ten years have not succeeded. The reason is that they will expose themselves and the other forty five space agencies as the real culprits that are causing global warming, climatic weather disasters and ozone depletion. The auditors claimed that NASA was a good investment (over $7.8 billion dollars). This same investment could have saved both Social Security and Medicare programs.

Kepler set to begin search for Earth-like planets.

This was an article printed in the New York Times newspaper on March 2, 2009. NASA is prepared to begin its first "planetary census" Friday evening with the launch of the Kepler space telescope. Armed with a 95-million-pixel digital camera, Kepler will spend three and half years staring at the same area in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations, monitoring some 100,000 stars for blips that would indicate the transit of a planet crossing in front of a star. Th goal: to determine whether Earth-like planets at a proper distance from the sun are common or rare -- a first step in seeking out other life in the universe.

Once again, notice that the cost of this endeavor was not mentioned. The cost was $467 million. Also not mentioned is that the closest constellation Cygnus, is 149 light-years away from Earth.
The most distant space probe, Voyger 1, was about 14 light-hours away from Earth as of March 9, 2007. It took that space probe 30 years to cover that distance. Should Kepler find the right combinations for a star and a planet location for life in that constellation, it would only take 927 earth years to get there. Good Luck.

Antarctic is melting faster than thought.

This article appeared on page 14A (back page) of the St. Petersburg Times on Thursday, February 26, 2009. GENEVA - Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area then previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists said Wednesday. Researchers once believed that the melting was limited to the Antarctic Peninsula, a narrow tongue of land pointing toward South America. But satellite data and automated weather stations indicate it is more widespread. By the end of the century, the accelerated melting could cause sea levels to climb by 3 to 5 feet-levels substantially higher than predicted just two years ago.

When my manuscript "The Aerospace Assault on Planet Earth" was written in 1998-2007, I predicted at the end of Chapter 1 that sea levels could rise 3-5 feet worldwide and submerge cities along all coastlines throughout the world. Scientists predict this will happen by the end of the century. If NASA and the other 45 countries continue launching satellites at an average of every 2.7 days, I predict that the 3-5 feet sea level rise will occur by 2030, not 2099 as predicted by the scientists of 60 countries.

Failure hits NASA's 'CO2 Hunter'

Nasa's first dedicated mission to measure carbon dioxide from space has failed following a rocket malfunction. Officials said the fairing - the part of the rocket which covers the satellite on top of the launcher - did not seperate properly. Data indicates that the spacecraft crashed into the ocean near Antartica. The $270 million mission was launched on a Taurus XL - the smallest ground-launched rocket currently in use by the U.S. space agency. This mission was billed as "NASA's global warming satellite"
Since its debut in 1994, the Taurus II rocket has been flown eight times, with six successes and two failures including this launch. Thats a 75% successful rating. This was the first time NASA has used the Taurus XL. Why didn't NASA use a more reliable rocket for this launch? These are a few of the rockets that could have been used ; LIDOS, Atlas V411 or Atlas V421, Delta II, AMC-14, LGM-30G minuteman III, Pegasus XL. These rockets all have a 100% orbital success rate. Could it be that they did not want to reveal the reasons for carbon dioxide and the true reason for global warming? Why did it take NASA nine years to launch this spacecraft?

NASA spacecraft to seek out Earth-like planets.

A U.S. spacecraft toting the biggest camera ever will be launched next month to scour our region of the Milky Way galaxy for warm, rocky planets like Earth that may host life, NASA said on Thursday. The Kepler spacecraft is scheduled to spend 3-1/2 years looking at more than 100,000 stars similar to our sun, seeking evidence of planets similar in size and composition to Earth. The Kepler launch is scheduled aboard a Delta II rocket on March 5, 2008 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Well, here goes another launch! Another hole in the ozone layer and another few million dollars spent to find out if there is life on another planet. If so, it certainly won't be in the Milky Way galaxy, thats already been proven. If they do find similar circumstances between planets and near by suns in other far away galaxies, how many light years will it take to get there? Let's take care of this planet by not creating additional holes in our ozone layer.

Two orbiting satellites collide.

Two communications satellites have collided in the first reported crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, NASA reported on Wednesday. The collision occurred Tuesday nearly 500 miles over Siberia. The crash produced a pair of massive debris clouds, and the magnitude of the situation won't be known for weeks at least, said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries. Each satellite weighed well over 1,000 pounds.

With over 18,000 pieces of space junk (satellites) orbiting over this planet and with no control of their orbits, how can we be assured that there will not be additional collisions in the future? With the world's 47 space agencies now averaging launches every 2.7 days that forecast only means that there will be more collisions more often and debri raining down on humans. What will it take to stop these launches? I have the answer in by book. NASA and the remaining space agencies need to at least map out strategic courses for each satellites orbit in order to avoid the collision that just occurred.

Wild Winds emerge from no where?

Wild winds with gusts topping 97 mph blew from the great Lakes to the east coast on Thursday, knocking out power, disrupting travel and killing at least five people. The high winds, attributed to a strong low pressure system that was caused by a massive cold front hitting a warm front. In New York City there were wind gusts as high as 65 mph, disrupting morning commutes and delaying flights for two hours at both Newark Liberty International and LaGuardia Airports.

Wild winds with gusts of 65-97 mph, these winds were higher than a category 1 hurricane. This happens when multiple launches emerge from different spacports throughout the planet. On February 10th a Soyuz-U rocket with a logistics satellite was launched from the Baikonur
Cosomodrome in Russia. On February 11th another Russian rocket was launched with two Communication payload satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On February 12th Eutelsat (a French based satellite provider)and SES New Skies (a Dutch based satellite provider)
launched two Communication and Technology satellites each from the Kourou Space Port in French Guiana, South America. These three launches within 2 days, two from northern Russia and one from South America cut new holes into the ozone layer. That caused solar winds to enter and violently disturb the jet stream that surged the cold front from the north (Russia) to meet the warm front from the south (South America) and the effects are the wild winds that emerged in the northeastern parts of the U.S.

Wild Winds and Satellites colliding.

130 Killed in deadliest-ever Austrailian Wildfires.

Entire towns have been seared off the map by wildfires raging through southeastern Austrailia, burning people in their homes and cars and raising the death toll to 130 on Monday in the deadlieast blaze in the country's history. Searing temperatures and wind blasts created a firestorm that swept across a swath of the country's Victoria state, where at least 700 homes were destroyed and all of the victims died. more victims are expected to be found. The skies rained ash and trees exploded in the inferno, witnesses said, as temperatures of 117 degrees F (47 C) combined with blasting winds that created furnance-like conditions.

Question, could it be a another coincidence or facts that this heat, fire and blasting winds are related to two recent launchings from that part of the world? On Monday, February 2nd, Iran launched their first ever, Technology satellite from the Caspian Sea area. On Friday, February 6th NASA launched a Delta II 7320-10C with 2 payloads from Vandenberg AFB in California. In Chapter 1 of my book I explained how the ultraviolet rays with a 10-12 range combined with
temperatures that rise to 100 degrees will ignite dry leaves. Ultraviolet rays with a 10 to 12 range that beam down on on dry leaves will spark a flame and ignite a forest. The 117 degrees F temperatures would create ultraviolet rays from a range of 12-14. This range is more than substantial to ignite fires.

NASA looks to Sente for stimulus money.

As the Senate takes up debate on a massive economic stimulus bill, NASA supporters are hoping space explorations won't get lost in the crush of infrastructure projects and tax cuts. NASA got only a $50 million boost in the House bill approved last week, while agency officials were looking for $2 billion to speed the Constellation program and repair infrastructure damage from Hurricane Ike. This article was posted in the Austin American-Statesman (Texas).

NASA is looking for an additional $2 billion for space explorations. When is NASA going to realize that life can not exsist on any planet in our Milky Way galaxy other than here on earth? I predicted earlier this week on my Blog that NASA would try to receive money from President Barrack Obama's stimulus plan. That $2 billion should be given to some of the families that lost their homes in this collapsed economy. The $50 million they received from the house should be more than sufficient. NASA should increase their outer space experiments that they conduct for companies from $1 million to $2 million. Good luck, especially in this economy

Iran launches it's first satellite into orbit.

Iran conducted its first sucessful orbital launch on February 2, 2009. The United States of America as well as the rest of the world is concerned about Iran having the knowledge to launch missiles with warheads at other countries. These were the headlines in many of the newspapers around the world this morning.

Note, that nothing was mentioned that Iran is now being added to the other 46 countries that are launching satellites through the already depleated ozone layer (16.2 million square miles). Not to mention the fact that South Korea intends to launch their first satellite later this year. This will total 48 countries launching satellites around the world. What do we have to look forward to, the ozone being depleated at a much faster rate together with more climatic weather disasters occurring throughout the world?

Florida's space agency comes under fire.

Florida's auditors are urging Florida lawmakers to freeze funding for Space Florida until the agency has a clear mission and master plan. After completing one quater of its economic development agenda since 2006, Space Florida's "efforts to promote Florida's space industry are hindered by its failure to develop a comprehensive master plan, "according to the Legisture's office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability." Lawmakers appropriated $14.5 million to rebuild Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but no commercial companies have yet signed on to use the facility, according to an article printed in the Orlando Sentinel in Florida.

This is another example of NASA recieving monies ahead of time on promises it can not keep. Why didn't NASA research the plans of the proposed commercial companies and evaluate the length of time it would take before the rebuilt launch pad could be utilized. Another example of NASA recieving money and not having accountability for it. Next they will want more money from Obama's Stimulas plan.

Global warming 'irreversible' for next 1000 years: study

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Climate change is "largely irreversible" for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted, according to a new study led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The study's authors said there was "no going back" after the report showed that changes in surface temperature, rainfall and sea level are "largely irreversible for more than 1,000 years after CO2 emissions are completely stopped". NOAA senior scientist Susan Solomon said the study, published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, showed that current human choices on carbon dioxide emissions are set to "irreversibly change the planet."

NOTE! That this article only mentions that the accumulation of (CO2's) greenhouse gases over 1,000 years is irreversible and will not stop global warming. As I have stated in my book on numerous occasions, the reason for global warming is not CO2 emissions but space launches that are now averaging every 2.7 days from the world's 46 Space Agencies. These frequent launchings have opened the ozone hole to a current 16.2 million square miles. This large hole enables large solar flares and winds to enter without any resistance and play havoc on the world's jet stream. This is what causes cold fronts to encounter warm fronts and develop into climatic weather disasters being experienced throughout the world. Reduce/Stop the launches for a period of one year and watch the ozone hole close and global warming can be slowed down considerably.

ABC NEWS: Biodiesel rocket fuel offers advantages

California-based Flometrics said commercial biodiesel fuel delivered nearly the same amount of thrust as conventional RP-1 fuel in test involving a RocketDyne LR-101 engine. The results are promising because biodiesel fuel is denser and less flammable than kerosene, but questions still remain whether it would have a positive impact on greenhouse gases.

Note! Nothing is mentioned or compared about the temperature of heat that the biodiesel would produce versus the temperatures from each of the two current rocket boosters that are 6,400 degrees F. , 12,800 degrees F total. That temperature is what the current liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuels emit on every launch. The 50 foot wide by 100 feet long flames from the two booster rockets on the shuttle are the reason why the ozone layer is being demolished.
Reduce the amount of launchings from NASA and the other 45 Space Agencies and that would surely have a positive effect on greenhouse gases being reduced significantly.

Opinion: Time for NASA to focus on environment.

With 21 satellites observing the Earth and the world's largest civilian supercomputer, scientists say NASA could be a major player in the fight to control climate change. Writing in Scientific American, two of those scientists outline nine steps NASA could take, including partnering with "green tech" companies; launching inexpensive spacecraft to monitor Earth's climate; and spearheading efforts to make civil avation carbon-neutral.

Do these scientists actually believe NASA is going to monitor the Earth's climate when NASA and 45 other space agencies are the culprits that are responsible for climate change, ozone depletion and global warming? I don't think so. Also mentioned today in the St Petersburg Times newspaper an article on page 4A read: "Study: Bottom of globe warming too". Ozone depletion is at a record size of 16 million square miles. Does anyone believe NASA is going to conduct a study to expose themselves and the other space agencies to their destructive measures? Also why did NASA remove the past monthly launches from their website, 2009 in spaceflight-Wikipedia the free encyclopedia? Is it probable that my book contained the references between launch dates,
locations and climatic weather disasters? I personally think that was the reason the past monthly launch dates were removed, so no one could track them and correlate any current or past weather disasters!

For Future Manned space flights, every option has pros, con.

Current plans to replace the space shuttle with Ares 1 rocket provide both safety and flexibility, though it would leave U. S. astronauts dependent on Russian rockets for five years, according to an analysis by Todd Halvorson, a 20-year veteran space journalist. Halvorson also examines the pros and cons of three other options, including extending the shuttle mission to 2015 and using military rockets to launch astronauts into space. This article came from Florida Today (Melbourne)

Hopefully NASA will put the safety of the astronauts first as well as emergency evacuation plans, if they should decide to extend the shuttles missions another six years or decide to use other military rockets to launch astronats into space. Did NASA not learn anything from the Challenger and Columbia tragedies?

NASA puts price tag on extending shuttle's life.

An Associated Press article stated that if the incoming administration wants to keep the shuttle flying beyond 2010, the price tag will be about $3 billion a year, NASA Administator Michael Griffin said Thursday. Scheduling 10 additional missions, as some have suggested, would come with another cost as well: "We would have a one-in-eight chance of losing the crew in one of the 10 flights," Griffin said.
The 5 year total cost would be $15 billion along with the risk of losing another shuttle as well as the 7 astronauts. Michael Griffin is the same NASA Administrator that submitted his resignation that becomes effective next Friday, January 16. How can this individual even contemplate extending the life of the 3 shuttles as well as the safety of the astronauts when he has no clue as to the circumstances that will be involved when he departs? As usual NASA and everyone involved with their future space flights need to be retrained. Hopefully president-elect Barack Obama seems to be leaning toward selecting Charles Kennel as the new NASA chief. Kennel is a distinguished scientest. I believe we also need a distinguished aerospace engineer to work along side Michael Kennel in order to provide safety measures to the crew and its craft.

Top 10 space stories to watch for in 2009.

With president-elect Barack Obama poised to take the oath of office in just two weeks, the future of NASA's human spaceflight program will soon take shape. Obama has pledged to reduce the five-year gap between the retirement of the current shuttle program and the first launch of the shuttle's replacement. "The exact course the new president charts will be the biggest space news story in 2009," says Florida Today (Newspaper in Melbourne, FL), which goes on to list nine more stories to watch in the upcoming year.
Let us hope that that the new President-elect will investigate all areas and aspects of NASA's programs. Number one should be the safety of the astronauts and the spacecrafts that they pilot. Number two should be a new fuel that will not emit the emence heat and flames that continue to destroy the ozone layer. Number three should be a consolidation of all forty six space programs throughout the world to mandate an order to reduce the number of space flights. Number four should be that the forty six countries deplore more satellites on fewer launches so as not to enlarge the areas of depleated ozone already damaged and possibly subside the current size of the ozone layer.