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A Chinese rocket is falling to Earth, but we don’t know where it will land The probability of some parts of the booster going to populated lands is relatively low, making it much more likely to land somewhere in the ocean. But that probability is not zero. For example: The CZ-5B booster was launched on May 5, 2020 for a mission last year. The same problem arose even then: the core booster ended up in an uncontrolled orbit before re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Trash It landed in the villages of Côte d’Ivoire. It was enough to make a notable rebuke to the then NASA administrator, Ji...

The U.S. Defense Budget is Too Damn High | Opinion On 5/7/21 at 12:32 PM EDT On April 9, the Biden administration submitted its first "skinny budget" request to Congress. The 41-page document set forth a grand total of $1.521 trillion in discretionary spending. Defense-related items composed roughly half of the overall request, clocking it at $753 billion—a 1.7 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. If that figure sounds high, it's because it is: The United States devotes an extremely large amount of taxpayer dollars to the U.S. military. William Hartung, the direc...

Vaccine Nationalism: What Is It and How Is It Playing Out During COVID-19? Jacqui Germain s 2021 . In many parts of the United States, the newly vaccinated are making summer vacation plans and reuniting with loved ones. According to the most recent data, 32.1% of Americans are fully vaccinated and 45% have received at least one dose. But a very different story is playing out elsewhere in the world, where COVID-19 variants are raging and dozens of countries are still reporting vaccination rates in the single digits. On Wednesday, after months of mounting pressure, President Bid...

Friday, April 30, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am Africa’s growing space program presents new political, economic, and security opportunities and challenges for the United States. The technology transfer process, access to technologies and data, and support for systems development have the potential to increase U.S. political influence vis-à-vis U.S. adversaries; bolster two-way trade and investment; and deepen national security ties between the United States and African partners. Africa’s space industry is projected to grow from $7 billion to over $10 billion in the next five years—present...

ACLU turns to Supreme Court for access to FISA court rulings Jerry Dunleavy © Provided by Washington Examiner The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Supreme Court to provide access to the rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, arguing there is a First Amendment right to access the classified decisions on the legality of obtaining wiretaps and other surveillance against Americans allegedly tied to foreign intelligence threats. The secretive FISA court, first established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, has almost never releas...