The final flight of the space-shuttle program, in progress as this is written, has prompted a number of retrospectives on the program’s costs and benefits. Saturday’s Wall Street Journal reported that the price tag on the US space-shuttle program has been difficult to pin down. One NASA estimate — on the low end, because it does not account for
In response to my recent article, “Was the Space Shuttle Worth It,” I received an interesting e-mail from George S. Giles , who’s written several times for LewRockwell.com, including this on NASA aspirations toward Mars. With his permission, I’m posting parts of it here, edited somewhat for clarity and length. I worked on the Space Transportation
A CNN story reports that a low-salt diet can increase the risk of a fatal heart attack . The study they reference was in the May 4 issue of the mainstream Journal of the American Medical Association . In fact, says Jan A. Staessen, M.D., the senior author of the study and the head of the hypertension laboratory at the University of Leuven, in
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