RUSSIA SPACE PROGRAM - Pres. Putin held a meeting on developing the space sector.

Future-oriented development programmes were the main focus of attention at the meeting. Other subjects of discussion included the situation with work at the Vostochny Space Launch Centre.
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International Flag Of The Planet Earth May Be Used During Space Travel

Since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the iconic visual of the American flag they left behind marked NASA’s success in going where no man had gone before, marking their arrival for future visitors to see. 

Since then, all space suits worn by Americans have been adorned with the American flag. However, NASA has been supporting a design that may replace the American flag during space travel. 

The new flag, called the International Flag of the Planet Earth, is expected to represent Earth as a whole, rather than segment only the United States. Read More

Plan To Make Cheap Spacecraft

The CubeSat, a spacecraft that is just 10cm by 10cm, has been enthusiastically adopted by citizen scientists, students, and budget-strapped researchers over the past few years. Even a high-end CubeSat with a sophisticated suite of sensors and communications gear usually costs just a few thousand dollars, and they can fly with everything from cameras to biology experiments. Read More

Space Launch System gets funding from House Appropriations Committee

The House Appropriations Committee has passed a NASA budget for 2016 that tells the space agency Congress is serious about the big new rocket being developed in Alabama, wants it used more, and is ready to spend more money to build it. Read More

Asteroid 9340

77 Fighter Pilots Awarded Gold Medal by Congress

“We were destroying locomotives and freight cars that were supplying the Japanese army as it fought its way southward toward the bridge that crossed the Yellow River,” Arasmith said. “Capt. Field, who was leading our high cover, intoned in his unflappable voice, ‘Zeros, boys.’ ” Sure enough, there were four enemy planes. “The Japanese pilot ahead of me got out of his cockpit onto the wing of his plane to parachute,” Arasmith said. “My flight leader said, ‘Kill him.’ So I killed him.” He said it was the pilots’ job to destroy the enemy’s ability to make war. “This is my ‘life changing’ experience and I remember it again and again even after 71 years.” “You do what you have to do,” McPherson said. “You find out you have more determination and strength than you thought you had. I think all servicemen find that out.” And McPherson doesn’t want anyone thinking war is fun. “It was quite an experience, although I don’t think I’d want to do it again.”Read More 

Men From Mars Movies: Casino Royale, 1967

Men From Mars Movies: The Devil's Brigade, 1968

Men From Mars Movies: Damien: Omen II, 1978

Men From Mars at Movies: Toward The Unknown, 1956

BUT IT TODAY

Men From Mars at Movies: The Turning Point (1952)

Men From Mars at Movies: Satan Never Sleeps

Men From Mars at Movies: Open Season, 1974

BORN YESTERDAY, 1950

Billie (Judy Holliday), reporter Verrall (William Holden) Born Yesterday, 1950.

Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes

What happens when the political ideas and constitutional interpretations of one generation are replaced by those of another? This process has occurred throughout American history down to the present day as "we the people" change our minds about how we govern ourselves. 

Depicting a monumental clash of generations, Gerard Magliocca reminds us once again how our Constitution remains a living document. Magliocca reinterprets the legal landmarks of the Jacksonian era to demonstrate how the meaning of the Constitution evolves in a cyclical and predictable fashion. He highlights the ideological battles fought by Jacksonian Democrats against Federalists and Republicans over states' rights, presidential authority, the scope of federal power, and other issues. By doing so he shows how presidential politics, Supreme Court decisions, and congressional maneuverings interweave, creating a recurrent pattern of constitutional change. Magliocca builds on the view that major changes in American political and constitutional development occur generationally—in roughly thirty-year intervals—and move from dominant regime to the emergence of a counter-regime. 

Focusing on a period largely neglected in studies of such change, he offers a lucid introduction to the political and legal history of the antebellum era while tracing Jackson's remarkable consolidation of power in the executive branch. 

 The Jacksonian movement grew out of discontent over the growth of federal power and the protection given Native Americans at the expense of frontier whites, and Magliocca considers such issues to support his argument. 

 He examines Jackson's defeat of the Bank of the United States, shows how his clash with the Marshall Court over the Cherokee "problem" in Worcester v. Georgia sparked the revival of abolitionist culture and foreshadowed the Fourteenth Amendment, and also offers a new look at Dred Scott, M'Culloch v. Maryland, judicial review, and presidential vetoes. 

His analysis shows how the interaction of reformers and conservatives drives change and how rough-and-tumble politics shapes our Republic more than the creativity of judicial decisions.

 Offering intriguing parallels between Jackson and George W. Bush regarding the scope of executive power, Magliocca has produced a rich synthesis of history, political science, and law that revives our understanding of an entire era and its controversies, while providing a model of constitutional law applicable to any period.

"Network" - 1976

"The 7th Dawn" -United Artists 1964

"The Wild Bunch", Warner Bros./ Seven Arts - 1969