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THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface. This flyby used a gravity assist from Mars to provide a critical boost in speed and to adjust the spacecraft’s orbital plane without using any onboard propellant, sending it on its way toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche.

The spacecraft is now headed directly toward the asteroid, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After the Mars flyby, the flight team analyzed radio signals between the spacecraft and NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), the agency’s global system for communicating with interplanetary spacecraft, to confirm that Psyche was on the correct trajectory.

“Although we were confident in our calculations and flight plan, monitoring the DSN’s Doppler signal in real time during the flyby was still exciting,” said Don Han, Psyche’s navigation lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “We’ve confirmed that Mars gave the spacecraft a 1,000 mile‑per‑hour boost and shifted its orbital plane by about 1 degree relative to the Sun. We are now on course for arrival at the asteroid Psyche in summer 2029.”

It’s almost impossible to overstate how important/exciting this mission is.

TEDIOUS REPETITION:

Massie votes against border control and funding ICE. People in his district overwhelming supported those things and booted his ass out. And now all the groypers are shouting TEH JOOOOZ. Ye gods, find a new schtick. We get it: You hate Jews. No need to keep beating that…

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) May 20, 2026

EVEN IF PRATT LOSES, THAT HE AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE WILLING TO SPEAK THESE BLUNT TRUTHS IS A HUGE BLOW TO THE DEMOCRATS, WHO HAVE SPENT A LOT OF EFFORT TO SUPPRESS BLUNT TRUTHS:

“I’m not MAGA or anything but the city’s kinda gone to shit, right?”

Another banger from @dsonoiki for @spencerpratt pic.twitter.com/O6bnzlkrPn

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 20, 2026

SPOILER: IT DID LESS THAN NOT HELP.

We've already run this experiment. In 2000, NYC spent about $10k per student on education. That's about $20k per student in 2026 dollars.

This year NYC will spend over $40k per student on education.

So we've already doubled spending on education. Did it help?

Bezos is right. https://t.co/qWQjAABkVY

— Harry Heymann 🥑 (@harryh) May 20, 2026

LET’S HOPE: Covid Dissenter Alex Berenson’s Free Speech Victory Might Be The First Of Many.

FINGERS CROSSED: Why This Veteran Political Journalist Thinks Spencer Pratt Could Win in Los Angeles.

AND SHE’S RUNNING FOR THE HOUSE AS A ‘MODERATE’:   Sex therapist Dem candidate blasted over vile call to convert ICE facilities into camps for ‘American Zionists’ with castration center.

SAME PLAYBOOK, SAME PLAYS:

Israel is the new Russia

Netanyahu is the new Putin

The Epstein Files is the new Steele Dossier

Once you see that the "foreign influence" psyop is a recycled play from Trump's first term, you can't unsee it.

Don't fall victim to such an obvious disinformation campaign.

— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) May 20, 2026

TEMU OBAMA IS JONESING FOR A CIVIL WAR:  Hakeem Jeffries Urges Democrats to ‘Break’ MAGA’s Spirit.

THEY’RE ALL RIDICULOUS:  IPCC Retires Its Most Implausible Global Warming Scenarios.

WHO KNEW THE “FOUR YORKSHIREMEN’ SKETCH WAS POLITICAL COMMENTARY ON LABOUR?  The ‘working class’ mantle worn by every leftie leader bent on betraying their country.

WHO KNEW A LGBTQ+ RIGHTS GROUP (STONEWALL) COULD BULLY?  Ex-BBC news executive breaks ranks and says BBC was steamrollered by Stonewall.

I HAVE NOTICED:  “Gilded Age” Robber Barons didn’t have access to what even working-class Americans have now.

HOLLY CHISM IS ALSO IN THE BASED BOOK SALE:  Light Up the Night is 99c.

WHAT HE SAID:  If this is ‘inclusivity,’ I don’t want it.

YEP:  When they tell on themselves.

AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS IS HAVING: A sale.

NOW THEY’RE TRYING TO TAKE THE WORD ‘MERITOCRACY’. MERIT, PEOPLE, INDIVIDUAL MERIT:  You Keep Using That Word. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.

THE CREEPING STALINIZATION OF THE UK:  Freeborn No More?  The Crime and Policing Bill and the Slow Death of English Liberty.

OKAY…  QotD: Software developers as wizards.

I’VE SPOTTED THAT TOO: I’ve been lurking in anti-AI, anti-data center activist facebook groups just to understand what their arguments are.

X-cancel.

WELL, IF THEY WANT THEIR DIETARY RULES FOLLOWED THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE COME TO A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T WANT THEM, RIGHT?  NEWS: It has been reported that an Airliner contracted to deport illegal migrants from Ireland to Pakistan has been feeding Muslim passengers Pork Sausages as an in flight meal.

X-cancel.

TRUE REFUGEES:  Trump administration plans to admit more white South Africans as refugees this year.

THE SUMMER BASED BOOK-SALE IS ONE:  The Summer 2026 Based Book Sale. Runs Now Through Tuesday May 26, 2026.

And for reasons of my feeling it’s not fair to have only one third of the book on sale (since No Man’s Land is a book in three volumes.) I put all three books on 99c each sale. Note I can’t afford to do this often, as it’s only 33c a copy to me, but this one time I’m doing it. Volume 1. Volume 2. Volume 3.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.