Archive for March, 2011

Richard C. Cook Interview with Roanoke Times’ Mike Allen

Monday, March 28th, 2011

NASA analyst Richard C. Cook: the complete interview | Arts & Extras http://blogs.roanoke.com/arts/2011/03/nasa-analyst-richard-c-cook-the-complete-interview/ March 28, 2011 (Blogger’s note: As promised in today’s Extra, where I ran excerpts from my question and answer sessions with NASA budget analyst and author Richard C. Cook (see previous blog entry), here is the complete interview.) Q. How old are [...]

“50 Years of Human Space Flight”

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

On February 25 & 26, 2011, Richard C. Cook gave Power Point presentations on “50 Years of Human Space Flight” at the Gainsboro and Williamson Road branch libraries in Roanoke, Virginia. Coming next: “From Challenger to Extraterrestrials: Answering the Call of Space” at the main library Tuesday, March 29, 6-8 p.m.

Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.