by August Cole | Apr 22, 2014 | Monitor
The 2014 Boston Marathon was going to be special, no matter who won. That an almost 40-year old American, Meb Keflezighi, crossed the line first among the elite men made it an historic sporting day for U.S. running. No American had won the Boston Marathon since...
by August Cole | Apr 17, 2014 | Monitor
Russia’s incursion into the Crimea started a domino effect of reevaluation of America’s myriad ties with its Cold War adversary. At the political level, sanctions and diplomatic pressure from NATO members continue around the clock. Then there are the day-to-day...
by August Cole | Apr 15, 2014 | Monitor
An old adage in military circles is that taking the high ground gives one side an obvious advantage over an adversary. When it comes to space, that seems to be as true as it is on Earth. In a week that has China’s President Xi Jinping presiding over the...
by August Cole | Mar 26, 2014 | Monitor
Many of Russia’s tie-ins with the U.S. space program are well known. Yesterday, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio posted to Twitter a beautiful photo of a Russian Soyuz launch as seen from the International Space Station. The rocket blasted into space with two...
by August Cole | Mar 12, 2014 | Monitor
One of the great 21st Century ironies is that the global economy is critically dependent on space-based communications, monitoring and navigation yet decades ago the American public lost its awe for the Space Age feats that made the era such a powerful one. Our...