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December is not quite over .. 250,000 illegal aliens have crossed the border this month — more than the number of people who stormed the beaches on D-Day... there is no way of telling who these people are and.. why they are here. There is no doubt that a number of those entering the country are fleeing poverty ... Others are cartel members, drug and human traffickers, and possibly members of potential sleeper-cell terrorists from enemy nations.. border experts and members of law enforcement who were saying those things almost 15 years ago. When waves upon waves of people arrive...

The orbital airframe structure for the first commercial Dream Chaser mini-shuttle that will launch to Earth orbit just over two years from now has been unveiled by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and program partner Lockheed Martin. Sierra Nevada is moving forward with plans for Dream Chaser’s first launch and unmanned orbital test flight in November 2016 atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The winged Dream Chaser is being developed under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program aimed at restoring America’s indigenous human spaceflight access to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA has selected SpaceX, Orbital ATK and Sierra Nevada Corp. to fly cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) starting in 2019, the agency announced today (Jan 14). Between 2019 and 2024, NASA will purchase a minimum of six uncrewed cargo missions from each of the three companies, agency officials said in a media briefing today. The space agency has the option to purchase additional re-supply missions from any of the three providers, and will likely do so, said Kirk Shireman, program manager for the ISS. SpaceX and Orbital ATK were selected as cargo providers in NASA's first round of...

“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.” ― Greta Garbo On February 2, Americans were treated to the spectacle of a giant balloon floating over Montana wilderness that would go on to traverse the entire length of the United States. Of Chinese origin, this giant balloon was loaded with what appeared to be potential reconnaissance or communications equipment. Depending on what side of the political aisle observers were on, there was one of two responses from the public: First, shoot it down. We don’t appreciate...

A new Chinese spying device has the capabilities of both flying through the air, and swimming under the water. The TJ-FlyingFish, developed by scientists from China’s Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems may have invented something much harder to see than a three school bus long balloon in the sky. This small drone weighs only 3.6 pounds, and runs completely based on artificial intelligence, making a human operator unnecessary. When underwater, where it will primarily operate, the TJ-FlyingFish can swim at 6.5 feet per second, likely able to film and record everything it comes in contact with along the...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: NORAD monitoring ‘one or two’ potential new spy balloons over North America thepostmillennial.com 3:47 PM · Feb 11, 2023

Do you know how investigators can tell if someone is lying? The perp keeps changing his story.On Saturday, a Biden administration official told several news outlets that Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the Trump administration. There was only one problem with that statement: it left out some essential information.As PJ Media’s Matt Margolis carefully documents, just about every major defense and intelligence official from the former Trump administration denied that there were any such incursions by Chinese spy balloons.So, once again, the Biden administration was forced to change its story. They...

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe refuted accounts from Pentagon officials that Chinese balloons entered U.S. airspace on at least three occasions under the Trump administration. Ratcliffe, who served as former President Donald Trump's spy chief from 2020 to 2021, joined a few other former Trump administration officials claiming to have no awareness of such an incursion and described the recent balloon incident as "unprecedented." "I can refute it. It didn't happen," Ratcliffe said... Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper both denied knowing about a similar instance of a Chinese balloon hovering through...