Jan. 13, 1920: The New York Times doubts spaceflight

In 1959, NASA posthumously named the Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert Goddard’s lifetime of work in rocketry, physics, and space travel. But his journey from a youth spent reading science fiction tales of space travel to that point involved years of skepticism from the media and public, […]

A late-2025 amendment to California’s wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (Mike Solana/Pirate Wires)

Mike Solana / Pirate Wires: A late-2025 amendment to California’s wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state  —  it’s not a tax on “wealth,” the union’s ballot prop is designed to target the very concept of founder-controlled companies …