An Ex Rocket Man's Take On It

The ravings of a trained mind.

Monday, January 19, 2026

An Australian’s View of Our Situation

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My wife found this and sent it to me on the 18 th of January (2026).  It is quite accurate and quite good.  I cannot vouch for who this per...
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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Assessment of Completeness: Imposition of Trump Dictatorship

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Everybody has seen the appalling misbehavior of ICE in Minneapolis,  and all over America.  Several people have been killed by them.  Nearly...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Recent Letters to Federal Reps

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These are my most recent messages sent to my federal representation over the behaviors that I see done by the Trump administration.  These m...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

About Venezuela

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This was originally submitted 4 January 2026 to the Waco "Tribune-Herald" as a column on the op-ed page.  I am on their board of c...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Landing Pads for Rocket Vehicles

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For vehicle designs that do not meet rough-field criteria (Ref. 1),  they should not be sent to the lunar surface,  until a hard-surfaced, ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

On Recent Activities At Sea

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The following article is what I submitted to the Waco "Tribune Herald" newspaper as a possible column,  21 December.  As of this p...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Evaluating Trump’s Ukraine Actions

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President Trump is touting his peacemaking efforts between Ukraine and Putin’s Russia.  Those efforts and the related actions bear a closer ...
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Gary Johnson
McGregor, Texas, United States
GW had a 20 year career in aerospace defense new product engineering, followed by a 20 year career in mostly teaching, with a little civil engineering and aviation work. He is now retired on a small farm in central Texas, occasionally building and selling cactus eradication tools, available for consulting, and offering a self-published book on ramjet propulsion. He has posted a lot of technical articles on this site, a catalog of which is in the post "Lists of Some Articles By Topic Area", dated 21 October 2021. For information about the ramjet book, see "GW's Ramjet Book Is Now Available!", posted 12 February 2024. Use the blog archive gadget as a navigation tool to find these quickly. He is also developing course materials for teaching or self-teaching in aerothermodynamics, and in the sizing of vehicles for space missions.
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