Here’s a good piece in the LA Times about Mojave, and the new rocket companies sprouting up there. My only quibble with it is the usual one–that it’s in the “science” section of the paper, when it should instead be in the “business” section. Just another example of the power that the disastrous “space = science” meme has on peoples’ minds.

[Update a few minutes later]

I just noticed that this is my 9800th post. Only two hundred more to hit five digits. Maybe I should have a party.