Jared responds to Eric Berger:
I will just say we are leaning forward with transparency, sharing the blemishes and the successes, because for a program as costly and important to national security as Artemis, the public is entitled to the facts.
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) February 14, 2026
– The confidence test related to the seals we repaired and…
He remains hostage to the politics, until Starship has shown its mettle. Also…
Thoughts from Peter Hague.
As someone who has never cared much about Mars, I’m very happy to see this.
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We have a dangerous resilience gap.
…are functionally illiterate.
This won’t end well.
[Friday-morning update]
Some education horror stories.
Highway One is not being damaged by fossil fuels.
Heading to Orlando, via West Palm Beach. Both flights (went through Charlotte) have been delayed for lack of flight attendents…
How they destroyed practical adult education.
Congratulations, California.
…has an impressive turnaround on the first booster it recovered.
The Sunset Strip is dying.
I’ve never habituated the place, though I’ve often driven down it in the daytime on the way to somewhere else. I haven’t done it in a while. Probably a lot less business for the “Sunset pigs” that Joni Mitchell sung about in her song California.