Milt Windler was one of the great pioneers who showed the world what NASA is capable of during both the best and most challenging of days.
As a Maroon Flight Director, he helped guide Apollo 8 around the Moon, played a critical role in bringing Apollo 13 safely home, and carried… https://t.co/GEfbdoGfxm
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) October 3, 2026
With all the focus on Gene Kranz, he and Glynn Lunney (who I knew at Rockwell after he retired from NASA and came to Downey as a vice president, and was a great guy) got short shrift in the movie.
Congrats to SpaceX on the first orbital flight of Starship, and its deployment of operational Starlink satellites. The vehicle still has testing to demonstrate reusability, but as an expendable vehicle, it is now the most capable operational rocket, with more payload capability…
This article is hilarious with a whole bunch of launch companies in SERIOUS denial.https://t.co/vFrwFOhCAc
— Artificial Gravity Space Stations (@space_stations) September 20, 2026
I used to think maybe I should go to or pay attention to these industry conferences & panels. This is literally anti-signal. You’re dumber if you listen to them than if you don’t. They are afraid to even MENTION SpaceX, which absolutely dominates their industry! https://t.co/elzxdXSlIW
Loosely translated: “Now that SpaceX has gone off to found a solar system wide civilization we can chop our prices just a bit and people still will prefer our horses and buggies.” https://t.co/zG1TKmtOlS
After the Starship $300/kg price floor nonsense made the rounds, the ones who shared the studies started saying there isn't a better model out there to look at. I'd be willing to bet whatever @mach33 has put out is way better, but I've always run my own numbers on this stuff…
I don’t understand, though, how you get two flights per pad per day into SSO, at least not if you want the SSO on the terminator, which is where everyone claims to want to be, for continuous sunlight.