Despite the Bahamian low that’s supposed to bring showers to south Florida today, there’s an eighty percent chance of good weather for the launch tonight, so I think we’ll be driving up. Too bad it’s not an hour or so later–then it would be a night launch.

It looks like XCOR has the funding they need to build Xerus. Alan Boyle has the story of the changing, and maturing, nature of space startup funding. No more giggling.

Out Of The Cradle has the most comprehensive set of ISDC links so far.

And justified criticism of the Dallas Morning News, which doesn’t seem to think that this is important, even when it takes place in its own city.

Jeff Foust has a report on three of the talks at this weekends ISDC, on the importance of being willing to rethink plans, improvise, and make rapid changes to them. This is something that small private companies are a lot better at than large ones, or government bureaucracies, which is one of the reasons that they’re likely to beat NASA back to orbit post Shuttle, or on to the moon.

An interesting interview with George Whitesides, Executive Director of the National Space Society. I would point out, though, that NASA had nothing to do with GPS.

Instapundit has some more on space tourism and commercialization. I think he’s becoming a space blogger!

Taking off from the conference to St. Louis for a family barbecue. Thoughts on the space conference later. Meanwhile Instapundit has a few more posts, with more to come, as does Jeff Foust. And Leonard David has an article about space diving, which may be a killer app for cheap suborbital vehicles like Armadillo’s.

I just logged on for the first time since leaving Florida. I haven’t had my computer with me in the sessions until now, but Instapundit (with whom I had dinner and drinks last night) has been doing a little liveblogging of the conference, here and here.

Pete Worden, NASA Ames center director, is going to give a plenary speech in a few minutes, which will reportedly be initiated by his Second Life avatar.

Jeff Foust also has a bunch of posts over at Personal Spaceflight.

[Update]

Wireless connection sux. Probably no live blogging, and I have schmoozing to do. May check in later, but no promises.

I just logged on for the first time since leaving Florida. I haven’t had my computer with me in the sessions until now, but Instapundit (with whom I had dinner and drinks last night) has been doing a little liveblogging of the conference, here and here.

Pete Worden, NASA Ames center director, is going to give a plenary speech in a few minutes, which will reportedly be initiated by his Second Life avatar.

Jeff Foust also has a bunch of posts over at Personal Spaceflight.

[Update]

Wireless connection sux. Probably no live blogging, and I have schmoozing to do. May check in later, but no promises.

I just logged on for the first time since leaving Florida. I haven’t had my computer with me in the sessions until now, but Instapundit (with whom I had dinner and drinks last night) has been doing a little liveblogging of the conference, here and here.

Pete Worden, NASA Ames center director, is going to give a plenary speech in a few minutes, which will reportedly be initiated by his Second Life avatar.

Jeff Foust also has a bunch of posts over at Personal Spaceflight.

[Update]

Wireless connection sux. Probably no live blogging, and I have schmoozing to do. May check in later, but no promises.