I cannot imagine having this problem. I wouldn’t change my lifestyle much; I’d put the money into my or others’ space ventures, and life extension. But this is one of the reasons that lottery winners often end up blowing the money; they have no apparent purpose in life.
Category Archives: Space
The Delusions Of Percival Lowell
Bob Zimmerman reviews a flawed book about the astronomer.
Does NASA Want A Space Economy?
There is still a large contingent that wants to go back to the old cost-plus ways.
I could see giving this as a sop to Boeing in exchange for accepting an end to SLS. It won’t last that long, because Starship will be flying people before most people realize.
Milt Windler
RIP.
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.
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) October 3, 2026
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
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.
An Historic Flight
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…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) September 28, 2026
Spaceports
Yes, we need to amend the CSLAA to allow them to do market pricing.
The Delusional State Of The Launch Industry
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
— Robotbeat🗽 ➐ (@Robotbeat) September 20, 2026
[Early-afternoon update]
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
— Charles A. Lurio (@TheLurioReport) September 20, 2026
Solar Events
Documenting the first time one affected technology.
The Deconstruction Of Scotty
…is an indictment of our times.
A large part of NASA’s problem is that dishonesty is often rewarded, particularly when testifying to Congress.
[Update late morning]
Link added, sorry!
SpaceX Launch Costs
Ozan runs some numbers.
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…
— Ozan Bellik (@BellikOzan) September 7, 2026
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.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Investors are stoked about Stoke’s latest announcement.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
The coming tidal wave of new rockets.