It’s shutting down, after twenty-three years. Probably a victim of its anti-Trump behavior.
Here are the three pieces that I wrote for it, the most recent being my obituary of Jerry Pournelle. When I read my criticism of SLS from 2011, it seems prescient.
There’s a lot of talent there, from Steve Hayes to Adam Keiper and Jonathan Last, and Haley Byrd. Hopefully they’ll land on their feet.
[Late-morning update]
Thoughts from Rod Dreher.
I suspect that if we settle space, we’ll see a lot of this sort of thing in some of the environments.
Yes. Asymmetric? Not so much.
And related: Why campaign finance violations won’t bring down Trump.
[Update later in the morning]
Looks like Mueller and Weismann may be up to some hanky panky: The case of the missing/altered 302s.
[Update a couple minutes later]
And Mueller destroyed the Strzok-Page texts before the IG could review them. How convenient.
Maybe I should start taking it:
“If we consider our results and then we also consider what results have been achieved in clinical trials with cystic fibrosis patients, we are probably looking at the same mechanism(s), whereby antibiotics are removing inflammatory senescent cells and boosting healthy ones.
“Undoubtedly, our results have significant implications for potentially alleviating or reversing tissue dysfunction and slowing the development of many ageing-associated diseases,” explains Professor Federica Sotgia, a co-lead of this study.
Yes, undoubtedly.
…pled guilty to something that is not a crime.
Despite all of the jean creaming among the Democrats and other Never Trumpers over this, it’s pretty weak tea, and has nothing to do with Russian collusion. I find Trump despicable, but if he were on trial for this, I’d vote to acquit.
Virgin Galactic just completed the first flight of SpaceShipTwo to space, if one considers the boundary to be 80 kilometers (it reportedly got to 82). At the Galloway Symposium last week, Jonathan McDowell made a good case that this, not the traditional Karman line of 100 km, is the right altitude. If one accepts that, it is the first flight of humans to space from American soil since the Shuttle retired over seven years ago. Here’s hoping that Blue Origin does the same thing next year (except they’re designed to get to 100 km).
[Update a few minutes later]
Here‘s Emilee Speck’s story.
[Update a while later]
Link to the McDowell paper should be working now, sorry.
[Update a while later]
Tim Fernholz has a story up now.
[Update a few minutes later]
And here’s a story from CNN‘s Jackie Wattles.
My footage of engine burn pic.twitter.com/IlQIcmNclY
— Jackie Wattles (@jackiewattles) December 13, 2018
NASA just had a setback in their ambitious project to make a reusable engine expendable.
An RS-25 engine just had a significant anomaly during a test fire at @NASAStennis. The test was aborted just seconds in. pic.twitter.com/77A0d8XyXK
— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) December 12, 2018
Here’s an interview with her, about her disability. I’ve met her; she’s great. I hope they can come up with better treatments, or a cure.
Eric Berger interviewed him at Spacecom about Vulcan and other things. Here‘s part 1.
Looks like it may be a good movie.
I’d thought that Travers refused to allow Disney to do another one, but I guess the estate must have allowed it.