Business As Usual

Looks like April now (at best). Also looks like Starship 3 before Artemis II.

[Update a few minutes later]

[Afternoon update]

Sorry, second X post fixed now.

Brutal

The new NASA administrator’s assessment of both NASA and Boeing’s performance on Commercial Crew:

[Late-afternoon update]

I don’t think that “Yikes!” really covers the waterfront here:

Here‘s Eric Berger’s story.

[Evening update]

Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.

Making Space Important

A thought experiment, to which I’ve gotten little response so far.

About That Wet Dress Rehearsal

Jared responds to Eric Berger:

He remains hostage to the politics, until Starship has shown its mettle. Also…

Ice Dancing

This is an age-old controversy, but while it (and figure skating in general) is entertaining, it is not a sport. It’s ballet on ice, except that ballet has no judges, biased or otherwise. The American team was clearly robbed. I have no problem keeping it in the Olympics, and it’s athletics in the sense that it requires training and practice, but stop pretending that it’s a sport. Sports scores should be objective, not whimsical.

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