All posts by Rand Simberg

The Real War Has Finally Begun

A good analysis of what’s been happening over the past day in Iran.

It seemed pretty clear that something was going to happen when we evacuated embassies in the region.

[Update early afternoon]

Iran has been launching retaliatory missile strikes against Tel Aviv, with most of them intercepted. I don’t think I’d want to be on Kharg Island on any day, but definitely not today.

On The Trump-Musk Feud

[Saturday-evening update]

Sorry about the formatting issues. I’m trying to get used to the WordPress update, which munged everything up in terms of how I post. Among other things, it made it a lot more effort to insert HTML.

Eighty-One Years

I remember when I was nineteen my (veteran) mother saying, “I can’t believe it’s been thirty years.”

[Update a few minutes later]

The great crusade and the men who made it work.

Blue Origin Speaks

It’s time for NASA to get out of the launch business.

I’ve only been saying this for over two decades.

Don’t read the comments, though.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Bob Zimmerman is very encouraged about the future of America in space.

Light posting today if at all, because I’ll be at the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach all day.

[Thursday-morning update]

Bob has a follow up post. I do think the proposal to reduce crew size on the ISS is penny-wise pound-foolish.