While we’re waiting to see if the weather will permit the launch…
Cops arrested four hundred people in Los Angeles last night.
Leo Terrell was on Hannity’s radio show yesterday, and sounding angry and (surprisingly) sane. He was lambasting the rioters and the Democrats.
…returns human spaceflight to America (and southern California).
I’m glad this is happening, but it should have happened years ago.
[Update just before launch time]
Welp, I guess they’ll try again Saturday. Florida weather.
[Thursday-morning update]
American spaceflight is now in Elon Musk’s hands.
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[Saturday-afternoon (in Florida) update]
Trying again in less than an hour.
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[Update after the launch]
Looks like everything went perfectly, with weather cooperating in the last hour. On orbit now, and heading for a rendezvous with ISS tomorrow morning. Vodkapundit live blogged it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Another report from Emilee Speck.
It went kablooie in the static test today. Video anon.
[Update a few minutes later]
It appears to be an earth-shattering kaboom.
Not sure why there’s no audio, but I assume it was loud. Presumably no one was hurt; Mary was reportedly quite a ways away when she took this. Starhopper looks OK, but we’ll hear more soon. I was watching the live stream; it seems to be still burning. One of the benefits of stainless is that it’s cheap, compared to carbon composite.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s before and after.
[Update a while later]
Loren Grush has the story.
[Update a few minutes later]
And here’s Eric Berger’s story.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Worth noting, as Eric does, that the static test was successful, FWIW. So this is the biggest advance they’ve made yet on the SN series. Next challenge is to do a static test without an explosion afterward.
[Saturday-morning update]
Here’s one with audio. Note the delay due to the distance. Has to be over half a mile away.
[Update a few minutes later]
An article about the safety of the system, with a quote from Leroy Chiao: “Chiao said pushing too hard for safer numbers could cause a spaceflight program to spiral into never launching at all.”
You don’t say.
It probably won’t stand up in court.
But amending 230 is something that might get bipartisan support in Congress.
Can he survive a battle with…Joe Biden?
Watching her beat the White House press corps like a rented mule is a never-ending delight. Why yes, yes it is.
I often agree with Jonah, but that performance on Sunday was disappointing.
[Update Wednesday morning]
Kayleigh strikes back.
[Wednesday-evening update]
In praise of Kayleigh McEnany.
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Democrats are panicking that it may recover.
Patriotic, as always.
An open letter to them, from Bruce Bawer.
Yes, they have shrugged off Obama’s criminality and abuses of power, but it’s nothing new. They did the same thing in the 90s with the Clinton gang.
[Afternoon update]