Boeing took a $400M charge in the fourth quarter last year to pay for an uncrewed reflight. Today they announced that they’re going to do it, probably in the fall. Unless something goes very wrong, SpaceX is almost certain to be first. I suspect that the Boeing board is regretting taking on the contract now.
[Update a few minutes later
Eric Berger has the story.
Rethinking accountability in the wake of the pandemic.
This event has exposed a lot of shibboleths.
…can’t shut Louis C. K. up, and they don’t like it.
I like it.
[Update a while later]
Louis C. K. still exists; women, libs hardest hit.
…between living and the economy.
And no one gets out of here alive.
Plus, it considers only the extra $35B that NASA wants for Artemis, while ignoring the money hemorrhaging of SLS.
Most people unimpressed with their 30-day free trial of communism.
…are going to the dump.
It’s a pointless uneconomic ritual, and civic religion.
Real and imagined.
Where are we really with the virus?
Note that (as is often the case with healthcare statistics) different countries are keeping books differently, making it difficult to compare. I continue to believe that the fatality rate will ultimately end up being far below one percent.
[Update early afternoon]
A lot of links from Instapundit. Things are looking better than the models. One I found of interest is that if we can believe Chinese data, four out of five cases are asymptomatic.