No, there’s nothing noble about them, and in fact they are doing a lot of evil.
[Friday-morning update]
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and the corruption of the American city.
And Jeffrey Carter says it’s time to blow it up.
[Bumped]
Category Archives: Business
The Bureaucracy
SCOTUS may finally shrink it.
From Abbey Gate To Gaza
The failure will continue until there is accountability.
Unfortunately, there will be no opportunity for accountability until November.
My Decision To Leave Academia
I suspect a lot of people are feeling this way. Which, of course, just means that the problem will get worse, until the system finally implodes.
No Re-Light
SpaceX seems to be focusing on vehicle recovery for now.
This puts off early payload-delivery capability somewhat, but it could still happen this year.
The “Impossible” Burger
A description of its nightmare ingredients.
I have zero motivation to eat that crap.
Lunar Lander Problems
Commercial Crew History
How it dodged a bullet in getting off the ground.
Hubble Trouble
An interesting article (from NPR!) about the internal controversy at NASA over a private rescue mission. No doubt there is some politics in play within the astronaut office.
The Pace Of Vulcan Rockets
The Air Force is growing concerned.
I suspect that ULA has been so focused on competing against SpaceX on price that it’s ignored the need to compete on tempo. The fact that SpaceX reuses its boosters means that its launch cadence is not constrained by manufacturing capacity. I think that ULA made a bad decision in assuming that launch rates would not be dramatically increasing when doing its cost/benefit analysis on reusability.