Frank Morring and Lara Seligman have a long piece describing the coming exciting upheaval in the space industry.
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3-D Printing
…with lunar and Mars regolith simulants.
If Congress and NASA were serious about opening space to humanity, this is the sort of thing that NASA would be spending more money on, instead of a monster rocket.
[Update a while later]
Related, I think: Questions that the Trump transition team asked NASA.
Failure Is An Option
Robogames
I’d like to attend this event. Maybe we’ll be through bathroom-renovation hell by then.
SpaceX Progress
Falcon Heavy is getting ready for its hot-fire test in Texas, and LC-40 is getting back in business after the boo boo last fall.
The Space Symposium
If, like me, you couldn’t make it to Colorado Springs last week, Calla Cofield has highlights.
[Noon update]
Valerie Insinna has the story on Tory’s choice in engines. Aerojet Rocketdyne has to have fingers crossed in the hope that BE-4 testing doesn’t go well.
Recovering Falcon Second Stages
Dick Eagleson has some interesting speculation.
Meanwhile, is the small-sat launch industry going to be Amazoned?
The Bantustans Of California
It’s like an apartheid state.
The Long Space Age
This looks like an interesting new book by Alex McDonald. Kindle version seems kind of spendy, though, same as hardcover.
On-Line Privacy
The Electronic Freedom Foundation has a guide, now that the rules have been changed to allow your ISP to track you and sell the data.