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.
Category Archives: Business
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.
Campus Anti-Semitism
It’s nothing new.
In addition, the New York Times covered for both Hitler and Stalin.
[Update a while later]
Campus protesters have experienced some kind of psychiatric break.
It certainly appears that way. They are demonstrably nuts.
[Thursday-morning update]
The real cause of anti-Semitism on campus.
And a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution says that the Red Guards are back.
Mars Sample Return
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Spaceport Vegas?
In theory, Vegas should be an ideal hub for space tourism, but what operators are they talking to? VG doesn’t have enough business to support Spaceport America as it is, and it would be a real punch in the gut to the poor citizens in New Mexico who paid taxes to build it if they pulled up stakes for Vegas. Maybe New Shepard could fly out of there, but it’s not a vehicle with enough tempo to justify it. Is there someone else (finally) working on a practical suborbital vehicle?