Patricia’s mother died on Friday morning after a long decline, and the church service is scheduled for Monday morning in Columbia. We’re at LAX now waiting to board. I’ll have my laptop with me, so I’ll be blogging. I’ll be heading to Seattle straight from there Monday evening for the Newspace conference.
Category Archives: Business
This Morning’s Landing Attempt
Loren Grush has the story. So their streak is over, but this is how you learn and improve.
An RD-180 Agreement
This should buy ULA enough time to get Vulcan flying.
Homer Hickam’s Lawsuit
He told me about this when I had lunch with him a few weeks ago when he was in LA, partly to deal with it.
The Return Of The Rotary
This is a pretty cool development; a new take on the Wankel engine. Hope it works out.
The American Heart Association
…continues to preach junk science:
The American Heart Association recommends a heart-healthy dietary pattern emphasizing fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other nutritious foods and specifically that at least half of grain consumption should be whole grains. Whole grains provide many nutrients, such as fiber, B vitamins, and minerals, which are removed during the refining process.
No protein, no fat. This is the kind of diet that helped kill my father from his second heart attack decades ago, at age 55.
Patti Grace Smith And FAA-AST
@JeffFoust has a good history at The Space Review today. It nicely complements my op-ed on keeping the FAA out of orbit.
Statins
Treating people with them to prevent heart disease is a waste of time (and money). Not news to me, but it’s nice to see more people catching on. I’m still trying to get my brother to get off them.
Elon’s Mars Plans
More details are revealed in an interview with Christian Davenport at the WaPo.
[Update a couple minutes later]
And here’s kind of a dumb piece about Mars settlement at Popular Science.
Keep FAA’s Head In The Clouds
My thoughts on why the FAA shouldn’t be regulating spaceflight.