Joel Achenbach has an interesting article about the station.
Category Archives: Business
When You Make Government Responsible For Your Health
You give them control over your life.
The Founders would be appalled at how much of our liberty we’ve willingly surrendered.
Sierra Nevada
Sirangelo showing video of latest SS2 flight. Exhaust plume from hybrid rocket still looks like a tire fire. They did put it out, though.
Falcon Launch Delay
Garrett Reisman just announced that they had to scrub their static test firing today, so this weekend’s launch will be delayed (maybe Tuesday, same day as next OSC launch).
Blue Origin
Looking for a coastal launch site for orbital flight. Orbital vehicle is two stage, with first stage reusable, flyback vertical landing (like SpaceX).
Developing 100,000 lbf thrust lox/hydrogen engine. Deep throttle capability to allow vertical landing.
Xenon
At lunch at #AIAASpace2013, NASA is proposing ten tons of it for propellant for the asteroid mission. World production is about a ton per year.
The Pension Crisis
I think that most of the nation’s fiscal problems are. Something that can’t go on, won’t.
The Obama Economy
Five years on, he can’t blame it on the financial crisis any more. He owns it. As do the low-info underemployed fools who voted to re-elect him.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“This was a very bad jobs report.”
Fred Pohl
Rest in peace.
He wrote great fiction, but his economics was short sighted.
In general, SF writers aren’t that great at economics — (too) many of them are, after all, leftists, particularly the New Wave types. Heinlein was one of the few who generally got it right.
A “Living Wage”
What an economically stupid idea. Particularly if you think that Washington can come up with one, one-size-fits-all, for the entire country, from Omaha to New York City.