A good article from Irene Klotz.
[Afternoon update]
What comes after Artemis III?
The Musk derangement is strong in comments.
And this had me rolling my eyes: “”…one friend in the industry predicted a future without them to be so dire that Artemis III would be the last US human spaceflight of our lifetimes.”
…punctured. A new paper from Judith Curry.
The administration is proposing ending Gateway, and SLS/Orion after Artemis III. That’s still two flights too many, but it all has yet to play out.
[Afternoon update]
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
[Sunday-morning update]
Speaking of Bob Zimmerman, he’s less than impressed with Lockheed Martin’s delivery of the first crew-capable Orion.
[Bumped]
I guess I should follow up with the main point: Once you explicitly accept that you're going to use multiple launches to get back to the Moon, it opens up the trade space for lots of different architectures. If NASA doesn't already have a tiger team doing trade studies to present…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 28, 2025
Things are moving along in the UK.
This is a deep, deep problem. I hope it’s not intractable. Jay Battacharya has a heavy lift. The way so many used the pandemic to seize power over the lives of others reminds me a lot of the climate scam.
[Afternoon update]
A thing we don't talk about enough is how bad the CDC guidance was for opening things up during Covid
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 27, 2025
Read the details! It was insanely unrealistic but was used by states to act in very insane wayshttps://t.co/Ona38iTQXI
I largely agree with these recommendations. I doubt if there’s been any serious discussion with OMB about NASA.
It’s time to make California Golden Again ☀️ pic.twitter.com/unpY2f5Hv4
— Steve Hilton For Governor (@SteveHiltonShow) April 21, 2025
Jim Meigs has a long essay at the Manhattan Institute that quotes Yours Truly several times.
[Friday-morning update]
Bob Zimmerman writes that we don’t need no stinkin’ government program to get to the Moon.
Not sure I agree. The race to the poles was all about prestige, and America didn’t need it, but the race to the Moon is about resources, and we don’t want China to be making claims. But I agree that the best policy would be that which encourages private actors, and Isaacman is the ideal NASA administrator to do that.