He’s not fixing a crisis; he’s creating one.
The notion that the Democrats are the “party of science” is ludicrous.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Blue-Dress Proof
What it takes to get the media to believe something bad about a Democrat.
The Deplorables
It’s time for them to become the unconquerables.
[Saturday-morning update]
Roger Simon: The deplorables must cement control over the Republican Party.
SPD-6
Enabling space nuclear systems.
I think history will record that Trump had a much greater effect on space policy than any president since Reagan.
SLS Safety
Some thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
I’d be concerned if I thought that NASA was really going to use this vehicle for anything serious.
Jill Biden’s “Doctorate”
It’s garbage because her dissertation is garbage.
Other than Michael Mann, I don’t know any PhD physicists who insist on being called “Dr.” That vanity is reserved for less secure people with lesser degrees.
[Update a while later]
Hans Bader isn’t impressed, either.
[Update early afternoon]
[Saturday-afternoon update]
Jill Biden: “I worked really hard on this.”
She doesn’t realize that makes it even worse.
Space Transports
Clark Lindsey has the latest roundup, featuring SN8.
Thoughts On The Election
They stole it fair and square.
Yes, if we learn anything from Trump, is that we have to fight, and beat them at their own games.
Orion
Six years after its maiden (and only) flight, Eric Berger has some thoughts.
[Update a few minutes later]
From a comment over there:
Probably the most salient points:
A mockup lacking many critical systems flew into space once, six years ago.
The next test flight is basically another mockup, lacking even life support systems.
The first full-up complete vehicle launch is supposed to be with crew trusting their lives to a vehicle which has never been flight tested with systems complete, and also a similarly never-flown service module. Because for all the expense and mass, Orion doesn’t have much duration without a service module.
NASA safety culture at work. Mountains of paperwork instead of actual testing on actual hardware.
Just getting this far on Orion has been 15 years and $24B.
Ridiculous pork capsule to match a ridiculous pork rocket in the SLS.
Yup. It’s a Potemkin space program.
Buttigieg
What does he know about transportation?
I wonder if he knows anything, or cares about space? He’ll be ultimately in charge of launch licensing.