Bob Zubrin’s take on the stagnation in NASA human spaceflight.
As I’ve often said, if we don’t know why we’re doing something, it’s not possible to come up with a sensible way to do it.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Walls Are Closing In
I hope so. They’ve gotten away with too much, for far too long, going all the way back to the nineties, aided and abetted by the “mainstream” press.
[Update a few minutes later]
Link included now, sorry.
And there’s this: Yes, the president’s acquittal was real, and it was spectacular. And yes, the impeachment wasn’t just a waste of time; it was very damaging.
[Update a while later]
Sigh…
Link is now not just included, but correct.
[Update early afternoon]
The media hate the Frankenstein’s monster they created.
[Monday morning update]
This post is snake bit. I’ve added the link for the last one.
The Coastal States
…are in the fight of their lives.
I hope, at some point soon, there will be a backlash in California. I don’t want to have to leave to be free.
BTW, I was in DC all week, but back now.
College
“We don’t talk about” it here.
I didn’t think much about college in high school, except to take courses like Latin, math, and science. I didn’t even take the SAT. I took a year off after graduation (with low grades), then went to community college. I think I did OK.
The FISA Court
Shut it down. But punish those who have been abusing it. I suspect the Trump case is not the first one; they just made the mistake of going after a president.
Meanwhile, Carter Page is suing the DNC over the dossier. Perkins Coie hasn’t gotten enough attention. I hope that’s about to change.
SLS
Nothing new to readers of this web site, but Eli Dourado has a good history of the mess.
Hillary
…is still blaming the rest of us for her failings.
When she tells us that nobody likes Bernie, she is projecting.
Axiom
I got up at O Dark Thirty this morning to catch a flight to DC for the Space Transportation conference tomorrow, and haven’t had a lot of time to catch up on news, But Bob Zimmerman has thoughts on the announcement.
One of the reasons I left Rockwell over a quarter of a century ago was that it had become clear to me that they were never going to do anything commercial in space. It annoyed management when I told them this, but they knew it was true; they weren’t in the space business, they were in the government-contracting business. We’ll see how this goes.
Ilhan Omar
The FBI is (finally!) reviewing claims that she married her brother.
The House NASA Authorization Bill
It was just released, and at first glance, it appears to be a disaster. More anon.
[Saturday-morning update]
No moon in 2024, must use SLS to get to the moon, not allowed to do anything on the moon that would help with Mars, not allowed to purchase commercial landing services, not allowed to do any exploration at the South Pole for ice.
Saturday-afternoon update]
Here‘s Jeff’s story.
[Monday-morning update]
It’s the greatest hits of terrible space policy.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
[Late-morning update]
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation has weighed in.
The Planetary Society isn’t happy, either.