…is being resurrected?
BoJo and Cummings are going to be the most aggressive promoters of UK space in history.
Category Archives: Space
Elon’s Mars Plans
A first-hand report from Bob Zubrin in Boca Chica.
A Mission To Mars
How to optimize your headspace for it.
This is why I think that the notion of missions to Mars under the Apollo paradigm are fanciful. There’s a reason (well, OK, more than one) that Elon is building Starship so large. He wants to make it like a cruise, not solitary confinement.
[Update a while later]
Speaking of which, SN1 is entering final assembly for its 20-kilometer flight.
The Space Show
Sorry for the short notice; I should have posted it days ago. I’m going to be on in a few minutes, starting at noon PST.
The Tech Race With China
…is getting real.
My Space Property-Rights Project
I’m not being funded for it this year, but I’m wondering who would like to contribute to keeping it going, if I do a Kickstarter? I’d need about twenty grand, much of it for required travel (including, potentially, Dubai for IAC in the fall). It would be to promote the ideas in my IAC paper from last fall.
[Thursday-morning update]
OK, to brainstorm a little bit, if I do a Kickstarter (as opposed to a GoFundMe or something else), any suggestions for rewards? Maybe a signed copy of the multilateral agreement(s)?
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Trump’s New Budget Proposal
Thoughts on the mendacious media coverage of it.
A lot of Artemis fans on Twitter were cheering for the budget proposal of seventy billion dollars over five years to get back to the moon. Even ignoring how ridiculous that number is, I had to remind them of something.
[Update a few minutes later]
The White House budget shows why we’re fiscally doomed.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Stop pretending that the president’s budget matters.
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Gerst
He’s been hired by SpaceX. That may give him a new perspective on things.
[Update early afternoon]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take.
Secrecy
How do we survive it?
Starliner Woes
It continues to look worse and worse for Boeing. I’m almost starting to wonder if it will ever fly. SpaceX can do the job for less money, and it may not be that long before either Dreamchaser or Starship is flying (though it’s not clear that the latter will be capable of docking with the ISS).
[Update a few minutes later]
Comments over there are (deservedly, IMO) brutal.
[Update Monday afternoon]
“We don’t know how many software errors we have.”
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