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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He’s been hired by SpaceX. That may give him a new perspective on things.
[Update early afternoon]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take.
How do we survive it?
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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A good overview of the problem, from Marina Koren.
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.
Ian Kluft remembers seeing Columbia breaking up, from California.
[Sunday-morning update]
Here are my thoughts from that day. If you click on “Next Post” you’ll read a lot more from the hours and days that came after.
…may be coming back to California.
Nothing new to readers of this web site, but Eli Dourado has a good history of the mess.
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.