Has no ability to bring back moon rocks?
Hey, no machine is perfect.
Category Archives: Space
An Eerie Photo
Doug Cooke’s Op-Ed
My IAC Paper
I presented it on Friday. Joanne Gabrynowicz complained about it during questions, so I’ll take that as a win.
Unfortunately, though I did a final polish on it this weekend, it was apparently too late to upload it for the final proceedings, but here it is.
SARGE
Exos Aerospace had a bad day.
The Latest NASA Corruption
Brian Wang is unimpressed with the new cost-plus gift to Boeing.
More thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
Going Off The Air
I’m flying to DC this afternoon for eight days of space stuff, culminating with a brief talk on space property rights at the International Astronautical Conference a week from tomorrow. I’ll have my laptop, but not sure how much time I’ll have to post. But be good in comments.
NASA And The Media
Bob Zimmerman isn’t impressed with the coverage, to say the least.
Ad Astra
A friend of mine, who saw it a couple weeks ago with the class she was teaching at SpaceX, roundly panned it to me. Jeff Foust says don’t bother seeing it, either.
Hollywood seems to have a hard time getting space movies right.
A Gold Asteroid
Will it make us rich?
Dennis Wingo responds:
Yes, it’s impossible to predict the effects of drops in the price of previously-rare commodities. Gold is a very useful industrial metal, and this would expand its usage.