This looks like an interesting new method. I wonder how much it needs in reagents, and if they can be recycled?
Category Archives: Space
Rank Structure For The Space Force
Crew Dragon
Elon is still saying this year, but people are understandably skeptical.
Lab-Grown Meat
…in spaaaaaace…
Seriously, this is a technology that I’m really looking forward to.
Space-Policy Dilemma
It’s a personal one. I’m accepted to give a brief talk on space property rights at the IAC in three weeks. But media can’t give talks, and registration will be about $1500. Not sure I can justify that.
Elon Musk
I watched the webcast last night, but I was tired from building a fence, and then I had an early flight to DC this morning.
[Tuesday-afternoon update]
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on Elon’s design philosophy.
Space Nuclear Reactors
I’m not sure this is as big a proliferation concern as some say, but I have no idea where they get this “20% of all launches have failures” thing. That’s not true in general, and its far from true for U.S. systems.
Asteroid Hunting
Casey Dreier has an interesting history of how NASA finally got a decent budget to fulfill its planetary-defense mandate.
Oops
Wayne Hale remembers a flawed safety design from the early Shuttle days.
Gwynne Shotwell
She’s briefly profiled in an article on many notable women.