Work has restarted after a “corrective action” for Boeing.
[Update a few minutes later]
Man, the comments are (appropriately) brutal.
Category Archives: Space
What Jeff Bezos Wants
I largely agree with him on space. I will say, though, that I’m not as big a Star Trek fan as he is, and particularly with regard to the cheese-eating surrender monkey Picard.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, having just skimmed the whole (long) thing, it’s more about Amazon than space, so be forewarned.
Leonov
A giant of human spaceflight history has left us. Bob Zimmerman remembers him.
So does Gwynne Shotwell.
[Sunday-morning update]
More thoughts from Bob Zubrin.
Separating Oxygen And Metals From Lunar Regolith
This looks like an interesting new method. I wonder how much it needs in reagents, and if they can be recycled?
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.