Wayne Hale remembers a flawed safety design from the early Shuttle days.
Category Archives: Space
Gwynne Shotwell
She’s briefly profiled in an article on many notable women.
The Pork Barrel Rolls On
NASA has awarded Lockmart a long-term Orion production contract. Cost plus, natch.
This isn’t really a commitment. I’m sure the contract has a cancellation clause with a generous penalty. It’s primarily theater for Bridenstine to buy off the Colorado and Texas delegations, particularly after he pissed the latter off with his award of the lander to Marshall.
[Evening update]
Link fixed, sorry.
Tongue-Shaped Glaciers
…on Maaaaars.
Carbon Capture
Elon wants to manufacture fuel from the earth’s atmosphere. He takes climate much too seriously.
Starship Update
Elon provides a sneak preview of next Saturday’s big reveal.
The Gateway Foundation
They gave a presentation on their rotating space hotel at the Space Settlement event in Seattle. They say they’re going to start construction (on the ground) on October 1st.
News On The Book Front
Kerbal Space Program
So, one of the reasons I upgraded my computer was so that I could do things like running Kerbal. I’ve got a new motherboard, with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor, and 32G of RAM. But when I load KSP, I develop cursor lag. Is this because I only have two gig of memory on the graphics card?
Collisions Hazards And Space Debris
An article on the issue, quoting (among others) Brian Weeden and Glenn Reynolds.