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.
Category Archives: Space
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.
Space
You’re in the Army now.
The Continuing SLS Disaster
Work has restarted after a “corrective action” for Boeing.
[Update a few minutes later]
Man, the comments are (appropriately) brutal.
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?