Things are ramping up in south Texas.
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Category Archives: Space
Bargain Basement
For those who haven’t gotten one, and would like to, I’ve dropped the price on my book to $12.95.
Disasters In Deep Space
Lunar Heritage Sites
A bill has been introduced in the Senate, by Ted Cruz and Gary Peters, to preserve them. For All Moonkind has been working on this for a while. It would only protect the sites from Americans, but we need to make this into a multilateral agreement.
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A New Space-Business Newsletter
Tim Fernholz is going to start a weekly one. Sign up here if you want it.
Back To The Moon, This Time To Stay
My op-ed on one-way trips to the Moon is up at Space News.
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Related: Can Trump put people on the moon by 2024? It seems unlikely under current political circumstances.
The Gateway
Bob Zimmerman says it’s time for it to die.
Yes, the bureaucrats are pretending that it’s a required part of returning to the moon when, as Bob Zubrin has pointed out it’s a toll booth at best, and a likely roadblock, and there has been no public debate about its necessity.
Artemis
Eric Berger has gotten a copy of the plan.
It only looks ambitious in comparison to previous plans, not to serious plans. At best, it’s Apollo on steroids. And as he notes, there is no budget, either stated or actual.
The Space Settlement Forum
Steve Wolfe has been working on putting this together, in conjunction with the ISDC in a couple weeks. I’ll be doing a presentation there on space property rights for settlers.
Wayne Hale
A few months ago, I asked him to be on my advisory board for my new company. He thanked me for the offer, but told me he had to decline because there was a potential conflict of interest. But today he announced that he is going to be heading up a much more important advisory council. I think it’s a great choice.