Eric Berger has a roundup of interesting news.
Category Archives: Space
The ISS Commercialization Studies
Neither our proposal or the Space Studies Institute’s proposal for a gravity lab was awarded by NASA. It’s just the usual suspects, no newcomers allowed. As I noted on Twitter, they could have funded every proposal for less money than they pour down the SLS/Orion rat hole in a week. No one knows how much potential innovation they just avoided.
Elon And Mars
It appears that he’s getting more serious. I wonder if the topic of ability to gestate in partial gravity will be a topic?
The Space Divide In Congress
The latest on the differences between House and Senate bills. I agree with moving OCST out of the FAA, but I’d prefer to see Commerce get the responsibility for regulation of orbital activity.
The New Astronauts
Tim Fernholz has the story of today’s announcement, which was a big “Meh” for me. Wake me up when they’ve decided that putting Americans in space on American rockets is actually important enough to start doing that.
New Glenn
Looks like it will slip. 2020 always seemed pretty aggressive, especially considering that it will be their first orbital vehicle.
A Sustainable Lunar Architecture
Bridenstine says that it has to be fully reusable.
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— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 2, 2018
Mars Society Conference
I’m on the schedule to speak about space property rights on in a plenary session on Sunday morning.
Gwynne Shotwell
A nice profile of her at Bloomberg.
Cargo Rockets
Military cargo rockets.
Glad to see this kind of thinking going on.