A thoughtful essay at The New Atlantis (in which, in the next issue, I’ll have a review of Zubrin’s new book on Mars).
Category Archives: Space
The Navy Mess
The LCS fiasco is just a symptom of a much larger problem, which probably infects the entire U.S. military, and no one is being held accountable. It’s feeling a lot like 1939, and people are going to die unnecessarily, if we can even win the war.
Near-Future SF
Yes.
Commercial ISR
Various factions of the DoD are fighting over it.
This is great, considering that a few years ago none of them wanted anything to do with it.
Vernor Vinge
RIP.
[Friday-morning update]
Reflections from Noah Smith.
[Monday-morning update]
Glenn Reynolds remembers.
[Bumped]
Space And Success
Thoughts on the various forms of complexity in evaluating it.
The Space Force
Rick Tumlinson thinks it needs more vision. I agree.
CSI Orbit
The physical and legal issues of investigating murders in space.
The Next Starship Flight
BS From The FAA
They are grounding Starship until they are satisfied with the mishap investigation.
They have no legal basis for doing this. There was nothing about that flight that endangered the public, which is the only thing they should be concerned about. They do not do mission assurance, and SpaceX shouldn’t have to wait for them to reissue the license to try again.
[Update a few minutes later]
How thirteen different news outlets covered the SpaceX flight.