Another successful flight, the fourth now. That oscillation on the drogues looks like it could make people sick, though.
Category Archives: Space
Heading to Missouri
Patricia’s mother died on Friday morning after a long decline, and the church service is scheduled for Monday morning in Columbia. We’re at LAX now waiting to board. I’ll have my laptop with me, so I’ll be blogging. I’ll be heading to Seattle straight from there Monday evening for the Newspace conference.
Jeff Bezos And Space
I’m surprised at the degree to which I agree with his views. Yes, we definitely need space nuclear reactors, and science cannot justify a human mission to Mars.
This Morning’s Landing Attempt
Loren Grush has the story. So their streak is over, but this is how you learn and improve.
NASA’s Mars Recruitment Posters
I think that these are a cruel fraud on a young generation.
Generation Ships
Would it be moral to send one?
There are at least two flawed assumptions in this piece.
An RD-180 Agreement
This should buy ULA enough time to get Vulcan flying.
Homer Hickam’s Lawsuit
He told me about this when I had lunch with him a few weeks ago when he was in LA, partly to deal with it.
Patti Grace Smith And FAA-AST
@JeffFoust has a good history at The Space Review today. It nicely complements my op-ed on keeping the FAA out of orbit.
Elon’s Mars Plans
More details are revealed in an interview with Christian Davenport at the WaPo.
[Update a couple minutes later]
And here’s kind of a dumb piece about Mars settlement at Popular Science.