It’s been rescheduled for Tuesday. They’re hoping that the fourth time will be the charm.
I think this is an issue of lack of experience with subcooling the LOX. This is only the second flight of the new vehicle. With sufficient flight experience, they’ll get it down, I’m sure.
The latest agenda (including Yours Truly) is up. It really is the best space conference for the buck.
Some thoughts and history from Doug Messier.
I didn’t try to wangle an invite, because I’m currently in Missouri, sort of on vacation (which is why the light blogging as well). But if I’d been in CA, I’d have probably driven up, just to see who else was in attendance.
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Here’s the official release from Virgin Galactic.
…in spaaaaaaaace.
I wrote about this a few months ago.
This is a huge day for Kip Thorne (and others). Nadia Drake has a comprehensive story up already.
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Here’s another write up by Matthew Francis at The Atlantic.
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Here‘s the paper itself.
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And one from Miri Kramer.
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And from Loren Grush.
Alan Boyle has the story. A cut to SLS/Orion, which the Senate can be relied upon to restore.
Can you imagine an astronaut reading Genesis from space today, as they did during Apollo 8?
Looks like lasermicrowave launch will be on hold for a while.
It’s too bad — it’s an interesting concept. This is the sort of thing that DARPA/NASA should be doing, but the latter has to waste money on a giant rocket.
Eric Berger reports on Wednesday’s House hearing.
If NASA is smart, they’ll be putting a plan together for a return to the moon, to present to the next administration, preferably with a lot of public/private partnership.
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Keith Cowing had a roundup related links yesterday. And here‘s Doug Messier’s summary and Jeff Foust’s story.
Nadia Drake rides the simulator.
I just hope they can get the real thing working.