The webcast from Colorado Springs should be starting in a few minutes.
Category Archives: Space
New Solar Fiction
The first 26 pages can be read here. I’ll look forward to reading the whole thing.
Phil Culbertson
Rest in peace. His ashes will be going into space.
It’s senior, not junior, though.
The Space Show
I’ll be on tomorrow evening, from 7-8:30 PM PDT. I’ll bet talking general space tech and policy issues, sort of a preview of what I’ll be talking about at Space Access, though it’s an ever-shifting situation.
Tomorrow’s Landing Attempt
Hans Koenigsmann at SpaceX just said in a press conference that he (or someone) is estimating a 75-80% chance of success, with the redesign of both the Falcon and the drone ship. And the pad-abort test is tentatively scheduled for May 2nd. Which is the final day of the Space Access conference. Cool, if it happens. It will give us something to talk about.
Yuri’s Night
If you’re in LA, this is the place to be.
Don’t go in hopes of seeing me. I can’t see spending money to be tortured with awful, loud music. But if you’re into that sort of thing, and what passes for dancing in this society, knock yourself out.
No, this has nothing to do with me being old (though I do seem, unaccountably, to be aging). I’ve never been into clubbing, or awful, loud music. The twenty-year-old me wouldn’t have gone, either.
Monday Space Events
If weather and other circumstances permit, SpaceX is flying to ISS on CRS-6, with another landing attempt, and in Colorado Springs, Tory Bruno will be announcing the design details and name of their Atlas replacement.
Tech Titans And Life Extension
Here’s a good overview of what Google, Thiel and others are doing. I wish they’d stop calling it “immortality,” though. That’s not the goal, and if it were, it would be unrealistic. It’s just indefinite lifespan. As I often notes, expansion into space and extended lifespan go hand in hand.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link was missing. Fixed now.
Why Go To The Moon
Makes as much sense as “…because it is hard.”
Death In Space
The ethics of dealing with astronauts’ bodies.
That’s not an issue I address in the book. Maybe I should.