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Category Archives: Space
Fuel In Space
Is it a job for the oil and gas industry, or space miners? I think the former has a lot of expertise and experience to offer.
Babies On Mars
My thoughts, from almost two years ago.
The Senate Space Hearing
I’m watching it right now. Here‘s Scott Pace’s testimony.
Commercial Space In Congress
There’s going to be a Senate hearing this afternoon, and Jeff Foust lays out some of the issues that will be discussed.
Kodiak
An op-ed supporting the spaceport there. In the interest of disclosure, I should note that I’ve been doing some consulting for them to help develop strategies to expand their market.
The Space Declaration
I have no problem with this, as worded. It’s probably about the best you’re going to do and still have consensus, given who was involved in crafting it. I disagree, though, that the 2010 NASA authorization is consistent with it. I’m sure they had to say that to get Bingham to go along.
Risk Aversion
…costs more than fast failure.
This is about defense, but it applies to space as well. NASA in particular suffers from paralysis by analysis, as demonstrated by how long and how much money it took to do that stupid Orion test flight last year (and how long and how much more money it will be until the next one). But it doesn’t matter, because Congress doesn’t really care if anything is accomplished as long as the jobs don’t go away. I may expand on this in the next edition of the book.
Dragon Pad Abort
The test may happen in the next couple weeks.
Next-Generation Launch Vehicle
Here’s some useful speculation on what it might look like and do.