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.
Category Archives: Space
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.
Commercial Spaceships
Forbes has a gallery.
Technically, of course, the balloon isn’t a “spaceship.”
The “Road To Mars”
Kicking the can down it. Anyone who is waiting for NASA to send anyone to Mars is going to be very disappointed.
Peter Thiel
A conversation with Tyler Cowen, on the future of innovation, life extension and God.
Blue Origin
They’ve completed acceptance tests for their new suborbital LOX/hydrogen engine. Hope this means they start flying again soon.
NASA And The Moon
Yes, the agency really is reconsidering it.
One can understand why PAO has to deny it, though.
[Update a few minutes later]
This looks like an interesting seminar. Things like this are why I sometimes regret not living in DC.
COMSTAC And The Learning Period
Jeff Foust has a report on last week’s meeting, but I can’t tell from it what actually came out of it.