Taking a red eye to West Palm Beach tonight, for a week and a half of misery. I’ll have a laptop, but not sure when I’ll check in again. There’s a possibility we’ll drive up to the Cape for the SpaceX launch on Tuesday, but it’s at a gruesome hour: 1:15 AM.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Blogging will be light this week. We’re prepping a house to get it on the market.
Glad I didn’t attempt to watch the successful launch. It would have been an all nighter, with the delay.
Another new smallsat launch venture, based in Auckland.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here‘s Jeff Foust’s take on it.
A brief history of SLS, up to this week.
This looks too good to be true, and it probably is, but it’s worth pursuing.
And since when is thrust rated in “grams”?
Eric Stallmer has been hired to replace Michael Lopez-Alegria. Seems like a good pick.
No, it’s probably not caused by sexism.
This seems sort of useful for space settlement.
Derek Gaubatz, Bill’s younger son, sent me the eulogy that he read at the service, and asked me to post it [warning, NSFA (Not Safe For Anti-Christians)]
Announcing tools to utilize ISS. Ardulab, is an Arduino modified with features to work on the station. Developed with NASA and Nanoracks. Enabled an 8th-grade class to do a plant-growth experiment for different light conditions in space, ready to fly. Takes up only ten percent of allowed volume, leaving remainder for experiments. Completely open source, hardware and software. Will be opening web site right after talk today.