Category Archives: Space
Off To Florida
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.
Space Kiwis
Another new smallsat launch venture, based in Auckland.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here‘s Jeff Foust’s take on it.
“We Are Collectively Perpetrating A Fraud”
A brief history of SLS, up to this week.
Reactionless Drive?
This looks too good to be true, and it probably is, but it’s worth pursuing.
And since when is thrust rated in “grams”?
New CSF President
Eric Stallmer has been hired to replace Michael Lopez-Alegria. Seems like a good pick.
Gender Disparities In Science And Tech
No, it’s probably not caused by sexism.
Martians
An Artificial Leaf
This seems sort of useful for space settlement.
Eulogy For Bill Gaubatz
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)]