Will it enter commercial service next year?
Doug Messier is skeptical. So am I, for the same reasons.
Will it enter commercial service next year?
Doug Messier is skeptical. So am I, for the same reasons.
Commentary from Rick Boozer, on the venal idiocy of Congressional priorities for the space agency.
Jim Muncy: Extend it indefinitely.
Also, the moratorium on regulating space-participant safety.
[Update a while later]
Not sure how the link got broken, but it’s fixed now I think.
No, we don’t have to accept it to mine the moon.
The author ignores the other lunar-related entrepreneurial activities, focusing exclusively on the Google Lunar Prize. The people closest to getting to the moon in any serious way are private actors, not any government, because it’s only going to happen with a dramatic reduction in cost of access. Certainly China’s not doing anything significant.
Jon Goff has another post up on utilizing the upper atmosphere of Venus.
The book is currently listed at 132 thousand or so at Amazon, but it’s number five on this specialty list
(number three, really, since the books ahead of it are only two, in different formats).
Their world was just hit by an asteroid, whether they realize it or not.
Can it continue to work?
Note the implicit but not necessarily valid assumption — that in order to do space activities, you have to launch from your own soil. For instance, I’d bet that Kodiak would be happy to lease some real estate to them for high-inclination launches.
Has anyone actually ordered and received a copy yet?
[Friday-morning update]
Well, as you can see in comments, we have disparate results. One person has received it, one is going to next week, and one got a message that it’s a month away. So huh.