Maybe, but I think that Pacific Northwest and the Front Range may give them a run for their money. The sad thing is that it’s probably not LA. Other than SpaceX, not a lot of it here.
Category Archives: Space
Extrasolar Space Law
Transterrestrial reader (and occasional commenter) Laura Montgomery has what appears to be an interesting new SF book
She writes:
I noticed that you’ve mentioned an independent author from time to time at Transterrestrial, and thought I’d let you know about my own attempts along those lines. I’ve published on Kindle and other ereaders The Sky Suspended.
It’s bourgeois, legal science fiction with a hearty helping of space policy wonkery.
The short version of the blurb is:
A generation has passed since asteroid scares led the United States to launch its first and only interstellar starship. The ship returns and announces the discovery of another Earth. People are star-struck, crowds form in Washington, DC, and a boy from Alaska and two lawyers grapple with issues surrounding the question of whether ordinary people will be able to emigrate to the stars.
I haven’t read it, but the few reviews are positive. You might want to check it out and add your own.
One Week Left In July
…and SpaceShipTwo still hasn’t had a second powered flight.
Just sayin.’
The Irony-Challenged Senator From Florida
I just got an email from someone will remain anonymous, to protect the guilty:
This weekend the Washington Post had this marginally interesting article on the Congressional resistance/support for the asteroid mission.
But buried within is a prizewinning quote from the irony-challenged senior Senator from Florida.
Nelson, the Florida senator who is a key advocate for NASA and the administration’s strategy, criticized the Republicans in the House for overreaching.
“A committee of politicians doesn’t know better than the experts in aerospace and science,” Nelson said.
This from a Senator who personally sponsored legislation forcing NASA to build a shuttle-derived heavy-lift launch vehicle, and when they balked, bullied NASA’s senior management to build that “monster rocket” (his phrase) despite their showing him that it didn’t fit in the budget. And that was before sequestration.
I guess committees of politicians are only experts in designing rockets, not in choosing where to send them.
Apparently.
The Frightening Frontier
Linda Billings (whom I’ve known for thirty years or so) seems to have a problem with space development and settlement. I’d argue with her, if I could figure out just what her objection is. Perhaps there’s a clue in that she thinks that Howard Zinn’s tracts are just great.
Destination Moon
On the set, in 1950.
Evoloterra
Clark Lindsey and his wife performed the ceremony with some friends, and has a review. Our experience has been that people who are not generally into space enjoy it quite a bit, if you can get them to do it.
Reforming NASA
It’s not going to happen this year.
Sadly, he’s probably right. We’re going to waste at least another two to four billion dollars on SLS before it’s canceled.
Forty-Four Years Ago Today
…men first walked on the moon. And this past Tuesday (when we did The Space Show on our ceremony, that I hope everyone performs tonight), was the forty-fourth anniversary of the launch, when the Saturn dropped it first stage into the Atlantic. And they’ve confirmed the find of one of the engines.
The Senate Launch System
The latest analysis of the programmatic disaster to come. With bonus Orion problems.
This is simply insane.