I just got a link to the video from Sean Mahoney. It really was tough timing for the Morpheus team that they had such an ignominious test on the same day as the Masten success.
Category Archives: Space
My National Review Piece
I have a couple more thoughts, over at Open Market.
Capitalism In Space
I have a piece up at National Review Online today, on the current state of play in human spaceflight.
Lawyers
Meanwhile, In Mojave
In contrast to NASA’s unfortunate attempt today, Dave Masten is tweeting that they just flew Xombie 650 yards down range.
Saving The Lunar Artifacts
A story with quotes from Roger Launius and Glenn Reynolds over at NPR.
Back To The Drawing Board
Apparently Morpheus crashed and burned in its first untethered flight. Armadillo and Masten often make this stuff look easy, but it’s not.
[Update a fewminutes later]
Here’s the video. Sounds like a tank blew up after a few seconds. Single engine, so had to be a failure of the gimbal or the controller.
Endeavor’s Final Voyage
Ever since the awarded it to LA, I’ve been wondering how they were going to get it from LAX to Exposition Park without pulling off wings or vertical stabilizer, given all the overhead and street-width issues on city streets. Well, here’s a description of the route. Despite what they say, I’ll bet some old trees will die for this.
Statistics And The Failure Of Space Policy
Thoughts from Ed Wright on why we have to get space activities out of the hands of politicians as soon as possible.
Mars Spreadsheet Update
For anyone interested, I’ve got a new, improved version up. It’s basically more organized, with the constants grouped together, and with no references to rows below the formula.