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Category Archives: Space
Off To Mars
The Mars Society convention, that is. I’m not taking a computer, so probably no blogging until this evening.
More CCiCAP News
Clark Lindsey is on top of it. I wrote a piece for Popular Mechanics, but I’m not sure when it will go up. I don’t have a lot of time to discuss it this morning, because I’m finishing up a presentation for the Mars Society meeting this afternoon.
[Update a while later]
Here’s my Popular Mechanics piece.
CCiCAP
Does Alan Boyle have a scoop?
SpaceX, Boeing and Sierra Nevada selected to receive money from NASA for future spaceships, NBC reports.
There were rumors that the announcement was delayed because the White House was unhappy with the selection. If true, many inferred from this that ATK was one of the winners. So if NBC has it right, that would imply that either the rumors weren’t true, or that NASA changed its mind as a result of White House unhappiness. In either event, ATK will be unhappy. As will its supporters in Congress.
[Update a couple minutes later]
It’s Alan Boyle. I think he’s probably got pretty solid stuff, which means that someone leaked.
[Update a while later, about 6 PM PDT]
“The Goal Is Mars”
An interview with Elon Musk. I’ll be talking about private space and Mars in Pasadena on Friday at 2 PM. By the way, here’s an IO9 article on the topic from a couple months ago.
Suborbital Markets
There’s a House subcommittee hearing on the topic this morning (afternoon on the east coast), with some interesting witnesses.
Back Home
We got in last night (did some hiking in Yosemite on Monday). Yes, I’m aware of the site issues. The problem seems to be intermittent, which makes it harder to troubleshoot (and I’m not that much of a PHP maven to do such troubleshooting). I suspect it has something to do with the template update I did a few weeks ago. Any suggestions are appreciated. But I’m also pretty busy getting a talk prepared for the Mars Society conference on Friday, and getting caught up from being gone for a week.
Clark Lindsey’s Final Post
Congratulations on the new home for Space Transport News.
On The Road Again
I’m driving up to San Jose this afternoon to attend NewSpace 2012, so blogging will be nonexistent until tonight, and perhaps light for the next few days.
[Thursday morning update]
Got in about 7:30 last night (I came up 101 rather than 5), and had dinner with a few folks. I’ll be heading over to the conference hotel in a few minutes (I’m staying down in San Jose). Not sure what the Internet situation will be there, but I’ll probably at least be able to tether to my phone. There’s supposed to be a big Armadillo announcement today (I’m guessing that it has to do with their planned flight into space in the next month or so).
Sally Ride
Will ride no more.
Rest in peace. I hadn’t even known she was sick. Among other things, I thought she did yeoman’s work on the Augustine panel.