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Category Archives: Space
Space Property Rights At The Space Review
Jeff Foust has a roundup of the story so far.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Alan Boyle has picked up the story, including an interview with me.
The First NASA Astronauts
We met them fifty-three years ago today. It was slightly over two years since Gagarin’s first flight, whose fifty-first anniversary is on Thursday.
More On Space Property Rights
I have a response to Jim Dunstan’s criticism of the proposal over at Open Market.
Yes, That’s Exactly What I Said
The Daily Mail says that I said that billionaires could buy up other planets and rip up the space treaties.
[Update a while later]
Here’s a much better piece from Rebecca Boyle at Popular Science.
Innovation Starvation
Some thoughts on our seeming inability to any long do the big technological things, from Neil Stephenson.
Space Property Rights Reporting
Tomorrow’s Press Conference
Our press conference on the space property rights paper will be live streamed, starting at 11 AM EDT.
Republican Space Socialists
Gene Kaprowski from the Daily Caller interviewed me on Monday afternoon. This is the result.
[Update a few minutes later]
It’s both amusing and depressing to read through the post comments, and note that absolutely none of them have anything to do with space. It’s all about the election and the Tea Party. This doesn’t bode well for having a space-policy discussion this year.
Bolden In Bizarro World
I’m glad to see the administrator so forthrightly in favor of private provision of launch services, but this seems exactly backward to me:
Only governments could control space exploration, he said, because only governments were willing to accept the risks.
“We are going to lose people,” he warned.
“You need to be able to accept that. Governments can handle that a little bit easier than private industry.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah [deep breath] hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah…
Whew. That was a good one.