Do we really need them? I don’t know, but if so, spending money on NASA isn’t the way to do it, at least not intrinsically.
Category Archives: Space
Medusa Space
…has an interesting press announcement, over at Clark Lindsey’s place.
Congress Flunks Math 101
Doug Messier has a report on the rampant idiocy on display yesterday in the space hearings on both sides of the Hill.
Human Extinction
Are we underestimating the risk?
Yes. Next question?
This is why Romney’s complete lack of vision about space settlement is so depressing.
[Late morning update]
This seems related: Amateurs the new fear in making a new flu virus.
[Bumped]
Boarding A Sinking Ship
Turkey has become the fourteenth nation to sign on to the Moon Treaty. Like the others, it’s never put so much as a grapefruit into orbit.
3-D Printing
…in weightlessness. This technology could be a game changer.
Jeff Bezos
An interesting profile in The Economist, including a mention (but unsurprisingly, little info) of Blue Origin.
Space Blather From Bill Posey
Once again, the congressman tells us how crucial NASA is to national security without explaining why, or what NASA has to do with weather satellites or cell phones. And I was very surprised to hear that the Chinese blew up their weathersat with a laser. The things you learn from Congresspeople.
Neil de Grasse Tyson
…is wrong about space policy. Well, he’s a scientist, not a policy analyst.
I’ve taught Katherine well, if I do say so myself.
Valentina Tereshkova
Happy seventy-fifth birthday!