The usual buzzphrases:
5) Lean, Integrated Teams with Accelerated Decision Making
4) Right Sized Documentation and Standards
3) Risk-Informed Government Insight/Oversight Model
2) Robust Designs and Margins
1) Evolvable Development Approach
[In reverse order, ‘cuz I pulled them off Ed Ellegood’s Twitter feed]
As I tweeted him back, those tricks never work. Not on a cost-plus program where you have to spread the pork.
The Tea Party in Space praises Tom McClintock’s effort to shutdown the congressional SLS porkfest.
…exposed.
I asked Elon if he could discuss it on the record. His response: “Sorry, but SpaceX is not commenting on Grasshopper at this time, except to say that it is part of a reusability strategy that I’ve had in mind for a long time.”
That fits in with everything else I’ve ever heard (and his adamance that he was going to recover the first stage when I asked him after the first flight). But that doesn’t mean that there couldn’t be a lot more to it, of course,
It didn’t all go into the drink — they found the biggest piece in Calgary. Kind of amazing that they found it. Of course, those pieces of Skylab falling in the Outback were fortuitous (or something) to end up so close to a town as well.
The Canadians seem to have bad luck with falling space crap. Of course, they have a lot of land area.
At least it wasn’t radioactive this time.
[Update later afternoon]
It was a hoax (see comments).
Here’s a pretty good guess. It’s likely with the fishes off the Oregon/Washington coast.
…and its enemies (to steal a phrase from Virginia Postrel). Why space settlement is important.
[Via Clark Lindsey and Trent Waddington, who made it]
…over at Open Market.
…over at The Corner, to rebut his piece this morning.
More revisionist history, over at National Review. I’ll have to see if I can do a rebuttal.