Mike Rogers is concerned.
But he doesn’t lay out any vision or goals of what we should be trying to accomplish. He’s stuck in Sputnic/Apollo mode. It’s just that the race (for whatever it is) is now with China, instead of the USSR.
Maybe I should write an editorial response.
Thanks everyone for the birthday greetings yesterday. Still hoping for many more trips around the sun, and maybe some from beyond Earth.
If we’re going to be servicing satellites (and we are), we have to accept the dual use of the technology. Space is a place.
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More from Space News.
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China’s plans to dominate space.
It’s been fifty-five years since the pad disaster. It was the day before my birthday.
Or should I say, look out above? A Falcon 9 upper stage is going to crash into the Moon in a few weeks.
It’s arrived safely at ESL2.
If the commercial spaceflight industry wants your “help,” it will ask for it.
This seems sort of spectacular.
Are SpaceX’s plans there on indefinite hold?
This is definitely going to delay first orbital flight test, and it may occur out of Florida instead.