Here’s what I wrote on the day Columbia was lost. Scroll down and read from bottom up. There’s more on the previous pages. I think my takes held up pretty well.
Category Archives: Space
China In Space
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.
My Birthday
Thanks everyone for the birthday greetings yesterday. Still hoping for many more trips around the sun, and maybe some from beyond Earth.
The Inevitable
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.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from Space News.
[Update a while later]
China’s plans to dominate space.
Apollo 1
It’s been fifty-five years since the pad disaster. It was the day before my birthday.
Look Out Below
Or should I say, look out above? A Falcon 9 upper stage is going to crash into the Moon in a few weeks.
JWST
It’s arrived safely at ESL2.
No, NTSB
If the commercial spaceflight industry wants your “help,” it will ask for it.
Excitement At Starbase
This seems sort of spectacular.