The Space Tech Expo was yesterday and today in Long Beach. It’s the first space conference I’ve been to in a year and a half, so I’m catching up.
Category Archives: Space
Walmart, But For Space
My latest essay at The New Atlantis is up, but will probably be behind the paywall for a few days or weeks.
The Aging ISS
The Russians have had to shut down a docking port.
Safety At Blue Origin
This can’t give Tory Bruno a warm feeling about the engines for Vulcan.
The “Space Cowboys”
Criticism of them isn’t enough.
Uh, huh.
The Real Human Exploration Of The Solar System
NASA’s plans are going to look increasingly absurd as the decade progresses.
A New Way Of Doing Business
An interesting article on NASA’s and Tom Zurbuchen’s CLPS program to get back to the moon.
What Is Microgravity?
I have some thoughts, over at the SpaceTech Analytics blog.
Virgin Galactic
…is grounded. I wonder if they’ll take away their allowance, too?
Honestly, this seems kind of dumb. A SpaceShipTwo that is out of fuel is no more of a risk to public safety than a business jet. In fact, it’s less, if the jet goes down full of fuel.
[Late-evening update]
My assumption when I wrote the original post was that the concern was uninvolved public on the ground. It didn’t occur to me that it could be incurring on other airspace that might be unaware of it, and into which it was not supposed to go. My bad.
SLS
I’m sure that you’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that the first flight will be delayed again.