A new podcast series, featuring (among others) Glenn Reynolds, Bob Zubrin, Bob Zimmerman, and Yours Truly, on the coming expansion into the solar system.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Episode 1 is up now.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Here’s Episode 3, with Bob Zubrin.
[Bumped]
I was at the Space Settlement Summit over the weekend, and didn’t have a computer with me. Sorry for not warning on Friday.
Tart commentary from Jim Bennett (who I’ll probably see this evening at the Space Settlement Summit in Beverly Hills).
An article about Homer Hickam and Yours Truly. They get this wrong, though: “…while Hickam and Simberg may disagree on the value of safety, they may agree that NASA could not afford to suffer such losses, especially considering pressures from Congress and the general public.”
Homer and I do not in fact disagree on the value of safety. Here is his review of the book.
…is still not understood.
[Update Friday afternoon]
The latest SLS follies: This isn’t insane at all.
My business associate and former XCOR employee Dale Amon is doing an equity crowdfunding on his company in Las Cruces.
As with the Nanoracks/Lockmart one, there is no discussion of orbital location. It looks like Sierra has decided to team up.
[Tuesday-morning update]
OK, here’s a description from NASA Spaceflight. They clearly want to be co-orbital with ISS, but they say that they’ll be at a higher altitude. That doesn’t make sense, because if they aren’t at the same altitude, the nodes are going to drift apart and while they’ll be at the same inclination, they will be in a different orbit plane. They should be leading or trailing it at the same altitude if they want to stay co-planar.
This is interesting. I wonder what orbit it will be in? I’d think they’d want to be co-orbital with ISS.
I’ll trade options on that stock, but I wouldn’t buy and hold.