Every few years, someone has to do an article like this.
Once people are paying to go for their own purposes, instead of being government employees at taxpayer expense, there will be plenty of hanky panky up there.
Category Archives: Space
UFOs
What the hell?
Progress at Boca Chica
Chris Bergin has the latest, with (as usual) pictures by Mary.
[Update a while later]
Am amazing infographic on the orbital test flight.
The Billionaire Space Race
I’m quoted in this article. I talked to Kaplan quite a bit for it, but he obviously talked to a lot of other people as well.
Conscious Choice
Bob Zimmerman’s new book is out. I blurbed it.
Space Solar Power
This seems pretty ambitious on China’s part.
The Yellow Menace
I’m sorry, there may be some point at which China is a threat in space, but the notion of it coming from what is basically a repeat of Skylab almost half a century later is nowhere near it.
Cislunar Space
The Space Corps is extending its reach.
While cislunar literally means “between,” I think it would include five the Lagrange points, not just L-1.
Nelson Reminds Congress
…that they’re the ones failing to fund a lunar lander.
And with the questions about safety, they continue to show themselves to be unserious about space.
Relaxing Regs?
I’m semi-encouraged by this, but I doubt that it goes far enough. The range rules go back to the 50s, when Our Rockets Always Blow Up. They need to be updated to the 21st century, particularly for reusable vehicles in which shedding parts down range is an anomaly, not routine.