Dale Amon has a tale from the end of the first century of the space age.

I’m hoping to attend the annual meeting week after next in Long Beach. But AIAA has something new this year–a conference blog. It will be interesting to see how this works out.

It’s also interesting that they didn’t set it up on their own server–they just used Blogspot.

Over at Universe Today.

I wonder what this prize will be for? Guess we’ll find out next week.

Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides thinks that the on-line community can help NASA come up with one.

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Hey, there’s always the comments section.

And yes, I have emerged, blinking and confused, from SBIR proposal hell. Thanks for asking.

Live from Second Life, it’s the Frontier Spaceport. Robin Snelson reports that Colonel Smith is going to report to the Pentagon that SPS is viable.

We’ll see.

[Update about mid morning.]

Colonel Smith (aka “Coyote”) explains why the DoD is interested in power from space.

Almost half a century after the first orbital launch by the Soviets, and in the wake of another failure of a supposedly “reliable” Russian launcher, Clark Lindsey has a brief, but appropriate rant about our national failure to develop reliable and low-cost access to space, a goal that NASA is not only doing very little about, but, by building yet another horrifically expensive throwaway, actually spending billions to delay.

Almost half a century after the first orbital launch by the Soviets, and in the wake of another failure of a supposedly “reliable” Russian launcher, Clark Lindsey has a brief, but appropriate rant about our national failure to develop reliable and low-cost access to space, a goal that NASA is not only doing very little about, but, by building yet another horrifically expensive throwaway, actually spending billions to delay.

Almost half a century after the first orbital launch by the Soviets, and in the wake of another failure of a supposedly “reliable” Russian launcher, Clark Lindsey has a brief, but appropriate rant about our national failure to develop reliable and low-cost access to space, a goal that NASA is not only doing very little about, but, by building yet another horrifically expensive throwaway, actually spending billions to delay.

You’re going to see a lot of these kinds of pieces as we come up on the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, now only one month away. I haven’t read it yet, but I’ll probably come up with a version of my own in the next few weeks.