Some reflections from Bob Zimmerman.
[Update a while later]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take on the significance.
This picture doesn’t flatter her. She’s quite stunning in person.
Category Archives: Space
We Demand A Collectivist Space Program
An ignorant rant against the “billionaire space race.”
[Update a while later]
As would be expected, Alan Boyle has a more intelligent take on the “race.”
SLS BS
It’s like these people are living in an alternate reality. No sane program manager is going to want to use SLS. And a billion dollars a flight? That might be the marginal cost, but it’s not the average.
[Saturday-morning update]
More thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
Fake Meat And Hydroponics
It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. This doesn’t seem like good news for growing food in space, if soil is a key element of flavor. We know it is with wine grapes.
Asteroid Mining
A nice essay by Martin Elvis.
S3x In Space
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.
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.