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.
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.
A nice essay by Martin Elvis.
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.
What the hell?
Chris Bergin has the latest, with (as usual) pictures by Mary.
[Update a while later]
Am amazing infographic on the orbital test flight.
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.
Bob Zimmerman’s new book is out. I blurbed it.
This seems pretty ambitious on China’s part.
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.