Bob Zubrin on its profound potential.
I’ve written a piece on the same theme for the next issue of The New Atlantis.
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Bob’s focus is on how it changes getting to the moon and Mars. My piece is broader, on how it changes everything, and requires a complete rethinking of how we build spacecraft.
If this rumor is true, it’s Kendra Horn. Not a great choice.
Bezos tried to hire Gwynne away for Blue Origin. So far, only Elon has shown himself to have the Right Stuff to open up space.
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Link is fixed now, sorry.
What are the next steps?
This is a pretty good description of the test program to date, but I think he’s mistaken about the engines for LEO. It wouldn’t make sense to put Merlins in it, because that would mean it would have to carry two different types of fuel.
Looks like it could happen today.
Now comes the fun part.
I’m writing a piece similar to this for The New Atlantis. It’s hard for people who are still thinking in Apollo mode to get their head around just how revolutionary this is.
First they loose a pandemic on us, and now the Chinese may be about to drop a used rocket on us.
Matthew Jenkins writes that it needs better PR.
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Elon shows the way: ” The promotional video, captured and shared on the Chinese social network Weibo, shows two different concepts for achieving suborbital passenger flights about two decades from now. What is interesting about the video (which I’ve mirrored on YouTube) is that the first concept looks strikingly like SpaceX’s Starship vehicle. It shows a large vehicle capable of vertical takeoff and vertical landing. “
You don’t say.