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.
[Update a few minutes later]
Link is fixed now, sorry.
Category Archives: Space
Starship
What are the next steps?
Starship History
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.
SN15
Looks like it could happen today.
NASA Has Selected Its Lunar Lander
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.
Look Out Below
First they loose a pandemic on us, and now the Chinese may be about to drop a used rocket on us.
Space Force
Matthew Jenkins writes that it needs better PR.
Gwynne Shotwell
[Update a few minutes later]
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.
Michael Collins
RIP.
We continue to lose that part of the greatest generation that did some of the greatest things. I suspect that even if he hadn’t been an astronaut, he could have been a successful writer.
You Don’t Say
Elon says that a bunch of people will die going to Mars.
I don’t know if he’s read it, but I gave him a copy of the book (via Gwynne) when it came out.