Last summer solstice, a year ago today, I was in Mojave, California, watching SpaceShipOne go into space for the first time. Tariq Malik describes all of the activity since then that bodes well for private space passenger travel.
Category Archives: Space
My Take On Derb’s Rant
OK, I decided to do a mild (because there’s actually much of it with which I agree) fisking of last week’s piece.
My Take On Derb’s Rant
OK, I decided to do a mild (because there’s actually much of it with which I agree) fisking of last week’s piece.
My Take On Derb’s Rant
OK, I decided to do a mild (because there’s actually much of it with which I agree) fisking of last week’s piece.
Not Impressed
John Derbyshire doesn’t think much of (what I’m guessing is) Keith Cowing’s emails:
I had some exchanges with one fellow who took strong exception to my Space Shuttle piece. “It must really suck being you,” he asserted. Now, this is pretty lame on a first occurrence; but in our subsequent exchanges he just couldn’t think of any way to improve on it. “Like I said, it must really suck being you,” he’d close. It dawned on me at last that the guy thinks this is the most crushing, most devastating put-down that has yet been devised from the English language. I weep for these people.
Which reminds me that I still plan to critique the piece myself.
Derb’s Rant
I was going to comment on this strange and hyperbolic broadside at the Shuttle, and the manned space program in general from John Derbyshire, but Mark Whittington (who really should spell check his posts) and Clark Lindsey have preempted much of what I would have written.
Briefly, while I agree with his conclusions, he gets there by accident, because his premises are mostly wrong, and his numbers exaggerated beyond any semblance of reality.
Derb’s Rant
I was going to comment on this strange and hyperbolic broadside at the Shuttle, and the manned space program in general from John Derbyshire, but Mark Whittington (who really should spell check his posts) and Clark Lindsey have preempted much of what I would have written.
Briefly, while I agree with his conclusions, he gets there by accident, because his premises are mostly wrong, and his numbers exaggerated beyond any semblance of reality.
Derb’s Rant
I was going to comment on this strange and hyperbolic broadside at the Shuttle, and the manned space program in general from John Derbyshire, but Mark Whittington (who really should spell check his posts) and Clark Lindsey have preempted much of what I would have written.
Briefly, while I agree with his conclusions, he gets there by accident, because his premises are mostly wrong, and his numbers exaggerated beyond any semblance of reality.
Wrong Alloy
Dwayne Day has an interesting article on the degree to which the space station can be considered a success, but I would have thought that he knew that it was mostly made of aluminum and composites–very little steel involved.
Don’t Panic
Jim Oberg says that too many people are hyperventilating over space weapons.