A very nice one.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
OK, now let’s come up with some verses for “What Shall We Do With The Drunken Belter?”
[Update a couple minutes later]
Laura Montgomery has another one from a few years ago, but no known tune.
Category Archives: Space
Propellant Depots
An interesting discussion at Selenian Boondocks.
Steak
This would be a great technology for the planet, and off planet. I wonder what it will cost per pound when they scale up production?
Long March 9
Another rocket that, like the SLS, will be obsolete before it first flies.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, first link is fixed.
Starlink
How it’s about to disrupt the telecommunications sector.
Massively, I suspect.
SLS
If you think I’m rough on it, let Casey Handmer tell you what he really thinks.
[Update a while later]
I just read the whole thing, and it’s (justifiably) brutal, particularly toward Boeing.
AEI And Space
I’ve tried to interest AEI in doing more on space policy, and it looks like they’re trying. I know it’s short notice, but this event starts in a little over an hour.
The New Administrator
Well, this is terrible, if true.
Hard to imagine a worse pick. He’s the father of the mother of all Big Monster Rockets. His astronaut nickname was “Ballast.”
[Tuesday noon update]
The politician who said that politicians shouldn’t run NASA wants to run NASA.
Perseverance
Congratulations to JPL on another successful landing. Bob Zimmerman has the latest.
“Scrap The Space launch System”
It’s behind a paywall, but that’s the hed of an editorial at Bloomberg News.