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.
Category Archives: Space
Asteroid Mining
A nice essay by Martin Elvis.
S3x In Space
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.
UFOs
What the hell?
Progress at Boca Chica
Chris Bergin has the latest, with (as usual) pictures by Mary.
[Update a while later]
Am amazing infographic on the orbital test flight.
The Billionaire Space Race
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.
Conscious Choice
Bob Zimmerman’s new book is out. I blurbed it.
Space Solar Power
This seems pretty ambitious on China’s part.
The Yellow Menace
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.
Cislunar Space
The Space Corps is extending its reach.
While cislunar literally means “between,” I think it would include five the Lagrange points, not just L-1.