I have a post up over at SpaceTech Analytics.
[Saturday-morning update]
More thoughts over at The Verge.
Category Archives: Space
52nd Anniversary
Apollo 11 launched on this day in 1969. I’ll be on The Space Show on Tuesday night, talking about Evoloterra.
SpaceX’s Environmental Problem
Bob Zimmerman is not happy with the FAA.
Branson’s Flight
Some reflections from Bob Zimmerman.
[Update a while later]
Here‘s Eric Berger’s take on the significance.
This picture doesn’t flatter her. She’s quite stunning in person.
We Demand A Collectivist Space Program
An ignorant rant against the “billionaire space race.”
[Update a while later]
As would be expected, Alan Boyle has a more intelligent take on the “race.”
SLS BS
It’s like these people are living in an alternate reality. No sane program manager is going to want to use SLS. And a billion dollars a flight? That might be the marginal cost, but it’s not the average.
[Saturday-morning update]
More thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
Fake Meat And Hydroponics
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.
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?