…has saved money. A history of how it happened, including an idiotic quote from Scott Horowitz, who I consider to be corrupt. The IG should have never allowed that revolving door. It was an obvious conflict of interest.
[Friday-morning update]
Related (sort of): An interesting interview with Elon Musk.
One small step for space law. This is a pretty good overview of the legal situation.
Wow.
Wonder what that’s about?
Hope this doesn’t affect the launch schedule. He was supposed to chair it, I think.
[Update a while later]
Here is the story from Chris Davenport.
[Update a while more later]
And the one from Jackie Feldscher.
[Update few minutes later]
And Eric Berger’s.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Here’s Eric’s latest take. If Loverro really believed that the only way to do 2024 was with Boeing and SLS, he was in the wrong job.
[Bumped]
Bob Zubrin has a different idea.
Elon chose methane because he was thinking Mars, but absent finding significant deposits of lunar carbon, LOX/Hydrogen is probably a better propellant for lunar ops.
How it’s coming along. There’s nothing funny about the cost, though.
OK, it’s simply some high-level, unobjectionable principles (other than to Moon Agreement fans), but seems like a long way from draft agreements. And why only bilateral? I guess they want to work off the framework of the ISS agreements. The devil, of course, will lie in the details.
A long history. I hadn’t realized the degree to which Kelly and China were involved.
I wonder how this will affect the race? McSally is not a great campaigner, but this might help her hang on to the seat.
I’m glad this guy’s not in charge of anything.
The comedy series. It sounds like it will be terrible, and based on ignorant premises.
NASA dropped this video yesterday. It’s like a movie trailer.