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.
Congratulations to JPL on another successful landing. Bob Zimmerman has the latest.
It’s behind a paywall, but that’s the hed of an editorial at Bloomberg News.
What matters is not who does it first, but who does it best, and why they’re doing it.
Despite the failure to land so far, it looks like SpaceX is making progress more rapidly than anticipated.
[Afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is writing the obituary for SLS. I hope he’s right.
…is (finally) retiring. Here are four potential people to replace him. Brooks is from Huntsville. He and Ross Aderholt have been the biggest proponents of the Big Monster Rocket in the House.
Sigh.
No, there was never a Trump plan for sending anyone to Mars by 2024, and the FAA didn’t cancel the SpaceX test.
A good article about the landing failure at Teslerati.
The movie trailer has been released.
I personally know almost everyone in that trailer (you can see a young Eric Drexler on the extreme right of the MIT mass-driver team). I’m supposedly in the film (I was interviewed for it).
The first issue is out.
Looks like some interesting stories by top-notch analysts.