Category Archives: Space

Business, Economics, Law, Space, Technology and Society

My Space Property-Rights Project

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I’m not being funded for it this year, but I’m wondering who would like to contribute to keeping it going, if I do a Kickstarter? I’d need about twenty grand, much of it for required travel (including, potentially, Dubai for IAC in the fall). It would be to promote the ideas in my IAC paper from last fall.

[Thursday-morning update]

OK, to brainstorm a little bit, if I do a Kickstarter (as opposed to a GoFundMe or something else), any suggestions for rewards? Maybe a signed copy of the multilateral agreement(s)?

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Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Space

Trump’s New Budget Proposal

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Thoughts on the mendacious media coverage of it.

A lot of Artemis fans on Twitter were cheering for the budget proposal of seventy billion dollars over five years to get back to the moon. Even ignoring how ridiculous that number is, I had to remind them of something.

[Update a few minutes later]

The White House budget shows why we’re fiscally doomed.

[Wednesday-afternoon update]

Stop pretending that the president’s budget matters.

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Business, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

Starliner Woes

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It continues to look worse and worse for Boeing. I’m almost starting to wonder if it will ever fly. SpaceX can do the job for less money, and it may not be that long before either Dreamchaser or Starship is flying (though it’s not clear that the latter will be capable of docking with the ISS).

[Update a few minutes later]

Comments over there are (deservedly, IMO) brutal.

[Update Monday afternoon]

“We don’t know how many software errors we have.”

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