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Category Archives: Space
The Space Force
Its establishment is just the end of the beginning.
Happy 2020
Looking forward to the New Year will all of my readers. I expect it to be an exciting year for the space industry.
The Global Launch Industry
Bob Zimmerman has a year-end assessment. I expect next year to be a very exciting one, perhaps the most so since 1969.
Galaxy Quest
An interesting history of why the best Star Trek movie ever made wasn’t a bigger hit.
[Afternoon update]
Now that I’ve read the whole thing, I’d like to see a director’s cut with the missing Rickman scenes, and get Weaver to dub in the right word.
A Water-Eating Virus
…from Maaaaars.
A truly dumb article, disappointing from Quillette.
February, Or March
That’s the goal for first flight of the Mark 3 Spaceship.
Holiday Break
I’m a little burned out on blogging, so I’m taking a few days off. Be good in comments.
[Update Monday morning]
OK, this is somewhat urgent, so a break from the break: Only two days left to support The Space Show on the year-end fundraiser.
Boeing’s Annus Horribilis
…continues with today’s failure of Starliner to get to the ISS. Stories from Eric Berger , Marina Koren, and Tim Fernholz.
The question is whether or not they’ll insist on another uncrewed test flight before putting in crew. Given the cost of an Atlas V, I’d be inclined to say no, given that this failure wouldn’t have resulted in loss of crew. Worst case for a crewed flight would be failure to dock, which would just mean a mission abort back to White Sands. But as we all know, SAFETY IS THE HIGHEST PRIORITY.
[Late-morning update]
Loren Grush has another take.
[Update mid-afternoon]
Here’s a story from Emilee Speck in Orlando.
The GAO On Artemis
A nice Christmas present from them to those of us who have to analyze this stuff. Not sure when I’ll actually get around to reading it, but it can’t be pretty.