For a few minutes this morning, there were nineteen people in space at one time.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Elon Musk
Dylan Taylor
Eric Berger profiles the next investor to go into space.
A Grape-Seed Extract
Techno-Optimism
An interesting essay by Noah Smith.
Humanity’s Second Parting
Thoughts from Wretchard on the coming end of instantaneous communications.
Light Posting
We’re driving up to the Bay Area to attend this event this weekend. I’ll have the laptop, but probably not much time to post.
The New Space Race
Glenn Reynolds says that we have to watch out for China.
A Space Station Gap?
I haven’t read the OIG report on commercial space stations yet, but Jeff Foust has.
I’m not as pessimistic. If Starship works as planned, it will completely change the way we’d build space facilities, and make them cheaper and faster.
The Raptor Crisis
This isn’t good news, but it’s probably not as bad as Elon makes it out to be. He’s got to motivate the team to fix it. At least the design seems to be sound. The issue seems to be production rate.