Strange, because I don’t personally know anyone who’s been affected (that I know of).
Category Archives: Technology and Society
SpaceShipTwo
Their launch window opened this morning at 7 AM. I’d thought about driving up, but it’s going to be pretty cold up there, and I didn’t think the weather would cooperate. It did turn out that they scrubbed. I think Friday’s the most likely day now, because another storm is coming through tonight and tomorrow.
Your Fifteen Minutes Of Hate
From recent experience, Nancy Rommelmann has a guide to surviving it.
NASA’s “Space” Program
It will be a decade and a half, and $50B, with little spaceflight to show for it.
Europe And Its Space Race
Will SpaceX shut it out?
Probably. Not that he could really do anything about it, but I warned Clay Mowry years ago that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew. Which is probably why he went to Blue Origin.
Protecting Human Heritage On The Moon
An interesting piece by Michelle Hanlon. This is a corollary with space property right. If some places are off limits, it implies that most others are not.
Extinction Rebellion
Space Solar Power
I wonder how serious this Chinese plan is? It looks like a traditional GEO concept. They have an advantage over us for this, in that they won’t have envirowackos to stop them.
NASA’s Return-To-The-Moon Plans
Eric Berger has the details. It’s clearly an effort to continue to justify the Gateway, which in turn has become required to justify the Shelby Launch System. If/when Starship lands on the moon, or even orbits it, all of this will be moot.
Enough Is Enough
L. Neil Smith has a modest proposal on Second Amendment rights.