Chris Bergin has the story on current status of modifications at the Cape. Launch “as early as next summer.”
Let’s hope.
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Related: ESA and Arianespace seem to have settled on the design of their next obsolete launch system.
If this is valid, it would have application not to just life extension, but to space travel as well.
An interview with a climate skeptic.
It is a rejection of climate-change hysteria .
We may work up the gumption to go see it this weekend.
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Related thoughts from Mark Steyn.
It launched 45 years ago today. It was hit by lightning twice, but ground controller John Aaron quickly told the astronauts how to get the systems back on line. Amy Shira Teitel is doing real-time tweeting of the mission.
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What it was like to be an Apollo flight controller.
Over at Av Week .
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Hmmmmm…this seems a little off:
“…is not to be moved into the unlock position until acceleration has reached Mach 1.4.”
Mach 1.4 is a velocity, not an acceleration. I know what they mean, but this kind of sloppiness in writing a procedure doesn’t look good.
I’ll be on today , from 9:30 to 11 AM PST.
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The call-in number is 1-866-687-7223.
Some useful thoughts on epistemology and psychology, in the context of climate science.
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Related: Climate change in the land of Gruber/Obama , and Gaia as the opiate of the masses .
My thoughts on what it all means, over at PJMedia, with some bonus @ISPCS coverage and history.
The Pentagon balks .
Congress won’t like this. Insufficient opportunities for graft.
Note the implicit acknowledgement that they’re going to be using Falcons.
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