Nothing has changed in four years, except the name of the rocket.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Space Colonies
If You Take My Gun
“I will simply print another one.”
Clearly, the solution is to ban printers.
Firefly Alpha
Jeff Foust reports on the new launch company’s first planned product, and wonders if there’s a market for it.
Apollo 45th Anniversary
I talked to Buzz yesterday, and he’s promoting a huge social-media celebration of the event (the actual anniversary is a week from Sunday).
[Update a while later]
Remembering Bill Gaubatz
Jeff Foust has a piece up at The Space Review.
Jerry Ross
Well, this is kind of a frightening interview.
That he was allowed to manage anything at NASA explains a lot.
Stirling Engines
Dean Kamen has what looks like a pretty nifty way to get off the grid. As he says, it beats the hell out of solar panels.
Alan Bond
This journalist is far too credulous about Skylon. But this is the funniest line in the piece:
Space travel is currently dominated by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX…
I’ll have to tweet the guy.