No, the flight of Orion is not going to inspire us in space:
Just how an empty Orion capsule designed to make work for displaced Shuttle employees doing two orbits before it splashes down into the Pacific Ocean is going to inspire taxpayers to spend hundreds of billions on Mars escapes me.
Stop. Just stop. Don’t be an Apollo cargo cultist.
Another new smallsat launch venture, based in Auckland.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here‘s Jeff Foust’s take on it.
A brief history of SLS, up to this week.
This looks too good to be true, and it probably is, but it’s worth pursuing.
And since when is thrust rated in “grams”?
Is it time to abolish it?
To me, the more interesting question is what to do with milspace, which isn’t discussed there at all, with its focus on airpower.
No, it’s probably not caused by sexism.
Here’s a crazy idea: Let’s spend them on highways.
This seems sort of useful for space settlement.
What will we do if and when there are no more jobs?