Space Fashion

There wasn’t much worth taking pictures of at the conference in Vegas this past weekend, but Misuzu Onuki is always worth taking a picture of, and when she’s with her space fashions, it’s worth posting. The one on the left is a wedding dress, with wires in it to make the fringes “float” up as they would in weightlessness.

Unaffordable And Unsustainable

The Space Foundation has put their new white paper on line. Released at the conference this weekend (and summarized by Leonard David), it calls for cancelling Block I of the CEV (the one that’s designed to go to ISS), and using the funds to increase COTS funding, and restore aeronautics and space science that has been cut over the past couple years.

I should note that I haven’t been blogging much this week because I’m busy reviewing and rewriting requirements and verification statements for CEV Block I…

[Wednesday update]

There are a lot of reader comments over at NASA Watch.

Deja Vu

It’s a sad commentary on public debate that this has to be done over and over again, but Jeff Jacoby dismantles (once again) the imbecilic “Chicken Hawk” “argument:”

“Chicken hawk” isn’t an argument. It is a slur — a dishonest and incoherent slur. It is dishonest because those who invoke it don’t really mean what they imply — that only those with combat experience have the moral authority or the necessary understanding to advocate military force. After all, US foreign policy would be more hawkish, not less, if decisions about war and peace were left up to members of the armed forces. Soldiers tend to be politically conservative, hard-nosed about national security, and confident that American arms make the world safer and freer. On the question of Iraq — stay-the-course or bring-the-troops-home? — I would be willing to trust their judgment. Would Cindy Sheehan and Howard Dean?

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