Blue Origin Speaks

It’s time for NASA to get out of the launch business.

I’ve only been saying this for over two decades.

Don’t read the comments, though.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Bob Zimmerman is very encouraged about the future of America in space.

Light posting today if at all, because I’ll be at the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach all day.

[Thursday-morning update]

Bob has a follow up post. I do think the proposal to reduce crew size on the ISS is penny-wise pound-foolish.

Flight 8 Report

With approval for another flight as early as next week, SpaceX has released a report on what happened on the last two flights, and what they’ve done to prevent a repeat of either.

[Tuesday-morning update]

For those with X, Elon is about to talk about getting multi-planetary, as a prelude to this afternoon’s launch attempt. For the Xless, just go to SpaceX.com.

[Update a few minutes later]

It just changed the start time from 1015 PDT to 1800. So after the flight, instead of before?

News On The Mann Front

[Friday-morning update]

The worm has turned.

[Update Saturday morning]

An actual news report in Pennsylvania.

[Update]

The ice cracks.

[Update a few minutes later]

More over at WattsUpWithThat.

This is the best reporting on the legal situation so far, but I hope that at some point Jonathan Adler weighs in.

Harvard

FAFO:

[Saturday-morning update]

Harvard is totally corrupted.

It’s unclear that it’s even salvageable.

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