[Update a few minutes later]
Elon shows the way: ” The promotional video, captured and shared on the Chinese social network Weibo, shows two different concepts for achieving suborbital passenger flights about two decades from now. What is interesting about the video (which I’ve mirrored on YouTube) is that the first concept looks strikingly like SpaceX’s Starship vehicle. It shows a large vehicle capable of vertical takeoff and vertical landing. “
You don’t say.
RIP.
We continue to lose that part of the greatest generation that did some of the greatest things. I suspect that even if he hadn’t been an astronaut, he could have been a successful writer.
Thoughts on the false narrative, and our two-tiered justice system.
Elon says that a bunch of people will die going to Mars.
I don’t know if he’s read it, but I gave him a copy of the book (via Gwynne) when it came out.
This op-ed seems a little aerie faerie to me, and I’m not sure what exactly he’s proposing, but someone should tell him that space is not the common heritage of mankind.
…will impoverish America.
Why yes, yes it would.
Five reasons it’s a watershed moment in human spaceflight.
It’s the biggest departure from the ancient Apollo mentality that the agency has ever made.
[Sunday-morning update]
Casey Handmer does a thorough analysis of just how revolutionary this capability is. We will get not only cheap lunar (and other space) transportation, but cheap lunar bases based on one-way trips of Starships. It also probably means that, for a long time, lunar ISRU for propellant will make no economic sense.
[Bumped]
And Samantha Bee is wrong about comedy.
It’s just more junk science, that has wrecked state and local economies.
Pretty solid evidence that the the Obama administration was using government agencies to illegally surveil its political opposition (including Trump) for years. And now the Biden administration is doing the same.