Just how corrupt are they?
Too corrupt.
Astronaut Versus Astronaut
Buzz Aldrin endorses Martha McSally in her Arizona race against gun-grabbing astronaut Mark Kelly.
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
This looks promising.
SN8
…has been stacked for flight.
Gordon Woodcock
I just learned that he passed a few days ago. He was both a good and great man, devoted to getting us into space. He was the manager of the Boeing SPS study in the late 70s. I knew him both from L-5 and NSS, and from working with him in the 80s when Boeing and Rockwell teamed on a project.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link is fixed now.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Well, that was fast. This post is already on the first few links at DuckDuckGo.
My Hillsdale Panel Discussion
I just got an email from a friend who saw it on line, so I went and looked it up. Here it is.
I was originally supposed to lead off, but the moderator rearranged things so I ended up batting clean up, and it ended up well. Sercel told me that he was going to talk about some of the things that I did, but dropped them in the interest of time, so all our talks ended up being complementary. A lot of the audience told me later that the panel discussion (the first time space had ever been a topic at this event) “blew their minds.” It was the first time I’d ever met General Kwast, but he has been talking up my book to many people.
The Student-Loan Problem
A modest proposal: Make the universities pay.
They’ve gotten away with this madness for far too long.
[Afternoon update]
Did you know about the ignorance of college students?
A Never Trumper
…is feeling pushed toward Trump. Even though I’m not religious, I agree with much of this.
[Update a few minutes later]
A momentous election:
Donald Trump may be an odd ambassador of freedom. His motley may not pass muster in the salons and drawing rooms of our lords and masters. But Joe Biden is but a gibbering front for a vanguard that would destroy America as traditionally conceived—America, I mean, as a crucible of ordered liberty, limited government, and individual freedom.
Yes.
Ava Gardner
A visit to a museum dedicated to her life. I hadn’t realized that she was born, and died, in the same years as my mother was. They lived parallel lives in time.
The Lockdowns
Were not just immensely destructive to human capital, but probably ineffective.
[Update a couple minutes later]
A child psychologist on the devastating impacts to young children of the pandemic response.