It will be a decade and a half, and $50B, with little spaceflight to show for it.
Europe And Its Space Race
Will SpaceX shut it out?
Probably. Not that he could really do anything about it, but I warned Clay Mowry years ago that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew. Which is probably why he went to Blue Origin.
Protecting Human Heritage On The Moon
An interesting piece by Michelle Hanlon. This is a corollary with space property right. If some places are off limits, it implies that most others are not.
Extinction Rebellion
Human Nature
Panera is the latest to discover that giving away free stuff isn’t a sustainable business model.
Pat Cadell
RIP to that rarest of birds: An honest and non-corrupt Democrat.
Space Solar Power
I wonder how serious this Chinese plan is? It looks like a traditional GEO concept. They have an advantage over us for this, in that they won’t have envirowackos to stop them.
NASA’s Return-To-The-Moon Plans
Eric Berger has the details. It’s clearly an effort to continue to justify the Gateway, which in turn has become required to justify the Shelby Launch System. If/when Starship lands on the moon, or even orbits it, all of this will be moot.
How Dumb Is AOC?
I think she pegs the meter. As Sarah Hoyt notes, blondes are telling jokes about her.
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The rebirth of socialism: Where it came from, and how to stop it.
[Late-morning update]
I suspect that AOC will be successfully primaried after this latest jamming of both feet in her mouth. She just cost her constituents a lot of jobs.
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The worms are starting to turn on her.
The Blob
Beware the metastasis of the Deep State.
People need to go to jail over this. No one elected any of them.
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“Andrew McCabe is a national disgrace. And we owe him a big fat thank you.”