Time to declare it the biggest charity fraud ever.
Boeing Plans
Alan Boyle reports on a speech from the CEO. And no, CST will not be the first private space vehicle to go to LEO.
NASA’s Aging Work Force
I talked to Haley Byrd about this yesterday, and she quoted me.
“He Wants To Go To Mars, Dammit”
Eric Berger has a longish piece on the debut of Block 5 Falcon 9, and its implications.
A Space Nuclear Reactor
…has passed its initial tests. This is one of the most useful things I’ve seen to come out of NASA in a while. Just think what we could be doing if we were doing more of this kind of thing, instead of building a giant rocket and capsule.
The Internet’s Creators
Their regrets on how they wrecked it.
And thoughts from James Lileks.
I am often snarky on Twitter, but I don’t have any trouble not being profane or cruel.
Joy Reid
Eric Wemple is uncharacteristically (but appropriately) vicious to his fellow journalists.
The Falcon Heavy
Boeing says it’s “too small.”
130-ton (tonne?) payload for SLS is the 65,000 pounds of the Shuttle, in that it will never happen.https://t.co/DdKWcbVD9U
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) May 1, 2018
Happy May Day
…better known as victims of communism day. And it’s a tragic condemnation of our “educational” system that young people (and too many old people) don’t understand how horrific this philosophy is.
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[Late-afternoon update]
Sarah Hoyt (who would know): A remembrance of May Days past.
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Simone Giertz
This is terrible news. But she’s tough, she’ll beat this thing.
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There are two gofundme pages for this. I can’t make any recommendations about either one.