6 thoughts on “The Space Review”

  1. …and Robert Oler (!) has a good piece as well.

    Oler has his moments. No need to feign surprise.

  2. ” There will be gender and racial diversity in national space efforts, but it is the predictable path.”

    In a free society, people will pursue their interests and people from all backgrounds will explore the possibilities open to them. In a free society, “diversity” is inevitable but our society is becoming less free and diversity is at risk from quotas, measuring the wrong things, and people who want to control everything.

  4. Oler has certainly changed his opinion of SpaceX these last few months and was very sceptical of Starship… until it actually flew 🙂

  5. I contributed some comments on the Oler piece over at TSR myself. Bob was, for a long time, a fundamentalist Boeing-ian one might say. What finally broke him, I think, was the Starliner OFT-1 dumpster fire. As the late, great Robert A. Heinlein wrote, “It’s a pretty serious thing when a man’s religion fails him.”

    Beyond that, the relentless march of events at Boca Chica has also made an impression. I think Bob has now joined Rand in the category of being in recovery from his legacy aerospace roots. As one of his long-time debating opponents, all I can say is, “Welcome aboard. Good to have you. Pull up a chair and have some popcorn. The show’s just going to get better and better as we go along.”

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