I'm in Longmont, Colorado, looking at a cloud-shrouded Long's Peak behind the front range. Checking out, and heading up to Boulder for a few hours, then back to Florida this afternoon.

As Dale Amon notes, we've been getting a new company off the ground, named Wyoming Space and Information Systems. More anon, but probably not today.

Any relationship to Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company?

Rand,
Longmont? I spent a good chunk of my childhood just up the road from there in Loveland. Got any details about what exactly it is you'll be doing?

~Jon

Also, any word on SpaceX? Their site doesn't have any updates, but the last date mentioned is still late November...

Big D,
I could have sworn that they had said December somewhere publically, and that rumor has it that they're looking at January.

~Jon

I went to Longmont High School a long time ago.

Small world.

CT,
Interesting. My family moved out to Utah right before I would've started High School there in Loveland. IIRC, I would've been going to Thompson Valley High if that rings a bell.

~Jon

I used to skydive at Ft Collins-Loveland airport in the early 80s, and at a small unnamed dirt-strip field near Longmont (just upwind of the small town of Frederick). A fellow jumper was a survivor of the Big Thompson River flood of 1976. Small planet, ain't it?

A quick search of Google maps shows that it's still in use, right down to the open-sided parachute packing shed. That DZ had just about every hazard known to skydiving- trees, powerlines, a canal, several grasshopper-type oil wells, and for an unknown reason, someone had cut a telephone pole into firewood sized chunks and scattered them all over the landing zone. I'm still amazed that I've lived this long...

good luck with your firm.

Rand:

Good luck with the new venture.

More small world trivia, I work in Longmont and live a few miles West in Lyons.

Steve

Doug, Steve,
Man, it's a small world after all. One of these days I'm going to have to find an excuse to make it back out there to Colorado. I've only been through there once since I moved back in '92, and I'm sure the place is completely different now.

~Jon

Sorry, just to answer the questions, I've few answers. In the near future, we'll be doing consulting in systems engineering and regulatory issues on the space side, and on the IT side, we're developing new systems for secure archiving. But in general, we'll do whatever folks pay us to do, that's legal.