Every time I read a status on the thing, I’m struck by just how terrible a design this is. They couldn’t have come up with a better way of wasting money and time ad infinitum. And people in comments are rooting for a catastrophe. Hard to disagree with them.
Category Archives: Economics
What Was Old Is New Again
Will we return to privately funded exploration, for space?
It’s much more likely than NASA going anywhere.
How Space Can Aid Human Flourishing
An interview with Bob Zubrin.
Off To Music City
We’re flying to Nashville today, where I’m going to be on a panel on commercial space with Bob Poole and Katherine Mangu-Ward on Friday morning as part of Reason Weekend (it used to be in Orange County, but…). Then we’re spending a few days in the Smokies. I’ll have a laptop with me, though, so I won’t be incommunicado.
Private Space Stations
A good overview from Jeffrey Kluger.
The Return Of The Third Horseman
We’ve had pestilence and war, and now famine appears inevitable in the near term.
Brownian Motion
…as an energy source?
We’ll see.
Gray Dragon On Falcon Heavy
A notional alternative to SLS/Orion for Artemis.
The Cratering Democrats
I find it amazing that the Democrats have managed to get themselves on the wrong side of almost every issue. And they can’t fix it unless they stop catering to their nutty base, and they can’t stop being condescending because it’s almost at the core of their current identity.
Space Assembly
DARPA is supporting development of some useful technologies. Just think where we might be if just a fraction of the money poured down the SLS rathole had gone into this sort of thing.