It’s the first successful landing on the Moon of a private company.
But Max Polyakov was screwed over by the Deep State.
Next up: The next flight of Starship/SH tomorrow afternoon.
Category Archives: Space
How Trump Can Save NASA
An analysis by Jim Meigs, in which he quotes Yours Truly.
I strongly disagree that SLS/Orion is the fastest way to get back to the Moon. I’ll be discussing that in a study I’ve done for the Reason Foundation that I hope will be published in a week or three. Briefly, we have all the pieces we need to do it quickly, without SLS/Orion, as long as we’re willing to go back to the Apollo levels of risk acceptance. And we’ll have to do that to beat the Chinese.
Starship Changes
AvWeek has the deets.
Capitulation
When Scott Pace says it’s time to throw in the towel, the end of SLS isn’t far off. I had lunch with a friend in Santa Monica yesterday who had just gotten off the phone with him, in anticipation of his testimony.
By “off ramp,” I assume he’s saying fly Artemis 2 and 3, but end the program after that. That would mean an immediate cancellation of the Exploration Upper Stage, and the ML-2 mobile platform, whose costs were beyond ridiculous, because they were only needed for Artemis 4. As I’ll note in my upcoming study for the Reason Foundation, that in itself would save almost a billion dollars per year. But cancellation of SLS itself will save a couple billion.
New From Casey Handmer
Why Starship matters and changes everything (I and Gwynne have been preaching this for years), and what should the first payloads to Mars be?
I haven’t read either (still busy on my Reason project), but they look interesting.
Clearing The Regulatory Underbrush
This is a hell of an EO.
Manifest Destiny On Mars
The whining begins.
What Is The Launch Vehicle?
This seems like a very strange story. Are they planning Falcon launches from Starbase, or is NASA entrusting the mission to Starship?
The Handwriting On The Wall
Another Starship Flight This Month?
Steven Clark says it could happen.