Bob Zimmerman has a post up about today’s planned flight.
If it happens, it will have happened on the 35th anniversary of the loss of Challenger, and on my birthday.
[Update a few minutes later]
Looks like winds are too high, so they’ll miss the anniversary.
[Afternoon update]
Well, it looks like they are going to try today. They’re loading propellant, but there seems to be an FAA issue.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Well, here‘s what we know so far.
…from Lori Garver (for whom it is first hand) and Michael Sheetz. Here‘s a sample chapter.
Laura Montgomery reviews it. He gave me a draft when he was writing it, on which I provided some comments.
OK, not new footage, but a new version of it, enhanced by AI.
BTW, I’ll be on The Space Show at 1900 PDT tonight, to talk about the 51st anniversary of Apollo 11, and Evoloterra.
I did a Twitter thread.
Marina Koren watched the movie (she was probably a little kid in Russia when it first came out) for the first time.
I keep hearing the phrase “the new normal.” I think I’ll write about why we haven’t had a normal for a couple centuries. With technological change, we’ve always had societal change.
Hard to believe it’s the half-century anniversary.
He knows something about quarantine, and he’s protecting himself.
[Update a few minutes later]
This is good news for Buzz (and me) if he’s otherwise healthy: 99% of the deaths in Italy were people who had other illnesses.
Bob Zubrin’s take on the stagnation in NASA human spaceflight.
As I’ve often said, if we don’t know why we’re doing something, it’s not possible to come up with a sensible way to do it.