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Category Archives: Space Science
NASA And The Coronavirus
How it is affecting the agency.
Curiosity On Mars
It’s reached its highest point yet.
We should be sending dozens of these things. If Starship happens, it will be quite affordable.
Satellite Internet And Astronomy
A good overview of the problem, from Marina Koren.
A Water-Eating Virus
…from Maaaaars.
A truly dumb article, disappointing from Quillette.
Mike Gold
Has a new job at NASA, to ensure the ability to utilize space resources. I talked to him about this in DC last month, and sent him a copy of my IAC paper.
Central Butte
Bob Zimmerman continues to follow Curiosity’s progress on Mars.
Orion
Has no ability to bring back moon rocks?
Hey, no machine is perfect.
“Gun-Free” Zones
People in charge of them should be made personally liable.
Makes sense to me. If you’re going to deprive someone of their right to self defense, it should be your responsibility to make it actually safe, not just put up a sign.
Asteroid Hunting
Casey Dreier has an interesting history of how NASA finally got a decent budget to fulfill its planetary-defense mandate.