I don’t think I appear in this video, but I was in attendance last month.
Category Archives: Space
54 Years On
Neil and Buzz landed on the Moon on this day. It’s now been over half a century since the last man kicked up the regolith there. I’ll be on The Space Show this evening (1900 PDT) to talk about it, and space in general.
[Late-morning update]
Anniversary thoughts from Rick Tumlinson. He worries too much about the “climate crisis,” though. And he’s fooling himself if he really thinks that China is worried about it.
Commercial Space Legislation
An industry wish list.
The BE-4 Explosion
Yes, you shouldn’t be learning new things in an acceptance test, but sometimes you do.
Our New Space Race
A review of Ashlee Vance’s latest book. Highly recommended.
Astra Carta
Bob Zimmerman isn’t impressed.
The Global Space Race
Assif Siddiqui says that we need new ways to think about it: “We need to let go of our nostalgia for Apollo and move on and work with different models to the old 1960s space races.”
I’ve been saying this for years.
SpaceX Update
Stephen Clark has moved over to Ars Technica to help Eric Berger cover the increasingly busy space industry. He has the latest on plans for the next Starship attempt.
The Various Takes On The Submersible
Glenn has thoughts.
NASA’s Latest Budget Issue
Now Mars Sample Return threatens the planetary science budget.
I agree that JPL should be soliciting bids from contractors.