With the success of the first test, is NASA planning a dedicated helicopter mission?
Category Archives: Space
Cold War II
Mo Brooks
Any senator from Alabama is probably going to support SLS, but at least it won’t be a senator from Huntsville. And she won’t be chairman of the appropriations committee.
“Are You Guys F**cking High?”
On the latest kerfuffle at SpaceX.
[Saturday-morning update]
[Bumped]
[Update Tuesday morning]
Cheers to Elon Musk for finally saying “no” to whiny, entitled millennial babies.
Though to be fair, I don’t think that Felicia Sonmez is a millennial.
[Bumped again]
And The Hits Just Keep On Coming
I’m sure that you will be as shocked as I am that NASA won’t have a permanent lunar base until the 2030s.
[Afternoon update]
Lightyear
Reviews of the new Pixar flick, from Peter Suderman (who I finally met, a couple months ago in Nashville) and Sonny Bunch. Neither are impressed. Bunch is particularly brutal.
Ariane 6
…is delayed again.
I told Clay Mowry years ago (before he went to work for Blue Origin) that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew.
Space Solar Power
It’s becoming a hot topic again. Now the Chinese are interested.
Nuclear Reactors
I met Vanessa a few years ago at a CONFERS meeting.
Good News From Boca Chica
[Update early afternoon]
Bob Zimmerman says that the good news is mitigated.
[Update a while later]
Elon may have to pull an all-nighter for those history reports.