Sounds like it made quite the mess. It would be ironic if it injured or killed a cosmonaut.
Category Archives: Space
The NASA OIG Audit
It’s been released today. I haven’t read the whole thing yet.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Given the time needed to develop and fully test the HLS and new spacesuits, we project NASA will exceed its current timetable for landing humans on the Moon in late 2024 by several years.”
You don’t say.
Sad Irony
Glen de Vries was killed in a small plane crash.
The Absurdity Of NASA’s Lunar Plans
The Age Of Discovery 2.0
A new podcast series, featuring (among others) Glenn Reynolds, Bob Zubrin, Bob Zimmerman, and Yours Truly, on the coming expansion into the solar system.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Episode 1 is up now.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Here’s Episode 3, with Bob Zubrin.
[Bumped]
Off The Air
I was at the Space Settlement Summit over the weekend, and didn’t have a computer with me. Sorry for not warning on Friday.
The Future Of Space
Tart commentary from Jim Bennett (who I’ll probably see this evening at the Space Settlement Summit in Beverly Hills).
NASA Safety
An article about Homer Hickam and Yours Truly. They get this wrong, though: “…while Hickam and Simberg may disagree on the value of safety, they may agree that NASA could not afford to suffer such losses, especially considering pressures from Congress and the general public.”
Homer and I do not in fact disagree on the value of safety. Here is his review of the book.
Starship
…is still not understood.
[Update Friday afternoon]
The latest SLS follies: This isn’t insane at all.
Immortal Data
My business associate and former XCOR employee Dale Amon is doing an equity crowdfunding on his company in Las Cruces.