An insider look at what went wrong. It’s not pretty.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
IFT-3
Not much new to those who have been following it, but Irene Klotz has a nice description of the flight.
China And The Moon
Will they beat us back?
They certainly won’t have a problem beating NASA back, given its political constraints. I do think that a private effort could beat them.
That 1938 Feeling
I’ve been having it, too.
Any Decade Now
With anniversaries coming up, Doug Messier reports on Virgin Galactic’s “progress.”
I weep when I think what could have been done with those hundreds of millions if they hadn’t been wasted on such a misbegotten concept.
The Samizdat Prize
An interview with the winners: Miranda Devine, Matt Taibbi, and Jay Battacharya. Well deserved.
Twilight Of The Wonks
A long, but interesting history.
Baltimore
It’s a lot more than just a broken bridge.
What Is Space For?
A thoughtful essay at The New Atlantis (in which, in the next issue, I’ll have a review of Zubrin’s new book on Mars).
The Navy Mess
The LCS fiasco is just a symptom of a much larger problem, which probably infects the entire U.S. military, and no one is being held accountable. It’s feeling a lot like 1939, and people are going to die unnecessarily, if we can even win the war.