Saturday, July 26, 2014

Looks like Gwynne Shotwell, the COO of SpaceX, is committing a little NewSpace heresy at the recent Space Frontier Society Conference.

Much more anon.

Afterburner w/Bill Whittle-- Apogee: America Needs Another Great Challenge

Bill has a great argument in favor of the Apollo model. It represents a challenge that the younger generation sorely needs right now.

Bob Zubrin weighs in on what ails NASA in a far more intelligent way than some people have.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Here are some great films depicting the Apollo program"

Another fine piece by the Houston Chronicle's Eric Berger. He focuses a lot on the moon as a priority for space exploration. He does gloss over the difficulties of using smaller rockets and fuel depots and I think confuses launching fuel from Earth, a problematic idea, with refining water into fuel on the moon, which is more sensible.

Friday, July 18, 2014

Trust Rand Simberg to mark the 45th anniversary of Apollo and take a dump on it. Disgraceful.

USA Today's hit piece against the flight of Apollo 11

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Movie described as 'Fargo on the moon' said to be in development

So Hollywood is looking at projects set on the moon? I have an idea. Or two

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Asterioid mining bill introduced in Congress to protect private property rights. Someone should write a book about disputes over asteroid mining.

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Thursday, July 03, 2014

Buzz Aldrin starting a a social media campaign in commemoration of the 45 anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, something that seems fitting for the greatest peacetime technological feats in history the benefits of which still redound to this day. Rand Simberg intends to explain why we must never do that again.