Steve Landeene was a ball of fire for Spaceport America and its biggest booster. He’ll be hard to replace.
Spaceport America loses its Executive Director
More Evidence of Water on the Moon
What kinder prospector allows to the papers as how he’s discovered a gusher? Shoot. That’s moxie.
Laser Fusion Advance
I ain’t gonna get too excited until they kin fit laser fusion, nickel-plated, into mah holster.
Magneto-Hydrodynamic Shields for Atmospheric De-orbiting
Whew, howdy, me and Widowmaker sure coulda used one of them things, mah spurs always melted on reentry.
Scientists ruin everything
Kids! Ask for one for Christmas!
Masten nails it within 11 cm.
It would not be amiss for the gentlemen of Masten to indulge in uproarious celebration, though if I may, these distances are best expressed in inches. Thank you, gentlemen.
Water on the Moon
Judicious Plan to Export Our Political Classes to the Moon
The Future, Finally
I’m out in Texas this week. I was surprised to see that a little bit of the future had finally arrived. Jetpacks cannot be far behind. (more…)
SpacePort America Design Concepts
Them are some purty concepts. Of course, conceptually, there’s a feller out there that’s as tough ‘n ornery as Pecos Bill, but I ain’t met that feller yet. Conceptually, folks are smarter than cattle, but ain’t none of my longhorns paid me tuition for the privlige of bein’ herded.
Obama’s Space Program
Put this one in the “credit where credit is due” file. The Obama Administration’s new blue-ribbon commission on overhauling the space program is superb.
The Real Comparison Between Zheng He and Apollo
You kin eat beef but you caint eat national prestige.
Reusable Spacecraft.
After the Clinton Administration took it away from ’em in the arly 90s, it ‘pears the flyboys in the Air Force is sidling back to the idear of reusable spacecraft, ones that can go up and come back down again and up again and down again. Wull, don’t ask me, boys. What I puts in arbit stez in arbit.