Catch a Dragon by the tail & I Told You So!
The SpaceX Dragon capsule has docked, NASA has a new partner in space exploration, and I am among a handful of writers who saw this coming: (Wired News) — The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully...
View ArticleA word on newspace vs. old
Rocketdyne's F-1 engine, five of these powered the first stage of the Saturn V that carried Apollo 11 to the moon The SpaceX-Dragon launch drew the nation’s eyes’ the newspace vs traditional...
View ArticleNewspace shoots, & scores!
Dream Chaser, a shuttle replacement vehicle under development by Sierra Nevada Corporation (NYSE ticker symbol SNC) NASA announced today it would dole out a billion dollars to three newspace firms in...
View ArticleSpaceX engine fails catastrophically, but it still makes LEO
Yet again the engineers at SpaceX amaze me. It’s hard enough to accelerate tons of payload to several miles a second through a soupy fluid and then coast gracefully in blistering and frigid vacuum....
View ArticleGolden Spike to announce flights to lunar surface (Updated)
A company called Golden Spike may confirm swirling rumors that it intends to land humans on the surface of the moon by the year 2020. It may sound like pie-in-the-sky, but this is no fly-by-night...
View ArticleMars flyby conference streaming live at 12 Noon central time — Now
From the press kit, an artists’c conception of the fly-by vehicle. Link is here, not sure if you can see it without registering press creds, I hope to have video and transcripts shortly. … There are...
View ArticleWould someone please think of the whiskey?
Both gloves have fingers and thumb, a right-hand will fit only one Space has a lot of resources, technically it has all the resources. Some of them are obvious, some serendipitous. Aside from the...
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