Business, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Space

On The Trump-Musk Feud

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[Saturday-evening update]

Sorry about the formatting issues. I’m trying to get used to the WordPress update, which munged everything up in terms of how I post. Among other things, it made it a lot more effort to insert HTML.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Eighty-One Years

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I remember when I was nineteen my (veteran) mother saying, “I can’t believe it’s been thirty years.”

[Update a few minutes later]

The great crusade and the men who made it work.

Business, Economics, Political Commentary, Space, Space Science, Technology and Society

Blue Origin Speaks

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It’s time for NASA to get out of the launch business.

I’ve only been saying this for over two decades.

Don’t read the comments, though.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Bob Zimmerman is very encouraged about the future of America in space.

Light posting today if at all, because I’ll be at the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach all day.

[Thursday-morning update]

Bob has a follow up post. I do think the proposal to reduce crew size on the ISS is penny-wise pound-foolish.

Business, Space, Technology and Society

Flight 8 Report

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With approval for another flight as early as next week, SpaceX has released a report on what happened on the last two flights, and what they’ve done to prevent a repeat of either.

[Tuesday-morning update]

For those with X, Elon is about to talk about getting multi-planetary, as a prelude to this afternoon’s launch attempt. For the Xless, just go to SpaceX.com.

[Update a few minutes later]

It just changed the start time from 1015 PDT to 1800. So after the flight, instead of before?

General Science, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society

News On The Mann Front

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[Friday-morning update]

The worm has turned.

[Update Saturday morning]

An actual news report in Pennsylvania.

[Update]

The ice cracks.

[Update a few minutes later]

More over at WattsUpWithThat.

This is the best reporting on the legal situation so far, but I hope that at some point Jonathan Adler weighs in.