News and Commentary on Space
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to Launch Aug. 11
Interestingly (to me, at least), the Atlas V launching it will carry on its side a memorial placard which includes (among others) the name of one of my recently-deceased coworkers. How cool is that?
Brian Dunbar links to an excellent article on workplace culture.
And what the heck — as long as I’m somewhat off-topic, here’s another interesting post, on aid to Africa (summary: trade is good, handouts from the G8 and self-important rock “benefits” are not). It amuses me to think of the reaction I would have gotten from my old poli-sci professors at State had I handed in a term paper along such lines…”But, where are the import substitution policies? Internationally-funded infrastructure megaprojects are prone to corruption? Surely you don’t mean that centralized economic planning in the socialist model isn’t the best development strategy for the Third World? How can you have social and economic justice if you don’t eat your pudding?!?”
Not space-related, but certainly ideas for a better future.
For some reason, I was expecting the Mars Society Conference to be next week, rather than starting tomorrow morning. Which is actually lucky, since I have a window in my work schedule this week/weekend, so I will be able to attend after all. Unluckily, however, the owner of the laptop I intended to borrow to live-blog from the conference is out of town until Sunday, so my posts on the conference will be less immediate than I had hoped.
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A young girl sets out to prove herself by resolving a long-forgotten mystery. But when she gets close to the truth, what she thought was a harmless adventure becomes a threat to the future of the independent commercial settlements on Mars.
