One Good Use for ISS
Whatever else good eventually comes out of the ISS, demonstrating VASIMR — and then using it to routinely reboost the station — might just be its best sci/tech achievement.
[h/t: Instapundit]
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Ares 1-X Launches
Now we’ll never be able to move to an EELV.
UPDATE: Here’s video…
Pity they didn’t show the ignition and initial liftoff from the onboard camera – that would have been fun to watch.
But as Rand says: “Another SpaceX could have been founded and another Falcon 9 developed for the cost of that test. Which tells you all you need to know about the cost effectiveness of the NASA jobs program.”
Science Fiction Time Travel – Visualized
Okay, so it’s only a subset of major movies and TV shows, but this visualization of fictional time travel timelines is pretty interesting nonetheless – especially the path-crossings by unrelated time travelers and the amusing crossover movies/episodes one can imagine resulting from these “paradoxes”.
Partly Cloudy With A Chance of Falling Debris
Ares 1-X is set to launch on Tuesday, weather permitting.
Lockheed Martin Gets Stimulus Money for Orion
Yeah, I don’t agree with this either, but then nobody asked whether I wanted the “porkulus” in the first place.
The sad thing is, extra funding might not have been needed for Orion if all the design changes associated with Ares I over the past three years hadn’t been necessary.
Health Care Reform: Public Airplane
The Independence Institute explains via cartoon why NPR’s tortured “Public Airplane” analogy on health care reform doesn’t fly:
(Yes, the political stuff is taking up all my blogging time lately.)
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