Reax to Inspiration Mars: “Well sure it’s their money, but I should have a say in how they choose to spend it.” […]
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Interesting: The millionaire and his mission to Mars We’ll apparently find out tomorrow, but this would have to include some sort of mission module or Bigelow habitat in addition to the Dragon capsule. They’d be incredibly lucky if they were to choose participants who could spend that much time together in such a cramped space […] A not particularly revelatory look at NASA’s ever-deferred humans-to-Mars efforts: The Deferred Dreams of Mars Still worth a read, even if it is mostly a recitation of the conventional wisdom on the topic – not to be harsh on Brian Bergstein, it’s just that there’s nothing really new in what he has written. Apart from […] Rand Simberg thoroughly dismantles it: An Examiner Hit Piece on SpaceX No quotes, because his response is wedded to excerpts from the original and is best read in full (i.e.: Read the Whole Thing™). As I mentioned on Twitter (and then didn’t have time to follow up on myself), I heard some scuttlebutt about this […] I don’t really think this means much with regards to any competition between China and the US in space, but it’s an interesting historical event nonetheless: China’s first woman in space arrives home This is amusing: China’s space programme is several decades behind that of the US and Russia – which launched manned space stations […] Cool. Let’s hope this is just the first of many – SpaceX’s Dragon craft makes historic hookup with space station: Once the fix was made, Dragon returned to the 30-meter checkpoint and moved in for the final approach. When the craft reached a distance of 10 meters (33 feet), NASA astronaut Don Pettit used the […] Okay, so it’ll be a bit over a week by the time it’s done, but: Planetary Resources is announced, with a four-stage approach to prospecting and mining near-Earth asteroids: Leo, a small space telescope placed in (appropriately enough) low Earth orbit. Interceptor spacecraft (Leo telescopes with additional propulsion and science equipment) to scout for near-Earth […] It’s apparently on the mind of the Governor and some legislators here in Colorado: When I first heard mention of this last week, I scoffed because it struck me as just another bandwagon-jumping scheme akin to “green energy”. But as the video points out, there are good reasons to consider a spaceport in Colorado […] Good news – NASA clears SpaceX for trial run to space station: To encourage commercial cargo runs, NASA has hired SpaceX and a second company, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to fly cargo to the space station, a $100 billion project of 16 countries, which orbits about 240 miles above Earth. A successful test flight by […] |
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