Saturday Space Stories! Submarines in spaaaaace Earth Looking and Space Looking smallsats are awesome, especially privately funded ones. But at some point I really want less looking and more GOING But speaking of looking, this is still pretty sweet The personal opinions of government officials about things completely unrelated to... [Read More]

Every day I bike past an intersection with a gas station on three of the four corners.  The nice thing about biking is that my speed gives me time to pay attention to the prices at each place each day.  This leads (as is wont to happen while biking) to... [Read More]

A busy day at Ames continued to drive home the point that NASA has too many random cool projects for anybody to actually keep track of.  Did you know that there are people working on: Bacteria that can extract resources from lunar regolith? Self-diagnostic spacecraft systems? Self-flying helicopters? Actually easy-to-use... [Read More]

In completely unrelated news, I wrote a quick essay for a contest at work on the prompt "If you could have a superpower for a day, what would it be?" Since it ate my blog-post-writing-time, I thought I would offer it up as sacrifice instead:  Full essay below the break.... [Read More]

This article about the European Space Agency’s attempts at making a reusable space plane brings up two big issues. I don’t have time to go into depth about them now, but it’s still worthwhile to bring them to the surface:  Competition between companies is useful and makes sense – driving... [Read More]