Saturday Space Stories! On the PR front, Space Exploration needs more celebrity endorsement like this LEGOS...in spaaaace 3D printers… in spaaaaace Indiana Jones might have to upgrade his equipment Further developments on the congress-makes-me-want-to-scream front We choose to go to the moo...no, mars...no an asteroid, no the moon again! An... [Read More]

One of the upshots of Monday’s post is that NASA has kind of poor PR. A slew of factors contribute to this problem: Half of the news published about NASA focuses on congressional squabbling over funding and constant direction changes that make it look like it’s NASA’s fault. NASA has... [Read More]

While I think that the research at Ames itself is very worthwhile, I recently learned yet two more delicious examples of why the research being under the direct purview of big government is silly:  It turns out that if, in the course of a government project, you invent something that... [Read More]

Another “my day has been consumed by Ames so that is all I have to write about” post: Here’s a thought to chew on – is one of NASA’s problems that it’s actually doing too many awesome things? I might be wrong, but the perception of many Americans seems to... [Read More]

Some first-day-at-Ames related observations:  It’s really a testament to the productivity of the actual engineers and scientists at NASA that despite the ever-increasing amount of government imposed slogging, they have managed to keep turning out awesome things (did you know there was a plane with a telescope coming out of... [Read More]