I'm headed to California in 6 hours, so I'm going to cheat and give you this weeks Saturday Space Stories! - hey, it's Saturday in Europe. ooooohhh shiny  More SpaceX reusable rocket developments I'm not really sure what they're trying to achieve here - Hitler beat them to it Really... [Read More]

(scottish accent) Captain! The A-Exam engines are running at 110% I don't think think she can take it much longah! Since I already have my historian hat on from yesterday, I wanted to quickly point out this fun new blog I discovered: http://askthepast.blogspot.com.  They dredge up advice from old (pre-18th century)... [Read More]

As I mentioned yesterday, I am currently in the throes of preparing for my A-Exam.  At Cornell, this entails the potential PhD candidate presenting their thesis topic and convincing the committee that they are prepared to undertake the quest entailed in the topic.  What’s weird about it is that the... [Read More]

A kind of cheaty post because I am scrambling to both prep for my A Exam and move to California for the summer to work at the NASA Ames Research Center (more on why this later.)   I wrote the following essay a while back for the Cornell Engineering Graduate Student Association,... [Read More]

At The Space Review, Matt Greenhouse presents a compelling vision for framing future NASA operations: science missions supported by human operations. One of the most successful examples of this idea is the Hubble Telescope.  While I don’t exactly share the exact priorities of the article, (I’m more pro-humans with some... [Read More]