Saturday Space Stories! Public-private partnership between NASA and Bigelow - cool, but always danger of picking winners/losers Relatedly, who wants to live in a balloon on the moon? “Mars is Hard” Yes, it is. So is going to the moon, and yet… Oh those wacky Canadians But will it work... [Read More]

As you may be aware, I also daylight as a graduate student. For an update (with pretty pictures!) on what's been going on in research land, check out my blog post on our lab website. 

Space exploration needs more antifragility. For those unfamiliar with the concept of antifragility, (this includes the word processor I’m using) here the quick definition from the appropriately titled book, Antifragile:  "Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure,... [Read More]

Today, the asteroid mining company Planetary Resources launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance a publicly accessible space telescope, called ARKYD. It is continuing a trend that I hope will continue: space-centered crowdfunding campaigns.  Some are successful, some less so, but each one further normalizes the idea that the government no... [Read More]

This chain of emails is unaltered except for the removal of identifying information: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Benjamin Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, Would it be possible to get more information regarding the rejection decision on my paper for Conference 2013? Thank you. On Fri, May 3,... [Read More]