Selenian Boondocks

Hey guys, this is just a quick update on what we’ve been doing at my day job, since it’s been way too long since we posted our last update. We’ll be adding pictures as we have a chance to take them and upload them. I had been delaying things a bit until we had an [...]

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Back when I was at the university, one of the fun traditions that several of my friends had was what they called “the quote wall”. The quote wall usually consisted of a piece of white butcher paper was taped up to a conviently visable chunk of wall, and they would write on it any particularly [...]

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I’ve been debating whether I want to fork out the cash to go to the Space Frontier Foundation‘s Return to the Moon Conference this year. This is one of the premier conferences for discussing various lunar projects, markets, and technologies. In a way, it’s kind of a lunar equivalence of SFF’s yearly Space Frontier Conference. [...]

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Dan Schrimpsher pointed out in comments to my monculture post one of the interesting ideas that has gained a little too much traction lately at NASA–the importance of not having cargo and crew on the same vehicle. Apparently, most people now believe that one of the big reasons why Shuttle is so expensive is that [...]

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This is me and little Jon at the house. He’s a bit bigger now, but this should give you some idea. As I mentioned previously, he just turned 6 months old yesterday. He’s recently started laughing a lot, rolling over on his own. He’s still very small for his age since he was born about [...]

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Dan’s most recent blog entry, which was a reply to my last post, got me thinking about something. One of my biggests problems with NASA, that I didn’t realize until someone else pointed it out was their emphasis on singular solutions. There is always the space shuttle, the space station, the Crew Exploration Vehicle, a [...]

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I have been recently thinking and arguing a lot about NASA’s new uberproject, commonly called the Moon, Mars, and Beyond initiative, or sometimes the Vision for Space Exploration. I’ve argued on several instances that I don’t think the direction that Mike Griffen is currently steering the space program will actually lead to the settlement and [...]

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Well, I’ve finally decided to take the plunge and start my own blog. I’ve been intending to start a blog since before I even knew what a blog was, but it has taken me a long time to get much further than the protoblog that I had on my old university account or. That site [...]

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