Selenian Boondocks

Well, I’ve noticed that my blogging has been getting rarer, snarkier, and of less substance than it used to be. Part of that is due to all the time we’ve been spending testing engines, killing the gremlins that like to inhabit our test trailer occasionally, and recovering from trips to our remote test site. Part [...]

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It’s kind of amusing to note (as several others on the blogosphere have now) that the supposedly “safe, simple, soon” Crew Launch Vehicle is turning out to be as difficult to pull off as many of us have been saying all along. The fact that modifying an SSME for airstart would be extremely difficulty if [...]

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I finally managed to write up a bit about what we’ve been doing at MSS over the past several months. We should have some more pictures, videos, and information to post in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, being this busy means that I won’t be able to go to the ACES workshop this week, but Michael [...]

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I was going to blog yesterday, but figured I needed to get some comments in on that AST Human Spaceflight NPRM before time runs out next month. Most of the phrasing in the actual regulation seemed to be common sense stuff that you’d want to do anyway if you weren’t running some sort of rinky-dink [...]

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byline: Ken Well, Mr. Bonin’s second part is out, and golly if he doesn’t cover a lot of stuff I had in the post. But if it makes sense, then it’s going to sound similar, isn’t it? Mr. Mark Whittington, who can sometimes be found hanging out here in the Selenian Boondocks, notes over at [...]

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Howdy All, Ken here. I just decided to weigh in a bit on an interesting article today. (and provide a bit more grist for Jon’s mill) Over at the The Space Review, Mr. Grant Bonin visits the question “are heavy-lift launch vehicles the best technology for opening space to humankind?”. While I personally feel the [...]

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