Selenian Boondocks

by guest blogger Ken Anyone who has ever taken a stroll through the Lunar Library quickly realizes that it is about more than just the Moon, it’s about the High Frontier, with the Moon being just the most dominant aspect of our near-Earth near-future efforts. One section is called Big Rocks from Space and is [...]

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Last night I was at the shop relatively late doing some modeling for our next generation vehicle (now that we’ve got all the parts ordered for the current generation vehicle and are just finishing up the assembly and moving into testing). The guys had set up a grill outside to make some food since Taco [...]

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Well, we managed to make the move this last week, arriving down in Tehachapi late Tuesday night (around 10pm). Fortunately we had two members of our ward who showed up anyway in spite of how late it was and helped us unload enough stuff from the rental truck to get our mattress and box springs [...]

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I picked up on this one from le blog lunar express, posted last Friday. Apparently, the Chinese helped out with the SMART-1 mission from Shanghai. For the French-impaired, I offer the following free-form, dictionary-free translation: “The communications attempts between SMART-1 and China were a great success. Entering into a type of partnership between ESA and [...]

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I usually try to avoid all the silly sentimental, blogospheric silliness that you tend to see (crud like “Carnivals”, calling people my BlogFather, and all the other dreck like that). But I couldn’t resist pumping out one more post tonight just so I could say that I hit 200 posts at the end of my [...]

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I find it deeply amusing seeing how some people who support the ESAS approach to returning to the Moon tend to get so hopping mad over congressional earmarks. The logic goes that all of these earmarks set aside for pet projects of various congresscritters takes money away from real space exploration and real space science. [...]

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I’m sorry I haven’t had much opportunity to blog lately. The move’s going behind schedule due to me getting so sick last weekend that I could barely get out of bed for three days straight, which of course happened while Tiff was in Oregon for a week so I could pack. And of course, the [...]

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Hey all, I know that I’ve been hinting about this to a lot of people for a long time, but I now have permission to blog about Masten Space Systems moving to Mojave. The problem with being a Silicon Valley based rocket company is that while there are tons of good suppliers, many potential investors, [...]

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[Note: Michael asked me if I could repost this bleg here.] The Institute for Space Law & Policy is seeking a web designer who can help them establish the overall look, format, theme, brand identity, etc . As a virtual think tank, the website for the Institute will be the interface between Institute’s team of [...]

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Well, we’re nearing the one-year mark for Selenian Boondocks, on June 16th. We’re at about 48,375 hits so far since I put up the site meter (about a week or two after I put up the blog), which means I’ll probably just barely miss the 50k mark for my first year. But that’s pretty amazing [...]

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