Selenian Boondocks

I just added Billmon’s blog to the blogroll. Billmon has been doing an excellent job lately discussing both sides of the tragic mess going on in Lebanon at the moment. I’ve been trying to keep the political part of this blog toned down as far as possible, but I have no qualms with linking to [...]

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Here’s a few pictures that I hadn’t put up yet. Some of them are a bit old (the beach pictures were taken on Labor Day up near the Muir Beach and Point Reyes areas north of San Francisco. The others are more recent, including a few from our new appartment in Tehachapi.

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What we’ve been up to lately:

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The LCR started with a reception and overview presentation. I saw a lot of familiar faces, met some new folks, tried to chat up the hottie from Orbital, the usual reception stuff. So I’m sitting at a table trying to wolf down some hors d’oeuvres and appetizers while chatting with some guys, and I look [...]

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by guest blogger Ken I wasn’t originally planning to attend the SFF’s NewSpace Conference in Las Vegas. Since I’m on a cash-only diet this year I don’t have a lot of flexibility for frivolities. However, when I got invited to another Lunar Commerce Roundtable I had to go, so I might as well drop in [...]

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Well everyone, I haven’t been in much of a position to blog lately, as much as I’ve wanted to. I’ll be taking Tiffany down to the hospital for surgery. Its not an unexpected one, but the timing was a bit surprising (yesterday our first prenatal checkup turned into a 5 hour visit since the doctor [...]

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According to Hobbyspace and Space.com, Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis 1 inflatable test module was lofted into orbit this morning on a Dnepr. Having visited Bigelow’s site, and seen some of the hardware that is probably part of what’s up in orbit at the moment, I’m really excited for them. They’ve got a lot of work to [...]

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I haven’t had as much time lately to blog, so I ended up missing a couple of the recent bruhaha’s over COTS funding and VSE costs. But I did notice a rather amusing theme that I felt was worth pointing out. So you get a news report released. Say one saying that VSE costs are [...]

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Well, I got my hands on a copy of that Popular Mechanics article over lunch yesterday. It was kind of informative, but I wasn’t sure I really liked the slant. They did a good job of showing the cool stuff that Armadillo is working on, but their main angle seemed to be focusing on all [...]

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Hey all, I just heard that this month’s Popular Mechanics cover article has a lot of info about various Lunar Lander Challenge contestants. Apparently for instance, Interorbital may still be in the running, going with some new engines that run on allowed propellants, and a vehicle called Virus 1.0 or something like that. They claim [...]

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