Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2007
by guest blogger Ken There’s a lot of interesting stuff in NASA’s new “Strategic Communications Framework Implementation Plan” that I grabbed over at NASAWatch. Unfortunately, it is a 79 page .ppt, which makes the prising of any real information out of it difficult (but it sho ’nuff looks clever), though I did notice quite a [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 29th, 2007
Just wanted to let everyone know that I made it out to Utah today. I’ll be defending my thesis on Tuesday, so I’ve got a couple of days to put together my presentation, and polish up the thesis a bit. I’ll be out here till around the 7th or so, with the hope being that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2007
Ok, that’s what I get for posting on something before thoroughly vetting it. It really looks like the anonymous commenter was right. I didn’t have too much time to research this out (as my thesis is more important at the moment), but taking a brief glance through the NPRMs on the SBA site, it looks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2007
[Update: I probably should mention that an anonymous commenter claimed that this story is a big misrepresentation by the ASBL trying to win lobbying points for its clients...it's possible, but I'd really like more data either way before going further. Does anyone have any information about if NASA really has been counting contracts with Fortune [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2007
the 2007 ISDC was a pretty good conference. by guest blogger Ken The survey results have been compiled by one of our volunteers, and with an approximately 3.3% response rate amongst attendees, the feedback was as follows: Overall the conference was pretty evenly split between good and excellent. The Kids Program got top marks, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2007
The past few weeks have been total roller coasters. Between Tiff’s health problems, trying to wrap up my thesis, and what we’ve been up to at work lately, things have been nuts. It looks like it was very fortunate that I was able to get my thesis stuff done (for now) by Monday morning, because [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 18th, 2007
Just wanted to let everyone know that I got my thesis sent off to my committee today. I still need to get all of them to sign off by tomorrow on it being ready for defense, but the it looks like I’ve made it! If all goes well, on the 3rd of next month I’ll [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2007
Ok, I just spent the past two or three hours fighting with a model that was actually working just fine. I feel retarded with a capital R, so I think it’s time for a break. How many of you have had a chance to read the SpaceX post mortem on their second Falcon 1 launch [...]
Posted in Thesis on Jun 14th, 2007
I just thought I’d show you some of what I’ve been up to lately. Before we could do the jet pulsation tests, we needed some good steady-flow tests to demonstrate that we had a system that could accurately detect jet modulation photographically, and that our steady-state jets were smooth enough for easy comparison. Mike Massee [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2007
…but they do have a rather impressive track record. Saw that list in a comments section on space prizes at SpacePolitics.com, once again thanks to our anonymous friend. Ok, off to bed.