I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged last, but here’s a gem from our favorite friend from Planet Strawman. This morning he asked whether Obama’s statement that he wants to revitalize NASA represents a flip-flop from his previous position of postponing Constellation. I had emailed him (after clarifying that I had no intention [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Yet another space vacation
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2008
by guest blogger Ken This time around I took a few days off to head down to Houston for the 15th annual International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC), not to be confused with the ISDC. This was the final event, gathering together all of the best teams from around the world for a design challenge [...]
It’s now officially official
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2008
by guest blogger Ken Having goofed up on my paperwork the first time around, I had to wait longer than expected to get the final documentation, but I am now looking at an official Certificate of Filing of Lunar Library LLC. That’s right, according to the LLC Agreement, I am now the proud Custodian of [...]
Some Interesting Ideas From the Other Side of the Pond
Posted in ESAS, International Space Collaboration, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Space Development, Space Transportation on Jul 16th, 2008
I don’t have time to go into detail at the moment, but I wanted to relay an interesting paper that Keith Cowing reported on NASAWatch today. Now, if I were someone at the ESA, I’d probably be taking NASA’s grand plans about Constellation with an appropriate sized grain of salt right about now. But there [...]
And We’re Back
Posted in Administrivia on Jul 16th, 2008
Well, I’ve actually been back since Sunday night, but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had a chance yet to post anything. I figured I’d just mention how everything went. The trip ended up being a lot of fun, even though we ended up traveling over 2600 miles in about 9 days. We didn’t [...]
Leaving on Vacation
Posted in Administrivia on Jul 3rd, 2008
We’re headed out for a long vacation tonight (we were supposed to be on the road nearly six hours ago). We’re driving up to see my folks for the 4th (staying through till Monday morning), and then driving out to the Redwoods up near Crescent City, CA (a few hours North of all of the [...]