Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Commercial Space, Launch Vehicles, Space Development on Sep 29th, 2008
I try not to read news or surf the net on Sundays (that whole keeping the Sabbath Day holy thing, you know), so I missed being able to watch SpaceX’s fourth launch live. But, as everyone reading this already knows, they nailed it this time. I had the chance last December to meet a lot [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Sep 29th, 2008
Now that I’ve had a nice busy week, and have put some more time between me and the blog post over at Space Cynics that started this mess, I have to admit that I regret what I said, and wish to apologize to OSC and the others. It looks like their original listing of David [...]
Posted in Politics, Space Policy on Sep 25th, 2008
Immigration is one of those topics that I don’t like to think about, because the current mess we have in this country tends to just get me depressed. Earlier today, I saw a flowchart from Reason’s October 2008 issue showing how complicated and screwed-up our immigration process is. The basic takeaway is that barring a [...]
Posted in Commercial Space, COTS, Launch Vehicles, Space Transportation, Technology on Sep 25th, 2008
Clark Lindsey has already commented on this paper, but I figured it was worth a little further discussion here, since I’ve already written a few articles about air-launched RLV ideas. Air launch is definitely an idea I am warming up to. The paper covers a lot of ground we’ve discussed here in previous posts. Of [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Sep 25th, 2008
Hey guys, I accidentally deleted this post yesterday, but figured I’d let you know that I got Skribit moved over to this new blog (as well as Sitemeter and Google Analytics–but those are more for my benefit). Let me know if you have any ideas for new posts.
Posted in Lunar Commerce, Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2008
by guest blogger Ken Wow, so all of the chickens are coming home to roost and those who created the problem want to fob the guano off on the public at large. Anyone who has been reading my postings since the beginning of the year knows how I feel about the situation, especially since I [...]
Posted in Commercial Space, Launch Vehicles, Space Development, Space Policy on Sep 24th, 2008
A few days ago, I mentioned that some of my friends at ULA had passed me copies of some papers they were going to present at the Space 2008 conference a few weeks ago. The paper I want to discuss in this blog article, which can be found in Word Document form here, revolves around [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 22nd, 2008
by guest blogger Ken While Jon is trying to keep the politics to a minimum out here in the Selenian Boondocks (and so I now owe him several space-related posts), this is a little something that you’re not likely to see through major news sources. Libertarian candidate Bob Barr filed suit in Texas court to [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Sep 22nd, 2008
I tend to be a little more defensive of my friends than I am of myself, and can sometimes be a bit of a hot-head. I was pretty offended by the cynics giving Dave their Walking Eagle award, but my reaction was probably over the top. Brigham Young once supposedly said that “He who takes [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Sep 20th, 2008
I just removed the link to the Space Cynics site from my link roll. I’ve tried over the past year or so that they’ve been around to link to and comment on posts of theirs that have been insightful and useful. They are a talented bunch, with lots of experience. If they were more grown-up, [...]