Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2012
john hare I stumbled into another Mars First!!! rants a few days ago giving all the reasons why Mars would be developed ahead of the moon. I didn’t see any reason to change my opinion this time either. Given a reasonable amount of free market in space, the moon is a a clear winner. The [...]
Posted in Commercial Crew, Commercial Space, NASA, Space Policy, Space Safety on Sep 25th, 2012
I realized I already made several of my points about the overemphasis of “safety” for NASA’s commercial crew program back in March, but I heard a recent line that helped me better understand what may be driving this. This probably isn’t that brilliant of an observation, but it helped me. I was talking with a [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 21st, 2012
I usually try to avoid non-space political posts when I can, especially when I’ve been blogging so infrequently on what I consider to be the core focus of Selenian Boondocks. But, it’s silly season in America right now, and I started noticing an amusing phenomenon a few weeks ago that I thought was worth a [...]