Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Administrivia on Feb 6th, 2010
Just wanted to mention that John Hare was in town for a visit today. Had fun trying out some proof-of-concept hardware for some of his ideas he’s blogged about over the past year or so. We also had lunch with Doug Jones over at Mike’s Roadhouse cafe. John won’t be able to [...]
Posted in Administrivia, MSS on Dec 31st, 2009
Dave just wrote the latest Masten Update over on our MSS Project Blog. The update goes over some of our plans for the new year. Hopefully I’ll have something more to talk about soon.
Posted in Administrivia on Dec 2nd, 2009
Just wanted to introduce a new blogger here on Selenian Boondocks: Kirk Sorensen. The name should be familiar. Kirk is a longtime commenter here, and has been the inspiration for many of my posts (he was the one who came up with the Boom Rendezvous material I blogged about last month, and was [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Nov 9th, 2009
I was going to be taking a well-earned vacation this week, now that the LLC stuff has wound down. But apparently I succeeded in destroying my immune system over the past several months, and am not paying for it with a nice case of acute bronchitis. I don’t know if this means more or less [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Lunar Exploration and Development, Propellant Depots, Space Transportation, Technology on Nov 3rd, 2009
Ok, between the trip to DC for the awards ceremony on Thursday, and taking all of next week off for a long-needed vacation, I’m not quite out of the woods yet. But after that I want to get back into blogging. And I have a few topics I’d like to write about, but [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Oct 30th, 2009
I noticed about a week ago (or maybe it was a year ago–I’m not really sure) that we had nearly hit 300k visitors here at Selenian Boondocks. We finally crossed that threshold yesterday. I’d like to thank all the loyal readers who keep following us even though I’ve been way to busy to [...]
Posted in Administrivia, MSS on Aug 25th, 2009
So, I got my big propellant depot paper done in time, but now I have some other stuff that will probably keep me from posting much for a while:
http://thelaunchpad.xprize.org/2009/08/2009-ngllc-first-attempts.html
Posted in Administrivia on Jul 20th, 2009
I’m just about to head out from the NewSpace 2009 conference. Honestly, I ditched out of all of today, and parts of the other days, between my propellant depot panel, and the white paper I was working on. The panel went pretty well, though I’d only give myself a B+ overall. One of these days [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Jul 11th, 2009
Fortunately John’s getting back into the swing of things blogging-wise, because it’ll be a while before I can get back to blogging. In addition to all the stuff I’m doing at work, I’m also trying to get that panel ready, and finish writing a white paper on Propellant Depots for the Augustine Committee. And after [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Propellant Depots on Jul 11th, 2009
I just wanted to mention that I’ll be chairing a propellant depot panel at the NewSpace 2009 conference this next week. This year, due to time constraints, I’m going to go for a slightly different format than I did last time. Basically my plan is to give a short 10 minute intro to the topic [...]