Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Administrivia on Oct 8th, 2010
For those of you who read Selenian Boondocks, but don’t read Hobbyspace (I’m sure there’s at least two of your out there), I wanted to mention the SSI Space Manufacturing Conference this month on the 29th-31st, at the NASA Ames Conference Center. It looks like I’ll be attending this year. SSI has been one of [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Altius Space Machines on Oct 6th, 2010
Hey guys, I finally got the update blog setup over on the Altius Space Machines site. The site still needs a lot of work, but I’ve always been one to try and put content over style. There’s a post there with the details I was promising about our first contract.
Posted in Administrivia, Commercial Space on Sep 24th, 2010
Just saw the news that Wayne Hale (of Space Shuttle operations fame) has a new blog up on wordpress. Wayne’s blog posts while still at NASA were always informative, and I hope now that he’s out in the private sector, he’ll be able to continue that trend. As I understand it, Wayne left NASA earlier [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Altius Space Machines, MSS on Sep 11th, 2010
While some of you may have known for a while, I think that Clark may have surprised a lot of readers when he pointed out the news that I was no longer a part of the Masten team. I am proud to have been one of the founding members of their team, and I still [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Aug 28th, 2010
Hey guys, I know this is pretty lame, but it’s going to be a bit longer before I have anything useful to put up. I do have a pretty cool technology idea I’ve gotten permission to write about, but we’re doing an SBIR proposal on it first. There’s a lot more afoot in my world [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Excuses for Light Blogging on Jul 6th, 2010
I really apologize for the light blogging lately. I’ve been under a lot of stress, and unfortunately I’m expecting the light blogging to continue for at least the rest of the month, and probably longer. I’m heading up to Oregon today for a family reunion on Tiff’s side of the family. Her mom’s been in [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Family on Apr 20th, 2010
We’re about to head up to Utah for a family vacation, and I found this while downloading pictures off the camera:
Posted in Administrivia on Apr 6th, 2010
Going to be heading out of town for the annual Space Access conference. With Dave out of town this week, that means I’ll either be sleeping down in Mojave tomorrow night, or riding with someone straight to Phoenix. I’ll be on two panels, one on Thursday evening covering “High Payoff Technologies in LEO and Beyond”. [...]
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 make it out [...]
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.