Monthly Archives: July 2006

New Addition to the Blogroll

I just added Billmon’s blog to the blogroll. Billmon has been doing an excellent job lately discussing both sides of the tragic mess going on in Lebanon at the moment. I’ve been trying to keep the political part of this … Continue reading

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Belated Jonny Bloggin’

Here’s a few pictures that I hadn’t put up yet. Some of them are a bit old (the beach pictures were taken on Labor Day up near the Muir Beach and Point Reyes areas north of San Francisco. The others … Continue reading

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Latest MSS Update

What we’ve been up to lately:

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Notes on LCR/RtttM pt. II: What’s my boss doing here?

The LCR started with a reception and overview presentation. I saw a lot of familiar faces, met some new folks, tried to chat up the hottie from Orbital, the usual reception stuff. So I’m sitting at a table trying to … Continue reading

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Notes on the LCR/SFF RttM pt. I: Road trip!

by guest blogger Ken I wasn’t originally planning to attend the SFF’s NewSpace Conference in Las Vegas. Since I’m on a cash-only diet this year I don’t have a lot of flexibility for frivolities. However, when I got invited to … Continue reading

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Surgery

Well everyone, I haven’t been in much of a position to blog lately, as much as I’ve wanted to. I’ll be taking Tiffany down to the hospital for surgery. Its not an unexpected one, but the timing was a bit … Continue reading

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Congrats Mr Bigelow!

According to Hobbyspace and Space.com, Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis 1 inflatable test module was lofted into orbit this morning on a Dnepr. Having visited Bigelow’s site, and seen some of the hardware that is probably part of what’s up in orbit … Continue reading

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Mr Pot? Mr Kettle is Holding on Line 2….

I haven’t had as much time lately to blog, so I ended up missing a couple of the recent bruhaha’s over COTS funding and VSE costs. But I did notice a rather amusing theme that I felt was worth pointing … Continue reading

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My Mixed Review on that Pop. Mechanics Article

Well, I got my hands on a copy of that Popular Mechanics article over lunch yesterday. It was kind of informative, but I wasn’t sure I really liked the slant. They did a good job of showing the cool stuff … Continue reading

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Popular Mechanics Article

Hey all, I just heard that this month’s Popular Mechanics cover article has a lot of info about various Lunar Lander Challenge contestants. Apparently for instance, Interorbital may still be in the running, going with some new engines that run … Continue reading

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