Monthly Archives: August 2006

I was hoping to put up another article or two tonight, but I really need to get to packing. I’m flying up to Oregon tomorrow to join Tiff and Jonny, and to attend a wedding for Tiff’s brother James. I … Continue reading →

I have to admit that I’m rather impressed and surprised with the amount of response my earlier posting on that topic received. Due to some misunderstandings, I realized though that I probably need to add and clarify a bit. First … Continue reading →

It’s a very good thing that I wasn’t drinking milk when I read this a few minutes ago. After all the bedwetting going on over the last several days about what the Iranians were going to do yesterday, I couldn’t … Continue reading →

Well, I go awoken at 7am this morning by a phone call from my mom. Apparently, my brother Adam, and his wife Ki had their second baby this morning, Zane Isaac Goff. I’m not sure what it is with Goff … Continue reading →

Well, I really mean it this time. The last few days were a bit of an unusual circumstance–Tiff and Jonny being gone in Oregon, a bit of a lull at work, some extra excuses for going home early once or … Continue reading →

A few years back, I remember seeing some info about some of von Braun’s old lunar lander ideas he had written about for Collier’s back in the day. One of the interesting ideas that he had proposed was using on-orbit … Continue reading →

1. You’re doing your laundry and find a AN cap in the washer when you take the clothes out. 2. You then think “that’s an AN929-2J…what’s that doing there?” 3. You then think “wouldn’t it be funny to write a … Continue reading →

I’ve talked a lot on my blog about the various technologies that are important for a society to master before they can become a truly spacefaring society. I figured just for kicks, and in an effort to tone-down on the … Continue reading →

I’ve heard a lot of people recently referring to a Griffin talk at the Mars Society, where he called the COTS program a “bet” or a “gamble”. The obvious implication being that the Stick and NASA “business-as-usual” is a sure … Continue reading →

There’s a certain quote, that I hear may be apocryphal by a Senator Dirksen that went something like “A billion here, a billion there, eventually it adds up to real money.” My recent post about relative costs of the Shaft … Continue reading →