SpaceX made history tonight, landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. A rocket that continued on to deliver 11 satellites to space. This is a revolution for the future of spaceflight. Those who know me, know I was glued to the webcast wishing I was either at SpaceX headquarters or in Florida watching …
If you’re a space nerd like me, this weekend you’re waiting with baited breath for each update from the New Horizons mission. As each new image comes out you quickly look it over with amazement and imagine the implication of each pixel sized feature that comes into focus. For everyone working on the mission, now …
A couple months ago, I wrote a guest blog for Tweten Online. This post was to apply lessons learned from Rocket Science to the Startup world. I was proud about this post and meant to repost it here at some point in the future. Fast forward to the last few weeks. Space is hard. And …
A few months ago, I came up with an idea for what I would name Follower Story. I asked my 200th twitter follower if I could write a short story with a character based on them. I also asked him a few other questions so I could try to match this person. My 200th follower …
I wrote a short story for a writing competition. It seems relevant, so I thought I'd share it here. Hope you enjoy it.----------------The office was quiet, as it usually was this late at night. It was 10:17pm and Joseph had just received the last data transfer of the night. He checked that it wasn’t corrupted …
Yesterday’s post described why a recycling plant in space would be a good idea. It would turn the burn around and pointed in the right direction (out of the gravity well). But placing a large facility into space would be prohibitively expensive. As well, a large structure would required lots of fuel to maintain orbit …
I’m an 80’s kid. That means I remember how to be environmentally conscious by remembering the three R’s. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. What I remember from the original three R’s principle is that not only is it good for the environment, but it’s also profitable as it reduces your costs (on energy for example). Similarly, the …
Lately, there's been lots of talk about what NASA should be doing with their budget. Alright, it's been a while that it's been an important topic of conversation. Ok... Ok, I can hear you, it's been a long, long time that we've been talking about what NASA's vision should be (even with several actual visions …
Chris Hadfield arrived at the International Space Station on December 21st, 2012. Since his arrival, he has become the darling of social and regular media. His twitter following has exploded, growing past a quarter million followers, while he has also been regularly spotlighted by news programs. In this day and age of the viral story, …
I have a small problem with the science reporting of Felix Baumgartner's "edge of space" jump. It wasn't from space, or even the edge of space. The boundary of space is commonly defined as 100km (the Karman Line). I would not consider going less than halfway to space as the "edge of space". That being …
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