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Via Chris Lynch , this is a very interesting post :  You’ve probably heard of the PayPal Mafia. When eBay bought PayPal in 2002 its founder...

danielbarger left a comment to yesterday's post about Starship : As long as we are limited to chemical rockets where 90% of the weight ...

The Silicon Graybeard (among others) links to a really interesting video from SpaceX about Starship: Something that needs to be shared is a...

I am surprised at my reaction to the Artemis II mission.  I mean, it's a huge bucket of money to throw at well connected aerospace contr...

Yeah Artemis is crazy expensive, but it's still a big deal.  And we love us some Doris Day ...

Photo via The Silicon Graybeard . Sure, NASA spends taxpayer money like a drunken sailor.  Sure, Congress is using this program to throw tax...

This is a fascinating breakdown of the (quite serious) engineering problems facing SpaceX as they attempt to build a Mars city. 

This is a fascinating conversation.  This is SO not like the NASA interviews when I was a kid.

Sure there were rumors, but I was plausibly convinced that they wouldn't do this : Key Points SpaceX is preparing for a potential $1.5 ...

Well, they're sure acting like stalkers : You might recall that in late 2024, Earth gained a temporary mini-moon, an asteroid that part...

Well, this is the 21st Century after all : Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Cent...

I may come as no surprise to long time readers, but I led a pretty intellectually precocious adolescence.  Part of that was listening to the...

So SpaceX Starship test flight 8 had the same kind of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly as flight 7.  This is disappointing, but as The Silicon ...

I'm starting to tread on The Silicon Graybeard's turf, but this is really cool : Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancien...

If this were such a big deal, would the Chinese be talking about it? According to a Chinese state-sanctioned study, signals from SpaceX Sta...

How do you stop an astronaut's baby from crying?  You rocket.

Starlink is the satellite Internet service from SpaceX.  You get high speed (200 Mbps) pretty much anywhere on Mother Earth. Starlink costs ...

( See what I did there? )   It's a little out of place to tag something Modern Monday when it was recorded over half a century ago, bu...

It was 1833, and the "Night that the stars fell".  The Leonid meteor shower is an annual event each August.  The 1833 shower in A...

When is the Moon the heaviest? When it's full.