Stephen Fleming's blog about academia, venture capital, and spaceships
So it appears that a group of billionaires are going to announce the first asteroid mining company tomorrow. (You don't need me to repeat the news here. Visit http://planetaryresources.com and follow their Twitter account @PlanetaryRsrcs.) Buried deep in this site, you might stumble across a Letter to the Editor that the Washington Post … [Read more...]
Once again, I'm honored to have been asked to speak in the Space and Science tracks at Dragon*Con. Dragon takes over downtown Atlanta during Labor Day weekend. It's enormous. All the public reports of attendance are wrong... they admit to "40,000+" but that's low-balled to avoid fire code problems. But for those of you who don't know, there … [Read more...]
Shuttle design was finalized 40 years ago. 40 years before THAT (1931), this Tiger Moth was state-of-the-art. We can do better. … [Read more...]
World's worst astrophotography: Jupiter and all 4 moons, via iPhone 4 and a 16" Meade telescope! via twittelator … [Read more...]
DragonCon: @mmealling and I prepare for our space startups talk via twittelator … [Read more...]
Only at DragonCon! :-) via twittelator … [Read more...]
Crowd gathering for my 11:30 talk at DragonCon via twittelator … [Read more...]
DragonCon starts next week! Once again, I've been invited to speak in both the Space and Science tracks (which are over in the Hilton, across the street from the truly crazy stuff). I have three presentations: … [Read more...]
Listening to #NASA CTO, more hopeful than I have been in ages... but their PowerPoint charts still stink. via twittelator … [Read more...]
I was planning to write a blog post about the Obama administration's cancellation of NASA's Constellation program, but I found that Michael Mealling has already written it for me! Read it here. Michael doesn't blog very often, but when he does, he nails it. … [Read more...]
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