Author: Steve Walton

And boy wasn’t it beautiful!

It is scheduled NET (No Earlier Than) 23:30 EDT. This will be the first night launch of the Falcon Heavy. It is carrying 24 different mission payloads, including Air Force hardware to be delicately deployed into four different orbits. The most interesting from my perspective is the Deep Space Atomic Clock, which if successful points […]

For those of you who might have been underwhelmed by watching the Starlink satellites ooze out of the payload bay in a package that looked like a crushed soda cup, this might put a better light on it. Amateur astronomer Dr. Marco Langbroek captured them flying over the Netherlands in a neat line, gradually navigating […]

Construction of the orbit-capable Starship prototype in Boca Chica, Texas, has progressed to the point where it has — well, it has a point. No longer can it be mistaken for R2D2, or a water tank. This is undeniably a spaceship. Musk has brought in the big gun of a free society: competition. A second […]

This movie begins with one of the most artistic openings ever put to film. We are greeted with a black screen and dead silence, which gradually lightens as credits appear. About the same time as we notice the faint outline of a mountain range, we hear the faint call of a distant sea bird. What […]

Buck S had a post on this company awhile ago, but I just ran into this nice write-up of Blue Origin’s vision for their future, by the excellent and informative Eric Berger at Ars Technica. Rather than reword it myself, I’ll just point you to it: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/jeff-bezos-unveils-his-sweeping-vision-for-humanitys-future-in-space/

It must have been global warming.

(Update: SpaceX has decided that they need to make a software change to the satellites. They are projecting a launch next week. More information here.) The launch window opens at 10:30 pm EDT today (5/15/19) for the launch of the next test phase of SpaceX’s nearly-12,000-satellite Starlink constellation. This is a special launch in several […]

The Air Force doesn’t want to let go of its control over space operations. Doug Loverro, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense For Space Policy and career-long Air Force space officer, emphatically disagrees with the Air Force Association. He agrees with the administration that we need a separate “Space Force”, but the Air Force is […]

There are some very good video views of the flight in SpaceX’s own record. They are getting better at the production, including a flawless view of the landing on the barge, without telemetry dropouts. It was a completely nominal flight, and the capsule is on its way to berth with the ISS on May 6th, […]

“This truly is a watershed moment, not just for Britain, but for the whole of Europe.” I hate to break it to you, Pat, but the whole world is watching. In truth, the whole of the world will live or die depending on whether you guys fight your way out from under the globalist gangsters […]

The technological leap from muzzle-loading rifles to breech-loading rifles can be seen clearly in the Chassepot, of which a million and a half were eventually produced. Ian McCollum discusses it in this video. The impact on warfare was enormous.      

Larry Kudlow on Fox Business discusses the ever-most-excellent position the United States finds itself in due to the Trump Economic Boom.     As an aside, it would seem that Larry has recovered very well from the heart attack he suffered on June 12th of last year. He looks and sounds very good.