If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Alternately, you can also subscribe to receive my posts by email. Thanks for visiting!So my undergraduate degree is in aerospace engineering, from the University of Michigan. (Go BLUE!) As I wrote yesterday, I am and always will be an [...]

So I’m an aero geek; always have been, always will be. But with SpaceX’s latest big update, I have to say that I absolutely can’t wait to see the first Falcon9 launch.
(See an earlier post on SpaceX and Falcon 9 here.)
For background, Falcon 9 can lift just over 10,000kg to Low Earth Orbit. [...]

I’ve been following SpaceX for years, since they were building their first hardware and trying to launch it from a small island in the Pacific. I posted this fall when SpaceX became the first privately-funded company to successfully launch a liquid-fueled rocket into space. That was their Falcon 1 launch vehicle, with 1 [...]

Their recent article on the US space program is oddly reminiscent of a couple of recent rants I’ve made on the same topic.
Hmmmm….

In my last post lamenting the state of government activity in the space program, I mentioned SpaceX. Little did I know that shortly after I wrote that post, SpaceX made the first successful launch into orbit by a privately-funded company. WOW!
This is a landmark achievement, and I look forward to seeing more successes [...]

I personally don’t believe a recent news story has received nearly enough attention: on Saturday, 27 September 2008 a Chinese astronaut made a successful spacewalk from a Chinese craft.
HOLY ****!
Why do I say this?
In less than two years the Space Shuttles are scheduled to be retired, leaving the United States without the capability to get [...]