Posts filed under “Aerospace”
Meet the rockets that will be bigger than Apollo (SpaceX)
I’ve been a big fan of SpaceX for a long, long time. SpaceX has cracked the nut of becoming a viable, commercial heavy-lift aerospace company. They’ve redrawn the economics of the industry, and have a very bright future ahead of them. The last two recent successful launches of their Falcon 9 rocket have been spectacular! [...]
Why I chose to be an aero major?
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 aero geek. But perhaps I also chose it for long-term earning potential? A blog post in the New York Times showed this graph of the “Top 10 College Majors [...]
More on SpaceX…
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. [...]
Very cool rocket photos and news from SpaceX
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 engine. They’ve [...]
Has someone at the New York Times been reading this blog?
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….
Privately-launched rockets = cool
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 from [...]
China in Space – This is BIG!
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 [...]