Clik here to view.
SpaceX and Their Falcon 9 Launch
On June 4th, 2010 SpaceX “successfully” launched their Falcon 9 rocket for the first time. For that accomplishment, I give them my congratulations. To launch a rocket and achieve orbit is a massive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Be Careful What You Wish For…
As many of you know, I have been an avid supporter of the Constellation program and have expressed grave doubts about Obama, Senator Nelson, and former Congresswoman Kosmas’s plan to turn our entire...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Belated Congratulations to SpaceX
Dragon Capsule shortly after returning to Earth. Credit SpaceX Last month SpaceX completed the first Commercial Orbital Transportation Services or COTS test flight. COTS was set up in January 2006 by...
View ArticleInterview Updates
The Space Show interview and parts of the CBS interview are now online. You can download The Space Show interview here or you can download it from iTunes. You can view parts of the CBS 60 minutes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Bitter Than Sweet
The last launch. Credit Larry Tanner What can you say? It is the end. The last launch of the most successful American Human Space Flight Program, in fact the most successful HSF program in world...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Long Has it Been Since an American Astronaut Has Flown on an American...
Atlantis lands 07-21-2011 05:56 am EST.
View ArticleClik here to view.
America’s Human Space Flight Program 1961 to 2011: An Epitaph
Credit Abby LeMaster July 21st, 2011, just 42 years and one day after the first landing on the Moon, I sat and watched America’s Human Space Flight Program come to an end after more than 50 years. As...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mismatched Models
Most advocates of Human Space Flight programs always model HSF with the airplane model. Government subsidized at first and eventually private for profit companies would take over. Airplane companies...
View Article
