The Moon – The Great Hites

Torn about the Moon – On Private Companies in Space

First, I want to say that it is great that private companies are getting involved in space exploration. I personally think that the worlds space administrations have stagnated. They have gotten to a point where they are not doing anything that is going to capture the imagination of the future engineers and scientist they will need to keep their programs running. They, NASA especially, has become a bureaucracy, and no one grows up with the plan to go to work for a bureaucracy. They are not the agile nimble group that send men to the moon nearly 60 years ago.

Writing Challenge For The Space Minded.

As Douglas Adams reminded us, “Space is big…” To travel across the distances needed to get anywhere meaningful will take us a long time. Even our nearest planet, with our current technology, is going to cost of several months time.

NASA vs SpaceX

In the interest of full disclosure here, I want to be an astronaut when I grow up. So if anyone from NASA is reading this, hey I love you guys, and I really would be a great astronaut. Now that I have gotten that out of the way. Oh wait. Where is that picture? IContinue reading “NASA vs SpaceX”