Another space success

SpaceX scores another launch success for the year.

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Habitable moons

Interesting article on looking for habitable planets among the moons of gas giants.  I am skeptical that a moon of a gas giant could be habitable given the extended period of darkness that would be the result of most orbits. (Post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

Space Tycoons

A great editorial from Instapundit. (Post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

Low noise supersonic aircraft

NASA has hired Lockheed Martin to develop a test aircraft to try and create a low sonic boom supersonic aircraft.  It is an interesting idea.  I just wonder if there is enough practical use for such an aircraft. (Post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

NASA report

Read the NASA report on risk tolerances on upcoming manned missions.  I find it pretty depressing reading. NASA still seems to be prioritizing risk avoidance at the cost of progress. (H/T to Jeff Groves for the link) (Post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

Space 2018

Some interesting predictions about happenings in space this year.  (Post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

We need something like this

Anything to get us off this rock. (post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

Your feel good space story of the day

This is a great story.  There isn’t anything I can add other than Mike Nofsinger would have loved this story.  Miss you, Mike.

Space

This is an excellent article on one of the underlying problems with our current approach to space.