Blue Origin plans to conduct its next New Shepard suborbital test flight tomorrow morning from West Texas. No people will be on board the vehicle, but the capsule will be filled with experiments. https://t.co/hvn9k4v22d
DARPA has identified the spaceports that would serve as potential launch sites for its responsive launch competition, and also said 18 teams have passed an initial pre-qualification phase. https://t.co/3Krz425BDs
NASA announces the Dawn mission has come to an end; the spacecraft, orbiting Ceres, missed scheduled communications sessions the last two days and managers concluded the spacecraft had likely exhausted its fuel, as expected. https://t.co/hSVLweAK3L
Kitay: a lot of misinformation about the Space Force. It’s not about Marines dropping out of space or fighting aliens. People don’t understand the importance of satellites to national security. #VonBraun18
Kluger: are you frustrated, annoyed, angry that there’s been no one on the moon since you?
Harrison Schmitt: all of the above. I realized in 1972 there was going to be a hiatus after Apollo 17, but didn’t think it would be 50 years. #ApolloPlus50
When I ask a young person how they screwed up something on a technical project and they tell me they haven't, I generally tend to suspect either that they are dishonest or that what they tried was really easy.
Screwing up a technical project as a student is a feature, not a bug
Congrats, @yousuck2020! You should link up w/ @astrowright for a preflight fitness plan before you ring Luna, & if you ever become inspired to have an internationally-accomplished jazz trombonist (who is also a planetary scientist) join your merry crew, I’m all yours in 2023! 🚀