Monster in the drink

"\"TweetShareShareAs I write this, SpaceX’s Dragon space capsule is on a boat, having splashed down 250 miles off the California coast on Sunday. Monsters loom off both coasts, then: Frankenstorm to the east, Dragon to the west. The Dragon...

‘Jars’ wins Colorado Book Award

"\"TweetShareShareMy book, From Jars to the Stars, won the 2011 Colorado Book Award for History at the annual Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book ceremony in Aspen last Friday. This is particularly gratifying to me because, being the...

Splitting hairs: SpaceX and the ISS

"TweetShareShareGreat news from SpaceX today: Their dragon capsule has linked up with the International Space Station. From the news release I got emailed to me a bit ago: Dragon Becomes First Commercial Spacecraft to Attach to the Space Station T...

Imaging Earth, 2012 vs. 1972

"\"TweetShareShareNASA has released a phenomenal image: Taken by the the Suomi NPP spacecraft on January 4. Ball Aerospace built the NPP spacecraft; the instrument, the snappily named\\u00a0Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), is...

On the Radio

"\"TweetShareShareI headed down to Colorado Public Radio about a week ago to record a\\u00a0Colorado Matters piece about the book. Available here:\\u00a0http:\\\/\\\/bit.ly\\\/v4rn2E.\\u00a0It was a cool experience. The soundproofed studio not...

Space budgets in the news

"TweetShareShareWhy do space missions go over budget? John Kelly of Florida Today did a solid summary of some of the key issues in his Saturday column, based, it looks like, on a Government Accountability Office report on the same topic. The key p...