Washington D.C. hit 99 degrees Fahrenheit today; we in Denver have been in that neighborhood a few days already this June, and are headed back this weekend. The average June high is here supposed to be 83. We've had roughly zero precip; the potted plants wilt within a hours of a soaking.
So let's say we're…
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I've been distracted -- maybe to the point of being primarily focused -- on a 10-minute talk I'm giving sometime between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. this Saturday at TEDxMileHigh. It's at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, with maybe 1,500-2,000 folks expected to attend. It should be…
@AirSpaceMag posted my #ORS story "Satellite In a Week: Can a tiny DoD office change the aerospace establishment?" http://t.co/uiPCLNIo via
ORS-1 launches on June 29, 2011. The reconnaissance satellite could be the DoD Operationally Responsive Space Office's last. (courtesy NASA)
Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine has published my feature on an interesting -- and very much threatened -- U.S. government effort to assemble and launch satellites within a week of a pressing need. It takes years…
Great 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
Today, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made history when its Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial vehicle in history…