It's been a very busy time since my last post, both in my personal life and in the space industry - the Japanese have been having some particularly exciting successes I've been meaning to write about, and the launch of SpaceX's Falcon has quite amazing implications, but I haven't gotten around to any writing about any of this ( Read more... )

Ok, I confess, I'm getting a little bit excited. This has been a very long time coming, but I'm very happy to see things progressing a little more smoothly than they were for a long time ( Read more... )

OK, the subject was going to be some dodgy joke about the Progress cargo craft and the ISS, but I'm feeling too lazy to think of one ( Read more... )

As a supporter of manned spaceflight, I often get asked to defend the value of it - wouldn't the money be "better spent elsewhere" is the usual line. In such situations, the "spin-off" technologies of the industry are often the fall-back defence used by myself and most of those who share my beliefs - so it's always nice when I come across a shiny ( Read more... )