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This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.
Over the last 6 months, Musk has made increasingly outlandish predictions around this theory of "sustainable abundance." In his utopian future, no one will work, money won't matter and everyone will have everything they want.
So what does that slogan really mean?
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NASA announced sweeping changes to its Artemis plan this morning in an effort to accelerate the Space Launch System's flight rate. But after years of the program being mismanaged, behind schedule, and over budget, I'm not sure what makes this time different... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NASA's about to announce some updates to its Artemis campaign www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCbQ...
In a NASA statement, Mike Fincke says he was the astronaut who had the medical issue that caused the early return of Crew-11.
SLS/Orion began its rollback to the VAB at 9:28 am ET. Could take up to 12 hours. The rollback is so they can fix a helium flow problem on the upper stage.
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NASA is providing a livestream on its YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrP...
It's Saturday. You're having coffee, going over your calendar for March and planning your life around a massive upcoming moon mission targeted in the next few weeks. Then you open your email www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
The big NASA news today is the investigative report into Boeing's disastrous Starliner program; kudos to @lorengrush.bsky.social for the scoop:
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Today, NASA will release an investigative report on the 2024 botched crew test flight of Boeing's Starliner, where the agency will declare the mission to be a Type A mishap -- the most severe category it can assign www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NASA is conducting a second wet dress rehearsal for Artemis II, in which they fully load the rocket with propellant and simulate the countdown to T-30 seconds. If they want to attempt launch in March, this need to go well.
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“It’s a tough area for institutions,” said Gene Tempel, the founding dean emeritus of Indiana University’s School of Philanthropy and a former president of the university’s foundation. “They are in search of money, and the old saw about tainted money is tain’t enough of it.”
Couldn’t have imagined this is where this story would land back in 2022.
Sure, you can technically delay a Mars mission that was never going to happen this year, just like I'm delaying my debut as a free soloist, which was DEFINITELY going to happen this year. I have decided I also need to wait for the planets to realign www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NEW: Elon Musk's company town in Texas, Starbase, is getting its own police department.
Expected to have eight officers and could be up and running in a few months.
Comes after a deal w/ Cameron County Sheriff's Office broke down.
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Overnight, NASA called off February for any launch attempts of Artemis II and is now aiming for March at the earliest following yesterday's wet dress rehearsal. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
SpaceX has confirmed it: it's acquiring xAI. New valuation and share price set. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NASA says it's "Go" for tanking of its SLS rocket for a wet dress rehearsal that could pave the way for the launch of Artemis II www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
It's been a wild few days on the space beat:
-- SpaceX considering mergers with Tesla or xAI
-- Blue Origin pausing its New Shepard flights
-- SpaceX filing for one million data center satellites
-- All while waiting to hear more about Artemis II
I'm sure there's more, but my brain is fried
NASA has moved the wet dress rehearsal of its SLS rocket to Monday
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Kind of wild that one of NASA's biggest human spaceflight mission in years COULD be happening next week, but we're still waiting to know what's up. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
excited to have a story in Businessweek about the researchers who think AI weather forecasts can break through the limits of the Butterfly Effect: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Blue Origin has announced its own megaconstellation called TeraWeave, consisting of 5,408 telecom satellites that are "urpose-built to serve enterprise-grade customers" www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-or...
From left: Artemis II backup crewmembers NASA astronaut Andre Douglas and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jenni Gibbons and prime crewmembers NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, pose for a picture with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, as it makes the 4.2 mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth no later than April 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Oh genuinely this photo of Artemis II is just so good.
Congress has passed the minibus spending bill for NASA, which would reject most of the proposed budget cuts for the agency www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
A small silver lining: Yes, NASA and NOAA did not do briefings for their global temp data sets released today. And they certainly do not emphasize the human causes. But they *did* release them. The work is still happening.
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It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.
Did a dive into the engineering challenges posed by data centers in space. They could work! But there's a lot of technological development to be done www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I've been feeling this schism a lot recently, mainly because those areas are the ones I cover the most. But X just feels like such a hostile place to be, geared toward anger and derision. Doesn't make those fields feel very inviting these days.