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Responses to my Quillette Article
Mostly positive, some frustrating. Some takeaways for future outreach projects.
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Tale of a Cubesat
My first attempt at producing space hardware did not make it to space, but was an amazing educational experience.
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Starship Flight 5: Pessimism Defeated
After much wrangling with federal regulators, SpaceX finally got their booster catch attempt - and, incredibly, nailed it first time.
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Space for Everybody Else
There are people out there who don't watch rocket launches for fun. Some of them don't even know what an O'Neill cylinder is. How do we talk to those…
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September 2024

Mass Value Report for September 2024
Where do current trends, and plans and statements by leading players in the industry, point towards in the next few years?
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Steps Towards Mars
Elon Musk has set an aggressive timetable to Mars which would aim to land men there by the end of the decade. How reasonable is it?
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My Substack Summer
What I read in Summer 2024
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Escape From Planet Wagie
Human migration into space is a form of escape; will it be competitive with others more established methods?
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Mass Value Report for August 2024
A return to flight, then another anomaly in a flight leader - are the recent Falcon 9 woes an indications of problems in the program, or mere bad luck?
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August 2024

Review of "Reentry"
Eric Berger builds on his previous book Liftoff to tell the story of the Falcon 9, the rocket which changed spaceflight forever.
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Leaving People Behind
In order to increase the number of people in space, we cannot limit ourselves to the number of seats in spacecraft docked at the space station.
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Mass Value Report for July 2024
The first in flight anomaly for Falcon 9 in many years raises the question - how much further can this system really be pushed?
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