Recent content by Hughjer

Competition is good, but will companies like Boeing/ULA, Blue Origin, or anyone else ever have a real competitive chance against beating SpaceX on contracts, considering that SpaceX has the flight/re-use proven cargo and astronaut ferrying with Dragon and Falcon 9, which may soon be replaced by...

Annnnnd... aborted again. Maybe tomorrow folks.

They really should scrap it while they can, and take whatever is left of the existing budget and give it to SpaceX to help fund Starship, which is slated to be a far superior platfom in almost every way anyway compared to the SLS/Artemis "platform." Not to mention that SpaceX is much more...

The SLS/Artemis program has become a delayed, bloated, and wasteful joke. They have blown their budget again and now costs are over $9 billion? And this factors in that they are building and testing boosters out of leftover Shuttle boosters. And the "new" booster is supposed to be 3.6 million...

I see the day quickly approaching where SpaceX dictates these decisions from the front end, while NASA slowly slips into nothingness. They are quickly becoming a middle-man at best, but their are other implications with the fast ascension of SpaceX in the last few of years: This could include...

SpaceX is a no-brainer at this point. I find it interesting how Jeff Bezos' Amazon just got FCC clearance yesterday to start launching broadband satellites into orbit, but by the time they finally do, SpaceX will already have the entire Gen-1 StarLink constellation up and running. Then of...

Well if there is alien water inside of Uranus, I would like to know how it got there.

Not to mention that they are "re-using, just once" leftovers from the Space Shuttle program? Did they not have enough money to budget in new designs and materials either? Trying to dust-up old nostalgia alone will not get it done... especially when they will just be permanently ditched into the...