In the Year of '39 Came a Ship in From the Blue …

After repeated safaris through Federal Aviation Administration red-tape and preposterously pedantic environmental impact assessments, SpaceX has hinted that its Starship-24 and Booster-7 may be nearing operational readiness. Photos shared by the company on 02 July revealed that crews have nearly finished installing 39 upgraded Raptor engines on the new Starship and its Super Heavy booster. Differences are observable between Starship 24 and its Starship 20 predecessor, the most notable of which is the addition of a metal framework covering the entire breadth of Starship 24‘s aft section. Probably the framework will support thermal insulation intended to shield  sensitive engine, pl

Plausibility In the Raiments of Incivility

NASA administrator Bill Nelson believes China is militarizing its space program for purpose of making the moon a Chinese exclave. That Mister Nelson entertains such a supposition is understandable; that he framed it in language and trotted it out before the German media is somewhat less understandable. Nelson went on to state that China’s Tiangong space station is being built to “learn how to destroy other people's satellites." The perceptive but imprudent administrator of the world’s preeminent space agency further posited the moon’s south pole is "hotly contested" on account of its potentially harboring water deposits conducive to the production of rocket fuel.