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Solyndra In Space?
- By: Rand Simberg
Here we go again. It's unfortunate that so many conservatives are opposed to competitive markets in spaceflight, to the point that they are willing to…
Capitalism In Space
- By: Rand Simberg
Over at National Review Online today, I have a piece on the current state of play in U.S. human spaceflight. It’s…
The Other Scandal In Unhappy Valley
- By: Rand Simberg
So it turns out that Penn State has covered up wrongdoing by one of its employees to avoid bad publicity. But I'm not talking about…
Op-Eds/Articles
JFK space race myth
- By: Rand Simberg
It’s been half a century since a young president was cut down by a deranged communist assassin, and a little longer than that since humans…
Safety shouldn’t be NASA’s top priority
- By: Rand Simberg
It has been a century since the Panama Canal was completed. It was the greatest transportation project of its time, made possible only by new…
Big Government’s Final Frontier
There’s something about space policy that makes conservatives forget their principles. Just one mention of NASA, and conservatives are quite happy to check their small-government…
Studies
Homesteading the Final Frontier
- By: Rand Simberg
A proposed law requiring the United States to recognize land claims off planet under specified conditions offers the possibility of legal, tradable land titles, allowing…
Citations
Lockheed Martin joins forces with Louisville-based Sierra Nevada in building Dream Chaser
- By: Rand Simberg
Rand Simberg, a space analyst and adjunct scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, said Sierra Nevada’s partnership with Lockheed gives it…
A New Space Pioneer
- By: Rand Simberg
This is the first operational private space flight,” Rand Simberg said; the adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute is an expert on space technology…
Obama, Romney unlikely to share Bush’s space-travel ambitions
- By: Rand Simberg
From Gus Taylor’s article in The Washington Times: “The real problem is Congress. They don’t really care about actually doing anything in space,”…