KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3446.6637. 🌌 "I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get someplace nobody's ever been." - John Glenn, astronaut

KSC efficiencies surge, X-planes revival takes flight, and key leadership shifts underscore execution mode. Builder mode at Kennedy This past Friday, Administrator Isaacman visited Kennedy Space Center

How to get replaced to your own advantage. Now is the time to buy a long-haul truck - and a humanoid. Remember when I said AI + humanoid robots will eventually replace every job? This is one of those jobs…

Today in Space History - A Window on Venus 🚀 Stardate 764.0953 (OCTOBER 22, 1975) On the morning of 22 October 1975, the Venera 9 lander settled onto a steep slope near Beta Regio and opened a camera

Today in Space History - A Brief Touch on Bennu 🚀 Stardate 3130.8368 (OCTOBER 20, 2020) More than 300 million kilometres from Earth, OSIRIS-REx lowered a sampling arm onto the rubble of asteroid Bennu.

Could Crew Dragon outlive Falcon 9? Yes... Here's how: Launched inside Starship. Deployed to complete mission then returns as normal. The logic is plain. Getting Starship certified to launch people is

So the question of the day is: one permanent Moon bunk, four applicants, a scientist, a miner, a medic and a teacher. Who gets it, now that staying matters more than visiting?

Classic Cosmos of the Week: NGC 1827, a spiral seen edge-on, about 37 million light-years away in Columba, the Dove. Rusty dust lanes run the full length, with blue star-forming patches tucked along the

Today in Space History - First Breath of Another World 🚀 Stardate 342.7480 (OCTOBER 18, 1967) On this day in 1967 the Soviet probe Venera 4 entered the atmosphere of Venus and began to transmit. For

KiwiThinker Flashback Today is CSD 3445.8421, Oct 18 2026 Two years ago I said Starship could start putting Starlinks up before SpaceX recovered a single ship. Flight 14 last month did just that: first

KiwiThinker's log, supplemental - stardate 3445.8246 🌌 A black hole the mass of a mountain would be smaller than an atom. #Q1Ls

Watchmen Above the Treaty Stardate 132.2077 (October 17, 1963) In the small hours of 17 October 1963, an Atlas-Agena lifted two satellites from Cape Canaveral and set them on paths more than 100,000 kilometres

So the question of the day is: would any country let the fully kitted Roadster near a public road? Thrusters and all. Not for a stunt, just for the moment something's in the way and you need to hop clear.

Ok, I have to admit I have no words except this is not AI/SI. This is a real car. The Tesla Roadster.

I had a surprising experience with Grok Chat the other day. I asked it to do something fairly involved - downloading and processing material. Instead of trying to handle everything itself, it handed the

A Quiet Flame in Vacuum Stardate 447.7170 (October 16, 1969) On the morning of 16 October 1969, Georgy Shonin and Valeri Kubasov closed the hatch of Soyuz 6 and let the orbital module fall into vacuum.

"My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions." I, Robot. Many talk about crafting the perfect prompt for AI or SI. Get the wording right, add a role, set some constraints, and

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3445.5679. 🌌 "Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what is beyond." - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut #SpaceQuotes

At the Science: A Golden Age Summit this week, NASA and the Department of Energy signed a key Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate space nuclear power and propulsion. Administrator Isaacman highlighted

Ever read a sci-fi novel that renames every unit of time and distance? I recently have and find it quite distracting. Years become orbits or cycles, kilometres become something unpronounceable. The