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Artemis II Does Not Make Starship Obsolete. It Makes the Case for It.
With Artemis II now in flight after its April 1, 2026 launch, a familiar chorus has returned: if NASA can send astronauts around the Moon on SLS and Orion, then perhaps Starship was always a Silicon Valley indulgence, a steel totem for Elon Musk fans, and not a serious part of lunar exploration after all.…
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The Future of Home Fabrication: Diamond 3D Printing Arrives
A Bavarian startup claims to have solved the biggest limitation of desktop fabrication: the weakness of common 3D-printing materials. Their new device prints directly in diamond. We were given one of the first prototypes for testing. The Promise of Indestructible Fabrication For years, home 3D printing has been limited by the same basic problem: plastic.…
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Starlink and the Cult of Earthbound Resentment
Starlink critics call it orbital vandalism. What really bothers them is that Musk keeps industrializing space while others are still complaining.
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White Tiles, Hard Lessons
Starship’s white heat-shield tiles are not cosmetic. They reveal the messy, iterative reality of frontier engineering and SpaceX’s persistent path to reusability.
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Deinococcus radiodurans and the Spaceflight Question Hidden in a Bacterium
What makes Deinococcus radiodurans so hard to kill, and could its chemistry help protect astronauts from radiation and oxidative damage?
