NASA Is Worth Saving
Guest Post by Casey Handmer| Good Science Project
This blog is a direct follow up of Starship Is Still Not Understood, and is part of the series on popular misconceptions in space journalism. Now available in audio form. I think it is relatively s…| Casey Handmer's blog
Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government supported space exploration and technology devel…| Casey Handmer's blog
A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates helpful feedback from a number of knowledgeable readers. With the recent SpaceX Starship orbit…| Casey Handmer's blog
This article was featured in PALLADIUM 17: Universal Man. To receive your copy of the latest print edition, subscribe now.| Palladium Magazine
Mars Helicopter will fly no more. But there is work to be done and Mars helicopters to do it! We should build dozens and then hundreds as serialized standard spacecraft buses and run a global compe…| Casey Handmer's blog
[Edit Feb 2025: What a difference a year makes. This piece aged well. The Democratic Party still seems to have zero idea how or why they badly lost the election. Elon is now working full time on a …| Casey Handmer's blog
Or, why Elon Musk’s impossible hardware businesses have succeeded. Audio version. “Why should I work on hardware???” I hear you cry. Not because I work on hardware, and I need you…| Casey Handmer's blog
