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Cake day: January 11th, 2024

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  • The second will be Mengzhou-1, which will carry cargo to the Tiangong Space station in September.

    This is the launch I’m most excited about this year. For those unfamiliar, until now China has been flying crew on a Soyuz-derivative called Shenzhou. Mengzhou is its from-scratch replacement. It will be the first operational flight of a clean sheet design crewed spacecraft outside the US or USSR/Russia. All the test flights so far have gone as planned.

    I’m very curious about CNSA’s progress on lunar surface suits. I think that’s going to be the real sticking point in modern lunar missions beyond a boots-and-flags Apollo-type mission. The Apollo program’s A7L suits took way more damage from that wretched lunar dust than the mission planners expected. They would never have been safe for long-term use at a base.










  • It’s always fun to go into some ghoul’s wikipedia entry and discover that they’re even worse people than one expected them to be, even after wikipedia’s typical whitewashing of ghouls’ resumes. These are just a few of the highlights that caught my eye and sometimes dropped my jaw.

    He was chief international economist at Bear Stearns from 1993 to 2002, and chief economist from 2002 to the firm’s collapse in 2008.

    In August 2007, before the housing market collapse that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, Malpass wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that “Housing and debt markets are not that big a part of the U.S. economy, or of job creation … the housing- and debt-market corrections will probably add to the length of the U.S. economic expansion.”

    His September 1, 2016 op-ed in The New York Times, “Why This Economy Needs Donald Trump”, described potential faster growth through a policy upheaval covering economic policy, taxes, trade, and regulations.