Yesterday, I visited the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) museum. CALT designs, develops and manufactures Chinese space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles. The highlight, for me, was a “Smart Dispenser” (SD), which is a CZ-2C upper rocket stage that could be modified for use on a ballistic missile as a multiple-reentry vehicle post-boost …
Bush on Iraq, Redux
by | 2004-04-16 | No Comments
Looks like it was that bad. Kaiser claims the press conference “aggravated the doubts of a lot of people.” One literate friend quotes Fischer on Amis: The Bush performance “isn’t bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. It’s not-knowing-where-to-look bad. … It’s like your favourite uncle being caught in a school playground, masturbating.”
Bush Press Conference
by | 2004-04-14 | No Comments
Obviously, I didn/’t get to see the Bush press conference, but I received the following observations: He didn’t answer a single question (most of which were softballs), he was offered and refused 3 or 4 opportunities to admit that he’d made any mistakes at all over the course of his administration and he refused to …
Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security
by | 2004-04-13 | No Comments
The highlight of the Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security, so far, has been the tour of The Beijing Museum of Astronautics. I have some great pictures of myself with China’s first ballistic missile (the 1059) and its first nuclear armed ballistic missile (the DF-2/CSS-1). Visitors can actually look inside the missiles – which …
