David Kerley
Journalist Full Throttle-Transportation Transformation @DiscoveryChannel: Space Launch LIVE Formerly ABC News Senior Transportation Correspondent
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1 week ago |
davidkerley.substack.com | David Kerley
Hello subscribers. If you watched the Blue Origin flight did you notice the little problem after touchdown? Here’s what I posted:Blue Origin had a successful flight with its "tourist" spacecraft system New Shepard. An all female crew was the company's latest marketing effort. The flight appeared smooth and without issues. The hatch opening "ceremony" di…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Full Throttle to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
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1 month ago |
davidkerley.substack.com | David Kerley
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1 month ago |
davidkerley.substack.com | David Kerley
(Credit: NASA)Butch and Suni have been at the International Space Station (ISS) much longer than they expected. The headlines blare, “An eight day mission turns into a nine month stay,” or, “Stranded astronauts to head home.”But, they were never stranded! This bold declarative sentence provides fodder for plenty of debate. Let me make my case as the two astronauts prepare to return to Earth early tomorrow morning.
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1 month ago |
davidkerley.substack.com | David Kerley
Test Flight 8 of Starship ended stormily after one of three engines failed and the spacecraft started cartwheeling as shown in the data bar on the bottom of the picture. (Credit: SpaceX)It was deja vu all over again last week when SpaceX lost its second Starship in a row. Also for a second time, a Houston startup’s lander ended up on its side on the surface of the Moon just hours earlier. It is hard to get to the Moon, and there were two dramatic examples last week.
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1 month ago |
revkin.substack.com | James Fallows |David Kerley
“Elon Musk can declare, properly, every Starship explosion as a step forward because you have to try lots of things until you see what works. You can't do that with commercial airlines.” - Here’s the webcast / podcast version of my Sustain What transportation conversation with longtime journalists , and Jim Motavalli. All the details and relevant links are in the “curtain raiser”:Sustain What is a reader-supported publication.
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“Un”- “Non” - “Not” - Stranded Astronauts, by @David_Kerley https://t.co/Kqy5111zkv https://t.co/F4HG6QkzSX
RT @NTSB_Newsroom: MEDIA ADVISORY: NTSB will hold a media briefing today at 2 p.m. Eastern time on the Jan. 29 mid-air collision near Ronal…
This was an interesting conversation with some smart people.
In discussing the slow pace of modernization of the FAA @David_Kerley brought up FAA #nextgen.. 4/ https://t.co/lbuNbJHTJJ