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  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | James B. Meigs

    SpaceX proved it could serve NASA as a vendor but also launch payloads for other customers. Suddenly, space was a business opportunity. On Oct. 10, 2012, an uncrewed SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying half a ton of cargo docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The mission marked the dawn of a new era in spaceflight and portended the twilight of the previous one.

  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | James B. Meigs

    SpaceX proved it could serve NASA as a vendor but also launch payloads for other customers. Suddenly, space was a business opportunity. On Oct. 10, 2012, an uncrewed SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying half a ton of cargo docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The mission marked the dawn of a new era in spaceflight and portended the twilight of the previous one.

  • 3 weeks ago | city-journal.org | James B. Meigs

    An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions, by David Zweig (MIT Press, 464 pp., $39.95)In the early spring of 2020, freelance writer David Zweig was, like most suburban dads, willing to follow the advice of experts.

  • 3 weeks ago | commentary.org | James B. Meigs

    Walk into any New Age crystal shop in Sedona, Arizona, or a hot-yoga studio in Oakland, California, or maybe a socialist bookshop in Boston, Massachusetts. Look around for the kookiest granola grandma you can find. You know the type. She'll drive up in a battered Prius with a peeling No Nukes bumper sticker. And she'll probably be wearing purple sneakers. Talk to this sweet lady for five minutes and you will likely learn which planet is rising in her zodiac sign.

  • 1 month ago | nypost.com | James B. Meigs

    To ensure the future of spaceflight, NASA must stop building rockets. That counterintuitive notion is borne out by the agency’s sad post-Apollo history. For the past 50 years, America’s dreams of space exploration have been stymied by NASA’s failure to build an affordable, reliable launch system. Today, the private sector builds rockets faster, cheaper, and better.

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Jim Meigs
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26 May 25

RT @judgeglock: Wait, Britain arrests 1000 people a MONTH for online posting? I knew it was bad but not this bad. https://t.co/Pc2odzKGVA

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24 May 25

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Jim Meigs @jamesbmeigs
23 May 25

A project I'm involved in... If you're in the Hudson Valley, come on by! https://t.co/8SrMUInUCI