My next TSR article, appearing late tonight, will be about this fictional spacecraft:

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible. The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image. blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center last March, I was confronted with an environment of fear, uncertainty and discrimination which struck me as a troubling moral issue that also raises serious safety concerns. Read all about it here: www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1

USS Constitution in drydock, preparing for new adventures. Still from an upcoming #StarTrek fan film. Credits in image. @blender3d.bsky.social + @adobevideo.adobe.com #AfterEffects w @aescripts.com #DeepGlow + #VideoCopilot Element3D & Orb plug-ins #CGI #StarTrek #3D #blender

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5059/1

My new article about the 1996 Mars meteorite is online. It involves sleazy White House advisors, a high-paid prostitute, and chatty scientists. thespacereview.com/article/5058/1

Second 1:1055 scale Star Trek model, Regula I! Instructions: liliumbrickyards.com/product/regu...

A little Star Trek joy to share today: during my tour at Lucasfilm courtesy of @kristinbaver.bsky.social, they had one of the huge ILM matte paintings of Starfleet used in the TOS movies.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74.

Dan Gilroy has won the Emmy for Best Writing for a Drama Series for the ANDOR episode “Welcome to the Rebellion” 🏆

Part 2 of my article about developing the paraglider landing system for Gemini will appear in The Space Review on Monday evening.

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5051/1

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5056/1

From the article I did with Harry Stranger, this is a burning Trident passenger jet at the Nicosia airport on Cyprus in July 1974. You can also see bomb craters. Photographed by a HEXAGON reconnaissance satellite. thespacereview.com/article/5049/1

Another thread of Star Trek fonts! No structure this time, I'm just going to share whatever I can identify in whichever order takes my fancy. These fonts will mostly be official, or notable, or otherwise have caught my eye. 🧵 [1/∞]

If our elected leaders truly believe we're in a new space race with China, then we cannot afford to abandon space science. Read the NEW OP-ED by me and Maxwell Zhu today in Payload Space: payloadspace.com/op-ed-space-...

My article with Harry Stranger is now up: thespacereview.com/article/5049/1

"Golden Dome has no clear design, no real cost estimate, and no one has explained how this protects or enhances strategic stability." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

"We are proud that this is the only television program today saying to a worried world that there is a tomorrow. More, we are saying that tomorrow need not be computerized and de-humanized." Gene Roddenberry addressing entertainment journalists, June 22, 1968

Where the Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with China over the Khunjerab Pass at 4700m above sea level, one of the highest paved roads in the world.

My new article: thespacereview.com/article/5041/1

Who's hungry for food cubes? #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

My article: thespacereview.com/article/5038/1

This is Milo. He may be stalking you in your own home, but on the bright side, you'll never be alone. 12/10 (TT: nicocohoh0)

My article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5038/1

Belknap and Tauriel - Ships of the Line Calendar 2023. Hood and Sentinel in the background.

Never judge a book by its cover!

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5038/1

Thank you for choosing Shinsei Orbital Transfer services and we wish you a pleasant flight to Ceres Dawnport station. #EarthMoonEconomicZone #EMEZ

New article. If movies and television depict space and spaceflight as so hostile and dangerous, why would anybody be enthusiastic about real spaceflight? thespacereview.com/article/5038/1

My next Space Review article should be up within a few hours. It has something to do with this:

My next Space Review article should be up within a few hours. It has something to do with this:

This is the most intense tsunami footage I've ever seen. It purportedly shows the tsunami from the 29 July Mw 8.8 quake in Kamchatka, Russia, filmed in that same region. Source: seismic.kiwi on TikTok, although I've seen this video all over the internet and may originally be from VK or Telegram.

The laziest game of fetch... 😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky

My new article: thespacereview.com/article/5029/1

My new article: thespacereview.com/article/5033/1

Farewell Tom Lehrer. It was such a pleasure to perform classic American musicals with and learn math from you at UC Santa Cruz in the 1980s. In your honor, I will now go and poison some pigeons in the park. And maybe do the Vatican Rag and the Masochism Tango. The article below is a gift link.

More images of Grumman's Beam Builder from 1978. They tested this for about a year at Marshall. Did some some composite tests later. Part 1 is here: thespacereview.com/article/5027/1

In part 2 of my article on building beams in space, I will discuss the General Dynamics SCAFEDs study, and Grumman's work with composites. Part 1 is here: thespacereview.com/article/5027/1

Article is now up: thespacereview.com/article/5027/1

Maybe something about this in The Space Review.

My next article is about this. On The Space Review later tonight.

Dog love Core

I'm in the NY Times today talking about the first time international mortal enemies came together to do something in space, the Apollo-Soyuz mission from 50 years ago. Article by @beckyferreira.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...

My new article: thespacereview.com/article/5023/1

My new article: thespacereview.com/article/5015/1