Books by Ashlee Vance
When the Heavens Went On Sale
The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
Ecco Books 2023
- p002 SpaceX Omelek island, Kwajalein 2005
- p008 Flight 3 August 2008 orbit insertion fail
- p009 Flight 4 in 8 weeks, C-17 transport, air pressure crush and fix
- p010 September 28 to orbit, Falcon 1, 1000 pounds
- p013 2000 Falcon 9, 2 then 4 astronauts to ISS
- p014 1960s to 2020 2500 earth satellites, doubled by 2022, expected 50K to 100K by 2033
- p015 China Russia ... US about 3/4 of 100 satellite launches per year
p025 Robbie Schingler 2017 Feb 15. 88 Planet Labs Doves + 16 other small satellites on Indian PSLV
p029 Shingler prayed at temple
- p031 3 "Canaries" turn on magnetorquers, orient towars sun, turn on solar panels, found 2 errors, uploaded corrections
p035 Office of Strategic Influence Pete Worden Space and Missile Systems Center Los Angeles, team of 50, write interesting papers
p039 After wrecking one rocket and then another and then another, !SpaceX began to implement some of the things Worden and others had suggested.
p043 On Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones "...Cones" phrase used by WW2 army air corps, said Worden's father.
p045 NRO in L.A. SDI Abrahamson
- p049 "In case of war, break this pane of glass for the crazy person"
p051 mentions Creon Levit -> interesting talk, deorbit with night-side retrograde liquid CO2 release -> solid crystals -> collision, then dissipate day side
p053 conflict with Alabama senator Richard Shelby and cronies (pork barrel pig sez Worden) and cronies
p054 Dangerous Sports Club Alan Weston
p055 Lunar Micro Lander $40M ballooned into $280M LADEE
p057 Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite LCROSS 2009
- "neutron emissions that are consistent with hydrogen-rich deposits covered by desiccated regolith"
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.281.5382.1496
- p058 Leased 40 acres / 40 years to Google for $148M
p059 Hired Chris Kemp 2006, Astra in 2016
- p061 Kemp lambasted by Ross Perot for halving $180M spend
p062 2008 Singularity University
- p064 foreigners on sacred ground
Planet Labs Will Marshall England, Chris Boshuizen Australia
- p065 Kemp detained for taking NASA laptop to Austrian space conference
- p068 Worden at Ames 2006 to 2015 retirement
- p069 Machiavelli: "The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in those who would profit by the new order."
p071 Marshall, Schingler, and Jessy Kate (Cowan-Sharp) Shingler 21677 Rainbow Drive Cupertino pic
- p074 unusual ads on Craigslist, communal meals, large library
p077 two day hike from mansion to Waddell Beach
more later
Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
Ecco Books 2015
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