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Month: May 2022

One word: Propellant

May 19, 2022 ~ Edgar Zapata ~ Leave a comment

Some graphs, like pictures, are also worth a thousand words. They do what a beautiful painting does while wandering in a museum, holding your stare like reading from a wall. For rockets and space travel, there is no shortage of figures and numbers and graphs, oh my. One especially telling figure came around in 2010 … Continue reading One word: Propellant

Monty Hall, goats, the odds, and new rockets

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 ~ Edgar Zapata ~ Leave a comment

And what does any of this have to do with space exploration? 2004, a large, musty conference room at Kennedy Space Center, today holding only the six or so of us to mull over a question trickled down from on high. What is the *probable* year the Shuttle will complete another 22 launches? I'd been … Continue reading Monty Hall, goats, the odds, and new rockets

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