Summary of space launch: 2008

There are several people who have done substantive summaries of what happened in space and space launch in 2008.

NewSpace in 2008: Ups and downs in entrepreneurial spaceflight An amazingly substantial summary from Clark S. Lindsey of the NewSpace blog.

Leonard David has written this post: Review of Commercial Spaceflight Uncertain, but Promising.

An interesting summary also written for Flight International: Flight Global

My Space Blog

soyuz-launch-complex-baikonur-anthony-matthews-smallThis is the Space Blog of Anthony Matthews, created 1/1/09. I’m returning to the space business after something of an absence running another enterprise.  I really like small launch vehicles and that whole area, so the blog will focus on them.

The picture I took on a trip to Baikonur in 1993.  It was just after a Soyuz launch.  That was a fun trip.  There was no bottled water so for a week we existed on brownish boiled water, vodka (special occasions only, of course), and this tasty brown soda called NENCH that I later found out was the Russian for Pepsi.

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