Jeff Wolfe

@SciGuySpace From what little I saw of Dana Weigel's presentation, I got the impression that she was very unhappy. So it's not just industry. They don't have the funds for what they want, and don't know what to do instead. They may have to give up some control, and NASA's not good at that.

No one, it seems, is happy with NASA's new idea for commercial space stations. arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/…

@ZTarantov @Cmdr_Hadfield @NASA @SpaceX Was noting the absence of Vulcan Centaur and New Glenn, but Ariane 6 is there. Looks like the chart may be a year or two old and could stand to be updated.

@Cmdr_Hadfield @NASA @SpaceX Adding Ariane 6 and ULA Vulcan to the chart would show how they were obsolete before their first flight. Blue Origin New Glenn is also missing. There are some future rockets in development, like Starship, that are trying (e.g. Rocket Lab's Neutron and Stoke Nova).

What's stuck with me about the new Moon plan is that Jared doesn't plan to kill SLS. Not exactly. Asked about Artemis 6, he said he fully expects elements of the old system to show up in bids. So he will give SLS back to those who made it and let it die a natural death.

@TheLurioReport @Simberg_Space It's not "the stars or nothing". It's "the stars instead of nothing". SLS has proven to be a rocket to nowhere. By my count, there have been 522 American orbital launch attempts since the last SLS launch. The old plan was just crazy slow even by the most optimistic estimates.

From Space News: “NASA’s surprise Moon base initiative” It is no surprise, and is the best decision NASA has made in decades. It was clear for weeks - months - that something like this could emerge from Mr. Isaacman’s clear vision. This path will rightly adapt with time. But the objective is. “the stars, or nothing..”

@SciGuySpace In his prepared remarks, Joel said, "...a robust LEO economy does not exist yet." This is pretty much exactly what Dana said yesterday. The potential is still there but it has been slow to develop. Possibly a chicken and egg problem that NASA could help solve.

Pour one out for NASA's Joel Montalbano. Months ago he is confirmed to appear before the US House to speak about the future of humans in low-Earth orbit. On the day before his appearance NASA basically says there isn't much of one. democrats-science.house.gov/hearings/the-f…

@JacketsInsider My favorite: P/GP: 1.20, 1st (record 1.10) He needs 6 points in the last 11 games to beat the old record for the season.

Zach Werenski's single-season ranks in #CBJ history this year: Points: 77, 5th (Record: 87) Assists: 56, T-3rd (Record: 59) Goals by D: 21, 2nd (Record: 23)

@SpaceflightNow @mdcainjr @ABernNYC @Astrolab_Space @Int_Machines @LunarOutpostInc @NASAKennedy @Axiom_Space @FireflySpace Would be easier to follow if you started a new thread.

114/ Isaacman closes by saying, "We can't do this without you: from the workforce to our partners in industry and especially our international partners. we don't ever do this along. We do it together. We're going to change the world together." This concludes the prepared presentations. A press conference, led by Administrator Isaacman is slated to begin at 4:45 p.m. EDT (2045 UTC). We'll pick up this thread at that point.

Starting at 9 am ET, @NASAAdmin will address the public about the direction of the space agency followed by a series of panels expanding on those priorities. We'll live tweet updates throughout the day on this thread. 🧵1/n Isaacman previewed this during our interview with him:

@catalinafrog @NASAAdmin A bill to extend from 2030 to 2032 was voted out of a Senate committee, but would need to pass both houses before it could be signed into law. Then it would need signoff from the international partners. Jared, or his social media person, must have realized they jumped the gun.

@NASAAdmin I'm confused, I read 2032 previously?

NASA is building on 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. Before its decommissioning in 2030, we intend to:     - Increase support for commercial crew PAM and cargo missions to the ISS  - Maximize research missions in low Earth orbit with commercial potential - Help industry mature technical and operational capabilities - A future where NASA becomes one of many customers for commercial stations    America will work with industry and our international partners to ignite a sustainable orbital economy. We will never surrender our presence in low Earth orbit.

For the kids who are too young to remember, you used to be able to get basically full, complete coverage above a max of $5,000 (aka “catastrophic coverage”) for 90 bucks a month before Obama made it “affordable.”

@SciGuySpace Ah. I see that now. So, interesting for a different reason. Taking a holistic approach in an agency that has historically been Balkanized. And I wouldn't be surprised if there is some ISS/Artemis crossover planned. Jared has already hinted at it.

@jeffwolfe It’s covering a wide range of topics, presumably including commercial space stations.

NASA will share a ton of Artemis planning information tomorrow at HQ. I’ve highlighted Garcia-Galan because he was deputy program manager for Gateway prior to this.

The Hanseatic League solved commercial disputes for 400 years without a single government court, police force, or regulatory agency—and they did it better than any modern state system. From 1159 to 1669, German merchants spanning from London to Novgorod created the most sophisticated private arbitration network in history. When a Hamburg trader accused a Lübeck merchant of breach of contract, they didn't petition some distant king or wait months for bureaucratic tribunals. They brought their dispute before merchant courts staffed by actual businessmen who understood trade, contracts, and reputation. These arbitrators rendered decisions within days, not years. The enforcement mechanism? Pure market discipline. The League maintained detailed records of every merchant's behavior and shared this information across all member cities. Cross a Hanseatic trader in Bergen, and you'd find yourself blacklisted from Riga to Bruges within weeks. No bailiffs, no jackbooted enforcers, no violence—just the inexorable power of reputation and voluntary association. And it worked spectacularly. The League dominated Northern European commerce for half a millennium precisely because merchants trusted their dispute resolution more than royal courts. But here's what modern lawyers and judges will never tell you: the Hanseatic system resolved disputes faster, cheaper, and more accurately than contemporary government courts. Why? Because the arbitrators actually understood commerce and faced real consequences for bad decisions. Screw up a ruling as a Hanseatic arbitrator, and merchants would stop using your services. Screw up as a federal judge today, and you get lifetime tenure. The League died when centralized nation-states crushed private governance with military force, not because their system failed. Every blockchain arbitration platform and private dispute resolution service today merely rediscovers what German merchants perfected 800 years ago.

Freedom from gas prices? Brother I deliver fuel to the power company that charges your Tesla. You're still my customer. You just don't know it.

"...all but 6 [SpaceX launches] have been Starlink". In other words, this year SpaceX has had 6 more non-Starlink launches than Blue Origin, 5 more than ULA or Firefly, 2 more than Rocket Lab. And more than any foreign entity except the government of China.

With his third assist tonight, Zach Werenski clinches a season of at least a point per game. He will be the third player in #CBJ history to do it twice (joining Nash and Panarin). He's on pace for the best P/GP average ever for a Blue Jacket.

@imtweetn @instapundit @willchamberlain Iran has (or had) the ability to launch satellites to low Earth orbit. They did so successfully. There is considerable overlap between smallsat LEO and ICBM technologies. The notion that they were somehow in the Dark Ages with ICBMs just isn't true.

@willchamberlain New paid talking point making the rounds means I already had this screenshot saved to my clipboard. They needed to more than double their missile range to hit us.

Basically every major development in the Iran War has vindicated Trump’s decision to strike. 1) Overwhelming current disparity in traditional military capability = now is a good time to strike, we can destroy their capabilities with limited losses of personnel/material 2) Iran flings ballistics and drones at a nearly a dozen non-combatant neighbors = they are crazy and can’t be trusted with nukes 3) Iran opens negotiations with Witkoff with “we have enough 60% enriched material for 11 bombs and we will not give you anything at the negotiating table that you couldn’t achieve militarily” = diplomacy would not have solved the problem 4) Iran fires ballistics at Diego Garcia = they were not far from having ICBMs that could hit the Eastern Seaboard The case for hitting Iran is STRONGER than it was for ISIS!

@monsterhunter45 My cousin was a dairy farmer. He had 9½ fingers. Never did find out his story.

Oh hell yeah. Despite 66 year old, soft palmed, FarmFu Panda thinking mail delivery prepares him for farming, farming is still the most dangerous job in America. A friend of mine in high school lost the front half of his foot to a dropped scraper blade. Another guy had a wire grinder kick back and remove part of his lips and the enamel off his front teeth. One dairyman I worked for lost his son to a tractor bucket, and years later he got killed staying up too long and rolling his truck. And people wonder why I went into accounting! My dad did this his whole life. He was there when a guy got sloppy tossing three wire bales down into a feed wagon, something got caught, and he got pulled with the bale into the moving screws. Churned him into chunks. He also saw a guy get scalped by the hook on a boom truck. PTO shafts are terrifying. They don't look like much. They will shatter every bone in the human body and wrap you around them like a blood sprinkler Gumby. Just a couple of years ago in my small town a rancher, a friend and a really good man, died when his Bobcat flipped into a pond, he was trapped, and he drowned. Everything that's not alive that farmers work with is sharp, heavy, spring loaded, and absolutely prepared to kill you or remove your limbs. Everything they work with that's alive is either dumb and suicidal or dumb and homicidal. It is very unforgiving of carelessness. Farmers routinely operate heavy equipment in the mud, rain, and dark, often on so little sleep that they might as well be drunk, because the job has to get done then or else. I believe the leading cause of death for farmers is getting smashed by a tractor, and that's because whatever part is under gets popped like a grape. You can't TQ a flat pelvis. Farming is hard. Massive respect to everybody with the balls to do it. FarmFu Panda can go fuck himself.

Back then, #CBJ had just blown a 3-goal lead and were last in the conference. The GM later said he decided to fire the coach after this game. Tonight, #CBJ moved above the playoff line. I still say it's the most talented team in franchise history and now they're playing like it.

@peterrhague Great Scott!!

Marco Rubio realising he has to invent the flux capacitor so Trump can go back in time and be personally warned of an attack that happened 4 years before he was born

@LizWolfeReason Yes, that's the worst. When everyone else forgets and it's still with you every day. It doesn't go away just because you have to get on with life. It never completely goes away, but it does get easier to deal with over time.

Is it possible that the grief is, in fact, the worst after the funeral, after all the people have gone home, after the body's been cremated, when time moves slowly and you have no idea what to do with yourself (or why you feel 100 years old)?