Okay, on the off chance a commission comes through this weekend there will be another post-it will just be later because I have to cover down for a co-worker.

But there is too much going on in the next few days to wait for a commission to come in behind schedule so you get so you get a time sandwich of posts-yay!

In less than 12 hours of this writing there will be an unveiling of the Dragon Capsule Mark 2 which if you’re lucky (and possibly luckier than me) you can watch it live here http://www.spacex.com/webcast/ I am foaming at the mouth over this hardware-but just this once I’ll let you see it first before I say my piece.

This Saturday another live event is going down, this time with Copenhagen Suborbitals. They are testing a new rocket called the Heat2X, which you can watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG1qVhJ961U . They don’t plan to launch it yet (bummer), this test is to verify progress towards the specialized recreation of the V-2/redstone engine strong enough to put a human in space on a shoestring budget. These guys run off donations and are opensource- literally anything they could do you can take it, switch it up how you like, and do better (provided you know what your doing and you saved up enough). These guys are heroes of mine and I wish'em luck!

Now for the question, ‘Why are these links important?’ well let’s look past the fact that they are incredibly techish and consider two points. First, name the last production ready spacecraft you saw unveiled in the last 25 years… sad isn’t it? Second, how many options do you have in buying a car? now how many different ships do you see? The general trend is really lazy. All of our advances in technology and practically the same fleet in the skies we had 40 years ago, minus software patches-those you see a lot of.

You have a handful of companies that start up for the prospect of getting a prize, and you know to each their own. But to actually see these guys rise out of nowhere and actually build first & talk later… ah screw drugs gimme science any day!