HoodaThunk?

The series of storms that raced though the DC area on Friday, 1 June, were quite strong and had all the potential of spawning tornadoes. But, despite multiple “tornado warning” announcements during the afternoon and evening, I didn’t hear a single confirmation that a tornado had actually been spotted. Now comes confirmation that there were, [...]

I’m playing some catch-up this morning and I wanted to lead off with a round of applause to SpaceX and the silky-smooth first mission of the Dragon. The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was designed to answer NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Its mission is to haul stuff into orbit and return stuff back home. [...]