Xombie and Xoie side by side. #ngllc You can see that E is shorter, but compare the size of the upper tank on B to the lower tank on E.

A cairn I built on Key West because I couldn't swim and I was bored.

I sent a bit of text to the AV press, and they ran a nice article.

MSS Strategic Helium Repository, or the source of Talk Like a Tween Tuesday.

Big dry lake. Much flatter than Lucerne or Koehn.

Plane landing at Edwards, and part of the big runway 36 indicator on the lakebed ( http://is.gd/4pD0b )

In a little known followup, Nasa crasheda -6 AN-CROSS into Moon Pie.

tripod aerial photo from the new #ngllc level 2 pads.

We're the entire front page of today's Aerotech News!

Burning the midnight.. rocket fuel.

I turned around to take a photo of stunning light on the mountains, and then the concrete contractor called me. I ended up with this, which is nice but is not as good.

Retro-futuristic rocket engine, or possibly a fusion reactor of some sort.

Today's attempt at making spherical ice cream was more of a success.

At the space shuttle with the AIAA group.

An annotated view from our 53m rocket flight. Doesn't take much up to get a good view.

The view down from 53m. I'm in a black t-shirt standing left of the bunker.

First free flight! Small rocket in a big sky. Five times higher tomorrow.

Did you know that you can make bubbles of molten concrete?

Envy (our not pet snake) came back. He lives under the bunker.

Pyrocumulus from the Station fire, and Mojave boneyard, as seen from our test site on Saturday.