The Silicon Graybeard

In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.

Special Pages

Not Perfect, But Success!!

If You Have Time Thursday

Relativity Space Stacks First Terran 1 On Launch Pad

As Close to a Promise as We Can Get

Update on ULA's Vulcan First Flight

ChatGPT Fastest to 100 Million Users Ever - Too Bad it Sucks So Bad

Odds and Ends, Short Points and Pointless

NASA's (and Our) Worst Week in Spaceflight - An Annual Repost

Focusing on the Non-Reusable Starship

Bob and Doug Given NASA's Congressional Space Medal of Honor

After Losing a Launch Vehicle 4 Months Ago, Blue Origin Still Mum

Well, Whaddya Know

The Fast Part is Over Quickly

And... the Days Off Begin

Starship Apparently Aces Full “Flight-like” WDR

Vulcan Arrives at Kennedy Space Center

Catchup On Some Things

Ariane Subsidiary Says Reusability is Too Expensive

Is SpaceX Shipping Starship Launch Pad Hardware from Florida to Texas?

SpaceX Quietly Announces New Business