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

Space X preparing for flight test 11

Where are we with SLS and Artemis after all the talk?

This is something I've never posted about before

Now for something I haven't done in a long time

Small Space News Story Roundup 65

FAA green lights SpaceX to build two new landing zones

SpaceX to start making their own fuel supply

A New Meeting in Congress to "Save the SLS"

Labor Day 2025

Sunday Morning Live - SpaceX's 9th Starlink Launch of the Month

Combining Starship FT-10 and the record reuse of B1067...

SpaceX flies 30th mission of a Falcon 9 booster - the new record

As the flight 10 data starts to pour in ...

OK - THAT was incredible

CRS-33's Dragon capsule isn't your average Cargo Dragon

It wasn't a total waste of a day to SpaceX

On the eve of the next big Starship test flight

Small Space News Story Roundup 64

Firefly Aerospace in talks to launch Alpha rocket from Japan