Space Curmudgeon
Occasional essays on space policy and industry, written with skepticism and a raised eyebrow. Currently dormant.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only paid issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 12 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | a year ago |
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Trump and Musk Are Fighting — and Space Is Caught in the Middle
What else did you expect?
🚀 LATE NIGHT BULLETIN
A Nomination, Unmade
Isaacman was 72 hours from confirmation. Then politics, budgets, and old grudges pulled him back to Earth.
A Call, A Collapse, A Caution
Wolf Bait
NASA’s orphaned budget drifts leaderless into rough political waters.
Content warning: Mixed and mangled metaphors ahead.
Starship, Starbase, and Star Budgets
Three veteran reporters provide a vibe check ahead of the budget details
It’s Friday, May 30. We’re still waiting for the Office of Management and Budget to release the full FY26 budget documents. The “skinny” budget President Trump sent t...
The Apparatchik and the Astronaut
A MAGA operative with no space credentials is installed to guide a billionaire pilot through a gutted agency.
Before Jared Isaacman has even been confirmed as NASA administrator—a process expected to wrap on June 2 —his chief of staff has...
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Space Curmudgeon serves critical commentary on space, science policy, and techno-utopian nonsense—from a safe orbital distance.
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