Tag: nasa

• Why the Pentagon Can’t Pass an Audit

  Posted this to X/Twitter, will post the story here too. I’ve talked about this before, but after I got through grad school I PCSed to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and became the mission manager for the STP-2 launch. That launch was a task order on the OSP-3 contract, which had a few different vendors on…

  Ryan Patrick

  February 23, 2026

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  nasa, news, space, spacex, technology, writing

• The Black Knight

  Post on on one of my favorite conspiracy theories, the Black Knight satellite! It’ll play a huge role in the sequel to The Martian Incident, The Saturn Anomaly. For the uninitiated, the Black Knight is supposedly a 13,000-year-old spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin in a nondecaying polar orbit that emits a repeating signal. The existence of…

  Ryan Patrick

  August 18, 2025

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  author, book-reviews, books, fantasy, history, indie author, indie books, moon, nasa, publishing, reading, science, scifi, space, writing

• Types of Rockets

  Like my posts in May and June about orbits and remote sensing respectively, this is a 100-level overview on the different kinds of rockets and how they can be used in sci-fi writing. Note that I’m only going to go through the four primary methods for a rocket to get out of a gravity well,…

  Ryan Patrick

  July 24, 2024

  Posts, Writing Advice

  author, books, indie author, indie books, nasa, news, publishing, reading, rockets, science, scifi, self-pub, self-publishing, space, spacex, writing