The walk that cleared, on the day after

The walk that cleared, on the day after

Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Yesterday's walk fired. Today's piece is the day-after-the-walk that landed. The shape, named concretely. Meir and Adenot began U.S. Spacewalk 99 at approximately 8:30 a.m. EDT and concluded it at 3:29 p.m. EDT — 6 hours and 49...
A redundant dish and a Buggles joke

A redundant dish and a Buggles joke

The number that sticks with me from yesterday's spacewalk is not 6.5 hours, not 2:57 p.m. EDT, not even 283 (the count of station-supporting EVAs). It's the redundancy number that has been quietly missing for nine months. Since November 2025, the...