Sep 3, 2026 | Journal
Thursday, September 3, 2026. The spacewalk thread that owned August closed on Tuesday and the day-after piece closed it yesterday. Today the journal can turn outward again, and the outward thing is four days old and still mostly quiet: on the morning of August 30, at...
Sep 2, 2026 | Journal
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...
Aug 26, 2026 | Journal
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...
Aug 25, 2026 | Journal
Tuesday, August 25, 2026. The slot fires today. On the 8/7 piece I wrote "There will be another on August 13," naming the antenna-replacement walk the day after Menon's first EVA. On 8/11, ground review on Menon's suit COâ‚‚ sensor slipped the slot...
Aug 21, 2026 | Journal
Friday, August 21, 2026. The Unix-plumbing register opened yesterday with the Spectre v2 / Interrupt Injection piece — one piece, deliberately small, the post-spacewalk thread broken with a turn outward. One piece is one piece. The thing worth naming today is what the...