Matt Wronkiewicz's Weblog

After two days at home, Joseph and I left for the company ski trip. We had a great time up at Mammoth. Most of the time it was very cloudy, in fact the top of the mountain was closed for most of the weekend because of low visibility. I went up to the top with the camera, but I couldn't see much, so I took the gondola back down. On the way, I saw a break in the clouds that opened up the whole valley for a photo shoot. About halfway down the mountain I got off the gondola and hiked around to find a good place to set up. I ended up right above a cliff with a good view of the mountain and the valley. You can see the resulting panorama Read More

Thanks to the generous offer by Mallory and Joan Green to let me stay with them in Washington DC, I was able to go to March Storm this year. March Storm is an event organized by ProSpace to bring together space enthusiasts for three days of lobbying congress. The specifics of what we talk about are different from year to year, but the overall goal is to encourage more private commercial activity in space, and to reorient the national space program toward solving real problems instead of exploring for the sake of exploration.… Read More