Last week, we carried the news that several Nobel laureates had written a letter to House Science & Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon to express their support for the President’s proposed changes to the nation’s human space flight program and to state their opposition to the Committee’s bill that would largely ignore those proposals. If [...]
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We thought you, our readers, would enjoy this, Exploding supernova spews star guts – Holy Kaw!, “Astronomers have been able to measure the velocity and composition of ‘star guts’ being ejected into space following the explosion of a nearby supernova, thanks to a newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope.” Hopefully, when all the bruh-ha-ha is over about whether [...] The first paragraph of this press release from NASA-JPL,Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle, says it all, Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA’s Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life. While the release goes on to state [...] Today’s New York Times reports that Nobel Winners Back Obama Space Strategy. The problem that we have with this letter is that these are all scientists who of course want more research money and funding for University-led research, for which the Obama space plan would be a boon. One of the letter’s prime movers is Dr. [...] From AIAA Daily Launch: Aviation Week (8/30, Carreau) reported, “Lockheed Martin says its “Plymouth Rock” mission proposal would reach a Near Earth Asteroid with astronauts using two Orion capsules and a dual-launch strategy as early as 2016-or nearly a decade ahead of the asteroid goal outlined by President Barack Obama in April.” The article noted Lockheed [...] PROMONTORY, Utah – With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. The motor is potentially transferable to future heavy-lift launch vehicle designs. The stationary firing of the first-stage development solid rocket motor, [...] First, the test was a success, as NASA’s and ATK’s press releases have announced. Enclosed is a video link of the test. Note at the beginning the flash of the igniter from the mirror staring up the exit nozzle of the motor. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit Doug Cooke thanks the team for doing a great job and says that it’s great for an engineer to see a successful engineering test. Mr. Cooke is noting the hopeful resolution of the question of which direction to go in human space flight. He mentions that work today puts on a path to achieve human [...] Live blog of the DM-2 Test Post-Test T-20 T-30 WASHINGTON — Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons. Visitors to NASA on The Commons can help tell the photos’ story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify objects and people. [...] |
Earl and Fiona
 This image from the GOES-13 satellite, taken at 10:32 a.m. EDT on Sept. 3, shows a huge Hurricane Earl northeast of North Carolina with cloud cover stretching over the northeastern U.S. A disorganized Tropical Storm Fiona is located in the bottom right of this image. Image Credit: NASA/NOAA Goes Project Read More |
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