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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. [...] WASHINGTON — NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) will conduct a full-scale test of a five-segment, first stage solid rocket motor at 11:05 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 31. The test at the ATK Aerospace Systems test facility in Promontory, Utah will assess motor performance at low temperatures. The static firing of the solid motor, designated Development [...] They say that Steve Jobs can emit a reality distortion field that causes people, whole audiences, even entire nations to be placed in an hypnotic state that compels them to buy the latest Apple product Steve is talking about. Perhaps. But it seems that NASA’s leadership also lives in a reality distortion field at headquarters. We submit, [...] Great news today, US Senate Passes NASA Authorization Bill. This means that we are one step closer to ensuring that our nation’s human space flight program continues. Interestingly, in remarks before the Mars Society Convention 2010, former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin stated today that neither the House or Senate space acts are better than the [...] AmericaSpace Note: This came from “Concerned for NASA” this morning. Concerned for NASA expresses what many feel but are unable to voice lest they wish to be horizontally transferred, as has been the fate of some, NASA OIG conclusions notwithstanding. Concerned for NASA also posted this letter on the Space.com forums. Dear Administrator Bolden: Your agency-wide message [...] Life just got a bit tougher for those in Congress, especially on the Democratic side, thinking of opposing H.R. 5781. Today, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers wrote of support for H.R. 5781. As noted in the IAM’s letter, “We believe that this bipartisan effort by the House Science and Technology Committee represents a viable [...] Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 5781, the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. H.R. 5781 puts this country back on track to remain the world’s leader in human space flight. It provides for a continued strong, robust human space program at NASA and reverses the proposed outsourcing of that program. And it provides loan [...] |
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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