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Live blog of the DM-2 Test Post-Test T-20 T-30 Tuesday night…more like Wednesday morning at about 3 AM, marked the passing of our Mac server, a 2007 MacMini that had plugged-away first as server for another company, then for AmericaSpace.org. Apple builds some pretty amazing products and the MacMini is certainly one of them. So, when debating how to replace our now-dead server, an upgrade [...] As reported by Amy Klamper of Space News in, Bill Would Direct NASA to Begin Work on Heavy lift Rocket Next Year, compromise language seems to be coalescing within the Senate around continuation of Ares I, leveraging of the Orion investment, and beginning of an Ares V DDTE (design, development, testing, & evaluation) by 2011 [...] Dr. Paul Spudis of the Lunar Planetary Institute in his blog The Once and Future Moon has inundated us in the recent months with a reminder of the compelling reasons for our continued pursuit of a sustained human presence on the moon. If these reasons, summarized shortly, are not enough to continue our pursuit [...] So, if you’ve tried for the last 45 minutes to get onto AmericaSpace.org…well, we had an outage. It’s our first ever in the 3 years our lil’ Mac has been running, so we feel like parents who’ve seen their child scrape its knee for the first time. We’re going to be running some tests for [...] Ares I–We Have Lift-off! We just got this in from a very special person. Time for Action National AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, presidents of national and international unions, Florida AFL-CIO President Mike Williams, elected officials and celebrity guests will speak. However, this is not a union rally. This is a community event intended to protect local business, our schools [...] Just announced today, as reported in Huntsville space community form task force to fight NASA change, group of North Alabama leaders concerned over proposed White House changes to Marshall Space Flight Center-managed rocket programs have come together to form a task force in an effort to restore funding cuts. The Second to None Initiative brings together [...] Everyone on Facebook trying to save Constellation and our nation’s human space flight program give yourselves a big pat on the back–the cumulative membership of the 5 sites has reached over 42,000. Wow… These groups are: Save NASA’s Constellation and Manned Space Flight Program Charles Krauthammer’s, Closing the new frontier, which is a good op-ed piece that lays out in general terms why the Obama Administration’s cancellation of our nation’s human space flight program is misguided. For the first time since John Glenn flew in 1962, the United States will have no access of its own for humans into [...] Senator Bill Nelson Questions OMB Orzak over NASA Budget An interesting video to watch is Senator Bill Nelson’s hearing questions on NASA budget, in which he asks Office of Management and Budget chief Orzak why the Obama Administration did not fund NASA’s human space flight program to the levels of $3 billion per year as [...] |
On the Move
 As if surrounded by a celestial halo, space shuttle Discovery made its way towards the expansive confines of NASA Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building following a move from its processing hangar on Sept. 9, 2010. A metal sling will be carefully connected to the spacecraft and then operators will hoist it from transfer aisle to the high reaches of the 52-story building before lowering it into place beside the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters. Crews then will connect the spacecraft giving the stack its familiar launch day form. Discovery is targeted to liftoff on the 11-day STS-133 mission on Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT. Image Credit: Jen Scheer Read More |
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