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Florida Today’s space blog, “Flame Trench” is carrying a story titled Nelson Proposes Tax Breaks For Space about a proposal by Florida’s senior Senator Bill Nelson to incentivize commercial space firms to locate and do business at 5 regional business zones near NASA centers. “Tax breaks for commercial space-related businesses are the focus of a bill [...] AmericaSpace Note: No sooner had we published, tongue-in-cheek, a post on a possible reality distortion field affecting NASA headquarters, conceding that it could just be a mixture of the D.C. water and being 9 stories up, when this email flopped over the transom. If the title NASA Announces Commercial Crew Initiative Forum isn’t evidence of [...] 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, [...] Aviation Week & Space Technology is reporting, SpaceX Readies First Dragon Spacecraft. SpaceX hopes to complete the checkout process by the end of September. “We’re looking at six to eight weeks,” [SpaceX CEO Elon] Musk says, adding the launch window target could be from late September to early October. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit Readers of this blog will readily agree that it is news when SpaceX and we agree on some facet of human space flight. Yesterday, we found ourselves in agreement. In a post by AvWeek, SpaceX Unveils Heavy-Lift Vehicle Plan, the quote that grabbed our attention was, “For the transition from Earth to Mars, however, SpaceX believes [...] 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 [...]
SpaceX founder and CEO, Elon Musk, who prides himself on his entrepreneurial cunning, sent out what can only be called a “beg-e-mail” asking that company supporters call their Congressional Representatives to express opposition to H.R. 5781. What’s so bad about H.R. 5781? Well, for one, it would provide a small bit of cash to [...] Frank Mooring, who writes Aviation Week & Space Technology’s On Space blog, has an great post, Gotcha! Last week during debate in the House Science & Technology Committee over the Committee’s 2010 NASA Authorization Act, Rep. Grayson demanded a roll call vote to record for posterity’s sake Republicans voting to preserve a $500M loan guarantee program [...] Marcia Smith at SpacePolicyOnline.com has posted that CSIS Releases Report on the Relationship Between National Security and the Commercial Space Sector, titled, “National Security and the Commercial Space Sector: An Analysis and Evaluation of Options for Improving Commercial Access to Space.” FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit We don’t know who MissionControl is, but the comment left by MissionControl over at SpacePolitics.com is interesting in that, based on what we know, the author seems to have some insider knowledge of events. “The tide has decisively turned against Lori Garver and her cohorts who created the disastrous NASA budget and plan for FY 2011. Congress [...] |
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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