It is not as though Senator Hatch is against commercial space efforts. As the Senator notes, he is for commercial efforts. But Hatch feels that the commercial crew launchers have a long way to go before they are able to match the capabilities and rigors that NASA and its contractors, in this instance ATK, are [...]
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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 [...] 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. [...] The Huntsville Times’ Lee Roop reports that NASA Deputy Administrator Garver met with his paper’s editorial board, in Deputy NASA leader Lori Garver thinks stalemate between Congress and White House is over during which D.A. Garver mades the following points: The stalemate between Congress and the White House is over. |
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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