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During yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, its Chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller asked the question how does human space exploration matter, not only today, but in the future? He also wanted to know how human space flight helps the human condition, sufficient to its budget, in America? Senator Rockerfeller doesn’t see why humans [...] Neil Armstrong, Commander of Apollo 11 and the first human to walk on the Moon, has broken his silence and released to NBC News an open letter written by he, James Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13, and Gene Cernan, Commander of Apollo 17 and the last human to step off of the Moon. In the letter, Armstrong, [...] “Space belongs to America. Especially the Moon. We planted a flag on that thing! It’s like licking every doughnut on the pastry tray. It’s ours now! I mean, come on! What happened to the future we were promised?,” Steven Colbert
FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit AmericaSpace Note: This just in from the Conrad Foundation. Jim’s Note: Back in 1999, Pete Conrad was gracious enough to spend over 2 hours working with me through some of the finer points of lunar operations that I was dealing with for a graduate class. Capt. Conrad was a funny as he was insightful. The Conrad Foundation [...] As if the Obama Administration needed any more opposition to its plans to turn NASA into an R&D, rather than a space exploration, center, the Federal Eye’s Ed O’Keefe reports in, Astronaut families press NASA’s case with administration, that the Astronauts Memorial Foundation is strongly opposing the President’s changes to NASA’s human space program in [...] Walt Cunningham – CollectSpace.com Walt Cunningham of Apollo 7 fame wrote an op-ed piece titled, Space disgrace: U.S. will lose hard-earned technology edge, that appeared in Saturday’s Houston Chronicle. Astronaut Cunningham lays out a thorough case as to why the plans drawn-up by NASA and the White House are both bad for the U.S. economy, our [...] Ed Buckbee Charlie Duke Gene Cernan Scott Carpenter Note: AmericaSpace would like to thank Mr. Buckbee for permission to reprint this letter. Dear Mr. & Mrs. America: There has never been, and likely never will be, another government program that expedites technological innovation so much as the U.S. space program. There is not another program that [...] Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to go to the Moon, has a few thoughts about the White House canceling Project Constellation, as reported in More from Frank Borman. I am disturbed about the (proposed) cancellation of the Ares program, and the push into private companies coming up with commerical rockets. This is [...] Please check out the Go Boldly site and sign the petition. Thanks… FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit Michael Griffin Listening tonight to Bretton Alexander, President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, debate former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin on PBS was a case study of sound bites versus informed opinion. I don’t write that to be harsh–it’s just my own personal observation. While Alexander, who has a strong aerospace background, threw-out phrases such as Orion [...] |
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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