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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 [...] Great comic from Florida Today One of the many pieces of legislative compromise over the President’s proposed FY 2011 NASA Budget, which seeks to kill NASA’s Project Constellation and outsource future human spaceflight, is discussed in detail over at NASA Spaceflight in Ambitious Ares test flight plan proposed for HLV demonstrations. But even more likely than the [...] Plain Talk By Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — President Obama in effect pulled the plug on our space program in a speech here Thursday, although he masked it with some vague long-term suggestions. The late president John F. Kennedy must have turned over in his grave. JFK launched the moon landing [...] AmericaSpace Note: So, you’d think that if a President dealing with space issues and policy travels down to the Space Coast to make a speech at the Kennedy Space Center, that he would at least invite the Congressmen whose districts are most affected by that speech. But. You. Would. Be. Dead. Wrong. Congressman Posey represents [...] 2008 Obama Space Speech In what is probably one of the most succinct pieces about the multiple transformation regarding space policy by Obama, Eric Steiner lays out the nonsense from the reality in his op-ed article, Sterner: In space, no one hears you flip-flop From the very first paragraph, Sterner pulls no punches but lays it [...] Earlier today NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced the Fiscal Year 2011 budget proposal program office assignments. These assignments are an important step for NASA and the Johnson Space Center in shaping our future. However, Congress still needs to approve these assignments as part of the Fiscal Year 2011 [...] AmericaSpace Note: This update from Constellation Systems Engineering And Integration Director Lauri Hansen floated across our desk today. Nothing too juicy, but does give you the inside view. From: Hansen, Lauri N. (JSC-ZF111) Hi Dave, Thanks for the feedback. We’re all struggling with communication in the dynamic [...] In another insightful article that shows why Florida Today really takes its space journalism seriously, John Kelly talks about some of the inconsistencies that have been revealed through Congressional hearings over the Augustine Committee’s analysis of Constellation in Caveats on space plan can’t be ignored Kelly talks about the rigorous analysis the Augustine Committee treated estimates [...] 2008 Obama Space Speech According to the St. Petersberg Times, the President seems to be lining-up the various events that he will attend while visiting Florida mid-month. The President’s visit to Florida, when first announced in early March, was ostensibly to address the issue of his “new vision for NASA” that wipes-out NASA’s human space [...] Jeff Hanley Greetings all – it has been a challenging few weeks for all, so I felt it important that I give you some insight into where we’ve come and where we are heading in the midst of this transitional period. First, I will commit to you to step up the comm here through the coming [...] |
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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