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“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 John Glenn Our apologies for not catching this sooner, but it now appears, as reported in the Chicago Tribune in Astronauts fear loss of innovation, leadership with no spaceflight, that John Glenn, our nation’s first astronaut to orbit the earth, and former Senator, opposes the Obama Administration’s plans to end NASA’s human space flight program. “It’s [...] As reported by the BBC in, Obama Nasa Plans ‘Catastrophic’ Say Moon Astronauts, Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jim Lovell opposed the Obama Administration’s plan for a “new direction” for NASA. The BBC’s Pallab Ghosh interviewed Moon Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan at a a private event at the Royal Society in London [...] Video of Rep. Bishop's Speech Last night, Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01) addressed misinformation surrounding the President’s cuts to NASA’s manned space program and specifically the Constellation program and Ares rocket in remarks given on the floor of the House of Representatives. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit Interesting exchange, actually Kumbaya session, between Texas Representatives Shiela Jackson Lee and John Culberson about preserving our nation’s interdependent human space flight capability. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD HOUSE PROCEEDINGS PAGE H1211 March 9, 2010 SAVING NASA, A NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST AND ASSET 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 [...] Ares I–We Have Lift-off! According to Jeff Foust, 6 House members will hold a press conference tomorrow to ask NASA Administrator Bolden to explain how intends to save the human space flight program. They will also ask for a 30-day study on how to ensure uninterrupted, independent U.S. human space flight access under the current [...] Cancellation of NASA’s Constellation Program It is sometimes said that if a decision has a nearly equal number of proponents and critics, it must have been a pretty good decision. Such is not the case with President Obama’s decision to cancel NASA’s Constellation program. [The Constellation program is a human spaceflight program which involves the development [...] 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 [...] |
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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