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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 [...] Today, during testimony, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was caught in a possible…misstatement over whether he would bail-out the commercial human launch companies if they got into trouble. And this will not be the only video we have. More to come tomorrow from White House OSTP Director Dr. Holdren and NASA Administrator Bolden.
FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit 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 [...] AmericaSpace Note: We are pleased to welcome this guest post by Jim. Well, that was about as exciting as canned rutabagas. He saved the “OUREEEON” hull and paid-off Nelson with a mere $40 million initiative. Hell, $40 million won’t pay the costs for a new WAL-MART SUPERCENTER in Titusville. I am not surprised that Obama staffers were [...] 2008 Obama Space Speech Well, finally! With only 6 days to go, details have emerged about the President’s trip to the Space Coast, as reported by Florida Today’s Todd Halvorson in, Obama To Arrive At KSC At 1:45 P.M. April 15. On Thursday, NASA Administrator Bolden said that the President would make a major space policy [...] 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 [...] We just couldn’t help ourselves but put this up when one of us saw it. And thanks go to Rick Fischer and Jim McDada over at InsideKSC, the place to go to check-out what’s going on inside the space business.
FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit If one had watched the two House hearings last week regarding space, one would have noticed quite a bit of interest in NASA’s decision to send letters to Constellation contractors notifying them that they are responsible, under the terms of their contracts, for preserving funds for close-out of their Constellation work. In a well-written article, [...] Ares I–We Have Lift-off! The old saying goes, there are numbers, damned numbers, and statistics. During today’s hearing before the House Science & Technology Committee hearing, that maxim played-out when, under questioning from Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Doug Cooke affirmed that the marginal cost of an Ares [...] Another great article by the Wall Street Journal’s Andy Pasztor, NASA to Devise New Spending Plan to Placate Congress. Subscription required. Money quote: ‘I’m concerned we don’t have a road map,’ said Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger, a Maryland Democrat who generally supports the commercial [...] |
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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