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For those of you who cannot tune-into the webcast of the Senate Science & Transportation Committee’s hearing on Assessing Commercial Space Capabilities, which is being held today at 2:30 PM EDST, we will be live-blogging this event. In the meantime, here’s the witness panel: Lieutenant General Thomas P. Stafford 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 Check out this great video of the successful milestones that ATK has made on Ares I, ATK Progress on NASA’s Constellation Program. Constellation’s Ares I launcher is making great progress, which makes the Administration’s efforts to end Constellation so…just other-worldly.
FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit According to SpaceFlight Now, which was covering today’s Falcon 9 static test fire on itsMission Status Center, SpaceX aborted the Falcon 9′s static test fire. At 1:42 PM (EST), a flash of fire and smoke was just observed at the base of the Falcon 9 rocket, but the engines did not ignite. According to Spaceflight [...] Rep. David Wu — Brent Wojahn/The Oregonian Uh oh, this can’t be good news for NASA’s leadership and White House staffers trying to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat. According to OregonLive.com, Rep. Wu, Chairman of the House Technology and Innovation Subcommittee, is working with other geeks in the House to over-turn [...] Paint falling off of Falcon 9 Watch this video,Falcon 9 has paint and/or primer literally falling off, and you’ll that a good amount of the rocket has lost its paint and cork insulation. You will also notice small pieces of paint and cork insulation falling off the Falcon 9. Then, at 00:08, a much [...] Candidate Kesha Rogers won the Democratic Primary for the Texas 22nd Congressional District yesterday and now faces incumbent GOP Rep. Olson. Olson and Rogers are running one of the more interesting campaigns about who is more pro-space. Right now, we give Kesha the advantage–she’s the only Democratic candidate who has called for President [...] In an article over at Florida Today titled, NASA budget plan may not pass committee as is | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY, Bart Jansen reports that House Science & Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gorton indicated that the White House plane to end Constellation might not have enough votes to pass, as is. This is a giant [...] International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers Another day, another group opposed to the White House attempt to mortgage our nation’s human space flight program over to the Dot Rocket 2.0 crowd. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) has written the President expressing its opposition to his new human space flight plan. The [...] Going after human space could be dangerous for NewSpace (Credit: SpaceX) The Space Review’s post, Will NASA’s embrace kill NewSpace?, by Taylor Dinerman, is probably the most lucid and politically acute analysis of the problems facing the Obama Administration as it tries to end NASA’s human space flight program. Dinerman begins by noting how one Senator, [...] |
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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