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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 Ars Technica’s Leandro Oliva has a really good interview with former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin in, Goodnight Moon: Michael Griffin on the future of NASA. We are big fans of Mike Griffin. One of us has even worked through a review in Constellation with Mike. And through that experience, the opinion here is that Mike Griffin [...] As always, Wayne Hale delivers an interesting and thought-provoking post on his NASA blog, High Culture And Spaceflight in which he ruminates on the hopes and dreams he had when he started working at NASA 30 years ago. But it was his closing that really grabbed our attention, Lots of folks believe that they can invent/develop/complete [...] Really interesting article by the Huntsville Times’ Lee Roop, NASA, companies unveil breakthrough spacecraft welding process about an event yesterday held at Marshall Space Flight Center to announce a new process of making domes, or common bulkheads, that cuts both cost and weight by 25%. The process is called spin-forming and it replaces the previous process [...] There’s some news on the small launcher to LEO market as covered by the Wall Street Journal’s Andy Pazstor in, Alliant, Lockheed Team for Smaller Satellite Launches and FlightGlobal’s blogger at Hyperbola, Rob Coppinger in, Lockheed ATK announce Falcon 1 competitor. Compared to the Falcon 1e, which has a LEO payload capability of 1,010 kg, the [...] Well, it took…oh, only about 1 3/4 months, but a major aerospace industry leader has stepped-up to support the Obama Administration’s plans for transforming NASA into an R&D center. That industry leader, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel’s Mark Mathews in, ULA backs Obama NASA plan, is none other than United Launch Alliance. But [...] 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 A good synopsis of the sentiment of attendees of the Annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, as reported by Space.com’s Clara Moskowitz in, NASA Needs a Clear Destination for Space Exploration, Experts Say. Though panelists couldn’t agree on the exact destination NASA should seek, the vast majority agreed that not only was a destination needed, but a [...] Orion Is Ready The Russian government, having maintained its support for human space flight even during the worst of economic times, can now reap the benefits of that long-term focus. As reported by Florida Today in, As options diminish, prices are going up, the Russians are about to make a good bit of money from [...] 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 [...] |
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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