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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 [...] Some proponents of the lackluster Obama NASA proposal continue to criticize the growing number of experienced engineers and scientists, former astronauts (including Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan, and Jim Lovell among many), politicians, journalists, and former administrators who speak out against the cancellation of Constellation. The rationale? These people are voices of the past [...] 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 [...] NASA Deputy Lori Garver In interesting quote in the Wall Street Journal’s Andy Pasztor’s article, Feud Over NASA Threatens America’s Edge in Space, “One of the first things Ms. Garver said she did was to ‘look under the hood’ of the Constellation program. She didn’t like what she found. The program was years behind schedule and [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] During today’s hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden as the sole witness. Under less than easy questioning by Chairman Mollohan about why commercial human launchers would be cheaper than NASA, Administrator Bolden stated that the issue was one of supporting infrastructure. “If NASA continues with Constellation”, Administrator Bolden stated, [...] As if the unending criticism for the past going near 2 months of the decision by NASA’s executive leadership and the Administration to end Project Constellation were not enough, now comes more from a new avenue, Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate. You can listen to the debate yourself over iTunes here. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit Hearing Part 1 The Hearing for the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. AmericaSpace Note: We’ll be posting hearing video after its over. AmericaSpace Note 2: We decided to use the hearing recess to upload the first part of the hearing. This is a large file. AmericaSpace Note 3: All three hearing parts have [...] |
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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