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 [...]
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Time Magazine’s article, Obama Explains NASA Policy, Faces Space-Industry Critics is an interesting summary of the challenges facing the Obama Administration as it attempts clean-up the political and policy mess that is its “new” vision for NASA and America’s human space flight program. AmericaSpace Notes: The President’s statement that we’ve already been to the Moon is…well, [...] Plain Talk By Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — President Obama in effect pulled the plug on our space program in a speech here Thursday, although he masked it with some vague long-term suggestions. The late president John F. Kennedy must have turned over in his grave. JFK launched the moon landing [...] 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 [...] 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 In what is probably one of the most succinct pieces about the multiple transformation regarding space policy by Obama, Eric Steiner lays out the nonsense from the reality in his op-ed article, Sterner: In space, no one hears you flip-flop From the very first paragraph, Sterner pulls no punches but lays it [...] In a very well-written article for The New Atlantis, Robert Zubrin (President of the Mars Society) expresses his concerns that we are Going Nowhere in human space exploration with the path put forth by the President’s proposed NASA budget. We at AmericaSpace consider the article a good read for anyone unfamiliar with the President’s [...] Neil Armstrong, Commander of Apollo 11 and the first human to walk on the Moon, has broken his silence and released to NBC News an open letter written by he, James Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13, and Gene Cernan, Commander of Apollo 17 and the last human to step off of the Moon. In the letter, Armstrong, [...] “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 Earlier today NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced the Fiscal Year 2011 budget proposal program office assignments. These assignments are an important step for NASA and the Johnson Space Center in shaping our future. However, Congress still needs to approve these assignments as part of the Fiscal Year 2011 [...] |
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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