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NASA Must Initiate Transition Plan for Heavy Lift Maser Says “We don’t want to see any Constellation contracts canceled until we have a transition plan and can transition the skill set. We think the worst thing for the industry would be if all these contracts were canceled and then there was a pause of 12 to [...] 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 [...] 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 Orion Docs With ISS Looks like things are heating-up between Congress and NASA leadership over that leadership’s efforts to begin terminating Constellation before Congress votes whether to do so, according to Space News Amy Klamper’s article, GAO Asked To Examine NASAs Constellation Shutdown Plans. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit 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 [...] As reported by Ben Ionnatta of the Air Force Times, Gary Payton, deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for space programs, testified before Congress on Friday that the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office could face major increases in the cost of launching satellites as a result of the Obama administration’s decision to cancel NASA’s [...] 2008 Obama Space Speech The President’s new direction for NASA has not been too well received, as reported in, Obama facing uprising over new NASA strategy. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit 2008 Obama Space Speech The President’s upcoming trip to the Space Coast is not for Obama to roll-out his space vision. No, this trip is about one thing–keeping Florida, and the White House, in 2012. It is difficult to imagine how important Obama’s Titusville space speech was in helping him win 6/12 counties that make up [...] 2008 Obama Space Speech As reported by Amy Klamper of Space News in, Obamas Space Conference to Take Place in Kennedy Area, NASA Deputy Administrator Garver stated today that the President will be coming to the Kennedy Space Center area for his April 15th summit. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit |
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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