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During yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, its Chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller asked the question how does human space exploration matter, not only today, but in the future? He also wanted to know how human space flight helps the human condition, sufficient to its budget, in America? Senator Rockerfeller doesn’t see why humans [...] Today, during testimony, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was caught in a possible…misstatement over whether he would bail-out the commercial human launch companies if they got into trouble. And this will not be the only video we have. More to come tomorrow from White House OSTP Director Dr. Holdren and NASA Administrator Bolden.
FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.usBlinklistFurlreddit 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 [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Sometimes it is hard to know when a press release is a result of either poor information, unintentional mistakes or intentional misdirection. We will focus on just one paragraph of Musk’s statement, in particular, we will focus on Musk’s claim that the Ares I/Orion “…cost per flight, inclusive of overhead, was expected to be $1.5 billion [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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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