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Live Blog Notice – Assessing Commercial Space Capabilities

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
United States Air Force, (Ret.)
Astronaut (Ret.)
Mr. Bryan D. [...]

Time Magazine – Obama Budget Grounds NASA

Time magazine has one of the best news analysis of the impact of the White House attempt to kill Constellation, the program gets us back in orbit after retirement of the Shuttle. The full article is included.

NASA will always have fans, and they’ll always be rabid – folks who love the machines, swoon over the [...]

Winners In Commercial Launch Subsidies

NASA and the White House just announced the following awards for Space Pioneers:

Blue Origin will receive $3.7 million
The Boeing Company will receive $18 million
Paragon Space Development Corporation will receive $1.4 million
Sierra Nevada Corporation will receive $20 million
United Launch Alliance will receive $6.7 million

This money should help some not only stay in business but create some [...]