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Month: June 2004
NASA Windtunnels threatened?

27 June 2004: An ill wind blows for bit of NASA history, Daily Press “The military had a glut of tunnels too, so NASA and the Department of Defense formed the National Aeronautics Testing Alliance to figure out which tunnels weren’t needed anymore. Alliance members looked at NASA’s three major transonic tunnels – the 11-Foot Transonic Tunnel at Ames Research Center in California and at Langley the National Transonic Facility […]

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  • June 27, 2004
What does it actually cost?

23 June 2004: NASA: Lack of Disciplined Cost-Estimating Processes Hinders Effective Program Management GAO-04-642, GAO “NASA has limited ability to collect the program cost and schedule data needed to meet basic cost-estimating criteria. For example, as GAO has previously reported, NASA does not have a system to capture reliable financial and performance data key to using effectively the cost-estimating tools that NASA officials state that programs employ. Further, without adequate […]

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  • June 23, 2004
Space and taxes

21 June 2004: Senator Bill Nelson requests expedited probe of NASA contractors for unpaid taxes “Spurred in part by a new recommendation to the president that NASA allow more private sector involvement in space operations, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson today called for an expedited investigation into NASA contractors who get work despite owing unpaid taxes. Nelson’s request also comes in response to an earlier study by the General Accounting Office […]

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  • June 21, 2004
Earlier 2004 entries

18 June 2004: NASA Ponders Shuttle Flight Without Two Key Changes, Reuters “NASA is considering whether it can return its space shuttles to flight without making two safety improvements that have so far proved to be high hurdles for agency engineers, top officials said on Friday.” 18 June 2004: NASA plans crew rescue if shuttle suffers damage, Houston Chronicle “When NASA resumes space shuttle missions next spring, it won’t be […]

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  • June 18, 2004
Comments on the Aldridge Commission Moon-Mars Report? And NASA's Reponse to it?

Send them to [email protected] Your comments thus far: As to the post describing some bizarre procurement behaviors at a NASA Center. If this is an accurate portrayal of the situation, it DOES NOT represent the procurement process I’m accustomed to at my Center. Also, we are not allow to supervise contractors, even in-house, we specify a product/service desired and metrics to measure the product as to compliance with the requirements. […]

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  • June 17, 2004
Earlier entries

15 June 2004: NASA Comptroller email: Executive Council decision on Supercomputer, NASA HQ “Executive Council approved the Ames supercomputer proposal today as follows (note: the proposal is dropped if we do not get appropriate OMB and Congressional concurrence by Tuesday, June 15): Purchase computer with $26m in Enterprise contributions in FY04 and pursue lease for remaining amount.” 4 June 2004: DeLay: No risk, no reward in space, Washington Times “In […]

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  • June 15, 2004
Earlier 2004 Entries

June 2004: Beyond the Widget: Columbia Accident Lessons Affirmed, Brig Gen Duane W. Deal, USAF, Air & Space Power “The lessons gleaned from these and other prominent accidents and disasters, management and leadership primers, and raw experience are the same lessons that should have prevented the Columbia accident. The saddest part is that some in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had simply not absorbed, or had forgotten, these […]

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  • June 4, 2004
X-37 cancellation looms

2 June 2004: NASA’s ‘scramjet’ funding in jeopardy, Daily Press“Funding for hypersonics research has not been consistent over the past four decades. After President Bush announced in January his vision to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, NASA dropped plans to fund a larger hypersonic craft called the X-43c. Researchers often speak about past military and NASA programs that have run out of money just as they showed […]

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  • June 2, 2004