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Month: December 2007
Air Safety Survey: NASA's Sluggishness Made Things Worse Than They Needed To Be

NASA Gives Glimpse of Air Safety Survey, AP“He dismissed suggestions that NASA chose to release the data late on New Year’s Eve, when the public is distracted by holidays and news organizations are thinly staffed. “We didn’t deliberately choose to release on the slowest news day of the year,” Griffin said.” Editor’s note: Aw c’mon, Mike. Your staff punted again and again on this until it spilled into the holidays. […]

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  • December 31, 2007
NASA Aviation Safety Data Release

NASA National Aviation Operational Monitoring Service (NAOMS) Information Release“This Web site contains responses collected from the air carrier and general aviation pilot surveys as part of the NASA National Aviation Operational Monitoring Service (NAOMS) project from April 2001 through December 2004. Relevant information is contained in the accompanying documentation. In the interest of timeliness, this first release is by nature conservative to ensure the responses do not contain confidential commercial […]

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  • December 31, 2007
Subtle Hints About Shuttle Fleet Ops Extension?

NASA Awards Contract for Space Shuttle Robotics Support, NASA JSC“The cost plus no fee contract will provide support for activities related to both the Space Shuttle Program and International Space Station Program. The contract includes a base period from Jan. 1, 2008, to Sept. 30, 2010, followed by two one-year extension options.” Editor’s note: Hmmm … if the Shuttle fleet is supposed to be retired in 2010, why is there […]

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  • December 30, 2007
Mars Impact Chances Rise – A Teeny Bit

Astronomers Monitor Asteroid to Pass Near Mars: Impact Chances Now 1 in 25, JPL“Updated Dec. 28, 2007 — Astronomers have identified asteroid 2007 WD 5 in archival imagery. With these new observations, scientists at NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif have refined their trajectory estimates for the asteroid. Based on this latest analysis, the odds for the asteroid impacting Mars on Jan. 30 […]

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  • December 28, 2007
ISS On Orbit Status Report Availability

Editor’s note: After several months of making the daily ISS On Orbit Status Reports available to the public on its HQ website, NASA has now decided (so it would seem) that these reports are not going to be available. When you visit this link which once provided these reports you now get this message “Attention! You have requested information which can be accessed only from a NASA facility…” Editor’s Update: […]

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  • December 28, 2007
Hurry Up And Buy Those Soyuz Tickets

Russia sees end of road for space tourism, AFP“Space tourists may have to seek alternative transport after 2009 due to a lack of room on the Russian capsule serving the International Space Station, Russia’s space agency chief said Thursday. “It has to do with international agreements that stipulate that from 2009 the (ISS) crew must be made up of six people if Japanese and European scientific modules are launched,” said […]

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  • December 28, 2007
President Bush Signs H.R. 2764 into Law

President Bush Signs H.R. 2764 into Law , White House“Today, I signed into law H.R. 2764, legislation that will fund the Federal Government within the reasonable and responsible spending levels I proposed — without raising taxes and without the most objectionable policy changes considered by the Congress. This law provides a down payment for the resources our troops need, without arbitrary timelines for withdrawal. The Congress should quickly take action […]

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  • December 27, 2007
STS-122 Launch Date TBD

Editor note: NASA held a teleconference today with Wayne Hale with regard to repairs needed for STS-122. According to Wayne Hale “We have no launch date to talk about today”. Hale said that NASA would attempt to do all required repairs to Atlantis’ External Tank on the launch pad. Hale expressed confidence that the repairs could be done in this fashion. However, if that is not possible, then a roll […]

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  • December 27, 2007
Simplifying AOs

NASA Solicitation: Simplifying NASA Announcements of Opportunity – Science Mission Directorate“Alan Stern, Associate Administrator for Science Mission Directorate (SMD), has initiated an effort to simplify NASA Announcements of Opportunity (AOs). AOs are issued by NASA to solicit proposals for complete PI-led missions (like Explorer, Discovery, Mars Scout, etc.), for smaller PI-led missions of opportunity, and for instruments for NASA’s strategic missions (like recent AOs for RBSP, MMS, MSL, JWST, etc.). […]

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  • December 27, 2007
Conspiracy Mongering From The Planetary Society's Leader

NASA Conflict Delays Mars Probe, AP“NASA will wait two years longer than planned and spend another $40 million to launch a half-billion-dollar probe to Mars because of an unspecified conflict of interest in the purchasing process, officials said Friday.”NASA Delays Mars Scout Mission to 2013“NASA announced today that the next mission in the Mars Scout program, originally planned for launch in 2011, is now targeted for launch in 2013.”NASA announces […]

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  • December 26, 2007