Space is the place, Sustainable Industries Magazine“Beyond giving boosts to innovative technologies, NASA is driven by a need to stay grounded and relevant to people’s everyday lives by doing things other than just making rockets,” says Keith Cowing, a former NASA employee who’s now one of its most prominent watchdogs. And, like many agencies, Cowing says NASA is often hindered by lack of staff and budget, pulled in different directions […]
NASA JSC Solicitation: ISS Commercial Resupply Services “NASA/JSC plans to issue an RFP for the following Commercial item/services: cargo upmass, disposal and return to and from the International Space Station, nonstandard services and special studies as defined in the Statement of Work.” NASA Solicitation: Constellation Program Ground Processing Services “The purpose of this notice is to apprise interested parties of the current planning schedule for competition of the Constellation (Cx) […]
Barack Obama: One-on-one with WKYC’s Tom Beres, WKYC.com (half way through video)Obama: “I’ve got a strong belief in NASA and the process of space exploration. I do think that our program has been stuck for a while – that the space shuttle mission did not inspire the imagination of the public – that much of the experimentation that was done could have been conducted not necessarily with manned flights. I […]
Editor’s note: With all this fussin’ and fightin’ about the future of the VSE, HBO’s “Mr. Show with Bob & David” came up with a new reason to go back to the moon. Makes sense to me.
NASA Work Force Projections Previewed, Aerospace Daily“Subcommittee Chairman Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) pressed Griffin on the issue of sustaining NASA’s human spaceflight work force during the downtime between the shuttle’s retirement and the introduction of the Orion and Ares I vehicles, projected for early 2015. “We don’t want to go through what we went through after the shutdown of Apollo,” Nelson said.”Senators clash with NASA chief on speed of space transition, […]
Editor’s note: If you go to the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs page (or the “For Policy Makers” page on NASA.gov) and click on Congressional Testimony you will see a page that was last updated for some 11 October 2007 hearings. Mike Griffin testified on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Editor’s update: The page was (finally) updated today. What a coincidence.
Former President Clinton stumps for Hillary in Houston, Houston Chronicle“Clinton pointed out that Hillary Clinton places more of an emphasis than Obama on human space travel. “This is the center of American space travel,” he said of Houston and the Johnson Space Center. “Sixteen thousand (local) jobs — and a lot of America’s future — rely on this.”Bill Clinton Says Hillary Will Change Lives If Elected President, Fox 26“He also […]
NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Responses to Questions from NASA Watch Feb. 27, 2008“Q: Did NASA pay for any civil servants and/or contractors to attend the Stanford University meeting “Examining the Vision – Balancing Science and Exploration” meeting last week? If so which civil servants and/or contractors attended? What contracts and/or projects was this travel and work time charged to? Are these attendees required to prepare a trip report or […]
Can’t remember the 11 planets? 4th-grader offers help, AP“Those having trouble remembering the newly assigned 11 planets, including three dwarfs, are getting help from a fourth-grader. Maryn Smith, the winner of the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, has created a handy way to remember the planets and their order in distance from the sun.”
3rd Space Exploration Conference Briefing Materials Online“The American institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), in collaboration with NASA, is pleased to announce that the Third Space Exploration Conference will be held February 26-28, 2008 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. After each panel concludes, panelists’ briefings will be made available here in PDF format.” Editor’s note: I will be curious to see how much of what Steve Cook […]