Scott Parazynski Everest Update: 30 April 2008 – Back at Base Camp, EverestOnOrbit “Keith Cowing 30 April 2008 10:20 pm EST: I just got a phone call from Scott Parazynski at Everest Base Camp. He reports that he and his team feel great and that they returned to Everest Base Camp yesterday from Camp II after a 4 day stay. This was their second rotation up to Camp II which […]
Reader note: “Dear NASA Watch, I thought some of the NASA Watch readers might be interested in the YouTube video(s) from a recent lecture by Jack Schmitt, head of the NASA Advisory Council. Jack spoke to a full house at an IMAX theater in Houston, fielded 40 minutes of questions, gave a lecture entitled “Return to the Moon: What it was like and what it will be like”, and then […]
NASA OIG: Final Memorandum on the Standing Review Board for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Project “NASA did not establish the Orion SRB in accordance with Federal law or NASA guidance. The Orion SRB meets the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) definition of an advisory committee. Although FACA committees must be established in accordance with FACA and NASA Policy Directive (NPD) 1150.11, “Federal Advisory Committee Act Committees,” September 22, 2004, […]
Editor’s note: Comments? Send them to [email protected]. Comments below. Reader note: “Mr. Cowing, A couple of things regarding the Gen Y pitch you posted on NASAWatch on 4/25/08, just for the heck of it. First, I found this item “Why Generation Y is broke” linked on InstaPundit earlier today – you may find it interesting if you haven’t already read it. Second, something in the above item made me think […]
Texans in Congress try to boost NASA budget, Houston Chronicle “In the Senate, Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, said she was asking colleagues to add at least $1 billion to the NASA budget. Hutchison said she wants to add one more shuttle flight in order to ferry the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the international space station to study the energy-producing possibilities of […]
IFPTE Letter To House Appropriators Regarding Bipartisan Letter Requesting Additional Funding for NASA “In addition to the immediate, beneficial stimulatory impacts of increasing NASA’s budget, the critically needed supplemental funding will revitalize long-term investments in our Nation’s future. Unless Congress takes significant steps today to ensure NASA’s success across all of its vital missions by providing appropriate funding for its broad array of responsibilities, we may very well relinquish America’s […]
Disturbing E-Mail Goes Out to NASA Employees, WHNT Editor’s note: When employees take dramatic actions such as this – i.e. to circumvent traditional management chains to raise both personal – and important workforce issues – it is symptomatic of managerial insensitivity and incompetence at the top. Dave King should be taking this very seriously – as a personal failure in his own management of MSFC – not something an employee […]
Editor’s note: You may see a new look and feel for NASA Watch appearing – and then disappearing. That’s NASA Watch 3.0. We hope to have it online in the next few days or so. We’re fiddling with things right now – so please excuse the mess. Once everything is working, we’ll be featuring guest bloggers, a moderated comment feature, tagging capability for sites such as Digg, and a number […]
Q&A With John H. Marburger, Chronicle of Higher Education “The NASA budget — people may complain about it, but it’s still grown. It’s still a very substantial fraction of everything else. The administration’s been trying to repair the imbalance between life science and physical science, which is a problem.” Editor’s note: That’s hilarious – given that the current problem with life sciences was actually caused by by the Bush Administration […]
CCA Florida issues comments opposing NASA launch sites, Sport Fishing “We have strong objections to both proposed alternatives. The Mosquito Lagoon and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge areas are premier destinations in Florida’s six billion dollar saltwater recreational fishery. Florida’s recreational fishery is one of the major economic engines driving Florida’s tourist economy,” said Ted Forsgren, CCA Florida Executive Director.” Reader note: “In reference to “Rockets vs Fish”, this is […]