Scott at Everest – with the Sun Shining, Miles O’Brien “Eventually, we are going to get these vidchats from Everest Base Camp down to a science. At 11pm EDT on Wednesday – 8:45am Thursday at EBC, I spoke with Scott Parazynski and Keith Cowing. The weather is much better at this time of day there – and so we finally saw the amazing peaks behind them.” Scott Parazynski checks in […]
Editor’s note: I arrived at Everest Base Camp at around 9:30 am Nepal time this morning (27 April). I have more or less settled in and have started to work. Scott is looking just fine – but tired after several days up on the mountain. He arrived back at the IMG base camp this morning the precise second I came around the last turn in the path toward the IMG […]
From aero-news.net: FL Senator Pushing To Delay Shuttle Retirement Sun, 19 Apr ’09 Seeking To Protect Thousands Of Aerospace Industry Jobs Florida Senator Bill Nelson, a former Space Shuttle astronaut himself, is working toward extending the shuttle program to protect thousands of jobs in his state that would likely be jeopardized by the programs’ planned retirement at the end of 2010. According to The Wall Street Journal, Nelson, a Democrat, […]
Editor’s note: According to sources Mike Griffin made reference to NASA Watch last night at the Goddard Memorial Dinner: “Tonight is the first night giving a speech in public where I won’t wake up tomorrow and read about it in NASAWatch.” I hate burst your bubble Mike. I guess it is “tomorrow” – I may be sitting in a tea lodge in Namche, Nepal, but NASA Watch has eyes and […]
Frank’s Note: Check out this report on federal campaign contributions for last year’s campaign cycle at Open Secrets Honeywell lead the defense/aerospace sector with a total contributions of $2.5 million. Lockheed was right behind at $1.6 million and Boeing in third place at $1.3 million. Interestingly enough, their contributions were almost evenly divided between Dems and the GOP, with Dems slightly ahead in the dollars donated. Of course, from the […]
NASA to Announce New Space Station Module Name April 14 “NASA’s newest module for the International Space Station will get a new name on April 14. The agency plans to make the announcement with the help of Expedition 14 and 15 astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” The program will air at 11:30 p.m. EDT. The name, which will not be publicly released until the program […]
Naming Spacecraft: Confusion Reigns, Collectspace “Sometimes the spacecraft-naming process became controversial and resulted in battles of will between the flight crews and self-appointed screening experts at NASA headquarters. Gus Grissom almost ran afoul of the approval loop but won out in the end. See sidebar, What’s In A Name?, (below). His choice, “Molly Brown,” was eventually approved. However, the NASA Headquarters bureaucrats were so “ticked off” after the Grissom incident […]
Space Station Nears an Extension, Wall Street Journal “The U.S. and major foreign partners on the International Space Station have agreed in principle to keep it operating through 2020, at least five years beyond the current deadline, according to government and industry officials. There had been looming questions about the future of the space station — which took nearly two decades and more than $100 billion to design and build […]
According to @NASA “NASA will announce the name of the newest space station module on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” April 14 at 11:30 p.m. EDT.”
Editor’s note: I leave on Sunday for Nepal and will be there until 31 May. I will have Internet access while I am trekking in to Everest Base Camp via a variety of means albeit limited. At Everest Base Camp, I should have good comms, but they are expensive and I need to conserve them for the tasks at hand. As such, I really won’t be responding to email, phone […]