NASA Balloon Suffers Mishap in Australia, NASA “Upon release, the balloon’s payload hit the ground and was dragged approximately 150 yards before hitting a fence and sports utility vehicle. No one was injured. A mishap investigation board is being convened.” NASA balloon crashes on take-off in Australia, destroying telescope, USA Today “A towering NASA science balloon bearing a gamma-ray telescope crashed on liftoff today in Australia, according to reports from […]
Prepared Remarks by Charles Bolden at NASA JSC 28 April 2010 “For my friends in the media – and I think you all know that I mean that in all sincerity – our NASA team cannot be successful in telling our incredible story without your cooperation and assistance. I will always attempt to be responsive to your requests for access, within reason. But you are not a friend of the […]
Funding for Orion Launch Abort System To Cease April 30, Space News “Orbital Sciences Corp. is warning subcontractors supporting development of a launch abort system for NASA’s Orion crew capsule that funding for the effort will cease April 30, according to industry sources and documents. In an April 20 letter to Minneapolis-based Alliant TechSystems (ATK), one of two companies developing motors for the Orion Launch Abort System, Orbital said Orion […]
James Cameron lobbies NASA to include 3-D “eyes” on the next-generation Mars rover, Whittier Daily News “If the next generation rover is able to take high-resolution color movies in 3-D on Mars, it will be thanks to the reigning king of 3-D cinema himself, “Avatar” director James Cameron. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory scaled back its plans in 2007 to mount such a camera atop the rover Curiosity, set to launch […]
Bolden tries to raise spirits at JSC, Houston Chronicle “But unlike the president’s stop in Florida, where he offered to provide the work force there with $40 million in transition aid and made other concessions, Bolden announced no new initiatives that might benefit Johnson Space Center.” Houston Layoffs Not in NASA Plan … Yet, My Fox Houston “For you to go to members of Congress, the media and the American […]
NASA May Stretch out Mars Missions to Save Money “NASA is considering a plan to get around limited budgets set in Washington by stretching out missions to bring back samples from Mars, a researcher said on Wednesday. It may be possible to break down the complicated and expensive mission into three parts, said Steve Squyres, a Cornell University astronomer who leads the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. “It makes the program […]
‘When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war:’ US generals given baffling PowerPoint presentation to try to explain Afghanistan mess, The Mail “Its coloured charts, graphs and bullet-points are supposed to make the most incomprehensible data crystal clear. But even the sharpest military minds in American were left baffled by this PowerPoint slide, a mind-boggling attempt to explain the situation in Afghanistan. ‘When we understand that slide, we’ll […]
Administrator Bolden to Speak to NASA Workforce from Johnson Space Center “Please join Administrator Charlie Bolden as he addresses the entire NASA workforce during a brief program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday, April 28, at noon EDT. The administrator’s remarks will be carried internally on NASA Television on Headquarters channel 76. The program also will be streamed internally over the Web to NASA Headquarters employees at: […]
NASA LaRC Solicitation: Study of Deployable Secondary Structures for Expendable Volumes “NASA LaRC is seeking an industry partner to study the integration, deployment and packaging of secondary structures within inflation deployed volumes. Secondary structures include any structure that is deployed during or after expansion of the primary volume, such as the floor and work surfaces, but which do not contain pressure loads. … The ultimate goal of this research is […]
NASA Ames Center Director Receives Arthur C. Clarke Award “The director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, S. Pete Worden, was recognized Tuesday by The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation for his leadership in space exploration. Worden has written or co-written more than 150 scientific technical papers in astrophysics, space sciences and strategic studies. He also served as a scientific co-investigator for two NASA space science missions. Before becoming Ames center director, […]