This is not a NASA Website. You might learn something. It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for YOU.
ARCHIVE
Month: April 2011
NASA Targets Monday for Earliest Launch Attempt of Endeavour

NASA To Work Issue Over the Weekend and Targets Monday for Launch of Endeavour, SpaceRef “It will be 24 hours from the scrub time before technicians can access Endeavour’s aft cabin Load Control Assembly (LCA). The LCA, a switchbox, is now where engineers think the problem is. By dinner time Saturday managers feel they will be able to start troubleshooting the problem after they’ve gained access to the LCA. Managers […]

  • NASA Watch
  • April 29, 2011
Endeavour Launch Scrubbed for at Least 72 Hours

Space Shuttle Endeavour on Track for a 3:47 Launch This morning at 6:22 p.m. EDT the loading of the space shuttle’s external tank with 500,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen began and the topping off of the tank’s propellants will continue until launch time. All systems onboard Endeavour are functioning normally. There is a 70 percent chance of favorable weather for launch. The primary weather concern is for low […]

  • NASA Watch
  • April 29, 2011
NASA Commercial Crew Program Requirements Workshop

NASA Commercial Crew Program Requirements Workshop “Save the Date of May 24 and 25 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Requirements Workshop. The workshop purpose is to introduce the Commercial Crew Program’s requirement set and to discuss the key features of each of the documents. The workshop location will be near Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Details concerning the requirement set, workshop agenda/location, and registration information will be posted within 2 weeks.”

  • NASA Watch
  • April 29, 2011
Hosted Payload Alliance Has Its First Meeting

Hosted Payload Alliance Shares Perspectives With Panel of U.S. Government Officials in First Organizational Meeting “A major goal of the Hosted Payload Alliance is to serve as a bridge between government and private industry to foster an open dialogue between potential users and providers of hosted payload capabilities,” said Don Thoma, chairman of the HPA Steering Committee. “The fact that we brought together such a large and diverse group of […]

  • NASA Watch
  • April 28, 2011
CCDev2 Press Conference

As President Obama Marks Final Launch of Endeavour, Nation Looks to Commercial Space for the Future, Commercial Spaceflight Federation “John Gedmark concluded, “We’ll finally be able to realize the sci-fi future people have been dreaming about, one that inspired an entire generation of dreamers and innovators. People are again imagining a future like we saw in the landmark film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, where private spacecraft offered frequent flights into […]

  • NASA Watch
  • April 28, 2011
White House Logo Use Update

White House Threatens Science Blog Over Use of Logo, Electronic Frontier Foundation “When Keith Cowing made an innocuous post about a meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on his long-running science policy blog, Space Ref, he didn’t imagine that it would trigger a phone call from the White House. But that is exactly what happened, and the White House was not calling to congratulate him […]

  • NASA Watch
  • April 27, 2011
Big Brush Fire at KSC (Update)

Brush Fire at KSC Near Media Center, SpaceRef A small brush fire started shortly before 1:00 pm near the Kennedy Space Center media center. At present KSC fire personnel have responded to the fire and a NASA PAO representative has said they expect to have it under control soon. As you can see by these pictures fire personnel have been stationed near the media center. Inside the media center a […]

  • NASA Watch
  • April 27, 2011
Big Fire at KSC

Keith’s note: There is a big fire near the press site at KSC. Fire crews are responding. I’ll post an update once I know what it is. Here are two images taken moments ago (1 2)

  • NASA Watch
  • April 27, 2011