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Month: May 2011
Starfighters to Launch Satellites

Starfighters Ready to Launch Satellites “F-104 jet fighters just like the ones astronauts trained in for decades will become a more regular part of the skyscape above NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as a private company expands its fleet of jets with plans to conduct more research flights, launch very small satellites into space and even take paying passengers into the stratosphere. The developments come four years after the company made […]

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  • May 31, 2011
ISS National Lab Management Entity Announcement Today? Guess Not.

Keith’s note: According to the ISS National Lab Management Entity CAN the “anticipated selection announcement” is 31 May 2011. NASA never wanted to go down this path to begin with. As such, it will be interesting to see what team NASA picks and whether the agency will ever truly yield any control of the ISS to an external entity – or allow any creative thinking to enter into the management […]

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  • May 31, 2011
OSTP and Tomorrow's Rocketeers

Building a Model (Rocket) Workforce, OSTP “Earlier this month, we were honored to be invited to the Team America Rocketry Challenge held about 50 miles outside Washington, DC. There, hundreds of middle- and high-school students were participating in a model rocketry competition sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association. As two guys with aerospace in our blood, we know firsthand the excitement and adrenaline rush of launching model rockets. For many […]

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  • May 31, 2011
Scolese: Webb Launch Could Slip to 2022-2024 (Updated)

Keith’s 19 May note: Industry sources report that Northrop Grumman will begin to layoff personnel working on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) next month for budgetary and scheduling reasons. JWST was originally supposed to have been launched in 2007. This launch date has officially slipped to no earlier than 2017-2018. According to sources, NASA Associate Administrator Chris Scolese told a group of aerospace executives this week that running JWST […]

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  • May 31, 2011
SMD Budget Update

Update from NASA SMD Planetary Science Division “As you know NASA received a passed budget on April 14th. However, after passage we first received only a 30-day allotment. Funds for all of FY11 arrived late in the second week of May. Starting on Monday May 23rd access to these new funds for our Program Officers who run the ROSES programs began. Even by the end of the week on May […]

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  • May 31, 2011
Stunning ISS Images: Stars Above, Lights Below

Stunning Images: ISS Flies Over Earth At Night – Stars Above, Lights Below “A portion of the International Space Station is visible in these views of a starry sky and Earth’s horizon, photographed by an STS-134 crew member while space shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the station.”

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  • May 31, 2011
Lights In The Sky

Early Morning Skywatching and Teaching Satellite Concepts to Sherpas “I got up early today to see the ISS and Endeavour fly over my house. Its always cool to see them flying in formation like this. This morning’s viewing was at 4:48 am low in the North, so I was not sure I’d see things due to the brightening sky. As the two vehicles approached from due West I could only […]

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  • May 30, 2011
Conrad Foundation "STEM Bar" In Space

Students Win Conrad Foundation Innovation Award And Send Nutrition Bar on Endeavour’s Last Flight (Update) “Update: Photos of several STS-134 astronauts eating a STEM bar aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour have been released.”

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  • May 29, 2011
Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles Payload Solicitation

NASA Solicitation: Flight and Payload Services for Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles “This notice is issued by the NASA/DFRC to post a draft RFP via the internet, and solicit responses from interested parties. This document is for information and planning purposes and to allow industry the opportunity to verify reasonableness and feasibility of the requirement, as well as promote competition.”

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  • May 27, 2011
Shuttle Missions That Might Have Happened

12 Space Shuttle Missions That Weren’t, IEEE Spectrum “The U.S. space shuttle fleet is set for retirement following the launch of Atlantis, scheduled for mid-July. In all, the fleet will have flown 135 missions, the first in 1981, but there were many more on the drawing board. With scrubbed missions that included daring rescues, in-orbit satellite snatches, and dangerous explosives, you can see why some of these didn’t make the […]

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  • May 27, 2011