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Month: July 2011
Another Take on National Space Transportation Technology

Space Transportation Technology Roadmap “This roadmap is broadly inclusive in capturing the multitude of U.S. national security, civil, and industry-commercial interests in space transportation that exist today. Still, it is useful to discuss its national security military origins. Roadmap development was most recently sparked by a validated military need for space transportation, namely the Marine Corps Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) capability. Although SUSTAIN represents a mere niche […]

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  • July 31, 2011
Dear NASA Folks: Show Up For Work, Please

Message from the NASA Administrator 29 July 2011 “As you know, Congress is debating how it plans to meet its obligations and raise the debt ceiling so that the country can pay its bills. The President expects that Congress will do its job, enact an increase of the debt ceiling that he can sign into law, and end this impasse. I am sending this note to remind you that NASA […]

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  • July 29, 2011
Poll Suggests Public Concern Over Direction In Space

IBOPE Zogby Poll: Six in 10 Disagree With Ending Space Shuttle & Fear Others Will Surpass U.S. in Exploration “Majorities of U.S. voters disagree with the decision to end space shuttle missions and fear other nations might surpass the U.S. in space exploration. Also, future space exploration through both NASA and private companies is seen as preferable to either going it alone. The IBOPE Zogby interactive poll conducted from July […]

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  • July 29, 2011
Jack Marburger

Statement by Director John P. Holdren on the Passing of Jack Marburger “It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Dr. John H. Marburger, III, former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to President George W. Bush. Jack Marburger leaves a legacy of exceptional public service and substantial scientific contributions. He was the Nation’s longest-serving Presidential Science Advisor, and […]

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  • July 29, 2011
More Climate Change Arm Waving

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism “NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior […]

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  • July 29, 2011
Senate Issues Subpoena to NASA for SLS Materials (Update)

Keith’s 11:00 am EDT note: Sources are reporting that the Senate Commerce Committee has finally made good on its threat and has issued a subpoena to NASA regarding materials related to the SLS decision. Prior to this several letters and a hearing were held to prompt NASA in this regard. No luck. Congress is more or less convinced that the decision regarding SLS design/architecture has already been made and they […]

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  • July 28, 2011
NewSpace 2011

Keith’s note: The NewSpace 2011 conference is underway at NASA ARC. You can follow updates via Twitter here.

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  • July 28, 2011
Hope For Laid Off NASA Contractor Employees

DOE, Interior Eye Employees Jettisoned by Space Program, New York Times “The Energy Department and the Department of the Interior are among dozens of federal agencies looking to hire some of the engineers and scientists from NASA’s closing space program. NASA and the Office of Personnel Management held a job fair yesterday in Cape Canaveral, Fla., less than a week after the space shuttle Atlantis landed. All told, about 5,500 […]

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  • July 28, 2011
Russia Has Decided To Throw the ISS Away in 2020 (Update)

Russia Plans to Sink the International Space Station in 2020, Fox “Russia’s space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station — a space base the world’s scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth — will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, just like its Russian predecessor, Mir. “We will be […]

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  • July 27, 2011
NASA Needs To Go To Priceline.com

Why Is NASA Caving to the Russians On ISS?, OpEd, Jim Oberg, Txchnologist “With the retirement of the Space Shuttle Atlantis last week, American astronauts are now totally dependent on Russian vehicles for access to space. The question in front of us is how best to negotiate for fair compromises in the US-Russian space alliance. Some of NASA’s recent agreements are not encouraging. The US needs to realize that it […]

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  • July 27, 2011