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Month: March 2012
ATV Power Glitch Resolved

ATV-3 Power Connection Successful, Reboost Set “Multi-national flight controllers successfully connected a backup power channel Saturday to the European Space Agency’s “Edoardo Amaldi” Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo ship, enabling electricity to flow from the International Space Station to the ATV to set the stage for a reboost of the station Saturday afternoon while avoiding an early undocking of the resupply craft.”

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  • March 31, 2012
Jose Hernandez is Not an Astronaut. Wow. Who Knew. (Update: He Is)

Candidate challenged over ‘astronaut’ title, The Fresno Bee “Hernandez’s attempted use of ‘astronaut’ violates the Election Code’s unambiguous requirement that a candidate’s ballot designation reflect one’s current profession, vocation, or one held during the previous calendar year,” the lawsuit states. … The suit notes that Hernandez reported to the clerk of the House of Representatives that he received $150,000 from work as the “executive director for strategic operations” with MEI […]

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  • March 30, 2012
Live Webcast: Conrad Spirit of Innovation Summit

“This year, we are giving everyone the chance to attend the Innovation Summit – virtually. We’ll stream live footage of the Summit’s opening remarks, daily fireside chats, interactive student workshops, and opening and closing ceremonies.” Live webcast Link Today, in a message from the International Space Station, Astronauts Don Pettit and Dan Burbank welcomed students to the Conrad Foundation Innovation Summit at NASA Ames Research Center. Burbank refered to a […]

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  • March 29, 2012
Bolden Invokes Inverse Washington Monument Ploy

NASA administrator warns agency may have to cut ‘everything’ but top 3 priorities if no budget deal “NASA Administrator Charles Bolden warned Wednesday that, unless Congress reaches a deal with the White House to avoid mandated budget cuts next year, NASA would have to cancel all of its other missions to keep its three top priorities moving forward.” Washington Monument Syndrome “Washington Monument Syndrome … is the name of a […]

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  • March 29, 2012
Stephen Hawking Wins NSS' Heinlein Award

Stephen Hawking Accepts Prestigious NSS Award on Society’s 25th Anniversary “The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to announce Dr. Stephen Hawking as the 14th recipient of NSS’s Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award. The award [was] be presented to Dr. Hawking at a special ceremony at the Cooks Branch Conservancy in Montgomery, Texas on Wednesday, March 28 and is given in recognition of his outstanding and continuing public efforts in […]

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  • March 29, 2012
Odd Silence on the Commercial Space Front (Update)

Keith’s 23 Mar note There were two Congressional hearings this week, one with House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies on NASA’s FY 2013 budget – and the other by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics on the FY13 FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation budget. Both hearings made frequent and repeated mention of many aspects of commercial space […]

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  • March 29, 2012
Multiple Hearings on NASA Today

Keith’s note: Commercial space is almost certainly going to come up at each of these hearings. I wonder if the Commercial Spaceflight Federation will continue to be silent as they were last week when the topic was raised at two other hearings. Hearing Airs Concerns with Sustaining Space Station and Fulfilling Research Potential “Although NASA has done a credible job of ensuring that the ISS can last for years to […]

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  • March 28, 2012
CASIS and Using the Space Station

References to CASIS in House Hearing on Space Station Utilization GAO: “Since the establishment of CASIS as the management body of ISS research is relatively recent, we have not examined its effectiveness; therefore, it is too early for us to say whether it will be successful in ensuring full scientific utilization of the station as a national laboratory.” Democrats Emphasize the Need for a Clear Plan for Utilization of the […]

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  • March 28, 2012
Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11's Saturn V

F-1 Engine Recovery, Bezos Expeditions “I’m excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we’re making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor. We don’t know yet what condition these engines might be in – they hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt […]

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  • March 28, 2012
Making Sure We Don't Get Hit

Evacuation? Surely we can do better!, B612 Foundation “The other day we had a couple of small asteroids narrowly miss hitting the Earth, and we only discovered them about a day before they flew by. This is actually a fairly common occurrence (and these particular asteroids are like most of these cases quite small and relatively harmless). But consider what would happen if a larger asteroid like the one that […]

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  • March 27, 2012