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Month: August 2013
NASA FY2013 Budget Crawls To The Finish Line

JWST, Commercial Crew Spared Cuts in NASA FY2013 Operating Plan, Space Policy Online “With only six weeks left in FY2013, Congress and the Obama Administration finally reached agreement on NASA’s FY2013 operating plan that details how the agency will spend the money appropriated by Congress. Although the agency was subject to across-the-board cuts of about 7 percent that were to be applied proportionately to all its activities, at least two […]

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  • August 31, 2013
Going to Mars: Talking Head Vs Rocket Builder

Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn’t Think Elon Musk’s SpaceX Will Put People On Mars, Business Insider “Renowned astrophysicist and StarTalk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t think a private enterprise, such as SpaceX, could ever lead a space frontier. “It’s not possible. Space is dangerous. It’s expensive. There are unquantified risks,” Neil deGrasse Tyson tells us. “Combine all of those under one umbrella; you cannot establish a free market capitalization of […]

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  • August 29, 2013
NASA is Adrift

Logsdon and Pace Criticize Lack of White House Leadership on NASA, Say Agency is Adrift, SpacePolicyOnline “George Washington University (GWU) space policy experts John Logsdon and Scott Pace agree NASA is adrift today, particularly with regard to the human spaceflight program, and blame the White House for a lack of leadership. … Both believe NASA is adrift today and criticized the Obama Administration for its lack of leadership. Logsdon stressed […]

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  • August 29, 2013
Do You Really Trust NASA Not to Ruin Your Mobile Device?

Message from the Chief Information Officer: Bring Your Own Device and Mobile Computing at NASA, NASA CIO “In the coming months, the NASA Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) will be working to develop a formal policy to govern the use of personal devices, also known as “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)”. Until then, I have directed the OCIO to enroll every personal mobile device that accesses the NASA […]

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  • August 29, 2013
Virginia and Alaska Form Space Launch Alliance

Virginia, Alaska form space launch alliance, AP “The spaceports don’t compete for the same launches, so they could work together to offer customers launching options on both the East and West coasts, said Dale Nash, executive director of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, which operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island. Nash came to Virginia in 2012 after departing as CEO of the Alaska Aerospace Corp, which operates […]

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  • August 29, 2013
Bruce Murray

Bruce Murray (1931-2013), Planetary Society “One of the most remarkable minds of 20th century exploration was stilled this morning, August 29, 2013, when Bruce C. Murray died of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 81. The Planetary Society owes its existence to Bruce, who with Carl Sagan, decided in 1979 that the world needed an organization that would harness the public’s fascination planetary exploration and demonstrate to politicians that voters […]

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  • August 29, 2013
Google Lunar X Prize: The China Factor

Summary of Rules and Requirements, Google Lunar X Prize “The competition’s grand prize is worth $20 million. To provide an extra incentive for teams to work quickly, the grand prize value will change to $15 million whenever a government-funded mission successfully explores the lunar surface, currently projected to occur in 2013.” China sets course for lunar landing this year, CNN “China set a bold new course in its ambitious space […]

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  • August 29, 2013
Now THAT is a Rocketship Lifting Off

Delta IV Heavy Launches NRO Payload, ULA “A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-6 here at 11:03 a.m. PDT Wednesday. Designated NROL-65, the mission is in support of national defense. This is ULA’s eighth launch in 2013, the 24th Delta IV mission and the second Delta IV Heavy launch from Vandenberg Air Force […]

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  • August 29, 2013
Are We All Martians?

‘We are all Martians’: Chemist’s otherworldly claim stirs debate, NBC “Is Benner’s story too kooky to believe? One thing’s for sure: Benner is not a kook. He was one of the first chemists to voice skepticism about the claims for arsenic-based life, which stirred up such a fuss in 2010. … This time, the wet-blanket role is filled by David Grinspoon, an astrobiologist from the Denver Museum of Nature and […]

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  • August 28, 2013
Hand Gesture User Interface Lets You Design Rocket parts

Elon Musk Wants to Build the Iron Man Hologram UI For Real, Gizmodo “The hologram interfaces Tony Stark uses in Iron Man are awesome, no doubt. But they also aren’t real. Yet. Elon Musk has been cooking up something very Stark-y, and he’s planning to show it off soon. Musk isn’t sharing any of the nitty-gritty details yet, but he mentioned his grand scheme on Twitter. This better not be […]

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  • August 28, 2013