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Month: January 2015
NASA Budget Preview
NASA Budget Preview

Keith’s note: You can expect to see a NASA budget for $18.5 billion to be announced on Monday. Planetary gets treated well and Europa mission planning gets significant money and a Phase A start. NASA also gets what they asked for in SLS and Orion requests. Commercial crew gets over $1 billion. No one got everything that they asked for but this is a move in the right direction for […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 31, 2015
SMAP Launched and Deployed
SMAP Launched and Deployed

SMAP Launched and Deployed (with video) “NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) successfully lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:22 a.m. EST Saturday. SMAP is a three-year mission to study and map the Earth’s soil moisture, which regulates plant growth and has impacts on weather, emergency management and more.” Update: SMAP has been deployed. Just watched a rocket launch on my tablet while waiting for my […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 31, 2015
NASA's Invitation-Only Stealth Tweetup is Underway at JSC
NASA's Invitation-Only Stealth Tweetup is Underway at JSC

Keith’s note: If you have been paying attention to NASA’s press releases this past week you know that there a series of NASA social media events at all of NASA’s field centers next week. NASA does a lot of these events and goes out of its way to issue invitations for people to apply to attend. You can see the announcements for all of them here – all except one. […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 30, 2015
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel: Lack of Transparency in Commercial Space
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel: Lack of Transparency in Commercial Space

Safety panel accuses NASA of a ‘lack of transparency’ in critical space program, Washington Post “NASA’s independent safety panel accused the agency of a “lack of transparency” about its program to hire commercial space companies to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, saying the opacity could create increased safety risks. In its annual report to Congress, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said the lack of communication about critical safety […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 30, 2015
Another Interesting NASA Event You Can't Listen To
Another Interesting NASA Event You Can't Listen To

Keith’s note: NASA JPL PAO issued this media advisory yesterday giving 4 days advanced notice of a media event covering NASA missions to Europa, Ceres, Pluto, and Saturn. But if you want to know what NASA is saying about these missions you have to physically be there. No NASA TV, no NASA news audio, no dial-in – nothing. So if you can’t afford to buy plane tickets at the last […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 29, 2015
Valorie Burr

Valorie Burr (NASA GSFC) “Valorie A. Burr, 61, a resident of Odenton, MD, passed away at her home on January 21, 2015.”

  • NASA Watch
  • January 29, 2015
Remembrance
Remembrance

NASA Administrator Message: Day of Remembrance – Jan. 28, 2015 “Today we remember and give thanks for the lives and contributions of those who gave all trying to push the boundaries of human achievement. On this solemn occasion, we pause in our normal routines and remember the STS-107 Columbia crew; the STS-51L Challenger crew; the Apollo 1 crew; Mike Adams, the first in-flight fatality of the space program as he […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 28, 2015
Denise Stewart
Denise Stewart

Keith’s note: Denise J. Stewart has passed away. She worked at NASA Headquarters for a number of years. Update: Memorial details are below: A friend notes: “Prior to retiring at the end of September 2014, Denise held various executive staffing and administrative management positions to key senior officials and associate administrators, including the office of the NASA administrator. A vibrant personality, she had the remarkable and innate ability for exuding […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 28, 2015
New Falcon Heavy Animation
New Falcon Heavy Animation

SpaceX Releases New Animation of Falcon Heavy and Booster Recovery, SpaceRef Business “SpaceX has released a new animation depicting the launch of a Falcon Heavy from famed Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) with the controlled recovery of both boosters and the first stage.” Marc’s note: From animation to reality in a few years? Yeah, we like that. Why can’t other companies do this?

  • NASA Watch
  • January 27, 2015
A View of the 2015 Blizzard
A View of the 2015 Blizzard

NASA: Night Time View of the Blizzard of 2015, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center “A combination of the day-night band and high resolution infrared imagery from the Suomi NPP satellite shows the historic blizzard near peak intensity as it moves over the New York through Boston Metropolitan areas at 06:45Z (1:45 am EST) on January 27, 2015. The night time lights of the region are blurred by the high cloud […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 27, 2015