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Month: April 2015
Ellen Ochoa's Warp Drive Gizmo
Ellen Ochoa's Warp Drive Gizmo

Is NASA one step closer to warp drive?, CNET “NASA, according to NASASpaceFlight.com, is quietly claiming to have successfully tested a revolutionary new means of space travel that could one day allow for such insane speed, and to have done it in a hard vacuum like that of outer space for the first time.” Has NASA Accidentally Invented The Warp Drive?, Huffington Post “NASA has been experimenting with a revolutionary […]

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  • April 30, 2015
The Planetary Society is Both For and Against Earth and Climate Science
The Planetary Society is Both For and Against Earth and Climate Science

Congress, we have a problem, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, The Hill “Just a few months ago we marked up and passed out of the House a bipartisan NASA authorization. That bill was negotiated on a bipartisan basis, voice voted out of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and then passed by the full House in a similar fashion. Today, my committee, the Science, Space and Technology Committee, is marking […]

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  • April 30, 2015
First Developmental Flight of New Shepard
First Developmental Flight of New Shepard

First Developmental Flight of New Shepard “Today (29 April 2015) we flew the first developmental test flight of our New Shepard space vehicle. Our 110,000-lbf thrust liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen BE-3 engine worked flawlessly, powering New Shepard through Mach 3 to its planned test altitude of 307,000 feet. Guidance, navigation and control was nominal throughout max Q and all of ascent. The in-space separation of the crew capsule from the […]

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  • April 30, 2015
Russian Progress 59 Experiences Problem (Update)
Russian Progress 59 Experiences Problem (Update)

Russian Progress Cargo Space Station Resupply Spacecraft Launches but has Problem “In the early morning hours today a Russian Progress unmanned cargo spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS). The launch appeared to be picture perfect until it reached orbit. At that time there was a communication issue. Controllers in Russia were unable to confirm ‘deployment of navigational antennas or the repressurization of the manifolds […]

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  • April 29, 2015
Hollow Promises From Stealthy Inept Space Advocacy Organizations
Hollow Promises From Stealthy Inept Space Advocacy Organizations

Keith’s note: Two months ago the stealthy, non-transparent Pioneering Space National Summit was held in Washington DC. A few days later an Alliance for Space Development thing was announced. Then the people not involved in these earlier events held their own competing stealthy Humans Orbiting Mars Workshop. All of these events promised that they’d eventually publish or release things to tell the rest of us what they talked about – […]

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  • April 29, 2015
So … What Will Dava Newman Do at NASA?
So … What Will Dava Newman Do at NASA?

Dava Newman confirmed as NASA deputy, MIT “According to NASA, the deputy administrator “provides overall leadership, planning, and policy direction.” Her duties will include leading NASA governmental affairs; oversight of the agency’s offices, communications, and educational programs; and serving as the NASA representative to the multinational partnership that manages the International Space Station.” NASA Procedural Requirements NPD 1000.3D, NASA “4.1.2.2 The Deputy Administrator is responsible to the Administrator for providing […]

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  • April 28, 2015
Worden Beams Up
Worden Beams Up

A Space Maverick Quietly Departs NASA, editorial, Space News “Outspoken, with a palpable disdain for management bureaucracy, Mr. Worden was an enthusiastic advocate of small satellites and other innovations like single-stage-to-orbit rocket technology during a 29-year career in the U.S. Air Force. More hawkish than most dared to be on the touchy subject of space warfare, Mr. Worden in 1993 led Clementine, a low-cost robotic mission to the moon that […]

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  • April 28, 2015
Dava Newman Has Been Confirmed
Dava Newman Has Been Confirmed

Keith’s note: Dava Newman has been confirmed by the Senate as Deputy Administrator of NASA. Statements on Senate Confirmation of Dava Newman as NASA Deputy Administrator, NASA “I am delighted with the Senate confirmation of Dr. Dava Newman to be the Deputy Administrator of NASA. I am personally ecstatic to welcome her aboard at such a busy and exciting time as we continue to make extraordinary strides on our Journey […]

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  • April 27, 2015
Showdown Over NASA Earth Science Budget Looms (Update)
Showdown Over NASA Earth Science Budget Looms (Update)

House budget authorization mark-up slashes $500 million from NASA’s Earth science programs, Houston Chronicle “The battle lines are being drawn between Congress and the White House in regard to NASA’s budget, and this year they’re moving closer to home the planet Earth. In the newly released House of Representatives budget authorization mark-up for fiscal year 2016 one step before Congress actually appropriates the money lawmakers have cut funding for NASA’s […]

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  • April 27, 2015