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Month: May 2015
Jim Rose
Jim Rose

James Turner Rose “James Turner Rose, 1935-2015, known throughout the space community to have been an early pioneer of space as a place for commercial pursuits, Jim Rose was among the first to develop a business proposition that involved capturing the advantages of microgravity. He created Electrophoresis Operations In Space (EOS), the first joint endeavor agreement between industry and NASA to bring space commercialization into reality.”

  • NASA Watch
  • May 30, 2015
JSC Blog on Courage and Dissenting Opinions
JSC Blog on Courage and Dissenting Opinions

“From: Watkins, Vincent D. (JSC-NA111) Date: Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:53 AM Subject: Check Out New JSC S&MA Director’s Blog To: “JSC-DL-S&MA-ALL-HANDS-(LOC-&-REM)” Great blog on courage and dissenting opinions. Leave a comment and be a part of the discussion! https://safety.jsc.nasa.gov/“ Keith’s note: Oh well. Too bad no one outside of the NASA JSC firewall you can see this blog (jsc-sma-a02.ndc.nasa.gov 139.169.149.20) about “courage and dissenting opinions”.

  • NASA Watch
  • May 29, 2015
NASA's Future Is Hiding In Plain Sight
NASA's Future Is Hiding In Plain Sight

Planet Labs Turned Its Interns into Company Leaders with This Program, Firstround.com “Seeing the actual hardware there really excites people when they come around,” [Chris] Boshuizen says. You know that you’re working on game-changing solutions the trick now is to convince bright new talent that they can and will have a meaningful role in that work as well. You want to come armed with tons of examples and compelling stories […]

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  • May 29, 2015
Send NASA Your Tax Dollars Because Mars Matters
Send NASA Your Tax Dollars Because Mars Matters

Science Drives NASA’s Journey to Mars, NASA “Repeat after me: Mars matters,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told the auditorium of participants at the May 5, 2015 Humans to Mars Summit organized by the non-profit Explore Mars, Inc. “Mars matters!” everyone agreed. But why does Mars matter? “Because it’s there’ isn’t good enough,” stated Bolden. Luckily, summit presenters had a host of compelling reasons for humans to venture to Mars, ranging […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 27, 2015
GAO Progress Report on CASIS: Disappointing
GAO Progress Report on CASIS: Disappointing

International Space Station: Measurable Performance Targets and Documentation Needed to Better Assess Management of National Laboratory, GAO “- CASIS, however, has not been able to fulfill its responsibility in the cooperative agreement to interact with the ISS National Laboratory Advisory Committee, which NASA was statutorily required to establish under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, because NASA has yet to staff the committee as required by the NASA Authorization Act of […]

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  • May 27, 2015
USAF Gives SpaceX Certification
USAF Gives SpaceX Certification

USAF Space and Missiles System Center Certifies SpaceX for National Security Space Missions “Lieutenant General Samuel Greaves, Commander of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space, has announced the certification of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Falcon 9 Launch System for national security space missions. SpaceX is now eligible for award of qualified national security space launch missions as one […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 26, 2015
Sally Ride's Google Doodle

Sally Ride: Behind the Google Doodle that marks the late space pioneer’s birthday, Washington Post “Sally Ride, this trailblazing astronaut turned physics professor, for so long keenly studied, and then for so long taught, the laws of bodies in motion, as one thread in her lifelong work in science and technology. So it’s especially fitting that Google unveils a “Behind the Doodle” animation, as we get to see Ride’s own […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 26, 2015
A NASA Spinoff That Saved Lives
A NASA Spinoff That Saved Lives

Using Space Radar To Hear Human Heartbeats in Nepal, SpaceRef “On 24 April 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal – a nation woefully unprepared to respond to such an event. Dozens of aftershocks have rattled the country daily for the past month. One especially large aftershock of magnitude 7.4 on 12 May caused the already-shattered infrastructure to collapse further. Nepal needed help – help that did not rely upon […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 26, 2015
Breaking The RD-180 Addiction
Breaking The RD-180 Addiction

Lockheed-Boeing rocket venture needs commercial orders to survive, Reuters “Bruno last week announced a 30-percent cut in management as part of the restructuring. On Thursday he said Boeing and Lockheed were still approving investment in the new Vulcan rocket only one quarter at a time given uncertainty about how Russian engines the company can use to compete for national security launches. He said the Air Force had a strong argument […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 22, 2015
Space Commerce Legislation Cracks Along Partisan Lines
Space Commerce Legislation Cracks Along Partisan Lines

McCarthy-Smith SPACE Act Passes with Broad Bipartisan Support, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology “House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today joined House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in praising passage of H.R. 2262, the Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015 or SPACE Act. Almost 50 Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill with broad bipartisan support, 284-133.” “House Passes Commercial Space […]

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  • May 21, 2015