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Month: August 2015
Space Movies Do Not Drive Space Policy
Space Movies Do Not Drive Space Policy

The Martian message, Eric Sterner, Space Review “Surely, several interests want to capitalize on the melding of film and speculative reality. Damon recently visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he talked about his role, and NASA’s website proudly uses the opportunity to explain the real NASA-developed technologies portrayed in the movie. It can only do a space advocate’s heart good when Hollywood seems to discover the same sense of excitement […]

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  • August 31, 2015
NASA Needs To Buy 2 Vans in Russia
NASA Needs To Buy 2 Vans in Russia

NASA JSC Solicitation: Purchase of Two Vehicles for the Human Space Flight Program-Russia “Delivered to US Embassy Moscow, Russia The contractor must provide with the bid proposal a schematic drawing showing vehicle design and dimension specifications in the form of the sample drawing. Standard manufacturer’s pamphlet with the specific vehicle model being offered clearly identified and accompanied by a written statement in English by the manufacturer certifying that all solicitation […]

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  • August 31, 2015
NASA Pays For Decision Making Advice On A Decision It Already Made
NASA Pays For Decision Making Advice On A Decision It Already Made

Innovative Study Supports Asteroid Initiative, Journey To Mars “NASA employed ECAST to engage in a “participatory technology assessment,” an engagement model that seeks to improve the outcomes of science and technology decision-making through dialog with informed citizens. Participatory technology assessment involves engaging a group of non-experts who are representative of the general population but who unlike political, academic, and industry stakeholders who are often under represented in technology-related policymaking. … […]

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  • August 28, 2015
Congress Kicks The Commercial Crew Can Down The Road
Congress Kicks The Commercial Crew Can Down The Road

Congress, Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides With Russia. Love, NASA, Charlie Bolden via Wired “Saturday will mark 1,500 days since the Space Shuttle touched down for the final time. Grounding human spaceflights was always supposed to be temporary as we made the necessary transition to a new generation of spacecraft, operated by American commercial carriers. Likewise, paying for seats on Russian spacecraft to send our astronauts to the International Space […]

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  • August 28, 2015
Precision Product Placement by NASA With Global Reach (Update)

Keith’s note: Released 20 Aug 2015. Lots of NASA logos, hardware, facilities seen by 7,756,789 15,747,636 18,164,860 21,272,171 29,390,085 young viewers so far. Priceless. NASA just hit a home run in terms of being in front of millions of eyeballs. A tweet was sent to 24,700,000 @OneDirection followers and was subsequently retweeted/favorited 77,000 times. @NASA also sent a tweet to its 11,900,000 followers which was then retweeted/favorited 50,000 times. Since […]

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  • August 28, 2015
Future Version of Neil Tyson Promotes "The Martian"

@NeilTyson did a @MartianMovie mockumentary. That must mean he won't dump on the movie right? https://t.co/yJRXU8Z4nE — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 28, 2015 We Get It Neil Tyson: You Hated “Gravity” (Update), earlier post

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  • August 27, 2015
A Novel Way To Track The Space Station
A Novel Way To Track The Space Station

Point the Way to the International Space Station with This DIY Orbit Tracker, Make “Given the International Space Station’s host of superlatives (i.e. most expensive man made structure, largest artificial body in Earth’s orbit, longest functioning habitable satellite, greatest engineering accomplishment of all time, coolest flying space laboratory, etc.), you’d think that it would be on our minds constantly. Yet many of us go hours, even days, without thinking about […]

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  • August 26, 2015
More New Horizons Nomenclature Food Fights
More New Horizons Nomenclature Food Fights

Pluto, we have a problem: Some geographical names may not fly on official maps, GeekWire “Some of the best-known names on Pluto ranging from the Sputnik plains to the Hillary and Norgay mountains and the dark Cthulhu Regio may never appear on the International Astronomical Union’s maps, due to a tiff over terminology. Those are just a few of the informal names that have raised questions from members of the […]

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  • August 26, 2015
Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Has Big Problems
Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Has Big Problems

Blow for new cosmodrome as officials say first manned launch is still a decade away, Siberian Times “A 2007 presidential decree had set 2018 as this target date for manned launched and it was echoed in repeated statements from officials until recently. It was reported that Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and the head of the Russian Space Agency Igor Komarov managed to persuade Vladimir Putin to adjust the date […]

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  • August 25, 2015
NASA Responds to Congressional Inquiry on Cargo Losses
NASA Responds to Congressional Inquiry on Cargo Losses

Letter From NASA to Congress Regarding SpaceX and Orbital ATK Launch Failure Reviews “Dear Chairman Smith: Thank you very much for your letter of August 4, 2015 regarding the recent space launch failures of June 28,2015 and October 28, 2014. I appreciate your sincere commitment to our Nation’s leadership in space and NASA has always shared that commitment. I am pleased for the opportunity to address your concerns. I would […]

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  • August 25, 2015