This is not a NASA Website. You might learn something. It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for YOU.
ARCHIVE
Month: May 2016
Orbital ATK Startles Beach Goers With Loud Rocket Noises
Orbital ATK Startles Beach Goers With Loud Rocket Noises

Orbital ATK Conducts Test of Antares First Stage (with video) “Orbital ATK today announced it conducted a full-power “hot fire” test of the upgraded first stage propulsion system of its Antares medium-class rocket using new RD-181 main engines. The 30-second test took place at 5:30 p.m. (EDT) on May 31, 2016 at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) Pad 0A. Initial indications are that the test was fully successful. The […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 31, 2016
Apollo On Sleeping Pills
Apollo On Sleeping Pills

Kennedy’s vision for NASA inspired greatness, then stagnation, Ars Technica “Perhaps the best insight into Kennedy’s motives can be found in a recording of a November 21, 1962 meeting in the White House Cabinet Room. Kennedy had boasted of the lunar plan just a month earlier at Rice. The main participants that day were Kennedy and James Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. At issue was the […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 31, 2016
NASA Inflates BEAM

Another look at what #BEAM will look like on the ISS once fully inflated by #NASA pic.twitter.com/3mKgqv4Bs2 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 28, 2016

  • NASA Watch
  • May 28, 2016
Bigelow BEAM Fails To Inflate, Expand, Etc. (Update)
Bigelow BEAM Fails To Inflate, Expand, Etc. (Update)

Bigelow Module Fails First Expansion Attempt “NASA is working closely with Bigelow Aerospace to understand why its module did not fully expand today as planned. Engineers are meeting at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss a path forward for the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM).” Packing for space flattened NASA’s Space Hotel, New Scientist “The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, was installed on the space station on […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 27, 2016
Sorry Gay People: Rep. Gohmert Says No Space Colonies For You
Sorry Gay People: Rep. Gohmert Says No Space Colonies For You

Louie Gohmert: No Gay Space Colonies!, RightWing Watch (with video) “[Rep. Louie Gohmert R-TX] said that if lawmakers had to decide “whether humanity would go forward or not” in case of an imminent asteroid collision by putting people in a “space ship that can go, as Matt Damon did in the movie, plant a colony somewhere, we can have humans survive this terrible disaster about to befall, if you could […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 26, 2016
NEOWISE Asteroid Named After A True Heroine
NEOWISE Asteroid Named After A True Heroine

Asteroid Named for Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai, NASA “An asteroid discovered by NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft has been given the formal designation 316201 Malala, in honor of Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The asteroid’s previous appellation was 2010 ML48. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) renamed the asteroid as the request of Amy Mainzer of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Mainzer is the […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 26, 2016
Rich Smart Guy Challenges NEOWISE Data (Update)
Rich Smart Guy Challenges NEOWISE Data (Update)

Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight with an application to WISE/NEOWISE observational data, arxiv.org (Revised version) “As a result, the new analysis finds asteroid diameter and other physical properties that have large differences from published NEOWISE results, with greatly increased error estimates. NEOWISE results have a claimed ±10% accuracy for diameter estimates, but this is unsupported by any calculations and undermined by irregularities in the NEOWISE results.” […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 26, 2016