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Month: January 2017
Next SpaceX Mission is Now the ISS Cargo Resupply CRS-10
Next SpaceX Mission is Now the ISS Cargo Resupply CRS-10

Station cargo flight leapfrogs commercial satellite launch on SpaceX manifest, Spaceflight Now “SpaceX said Sunday that the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A, a former shuttle-era complex at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is scheduled to send a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station in mid-February, deferring a mission with an EchoStar communications satellite that was set to take off this month.”

  • NASA Watch
  • January 31, 2017
Thinking Back – Looking Ahead
Thinking Back – Looking Ahead

Scott Parazynski: Still on Cloud 10 on the summit of Mt. Everest, SpaceRef “I tied off a pair of flags I’d made to honor astronauts and cosmonauts who had perished in the line of duty (Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia, Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11), as I could think of no finer place on Earth to hang them. In the coming days, weeks, months and years, like their Tibetan prayer flag […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 31, 2017
NASA OIG Reports Mars 2020 Rover Sampling System as Largest Risk
NASA OIG Reports Mars 2020 Rover Sampling System as Largest Risk

NASA OIG: Audit of the Mars 2020 Rover Project “The largest risk to the Mars 2020 schedule is the Project’s Sample and Caching Subsystem (Sampling System), which will collect core samples of Martian rocks and soil and place them on the planet’s surface for retrieval by a future robotic or human mission. At Preliminary Design Review (PDR), three of the Sampling System’s critical technologies were below technology readiness level (TRL) […]

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  • January 30, 2017
Firm Commercial Crew Flight Dates Remain Elusive
Firm Commercial Crew Flight Dates Remain Elusive

Technical troubles likely to delay commercial crew flights until 2019, Ars Technica “Boeing has set a “no earlier than” date of August 2018 for its first crewed test flight, and SpaceX has targeted May 2018. But those dates seem optimistic. Ars spoke to a handful of sources familiar with the commercial crew program this week, and all expressed pessimism about the public timelines the companies have for reaching the launch […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 29, 2017
Challenger
Challenger

Remembering the Challenger Crew, Challenger Center for Space Science Education “On this day 31 years ago, Space Shuttle Challenger and its seven-member crew were tragically lost. The crew members – Dick Scobee, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, and Michael J. Smith – were part of the first Teacher in Space Project. Challenger Center, formed by the families of the crew, is dedicated to the educational […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 28, 2017
Apollo 1
Apollo 1

NASA Unveils Tribute to Crew of Apollo 1 “A new tribute opened Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dedicated to the lives, accomplishments and memories of the three astronauts who perished 50 years ago in a launch pad fire while training for the flight of Apollo 1. The tribute exhibit stands only a few miles from the long-abandoned Launch Complex […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 27, 2017
These Large NASA-Supporting Twitter Accounts Did Not Exist The Other Day

How sad is it that government employees have to create rogue Twitter accounts just to communicate FACTS to the American public? — Rogue NASA (@RogueNASA) January 25, 2017 If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine https://t.co/XtIDoACLSl — AltNASA (@Alt_NASA) January 26, 2017 Always remember….https://t.co/WcIqdmmmwi@RogueNASA I was born March '69. I've seen what @NASA can do in one lifetime. KEEP GOING! — […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 26, 2017
NASA's Uncertain Direction
NASA's Uncertain Direction

Make NASA Great Again: A Memo to the New Administration, Futurism “So [George] Abbey thinks the architecture of NASA’s future plans should be thoroughly examined and redrawn. It won’t even require a budgetary increase – just a smarter allocation of the currently available funding. For instance, he suggests scrapping the SLS program altogether. There’s too much redundancy in the heavy-lift rocket market – SpaceX is working on their Falcon Heavy, […]

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  • January 25, 2017