At a time when no one here in Washington seems to want to reach out and talk to people with different opinions so as to seek common ground and enable collaboration Jim Bridenstine and Bill Nye are. And the net result? The #stopbridenstine crowd complains. pic.twitter.com/p4M0hY5eZi — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 30, 2018 Keith’s note: Yesterday @BillNye tweeted this statement: “Tomorrow night I will attend the State of the Union […]
Elon Musk is set to launch his Falcon Heavy rocket, a flamethrower of another sort, Washington Post “It could also play a part in the Trump administration’s plans to return to the moon. Over the weekend, Nick Ayers, Vice President Pence’s chief of staff, tweeted that the rocket would have “major (positive) ramifications for US space industry if this goes according to plan.” SpaceX has said that the Falcon Heavy […]
NASA has gone a year without a formal leader–with no end in sight, Ars Technica “Five months ago, the Trump administration finally put forward a nominee for the post of administrator, Oklahoma Congressman and pilot James Bridenstine. Although he was confirmed along a party-line vote twice during Senate confirmation hearings, he has yet to receive a vote before the full Senate. Increasingly, it is obvious that the White House does […]
What Trump Gets Right About NASA, Space Exploration, Eric Stallmer, CSF “Today, a new generation of commercial space companies is taking the lead on space exploration and aerospace innovation. … Other firms are developing commercial spacecraft systems to reach the moon and asteroids, land on the surface of other planets and preparing to deploy commercial habitats in space. Despite this progress, some inside the space community remain nostalgic about the […]
Thirty Two Years Of Resonance With Challenger, SpaceRef “On this day in 1986 I was sitting at my desk as a grad student in the Biology Department at Central Connecticut State University. Everyone knew of my interest in space. The day after Challenger was lost I wrote a letter to President Reagan and sent a cc: to my member of Congress Rep. Nancy Johnson. I also called her office. I […]
Major (positive) ramifications for US space industry if this goes according to plan https://t.co/zGSKk9ZLhT — Nick Ayers (@nick_ayers) January 27, 2018 Aiming for first flight of Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy. Easy viewing from the public causeway. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 27, 2018
The White House is going to nominate former astronaut James Reilly to head the US Geological Survey — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 27, 2018
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Search For Zuma Unearths Lost NASA Satellite, Aviation Week (Paywall) “An amateur astronomer on the hunt for the classified Zuma satellite has discovered a long-lost NASA science satellite. “Over the past week. the station has been dedicated to an S-band scan looking for new targets and refreshing the frequency list, triggered by the recent launch of the mysterious Zuma mission,” amateur visual and radio astronomer Scott Tilley wrote on his […]
Keith’s note: Meanwhile former Trump Transition Team member Charles Miller can barely contain his enthusiasm for this “leadership” which involves abandoning ISS – all with another Transtion Team member’s (Greg Autry) approval. Meanwhile other Trump advisors tell say that such a plan to prematurely abandon support for ISS is exactly the opposite advice that they have been giving the Administration at the highest levels with regard to encouraging the commercialization […]