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Month: October 2018
Big Court Win For The Thirty Meter Telescope
Big Court Win For The Thirty Meter Telescope

Embattled Thirty Meter Telescope scores big win in Hawaii’s highest court, Nature “Hawaii’s supreme court has ruled in favour of building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop the mountain Mauna Kea. The decision removes the last legal hurdle preventing the US$1.4-billion project from resuming construction on Hawaii’s Big Island. “It is a tremendously important and significant decision that provides secure legal grounds to restart construction of this transformative facility,” says […]

  • NASA Watch
  • October 31, 2018
When Supporting Space Comes Back To Bite You
When Supporting Space Comes Back To Bite You

For the 7th Congressional District: Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, opinion, Houston Chronicle “It’s not that Culberson doesn’t care about water. He does. But most of the time, he seems to care a bit more about the water on Europa, an icy moon orbiting Jupiter, than he does the water in the Addicks and Barker dams. Or in our bayous. Or in our homes. Culberson has expended untold political capital trying to […]

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  • October 30, 2018
Kepler Planet Hunting Mission Ends

FWIW @NASAKepler has discovered 2,681 confirmed exoplanets and 2,899 candidate exoplanets. Assuming that that they're all confirmed that's 5,580 planets at a cost $125,448.03 each. pic.twitter.com/p84pT10x29 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 30, 2018 NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope “After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has […]

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  • October 30, 2018
NASA Wants Throwaway Rockets For A Reusable Architecture

It is rather hilarious that people are hyping reusability and @NASA_SLS in the same tweet @JimBridenstine If @NASA really, really wants reusability for the whole Moon thing then use rockets made by @SpaceX and @BlueOrigin instead of 100% throwaway rockets like #SLS. Just sayin' https://t.co/D3xPRYAyNm — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 30, 2018

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  • October 30, 2018
Someone Needs To Set An Example …

WRT "man made object' @JimBridenstine? Really? No women are involved in the Parker Solar Probe mission? @NASASun https://t.co/YhIZJ1ODra — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 30, 2018 Style Guide for NASA History Authors and Editors “Gender-Specific Language (e.g., Manned Space Program vs. Human Space Program): In general, all references to the space program should be non-gender-specific (e.g., human, piloted, unpiloted, robotic, as opposed to manned or unmanned). The exception to the rule […]

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  • October 29, 2018
Someone Has Stopped Drinking The SLS Koolaid – For A Moment
Someone Has Stopped Drinking The SLS Koolaid – For A Moment

SLS contractor gets real, says program needs to focus on “affordability”, Ars Technica “We here inside the program tend not to think about the need to advocate,” Precourt said. “There are a lot of people with other ideas about how we should do this mission, so I think it’s incumbent on us. It’s not too early to be thinking about the transition from development to production. And that means a […]

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  • October 29, 2018
Hubble Is Working Again

The Hubble Space TelescopeUnlocking the Secrets of the UniverseDaily Report #8140 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 26, 2018 – 07:59 PM October 27, 2018 (DOY 300/0000z – 300/2359z) pic.twitter.com/B3jCyPlY9c — HubbleScience (@hubblescience) October 28, 2018

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  • October 28, 2018
First Mate: LauncherOne Rocket and Cosmic Girl 747
First Mate: LauncherOne Rocket and Cosmic Girl 747

First Mate: Virgin Takes Step Forward with First Mating of LauncherOne Rocket and Cosmic Girl 747, Virgin Orbit “Today at Long Beach Airport stands a 747 aircraft with a rocket under its wing. For the first time ever, Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket has been integrated with its carrier aircraft, marking a major milestone on the path to the innovative small satellite launch service’s first space shot. The successful operation capped […]

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  • October 26, 2018
First Auction of Neil Armstrong's Private Collection to be Held Next Week
First Auction of Neil Armstrong's Private Collection to be Held Next Week

First Moonwalker Neil Armstrong’s Private Collection to be Sold at Heritage Auctions, Heritage Auctions “The vast personal collection of Neil Armstrong, who as the first man to walk on the moon changed the course of human history, will be presented in a series of auctions beginning November 1-2, 2018 by Heritage Auctions. The Armstrong Family CollectionTM will offer never-before-seen artifacts from his momentous lunar landing to private mementos — including […]

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  • October 26, 2018
Will Russia Launch Astronauts to the ISS in December?
Will Russia Launch Astronauts to the ISS in December?

Bridenstine Reiterates December Launch to ISS on Track, and Other Space Council Tidbits Space Policy Online Bridenstine: “‘We have a really, really good idea of what the issue is’ and there will be a ‘number of Soyuz launches in the next month and a half’ before a launch with a crew. He called it the ‘most successful failed launch we could have imagined.‘” Marc’s note: Are the Russians about to […]

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  • October 25, 2018