Town Hall with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine “Headquarters is hosting an agencywide town hall with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Monday, April 1, at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Please join the Administrator for this important discussion on our Moon to Mars plans. All employees, contractors and civil servants, are encouraged to participate in person at Headquarters in the Webb auditorium or at the designated viewing location at their center. The event […]
In NASA’s spacesuit saga, women see their own stories, Washington Post “A spacesuit may not look much like what most women wear to work. But as plans changed for an all-female spacewalk this week because of spacesuit sizing issues, many working women on Earth saw something of their own experience in the headlines — sharing stories online about ill-fitting uniforms, male-centered equipment design or office spaces outfitted without their needs […]
For those of you who still wonder why women in the space community feel less than equal, objectified, trivialized, or simply insulted by older males (I am an older male BTW) have a look at this creepy series of DMs. This still happens and needs to stop. pic.twitter.com/DykFwnBZuM — Keith Cowing (@KeithCowing) March 29, 2019 Keith’s note: The guy who sent these creepy DMs has a history of saying things […]
Keith’s note: CASIS Chief Strategy Officer Richard Leach made a presentation “Forecasting the 2024-2035 Space Based National Laboratory for Life and Physical Sciences Space Research” at the National Academies of Science Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space meeting yesterday. During that presentation he announced that CASIS aka The ISS National Laboratory has expanded their scope of operations. They are now going to expand well beyond the ISS even […]
Joe Cuzzupoli died this past Monday. He was a key manager for Rockwell during the development of the Apollo Command and Service Modules. He held senior positions in a number of aerospace firms, served on the NASA Return to Flight Panel after the Columbia accident, was a member of the NASA Advisory Council, and a member of General Stafford’s Safety Panel. More details to follow. Mr. Joseph W. Cuzzupoli, NASA […]
We may see a one-off lunar landing in 2024 & then a big gap before @NASA tries again. Think about FGB/Node 1 flights & how long it was before real ISS assembly began. What's still TBD is what @NASA will use to land humans on the Moon. Can they build a LEM from scratch in 5 years? pic.twitter.com/4VawhupJ1Z — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 28, 2019 Landing at the Lunar South […]
NASA’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2020 2:30pm Witness: Jim Bridenstine Subcommittees: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (116th Congress) Live-stream can be found here: https://youtu.be/Bpkpd8gk1hc "If we are going to have boots on the Moon in 2024 as @VP said we are going to need @NASA_SLS and EUS and a second mobile platform and yes we would need more funding" @JimBridenstine — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 27, 2019 "We […]
Remarks by Vice President Pence at the Fifth Meeting of the National Space Council Huntsville, AL “Just a few moments ago, Buzz Aldrin was reflecting on his time in the Apollo program. He talked about that fabled Apollo 11 mission. He said, in 1962, we had an objective; we had time, but we didn’t have a plan. In Space Policy Directive-1, the President directed NASA to create a lunar exploration […]
Recommendations Approved by the National Space Council to President Trump “Recommendations on Human Space Exploration 1. Consistent with the overall goals of SPD-1, the United States will seek to land Americans on the Moon’s South Pole by 2024, establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon by 2028, and chart a future path for human Mars exploration. NASA’s lunar presence will focus on science, resource utilization, and risk reduction for […]