Keith’s note: According to the NASA TV schedule: “Friday, June 3 5:15 a.m. – Coverage of the launch of the ISS Progress 81 cargo craft (Launch scheduled at 5:32 a.m. EDT)” Apparently NASA is going to air live video that clearly shows a rocket with Russian propaganda regarding the war in Ukraine on its side in immense, hard to miss lettering. Really NASA? The Soyuz 2.1A rocket with Progress MS-20 […]

Toyota Connected ‘Cabin Awareness’ Concept Uses New Tech to Detect Occupants, Toyota “Toyota Connected North America (TCNA), an independent software and innovation center of excellence, today introduced its Cabin Awareness concept technology that uses millimeter-wave, high-resolution 4D imaging radar to help detect occupants (including certain pets) in cars and has the potential to detect them if ever they’re left behind. … Inspiration for the Cabin Awareness concept came from microwave […]

#commercialspace y'all pic.twitter.com/f1jJEIhp0h — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 27, 2022

Boeing And NASA Complete The First Starliner Space Station Flight Test, Boeing “Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at 5:49 p.m. Central Time on Wednesday 25 May. The safe return to Earth brings a close to the successful end-to-end uncrewed orbital flight test that was flown to demonstrate the quality and performance of the transportation system prior to crewed flights. […]

Update: NASA Seeks Comments on Moon to Mars Objectives by June 3, NASA “NASA has extended the comment period on its Moon to Mars Objectives to 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 3. Comments were previously set to close on Tuesday, May 31. While the agency is working on a tight deadline to finalize the objectives this fall, numerous respondents requested additional time to provide higher quality feedback. The agency […]

Keith’s update: Starliner docked with the ISS on Friday night. Boeing Starliner Launches To The International Space Station, NASA “Starliner lifted off on NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Following an orbital insertion burn 31 minutes later, Starliner was on its way for a rendezvous and docking with the space station.” Starliner enters orbit, […]

Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Competed Space Mission Leadership at NASA Will Require Extensive Efforts Along Entire Career Pathways, Says New Report, National Academy of Sciences “Inadequate data gathering and reporting are critical barriers to NASA’s understanding of the efficacy of its own DEIA efforts to date, and of the proposal leadership pool’s demographics, according to the report. These are necessary steps for measuring progress, and for identifying […]

Tonight on @NewsHour w/ @milesobrien @RussianSpaceWeb @waynehale @StationCDRKelly @KathyLueders @Rogozin @realhomerhickam @AstroDude "Russia's invasion of Ukraine jeopardizes the future of the International Space Station" https://t.co/osYMR1R28m #ISS #spacestation #Ukraine — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 18, 2022

Keith Cowing · NASAWatch on Al Jazeera Arabic – UFOs and UAPs

Gee, for someone who more that happily accepts the mantle of being Carl Sagan's heir apparent, this is probably one of the most discouraging things anyone could possibly say when it comes to inspiring people to look up at the night sky. Just sayin, Neil. https://t.co/T4WyFIePfz — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 16, 2022