NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 20 December 2004“Update on food and water: As confirmed by the 12/16 onboard audit, the crew is consuming food per the planned rate. Available supply […]
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Posted inISS News
NASA Forgets Its Own History
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 20 December 2004, NASA HQ“Today 27 years ago (1977) the Salyut-6 crew of Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko conducted the first “inspect/repair” EVA in history […]
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The Truth About Professional NASA Hater Alex Roland
20 December 2004: Professor Grinch, Space Review“[Alex] Roland is always cited as a “former NASA historian,” which supposedly lends weight to his comments. However, the reality is that Roland last […]
Posted inCommercialization
Who Needs Satellites – when you can have "Stratellites"
Not quite out of this world, The Economist“Next month Sanswire Networks, a company based in Atlanta, Georgia, is planning to launch the first airship satellite, or stratellite. Floating in the […]
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Does it even Matter who is Administrator?
19 December 2004: Departing NASA Administrator O’Keefe’s tenure offers a case study that warns us what the space agency shouldn’t do next, Editorial, Houston Chronicle“What NASA does not need is […]
Posted inHubble
GAO Questions NASA Hubble Costs
17 December 2004: GAO Report: Space Shuttle – Costs for Hubble Servicing Mission and Implementation of Safety Recommendations Not Yet Definitive“Although a shuttle servicing mission is one of the options […]
Posted inExploration
Tired WHines from the Washington Post
Questions for NASA, OpEd, Washington Post“Indeed, taking over at NASA is something like inheriting a house partway through a renovation job that turned out to be ill-advised and running way […]
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Erasing History (update)
Editor’s note: It would seem that there is still imagination at work at Downey in Bldg. 1:18 December 2004: Out of This World – The Designer Behind ‘Lemony Snicket’, Washington […]
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Looks Like Bolden Has Other Things to Look Forward to
17 December 2004: GenCorp Elects Charles F. Bolden to its Board of Directors; Robert A. Wolfe to Resign“GenCorp Inc. announced today that Charles F. Bolden, Jr. has been elected to […]
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O'Keefe Meets the Press – then speaks to NASA Workforce
Transcript of Press Briefing with NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe 17 December 2004