2 December 2004: NASA, Russians forging a deal for rides, MSNBC“NASA officials have confirmed Russian reports about an “outer-space swap” worth an estimated $60 million or more. If approved by […]
2004
Posted inISS News
RIP ISS 760XD SSC
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 2 December 2004 “Update on U.S. laptops: Yesterday, the CDR reported the death of the OpsLAN laptop SSC2 (station support computer #2) at its location […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Face Eating Martians Threaten Earthlings
Editor’s note: Science Magazine has published a special issue on the results obtained from the Mars Rover “Opportunity”. Rather than let the results, and the scientists who have interpreted the […]
Posted inBudget
Positive OpEd from Cleveland
2 December 2004: Raising NASA’s fiscal orbit, Cleveland Plain Dealer“The overall budget can be read as an unexpectedly strong congressional endorsement of Bush’s goals of an outpost on the moon […]
Posted inBudget
Surprise? What Surprise?
3 December 2004: Science Agencies Caught in Postelection Spending Squeeze, Science (Subscription required)“The Administration’s support for national security was never in doubt. But its commitment to the moon-Mars exploration vision […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Mars Was Wet – Maybe Even Habitable
2 December 2004: Reports Detail NASA Rover Discoveries of Wet Martian History“The most dramatic findings so far from NASA’s twin Mars rovers — telltale evidence for a wet and possibly […]
Posted inShuttle News
Fire in the VAB
2 December 2004: Small Fire Extinguished inside NASA KSC Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA KSC2 December 2004: Fire breaks out at Vehicle Assembly Building, Florida Today“A fire erupted this afternoon inside […]
Posted inNews
O'Keefe Meets Sun at NASA HQ
2 December 2004: NASA Administrator O’Keefe Meets with CNSA Administrator Sun, NASA HQ“Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Sean O’Keefe (r) welcomes Administrator Sun, China National Space Administration […]
Posted inExploration
If you say so, Lou
The Sober Realities of Manned Space Flight, OpEd, The American Enterprise“I vividly remember President Ronald Reagan going down to Texas after the Challenger disaster and memorializing the astronauts as heroes […]
Posted inUncategorized
Just wait. It will float by sooner or later
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 1 December 2004“The crew has located the solid shim for the EMU (extravehicular mobility unit) 3005 water pump that went missing during the 11/10 attempt […]