CBO Report: Alternatives for Future U.S. Space-Launch Capabilities, Congressional Budget Office“In considering manned lunar missions, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) explored alternatives that would use existing launch vehicles; those that […]
2006
Posted inPolicy
NASA HQ Media Access Update
Letter From Space Journalists to NASA Administrator Griffin Regarding Recent Security Policy Changes at NASA Headquarters“As journalists who cover NASA, we are deeply concerned about the new policy effective October […]
Posted inISS News
Griffin's Less Than Enthusiastic Support for ISS
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says agency had ‘lost its way’ until recent changes in defence of space policy, Flightglobal“Although [Griffin] says NASA and the US must “finish the international space […]
Posted inExploration
Fixing The Way NASA Communicates
Workshop Report: Building and Maintaining the Constituency for Long-Term Space Exploration“This report documents the results of an invitation-only experts’ Workshop organized and hosted by the Center for Aerospace Policy Research […]
Posted inExploration
More Thoughts About Communicating
Communicating Visions, AIAA Houston Section“… That got me thinking. How can NASA communicate with the public more effectively – not necessarily just regarding the Vision, but overall? There may be […]
Posted inAeronautics
Virtual Flying at ARC
NASA’s virtual space exploration, CNet“NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is home to SimLabs–simulation laboratories where you can take control of a virtual airport or explore the skies and […]
Posted inPersonnel News
New Management Document in Use at NASA
NASA Strategic Management Council Meeting Minutes and ActionsDate: 17 March 2006 Time: 8:00 AM 2:00 PM (EST)Location: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Building 1, Rooms E100 D&E“SMC Action: Michael Wholley, […]
Posted inAircraft
NASA Aircraft Operators Don't Like Competition
NASA Seeks Undergrads to Experiment in Lunar and Zero Gravity, NASA JSC Editor’s update: Well, the folks at JSC clearly do not like the idea of private sector competitors encroaching […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
What Mary Cleave Has To Put Up With
Utah State astronaut speaks out, Salt Lake Tribune“Bosses in the White House, hundreds on the Hill and internal managers in the space agency gave her the task of “trying to […]
Posted inCulture
Internal Communication Issues at NASA
NASA Strategic Management Council Meeting Minutes and ActionsDate: 16 May 2006 Time: 8:00 a.m. 4:55 p.m. (PDT) Location: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Building 167 conference roomSecond Item of Business: Agency Strategy […]