NASA Administrator Mike Griffin: Risk and Rewards in Commercial Space “I would like to take this opportunity to speak about something of interest to me and many of you assembled […]
2008
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Snow on Mars
Snow On Mars!, commentary by Peter Smith, Forbes “Last month, the Phoenix Mars Lander sent its final signal after working for 151 Martian days photographing, digging and testing samples in […]
Posted inTransition
Making NASA Relevant Again
Obama Offers First Look at Massive Plan To Create Jobs, Washington Post “Obama said the massive government spending program he proposes to lift the country out of economic recession will […]
Posted inExploration
Ares V Update
NASA Calls for Comment on Draft Ares V Request for Proposals “This document is a draft of the final version of the RFP for Phase I, expected in January 2009.” […]
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Transition Team and Transparency
Obama-Biden Transition Team: Your seat at the table “As an extension of the unprecedented ethics guidelines already in place for the Obama-Biden Transition Project, we take another significant step towards […]
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Transition Team and Solar Power Satellites
Obama-Biden Transition Project: Space Solar Power (SSP) — A Solution for Energy Independence & Climate Change “A National Security Space Office (NSSO) study concluded in October of 2007 that “The […]
Posted inCommercialization
Mixed Messages From NASA on Parabolic Flight Commercialization
Editor’s note: According to a Twitter posting Peter Diamandis “Mike Griffin announced that NASA is moving 100% of their parabolic flights from the C9 to our 727″. This is a […]
Posted inTransition
Campaign Tools for Space Policy Restructuring?
Obama Policymakers Turn to Campaign Tools, Washington Post “Barack Obama’s incoming administration has begun to draw on the high-tech organizational tools that helped get him elected to lay the groundwork […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
MSL Delay: Add 2 Years and $400 Million (and counting)
NASA Mars Science Lab Launch Delayed Two Years “NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011.” Delays and Cost Overruns Epidemic […]
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A Sad Day for CNN Viewers
Miles O’Brien To Leave CNN. Network Shutters Science, Space and Tech Unit “TVNewser has learned 16-year veteran CNN correspondent and anchor Miles O’Brien will soon be leaving CNN. O’Brien’s departure […]