Editor’s note: According to NASA sources, NASA Headquarters has been struggling to figure out how to respond to former SMD AA Alan Stern’s 24 November op ed “NASA’s Black Hole […]
2008
Posted inExploration
Only NASA Could Make Space Exploration Boring
5…4…3…2…Yawwwwwn, ABC News “What if we saw more of that on NASA TV? What if the cameras were live 24 hours a day on the space station and you could […]
Posted inShuttle News
STS-126 Update
NASA STS-126 Report #33 Sunday, November 30, 2008 – 4:00 p.m. “”The seven member crew of Endeavour returned to Earth today, landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Mission […]
Posted inTransition
NASA Presidental Transition Action Item Log
NASA Presidental Transition Action Item Log Editor’s note: The following is an amalgam of several different versions of a document titled “Presidential Transition Action Item Log” provided by NASA sources […]
Posted inIT/Web
NASA MMO Downselect?
UPDATE: NASA Picks Virtual Heroes and Whitecard for MMO?, Virtual Worlds News “Last month NASA announced that it had selected three proposals to hear for its upcoming educational virtual world. […]
Posted inTransition
NASA 2.0.2
Netroots Nation: Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration (video) (PartI) (Part 2) NASA Presidental Transition Action Item Log 69. Information Transparency – List the agency’s major information […]
Posted inCommercialization
XCOR Is About To Start Selling Suborbital Seats
XCOR Aerospace to Announce Ticket Sales for Suborbital Space Flights on December 2nd “On Tuesday, December 2, XCOR Aerospace, builder of the 2-seat Lynx rocket-powered suborbital launch vehicle, is introducing […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Shana Dale's Last NASA Blog Entry
NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale’s Blog: Last Entry – November 26,2008 “This will be my last entry on this blog as I prepare to transition out of NASA in January […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Lack of Discipline = Slaughter of the Innocents
Editor’s note: It appears that NASA is considering slipping MSL’s launch to 2010. This will add hundreds of millions of dollars to its final cost without increasing its science value. […]
Posted inTransition
Transition Update
Editor’s note: According to various sources at NASA, among the things being researched by NASA HQ staff in response to inquires by the Obama Transition Team (aka PETT) are: estimates […]