Friendly skies?: Only NASA knows the truth, editorial, Salt Lake Tribune“In a display of institutional and bureaucratic arrogance that is distressingly commonplace in the Bush administration, NASA, aka the gang […]
2008
Posted inShuttle News
Shuttle Battles In Space
. . .And Races Into Space, The Wall Street Journal Asia“At a minimum, Washington should delay the planned 2010 retirement of the Space Shuttle until a new space plane can […]
Posted inEarth Science
Name Calling In The Defense of Science
Editor’s note: “Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming” by Mark Bowen is out. Early reports (no I have not read […]
Posted inPersonnel News
A J Roy has died
“A.J.” Roy Jr., longtime NASA employee, dies at 78, Houston Chronicle“Arda Joseph “A.J.” Roy Jr., who left North Dakota for the skies above Texas, devoting most of his career to […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
NASA Changes Its Mind and Releases DART MIB Report
Editor’s update: According to NASA PAO sources there is no ITAR sensitive material in this report online at NESC. What is odd is why they did not issue this report […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Changes and Challenges Ahead at SMD
New Year’s Message From Alan Stern Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate“Make no mistake, we understand that there is far more work in front of us than behind us […]
Posted inElection 2008
Iowa Results and Space Exploration
Editor’s note: Last night’s Iowa election results left several messages (to me at least). For both parties, it seems that change is in the air and that manufactured candidates pushed […]
Posted inCommercialization
RocketPlane Loses Herrington
Herrington Resigns from Rocketplane, The Chickasaw Nation“Former astronaut and retired Navy Commander John Herrington resigned Dec. 21 from Rocketplane Global, Inc. “I was fortunate during my tenure at Rocketplane to […]
Posted inShuttle News
STS-122 Update
NASA Announces Teleconference About Next Shuttle Mission“NASA will host a media teleconference with Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale at 5 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 3, to discuss the status […]
Posted inNews
Griffin Interview in Physics Today
Planning NASA’s future, Physics Today (subscription required)“PT: What is your management style for running NASA?GRIFFIN: If I had my way, I would do the job under an assumed name. I […]