NASA plans to blow up Mars if asteroid misses, The Spoof“We are all psyched up for a big explosion”, said NASA administrator Michael Griffin. “If the asteroid doesn’t hit then […]
2008
Posted inNews
Help Maxim Readers Learn To Speak Like Rocket Scientists
Maxim magazine note: Maxim magazine is doing a big feature on the wacky world of NASA and they are looking to do a short segment on How to Speak NASA-ese. […]
Posted inElection 2008
Botched PR From Mike and Huck
Slippery PR ploys trip up practitioners, Opinion, USA Today“At first glance, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and NASA chief Michael Griffin don’t have much in common. Huckabee is no rocket […]
Posted inCongress
Interesting Legislation from Dana Rohrabacher
H.R. 4916 Aeronautics and Space Prize Act“To create a National Endowment to advance private sector development of aeronautics and space technologies by way of the National Advanced Space and Aeronautical […]
Posted inExploration
ESMD's Revolving Door
Editor’s update: I finally heard back from ESMD PAO today – three weeks after I asked them a few questions – and only after sending multiple emails. They replied “If […]
Posted inExploration
Second Life To Mars
NASA Dreams of an Interplanetary ‘Second Life’ for Mars Crew, Wired“… But NASA thinks it has an answer to the psychological challenge of interplanetary isolation. While aerospace engineers are designing […]
Posted inCommercialization
NASA Gives Commercial Parabolic Flight Contract to Zero Gravity Corp
NASA Awards Contract for Microgravity Aircraft Services, NASA GRC“NASA has awarded a contract to Zero Gravity Corporation of Las Vegas to manage and operate an aircraft to perform reduced gravity […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Tough Love at SMD
Wielding a Cost-Cutting Ax, and Often, at NASA, NY Times“With today’s tight budgets, he said, it is unfair to expect NASA to raid other programs or stop initiating programs to […]
Posted inAeronautics
Air Safety Survey: Things That Don't Worry Mike Griffin Worry Me
NASA Releases Heavily-Redacted Airline Safety Study, Washington Post“NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told reporters in a conference call that the agency had no plans to study the database for trends. He […]
Posted inAeronautics
Air Safety Survey: Rampant Skepticism About NASA's Sincerity
NASA Says Study All But Worthless, AvWeb“It’s hard for me… to see any data here that the traveling public would care about or ought to care about.” [Griffin] told puzzled […]