SpaceX: More NASA Launches, Less Money, FreeSpace, Discovery News “I attempt to cover the news without bias, but privately I cheered NASA’s selection of startup SpaceX and innovative Orbital Sciences […]
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Posted inUncategorized
Mike Griffin Has A New Book Out for Christmas
Editor’s note: I have received several reports from folks here in the Metro Washington DC area that NASA is shipping copies of new book by Mike Griffin by priority mail. […]
Posted inTransition
Making Sure The Workforce Gets The Message
Editor’s note: It would seem that Mike Griffin and Mike Coats want to be extra certain that everyone within NASA’s contractor workforce knows what Neil Armstrong thinks about Mike Griffin […]
Posted inCommercialization
COTS Pick: A Sea Change?
NASA Rejects Trojan Horse, Motley Fool “On Christmas Eve-Eve, NASA finally announced the results of its long-running Commercial Resupply Services competition, and as the tidbit above correctly points out, neither […]
Posted inAstronauts
Claudie Haignere Hospitalized
France’s first woman in space hospitalized after suicide attempt, Scientific American “The first French woman in space has been hospitalized after she tried to take her own life, according to […]
Posted inNews
Offline Update
Editor’s note: We were offline last night due to some power outages associated with bad weather on the West Coast. Everything should be working fine now.
Posted inTransition
Geek 4 Prez
Obama to boldly go where no geek has gone before, AP “President-elect Barack Obama used to collect comic books, can’t part with his BlackBerry, and once flashed Leonard “Mr. Spock” […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Dear Santa
Santa Invited To Explore NASA’s Moon And Mars Progress, NASA KSC “When Santa Claus makes his routine pit stop at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility on Christmas Eve, […]
Posted inChina
Bush Says No to Space Cooperation With China – Update
Bush Administration Nixed NASA’s U.S.-China, Aviation Week “NASA tried and failed to obtain Bush administration approval of an overture to China for a cooperative U.S.-China space mission, NASA Administrator Michael […]
Posted inCommercialization
COTS Commercial Cargo Winners: Orbital and SpaceX
NASA Awards Space Station Commercial Resupply Services Contracts “NASA has awarded two contracts — one to Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., and one to Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of […]