Lost in Space: Months After Obama’s Inauguration, NASA Is Still Without a Chief, Fox News “Not all experts are troubled about the agency’s fate in the interim. Former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe, who preceded Griffin, told FOXNews.com that Scolese is an “extraordinarily competent guy” who has a deep knowledge of engineering and of the “pulse and the rhythm of the agency.” “He’s got it — he’s going to be in […]

“Going through some old papers, I found a school publication which contained an essay I wrote in 1971. If memory serves, I had just read Gerard K. O’Neill’s “The Case for Space”, and of course, the Apollo lunar expeditions were in full swing. I would like to hear your thoughts on how these arguments have held up for the last four decades. Are they true, has time shown them to […]

Picture Perfect Soyuz Landing in Kazakhstan “Two members of the 18th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station and a spaceflight participant returned to Earth at 2:16 a.m. CDT Wednesday. NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft in the steppes of southern Kazakhstan.” Editor’s note: This is today’s Image of the day at NASA.gov. Bill Ingalls […]

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Ex-Rep. Lampson not headed to top NASA job, Houston Chronicle “Former Rep. Nick Lampson said Tuesday he is no longer a contender for the $177,000-a-year NASA administrator post. The Stafford Democrat, who lost his seat in a predominantly Republican district in southeastern Texas last fall, told the Houston Chronicle that White House officials had “not made any kind of offer” after approaching him about the post. “I understand this (selection) […]

AIP FYI #42 Chairman Gordon on FY 2010 Budget NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION: “I am pleased that the Administration has requested $18.7 billion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Fiscal Year 2010, which I consider to be welcome recognition that NASA needs additional resources to carry out the important tasks that the nation has given it. I strongly urge the Subcommittee to provide at least this […]

Making a NASA Themselves, The Harvard Crimson “Why has NASA had such a dismal track record since the Apollo program? Reduced funding tells part of the story. The space program received around $40 billion a year (adjusted for inflation) in the mid-1960s, which was at least four percent of the federal budget. But, back then, Americans also had a much greater tolerance for risk: The first successful Apollo mission was […]

NASA Astronaut Tweets Provide Inside Look at Mission Training “NASA astronaut Mike Massimino is using Twitter to provide a unique, behind the scenes peek at the last weeks of his training for the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.”

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Posey Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Close the Space Gap “Specifically the American Space Access Act extends the life of the space shuttle until either NASA’s next generation space system, Constellation, comes online or a domestic supplier is certified by NASA as capable of taking humans into space and docking with the space station. The bill also calls for bringing the Constellation program online earlier and authorizes the funds that are […]