“Like sugar plum fairies in “The Nutcracker,” the moons of Saturn performed a celestial ballet before the eyes of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. New movies frame the moons’ silent dance against […]
2009
Posted inExploration
How Will We Travel to Avatar's Pandora?
Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space, New Scientist “Apart from the mundane problems of budgets and political will, the major roadblock is that our dominant space-flight […]
Posted inCongress
Parker Griffith Jumps Ship
House Democrat announces switch to GOP, MSNBC “Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama, who hails from a heavily conservative congressional district, announced Tuesday that he will join the GOP.” Solid future […]
Posted inISS News
GAO Report On Using the ISS
GAO Report: International Space Station: Significant Challenges May Limit Onboard Research “The ISS has been continuously staffed since 2000 and now has a six-member crew. The primary objective for the […]
Posted inExploration
The Final NASA Apollo 11 EVA Tape Report Is Online
The Apollo 11 Telemetry Data Recordings: A Final Report, NASA “Perhaps there are no clear answers. All that can be said with any certainty is that NASA and the Goddard […]
Posted inPolicy
Details Of White House NASA Policy Continue to Dribble Out
Moon mission gets help in Congress, Houston Chronicle “Fearful that the White House might scale back manned space exploration, a bipartisan group of lawmakers slipped a provision into a massive […]
Posted inIT/Web
ARC PAO: Asleep At The Wheel
Keith’s note: Earlier this month the LOIRP – Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project did a live webcast from Building 596 at NASA Ames Research Park. The project’s co-lead Dennis Wingo […]
Posted inNews
This Week in Space With Miles O'Brien
Keith’s note: This Week in Space With Miles O’Brien is now online. Leroy Chiao, Ken Bowersox, and Mike Griffin are guests.
Posted inPolicy
Jumping The Gun
Report that Obama decided on space policy may be premature , Orlando Sentinel “A report by a respected science publication that said President Barack Obama has decided on a new […]
Posted inPolicy
Flying Air NASA
Conflict of interest? Congresswoman staunchly backs Constellation — and is wed to astronaut, Orlando Sentinel “On Memorial Day weekend in 2007, Kelly flew to Indiana to watch the Indy 500 […]