Opportunity and Risk Ahead for Canada’s Space Industry, SpaceRef Canada “Maclean noted that Canada had signed two major treaties recently. The first in 2009 with United States and most recently […]
2011
Posted inCongress
NASA Studies Fuel Depots – But Won't Brief Congress On Them
NASA Still Studying Space-Based Fuel Depots, Aviation Week “Michael Gazarik, NASA’s space technology program director, says that CPST and the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket currently under development are […]
Posted inCommercialization
Changes at Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Alexander Saltman Selected As Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation “The Federation has selected Dr. Alexander Saltman as the organization’s Executive Director. Saltman is a physicist who has most […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Apollo on Steroids Redux: Big Rockets Are The Only Answer
Propellant Depots Instead of Heavy Lift?, opinion, By Michael D. Griffin and Scott Pace, Space News “The most reasonable claim made in support of fuel depots is that if they […]
Posted inAstronauts
Photo: On Orbit and Backlit By Earthshine
Photo: JAXA Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa Backlit Only By Earthshine “Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, Expedition 29 flight engineer, holds a still camera while looking through a window in […]
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Hearing on China, OSTP & NASA (Political Theater Synopsis)
Keith’s note: As you can see from this screen shot from the hearing’s webcast (shown only on NASA TV) as John Holdren and Charlie Bolden were testifying, that virtually no […]
Posted inNews
Steve Squyres is the new NASA Advisory Council Chairman
NASA Announces Steven Squyres as New NASA Advisory Council Chairman “NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Cornell University Astronomy Professor Steven W. Squyres, as chairman of the NASA Advisory Council […]
Posted inVideos
Video: Shezhou Docks With Tiangong-1
Keith’s note: Video: Shenzhou-8 Rendezvous and Docking with Tiangong-1
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Senate Votes To Fund Webb – But Other Missions Will Suffer
Senate Passes Budget With Full Funding for James Webb Space Telescope “The Senate today passed its Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) 2012 Appropriations Bill, which includes full funding […]
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NASAHackSpace: Thinking Outside The Box
Video: Hacking Kinect – NASA Applications?, NASAHackSpace Think for a moment: “Remember all of the things in “Avatar”, “Star Trek”, and other SciFi films that were controlled by people waving […]