Marc’s note: You can watch live the final flight of the year of an Arianespace Soyuz-Fregat launch at 12:09 pm ET. This is the 1,784th launch of a Soyuz rocket […]
2011
Posted inNews
This Year @NASA
Marc’s note: NASA has released this edition of “This Year @NASA”. Enjoy the highlights.
Posted inWeb Site News
NASA Watch Service Update – New Commenting System
Marc’s note: Please note that from 11:00 pm ET tonight through 11:00 am ET tomorrow NASA Watch will be undergoing maintenance and may be unavailable at times during that time […]
Posted inAstrobiology
Holiday Greetings From Astrobiologists in Antarctica
Happy Holidays From Antarctica “Astrobiologist Dale Andersen from the SETI Institute is currently on his way back to the U.s. via a stop over in Capetown, South Africa. Dale and […]
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Russian Soyuz-2.1b Launch Failure
Another Soyuz rocket launch fails, BBC “Russia’s recent poor launch record has continued with yet another Soyuz rocket failure. This time, a Soyuz-2 vehicle failed to put a communications satellite […]
Posted inAstronomy
News Embargo Inconsistencies
NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System “NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e […]
Posted inISS News
Soyuz TMA-03M Leaves Earth
Trio Heads For Holiday Reunion With Space Station Residents “NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands […]
Posted inCongress
Congressional Priorities
Cigar Smokers Resist Possible FDA Rules, Reuters “Legislation sponsored by Republican Representative Bill Posey and Democratic Senator Bill Nelson would carve out from the 2009 law an exception for “traditional […]
Posted inCommercialization
Back To The Moon – Minus The Great Big Rocket
NASA Needs To Wake Up to Reality, Chris Kraft, Space News “So come on NASA, wake up! Take the lid off and turn loose the human resources you already have […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
SLS Industry Day Charts Online
NASA, Industry Leaders Discuss New Booster Development for Space Launch System (with presentation charts) “On Dec. 15, more than 120 aerospace industry leaders from more than 70 companies attended the […]