Will Mitt Romney Fire Space Advisor Michael Griffin For Proposing Permanent Moon Base?, BarackObama.com “While speaking to Global Space Exploration Conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Romney Space Advisor Michael Griffin renewed his calls for a “permanent base on the moon.” Given Romney’s promise to fire anyone who proposed putting a colony on the moon, will Romney keep his promise by firing Griffin?” Keith’s note: Mr. Romney has said next […]

SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Completes Key Tests In Quest to Visit Space Station Most Difficult Challenges Still Ahead, SpaceX “Today, Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft completed key on-orbit tests as part of a historic attempt to be the first commercial company in history to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. In the days since SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the vehicle has steadily completed […]

NASA Offers Guidelines To Protect Historic Sites On The Moon “NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing and future science on the moon. The foundation will take the guidelines into account as it judges mobility plans submitted by 26 teams vying to be the first privately-funded […]

Iconic Lunar Orbiter Image of Copernicus Re-released, LOIRP “Today an iconic image from the initial exploration of the Moon is being re-released showing detail that could not have been seen using technology available at the time the photo was taken. This image features a dramatic view inside the majestic crater Copernicus – a view that left millions in awe when it was first released. This image is being announced at […]

Iranian ‘Cyber Warriors Team’ takes credit for NASA hack, MSNBC “A group of Iranian student hackers known as the Cyber Warriors Team claims to have stolen the personal information of thousands of NASA researchers. The Cyber Warriors Team boasted in a May 16 Pastebin post that it exploited a secure sockets layer (or SSL) vulnerability in the space agency’s website to swipe “information for thousands of NASA researcher[s] with emails […]

FACT SHEET: President Obamas Accomplishments for NASA and Floridas Space Coast “On the heels of the first successful launch of a private spacecraft to the International Space Station ushering in a new era of space exploration, Obama for America-Florida released the following fact sheet on President Obama’s space policy and accomplishments: “I am 100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future. Because broadening our capabilities in space […]

Satellite Industry Association Report Shows Modest Growth in 2011 Satellite Industry Revenues, Commercial Space Watch “The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) today released its annual State of the Satellite Industry Report which showed a modest growth of 5% in world satellite industry revenues which totalled $177.3 billion in 2011. The report was completed by Futron Corporation for the SIA.”

First Look Inside the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceRef “SpaceX has released this first look inside the Dragon spacecraft in orbit preparing for its attempted rendezvous with the International Space Station three days from now. The Dragon spacecraft has 306 kilograms of non-critical food and crew provisions headed to the ISS. The Dragon spacecraft also has another 154 kilograms of non-critical utilization payloads including a NanoRacks Module student experiments and ice bricks.” […]

SpaceX Falcon 9 on Historic Journey Begins with Successful Launch, SpaceRef (With video of launch) “At 3:44 a.m. EDT a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft successfully lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Space Station launch complex 40 for its maiden voyage to the International Space Station on its second demonstration flight as part of the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program.” Statement by John P. […]

Keith’s note: Last Friday I joined CASIS as a member. Ever since then, when I attempt to login all I get is “Authorization Failed! You are not authorized to view this page. You must either login or you do not have sufficient privileges to access this information …” But the page that tells me this has a link that says “logout” so I guess I am both logged in and […]