National Disagreement Over NASA’s Goals and Objectives Detrimental to Agency Planning, Budgeting Efforts, National Research Council “Without a national consensus on strategic goals and objectives for NASA, the agency cannot […]
2012
Posted inBudget
Is It Time For Charlie Bolden To Pound His Shoe?
NASA’s Deep-Space Station Idea Lacks White House Approval “NASA has not cleared the EM-L2 outpost with the White House, and the space agency has not requested funding for it in […]
Posted inExploration
New Leadership at Coalition for Space Exploration
Coalition for Space Exploration Introduces New Leadership for 2013 “The Coalition for Space Exploration (Coalition) today announced veteran aerospace communicators George Torres of ATK and Mary Engola of Ball Aerospace […]
Posted inCommercialization
DOD Opens Up Launches To Orbital and SpaceX
Lockheed-Boeing Launch Monopoly to Be Ended by Pentagon, Business Week “The U.S. Defense Department plans to open more than a dozen rocket launches to competition, moving to end a monopoly […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
NASA Announces Revised Mars Program
NASA Announces Robust Multi-year Mars Program – New Rover to Close Out Decade of New Missions “Building on the success of Curiosity’s Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for […]
Posted inPolicy
Space Foundation Issues Report on U.S. Civil Space Program
Space Foundation Recommends NASA Adopt Pioneering Purpose “In a report released today, the Space Foundation made a number of recommendations for strengthening the focus, oversight and funding of the National […]
Posted inAstronomy
GAO Sees Improvement With Webb
James Webb Space Telescope: Actions Needed to Improve Cost Estimate and Oversight of Test and Integration “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has provided significantly more time and money […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
MSL: No Organics, Possible Perchlorate – Nothing Earthshaking
Curiosity Analyzes First Martian Soil Samples “We have no definitive detection of Martian organics at this point, but we will keep looking in the diverse environments of Gale Crater,” said […]
Posted inNews
(Ambassador) Charlie Bolden's Travel Plans?
Keith’s note: Last month NASA Administrator Bolden spent 6 days on a trip to Hawaii. He was guest of honor at a fancy Marine Corps party. NASA PAO has declined […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
JPL PAO Whines About Curiosity Parody
Plastic beads on Mars: The short life of a NASA spoof site, MSNBC “Update for 10:30 p.m. ET: Veronica McGregor, who manages the news and social media office at JPL, […]