NASA Request for Information: Concepts for Applications of Large Space Optics “NASA is soliciting broad community inputs in support of a study activity focused on utilization of large flight qualified […]
2012
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
NASA Remains Silent on MSL News
Keith’s note: Last week NASA PAO was telling the media that there would be an announcement (of what they did not know) of MSL results at the AGU meeting tomorrow […]
Posted inIT/Web
Questions Remain About Information on Stolen NASA Laptop
Keith’s note: One NASA Watch reader writes: “I too received a letter warning of my PII being comprimised by the stolen laptop but there are two things that I find […]
Posted inCommercialization
NASA Does The Right Thing – Then It Does The Wrong Thing
How the government can turbocharge private-sector innovation, Gigaom “Traditionally, NASA attempts to commercialize and otherwise transfer the good work done in its research labs to the public by two means: […]
Posted inNews
And Today's Dumb UK Tabloid Headline Is …
Keith’s note: The Daily Mail is running with this absurd headline: “Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging […]
Posted inCommercialization
Looking More Closely at Asteroid Mining Economics
Asteroid miners hunt for platinum, leave all common sense in glovebox, Register “But back to PGMs. We have something that we know the demand for, in the short term at […]
Posted inBudget
Putting NASA's Budget Into Context
The Paradox of NASA Budget Cuts, IVN “The estimated $1 trillion cost of the JSF program dwarfs that of NASA’s $25 billion Apollo program. Yet, despite NASA’s historical successes and […]
Posted inNews
Video: Musk In-depth Discussion
Elon Musk – the Future of Energy & Transport On November 14 Elon Musk participated in a 90 minute Q&A at the Oxford Martin School with the topic the Future […]
Posted inAstrobiology
Astrobiology in Antarctica
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 26 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica “With the small 25 cm diameter sampling hole opened in the south basin of Lake Untersee, Valery, Vladimir and […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
MSL Results: "Earthshaking … one for the history books" Or Not?
Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now, NPR “The exciting results are coming from an instrument in the rover called SAM. “We’re getting data from SAM as we […]