Former Huntsville NASA center boss Robert Lightfoot will lead foreign security probe, Huntsville Times “NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot will lead a new in-house probe of foreign access to NASA […]
2013
Posted inEducation
NASA Stumbles Again When It Comes To Its Cool Stuff (update)
Keith’s note: At the NASA Advisory Council Committee on Education and Public Outreach meeting on 5 March 2103 Leland Melvin, the AA for Education at NASA, correctly lamented that people […]
Posted inCongress
Bo Jiang To Plead Not Guilty; Will Ask For Jury Trial
Attorney: Former Chinese contractor at NASA’s Langley Research Center to plead not guilty, Washington Post “Jiang’s attorney Fernando Groene said Jiang was unfairly targeted and is looking forward to being […]
Posted inAstronomy
Astronomers Lobby Congress
American Astronomers Call on Congress to Support Investments in Research and Development, AAS “The AAS delegation was part of a group of more than 200 scientists, engineers, and business leaders […]
Posted inCongress
Congress Vs NASA on China (Home Alone with Wolf and Bolden)
NASA locks out foreigners, orders security review following concerns of Chinese spying, Fox News “NASA has locked its facilities to foreigners, disabled online research databases and ordered a complete review […]
Posted inCulture
People Will Write Checks To Explore Space (update)
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project: how you can help save historic space data, Boing Boing “The LOIRP team managed to obtain original tape drives from the 1960s (covered in dust […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Please Make Up Your Mind About Where Vger Is
AGU: Voyager 1 has left the solar system, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate “In the GRL article, the authors state: “It appears that [Voyager 1] has exited the main […]
Posted inEarth Science
Asteroid Threat Double Header in Congress
19 Mar: House Hearing: Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors, Part 1 – Prepared Statement By Air Force Space Command […]
Posted inBudget
Charlie Bolden Violates His Own Travel Policies
Bolden Keynote At AAS Wednesday Morning Will Be Livestreamed, Space Policy Online “NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will keynote the American Astronautical Society’s Goddard Memorial Symposium tomorrow morning, Wednesday, March 20, […]
Posted inIT/Web
NASA Technical Reports Server Mysteriously Taken Offline
NTRS Collections – NASA Technical Reports Server “Until further notice, the NTRS system will be unavailable for public access. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and anticipate […]