Update: 2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference Presentations by NASA and JPL Personnel “We have learned that NASA has severely restricted travel of NASA and JPL employees to the 2013 IEEE Aerospace […]
2013
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
MSL Enters Safe Mode
Mars Curiosity Rover Enters Safe Mode “The ground team for NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on […]
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Please Help Support the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
“We are looking for people to help us complete the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). We call this technoarchaeology – mining the past to support science in the future. […]
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Mars Continues to Surprise Us
CuriousMars: SAM and CheMin Ace Rock Analysis, Ready for More, SpaceRef “The Mars rover Curiosity is this week in the midst of potentially historic discoveries as the full range of […]
Posted inIT/Web
NASA Still Has Not Encrypted All Laptops
Testimony by Paul Martin NASA Inspector General “Following the October 31 theft, the NASA Administrator accelerated the timetable to encrypt the hard drives of the Agency’s laptop computers. As of […]
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Problems with NASA Woman-owned Small Business Awards
Review of NASA’s Internal Controls for Awards with Small Business “However, of the 67 sampled awards, we identified 20 that were made to firms that self- certified as being owned […]
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How Dennis Tito Plans To Send People to Mars
This Is How Dennis Tito Plans To Send People to Mars, SpaceRef “If Dennis Tito has his way, two people will leave our planet in January 2018 and make a […]
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Rethinking NASA
Review of the Space Leadership Preservation Act (Video and statements), SpaceRef Business “On February 27, 2013, the House Subcommittee on Space held a hearing to review a bill proposed by […]
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NASA OIG Audits All Space Act Agreements
Letter from NASA Inspector General: Audit of NASA’s Management of Space Act Agreements “The Office of Inspector General is initiating an audit evaluating NASA’s management of its Space Act Agreements. […]
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Dennis Tito To Announce Private Human Mars Mission (Update)
The Planets are Aligning for a Once-in-a-Generation Space Journey “The Inspiration Mars Foundation, a newly formed nonprofit organization led by American space traveler and entrepreneur Dennis Tito, invites you to […]