Keith’s note: There are a surprising number of people associated with the so-called “NewSpace” crowd who do not seem to find this sort of reprehensible public behavior on Twitter (see […]
2015
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Wallops Tries To Grow But NASA Holds It Back
Spaceport awaiting federal funding to make repairs “The delay is tied to carrying out the omnibus federal spending bill’s $20 million appropriation for NASA to ensure that the money goes […]
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ATV-5 Georges Lemaître Issue Comes Up
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 4 February 2015, SpaceRef “Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-5 Status: Yesterday, ATV experienced a failure with Battery Power Chain #4. ATV ground teams have confirmed the failure […]
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FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference
Registration still open for the 18th Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference, set to take place this week (Feb. 4-5) at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C. The conference […]
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FAA Wants Moon Commerce to Happen
The FAA: regulating business on the moon, Reuters “The United States government has taken a new, though preliminary, step to encourage commercial development of the moon. According to documents obtained […]
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NASA Ignores NASA Science on the Space Station – As only NASA Can
NASA’s Physical Science Informatics Database Now Open to the Public, NASA “At NASA, we are excited to announce the roll-out of the Physical Science Informatics (PSI) data repository for physical […]
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This is Why People Think NASA is Adrift, Charlie.
Wait, what??? "NASA plans to end Opportunity operations by FY 2016." pic.twitter.com/jk6rSoYUJt — Casey Dreier (@CaseyDreier) February 2, 2015 Zeroing missions like Opportunity & Odyssey & then putting them back […]
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NASA/Nissan Space Act Agreement
Nissan and NASA partner to jointly Develop and Deploy Autonomous Drive Vehicles by End of Year, (revised with text of NASA Space Act Agreement) Nissan “Nissan Motor Co., through its […]
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NASA FY 2016 Budget Information
NASA FY 2016 Budget Fact Sheet “The President’s FY 2016 Budget provides $18.5 billion in discretionary funding for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to extend humanity’s reach in […]
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Charlie Bolden Cannot Make His Mind Up About ARM
Our asteroid mission "may provide information to inform future work to help us protect our home planet."-Bolden #StateOfNASA #JourneyToMars — NASA (@NASA) February 2, 2015 Bolden "we are not trying to […]