Today I looked into the eye of a #telescope that will analyze habitable planets around other stars – and it looked back at me. #humbled pic.twitter.com/cKe2FzSoj0 — Keith Cowing (@KeithCowing) […]
2016
Posted inEarth Science
OIG: NASA Earth Science Plan Is Outdated
NASA’s Earth Science Mission Portfolio, NASA OIG “NASA’s Earth science portfolio adequately reflects stakeholder input, ESD’s approach to developing the Architecture Plan was reasonable, and the Plan includes missions that […]
Posted inExploration
There Is More Than One Way To Go To Mars
Why Mars? An Astronaut’s Perspective, op ed, John Grunsfeld, Huffington Post “Sending humans (and all that they will need to accompany them) to Mars will require substantial launch capabilities. This […]
Posted inElection 2016
The Election and Science
Beyond Trump vs Clinton: A scientist’s guide to the US election, Nature “Take Maryland, whose senior senator, Barbara Mikulski, is retiring after 30 years in office. Mikulski is not only […]
Posted inAstronauts
Advisory Committee Has Issues With Fueling Crewed Falcon 9
Experts concerned by SpaceX plan to fuel rockets with people aboard, Reuters “It was unanimous … Everybody there, and particularly the people who had experience over the years, said nobody […]
Posted inCulture
Hey Let's Do An Innovation Day!
Wow. @DavaExplorer just revealed the official baselined management cartoon showing how it took 5 years for @NASA to get to Innovation Day. pic.twitter.com/ckEYKG5weX — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 1, 2016 […]
Posted inCommercialization
Buying Rides To The Moon For Science
Small Lunar Surface Payload Request for Information (RFI) “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) is seeking information on the availability of small […]
Posted inISS News
Bill Gerstenmaier Was For Centrifuges Before He Was Against Them
The weak pull of artificial gravity, The Space Review “Gerstenmaier, while skeptical of the need for and ability to accommodate artificial gravity, didn’t rule it out entirely. He noted that […]
Posted inCulture
A Little Boy's First Spaceship Visit
Out for a walk in #Reston VA & saw this young boy clutching a space shuttle. He saw his first one today at NASM in Chantilly #journeytomars pic.twitter.com/GbvdnQ2Dy0 — NASA […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
A Quick Chat With NASA SMD AA Thomas Zurbuchen
Keith’s note: NASA PAO offered news media a chance to ask questions of Thomas Zurbuchen, the new Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator. The audio of that event should be online […]