Jack Garman, NASA engineer who ‘saved’ Apollo 11 from alarms, dies at 72, CollectSpace “John “Jack” Garman, a NASA engineer whose knowledge of the computer aboard Apollo 11 saved the […]
2016
Posted inISS News
ISS Crew Could be Short Staffed for Another Month and a Half
Manned flights to ISS to be rescheduled — Roscosmos, TASS “The schedule of manned flights to the International Space Station (ISS) will be changed after the launch of Soyuz MS-02 […]
Posted inExploration
NASA Future In-Space Operations: Low-Latency Teleoperations for the Evolvable Mars Campaign
NASA FISO Presentation: Low-Latency Teleoperations for the Evolvable Mars Campaign “Now available is the September 7, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speakers were Mark Lupisella, Jack […]
Posted inPersonnel News
David Weaver Is Leaving NASA
Keith’s note: Sources report that NASA Associate Administrator for the Office of Communications David Weaver is leaving the agency for a position at the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). David […]
Posted inNews
Posting Update
Keith’s note: I am heading off to the UK on Tuesday for the rest of the week – so Marc will be doing the bulk of the posting until next […]
Posted inExploration
NASA Future In-Space Operations: Telerobotics from Mars Orbit
NASA FISO Presentation: Telerobotics from Mars Orbit – Lessons from Robotic Exploration for Human Missions to Mars “Now available is the August 31, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon […]
Posted inCommercialization
NASA's SpaceX Mars Mission Briefing That NASA Is Not Telling You About
NASA FISO Telecon: NASA Collaboration with SpaceX’s Red Dragon Mission “The next Future In-Space Operations (FISO) colloquium will be Wednesday, September 21, when we will host Philip McAlister (NASA HQ), […]
Posted inExploration
Teasing Mars
Elon Musk scales up his ambitions, considering going “well beyond” Mars, Ars Technica “Musk dropped a surprise on Twitter. The workhorse spacecraft that will carry approximately 100 tons of cargo […]
Posted inCommercialization
Russia's Proton Is Adapting To Future Markets
ILS Offers Proton Variants For Smaller Payloads, ILS “International Launch Services (ILS) announces a product line extension of the Proton Breeze M commercial launch vehicle designed to expand the addressable […]
Posted inChina
China Is Building The Post-2024 Space Station
US expert: Launch of Tiangong-2 a ‘great leap’, CCTV (with video) “Tiangong-2 is very important because it’s the 2nd space station that China has launched. It’s improved on the earlier […]