Video: AIAA Space 2016 Opening Plenary Featuring Charles Bolden, Winston Beauchamp and Steve Jurvetson “Today the annual AIAA Space 2016 conference began with an opening plenary that included presentations by […]
2016
Posted inCommercialization
Blue Origin Goes Bigger Than Falcon Heavy
Blue Origin Announces Immense “New Glenn” Rocket “Named in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is 23 feet in diameter and lifts off with […]
Posted inHistory
Bad News From Earth
11 September 2001: Bad news from Earth, SpaceRef “The news from Earth that morning wasn’t good. Frank Culbertson would soon find that some of the day’s pre-planned routine would be […]
Posted inAstronomy
NASA Likes LISA Again
NASA moves to rejoin sped-up gravitational wave mission, Science “This week, at the 11th LISA symposium in Zürich, Switzerland, a NASA official said he was ready to rejoin the LISA […]
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Does NASA Have A Robot That Can Do This?
Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations “Curiosity took the images with its Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Sept. 8. The rover team plans to assemble several large, color mosaics from […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
That Alternate Reality Without SLS
How I learned to stop worrying and love the big $60B NASA rocket, Ars Technica “So if NASA makes 20 SLS flights by the end of the 2030s, the rocket […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
SLS Flight Software Safety Issues at MSFC (Update)
Keith’s 29 September update: Sources report that a substantial portion of the contractor staff working for the SLS safety contractor at NASA MSFC QD34 want out and are asking for […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
OSIRIS-REx Has Left Earth For A While
OSIRIS-REx Speeds Toward Asteroid Rendezvous (Watch the replay of the launch) “The OSIRIS-REx mission will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth and […]
Posted inExploration
Starfleet's Original Asteroid Boulder Retrieval Concept
This is how Starfleet originally imagined an asteroid boulder retrieval mission #StarTrek50 #OSIRISREx pic.twitter.com/ZLjbTf0tK4 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) September 9, 2016
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Industry Groups Avoid Mention of OIG Reports on Cost/Schedule
Why has @XploreDeepSpace been silent about NASA OIG report on #NASA Orion Program? https://t.co/09CiS0x7kA pic.twitter.com/Ff4BukHTug — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) September 7, 2016 Why has @csf_spaceflight been silent about NASA OIG […]