Keith’s note: One planetary scientist is doing a systematic search for a large planet that may be lurking in the outermost reaches of our solar system. Meanwhile another planetary scientist […]
2017
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California Wants To Treat Rocketships Like Taxis
California plans for collecting taxes on spaceflight, SF Chronicle “Thomas Lo Grossman, a tax attorney at the Franchise Tax Board, said the proposed rules are designed to mirror the ways […]
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NASA May Use Commercial Services For Lunar Missions
NASA: Lunar Surface Cargo Transportation Services Request for Information (RFI), NASA “NASA has identified a variety of exploration, science, and technology demonstration objectives that could be addressed by sending instruments, […]
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Why is A NASA Astronaut Promoting a Fox News Celebrity's Book in Space? Update
Keith’s 4 May update: @DanaPerino deleted this tweet (but it is still on her Instagram page). Why would she do that – unless she did something wrong? This is what […]
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Vector Completes Successful Flight Test
Vector Completes Successful Flight Test of Vector-R Launch Vehicle, SpaceRef “This successful flight test represents Vector’s next technical milestone of the Vector-R launch vehicle. The flight test, which took place […]
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Congress Pushes Back Against Trump Science Cuts
Science wins reprieve in US budget deal, Nature ” … $1.9 billion for NASA’s Earth-science research programme, roughly equal to the 2016 level. The bill includes support for the Pre-Aerosol, […]
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Bob Walker: National Space Council Executive Order Already Written
Public/private partnerships are essential – Bob Walker #ulcats pic.twitter.com/uksz6U1zDf — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 1, 2017 Walker: the National Space Council will happen and VP Pence is excited about chairing […]
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Newt Gingrich Thinks SLS May Become a Museum Piece – Soon
Keith’s note: Tweets from the “ULCATS Symposium: Igniting An Industrial and National Security Revolution in Space” held this morning in Washington, DC. I asked Newt Gingrich how the Trump Administration […]
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SpaceX Successfully Launches NRO Satellite
SpaceX Successfully Launches U.S. NRO Spy Satellite (With video) “SpaceX launched a spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) early this morning after a one day delay. The […]
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Censoring Science at EPA
EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades, Washington Post “The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening that its website would be “undergoing changes” to better […]