Columbia: Thinking Back – Looking Ahead, Excerpt from “New Moon Rising”, by Frank Sietzen, Jr. and Keith Cowing “At the end of the event, Rona Ramon, Ilan’s widow, spoke last. […]
2017
Posted inCommercialization
Next SpaceX Mission is Now the ISS Cargo Resupply CRS-10
Station cargo flight leapfrogs commercial satellite launch on SpaceX manifest, Spaceflight Now “SpaceX said Sunday that the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A, a former shuttle-era complex at […]
Posted inAstronauts
Thinking Back – Looking Ahead
Scott Parazynski: Still on Cloud 10 on the summit of Mt. Everest, SpaceRef “I tied off a pair of flags I’d made to honor astronauts and cosmonauts who had perished […]
Posted inExploration
NASA OIG Reports Mars 2020 Rover Sampling System as Largest Risk
NASA OIG: Audit of the Mars 2020 Rover Project “The largest risk to the Mars 2020 schedule is the Project’s Sample and Caching Subsystem (Sampling System), which will collect core […]
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Firm Commercial Crew Flight Dates Remain Elusive
Technical troubles likely to delay commercial crew flights until 2019, Ars Technica “Boeing has set a “no earlier than” date of August 2018 for its first crewed test flight, and […]
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Challenger
Remembering the Challenger Crew, Challenger Center for Space Science Education “On this day 31 years ago, Space Shuttle Challenger and its seven-member crew were tragically lost. The crew members – […]
Posted inTransition
Update: NASA Is Still Telling Everyone What It Does For Them
Daily reminder: According to @NASA HQ there has been no change in #NASA policy/practice WRT public release of data/info @Alt_NASA @RogueNASA pic.twitter.com/RpxmLbUY63 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 27, 2017
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Apollo 1
NASA Unveils Tribute to Crew of Apollo 1 “A new tribute opened Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dedicated to […]
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Just A Reminder: NASA Is Required To Tell Everyone What It Does
Just a reminder: @NASA is required BY LAW to tell everyone everywhere what it has learned. That law has not changed @Alt_NASA @RogueNASA pic.twitter.com/TVa22gJOa8 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 26, […]
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These Large NASA-Supporting Twitter Accounts Did Not Exist The Other Day
How sad is it that government employees have to create rogue Twitter accounts just to communicate FACTS to the American public? — Rogue NASA (@RogueNASA) January 25, 2017 If You […]