Keith’s note: NASA HEOMD AA Bill Gerstenmaier was speaking at the NASA Advicory Council Human Exploration and Operations Committee meeting today. It certainly seems that he has decided that NASA […]
2017
Posted inExploration
Astrobiology Update From Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 28 November 2017: Last Week at Lake Untersee “We are in our last week of work here at Lake Untersee before heading back to […]
Posted inExploration
Terrestrial Analogs For Extraterrestrial Exploration
Antarctic Selfie’s Journey to Space via Disruption Tolerant Networking, NASA “NASA is boosting cyber to space with benefits for Earth. On Nov. 20, 2017, a selfie snapped from the National […]
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Once Upon A Time NASA Told Tales Of Human Exploration
My Star Trek Episode at Everest “In late April 2009 I found myself at Everest Base Camp for a month. I was living at 17,600 feet in Nepal 2 miles […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
NASA Gives Free Social Media Ads For SLS/Orion Contractors
Keith’s note: What is really strange is the fact that NASA gives free promotion/advertising to its contractors yet Congress prohibits NASA from advertising about itself. Interesting. @NASA is now offering […]
Posted inRussia
Russian Upper Stage Fires In The Wrong Direction and Splashes Its Payload
The reason for the unsuccessful launch of “Meteor-M” was called the human factor, Interfax (Google Translate) “The reason for the Meteor-M satellite accident after launching from the Vostochny cosmodrome in […]
Posted inFinancial Management
OIG Annual Report – NASA Spends Money Unwisely
NASA Office of Inspector General Annual Report April – September 2017 “Specifically, despite spending almost $200 million on three spacesuit development efforts, NASA remains years away from having a spacesuit […]
Posted inExploration
Doing Something Again For The First Time
Keith’s note: There is a lot of talk these days about yet another pivot in America’s civilian space policy. This time it is “back” to the Moon. Mars is not […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Rosanna Sattler
Keith’s note: Rosanna was a former board member of Women in Aerospace and a co-founder of the Space Enterprise Council. Obituary.
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Mars Czar Scott Hubbard Issues A Proclamation About The Moon
Keeping the Focus on Mars, Scott Hubbard, editorial “The Moon is scientifically much less diverse and interesting than Mars. For example, no one claims that life could have originated on […]