NASA Awards Grant for New Life Detection Project, NASA GSFC “NASA has awarded funding for a new interdisciplinary project called the Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures (LAB). The award, totaling nearly […]
2018
Posted inRussia
Quick Turn Around For Soyuz Launcher
Пуск ракеты-носителя «Союз-ФГ» с пилотируемым кораблем #СоюзМС10. Видео с бортовых камер pic.twitter.com/ijPnwbbS4i — РОСКОСМОС (@roscosmos) November 1, 2018 U.S.-Russia space partnership has had its ups and downs, but failed launch […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
First Orion European Service Module to be Delivered Next Week
Airbus Delivers First European Service Module for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft, Airbus Defence and Space “Airbus will deliver the first European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft from its aerospace […]
Posted inAstrobiology
NASA Making Changes to its Astrobiology Program
NASA’s Astrobiology Program Evolving to Meet the Future, NASA “To better support the broad, interdisciplinary field of astrobiology – the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
NASA Actually Canceled The Dawn Mission In 2006
NASA’s Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End “NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn […]
Posted inEducation
NASA Advisory Council Elevates Education Committee Status
Keith’s note: At its last meeting in September 2018 the NASA Advisory Council adopted this recommendation: “Elevating the Status of the Ad Hoc Task Force on STEM Education. Recommendation: The […]
Posted inAstronomy
Big Court Win For The Thirty Meter Telescope
Embattled Thirty Meter Telescope scores big win in Hawaii’s highest court, Nature “Hawaii’s supreme court has ruled in favour of building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop the mountain Mauna […]
Posted inCongress
When Supporting Space Comes Back To Bite You
For the 7th Congressional District: Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, opinion, Houston Chronicle “It’s not that Culberson doesn’t care about water. He does. But most of the time, he seems to care […]
Posted inAstronomy
Kepler Planet Hunting Mission Ends
FWIW @NASAKepler has discovered 2,681 confirmed exoplanets and 2,899 candidate exoplanets. Assuming that that they're all confirmed that's 5,580 planets at a cost $125,448.03 each. pic.twitter.com/p84pT10x29 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
NASA Wants Throwaway Rockets For A Reusable Architecture
It is rather hilarious that people are hyping reusability and @NASA_SLS in the same tweet @JimBridenstine If @NASA really, really wants reusability for the whole Moon thing then use rockets […]