Renee Wynn, CIO, NASA, GovernmentCIO “Renee Wynn has an astronomical responsibility in managing a mix of new and legacy systems to manage NASA’s vast amount of data across its programs […]
2019
Posted inCommercialization
Video: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Event on ISS and Gateway Commercialization
Keith’s note: Go to 36:50 for a question to Rick Leach from CASIS about their plans for space commercialization and to HEOMD AA Bill Gerstenmaier at 2:08:20 for a question […]
Posted inCongress
How Quickly We Forget Who Pays For The Rockets
HASC Chairman Smith Earmarks $500M Giveaway For SpaceX, Potentially Aborting Air Force Space Plans, Loren Thompson, Forbes Keith’s note: First Thompson goes on a rant against SpaceX: “Smith’s proposed language […]
Posted inCommercialization
CASIS Apparently Wants An Expanded Role on ISS Commercialization
Keith’s note: Rick Leach sought to downplay any expanded role for CASIS in overt commercial ventures on ISS (or elsewhere) the other day. CASIS had planned to try and turn […]
Posted inArtemis
The Planetary Science Community Is Split On Artemis/Moon2024
Dear Colleague Letter From The Lunar Exploration Analysis Group On The Proposed NASA Budget Amendment “It came to our attention that the AAS / DPS sent a letter to its […]
Posted inAstrobiology
Getting Serious About Astrobiology
Breakthrough Watch and European Southern Observatory Achieve First Light on Upgraded Planet-finding Instrument “Pete Worden, Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, said: “We’re delighted to collaborate with the ESO in […]
Posted inCongress
Congress Shrinks Space Force
House Armed Services strikes agreement on Trump’s Space Force, Roll Call “Democrats and Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee have agreed to language that would create a streamlined Space […]
Posted inCommercialization
CASIS Clarifies Its Expansion Ambitions
CASIS Announces Its Commercial Business Expansion Plans, earlier post (March 2019) “CASIS Chief Strategy Officer Richard Leach made a presentation “Forecasting the 2024-2035 Space Based National Laboratory for Life and […]
Posted inEarth Science
White House Blocks Testimony On Climate Change
White House blocked intelligence agency’s written testimony calling climate change ‘possibly catastrophic’, Washington Post “White House officials barred a State Department intelligence agency from submitting written testimony this week to […]
Posted inApollo
Review: First To The Moon
Review: Apollo 8 – “First To The Moon” “A new documentary on Apollo 8, “First To The Moon”, by filmmaker Paul Hildebrandt has been released. I am not going to […]