If true, more evidence #moon2024 is a political stunt designed to help Trump win re-election instead of a serious plan to help America. https://t.co/EeHvDQOB95 — brianweeden (@brianweeden) May 1, 2019 […]
2019
Posted inCongress
Hearings and Advisory Meetings Today
NASA FY 2020 Budget hearing: Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 2:30 pm EDT Live video NASA Advisory Council; Regulatory and Policy Committee Meeting 11:00 a.m.-4:30 […]
Posted inCommercialization
NASA Needs A Decade To Figure Out Launch Failures
NASA Investigation Uncovers Cause of Two Science Mission Launch Failures “NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) investigators have determined the technical root cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA’s […]
Posted inTrumpSpace
The #Moon2024 Thing Is Going To Be Expensive
Well the numbers are starting to settle on the cost of the whole #Moon2024 thing. We've heard numbers in draft revised @NASA budget requests to Congress that come close to […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Did KSC Ban All Employee Photography? Update
From this point forward, employees are no longer permitted to photograph or share images from *any* operations at KSC without authorization. Regardless of source. Photographing, or sharing images, from operations […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
NASA Is Really Desperate To Show SLS Improvement
The "new tool" is a platform for people to stand on. You have to wonder why @BoeingSpace and the @NASA_SLS team took years to think up something as simple as […]
Posted inPersonnel News
The NASA/Big Aerospace Revolving Door Still Operates
Former NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot Joins Lockheed Martin “Robert Lightfoot, a longtime NASA executive who served as both the agency’s acting administrator and highest-ranking civil servant, will join Lockheed […]
Posted inExploration
HEOMD/ASAP Push Back On White House/9th Floor Moon 2024 Plans
NASA to perform key test of the SLS rocket, necessitating a delay in its launch, Ars Technica “In a memo shared with senior agency managers earlier this week, NASA’s chief […]
Posted inExploration
Why Did @BlueOrigin Tweet A Picture Of Shackleton's "Endurance"?
This cryptic tweet from @BlueOrigin means something. This is Shackleton's ship "Endurance" from the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17. Either Jeff Bezos found it, is looking for it, or he's going […]
Posted inCommercialization
CASIS Wants To Take Over Everything NASA Does On ISS – And More
FYI @ISS_CASIS recently gave @JimBridenstine a briefing wherein CASIS proposed becoming an FFRDC that would take over all @NASA activities on ISS, suborbital, and related ground research. This is crazy […]