Watch the live Starship cam to see if there are any @SpaceX tests today at Boca Chica https://t.co/IqgEXrTRnZ — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 21, 2019 Watching the live webcam focused […]
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Posted inCommercialization
Watching SpaceX Compress The Rocketship Design Process
IMHO @JimBridenstine @ElonMusk It is Interesting to watch @SpaceX compress design iterations of launch vehicles to months or a year while it takes @NASA decades to do so. "SpaceX goes […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Watching A Large Impactor From Orbit
A video showing the smoke trail from the #Meteor over the Bering Strait last December, produced using data from @JMA_kishou's #Himawari satellite.The orange meteor trail in the middle, shadow above-left. […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Dick Smith
Former Kennedy Space Center Director Richard G. Smith Passes Away, NASA “Richard G. Smith, a former director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, passed away March 14, 2019, in […]
Posted inAstronauts
Apollo Astronauts Gather At The Explorers Club Annual Dinner
Apollo Astronauts at #ECAD2019. Photo by @felixkunze L-R:@Cmd16Duke (Apollo 16), @TheRealBuzz (Apollo 11), Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), @WordenAlfred (Apollo 15), Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9), @JackSchmitt17 (Apollo 17), Michael Collins (Apollo […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Suddenly Boeing Has A Way To Speed Up EM-1
Is’nt it interesting that @nasa_sls team suddenly starts to come up with ways to accelerate #SLS EM-1 but only after @JimBridenstine started talking about commercial alternatives. Why didn’t they make […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Bridenstine Reassures SLS/Orion Workforce
A Message to the Workforce on SLS and Orion, NASA “Yesterday, I was asked by Congress about the schedule slip of the Space Launch System and plans to get NASA […]
Posted inCommercialization
Ironically SLS Supporters Are Worried About Commercial EM-1 Costs
CDSE Statement Following Senate Commerce Hearing with the NASA Administrator “No launch vehicle other than the SLS can enable the launch of a fully-outfitted Orion, including the SM, to the […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Bridenstine Proposes Commercial EM-1 Mission – Without SLS
SLS Launch was supposed to be later than June 2020. As an agency we need to stick to our committments. We should launch around the Moon in June 2020. I […]
Posted inCongress
Dueling Congressional Hearings On Wednesday
Hearing: America in Space: Future Visions, Current Issues, House Science Committee 10:00 am EDT – Witnesses: Ellen Stofan, Peggy Whitson, and Frank Rose The New Space Race: Ensuring U.S. Global […]