NO SIGNAL: Growing Up in Green Bank, West Virginia, Observer (scroll down to page 36) “I grew up in Green Bank, West Virginia, at the center of the federally mandated […]
2019
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Ultima Thule Is Now "Arrokoth"
Keith’s note: The new name is “Arrokoth” which means ‘sky’ in Powhatan. It is cool that the IAU named 2014 MU69 this way. Oddly the formal announcement was done in […]
Posted inAstronauts
Orbital Op Ed From Christina Koch and Jessica Meir
It’s tough being small in a big-suit world. We still spacewalked., Op Ed, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, Washington Post “One could say that the first all-female spacewalk was worth […]
Posted inHistory
Weapons Of Mass Destruction Have Sent Us To The Stars
That Time Wernher von Braun’s Rocket Tried To Kill My Father “Humanity now lives in space permanently. Our spacecraft have left the solar system. Our space telescopes look back to […]
Posted inArtemis
SLS Sticker Shock At The White House
The White House puts a price on the SLS rocket–and it’s a lot, Ars Technica “The Europa mission could be launched by a commercial rocket,” Vought wrote to the chairman […]
Posted inCongress
OMB Pushes Back On Senate Space Appropriations Thinking
Letter from OMB to Sen. Shelby regarding Senate versions of appropriations bills (NASA/Space excerpts)(PDF) “The bill includes funding that the Administration believes is not in line with the overall effort […]
Posted inCommercialization
Starliner Parachute Problem: Bad Connection Between Pilot And Main
Root cause of lack of chute deployment has been found. Lack of firm connection between pilot chute and main chute lanyard. That means pilot chute could not pull out main […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Ron Reisman
Keith’s note: This is from Ron’s wife Marcia on his Facebook page: “Dear Friends of Ron, Ron passed away early this morning from complications from pancreatic cancer. Although we knew […]
Posted inArtemis
NASA Authorization Act of 2019 Introduced In The Senate
Commerce Leaders Introduce the NASA Authorization Act of 2019 “The NASA Authorization Act would: ⢠Support NASA’s human spaceflight and exploration efforts to return American astronauts to the Moon and […]
Posted inCommercialization
CASIS Quarterly Reports To NASA Are Now Online at NASAWatch
Keith’s note: Over the past few years I have submitted regular FOIA requests to NASA HQ for documents related to how NASA and CASIS interact with one another. Specifically I […]