11 September 2001: Bad news from Earth, SpaceRef “The news from Earth that morning wasn’t good. Frank Culbertson would soon find that some of the day’s pre-planned routine would be […]
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Viking at 40 Symposium – The Lectures
NASA Viking at 40 Symposium Lectures “This week NASA hosted the Viking Mars Landers 40th anniversary symposium. In 1976 Viking 1 and 2 were the first landers to successfully land […]
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You Can't Send NASA Telegrams Any More
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Removal of Regulations Relating to Telegraphic Communication, NASA et al “DoD, GSA, and NASA are proposing to amend the FAR to delete the use of the terms […]
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Apollo On Sleeping Pills
Kennedy’s vision for NASA inspired greatness, then stagnation, Ars Technica “Perhaps the best insight into Kennedy’s motives can be found in a recording of a November 21, 1962 meeting in […]
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JSC Oral History Project Shut Down
Keith’s note: JSC announced recently they were terminating the Oral History Project that has been ongoing for several decades. People working on the project have received lay-off notices. Have a […]
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Sluggish Old NASA Has Forgotten Its Younger Self
NASA chief: Apollo engineers who criticize SLS don’t grok modern rocketry, Ars Technica “Bolden then reiterated that Kraft knew more than him about rockets, but he again qualified this praise: […]
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John Newcomb
NASA Langley Engineer and Author John Newcomb Dies “An engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center during the critical Apollo years and those that successfully landed Viking on Mars, John Foster […]
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A New Look At NASA's Past
Janelle Monae Will Co-Star in a Movie About the Women Behind the Space Program, Gizmodo “This is amazing. One of our favorite musicians, Janelle Monae is co-starring in a movie […]
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Nancy Reagan, Alzheimer's, and NASA
Nancy Reagan has died. pic.twitter.com/vaJNblJbKc — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 6, 2016 Keith’s note: Nancy Reagan has died. Thus turns the final page from an era wherein space exploration was […]
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Revisionist Millennial Musing by Amy Shira Teitel About The V-2 Rocket
Was The V-2 a Nazi Weapon?, Popular Science “The short answer is that, no, the V-2 wasn’t strictly speaking a Nazi weapon. The long answer is more complicated, and a […]