Shuttle News

Florida lawmaker wants to add $2B for NASA, Orlando Sentinel “The Florida lawmaker who represents Kennedy Space Center plans to file an amendment to the economic stimulus plan on Tuesday […]

NASA probe digs deeply into Columbia tragedy, Houston Chronicle “On the final Thursday of each January, the American flag is carefully lowered to half staff at the Johnson Space Center […]

Why NASA should give up its ambitions to send men into space, Economist “The possibility of life on Mars is too thrilling for mankind to ignore. But how should we […]

Final Memorandum on the Review of the Space Shuttle Liquid Hydrogen Fuel Tank Sensors, NASA OIG “We found that the Project Office initiated appropriate actions to identify and resolve LH2 […]

NASA begins to contemplate life without Mike , Orlando Sentinel “Griffin opposes efforts to rethink his rocket designs or keep the shuttle flying beyond its planned 2010 retirement date. He […]

NASA: Keeping shuttle costs $3 billion yearly, AP “The cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year’s planned retirement is $3 billion a year plus extending […]

Beyond the Shuttle, Government Executive “As NASA makes another giant leap, the agency must shift its workforce to a new mission while safely finishing out the old one. …The Constellation […]

NASA Internal Memo: Happy Thanksgiving MOD “… the obvious and publicized successes of a rapid fire Shuttle flight give us a good opportunity to stop and take inventory of our […]

Editor’s 30 Dec note: There is a post regarding the release date of the Columbia report on the blog Rocketsandsuch read by folks in and around NASA written by an […]