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The First American Journalist In Space
The First American Journalist In Space

Keith’s note: Next week a SpaceX Falcon Heavy with be launched. On board will be the Celestis Heritage payload. Inside will be some ashes of my long time friend and collaborator Frank Sietzen. It would seem that Frank is about to become the first American journalist in space. Frank was also the first SpaceX employee in Washington DC. Ad Astra Frank. Frank Clark Sietzen, Jr., Celestis

  • NASA Watch
  • June 17, 2019
NASA Administrator Names: Getting Stuck In The Rumor Mill
NASA Administrator Names: Getting Stuck In The Rumor Mill

Keith’s note: A cautionary note with regard to possible NASA Administrator names being circulated, self-promoted, and otherwise tossed around – from the Book “New Moon Rising” that the late Frank Sietzen and I wrote back in 2004: “As the new Administration continued to fill in open positions, the job of NASA Administrator seemed to get scant attention. One name had circulated with some frequency in late 2001: former New Mexico […]

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  • November 18, 2016
Rare Hubble Shot of Jupiter and Moon Shadows

NASA Hubble Space Telescope Spots Rare Triple Eclipse on Jupiter“Five spots – one colored white, one blue, and three black – are scattered across the upper half of the planet. Closer inspection by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals that these spots are actually a rare alignment of three of Jupiter’s largest moons – Io, Ganymede, and Callisto – across the planet’s face. In this image, the telltale signatures of this […]

  • NASA Watch
  • November 4, 2004
New Moon RIsing Book Reviews

5 October 2004: Book Review: New Moon Rising, Universe Today“As the authors say in New Moon Rising , NASA needed and obtained a new space vision to direct its efforts. The authors provide a detailed and broad overview of the very large supporting cast that contributed to the vision that was initiated with President Bush’s speech early in the year 2004. Now, in the authors viewpoint, NASA and its new […]

  • NASA Watch
  • October 5, 2004
What Bush Did – and Did not say

17 September 2004: The real cost of space – More exploration requires consensus and commitment, OpEd, Huntsville Times“Now another president, George W. Bush, says it’s time to unleash America’s technological know-how for further exploration. But note that the popular idea that Bush has buckled America up for a trip to Mars isn’t quite what he said.As noted in “New Moon Rising” by Frank Sietzen Jr. and Keith L. Cowing (Apogee […]

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  • September 17, 2004
New Moon Rising

30 August 2004: A New NASA Rising (Book review), Space Daily “Sietzen and Cowing illustrate the newly geared mindset of NASA by comparing the jargon advocated by people like Craig Steidle- its new Associate Administrator- against the language once used under Dan Goldin’s stewardship. Now its concepts like ‘form follows function’, ‘spiral development’ and ‘affordable, sustainable, and credible’ are replacing the old mantras of ‘better, faster, cheaper’.”

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  • August 31, 2004
New Moon Rising Excerpts

15 July 2004: Exclusive: Book details Bush moon decision, UPI “Part 3 deals with how the White House set the content of and the date for the president’s announcement.” 14 July 2004: Exclusive: Book details space plan’s birth, UPI “Part 2 deals with how the space plan developed at the grassroots level within the administration in 2003.” 13 July 2004: Exclusive: Book details NASA’s ordeal, UPI “In their new book, […]

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  • August 15, 2004
New Moon Rising Book review

14 July 2004: Book charts development of new space vision, Florida Today “The fight ended with President Bush handing the agency a long-desired new mission to dispatch humans to explore the solar system — not stopping at the moon, but venturing beyond. However, that outcome was anything but certain during the highly secret, months-long battle during which the White House, NASA, the Pentagon and others in the federal government weighed […]

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  • July 14, 2004
How the VSE was formulated

8 July 2004: New Book “New Moon Rising” Reveals How Secret Inner White House Circle Created the Bush Administration’s New Space Vision for U.S., Space Frontier Foundation “A soon to be released book, “New Moon Rising”, being launched at the Return To The Moon Conference in Las Vegas (July 16th-18th) will reveal some of the most detailed inner workings of the White House ever revealed since this Administration came into […]

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  • July 8, 2004