Smith to Bolden: Why Not Orion for Commercial Crew?, SpaceNews “If Orion could provide a redundant capability as a fallback for the commercial crew partners, why is it necessary to […]
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COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 Passed
America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 is Sent to the President’s Desk “Today, the House of Representatives concurred with the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5116, America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of […]
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Wayne Hale: OMB Strikes Again
ChasingAugustine, Wayne Hale “A couple of months later I was notified that I would receive a Group Achievement Award for helping with the [Augustine] committee. I told them I did […]
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Shocking News: Rep. Giffords Uncovers Rocket Designing by Congress
House approves NASA Reauthorization Act 2010, Nature “The sole dissenting voice during deliberations came from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who chairs the House space and aeronautics subcommittee. “I have no […]
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Today's Senate Hearing on Space Policy
Keith’s note: The witnesses for todays’s hearing: Holdren, Bolden, Armstrong, Cernan, and Augustine. ESMD AA Doug Cooke briefed Armstrong and Cernan last week via telecon on the results of NASA’s […]
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Beyond Augustine
Beyond Augustine II, Dennis Wingo “In August of this year I wrote a missive concerning what happens after the Augustine report is released. Well, now that has happened, so what […]
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Predictable Statements
NASA’s future – commercial, Constellation or Russia?, Orlando Sentinel “There are a few people in the administration who want to kill Ares I and put all the money in commercial […]
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Moving On To New Things In Space
An Astronaut Explains How We’ll Fall In Love With Space Again, Leroy Chiao, Gizmodo “The Constellation Program was a reasonable path, five years ago, when the Vision for Space Exploration […]
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Inaccuracies at SaveSpace
Brevard’s ‘Save Space’ campaign pushes for NASA funding, TCPalm.com “Brevard County officials launched a Web site, http://www.SaveSpace.us, to try to generate 500,000 letters to President Barack Obama by Oct. 31. […]
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Augustine Report Commentary
5 Surprising Passages From the Full Augustine Report, Popular Mechanics “NASA released the full text crafted by its Review of Human Spaceflight Plans Committee (the so-called Augustine committee) today. The […]