Keith’s note: In a 7 March 2019 letter from NASA Space Station Director Sam Scimemi to CASIS CEO Joseph Vockley, Scimemi states that NASA believes that “the CASIS Board of […]
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Hearing On Space Commerce
– Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson [statement] “I want to commend our commercial space companies that are making such impressive progress. There’s not a week that goes by without reading about […]
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CASIS Apparently Wants An Expanded Role on ISS Commercialization
Keith’s note: Rick Leach sought to downplay any expanded role for CASIS in overt commercial ventures on ISS (or elsewhere) the other day. CASIS had planned to try and turn […]
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CASIS Wants To Take Over Everything NASA Does On ISS – And More
FYI @ISS_CASIS recently gave @JimBridenstine a briefing wherein CASIS proposed becoming an FFRDC that would take over all @NASA activities on ISS, suborbital, and related ground research. This is crazy […]
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CASIS Announces Its Commercial Business Expansion Plans
Keith’s note: CASIS Chief Strategy Officer Richard Leach made a presentation “Forecasting the 2024-2035 Space Based National Laboratory for Life and Physical Sciences Space Research” at the National Academies of […]
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Another Head In The Sand Moment For Commercial Space
Keith’s note: Earlier this week the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and the commercial space community held their annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC. True to form they seemed to […]
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Yet Another NASA Space Policy Report That Reveals No Policy
National Space Exploration Campaign Report – Pursuant to Section 432(b) of the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-10), September 2018, NASA Keith’s note: Once again NASA is trying […]
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More Flying Rich People Will Soon Fly Into Space. Yawn.
Exciting that companies will soon put customers into space. But when ticket prices exceed the average cost of a 4 year college education or a family's house only rich people […]
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NASA Has No Contingency Plan For Uninterrupted Human Access To Space
GAO: NASA Commercial Crew Program: Plan Needed to Ensure Uninterrupted Access to the International Space Station, GAO “Further delays are likely as the Commercial Crew Program’s schedule risk analysis shows […]
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Falcon Safety Issues Persist Between NASA and SpaceX
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is using a powerful rocket technology. NASA advisers say it could put lives at risk, Washington Post “… But in a 2015 letter to NASA, Thomas Stafford, […]