Keith’s note: In case you are interested in other ways that NASA is going to do the Lunar landing thing, this is the NASA Procurement notice for “Commercial Lunar Payload […]
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House Passes American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act
House Approves American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act “The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously passed the American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act (H.R. 2809), which simplifies and strengthens the […]
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Orion Span's Orbital Luxury Hotel: Just Send Us Your Money
Orion Span says it’ll put space hotel in orbit by 2022, but some details are up in the air, Geekwire “A startup called Orion Span says it’s planning to open […]
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Bigelow and CASIS Are Working Together on ISS. NASA Really Doesn't Care.
Bigelow Space Operations Announces Partnership with CASIS to Fly Payloads to the International Space Station Bigelow Aerospace Announces the Creation of Bigelow Space Operations Keith’s note: I submitted a series […]
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Has Space Commercialization Finally Arrived?
What Trump Gets Right About NASA, Space Exploration, Eric Stallmer, CSF “Today, a new generation of commercial space companies is taking the lead on space exploration and aerospace innovation. … […]
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GAO Report On ICBM Motors For Commercial Launchers
GAO: Surplus Missile Motors: Sale Price Drives Potential Effects on DOD and Commercial Launch Providers, GAO “The Department of Defense (DOD) could use several methods to set the sale prices […]
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Rocket Lab Figures Out Cause Of First Flight Anomaly
Rocket Lab Completes Post-Flight Analysis “Rocket Lab’s investigation team determined the launch, named ‘It’s a Test’, was terminated due to a data loss time out, which was caused by misconfiguration […]
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Commercial Crew Flights in 2018?
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Target Flight Dates “The next generation of American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station are nearing the final stages of […]
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Helping Buck Rogers Make Some Bucks In Space
What You Need To Know About The Space Law Congress Is Considering, The Federalist “Want to make money in space? It appears that Congress wants to help. It also appears […]
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Treating Space Access As A Consumer Product
SpaceX’s final Falcon 9 design coming this year, two Falcon Heavy launches next year, SpaceNews “We are flying Block 3s right now,” Shotwell said. “Block 4s start flying shortly, and […]