NASA Solicitation: NASA Independent Verification and Validation Services “NASA plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Services in support of NASA’s IV&V Facility […]
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Europe Whines About Subsidies But Keeps On Giving Them
WTO critical of NASA payments to Boeing: report, MarketWatch “A ruling by the World Trade Organization over whether Boeing received unfair government support centers on payments made to the company […]
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Boeing and Space Adventures Strike Marketing Deal
Boeing Plans Capsule to Fly Space Tourists, CBS “Space Adventures, the company that brokered eight private flights to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft, will work with Boeing […]
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Learning From The Past
Summoning the Future By Remembering the Past, Dennis Wingo “Almost exactly 100 years and nine weeks before the famous speech by President Kennedy at Rice University calling for what would […]
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Learning How To Fly Crews on an Atlas V
NASTAR Center and Special Aerospace Services Commence Research Study on Emergency Detection and Human Response of Atlas V Profile “The NASTAR(R) Center, the premier commercial space training and research center […]
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Why Everything Costs So Much At NASA
NASA past performance ratings higher for cost plus contracts than fixed price, FIerceGovernment “The more a company has a contractually risky relationship with NASA, the more likely it is that […]
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Dragon Tests Its Parachutes
SpaceX Conducts Dragon Parachute Test (Photos and Video) “SpaceX recently completed its first Dragon high altitude drop test and it was 100% successful! The purpose of the test was to […]
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Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation at Stanford
FAA Creates Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation “U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las […]
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NASA Is Interested In Commercial Lunar Missions
NASA Seeks Data from Innovative Lunar Demonstrations “NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to purchase specific data resulting from industry efforts to test and verify vehicle capabilities through […]
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Showdown Ahead For H.R. 5781?
Commercial Space Advocates Rally To Stall NASA Authorization Bill, SpaceNews “House sources said July 28 that a floor vote on the NASA authorization could come as early as July 29, […]