Former Secretary of Transportation Mineta Praises Obama’s NASA Plan For Jump-Starting Commercial Spaceflight “Norman Mineta, who served as Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush and as Secretary of […]
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Different Mission = Different Spacecraft
Will private spaceships have the right stuff? Commercial orbital taxis won’t have to retrace NASA’s footsteps, MSNBC “First of all, the space taxis being created to serve the new policy […]
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More Thoughts on The Obama Space Policy
Space Watchers Critique President Obama’s Proposal for NASA’s Future, PBS NewsHour “Keith Cowing, editor, NASA Watch: It’s a paradigm-shifting proposal. It has matured a little over the past few months […]
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Nervous in Florida
What’s next for NASA?, opinion, Fran DiBello “There are still many political battles to be discussed and fought nationwide. The looming dread of entire regions that stand to lose not […]
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Diversifying Human Space Flight
Human spaceflight: diversify the portfolio, Alan Stern, Space Review “The American people expect big things from our nation’s human space flight enterprise. Tragically, however, for the past 20+ years, our […]
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Commercial Sector Reaction
Commercial Spaceflight Federation Hails President’s Space Plan As Creating “More Spacecraft, More Astronaut Flights, and More Jobs” “The President’s plan increases NASA’s budget by $6 billion over 5 years and […]
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SpaceX Sees Something Big Ahead
Elon Musk: At Long Last, an Inspiring Future for Space Exploration “Today, the President will articulate an ambitious and exciting new plan that will alter our destiny as a species. […]
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Thwarting Space Commerce
In space, no one hears you flip-flop, opinion, Eric Sterner, Washington Times “There is no truly free commercial market for human spaceflight to low-Earth orbit. The current supply-and-demand curves do […]
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OSTP Preview of Thursday's Presidential Speech
OSTP Fact Sheet on the President’s April 15th Address in Florida: A Bold Approach for Space Exploration and Discovery “On Thursday, April 15, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, […]
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NASTAR Center Gets FAA Certs To Train Space Crews
NASTAR Center Awarded First FAA Safety Approval from Office of Commercial Space Transportation “Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s NASTAR Center announced today that it is the first entity to receive a Safety […]