Without Shuttles, Astronauts’ Careers May Stall, NPR “NASA administrator and former astronaut Charlie Bolden talked about that prospect when he visited Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier this year, saying […]
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Looking Backward – Not Forward
House panel vows to save Constellation, Orlando Sentinel “To emphasize its doubt, the subcommittee asked Thomas Young, a former Lockheed Martin executive, to testify. He flatly told the committee that […]
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VSS Enterprise Flies Over Mojave
First Captive Carry Flight for Virgin’s “Enterprise” “VSS Enterprise completes her first captive carry… Virgin Galactic announced today that VSS Enterprise has completed her inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave […]
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Tug of War Over Commercial Space Safety?
FAA, NASA Vie for Authority Over Commercial Space Safety, WS Journal “Congress hasn’t yet voted on White House proposals to outsource manned space flights to private enterprise, but the concept […]
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Looking for Those New Jobs
High-tech training industry says it could absorb many shuttle job losses, Orlando Sentinel “With thousands of Space Coast workers facing unemployment as the U.S. space-shuttle program winds down, Orlando’s high-tech […]
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Bolden Stands His Ground
Remarks by Charles Bolden at the Washington Space Business Roundtable, Satellite 2010 Conference “Commercial providers have long carried our most valuable payloads to space for the nation and have been […]
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Bigelow Is Looking For a Few Good Astronauts
Bigelow Aerospace Position Opening: Astronaut “Bigelow Aerospace seeks professional astronauts to fill permanent positions. Qualified applicants need to have completed a training program from their government or recognized space agency […]
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Defeatist, Anti-Commercial Thinking at the Space Foundation
To Boldly Go Where Ever – If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there, Elliott Pulham, Space Foundation “As of yet, there are no commercial […]
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Florida Space Day
Florida Space Day in Tallahassee March 3, 2010 “Key representatives from Florida’s space industry will visit Tallahassee to participate in Florida Space Day and share the challenges the industry faces […]
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What Burt Meant To Say
Burt Rutan Issues Clarification on Wall Street Journal Remarks “To my friends in the Press… Since the WSJ chose to cherry-pick and miss-quote my comments to Cong Wolf and since […]