Congressional Investigators Warn of SpaceX Rocket Defects, Wall Street Journal “The Government Accountability Office’s preliminary findings reveal a pattern of problems with turbine blades that pump fuel into rocket engines, […]
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GAO Reports On Commercial Launch Insurance
Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed “Stakeholders in the space launch industry are divided on the need to change […]
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NAS Report Worries About Inadequate NASA Budget
NASA Report: New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment, National Academies of Sciences “NASA’s WFIRST, the top-ranked large space-based mission in the 2010 survey, is designed to answer questions about […]
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GAO Questions Future Relevance of NASA TRLs
GAO Best Practices for Evaluating the Readiness of Technology for Use in Acquisition Programs and Projects, GAO “NASA space missions are more ambitious and require the development and integration of […]
Posted inBudget
Double GAO Reports: SLS and Orion Cost and Risk Estimates Are Still Unreliable
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle: Action Needed to Improve Visibility into Cost, Schedule, and Capacity to Resolve Technical Challenges, GAO “GAO found that the Orion program’s cost and schedule estimates are […]
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GAO Report on DoD EELV Acquisition Strategy
Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Is Assessing Data on Worldwide Launch Market to Inform New Acquisition Strategy, GAO “In February 2016, Congress asked GAO to examine what is known about […]
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Continued Problems With KSC Management of Large Contracts
NASA OIG: Audit of NASA’s Engineering Services Contract at Kennedy Space Center “The size and scope of Kennedy’s Engineering Contract has made managing the Contract particularly challenging. The cost and […]
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In Search Of A CASIS Report Card
Keith’s note: It is time to examine how NASA and CASIS have interacted since 2011. Little, if anything, has ever been publicly released with regard to how CASIS reports its […]
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GAO Report on NASA Cost and Schedule Issues
GAO Report: NASA: Assessments of Major Projects “Although NASA’s overall performance has improved, for 8 out of the last 9 years at least one major project has experienced significant cost […]
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GAO: FAA Can't Justify Commercial Space Budget Increase
GAO: FAA Commercial Space Launch Industry Developments Present Multiple Challenges “For fiscal year 2016, FAA requested a 16 percent increase in staff for its commercial space launch activities to keep […]