Keith’s note: On Wednesday NASA will officially sponsor a teleconference with NASA NIAC grantee Phil Lubin about the Breakthrough Initative’s Starshot project to mount the first interstellar mission. But unless you are a pal of a certain NASA civil servant, you won’t be allowed to listen in live – even though NASA is paying for this event. Indeed, unless this certain employee decides to tell you, NASA won’t even tell […]

NASA FISO Telecon: The Mars Human Landing Sites Study Overview “The next Future In-Space Operations (FISO) colloquium will be Wednesday, March 16, when we will host Rick Davis and Ben Bussey (both of NASA HQ), who will speak on “The Mars Human Landing Sites Study Overview.” Keith’s note: As is always the case this NASA-sponsored and supported telecon (NASA’s teleconference network is used) is not mentioned on any NASA calendar, […]

Keith’s update: Looks like the Constellation rehash FISO telecon (see below) has been changed (no explanation given). Instead, this week’s presentation is “Making Human Mars Exploration Affordable: Results of a Workshop” Joseph Cassady, Aerojet Rocketdyne & Michael Raftery, Boeing”. It will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) at 3pm EST. Dial in: 877-921-5751 Passcode: 623679. Also, and perhaps I am being a little paranoid, but when I try to reach this link […]