FAA Releases Recommended Practices for Human Space Flight Occupant Safety, SpaceRef Business “The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) today released its first Recommended Practices for Human Space Flight Occupant Safety document today during the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) meeting. From the introduction: “The purpose of this document is to provide a compilation of practices that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial […]

Pathways to Exploration: A Review of the Future of Human Space Exploration Witnesses will be: – Governor Mitch Daniels, Report Co-Chair (testimony) – Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Report Co-Chair (testimony) Committee Reviews Report on Future of Human Spaceflight, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology “The report confirmed that NASA lacks a plan for human space exploration. The NASA Authorization Act of 2014, which recently passed the House with bipartisan support, […]

Lost in space — and on Earth, David Ignatius, Washington post “The world of 2013 is different: We don’t even attempt manned space programs anymore. They are too expensive, and what’s the point? Thank goodness for the plucky little Voyager I probe, which has just left the solar system, 36 years after it was launched, carrying sounds of Earth, including a baby crying, a whale’s song and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny […]