Keith’s note: The National Academy of Sciences held a “Full-Day Mini Symposium: NASA Intentions for Commercial LEO” on Wednesday. Below are some Tweets regarding the opening session with Sam Scimemi. Among other things we learned that the 2024 ISS retirement date for NASA is, well, not a retirement date after all. Something different will happen. What? No one knows. P.S. sorry for the typos: the tweets were done rapid fire […]

NASA Commercial LEO Workshop (with presentations) “On December 10-11, 2014, NASA held a workshop on the commercialization of low Earth orbit. The goal of the workshop was to start a dialog about creating a thriving commercial marketplace in LEO over the next decade, enabled by human spaceflight.” Another Stealth NASA ISS Event, Earlier post “This NASA-sponsored ISS research event will not be webcast or recorded. No media advisory was sent […]

Boeing Executive Defends SLS as Only Deep-space Option, Space News “People that say there are other options, or other ways to get beyond low Earth orbit — it’s just not a fact, it’s just not true. There are technologies you could develop that would be years and years in the future … but SLS gives you the capability to do that much, much quicker.” [John] Shannon, who spent 25 years […]