Keith’s note: I was just at the NASA Education Stakeholders summit session on the ISS National Laboratory Education Project. Two things were apparent. First, little if any progress has been made on transferring responsibilities between NASA JSC and CASIS, the non-profit selected by NASA earlier this year to operate U.S. resources on the ISS. It was obvious that NASA has not done much – and since CASIS is still being […]

Keith’s 15 Feb note: One of the documents that the ISS National LAB CAN release includes is the ISS Payload Mission Integration Team Execution Plan. SSP 50471 Revision A October 2002. This document claims that it: “..identifies the activities associated with Payload Mission Integration Team (PMIT) in managing and integrating International Space Station (ISS) payload flight, stage, and increment activities. The contents of this document are consistent with the tasks […]

Keith’s 25 Jan note: At the ISS National Laboratory Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) Public Day on 10 December 2010, Mark Uhran said that the CAN would be released on 14 January 2011. According to Uhran letters of Intent would be due on 14 February 2011, proposals due 4 March 2011, with an award in May 2011. If you go to the NSPIRES page you see that this CAN will now […]

Keith’s note: I registered to attend the ISS National Laboratory Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) Public Day event on 10 December 2010. As I did, I was asked for a “point of contact” without any explanation as who that would be. Since I had already posted all of my information (address, email, phone etc.) I was not certain what else to add. At NASA “point of contact” usually refers to someone […]

Partners wanted to run research lab in space, Nature “Once a non-profit organization is established, NASA expects to begin research and development, but it will take a few years before the enterprise is running at full throttle, says Uhran.” According to PUBLIC LAW 111-267–OCT. 11, 2010 124 STAT. 2827 – SEC. 504. MANAGEMENT OF THE ISS NATIONAL LABORATORY – (d) RESEARCH CAPACITY ALLOCATION AND INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH PAYLOADS. “(1) ALLOCATION […]

NASA Seeks Nonprofit To Manage Space Station National Lab Research “Organizations and members of the media interested in registering for the forum should send an e-mail to [email protected] by 4 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3. Only registered parties may attend; no walk-ins will be permitted.” Keith’s note: Wow. This press release certainly strikes me as a way to limit attendance rather than encourage it – 28 hours notice from JSC […]