U.S. National Laboratory on the Space Station: CASIS Continues To Have Problems Meeting Its Milestones “NASA and CASIS finalized their agreement in September 2011. That’s 1 month of operations in FY 2011 and 9 months of operations in FY 2012. If CASIS is following the reference model, then it should be well along the way toward having raised $2,892,000 by now. Yet there was no mention of that by Royston. […]

Keith’s note: Sources report that ProOrbis is considering taking formal legal action against the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS). It is expected that this will be made public in the very near future. The specifics of this possible lawsuit are unclear. But it would beinstructive to recall that when Jeanne Becker, the first Executive Director of CASIS resigned, she said: “Unrealistic expectations have been levied collectively […]

Resignation Letter from CASIS Executive Director Jeanne L. Becker “Unrealistic expectations have been levied collectively by Congressional staffers, by NASA (Mr. Uhran) and by ProOrbis. These pressures have placed unnecessary stress and hardship on CASIS, not only organizationally but also on management, forcing a defensive posture with constant focus on mitigation strategies to fend off political threats of the elimination of CASIS. … Now, for unknown reasons, following selection of […]

Keith’s note: NASA held a ISS National Lab Public Day CAN meeting on 10 December 2010. The purpose was to explain the pending Cooperative Agreement Notice and how interested parties should structure their proposals. The main speaker was NASA’s Mark Uhran, Assistant Associate Administrator for ISS at NASA SOMD. At one point Uhran bragged that he had “written 5 papers” on discoveries that had been made on the ISS, but […]