NASA, ESA Hold TV Briefing on New Orion Agreement “NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will hold a news briefing at 10:30 a.m. CST on Wednesday, Jan. 16, to discuss the details of a recent agreement for ESA to provide a service module for the Orion spacecraft’s Exploration Mission-1 in 2017. NASA Television will carry the briefing live from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.”

Keith’s note: RIF Watch has come across additional information from the Moscow meetings held in late November regarding the problems confronting the Russian Service Module. This is a follow-on to our earlier report. The Russians apparently do not understand NASA’s preoccupation with “schedule” and are often fond of pointing to their decades of experience with space stations when responding to NASA concerns. They have also tried to get NASA officials […]

[email protected]’s note: I attended the Service Module IPT yesterday (11/21/96). The following is a summary of some of the discussion. A team of “senior NASA management” has been in Moscow to “discuss options” regarding the slip in the SM schedule. Randy Brinkley, Kieth Reilly, and Charlie Lundquist were present. They are due to come back today, and will be briefing Dan Goldin on Monday. Five options were discussed. The Russians […]