Keith’s note: We’ve all heard about those misleading campaign ads on Facebook. Well, while the campaign ads are under scrutiny big aerospace companies are quietly luring people to websites that […]
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NASA Starts To Confirm SLS Changes It Denied Last Week
Gerstenmaier–now thinking we will fly EM-2 on SLS with ICPS. EM-2 will not carry PPE now, will get cmrcl launch for that. Learned from study we did re flying crew […]
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Newt Gingrich Hints At Anti-SLS Whisper Campaign
Newt Gingrich: A glimpse of America’s future in space in 2024, Fox “If the Trump-Pence team pushes it, Falcon Heavy rockets could have more than 100 launches through 2024. The […]
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Radical Shift in SLS Launch Plans Discussed at MSFC (Update)
(revised) @NASA MSFC Center Director Todd May has talked to #NASA employees about new plans for the first 4 @NASA_SLS flights to be on identical rockets with @NASA_Orion but without […]
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SLS Upper Stage Changes While Software Problems Linger
Statement by Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot – Hearing on NASA FY2019 Budget “NASA plans to launch an initial, uncrewed deep space mission, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), in FY 2020. The […]
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NASA's Inconsistent Policy For Launching Large Payloads
NASA chief explains why agency won’t buy a bunch of Falcon Heavy rockets, Ars Technica “Since the launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket in February, NASA has faced some uncomfortable […]
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SLS Reverses NASA Technology Advances
#NASA spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make these reusable engines disposable. Just sayin https://t.co/TSvwQRYkbZ — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 22, 2018 These four engines are ready to rumble […]
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@VP Promotes Economic Impact of SLS/Orion
As I briefed @POTUS & @Cabinet today: with @NASA_SLS & @NASA_Orion leading the way back to the moon and with support of our commercial partners – the U.S. is keeping […]
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SLS Software Problems Continue at MSFC
Keith’s note: Sources report that Andy Gamble has been allowed to retire and George Mitchell has been reassigned from NASA MSFC QD34 to Engineering. The SLS software team at MSFC […]
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Why Do We Need SLS?
SpaceX could save NASA and the future of space exploration, Lori Garver op ed, The Hill “NASA has spent more than $15 billion to try and develop their own heavy […]