Revisiting SLS/Orion launch costs, John Strickland for The Space Review “A year and a half ago, I wrote an article very critical of the Space Launch System. To see if […]
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Composite Cryogenic Tanks Test Successful
NASA Tests Game Changing Composite Cryogenic Fuel Tank [Watch] NASA Marshall “NASA recently completed a major space technology development milestone by successfully testing a pressurized, large cryogenic propellant tank made […]
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Hot-Fire Test Includes First Ever 3-D Printed Part
Hot-Fire Tests Steering the Future of NASA’S Space Launch System Engines, NASA “Engineers developing NASA’s next-generation rocket closed one chapter of testing with the completion of a J-2X engine test […]
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NASA Begins SLS Preliminary Design Review
NASA’s Space Launch System Program Kicks Off Preliminary Design Review, NASA “NASA is beginning a preliminary design review for its Space Launch System (SLS). This major program assessment will allow […]
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Is NASA Building A Rocket They Can't Afford to Fly?
Little Love for Asteroid Retrieval Mission; Squyres Deeply Worried about SLS Launch Rate, Space Policy Online “Another concern Squyres stressed is the low flight rate for the Space Launch System […]
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Congress's Self-Inflicted Conundrum
Will competing plans hurt nation’s future in space?, Florida Today “But Commercial Crew has been a tough sell, politically. Lawmakers reluctantly have provided enough money for it to limp along, […]
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Sequestration, SLS, and Commercial Space
Continued Sequestration Will Short-Circuit SLS, Aviation Week “Mikulski and Shelby consider that budget request inadequate, particularly in the funding for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) that is intended to […]
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Modifying The Modified Mobile Launcher
NASA Awards Contract to Modify Mobile Launcher “NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency’s […]
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Drinking the SLS Koolaid
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 […]
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Nelson Confirms Earlier Asteroid Mission Stories
Senator: NASA to Lasso Asteroid, Bring it Closer, AP “The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four […]