Keith’s note: NASA PAO is sending this statement to news media – but you have to request it. Oddly although this is an official statement they will not post it […]
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Posted inArtemis
GAO Posts Info on Artemis HLS Contract Protests
Blue Origin Federation, LLC; Dynetics, Inc.-A Leidos Company B-419783; B-419783.2; B-419783.3; B-419783.4 July 30, 2021, GAO “Significantly higher-priced offerors submitting proposals for a demonstration mission for a human landing system […]
Posted inCommercialization
Earth' Largest Rocketship
Good morning everyone. Not much to see here. A @SpaceX #Starship was stacked over night. This is now the tallest and most powerful rocket that anyone has ever built. That's […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
SLS Just Lost One Of Its Big Selling Points
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Europa Clipper Mission “NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to […]
Posted inCommercialization
Has NASA Lost Its Mojo?
Opinion: The billionaires’ space efforts may seem tone-deaf, but they’re important milestones, Miles O’Brien, Washington Post “While NASA (and its Pasadena, Calif.-based Jet Propulsion Lab) are unmatched at unmanned space […]
Posted inCommercialization
Let The Space Billionaire Trash Talking Begin!
(sigh) A last minute attempt by @BlueOrigin to start some pre-game space trash talk with @VirginGalactic since @RichardBranson will be in "space" before @JeffBezos will. Meanwhile @ElonMusk is too busy […]
Posted inCommercialization
The Biggest Rocket On Earth Is Not Being Built By NASA
@SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship stack will be ~400 ft/120m tall. If 32+ Raptors work it'll go to orbital altitude – the largest rocket ever to go into space. None of this […]
Posted inCommercialization
NASAWatch on Bloomberg TV: SpaceX GPS-III-05 launch
SpaceX Launches Military Satellite on Reused Rocket, Bloomberg (Video) “Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries a U.S. Space Force satellite into orbit from its liftoff in Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]
Posted inCommercialization
Musk Vs Bezos: True Space Commerce Has Finally Arrived
The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos already was intense. Now it’s extending to the moon., Washington Post “In a flier distributed on Capitol Hill last week, Elon Musk’s […]
Posted inArtemis
Plan B From Blue Origin: Force NASA To Pick Another HLS System
Blue Origin’s loss to SpaceX on the lunar lander contract may get Congress to do something it hadn’t done before: Give NASA extra money, Washington Post “Along with Dynetics, the […]