NASA needs the go-ahead for a clearly defined mission (editorial), Huntsville Times “SLS is not a paper rocket,” Steve Cook, director of space technology at Dynetics, said Friday at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Cook guided the audience through a power point presentation showing work that has already been done over the last six years under different program names. Cook presented slides of boosters, engines, test firings, and core […]

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says Huntsville’s role “vital,” but still not clear in new NASA budget, Huntsville Times “Critics of the Obama space plan point out that setting up private companies, like Falcon rocket-maker SpaceX, duplicates what NASA can already do and sets space exploration plans back. “I think the problem here is that the private sector doesn’t really know what ‘private space’ means,” said Steve Cook, vice president for […]

NASA Awards Alabama Information Technology Services Contract “NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has awarded a contract to Dynetics Inc. of Huntsville to provide information technology services at the center. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract begins Feb. 1, 2010, with a two-year base period. The contract may be followed by a two-year option and a one-year option, exercised at NASA’s discretion. The total value of the contract, if all options […]