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One aspect of Monday’s ESAS announcement that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention is NASA’s continued push to seek commercial cargo and crew services options for the ISS. That’s not new, of course—Mike Griffin made comments along those lines this summer, as did Chris Shank at the Return to the Moon Conference in Las Vegas […] Space News reports that NASA has briefed the White House on its new exploration architecture and has received permission to share that plan with Congress and the public. According to the report, key Congressional committees will learn about the plan Friday, and NASA will make the plane at during a press conference Monday. The article […] Sorry, I couldn’t resist. NASA Administrator Mike Griffin’s plan to shift development efforts from nuclear propulsion to other programs is having some concrete effects now. The Albany Times Union reports that NASA has cancelled a $65-million program at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in upstate New York that was intended to develop nuclear electric propulsion […] While NASA still waits for the final approval from the White House of its revised exploration architecture (not expected before the middle of the month at the earliest), the agency is making some changes in how it manages its exploration activities. Space News reported late yesterday [subscription required] that NASA is decentralizing the management of […] On the heels of its extended editorial Sunday about the future of the ISS, the New York Times published another space-related editorial Friday, this time on the space shuttle. The editorial cites NASA’s decision to delay the STS-121 launch to next March, as well as the release of the Stafford-Covey final report and the much-discussed […] In an op-ed piece in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution, former Congressman Bob Barr sounds off on the current state of NASA. In short, he’s not too happy: The glorious space dreams of the 1960s have become penny-pinching exercises in bureaucracy in the 21st century. Bureaucracy and budget cuts have held back needed funding for new programs, […] Over the last couple of weeks there have been plenty of newspaper editorials about the space shuttle, ISS, and space policy in general. In some respects watching these editorials has been entertaining, as they shift from congratulating the shuttle one day to criticizing it the next when news of the foam shedding came to light. […] The keynote speaker Monday at the AIAA/Utah State Conference on Small Satellites was Orlando Figueroa, the deupty associate administrator for programs in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Figueroa told the audience that the role small satellites will play in implementing the Vision for Space Exploration “has not diminished; they still play a big role.” It should […] Now that the STS-114 mission is nearly complete (and will hopefully conclude with a safe landing Monday) all eyes now turn to the long-awaited (well, a couple-of-months-awaited) new exploration architecture that NASA administrator Michael Griffin and his team have been developing. SpaceRef, citing unnamed “senior NASA sources”, reported Saturday that the agency will start rolling […] I’ve written an article for today’s issue of The Space Review that goes into more detail on NASA’s implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration in general, and its increased emphasis on commercialization in particular. The article primarily expands on the key points I noted in earlier post on the topic, with some additional quotes […] |
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