|
||||
|
Later today SpaceX is scheduled to launch its first Falcon 9 rocket, technical issues and weather conditions permitting, from Cape Canaveral. The last hurdle to the launch, certification by the Air Force of a flight termination system for the rocket, was overcome Thursday. Successfully launching a new rocket is a challenge in and of itself, […] As previously reported here, NASA administrator Charles Bolden’s speech at the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in Chicago Friday night was interrupted briefly by a protestor, who took over the microphone to speak out against a study by NASA that would involve exposing monkeys to radiation as part of efforts to understand the effects of […] At a press conference this morning at the Kennedy Space Center Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is expected to announce a new effort to deal with shuttle workforce transition, Florida Today reports. No other details about the 9 am EDT announcement have been released, although it’s thought the plan is not related to the $40 […] The web site Daily Kos published yesterday the results of a brief poll of space exploration policy commissioned by the progressive web site and performed by polling firm Research 2000. The poll is short: three questions, only two of which are really about space exploration policy (the third is about astronomy, or perhaps more accurately, […] Norm Augustine wasn’t expecting a warm reception when he spoke at an AIAA luncheon in Huntsville on Monday; in fact, he was expecting “deep concern, even hostility”, the Huntsville Times reports. He reassured the audience that the Marshall Space Flight Center “is going to be having a very big role” no matter what happens with […] Today is the semiannual meeting of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), an industry group that provides advice to the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation. The meeting, in Washington and open to the public, features NASA administrator Charles Bolden as the keynote speaker, likely discussing the role the commercial sector will play in […] One of the most documented ironies of the new plan for NASA unveiled by the White House in February is the clash of ideologies: a president widely regarded as a liberal (or even by some as a socialist) is supporting a plan to turn over to the private sector one aspect of NASA—transport of astronauts […] Yesterday Alliant Techsystems (ATK) released their fourth quarter and full-year financial results (the company operates on a fiscal year that ends on March 31; the company is right now in the first quarter of their 2011 fiscal year). The press release announcing the results made only a passing reference that “NASA programs present near-term challenges”, […] Last Friday the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) issued a draft report titled “National Security and the Commercial Space Sector”, with an emphasis on the commercial launch sector. The release of a draft report during a 90-minute event at CSIS’s offices in Washington was a little unusual for the organization, which usually waits […] NASA administrator Charles Bolden, in an op-ed in today’s Houston Chronicle, says that even before he was approached last year to run the agency “it was obvious to me we had serious problems in balancing our priorities” under Constellation and that “it would take courageous action on the part of the president and NASA leadership […] |
||||
|
Copyright © 2025 Space Politics - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||
