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When Canada’s Industry Minister, Jim Prentice, blocked the planned sale of the space unit of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), the buyer, Alliant Techsystems (ATK), had 30 days to respond to the decision, a period that is coming to an end this week. The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported late last week that […] If former senator and astronaut John Glenn had his druthers, he would keep the shuttle flying after 2010, he said Tuesday after a Capitol Hill event, according to Florida Today. “The shuttles may be old, but they’re still the most complex vehicles ever put together by people, and they’re still working very well,” he said. […] The Planetary Society will hold the second of its “town halls” on space exploration policy this Wednesday on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta. This event will feature Bill Nye and Lon Levin (a co-founder of XM and a member of the Planetary Society’s board), among others. This is the second in a series […] In today’s issue of The Space Review, Charles Miller and I write part 2 of “The Vision for Space Exploration and the retirement of the Baby Boomers”. A few weeks after we looked at the impending fiscal pressures that imperil NASA and the Vision for Space Exploration. The solution to these challenges, we argue, is […] The Libertarian Party is not looking good in the eyes of many after they invited Richard Hoagland to speak at their national convention later this month in Denver. However, maybe the problem isn’t with the party, but the city. The Rocky Mountain News reported recently that a local man is seeking a referendum on a […] This Memorial Day weekend, most people with an interest in space will be focusing their attention on the landing of NASA’s Mars Phoenix spacecraft on the Red Planet. (Many more people, of course, will be thinking about barbecues, ballgames, and the unofficial beginning of summer.) That weekend, though, is also the 2008 Libertarian National Convention […] The tenor of the discussion on some of the recent posts has been unsatisfactory, devolving into long-winded arguments filled with vitriol that are of little interest to anyone other than the participants. To keep the discussion in a higher orbit, please follow a couple of guidelines for participation: Tone down the invective. Criticize the comments, […] The Las Cruces (NM) Sun-News reports that voters in Sierra County, New Mexico approved a spaceport sales tax by roughly a two-to-one margin, much larger than the margin of victory last year in neighboring Doña Ana County. The quarter-cent increase will provide a modest amount of funding for New Mexico’s Spaceport America but also allow […] Dr. George Nield, who had been the acting associate administrator for commercial space transportation at the FAA since Patti Grace Smith retired in early February, can take “acting” off his job title. Nield was formally named as associate administrator today by (ironically) acting FAA administrator Robert Sturgell. Here’s a quote from Nield in the FAA […] Just as NASA is asking Congress to extend its authority to purchase Soyuz spacecraft after 2011, Russian officials are making statements that may raise a few eyebrows in the US. The Associated Press published Saturday comments made by Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov after the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft made a ballistic reentry and landing several hundred […] |
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