May 27, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
Thursday’s CSExtra includes the latest reports and commentary on a contentious House hearing over Administration plans to cancel NASA’s Constellation Program. Constellation manager Jeff Hanley is reassigned. Shuttle Atlantis touches down safely in Florida...
May 26, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: NASA NASA EDGE, an award-winning agency talk show, will host a live webcast from the Lunabotics Mining Competition at 11 a.m. EDT on May 28 from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Astronaut Hall of Fame. More than 20 university teams from around...
May 26, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Exploration, NASA
Source: Houston Chronicle I’m in Galveston this morning for NASA’s Exploration Enterprise Workshop, a two-day program to expand on the agency’s plans for exploration under President Obama’s budget. Organizers have been careful to call these...
May 26, 2010 | Augustine Committee, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Constellation Program, NASA
Source: Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, AL – The man whose blue-ribbon panel gave President Obama the argument he used to kill NASA’s Constellation program came here Monday expecting “deep concern, even hostility” from a town with 2,200...
May 26, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Newsroom, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Credit: Virgin Galactic Spaceport America in New Mexico continues to take shape, the future site of commercial space tourism flights. Hundreds of construction workers are busily churning up dirt, completing a huge runway and terminal at the site. Sir Richard...
May 26, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
Wednesday’s CSExtra includes the latest reporting and commentary on events shaping U.S. space policy and NASA’s future. A Congressional watchdog agency finds NASA acting appropriately in its handling of Constellation’s cancellation. The shuttle...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger propelled her career to the highest reaches, all the way to space, by challenging herself in school and letting her curiosity be a guide. Metcalf-Lindenburger graduated from Whitman College in...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Spokesman Review Idaho schoolteacher Barbara Morgan was next in line to be NASA’s teacher in space when the first designee for that post, Christa McAuliffe, was killed in the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986. Twenty-one years later, Morgan went...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, NASA News, Space and Science, Space Research
The sky is making way for a new astronomical tool. It is wheels up on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) as this modified Boeing 747SP fitted with a 2.7-meter German-built telescope makes a May 25 debut flight. Flight of the airborne...