Obama’s NASA: Editorial from The Toledo Blade
Source: The Toledo Blade PRESIDENT Obama’s critics don’t believe he has the right stuff when it comes to charting NASA’s future. Yet the President’s vision of the space program, which he outlined recently, will keep it viable in the decades to...Senate Appropriators Challenge President’s Updated Space Policy
President Obama’s plans to cancel NASA’s Constellation Program in favor of major new investments in commercial space transportation for astronauts and a future mission to Mars faced new bi-partisan criticism on Thursday from the Senate Appropriations...Will private spaceships have the right stuff?
Commercial orbital taxis won’t have to retrace NASA’s footsteps The White House’s policy for future spaceflight relies on a crucial unknown: Can private companies build and operate space vehicles safe enough to carry astronauts? Many veteran engineers from NASA...Wanted: New partners, NASA looking to build relationships
Source: Florida Today At a two-day meeting last month, 14 of the nation’s top spacecraft and rocket companies heard NASA officials go over new ground rules for doing business at Kennedy Space Center. With the shuttle program ending and future spacecraft programs...Time to seize the commercial space moment
Source: The Daily Press, Hampton, VA For more than 50 years, NASA Wallops has been internationally recognized as having the world’s premier suborbital research launch site and the world’s foremost suborbital research launch team. Today Wallops Island is in...Obama looks to deeper space as NASA’s mission
Source: The Los Angeles Times At the launch center where the U.S. had dominated space travel over the last half-century, President Obama on Thursday laid out a new vision for the nation’s space ambitions, focusing on future deep-space missions rather than a...Does Obama Have the Right Stuff for Space?
Source: The New York Times Will President Obama’s plan for space exploration bring us closer to Mars — or is it a step backward for those who favor human exploration of the solar system? In my Findings column, I discuss some potential advantages of Mr. Obama’s plan to...Suborbital Vehicles Take to the Sky
The skies over Mojave, California’s Air and Space Port have seen significant suborbital traffic recently. On March 20th, Masten Space Systems flew their automated Xombie craft to its highest altitude yet: 1,046 feet. That test hop above the desert landscape is a...NASA Administrator tells House Appropriators Not to Expect a Budget “Plan B”
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden warned House appropriators on Tuesday not to expect an alternative to President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget for the space agency, a spending plan that calls for the controversial cancellation of the Constellation moon program...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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