Apr 19, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, Mars, NASA
Source: Discovery News President Obama’s new direction for NASA as outlined in his speech at Kennedy Space Center last Thursday — if successfully implemented in the coming years — will help us better pursue fundamental questions about the universe:...
Apr 19, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Huntville Times America’s human spaceflight program is at a galactic crossroads. The space shuttle program will end soon, and there are no clearly defined space goals that NASA centers like Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center can...
Apr 17, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Los Angeles Times Landing a man on the moon was a towering achievement. Now the president has given NASA an even harder job, one with a certain Hollywood quality: sending astronauts to an asteroid, a giant speeding rock, just 15 years from now. Space...
Apr 17, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Race
Source: HOUSTON CHRONICLE Texas’ congressional delegation presented a united, bipartisan front on Friday, saying President Barack Obama’s compromise on his space budget doesn’t go far enough and calling upon him to visit Johnson Space Center. Meeting...
Apr 17, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Source: Space.com President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025. But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting mission, and one that might also carry the ultimate safety of the planet on its...
Apr 17, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, Legislative Activity, NASA
Source: SpacePolitics.com While published Congressional responses tended to be more negative than positive, the opposite was true in responses from companies and other organizations, although not without some caveats. Not surprisingly, SpaceX founder Elon Musk—who got...
Apr 16, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: Space News Pledging to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, U.S. President Barack Obama defended his decision to pull the plug on NASA’s Moon mission, saying the new course he set for the U.S. space agency promises to take astronauts beyond Earth orbit...
Apr 16, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: Florida Today President Barack Obama passionately made a case Thursday for a major course correction for the U.S. space program while challenging NASA to ready the nation for missions beyond the moon. A polite crowd of 200 at Kennedy Space Center listened as...
Apr 16, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: Los Angeles Times President Barack Obama boldly predicted Thursday his new plans for space exploration would lead American astronauts on historic, almost fantastic journeys to an asteroid and then to Mars — and in his lifetime — relying on rockets and...
Apr 16, 2010 | Commercial Space, Exploration, NASA
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...