John Kelly, Florida Today: Test flights will help jobs crisis
Source: Florida Today From the “every little bit helps” department: Don’t be too quick to scoff at the billion or so dollars that some U.S. senators are trying to add to the NASA budget for test flights. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, seems to have support...White House unveils KSC task force
Source: Orlando Sentinel President Barack Obama is expected to release a memo on Monday that will outline the members of a task force that will decide how to spend $40 million in federal funds aimed at helping Kennedy Space Center workers find new jobs after the space...Bolden, Locke to lead jobs task force
Source: Florida Today President Barack Obama on Monday will appoint Cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs to lead a task force that will develop a $40 million job-creation plan for the Space Coast. Obama will issue a memorandum naming Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and...New Mexico’s Rocket Week!
Credit: NASALAS CRUCES, New Mexico — It’s a big space week here for New Mexico. Preparations are underway for a major educational launch from the state’s Spaceport America and NASA’s preparing Pad Abort 1 – a step to develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight...Bolden Seeks Support, Gerstenmaier Receives National Space Trophy
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden urged aerospace veterans on Friday to support President Obama’s initiative to develop a commercial space industry that can transport astronauts to Earth orbit as part of a long range international effort to resume human deep...Space balloon rips from mooring, overturns SUV
Source: USA Today The launch of a giant space balloon goes horribly wrong in Australia. (link to video) The launch of a giant space balloon went badly wrong Thursday in the Australian Outback when it and its heavy payload of scientific equipment broke from a mooring...Government contests offer different way to find solutions for problems
Source: The Washington Post The U.S. government is giving away prizes. In seeking solutions to problems, it has discovered the magic of contests, or challenges — also known as open grant-making or open innovation. Or crowd-sourcing. Whatever you call this new...Shepherding a new era of GPS satellites to orbit
Source: Spaceflight Now A cadre of military and industry workers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is readying the first-of-its-kind satellite for the Global Positioning System, an advanced bird that will be shipped to the launch pad and bolted atop a Delta 4...James Cameron lobbies NASA to include 3-D “eyes” on the next-generation Mars rover
Source: Pasedena Star News If the next generation rover is able to take high-resolution color movies in 3-D on Mars, it will be thanks to the reigning king of 3-D cinema himself, “Avatar” director James Cameron. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory scaled back...Space Talk
Meridiana is excited to announce the launch of the Meridiane Space Exploration Agency or MSEA.
This new agency will be devoted to the research and exploration of outer space, with a specific focus on the search for extraterrestrial life.
#meridiana #micronations #space
BREAKING:
Both chambers of Parliament have passed a bill to create Meridiana's very own space agency.
Key details are still being discussed, but will be revealed soon!
#meridiana #micronations #research #space
$KULR 2026 is looking like the Year of KULR. 📈
✅ $30M Caban Energy deal signed this week
✅ Artemis II rollout to Pad 39B today
✅ Feb 6 launch date looking good
✅ K1S Space battery flight heritage coming soon
Execution mode: ON. 🚀 $KULR #NASA #Aerospace
🚀 Our moonbound Artemis II rocket is on its launch pad!
The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft rolled out from @NASAKennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building, reaching Launch Pad 39B at 6:42pm ET (2342 UTC). Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/4qtbMDh
SLS rolling out to LC-39B ahead of Artemis 2. This mission will carry the first humans back to the moon since 1972. Suddenly, the moon doesn't seem that far away.
#WeAreGoingBack #Nasa #Moon
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Being triggered can happen to a survivor anywhere.
As a survivor of #CSA & #DomesticAbuse even I am shocked at some of the things that can trigger me.
An innocent touch while both I & another person were laughing was enough to make my body shudder.
