Apr 20, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Exploration, NASA
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...
Apr 20, 2010 | Education, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Race
Source: The Washington Post In H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds,” Earth’s unwitting defense against the Martian hordes comes in the form of pathogenic bacteria to which the invaders lack immunity. In reality, earthlings have created an...
Apr 20, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA, Newsroom
Source: The Space Review It almost goes without saying that Star Trek, in particular the original series that aired on television in the late 1960s, has been a major factor in inspiring people to pursue careers in science and engineering, including at NASA and...
Apr 20, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Morning Journal, Northern Ohio The dismantling of America’s ability to send astronauts into space makes no sense. Last week, President Obama announced at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that the privatization of the nation’s space program has become a...
Apr 20, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: NY Daily News In a speech to political allies gathered at Cape Canaveral last week, President Obama laid out his vision for America’s space program. Under the Obama plan, NASA will spend $100 billion on human spaceflight over the next 10 years in order...
Apr 20, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, Mars, NASA
Source: The Denver Post While saving 4,000 jobs in Colorado helps the local economy, tough choices remain about how to rein in federal spending. Count us among those relieved to see that work on the Orion spacecraft will continue in Colorado. In what turned into a...
Apr 20, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, Mars, NASA
Source: The Cap Times Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, one of the last men to walk on the moon, has nothing good to say about President Barack Obama’s plan to all but ground the Constellation program, which calls for a return to the moon by 2020 and human landings...
Apr 19, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Exploration, NASA
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...
Apr 19, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA
Source: The Star Press, Central Indiana Somebody, please give NASA something to do. President Obama’s vision for the nation’s space agency, as outlined last week, was yet another attempt by a sitting president to inspire the nation and NASA to reach for...
Apr 19, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Miami Herald OUR OPINION: President’s outline leaves out too much To judge from his remarks at the Kennedy Space Center last week, President Obama has embarked on a generational reorientation of the nation’s space program. He is charting a...