Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Education, features, NASA, Space and Science
The NASA University Student Launch Initiative, or USLI, is a competition that challenges university-level students to design, build and fly a reusable rocket with scientific payload to one mile in altitude. The project engages students in scientific research and...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Constellation Program, Exploration, NASA
Source: USA Today President Obama’s plans for NASA could be “devastating” to the U.S. space program and “destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature,” three legendary astronauts said in a letter Tuesday. Neil...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Orlando Sentinel When President Barack Obama speaks at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, he’ll offer its 15,000 workers something that’s been in short supply lately: hope, or at least a chance that their future won’t be as dire as...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Constellation Program, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Associated Press Call it NASA: The Next Generation. The president is pointing America toward a new direction in space, and some heroes from NASA’s long-ago glory days don’t like it. New rockets to the moon have been canceled. And the space...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Constellation Program, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Wall Street Journal After dominating space for a half century, the U.S. is mired in a political fight that threatens its leadership role and ambitions for manned exploration. President Barack Obama travels Thursday to the Kennedy Space Center to try to...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Constellation Program, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Washington Times Obama space summit just the latest faux job creator When President Obama arrives in Florida today for his space summit, he will bring considerable baggage with him. When running in the primaries to be the Democratic nominee, he promised to...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space Race
While the need for clarity swirls around U.S. President Obama’s plans for human spaceflight and NASA, China is pressing forward on its long march to gain a foothold in Earth orbit. Wang Wenbao, director of the Chinese Manned Space Engineering Office, outlined future...
Apr 14, 2010 | Blog, NASA
Source: The Washington Post President Obama will announce plans Thursday to revise and retain one element of the discarded Constellation rocket and space capsule system, commit to selecting a rocket capable of carrying astronauts to deep space within five years and...
Apr 14, 2010 | Blog, NASA
Source: The New York Times President Obama will seek to promote his vision for the nation’s human space flight program on Thursday, just two days after three storied Apollo astronauts — including Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the Moon — called the new...