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...
Apr 14, 2010 | Constellation Program, NASA
Source: MSNBC The first man to walk on the moon blasted President Barack Obama’s decision to cancel NASA’s back-to-the-moon program on Tuesday, saying that the move is “devastating” to America’s space effort. Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong’s open letter was also...
Apr 14, 2010 | Exploration, NASA, Uncategorized
Source: The Washington Times Pity poor NASA. Rather than reaching toward the stars, America’s premier scientific organization has settled its sights on studying shrimp schools beneath the Antarctic ice cap and sticky accelerators on Toyotas. Such is the scope of...
Apr 14, 2010 | Exploration, NASA
Source: Houston Chronicle President seeks to revive Orion capsule, speed up development of rocket, may give shuttles a reprieve President Barack Obama will revamp NASA’s planned Orion crew capsule, speed up development of a massive deep space rocket and perhaps...