Events of Interest: June 7-11, 2010
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. For more details, see our calendar on the right menu or click the links below. Times, dates and topics …
Send Your Face Into Space!
NASA has a nifty way for people to feel they are part of the last two scheduled space shuttle flights — fly your Face into Space. You can upload your …
South Korea Delays KSLV-1 Launch Preparation
South Korea plans a second attempt to launch a payload into space this week on its KSLV-1 rocket, but “an unexpected problem in the electrical system” postponed today’s step of …
Need a Great Washington Policy-Related Job? ASEB is Looking for a Program Officer
The Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) of the National Research Council has an opening for a Program Officer. Here’s a link to the NRC posting. Program officers are mid-career …
New NRC Decadal Survey About to Start — This One is for Solar and Space Physics
The Space Studies Board (SSB) at the National Research Council is about to begin a new Decadal Survey for solar and space physics. This will be the second in this …
Summer Reading List Added to Our Menu
Musk Reasonably Confident of Falcon 9 Launch Friday
In a media teleconference today, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that he feels there is about a 75 percent chance that the first launch of Falcon 9 will succeed tomorrow. …
NASA/Commerce Space Workforce Update Delayed to 10:30
According to a notice on NASA TV, the briefing by Charlie Bolden and Secretary of Commerce Locke will now be at 10:30 instead of 10:00. Unless it’s really short, it …
SpaceX Releases Press Kit for Falcon 9 Launch Today
SpaceX has just released the press kit for the Falcon 9 launch this morning. Spaceflightnow.com has good coverage of the launch preparations and is currently noting that the 11:00 launch …
UPDATE: Falcon 9 is off!
UPDATE 6: Second stage shutdown is nominal. Everything’s looking good. Congratulations SpaceX! UPDATE 5: Stage separation is successful. UPDATE 4: Falcon 9 is off! UPDATE 3: SpaceX has resolved the …