NASA and AFRL To Develop Commercial RLV Roadmap
NASA will partner with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop a roadmap for the commercial reusable launch vehicle (RLV) industry, NASA announced Tuesday. NASA and AFRL hope …
Senate Fails To Complete Debate on CJS Bill
The headline in this evening’s Congress Daily (subscription required) says it all: “Bid To Cut Off Debate on C-J-S Bill Fails, Rancor Ensues.” The Senate had been expected to complete …
Yvonne Brill Elected to New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
Yvonne Brill has been elected to the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for her innovations in rocket and jet propulsion. While working at RCA Astro-Electronics in Princeton, NJ on …
New Focus on NASA's Technology Development Programs
Renewed interest in NASA’s technology development activities has been spurred by several recent studies calling attention to the faltering status of basic technology development at the agency. The topic was …
Russia Confident of ISS Extension Beyond 2015
Amidst celebration of the successful landing of Soyuz TMA-14 yesterday, Alexei Krasnov, head of spaceflight operations at the Russian space agency Roscosmos, expressed confidence that the International Space Station (ISS) …
Astrophysicists Told To Expect Very Modest Funding for New Missions
Jon Morse, Director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division, told the National Research Council’s Astro2010 Decadal Survey Committee last week that it should plan on having only about $2.3 billion available to …
Soyuz and Its Multinational Crew Land In Kazakhstan
A Russian cosmonaut, an American astronaut and a Canadian spaceflight participant landed safely in Kazakhstan at 12:32 am EDT this morning aboard Soyuz TMA-14. Their return from the International Space …
Space Security 2009 Now Available
Project Ploughshares and the Secure World Foundation have released the 2009 edition of the Space Security Index. “Among a roster of findings, Space Security 2009 finds that the number of …
Frank De Winne Poised to Become First European ISS Commander; Soyuz To Undock Today
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium will become the first non-U.S., non-Russian commander of the International Space Station (ISS) today, October 10, 2009. A change of …
LCROSS Impacts the Moon
NASA’s Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its Centaur upper stage impacted the Moon this morning four minutes apart at about 7:30 am EDT. Centaur impacted first in …