UPDATE: Shuttle Atlantis Lands Safely
UPDATE: The shuttle landed safely. ORIGINAL STORY: The shuttle has been given a “go” for landing at 8:48 am EDT this morning at Kennedy Space Center. The landing will be …
Commercial "Spaceflight" To Take a Leap This Summer – in New Mexico
Felix Baumgartner, the first person to cross the English Channel on a carbon wing, will attempt to become the first human to break the speed of sound this summer in …
NASA Posts Slides for Exploration Enterprise Workshop
NASA is sponsoring the Exploration Enterprise Workshop in Galveston, TX tomorrow and Wednesday. The event will be streamed via UStream and today NASA posted the briefing slides for Day 1 …
UPDATE: Events of Interest: Week of May 24-28, 2010
UPDATE: This article is updated to add a link to the presentations for Day 1 of the NASA/AIAA Exploration Enterprise Workshop on May 25-26, posted by NASA today. ORIGINAL STORY: …
X-37B Not A Space Weapons Platform Says Secure World Foundation
A fact sheet from the Secure World Foundation (SWF) analyzes the likely and less-likely missions of the Air Force’s X-37B spacecraft launched amidst great secrecy last month. Secrecy invites speculation, …
Industry and Government Leaders Agree Safety First for Commercial Crew
Key players in implementing President Obama’s plan to turn human spaceflight over to the commercial sector met Thursday to discuss human rating requirements for commercial crew space vehicles during a …
A Dozen Science and Space Groups Support Broad Outline of FY2011 NASA Budget Request
The Planetary Society and 11 other science and space organizations issued a statement yesterday supporting the “topline” FY2011 NASA budget request,. The statement stops short of explicitly endorsing President Obama’s …
Pushback in the House on Authorizing Science Funding
Whether Republicans have substantive issues with the bill to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act or are just trying to disrupt the Democratic agenda, the bill went down to defeat today. …
NASA Spinoff Day on Capitol Hill Tomorrow
NASA will host a “spinoff day” tomorrow on Capitol Hill to highlight NASA”s contribtions to technology development and innovation. As Keith Cowing at NASAWatch points out, there hasn’t been much …
Armstrong and Cernan to Make Another Trip to Capitol Hill Next Week
The first man and the last man to walk on the Moon — Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan — will make another trip to Capitol Hill next week to testify …