Washington Post Endorses Commercial Human Space Flight
An editorial in today’s Washington Post issued a rallying call for NASA to embrace entrepreneurial space companies. Here’s an excerpt: “Now that the station is nearly complete, this might be …
California Fire Now Threatens Mount Wilson Observatory
The fire raging near Los Angeles, CA now threatens Mount Wilson and the astronomical observatory and bevy of cell phone and television and radio transmission towers atop it, according to …
India Loses Contact with Its Moon Probe
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has lost contact with its Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiting spacecraft. According to the Times of India, ISRO has not formally given up on regaining contact …
Politifact.com Cites Obama "Promises Kept" on Space Activities
Politifact.com, which describes itself as a project of the St. Petersburg Times “to help you find the truth in American politics,” has begun updating its entries on whether President Obama …
Thales Alenia Space Gets Bad News, Good News
Indonesia’s Palapa D telecommunications satellite, built by the European company Thales Alenia Space, failed to reach the correct orbit after being launched by a Chinese Long March 3B rocket today, …
Shuttle Discovery Set to Dock with ISS Tonight; Only Six More Shuttle Flights Scheduled
Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) tonight at 9:04 pm. The STS-128 mission appears to be proceeding smoothly. Only six more shuttle flights …
Space Shuttle Discovery is OFF!
Space Shuttle Discovery was successfully launched on its STS-128 mission moments before midnight on August 28. The crew is on a planned 13-day mission to resupply the International Space Station …
NASA's Ares Project Manager Resigns
Steve Cook, manager of NASA’s Ares Projects Office at Marshall Space Flight Center that is developing new rockets to replace the space shuttle system, announced today that he is leaving …
NRC Planetary Science Decadal Survey: Presentations to the Inner Planets Panel, Aug. 26-28, 2009, Now On SpacePolicyOnline.com
The presentations that were made to the first meeting of the Inner Planets panel of the National Research Council’s Decadal Survey on Planetary Science are now available on SpacePolicyOnline.com. Look …
NRC Planetary Science Decadal Survey: Presentations to the Inner Planets Panel, August 2009
The following presentations were made at the first meeting of the Inner Planets panel of the National Research Council’s Planetary Science Decadal Survey, August 26-28, 2009, Washington, D.C. Adobe Reader …