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NASA's Human Space Flight Program To Get Reviewed Bethesda, MD (SPX) May 11. 2009 
Just last week the Obama Administration announced an independent review of NASA's human space flight plans. The stated goal is to ensure a "safe, innovative, affordable, and sustainable" path to achieving the nation's vision of human space exploration, a vision that was first articulated by President Bush in 2004. This review is to be conducted by an elite panel of space experts and chaired by N ... read moreThe Next Space Age 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2009Just last week, at the 25th National Space Symposium, the theme was "The Next Space Age." This raises the question: What happened to the first Space Age? We know the first one started on October 4, 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. That single event not only birthed the Space Age, but also injected a shot of adrenaline into America's bloodstream. Withi ... more
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NASA's Open Secret
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 24, 2009NASA has been awaiting a new Administrator for several months, but the Obama Administration has not made any announcement as yet. Names of several likely candidates have circulated in the media but one-by-one they faded from the scene. The latest casualty is Steve Isakowitz, currently serving as the CFO at the Department of Energy. Of the many potential candidates being discussed, Steve is ... more Why So Many Spaceports 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 10, 2009Just last week it was reported that China would soon start construction of a new space launch center in the southernmost Hainan Province. Apparently, the State Council and Central Military Commission approved the new spaceport in late 2008. According to the report this new site will boast high capacity and low costs. One might think this new launch site is badly needed due to high launch ... more What Ever Happened To Reusable Launch Vehicles 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2009The idea of reusing stages or all of a space launch vehicle has been around since before Buck Rogers first appeared in 1928. In fact, Jules Verne wrote about such a vehicle in 1865, when he published "From the Earth to the Moon." Verne was one of the first science fiction authors, but he would be surprised to learn that we have only been able to build a partially reusable vehicle, the Spac ... more Iran Goes Into Space 
Moscow (RIA) Feb 04, 2009On February 3, Iran fulfilled its promise to launch its first satellite, Omid (Hope), into orbit by its own carrier rocket before the end of the Iranian year (which ends in March). The world media reported that it has already transmitted a message from the Iranian leader to the effect that the successful launch "officially seals Iran's presence in space." The technical details of thi ... more |
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Space And The Obama Administration
Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 23, 2008In a few short weeks we will have a new administration and a new set of mandates to be addressed by President-Elect Obama. Unfortunately, the mandates of major national concern do not seem to include government-funded space exploration. Mandates that are on the minds of most Americans include the state of our financial institutions, health of the economy, jobs, foreign trade, social ... more National Security Space - Where Do We Go from Here 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 09, 2008Based on the results of recent blue-ribbon panels and commissions it is clear that the US approach to providing national security through space assets is not working effectively. Complex space programs are taking too long to develop, cost too much and are not providing the performance needed to do the job. The situation is further exacerbated by developing international competition and tig ... more Space Fantasy 2009 
Gerroa NSW (SPX) Nov 14, 2008Are we heading into 1999 or 2009. Either way it's time for another space fantasy - this time from The Planetary Society who are advising the incoming US Administration that the Moon is the wrong destination goal and that Mars is actually the correct destination. Problem is, NASA has Buckley's chance of reaching the moon anytime in the next decade let alone Mars in the next 25 years. ... more Talking About National Security Space 
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 27, 2008What is "national security space?" Everyone is talking about it, but no one seems to know what it is. We know it is hot and the government is concerned about it, but what is it? Everyone we ask has a different opinion and there is no official definition. Let's summarize what we do know. Over the past three decades space-based applications have become increasingly important to the country's ... more |
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