News About Other Opinions 13-OCT-08 en-us Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2008 - In 2007, the Independent Assessment Panel (IAP) for National Security Space (NSS) Management and Organization was mandated by Congress to make appropriate recommendations concerning the many critical issues related to U.S. leadership in the use of space assets for national security.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 09, 2008 - As the International Space Station nears its 10th anniversary on November 20, all the members of this unique research program seem to have overwhelmingly come out for it.]]> Nyack, NY (SPX) Jul 17, 2008 - We put a man on the Moon. Then settled back to watch the characters of sci-fi movies and TV shows make it look common place. Fun, but not quite the same as being there. The fact that we're over 35 years past the last time we walked on the Moon may make us think we've lost our cosmic mojo. The creators of the Space Frontier Foundation beg to differ.]]> Madison WI (SPX) Jul 16, 2008 - In two years, NASA plans to begin the new space program that will send human astronauts to Mars. It won't be easy, and technical issues aren't the only challenges. The US Congress and President George W. Bush want NASA to begin work on the new Constellation Program now.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2008 - It looks as if the Americans have turned their attention to the Red Planet for real. NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down near the North Pole on May 25. The first shots sent back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California report that the probe is in excellent health. NASA is exhilarated. The very fact of a safe landing on Martian soil is already a success considering that it is the sixth successful landing out of 15 attempted.]]> Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 14, 2008 - It is now more than 50 years since the dawn of the space age, and even today much of space activity remains the monopoly of governments and their sensitive defense establishments. Space exploration budgets are closely tied to defense and intelligence pursuits, and their budgets are all linked in some way, shape or form.]]> Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2008 - Scientists and space policy experts say they will debate whether President George Bush's call for a return to the moon and voyage to Mars is feasible.]]> Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008 - The January 21, 2008 issue of Aviation Week And Space Technology has an article on a group of individuals attacking Mike Griffin and the President's Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). This group of individuals - that I will call the Stanford Group - claim to want "'green' missions to Planet Earth" to quote page 24 of the above described article.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 26, 2007 - The space industry has lived up to its reputation. The fact that the international Sea Launch program has been able to survive its appalling January 30 disaster that badly damaged the Odyssey floating platform and is back in action less than a year later is worthy of respect. It does not matter that the launch of a multi-ton Arab communications satellite - the first since the accident - has been postponed several times.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 31, 2007 - On October 26, a Proton heavy launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian republic. Although this can hardly be described as breaking news, Moscow had every reason to be worried because Kazakhstan had suspended all Proton launches after one crashed on September 6.]]> Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2007 - Former World War II flying ace Chuck Yeager's stellar career has included dogfights over Nazi Europe and a sympathetic big screen portrayal in the Hollywood film "The Right Stuff."]]> Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2007 - Some in the aerospace community believe that unless NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon and conducts extensive exploration, it is in danger of disappearing as a government agency. What is the basis for this fear? The last time astronauts began a mission to the Moon was December 7, 1972. Until the Clementine lunar mission in 1994, a leftover spacecraft from a DOD program, robotic exploration of the Moon ended in 1968 with Surveyor 7.]]> Cambridge, England (AFP) Sept 3, 2007 - British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed his desire on Monday to make "real science as exciting as science fiction" as he publicised a new book for children about the cosmos.]]> ]]>