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NASA Throws Down the Gauntlet on Commerial Crew
Although the official introduction of a proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it to the Earth Moon L-2 point captured most of the media attention surrounding the unveiling of NASA’s FY...
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A Summer Storm Coming : SLS and Commercial Crew
A Storm is Coming If two recent stories are any indication, the ongoing budget battle between supporters of NASA’s heavy lift Space Launch System and the Commercial Crew program is about to enter a new...
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NASA Extends Its Reliance on Russia to June 2017
NASA today signed an agreement with Russia to extend the current arrangement for U.S. crew flights aboard Soyuz into 2017. The full press release, included below, is noteworthy in that it calls for...
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NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission May Lack a Viable Target
Looking for YouCredit : NASA A Future in Space Operations presentation earlier this week by Dan Adamo, which can be found here, highlights a potential serious problem with NASA’s proposed asteroid...
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NASA OIG Report Generally Praises ISS Research Outreach
Getting Better All the TimeCredit: NASA Earlier this week, the NASA Office of Inspector General released a report, found here, titled NASA’s Efforts to Maximize Research on the International Space...
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Congressional Chaos
For those who haven’t been following it, NASA is currently caught in a rather bizarre funding bind. With only two and half months to go in the FY2013 year which ends September 30th, the agency still...
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The Grand Asteroid Challenge
NASA Press Release: NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response on Grand Asteroid Challenge ASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to Asteroid Call for Ideas WASHINGTON — NASA has received more than 400 responses to its...
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NASA OIG Report Raises More Questions About MPCV/Orion
NASA’s Office of Inspector General released a report on the Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion) today, and almost irrespective of your point of view, it should be a more than a little troubling. The...
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Cygnus Departs, ATV to Follow; When Will We Find a Better Way to Take Out the...
Going NowhereCredit NASA At 6:31 AM CDT, astronauts aboard the International Space Station released Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo vessel which has been berthed to the orbiting facility’s Harmony...
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Mr. Tito Goes to Washington (And Inspiration Mars Goes Off the Rails)
Credit: Inspiration Mars Displaying a some ironic sense of timing regarding his faith in the federal government’s ability to put together complex programs in a short time frame, the world’s first...
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Commercial Crew Still Under Fire
Underfunded Again?Credit : NASA NASA’s Commercial Crew program continues to suffer the slings and arrows in this week’s passage of an Omnibus spending bill. After being badly underfunded for the third...
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Can NASA Find its Way With Inspiration Mars ?
Still Going NowhereCredit: Inspiration Mars When Dennis Tito went to Washington last fall to lobby Congress to engage NASA in his Inspiration Mars concept for the 2018 crewed flyby of the Red Planet,...
View ArticleCongress Attempts to Shift the Blame for Reliance on Russian Rockets
The absolute rift in American space policy, and the embarrassing dysfunction which has been the result, was on full display Thursday in a U.S. House of Representatives Science committee hearing on the...
View ArticleCeres and Vesta as Seen From the Curiosity Rover on Mars
On Thursday, JPL published the above photo with graphic, which depicts the first time the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, or any asteroid for that matter, have been photographed from the surface of the Red...
View ArticleNew GAO Report Blasts NASA’s Accounting for SLS/Orion
The GAO has released a new report, which is harshly critical of NASA’s accounting procedures for the Space Launch System, Orion spacecraft, and the ground systems being built to handle them. The...
View ArticleWill Soyuz Beat Orion Around the Moon?
On June 3rd, the Moscow Times reported on a new development in Space Adventure’s plan to launch two tourists on a voyage around the Moon. Having scored notable success as the first and only company to...
View ArticleSpaceX, OSC and a Window Into the Future
Image Credit: SpaceX The timing of course, was ultimately a matter of co-incidence driven by weather and mechanical issues, but the back to back launches of the OSC Antares with a Cygnus re-supply...
View Article45 Years Later
Editorial: Forty five years after the Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA is looking back, and NASA is looking ahead, but should it be looking itself in the mirror? NASA is celebrating the 45th anniversary of...
View ArticleAs August Rolls On, A Decision on Commercial Crew Looms Large
As the second full week of August begins, we are approaching ever closer to a critical decision point in the future of American space transportation, an award announcement in the final phase of NASA’s...
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NASA’s Space Launch System Faces Possible 2017 Launch Delay, ARM Target Issues
A series of reports highlight the challenges NASA faces in making progress with its plans for the Space Launch System over the next ten years. Only days days before SLS program manager Todd May told...
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