An American astronaut will run this year’s Boston Marathon on board the International Space Station.Sunita Williams, 41, a US Navy commander, will be tied to a treadmill to combat the effect of weightlessness. She qualified for a place by finishing last year’s Houston Marathon in three hours 29 minutes and 57 seconds. But she blasted [...]
Space industry managers and labor leaders gave starkly contrasting views of Kennedy Space Center’s future during a Senate hearing Wednesday. The impact of a four- or five-year absence of manned launches from Cape Canaveral could be devastating, said Johnny Walker, a representative of more than 2,500 union members employed at the space center. Read more
Aero-News has learned some very heavy hitters will vie for a contract to produce the upper stage for the Ares I crew launch vehicle, NASA’s first new human-rated launch vehicle since the space shuttle. The space agency issued its request for proposal Friday for the Ares I launch vehicle upper stage element, which will transport [...]
Boeing’s bid to win work in New Orleans on NASA’s next space exploration program will be joined by a team of eight suppliers — including Northrop Grumman — that would work with the aerospace company. NASA will award what’s expected to be a multibillion-dollar contract in late August, with Boeing’s key competition being a team [...]
This document contains an integrated snapshot of Space Shuttle, Soyuz, Progress, ATV, HTV, COTS (RpK and SpaceX), Ares 1, and Orion flights between 2007 and 2015. This document also shows key milestones for the development of Orion and Ares 1 systems as well as ISS completion and staffing. Read more
Statement of John Karas: Senate Hearing: Transitioning to a Next Generation Human Space Flight System. Mr. John Karas Vice President, Space Exploration Lockheed Martin Testimony of Mr. John Karas, Vice President and General Manager, Human Spaceflight, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Before the Subcommittee on Space, Aeronautics and Related Sciences Committee on Commerce, Science and [...]
My name is Carolyn Bushman. I teach at Wendover High School, Utah’s only NASA Explorer School. Wendover has 180 7-12 grade students. Last year I had the opportunity of taking students to the Wallops Fight Facility to see their experiment fly on an Orion Rocket. I met Pamela Ghaffarian of Franke Park Elementary, Multiage Classroom [...]
NASA has chosen Glenn Research Center’s Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, to perform integrated environmental testing of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), the agency announced March 19. The tests will simulate environmental conditions such as those the Orion will experience during launch, in-orbit operations and re-entry. Thermal, acoustic and mechanical vibration and electromagnetic [...]
In labs at Johnson Space Center, away from the buzz about NASA’s new spaceship and its new missions to the moon and Mars, a group of engineers are plodding away at another piece of the puzzle: spacesuits.Astronaut apparel has evolved over the decades from Mercury’s aluminum foil-looking outfits to the bulky, 275-pound whites now used [...]
Plans are underway to establish a permanent human presence on the moon by the year 2020. Earth & Sky spoke with Pete Worden, Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center. We asked him why humanity should return to the moon. Read more