NASA christened a new test launch pad for its new Orion spaceships on Wednesday.
Archive for November 15, 2007
Groundbreaking Signals Start of NASA’s Constellation Flight Tests
With less than a year until flight tests of NASA’s Constellation Program, work is under way on a launch pad that will host the first of those tests.
Remarks by NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale at the Transforming Space Conference
“About two months ago, NASA Administrator Mike Griffin spoke not far from here, in Long Beach, and he noted that, “We are fully fifty years” into the space age, but equally, “We are only fifty years into it.” It’s a phenomenal history.”
Ground broken for new test launch pad
A new launch pad being built in New Mexico will host the first escape systems tests for NASA’s Orion capsule, the successor to the space shuttle.
NASA looks at life after shuttle program
GALVESTON — The shuttle program will end in 2010. What to do next? That’s exactly what NASA is trying to figure out now.
Read More at Galveston County Daily News…
Orion brings space one step closer to southern New Mexico
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE A ground-breaking ceremony here Wednesday officially launched the NASA Orion Project, which will ultimately replace the space shuttle program by as early as 2015.
Read More at Alamogordo Daily News…
NASA launches WSMR test pad today
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE – NASA will break ground for a new test launch pad at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range at 8:30 a.m. today. The pad will be the site of a series of tests of a launch abort system that will help ensure the safety of astronauts aboard the new Orion spacecraft.
Hillary Clinton’s civil space policy
Senator Clinton’s space policy looks pretty good, but as we learned in the years 1993 through 2001, one always has to pay very close attention to every word and every comma.
Read More at The Space Review…
Challenges ahead
Safely flying out the remaining space shuttle missions, and keeping enough workers around to do it, while still starting off a transformation toward a new moon-landing program poses many challenges for NASA and KSC.
How Long Until People Start Living On the Moon?
With the official Lunar Registry offering property on the moon in one acre plots, the notion of people colonizing the moon may not be as far off as it first sounds. With people already buying up acres by the dozen in areas of the moon like ‘Bay of Rainbows’ and the ‘Sea of Clouds, it’s only a matter of time before moon maps become as common as Florida maps or California maps. One acre plots start at about $19, not a bad price to reserve your place on the moon.
At the rate the human population is growing it is only a matter of time before commercial developers start looking up for more building opportunities. For such a small price now, it could turn into one huge profit in several years (or decades).