A GERMAN schoolboy of 13 revised NASA calculations, upping the estimate of the risk that the asteroid Apophis will impact the Earth.
Archive for April 16, 2008
NASA completes Orion spacecraft motor test
The U.S. space agency announced completion of the first full-scale rocket motor test for the Constellation Program’s Orion spacecraft.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration test involved a solid rocket that will be used to jettison the spacecraft’s launch abort system.Orion, now under development, will be America’s next human spacecraft, designed to fly to the International Space …
See NASA test-fire new rocket safety system
NASA has released images and video of the test-firing of a jettison motor for the Launch Abort System.
T-minus 367 days and counting
NASA is one year away from the first test flight of its new Ares 1 rocket, which is envisioned to carry astronauts on the first leg of their journey to the moon.
Search Marshall
Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 steven.e.roy@nasa.gov HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Thomas Williams has been named to the Senior Executive Service position of manager of the Propulsion Systems Department at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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The Vision for Space Exploration and the retirement of the Baby Boomers
Is this the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? The purpose of this paper is to point out a systemic blind spot in the strategic thinking of the space community, and to begin a discussion of the strategic problem.
Obama’s modest proposal: no hue, no cry?
[Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a three-part article.] Last week , I discussed the proposal by presidential candidate Barack Obama to delay NASA’s Project Constellation for at least five years, putting the saved money into a new $10 billion-a-year national preschool education program.
T-minus 367 days
NASA is one year away from the first test flight of its new Ares 1 rocket, which is envisioned to carry astronauts on the first leg of their journey to the moon.