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Gabrielle Giffords
Bretton Alexander
Joseph Fragola
Jeff Hanley
John Marshall
Bryan O'Connor
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas Stafford
House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Hearing Ensuring the Safety of Human Space Flight
Keith's note: The hearing was ...
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Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles , GAO
"In overseeing the commercial space launch industry, including the safety of space tourism, FAA faces several ...
Physical Science
Keith's note: I just got this from the organizers of the AAS event Imagine '09 behing held 2-3 December. Portions of the event will be webcast live here . Agenda and other event details can be found here .
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First flights of NASA's Ares rocket: less safe
than space shuttle? , Orlando Sentinel "In an e-mail...
to the Orlando Sentinel, Jeff Hanley, manager of the Constellation Program that includes Ares I and Orion, said that in the four years since the ...
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Hanley Changes His Story On Ares 1 Safety - Again
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Transterrestrial Musings
found this 15 hours agofound this
"Together, Gene Ross, my mother, Sharon, and myself, have kept the Outpost Tavern going for the last thirty years, it has stayed open. My Mom and Gene being the bulk of it, I was meant to be the "Closer" of this deal! J Good or bad, whatever anyone thinks of how we did it, we kept it open for ...
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First flights of NASA's Ares rocket: less safe than space shuttle? , Orlando Sentinel
"In an e-mail to the Orlando Sentinel, Jeff Hanley, manager of the Constellation Program that includes Ares I and Orion, said that in the four years since the ESAS was first conducted, there have been ...
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Soyuz Leaves International Space Station and Lands Safely in Kazakhstan , SpaceRef Canada
"Canadian Space Agency Flight Engineer Robert Thirsk, Expedition 21 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Frank De Winne undocked their Soyuz ...
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Leonard Nimoy to Headline Space Foundation Space Technology Hall of Fame Dinner April 15 , Space Foundation
"Since 1988, the Space Technology Hall of Fame, in cooperation with NASA, has honored those who transform technology originally developed for space exploration into products and ...
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NASA GSFC Internal Memo: FY10 Buyout/Early Out
"The Buyout/Early Out window is open beginning today, Monday, November 30, 2009 through 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Employees who are approved for the Buyout/Early Out must be off the rolls by April 3, 2010 and may retire/resign as ...
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Viewpoint: Be Wary Of China Space Ties , editorial, Eric Sterner, Aviation Week
"Unfortunately, there are ample reasons for the U.S. to keep its distance. While the U.S. explicitly decided to separate its space exploration activities from the military, China's human spaceflight program is a ...
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New Study Adds to Finding of Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite , NASA
"Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars."
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Mars
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Rocket Lab Primed to Launch New Zealand's First Rocket Into Space
"Private aerospace company Rocket Lab is preparing for a historic first launch into space from New Zealand. One of the company's key aims it to make space more accessible to a broader market. As part of the first launch ...
Physical Science
Keith's note: As most of you know by now, Charlie Bolden is relentless in his focus on the value of education.
What if you were inclined to create NASA's version of Starfleet Academy to prepare students for a career in space exploration. What would it do? What location(s) would be best? ...
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Viewpoint: Be Wary Of China Space Ties , editorial, Eric Sterner, Aviation Week
"Unfortunately, there are ample reasons for the U.S. to keep its distance. While the U.S. explicitly decided to separate its space exploration activities from the military, China's human spaceflight program is a ...
Physical Science
Keith's note: Charlie Bolden is relentless in his focus on education.
OK ... If you were to create NASA's version of Starfleet Academy, what would it do? What location(s) would be best to put it? How would it work, what courses would it teach, what skills would it emphasize?
Serious ...
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Rocket Lab Primed to Launch New Zealand's First Rocket Into Space
"Private aerospace company Rocket Lab is preparing for a historic first launch into space from New Zealand. The Atea-1 launch vehicle is scheduled to fly the week beginning November 30th from Great Mercury Island. The exact ...
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Mercury
"Dennis Wingo: I thought this was interesting and since I am always looking for spares for our LOIRP FR-900's I check it out on eBay. ... When I looked I was pretty certain that these were boards from our FR-900 machines. It had the right part numbers, so I called Ken Zin at home the night ...
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Trip to asteroid could give life to Ares V rocket , Huntsville Times
The Augustine panel's report also suggests that an asteroid destination would allow NASA to use resources trapped in the floating rocks and mine rocket fuel from them, setting up a "gas station" or depot in space. These ...
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In Search of a Real Spaceship , Buzz Aldrin, The Huffington Post
"Imagine this scenario: you are a tourist coming home from a special vacation jaunt. Or maybe you're a researcher headed home from an assignment at a national laboratory. But instead of a nice gentle landing at an airport, you ...
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Space Shutte Atlantis Lands in Florida , NASA (With Video)
"Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The mission, designated STS-129, included ...
