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By Nancy Atkinson Following a flight test readiness review, NASA has given the 'all systems go' for the Ares I-X maiden test flight on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 8 a.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "I am proud of the work this team has done to ready this test rocket for launch," said [...]

By Keith Cowing NASA: Briefing on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Programs and Associated Activities, GAO GAO Report Affirms That NASA Has Effective Mechanisms for Coordinating with Other Federal Agencies and Avoiding Duplicative Efforts, House Science and Technology Committ...

By kcowing NASA does not have assurance that the existing contract still meets its needs or provides the best value for the taxpayer because the Agency did not fully comply with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements for a 5-year comprehensive review of the use and need for the FFRDC.

By Alexis Madrigal While the super-rich can pay millions to experience weightlessness at the International Space Station, some college kids have figured out how to experience the thrill of zero gravity for the student-friendly price of $0. “It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” Niusma said.

By kcowing NASA has taken a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle by completing the Orion Project's preliminary design review, or PDR. Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and other destinations. The preliminary design review is on...

By kcowing After just seven more missions to the International Space Station (ISS), the Space Shuttle will retire without a replacement. Ex-Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine, chair of the United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee review, has published his committee's findings, and NAS...

By kcowing From the NRC: "A new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, FOSTERING VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE: A REVIEW OF THE NASA INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONCEPTS, evaluates the effectiveness of this NASA program, which was formed to be an independent source of revoluti...

By Alexis Madrigal March 2015: The first crewed Orion/Ares mission to the International Space Station will launch. 2016: The European Space Agency will launch ExoMars, a rover mission to the surface of that planet. NASA is involved, however, helping provide communications via the Deep Space Network.

By Alexis Madrigal That may have sounded great, but it put NASA in a tough spot. First, the agency had trumpeted its success with less expensive robotic missions, not manned flight, and Bush’s priorities seemed likely to defund robotic missions. Second, the Space Shuttle program has been slated to come to an...

By MarcBoucher Griffin, who started as a professor with the University of Alabama in Huntsville this week, said polls show most think NASA receives about 24 percent of the $3 trillion federal budget, but the reality is the space agency gets less than 1 percent out of federal coffers. Its budget is roughly...

By MarcBoucher The Committee shall conduct an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans and programs, as well as alternatives, to ensure that the nation is pursuing the best trajectory for the future of human space flight—one that is safe, innovative, affordable, and sustainable. The...

By MarcBoucher Editor's note: NASA held the first briefing with Norman Augustine, Chairman of the Human Space Flight Review. Below is the audio teleconference MP3 for you to download. NASA Teleconference for the Human Space Flight Review with Norman Augustine (MP3 - 32MB)

By MarcBoucher The Planetary Society gives the Administration's proposed NASA budget a thumbs up for its increased funding for space and Earth science, more Earth observation satellites, firm support for robotic exploration of the solar system and the development of the new Ares/Orion launch vehi...

By Nancy Atkinson There’s good news and bad news for the upcoming Hubble repair mission. The good news is that the statistical threat posed to space shuttle Atlantis and her crew by micro-meteoroid orbiting debris (MMOD) is currently no greater than last year, even with the collision of two satellites in F...

Griffin set to return to class The Huntsville Times - al.com, AL Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin takes faculty post in ... WHNT Former NASA chief gets new gig USA Today UAH may hire former NASA chief al.com Space Ref (press release) - The Spokesman Review

 WA NASA won't name a room in the international space station after Stephen Colbert, but it has named a treadmill after him. The space agency held an online contest to name a “node” at the station. “Colbert” beat out NASA's four suggested options: Serenity ...

AP) — Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin has been named eminent scholar and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The 59-year-old Griffin, of Oak Hill, Va., was NASA's administrator from ...

Building upon years of research into the behavior and structure of stars, Basu is studying what she terms the “ancillary science” of the properties of the host stars that provide light and heat to the planets Kepler is attempting to locate. ... THE SEARCH FOR EARTH 2 Excalibur Online

The Space Review  CA Of the many potential candidates being discussed, Steve is the best qualified to understand NASA programs and missions. He served at NASA Headquarters as Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller where he was responsible for directing the ...

 MD So what does this imply for the space industry, including the so-called “space economy”, defined by NASA the range of goods and services that provide value to people through the course of exploring and utilizing space (see “NASA’s new outreach plan”, ...

The results will be presented February 27 in Washington, DC, at a NASA Lunar Surface Systems conference co-sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce and its Space Enterprise Council. “NASA faces a challenge in planning the layout for its outpost, ...

Space Com For NASA it is easy to see that the two most recent administrators represented, with some nuances, both these types, O’Keefe was the president’s man, sent in to make some reforms and to keep things on an even keel. Griffin, in spite of his management ...

 MD - Feb 2, 2009 The new head of NASA is also going to have to insure that NASA’s science output is kept honest. The debate over climate change has been thoroughly polluted ...

Azom.com  MD - by Dave Huntsman The political rumor mill has been rife with possible names for Obama’s NASA chief: eg, the space scientist (Charles Kennel), ... Light, Flexible Carbon Nanotube Brings Space Elevator Closer to ... Azom.com all 3 news articles

NASA Astronaut Connects With Utah Students From Space It is an integral component of NASA's Teaching from Space Program. The program promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with the education ... Astronauts primed for space station power boost Tehran Times

 NY - Best of all? This was made by a former NASA engineer. If he were still on staff, I’m sure we’d all be on Mars by now. Expect a review shortly. ... RealTouch: Teledildonics As Designed By Former NASA Engineer (NSFW) Gizmodo all 5 news articles

By Julianne J. Dalcanton After several decades of planning, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched in 1990 as the first of NASA’s Great Observatories. After a rocky start arising from an error in the fabrication of its main mirror, it went on to change forever many fields of astronomy, and to capture the pub...

By Sheena Mcfarland If you've outgrown sending letters to the North Pole, NASA has an even more remote destination for you: the International Space Station. ... Images: NASA looks back on 2008 CNET News New Space-Station Toilet Missing One Thing: A Door FOXNews

By Clara Moskowitz NASA's current plan, outlined by President Bush in 2004 under his "Vision for Space Exploration," is to get humans back to the moon and then on to Mars with the Constellation program, and to complete the International Space Station and retire the space shuttle by 2010. Image: NASA

 OH - Nov 5, 2008 The endlessly fascinating Discovery Channel miniseries on the NASA missions, When We Left Earth, chronicles the last 50 or so years of the program, ...

By Dusty Somers The U.S. space program carries with it a kind of built-in nostalgia. NASA is still faithfully trucking along, but with seemingly fewer and fewer trips into space, the golden days seem firmly rooted in the past. It’s been decades since the space program has inspired the kind of awe that swept th...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) Source More crooked Greenie "science" Source Hoagy is a crook. FP: What is the science behind global warming theory? FP: If the science is so faulty, why does the culture at large rely on it so much? What political underpinnings are involved in this scare? Who profits?

 FL - Amazingly, Rockwell managed to wheedle the loan of an actual space suit from NASA while he worked on this painting in his Massachusetts studio. ... To Infinity and Beyond: “NASA/Art” exhibit celebrates 50 years of ... Naples Daily News all 2 news articles

Created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions is a Discovery Channel documentary miniseries that documents NASA's achievements over the past 50 years, ...

Space.com  - Oct 28, 2008 By David Powell A NASA illustration showing space junk orbiting the Earth. There's an increased risk a space shuttle could be hit by orbiting debris on a ... Completes First Review Of NextGen Spacecraft Aero-News Network all 5 news articles

By Elaine Chow Google and NASA are partnering up to let space beings (and astronauts) wander the web from up in orbit. Google VP Vint Cerf and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have started working together to create a standardized internet for space, which can finally replace the one-time-use radio eq...

By Kenneth Brown More than fifty years ago, stabilized nations around the world emerged from the hopelessness of the Great Depression and turned their gaze to the stars. For the first time in human history, mankind not...

Visit NASA's 50th-anniversary Web site, review what NASA's Griffin said about the next 50 years back in July, check out this vision of NASA in the year 2058 ... SpaceX's Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit Sci-Tech Today Next for SpaceX: Falcon 9, NASA, Humans and the Moon? Wired News

By Betsy Mason Asteroids of this size are estimated to strike Earth once every 500,000 years on average and could be capable of causing a global catastrophe if they hit Earth. In 2008, NASA’s Near Earth Object Program spotted a total of 11,323 objects of all sizes.