And so it has come to this. From AL.com: NASA administrator says Space Launch System ‘protected’ against next president “The Space Launch System (SLS) being developed by NASA in Alabama is “a protected program” the next president won’t be able to cancel, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. said Friday in Huntsville. “It’s a protected program […]
In 2013, the Houston Chronicle’s Eric Berger conducted a remarkable interview with retired NASA manager Christopher Kraft, the engineer who was the agency’s first manned spaceflight director, and who played a critical role in designing each of the boosters which elevated the United States from sub-orbital flight to the surface of the Moon in less than […]
NASA announced late yesterday that it has issued the first task orders for crew rotation flights under its Commercial Crew program. The order went to Boeing, but as the press release included below makes clear, that does not necessarily mean the first flight will go to Boeing as well. In parsing previous statements, the agency […]
(Video starts at discussion on contingencies) In what has become an passage of spring, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was testifying before Congress once again yesterday, this time before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. The committee, chaired by retiring Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf, has been the scene of more than […]
When the Inspiration Mars proposal was originally introduced, at least from a NewSpace perspective, the inspirational part was the fact that Dennis Tito and company seemed intent on using commercial hardware to achieve the first human circumnavigation of Mars, thereby showing that significant accomplishments could be made without the use of hyper-expensive launch systems and […]
NASA’s Commercial Crew program continues to suffer the slings and arrows in this week’s passage of an Omnibus spending bill. After being badly underfunded for the third year in a row, in early 2013 NASA Administrator Charles Bolden warned Congress that a failure to authorize the $821 million being requested as part of the FY2013 […]
Although the official introduction of a proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it to the Earth Moon L-2 point captured most of the media attention surrounding the unveiling of NASA’s FY 2014 budget request yesterday, arguably the most important item on the agenda remains the future of the Commercial Crew program. In a press conference held after the budget was […]
Today is the 10th anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its brave crew. It is also NASA’s designated Day of Remembrance for the two other tragedies which shook the American space program, the Apollo 1 fire, and the loss of Challenger. The following message, posted on NASA.Gov is from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden […]
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