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Five Years Later: Part II

Five Years Later: Part II

Dawn of New Era : KSC Clock Adds Up the Minutes of the First SpaceX Launch to ISS If Project Constellation was the clear victim of President Obama’s Kennedy Space Center address, the immediate beneficiary was without a doubt the International Space Station program. Slated for de-orbit as soon as 2016 in some Constellation planning […]

American Space Policy Five Years Later

American Space Policy Five Years Later

President Obama at the Kennedy Space Center / April 15th 2010.  Image Credit : NASA The following is Part I in a multi-part series looking back at changes in American space policy put forward by President fiove years ago. Wednesday, April 15th was perhaps not the best of days for many Americans. While for those […]

Posted in: Congress, NASA, SLS / Orion
Seeing Double: The Vision for Space Exploration Ten Years Later

Seeing Double: The Vision for Space Exploration Ten Years Later

Recent years have seen a number of meaningful space anniversaries, and to some they can are increasingly somber moments of reflection on what we once could do, on what happened a long time ago. Today however, is something else. Today marks the ten year anniversary of something the we didn’t do at all, implement the […]

Posted in: Mars, Moon, NASA
Remembering Columbia

Remembering Columbia

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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NASA Solicits Public for Research Proposals on ISS

NASA Solicits Public for Research Proposals on ISS

When President Bush introduced the Vision for Space exploration 9 years ago, long term prospects for the International Space Station suddenly didn’t look so good.  As it turned out, ISS ultimately survived VSE and Project Constellation, with much of the American section of the station’s scientific research handed over to CASIS, the Center for the Advancement of Science,  which manages it as a U.S. […]

Posted in: NASA, Space Stations
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