• Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems win NASA Experimental Space Vehicle Contracts

    Updated: 2010-08-31 00:05:20
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  • Upcoming STA Event

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:27:21
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Upcoming STA Event By Keith Cowing on August 30, 2010 3:27 PM 1 Comment STA Event : An Engineering Assessment of the Way Forward in Human Spaceflight STA will be hosting a roundtable discussion focused on the topic , An Engineering Assessment of the Way Forward in Human Spaceflight Panelists will include : Mike Griffin , former NASA Administrator and Professor , University of Alabama in Huntsville Bob Dickman , Executive Director , American Institute of Aeronautics

  • India back to the Moon in 2013 with Orbiter, Lander and Rover

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:17:31
    India Announces Instrument Suite for Chandrayaan-2 Moon Orbiter, Lander and Rover, SpaceRef "The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) today announced the suite of instruments for its second mission to the moon after it's first orbiter Chandrayaan-1 was successful in its mission. The second mission is scheduled to be launched on India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in 2013."

  • New Moon Mission: Chandrayaan-2 Payloads Selected

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:06:41
    Seven instruments will be aboard India's second unmanned mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced today. The mission, which is a cooperative effort between ISRO and the Russian Federal Space Agency, will include an orbiter, a lander and a rover, which officials hope will launch in 2013. The instruments will [...]

  • SpaceX Asks Requests October 23rd as Potential Launch Date for Falcon 9 with Dragon

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:50:29
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  • Public Invited to Participate on Cool NASA Historical Project

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:38:04
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  • Asteroid! A Major Impact Crater Occurs on Earth Every One Million Years

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:20:00

  • New Tech: The Cosmos-Powered PC

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:10:00
    Scientists plan to use the International Space Station as a base for producing a new type of solar crystals. The production of thin-film crystals in the conditions of weightlessness gives them properties which are unattainable under Earth-bound conditions. This technology...

  • Learning From The Past

    Updated: 2010-08-30 00:45:41
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Learning From The Past By Keith Cowing on August 29, 2010 8:45 PM 32 Comments Summoning the Future By Remembering the Past Dennis Wingo Almost exactly 100 years and nine weeks before the famous speech by President Kennedy at Rice University calling for what would be known as the Apollo program , the U.S . Congress , in the middle of a war for the life of the nation , passed the Pacific Railway Act of 1862. The national railroad as it was called was chartered by the

  • Video: How NASA Makes Fake Vomit

    Updated: 2010-08-29 21:02:01
    : Tuesday , August 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Video : How NASA Makes Fake Vomit Submitted by keithcowing on Sun , 08 29 2010 13:02. After answering the question of how the space potty works , astronaut Mike Massimino now visits the Advanced Water Recovery Systems Development Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center . Chemists have been working hard to develop a next-generation trash bag for future exploration , including testing different forms of trash . and fake vomit . Watch as Massimino and the scientists lend their noses in the name of exploration and see if NASA's mixture is potent enough in this edition of NASA Behind the Scenes . 2010 SpaceRef Interactive . Inc Terms of Service User Login Username :

  • This Week in Space

    Updated: 2010-08-29 20:23:49
    Next stop space for this cosmic ray detector, Discovery gets ready to rollover for its final flight to space, reflections on a successful spacewalk, Curiosity extends its reach, Viking memories, new solar systems, a cosmic volcano, and Earth in fast-forward. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us [...]

  • Bill Lenoir

    Updated: 2010-08-29 15:12:41
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Bill Lenoir By Keith Cowing on August 29, 2010 11:12 AM 4 Comments William Lenoir , astronaut who flew on first operational space shuttle mission , dies Collectspace Former NASA astronaut William Bill Lenoir , who flew aboard the first operational mission of the space shuttle in November 1982, died Saturday at age 71. According to sources close to his family , Lenoir died after suffering head injuries during a bicycle accident Thursday . Lenoir , who was selected by NASA

  • A Moment of Zen: A Merger of Great Galaxies

    Updated: 2010-08-29 07:00:00

  • Learning How To Fly Crews on an Atlas V

    Updated: 2010-08-28 23:21:22
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  • Murals Commemorate Space Shuttle Legacy (Update)

    Updated: 2010-08-28 19:21:11
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  • The Cape Week in Review - AMS-02's Grand Entrance

    Updated: 2010-08-28 18:11:40
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support The Cape Week in Review AMS-02's Grand Entrance By Jason Rhian on August 28, 2010 2:11 PM No Comments NASA held an event that allowed the media to document the arrival of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 02 AMS-02 at Kennedy Space Center KSC this week . Members of the media were invited to interview the STS-134 crew and the scientists that are working on this project . AMS-02 Event Held at Kennedy Space Center Commander Kelly discusses the benefits of the Alpha Magnetic

  • Continuing Light Blogging to Continue Continuing

    Updated: 2010-08-28 17:07:54
    Hey guys, I know this is pretty lame, but it’s going to be a bit longer before I have anything useful to put up. I do have a pretty cool technology idea I’ve gotten permission to write about, but we’re doing an SBIR proposal on it first. There’s a lot more afoot in [...]

  • NASA's Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion Demonstration Mission

    Updated: 2010-08-28 16:38:03
    Tuesday , August 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts NASA's Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion Demonstration Mission Submitted by keithcowing on Sat , 08 28 2010 08:38. Space Exploration NASA MSFC is seeking a partner capable of providing a spacecraft bus as a part of a technology development proposal team . Responses to this RFI will provide information necessary for the selection of spacecraft providing partners for the proposal team in late Summer early Fall 2010. This RFI seeks input from vendors with experience and facilities for designing , fabricating , and integrating Low Earth Orbiting LEO satellites . Vendors must be able to provide low risk , highly reliable design solutions and have a history of successfully

  • NASA Assists Trapped Miners in Chile

    Updated: 2010-08-28 16:10:27
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  • NASA's Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion Demonstration Mission

    Updated: 2010-08-28 15:48:27
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  • Odd Mars Crater a Cosmic Mystery -Baffles European Space Agency Scientists (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2010-08-28 15:24:06
    An elongated crater on Mars, Orcus Patera, the enigmatic elliptical depression that lies near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet is a mystery, say European scientists scrambling for an explanation of its odd shape. Located between the...

  • Australian Media Swirls With Imaginary Solar Storm Warnings

    Updated: 2010-08-27 19:44:26
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  • NASA's Economic Impact: Fact Vs Myth

    Updated: 2010-08-27 13:16:19
    : Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support NASA's Economic Impact : Fact Vs Myth By Keith Cowing on August 27, 2010 9:16 AM 1 Comment Measuring The NASA Stimulus National Journal But placing a monetary value on those benefits proved more difficult , even for one of NASA's greatest achievements . The fact remains that we got to the moon in a decade , but are , as yet , unable to fully measure the present and future economic impact of the science and technology accumulated on the way to the moon or the aggregate

  • NASA Announces High School Competition for Future Engineers

    Updated: 2010-08-27 03:21:39
    <div align="center" NASA is challenging high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station. The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES. read more</a

  • Hilarious

    Updated: 2010-08-25 20:30:33
    I know I shouldn’t feed the troll, but Mark Whittington is sometimes amusing.  On his blog, he quoted a commenter to NASAWatch: A commenter named Robert B. has a great answer: Congress doesn’t trust NASA’s administrators to follow the will of Congress. The admins have proven that they will use the letter of the law [...]

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

    Updated: 2010-08-02 14:21:14
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  • Silver Lining

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:05:57
    guest blogger john hare One good thing about the current congress/senate/president funding mess is that we won’t have to listen to as many cranks start their rocket development plan with, “First we convince the president.”

  • Privately Funded Observatories an Analog for Space Exploration?

    Updated: 2010-07-24 18:55:52
    I saw on twitter that Alex MacDonald’s paper on comparing the private funding of astronomical observatories and space exploration is finally up.  It’s a fascinating read.  I met Alex at New Space conference last year, and he showed me some of his research.  His hypothesis is that astronomical observatories were the “space exploration” of the [...]

  • “Lunar Settlements”

    Updated: 2010-07-09 05:21:05
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  • Light Blogging Likely to Continue

    Updated: 2010-07-06 16:23:22
    I really apologize for the light blogging lately. I’ve been under a lot of stress, and unfortunately I’m expecting the light blogging to continue for at least the rest of the month, and probably longer. I’m heading up to Oregon today for a family reunion on Tiff’s side of the family. Her [...]

  • In The News: Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First Ever Solar Sail

    Updated: 2010-06-09 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First Ever Solar Sail

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