• Senate NASA Hearing Tomorrow

    Updated: 2010-11-30 22:57:16
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  • NASA's Stealth Online Partnering Tool

    Updated: 2010-11-30 22:11:39
    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 Stealth Online Partnering Tool By Keith Cowing on November 30, 2010 5:11 PM No Comments Welcome to NASA's On-line Partnering Tool This application has been designed specifically to help you align your top interests with NASA's most appropriate experts . As the interactive tool walks you through the path to partnership , you will be asked to identify your specialized areas of interest . If you don't see an exact match please mark other and add additional details in

  • Watching The Revolving Door Spin and Spin and ...

    Updated: 2010-11-30 22:00:00
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  • Upcoming Astrobiolgy Announcement

    Updated: 2010-11-29 21:53:59
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  • Charlie Bolden's Continued Media Avoidance

    Updated: 2010-11-29 21:08:51
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  • Russia Wants to Build “Sweeper” to Clean up Space Debris

    Updated: 2010-11-29 18:46:01
    Russia is looking to build a $2 billion orbital “pod” that would sweep up satellite debris from space around the Earth. According to a post on the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos’ Facebook site, (which seems to confirm an earlier article by the Interfax news agency) the cleaning satellite would work on nuclear power and [...]

  • The Next Chance For No One To Know What Bolden Says

    Updated: 2010-11-29 00:20:19
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  • Old thinking: Yet Another Pointless NAS Report about Space

    Updated: 2010-11-29 00:19:55
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  • Using Existing Rockets for Future Human Exploration

    Updated: 2010-11-29 00:00:46
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  • More Plutonium 238 Production Pressure

    Updated: 2010-11-26 19:37:50
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  • X-34 To Fly? (Update)

    Updated: 2010-11-26 17:10:44
    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 X-34 To Fly Update By Keith Cowing on November 26, 2010 12:10 PM 10 Comments Grounded NASA Space Plane Poised for Comeback Wired Last week , NASA contractors moved the two , 59-foot-long X-34s from open storage to a test pilot school in California's Mojave Desert . There , workers from Orbital Sciences , the X-34's original builder , will inspect the two robotic rocketships with an eye to flying them again . The Real Story Behind NASA's Resurrected Space Plane Wired But

  • Management Style of NASA JSC PAO's Ellen Engleman Conners In Her Previous Job

    Updated: 2010-11-26 15:11:46
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  • Photo: Cumulonimbus Cloud Over Columbian Rain Forest As Seen From Orbit

    Updated: 2010-11-26 13:40:55
    : Tuesday , November 30, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Photo : Cumulonimbus Cloud Over Columbian Rain Forest As Seen From Orbit Submitted by keithcowing on Fri , 11 26 2010 06:40. Earth As photographed from 220 miles above Earth by an Expedition 25 crew member in the orbiting International Space Station , this building cumulonimbus cloud is over the rain forest area of east central Colombia . The nadir point of the ISS at the time this image was taken was 3.1 degrees north latitude and 70.0 degrees west longitude . high res 0.8 M low res 74 K 2010 SpaceRef Interactive . Inc Terms of Service User Login Username : Password : Request new password Search On Orbit Sponsors Comm Center Blogs Everest OnOrbit Gadgets Blog

  • Photo: Acklins Island As Seen From Orbit

    Updated: 2010-11-26 13:38:00
    Photographed by one the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 220 miles above Earth, this horseshoe shaped feature is Acklins Island in the Bahamas chain in the Caribbean. high res (1.1 M) low res (85 K)

  • Expedition 25 Crew Returns to Earth

    Updated: 2010-11-26 13:28:05
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  • Press Release: Good Luck, Nanosail-D!

    Updated: 2010-11-18 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Good Luck, Nanosail-D!

  • NASA Academy 2011 Applications Now Open!

    Updated: 2010-11-12 05:14:46
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  • “Planet Killers”

    Updated: 2010-11-07 23:53:09
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  • Depressing Note

    Updated: 2010-11-07 23:45:29
    I was just looking back to see when was the last time that I had posted original technical material here (before last week’s post on xGRF). Has it really been since mid-February? That’s depressing. Anyhow, I have a provisional patent app I really need to get in this week, but once that’s over, I’m [...]

  • “Rocket Ship Adventure” (playset)

    Updated: 2010-11-07 23:38:38
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  • Silica “Implants” on Mars

    Updated: 2010-11-05 16:00:46
    Tell Us It Used to be Wet and Warm Mars exploration just continues to turn up more surprises all the time. Recent observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter uncovered evidence of mineral deposits of what’s called “hydrated silica” on the Martian volcano Nili Patera.  This is a form of silica that has some amount of water [...]

  • “Make: 24″

    Updated: 2010-11-03 02:18:00
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    Updated: 2010-10-27 09:00:35
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    Updated: 2010-10-27 08:59:46
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  • More Posting Coming Soon

    Updated: 2010-10-25 16:25:58
    Apologies again for the light posting, but I think things are going to improve soon. I’ll hopefully be on payroll here at Altius soon, so blogging both on the ASM Blog and here on Selenian Boondocks will be higher priorities. I’ve got several technology blog ideas to discuss over here, and I have [...]

  • Urdeneta City Philippines LDS Temple Announced

    Updated: 2010-10-08 19:26:02
    This isn’t space related, but I wanted to mention this anyway. After all, the “boondocks” in Selenian Boondocks is a reference to my time I spent in the Philippines as an LDS missionary (boondocks is an Americanized version of the Tagolog word “bundok” which means “mountain”). Last weekend, during General Conference, the LDS [...]

  • Tech Patriots and Dana Rohrabacher

    Updated: 2010-10-08 19:07:58
    This isn’t the newest of news, but I’ve been pretty busy lately so I’m trying to catch up on the blogging. Anyhow, a few weeks back, I found out that there is a movement to try and help Dana Rohrbacher move up in the Republican leadership for the space technology committee he’s currently on. [...]

  • SSI Conference

    Updated: 2010-10-08 18:55:32
    For those of you who read Selenian Boondocks, but don’t read Hobbyspace (I’m sure there’s at least two of your out there), I wanted to mention the SSI Space Manufacturing Conference this month on the 29th-31st, at the NASA Ames Conference Center. It looks like I’ll be attending this year. SSI has been [...]

  • ASM Updates Blog and First Contract News

    Updated: 2010-10-07 07:13:55
    Hey guys, I finally got the update blog setup over on the Altius Space Machines site. The site still needs a lot of work, but I’ve always been one to try and put content over style. There’s a post there with the details I was promising about our first contract.

  • Wayne Hale’s New Blog

    Updated: 2010-09-24 17:56:44
    Just saw the news that Wayne Hale (of Space Shuttle operations fame) has a new blog up on wordpress.  Wayne’s blog posts while still at NASA were always informative, and I hope now that he’s out in the private sector, he’ll be able to continue that trend.  As I understand it, Wayne left NASA earlier [...]

  • Imagine

    Updated: 2010-09-15 02:56:17
    [Before I try and end the speculation about what it is we're trying to accomplish at Altius, I wanted to give some thoughts about where I think things could go over the next 25-30 years. I think everyone who reads this probably has their own unique vision, but this is to give you an [...]

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