Updated: 2010-02-28 19:51:45
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 Robert McCall By Keith Cowing on February 28, 2010 2:51 PM No Comments Famed space artist Robert McCall , 90, dies Collectspace An artist whose visions of the past , present , and future of space exploration have graced U.S . postage stamps , NASA mission patches , and the walls of the Smithsonian , Robert McCall died on Friday of a heart attack in Scottsdale , Arizona . He was 90. The late , great Robert McCall Miles O'Brien When the congregation decided to add a small , chapel-in-the-round for smaller ceremonies a few years ago , they called upon this artistic pair in their midst to design the stained-glass windows . Not long after it was finished , and not long after the Challenger disaster , the widow of the commander of the doomed flight , June Scobee visited here . After gazing into the glass and reflecting , she told the McCall's she knew where her husband
Updated: 2010-02-28 02:03:06
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 NRC Report on NASA's Suborbital Program By Keith Cowing on February 27, 2010 9:03 PM 1 Comment NRC Report : Revitalizing NASA's Suborbital Program : Advancing Science , Driving Innovation , and Developing Workforce The Space Studies Board SSB was requested by NASA to conduct a review of the suborbital mission capabilities of NASA in the NASA Authorization Act of 2008 Section 505 The act expresses the sense of Congress that suborbital flight activities , including the use of sounding rockets , aircraft , and high-altitude balloons , and suborbital reusable launch vehicles , offer valuable opportunities to advance science , train the next generation of scientists and engineers , and provide opportunities for participants in the programs to acquire skills in systems engineering and systems integration that are critical to maintaining the nation's leadership in space
Updated: 2010-02-26 19:18:40
<img src="http://images.spaceref.com/news/comm.launch.jpg" alt="" border="0" align="right"Burt Rutan Issues Clarification on Wall Street Journal Remarks
"To my friends in the Press... Since the WSJ chose to cherry-pick and miss-quote my comments to Cong Wolf and since the blogs have taken that to further mischaracterized my comments, I am forwarding the Wolf memo in its entirety, in the hopes that some of this gets corrected."
Space Pioneer Burt Rutan Blasts NASA Plan, WS Journal
"Commercial space pioneer Burt Rutan has sharply criticized Obama administration proposals to outsource key portions of NASA's manned space program to private firms."
Updated: 2010-02-26 16:42:26
The Approach Begins: New Horizons Is Half Way To Pluto
"Another milestone passed! Today NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is 15.96 astronomical units (about 2.39 billion kilometers, or 1.48 billion miles) from the Sun - putting it halfway between Earth's location on launch day in January 2006, and Pluto's place during New Horizons' encounter with the planet in July 2015. "From here on out, we're on approach to an encounter with the Pluto system," says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, from the Southwest Research Institute. "The second half of the journey begins."
Updated: 2010-02-24 05:00:00
On the Planetary Society web site: Stephen Hawking to Accept Cosmos Award in Cambridge, England
Updated: 2010-02-16 13:55:48
February 16, 2009:SDO Observatory - click for larger image NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO,lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's LaunchComplex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's innerworkings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocketoccurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.The most technologically advanced of NASA's heliophysics spacecraft,SDO will take images of the sun every 0.75 seconds and daily sendback about 1.5 te...
