News NASA's Future: The News and Updates Thread

[Orbinaut Pete]

NASA Watch: "Why Everything Costs So Much At NASA".

NASA Watch: "NASA's Economic Impact: Fact Vs Myth".

Space Politics: "Garver on commercial space and policy at Space Camp".

Parabolic Arc: "SpaceX Spent $90,000 on Lobbying Efforts in First Half of 2010".

SPACE.com: "NASA Jump-Starts Space Technology Program".

Stennis could be a pathway to Mars.

SpaceRef: "NASTAR Center and Special Aerospace Services Commence Research Study on Emergency Detection and Human Response of Atlas V Profile".

 

[tblaxland]

I agree. Here's an example of a cool NASA project that is likely to get lost in the manned spaceflight noise:
RFI: Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion Demonstration Mission
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=34809

The Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion Demonstration mission's primary objective is to demonstrate predictable and controlled orbital maneuvering (orbital altitude change and inclination change) using an electrodynamic tether propulsion system.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

SpaceRef: "Summoning the Future By Remembering the Past".


Wallops Island could benefit from a private-sector space race.

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NASA Selects Two Firms for Experimental Space Vehicle Test Flights.

SpaceRef: "Masten Space Systems Wins NASA Suborbital Contract".

SpaceRef: "Commercial Spaceflight Federation Congratulates Initial Winning Launch Providers in NASA’s Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) Program".

Flightglobal: "NASA funds suborbitial test flights".

MSNBC Cosmic Log: "NASA funds suborbital cruisers".


SpaceRef: "NASA Glenn Tests Alternative Green Rocket Engine".


Space Politics: "Briefly: Olson on the NASA bill, upcoming space policy conference".


Recess holding up action on NASA bill.


Florida Today: "Luke & Associates firm eyes space workers".


Intrepid Museum Tries to Land Retired NASA Shuttle.

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SPACE.com: "NASA Funds Test Flights for Private Experimental Rockets".

Parabolic Arc: "Wyle to Play Key Role in New FAA Commercial Space Transportation Center".

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SPACE.com: "Few Asteroids Look Ripe for Astronaut Visit By 2025".

 

[anemazoso]

NASA Watch: Letter to Rep. Gordon Regarding House Science Committee Authorization Bill As It Relates to NASA

Pretty impressive list of signatories!

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Houston, we have another letter!

SpaceRef: "Letter to Rep. Gordon Regarding House Science Committee Authorization Bill As It Relates to NASA".

Space Politics: "Nobel laureates and others push for restoration of White House NASA budget provisions".

Florida Today's "The Flame Trench" Blog: "Letter urges House to shift NASA priorities".


NewSpace Journal: "CRuSR makes its first awards".


Parabolic Arc: "NASA Research Park to Include Nearly 6 Million Square Feet of Space".


The Daily Mail: "NASA in plans to launch manned mission to an asteroid by 2025".


High-Performance Composites: "The Private Space Race".


SpaceRef: "NASA Ranked Fifth In Best Places To Work In The Federal Government".

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NASA program to launch space shuttle workers into new jobs.

 

[anemazoso]

Look how small the asteroid is! There is a little space suited figure on the rock. :lol:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

SPACE.com: "Space Luminaries Petition Against House Version of NASA Bill".

The Planetary Society Blog: "Help explorers from Earth travel to new places in our Solar System".


Space Politics: "Garver: "a lessening of tensions" in the NASA budget debate".


NASA Watch: "Buzz Says Send English Speakers to Mars".
-More realistic goals from Buzz... :dry:


Museum of Flight deserves to showcase a space shuttle.

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Parabolic Arc: "Commerce Department Announces $35 Million Space Coast Investment Competition".

Space technology leadership rests with Va. delegation.

Technology Review's "Delta-V" Blog: "NASA's Blueprint for New Space Technologies".

Buzz Aldrin: The Gizmodo Interview.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Can we start a separate thread on this Plymouth Rock? It feels very worthy of it.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Can we start a separate thread on this Plymouth Rock? It feels very worthy of it.

Sure. I have made one!

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The Independant: "Stephen Foley: The new space race can give desert state economic lift-off".

NASA Enlists Caddo Mills-Based Armadillo Aerospace For A Boost to Suborbital Space.

Amazing journey: Local rocketry expert reflects on NASA's shuttle program.

SpaceRef: "Prepared Remarks at AIAA Space 2010 By NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver".

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

NASA Watch: "Layoffs Loom Ahead".

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Space Politics: "Commercial crew, EELV, and avoiding repeating history".

 

[orb]

From the Spaceflight Now's article already mentioned on "Plymouth Rock" Asteroid Mission topic:

Congress continues to debate the White House plan, which also cancels NASA's program to return humans to the moon and turns over crew transportation to low Earth orbit to commercial operators.

When legislators return to Washington Sept. 13, there will be less than three weeks until fiscal year 2011 begins, meaning NASA will likely be forced to get by on a continuing budget resolution for at least some time.

The continuing resolution would freeze next year's funding at or near fiscal year 2010 levels, putting any asteroid exploration dreams on the backburner.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

NASA Watch: "Replace NASA"?

NASA Watch: "What Constitutes Space Leadership"?

Parabolic Arc: "Vanderbilt: Time to Call Your Congressman to Support NewSpace".

Parabolic Arc: "Garver: Commercial Space Will Help U.S. Regain Market Share".

The Hill: "Rep. Gordon: NASA given 'more mission than money' for ambitious goals".

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

SpaceRef: "Letter From House Science & Technology Committee Chair Bart Gordon to Prof. Scott Hubbard".

Space Politics: "Gordon: Administration sent Congress an "unexecutable" NASA budget".


New York closer than ever to landing NASA rocket at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum: Sen. Schumer.


The Space Review: "Halfway to the stars (atop piles of paper)".


The Space Review: "Building a foundation for commercial crew".

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NASA Loves A Good Challenge-Not Business As Usual.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Lots of updates from the past few days:

SpaceRef: "Human Exploration Framework Team Presentation Online".

NASA Watch: "Supporting Senate Vs House NASA Legislation".

NASA Watch: "The Rhetoric Heats Up - Establishment vs NewSpace".

Space News: "Augustine Panelist Rallying Support for Senate's NASA Bill".

Space News: "NASA Team's Exploration Proposal Aligns with Senate Bill".

Aviation Week: "Space Policy Debate Set To Resume With New Issues".

Parabolic Arc: "Freeman Dyson: Congress Should Reject H.R. 5781, Choose 'Right Side of History'".

Parabolic Arc: "Bolden Talks Exploration and Education at Purdue".

Parabolic Arc: "Space Access Society Urges Action Against House Bill".

Parabolic Arc: "Griffin and Pace Criticize Obama's Plan for NASA, Support House Bill".

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Some Space Politics articles from the past few days that I missed:
• A stealthy anti-HR 5781 web site.
• A tense issue.
• Briefly: NASA lobbying, asteroid R&D, and a rocket scientist candidate.
• More lobbying against House NASA bill.
• Crafting an ideal (for some) authorization bill.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Space Policy Online: "Congress Returns with A Full Plate of Space Issues Waiting".

Space Politics: "Where not everybody knows your name".

Parabolic Arc: "Shelby: I Can't Quit You, Shuttle"!

Parabolic Arc: "NSS Backs Senate's NASA's Funding Bill".

NASA Watch: "Congressional (In)action".

The Huffington Post: "NASA's Constellation Hallucination and the Congressional Money Drug".

American Thinker: "Bring back the manned space program".

Hatch, Bishop make case to NASA leader.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Aviation Week: "Grant Targets Unemployed Shuttle Workers".

Orlando Sentinel: "NASA: Change of heart on new rocket that would reuse shuttle parts"?

Senate should leave details to NASA experts.

The Space Review: "The real mistakes of the space shuttle program".

The Space Review: "Debating the future of human spaceflight".

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Space Politics: "Briefly: standing up for ULA, SpaceX and India, and decolonizing NASA".

CSF Welcomes New Associate Members Barrios Technology, BWSC Inc, J&P Technologies, ORBITEC, & Triumph Aerospace-NN.

NASA: "Emerging Technologies May Fuel Revolutionary Launcher".
SPACE.com: "Railway to the Sky? NASA Ponders New Launch System".

Technology Review: "We May be Heading for a Space Bubble".

Why is it America's job to save the world from asteroids?

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Space Politics: "More opposition to House NASA authorization bill".

Space News: "Not exactly a ringing endorsement".

Florida Today: "Our views: Senate blueprint best (Sept. 15)".

Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) Slams Sole Source Space Pork.

The Huntsville Times: "Space scientists face a cut in federal funding during the coming decade".

Eric Berger's/Houston Chronicle's "SciGuy" Blog: "NASA budget: A small window for clarity now, or else the uncertainty will continue".

 

[orb]

I'm not sure it's strictly on this topic (there's nothing about politics nor new plans for future), but it says about 10-year contracts for launch services, so it's somehow connected to the nearest future of NASA -

Spaceflight Now: NASA selects rocket fleet for unmanned satellite launches:

NASA has selected four companies to launch the space agency's robotic Earth observation, astronomy and planetary exploration probes for the next decade.

In a statement released late Thursday, NASA announced it was awarding Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Orbital Sciences Corp., Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and United Launch Alliance a 10-year contract for rocket flights of agency spacecraft.
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