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SpaceDev Wins Asteroid Tracking Competition

SpaceDev and partner SpaceWorks Engineering designed a craft called Farsight that won an asteroid tracking competition. Farsight...

Interview with NASA’s New Science Chief

Brian Berger has an interview with NASA’s new Science Chief, Ed Weiler. Someone needs to inform him...

Mars Rovers Spirit May be Put to Sleep

Due to $4 million in budget cuts in NASA Mars exploration program, project leaders are thinking of...

Evidence of Liquid Water and Ammoniaon Titan

Scientist have found evidence of an ocean of liquid water and ammonia on Titan. Dr. Lorenz’s used...

NASA to use Russian Rockets if COTS Fails

NASA to use Russian Rockets if COTS Fails

If the companies selected by NASA for COTS fail to produce cargo delivery service to the ISS in 2010, NASA says they will buy seats from Russia. Currently SpaceX, the first COTS selection, is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida later this year. NASA is expected to make the selection of the other private company this month.

Update: Elon Musk has said: “There will be no gap in American access to the space station,” Musk said …

May 30, 2009 | No comment | Read More »

Going to Alpha Centauri

Going to Alpha Centauri

Charles Q. Choi discusses how to get to Alpha Centauri. With new findings suggesting it may harbor rocky worlds, this could be a exciting trip.

March 12, 2008 | No comment | Read More »

SpaceX Introduces DragonLabTM

SpaceX Introduces DragonLabTM

SpaceX to Host (Invitation-only) Users Workshop on November 6
Hawthorne, CA - November 3, 2008 – Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is introducing a new commercial product called DragonLab™, a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from space. DragonLab will launch to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

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SpaceX Introduces DragonLabTM

SpaceX Introduces DragonLabTM

SpaceX to Host (Invitation-only) Users Workshop on November 6
Hawthorne, CA - November 3, 2008 – Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is introducing a new commercial product called DragonLab™, a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from space. DragonLab will launch to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

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NASA to use Russian Rockets if COTS Fails

NASA to use Russian Rockets if COTS Fails

If the companies selected by NASA for COTS fail to produce cargo delivery service to the ISS in 2010, NASA says...

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NASA Signs Agreement with Virgin Galactic to Buy Seats

NASA Signs Agreement with Virgin Galactic to Buy Seats

According to Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic’s President, NASA and Virgin Galactic reached an agreement with NASA early this morning. In...

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Space News Roundup November 12, 2008

Space News Roundup November 12, 2008

The Mars Rovers, which have been searching the Mars surface since 2004, have been hit by a dust storm and there...

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Mike Griffin Responds on the Cost of Exploration

In the USA Today, Mike Griffin rebuts the idea that we can’t afford to explore...

Dec 12, 2006 | No comment | Read More »

New Ideas in Space

GPS like navigation? Cool. —- Spaceport America’s continuing development. —- Aviation Week is focusing on New Space: ...

Dec 11, 2006 | No comment | Read More »

My New Blog

I have a Agile/Scrum/ Software Development blog out, for those of you who are interested...

Jun 13, 2006 | No comment | Read More »

Why Space Enthusiasts Make Bad Businessmen

I have finally figured it out. First some background. In 1995, the CEO of...

Jun 5, 2006 | No comment | Read More »

Word Cloud

There is a company making word clouds of your blog and printing them on a...

Feb 27, 2006 | No comment | Read More »

Heavy Lift vs Multiple Lift : Why I write this blog

Okay, I have been behind lately and there a lot of ideas I have on...

Apr 19, 2005 | No comment | Read More »