Dateline Feb 28, 2006, News from the Internet
- Benard Foing has a thought experiment on using the moon as an "Ark."
- NASA has decided on the names for their rockets. Altair, Artemis and Ares (I and V).
- NASA is still trying to speed up the ESAS. You could still use the EELV's you have. They work now. Just a thought. (more...)
Dateline Feb 27, 2006, News from the Internet
- The Space Review is full of good stuff today:
- Sam Dikin post a transcript/interview of his tour of the SpaceX facility.
- Sam Dikin also gives a background of SpaceX as a company
- Taylor Dinerman talks about a new branch of the military, the Space Force. (ed- I would join that branch in flat minute.)
- Eric Hedman has a follow up to his article about private space companies about the mail he received and how he thinks access to space will evolve.
- Matthew Hoey discusses the future of military space systems.
- Finally, Jeff Foust reviews Unreal Estate, a new book about property ownership in space (an issues dear to my heart). (more...)
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Dateline Feb 22, 2006, News from the Internet
The Space Access Society’s newsletter is out.
According to the Aerospace Industries Association, the aerospace industry is booming. The industry added 7,300 jobs in the final quarter alone, with $241 billion in orders, $175 billion in shipments, with a backlog now swelled to $281 billion - shattering old marks for orders and backlog, [...]
Dateline Feb 21, 2006, News from the Internet
Scotty (James Doohan) and Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper will be given a final trip into space on the SpaceX Falcon I in March from Vandenberg AFB.
Japan is launching it’s third satellite in a month into orbit tomorrow (Wednesday February 22). Japan is building confidence in their space launch ability in light of some failures [...]
Dateline Feb 17, 2006, News from the Internet
The US and India may enter into an agreement on space cooperation soon
Mike Griffin finished his hearing yesterday with the House Science Committee. For the most part he sympathized the congressmen worried about space science and aeronautic research, but I think he almost lost it once:
‘Why was it not considered cannibalizing when [...]
Dateline Feb 15, 2006, News from the Internet
According to Space.com, NASA’s future plans include scaling up the HLV to 300,000 lbs to LEO.
So is NASA Using LOX/methane or not? I don’t think even they know.
NASA seems calm about 19 more shuttle flights by 2010. Mike Griffin says “the remaining manifest is in line with the average over the past 25 [...]
Dateline Feb 13, 2006, News from the Internet
The new issue of The Space Review is out. Some neat stuff
Jeff Foust talks about what NASA’s purpose is and should be
Taylor Dinerman talks about the good and bad of the COTS program
Michael Huang writes a Jonathan Swift like article on the pro-human humans vs anti-human robot debate.
Bill White talks about markets for [...]
Falcon I engine test a success
The engine test fire went very well yesterday. SpaceX has posted a video of it and says:
We were very happy to be able to execute a flight countdown all the way to lighting the engine. Although there wasn’t a launch this time, we made a lot of progress refining the rocket [...]
Dateline Feb 8, 2006, News from the Internet
Jeff Foust has links to everyone’s reaction to the NASA budget proposal. (Thanks to Mark at Curmudgeons Corner as I am lazy this morning)
Incidentally, Mark has an article on Associated Content today about Missions to the Moon and beyond.
NASA has decided to delay SIM Planet Quest and the Terrestrial Planet Finder in order [...]
