Space Review Looks at Commercial Space, Obama’s Plan and Economic Busts in Florida

Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center

This week in The Space Review:

• Jeff Foust reports on recent developments in NewSpace and how mature the industry sees itself.
• Angela Peura describes how Obama’s plans for NASA, like Gemini nearly 50 years ago, is building up the technologies and techniques needed for future human space exploration
• Jonathan Coopersmith argues that the President’s plan for NASA needs to go further and address the fundamental problem of space access.

• Dwayne Day notes that this will not the first time that Florida’s Space Coast will suffer massive job losses due to changes in the space program.

• A bat outta Hell: the ISINGLASS Mach 22 follow-on to OXCART

• Dwayne Day describes how the U.S. designed a 1960s military project that featured a rocket-powered vehicle nearly capable of achieving orbit.

Monday, April 12, 2010