TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 6, 2013 (Space Florida PR) – State lawmakers have shown strong support for Florida’s aerospace industry in the 2013 Legislative Session by renewing Space Florida’s $10 million operating and business development budget (including the second year of $4 million in recurring funds). This demonstrates that the ongoing, proactive development of the dynamic aerospace industry in our state is a top priority.
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Doug Messier
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
By Charles Bolden
NASA Administrator
NASA is committed to launching our astronauts on American spacecraft from U.S. soil as soon as possible. Since the end of our Space Shuttle Program in 2011, NASA has relied on the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the launch and safe return of astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) aboard its Soyuz spacecraft. While our Russian counterparts have been good partners, it is unacceptable that we don’t currently have an American capability to launch our own astronauts.
Made in Space will fly the first 3D printer in space next year aboard a SpaceX Dragon freighter, which will deliver it for use by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, CTO Jason Dunn announced on Saturday. Dunn told attendees at the Space Hacker Workshop in Mountain View, Calif., that this will be the first time that humans will conduct manufacturing operations off the Earth. The 3-D machine will allow […]
CCP Spotlight on Development Via NASA NASA’s Partner Integration Team, also called a PIT Crew, recently participated in a review of The Boeing Company’s electrical power system plans for the CST-100 spacecraft. The power system will be a critical component of the CST-100 because it will generate the power required during a mission and distribute it to all of the spacecraft’s onboard equipment. To learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew […]
Video Caption: The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Boeing X-51A WaveRider unmanned vehicle achieved the longest air-breathing hypersonic, scramjet-powered flight on its May 1 fourth test flight, flying for 3.5 minutes on supersonic-combustion ramjet power and reaching a maximum speed of Mach 5.1.
I am Tweeting live from the Space Hacker Workshop at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California. Look for my Tweets @spacecom. Hash tag for the event is #makersinspace
YUMA, Arizona (NASA PR) — A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday.In the test, conducted in Yuma, Ariz., the mock capsule was traveling about 250 mph when the parachutes were deployed. That is the highest speed the craft has experienced as part of the test series designed to certify Orion’s parachute system for carrying humans. Engineers rigged one […]
I teamed up with Clark Lindsey of NewSpace Watch during the recent Space Access Conference to provide an overview of commercial efforts taking place outside of the United States. Here are PDF versions of the presentations we gave during the conference. I think the only major thing that has changed on mine during the past three weeks is that the Russian Angara rocket’s inaugural launch has…wait for it…slipped another year […]
Video Caption: Robert Bigelow, founder and president of Bigelow Aerospace LLC, talks about his company’s inflatable module that will be tested on the International Space Station in 2015 and the outlook for space tourism. He speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line”.
By Steven Siceloff
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center will have a leading role in NASA’s plans to capture an asteroid and launch astronauts to explore it, the center’s director told employees shortly before the agency’s 2014 budget proposal was released.
“It does everything that needs to be done as far as developing the technologies and the skills that we need for exploration beyond planet Earth,” said Bob Cabana, director of the Florida center. “Testing out our spacecraft on a real mission instead of a pure test flight I think is very exciting. The team here at Kennedy, we’re ready to get on board and make this happen. I’m very excited about this mission.”