Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia
Space Tourism Retreat will start developing marketing plan
Delmarvanow.com
With major rocket launches to begin in earnest next year by the Mid-Atlantic Spaceport Authority on Wallops Island, the Virginia Tourism Corporation and its northern counterpart, Maryland Office of Tourism are developing a marketing plan to best capture the dollars of those who will visit for the thrill of the blast-off experience.
Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s five-year, $1.9 billion plan to upgrade the Kennedy Space Center would be cut to $250 million under legislation being considered by the House. This is an 87 percent reduction from the Obama Administration’s request.
Artists conception of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft in orbit
A House funding bill would provide NASA with $250 million in direct funding and $500 in loan guarantees over the next five years to support the development of commercial crew vehicles.
This funding level is far below the $6 billion, five-year program proposed by the Obama Administration earlier this year. A compromise funding bill introduced in the Senate last week — which the White House has given support — would provide $1.3 billion over the next three years for commercial crew development.
A bill introduced in the House would cut funding for NASA’s Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research program to $1 million annually over the next two years. This is far below the three-year, $15 million annual program proposed by the Obama Administration.
House legislation would undo White House’s NASA wish list
Spaceflight Now
A draft NASA bill being considered by the House Science Committee does not provide for an extra space shuttle mission and undercuts a compromise forged last week between the White House and Senate.
A Boeing CST-100 crew module docks at Bigelow Aerospace's Sundancer space station. (Credit: Boeing)
Boeing and Bigelow Aerospace will go forward with the development of a private space station and transport system if they can obtain enough money from NASA to complete the crew vehicle, officials said on Monday at the Farnsborough Airshow.
International Space Station
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Authorization Act of 2010
View the text of the Bill as Noticed for Markup
HOUSE CST PRESS RELEASE
Today, Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) is releasing the legislative text of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010. The bill is co-sponsored by Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Chairwoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Ranking Member Ralph Hall (R-TX), and Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Ranking Member Pete Olson (R-TX).
July 20, 2010: 35th Anniversary of Apollo Soyuz – Exclusive interviews, Virgin Galactic takes flight, Senate approves 3rd shuttle launch & heavy lift rocket, and much more.
SPACEX PRESS RELEASE
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) applauds the efforts of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee for their unanimous, bipartisan approval of the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. This landmark legislation ushers in a new era in human spaceflight by embracing the commercial sector as a full partner and recognizing commercial crew services as the primary means of astronaut transport to the International Space Station (ISS).
DIEGO URBINA DIARY No. 2
July 7, 2010
(Courtesy of ESA)
Diego writes in his second diary entry about their new home. Home, that will not only their home, but also their work, life and everything for 520 days.
Cheers from simulated interplanetary space!
The days of intense training before we entered the Mars500 modules seem now sort of far. But we can certainly remember the last one, the day in which everything stopped being the preparation for something, when it all became the real thing.
It seemed a bit surreal seeing such a great amount of journalists and people from all around the world together, including our colleagues and friends who made our preparation possible and who we thank so much. From one minute to the next we were already inside, ready for the longest experiment of isolation ever performed.
