"Simply Blue" Space Art Event. 4 Times Square, May 6th, 6-8pm. (PRNewsFoto/Environmental Tectonics Corporation)

Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s (OTC Bulletin Board: ETCC) (“ETC” or the “Company”) The National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR®) Center announced today that it is partnering with Valerie Wilson Travel, Inc., and Virtuoso, premier travel agents for Virgin Galactic, and the Durst Organization to support artist Laurance Rassin in his goal of becoming the first American artist to create art in space. The art exhibit titled “Simply Blue” will feature a public reception for the artist at the Conde Nast Tower at 4 Times Square on May 6th, 2010 from 6-8 pm.

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Monday, May 3, 2010: 2-3:30 PM PDT: We welcome back Dallas Bienhoff will talk with us about orbital propellant depots. Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 7-8:30 PM PDT: Tom Olson and Robert Jacobson join us to talk about the upcoming Space Investment Summit #8 in Chicago later this month. Wednesday, May 5, 7-8:30 PM PDT PDT: OPEN LINES DISCUSSION. Friday, May 7, 2010: 9:30-11:30 AM PDT: We welcome back Dr. Erik […]

CSF PRESS RELEASE

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce that the Southwest Research Institute, which recently committed funding to fly researcher-astronauts and their payloads onboard commercial suborbital spacecraft, has joined the Federation as an Executive Member, having received unanimous approval by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s Board of Directors.

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Race To Save Space Jobs Continues
News 13

More than 200 space industry leaders met in Brevard County Friday as the push continues to save shuttle worker jobs.

“We’re ready for it, now it’s coming on and we’re going to address it,” said Lynda Weatherman from the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast.

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Researchers aboard ZERO-G Corporation's GFORCEONE aircraft. (PRNewsFoto/Zero Gravity Corporation, Steve Boxall)

NASA and the National Science Teachers Association, or NSTA, have selected high school teachers from Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Missouri, New York, North Carolina and Washington to fly an experiment in microgravity.

This flight opportunity will allow high school teachers and students to propose, design, fabricate, and evaluate an experiment the teachers will fly in a reduced gravity environment. The overall experience will include scientific research, hands-on design and test operations aboard a modified Boeing 727 jetliner. Zero-Gravity Corp. of Las Vegas will conduct the flights the week of July 29 to Aug. 7 in cooperation with the Reduced Gravity Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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CALIFORNIA SPACE AUTHORITY PRESS RELEASE

April 19, 2010, industry, labor, economic development, and education association representatives convened to design and implement new strategies to keep Bay Area manufacturing excelling in the 21st century global economy. The meeting commenced a schedule of regular gatherings in which stakeholders will focus on implementing both immediate and long term programs to ensure a pipeline of talented leaders for high-quality careers in all aspects of the manufacturing economy.

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Sorry, I couldn’t find an English language version of this video. But, it’s very cool…

Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center

Bolden, Locke to lead jobs task force
Florida Today

President Barack Obama on Monday will appoint Cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs to lead a task force that will develop a $40 million job-creation plan for the Space Coast.

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Steve Landeene

New Mexico Spaceport Authority Executive Director Steve Landeene was suspended from his job prior to his April 16 resignation due to his involvement in a controversial land deal, according to multiple media reports.

Landeene signed an agreement in February to purchase a 30,000-acre ranch adjacent to Spaceport America, whose development he was overseeing as NMSA executive director. The spaceport and the infrastructure improvements to support it are being funded by New Mexican taxpayers to the tune of more than $200 million.

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The FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee has released preliminary agendas for two-days of meetings in Washington. COMSTAC’s Working Group will meet on May 18, with a public meeting the following day.

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Bill Suitor, author of The Rocketbelt Handbook, joins us for a phone interview talking about his experiencing flying around on a rocketbelt. We also have stunning images from SDO, a NASA balloon destroying a car, Earth is safe for another 100 years and more in our space news!

Aviation Week reports that Dassault has been studying a suborbital space plane for the last six years:

Dassault and Swiss partners are close to wrapping up study efforts on a potential human-rated suborbital vehicle, the so-called VSH. Study efforts into VSH, a six-passenger, 11-metric-ton, air-launched vehicle, have been underway since 2004. Two years ago Dassault partnered with Ruag, ETHZ and the Lausanne polytechnic to further refine the concept under the K-1000 project.

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