A P3 Navy aircraft with Hanger One at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. (Copyright 2008: Douglas Messier)
Obama’s proposed NASA budget is ‘fantastic’ for Ames, officials say
San Jose Mercury News
NASA Ames Deputy Director Lew Braxton gushed over the budget during a press conference Tuesday at Ames, calling it “overwhelmingly positive,” “a wonderful opportunity,” and “absolutely fantastic.”
“We couldn’t have written it better ourselves,” Braxton said….
The Rocket Racing League will soon be back in action with demonstration flights later this week.
The Space Review examines NASA’s proposed policy shift on human spaceflight.
The schedule for The Space Show this week.
In an editorial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer looks at the confusion and uncertainty that NASA’s new human spaceflight policy is causing at the Glenn Research Center:
In the span of 48 hours, NASA Glenn had lost its big-ticket mission, the next-generation manned spaceflight program called Constellation, and its director, Woodrow Whitlow, who will soon be off to NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he will be NASA’s associate administrator for mission support.
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser - a space shuttle designed for orbital flight and ISS servicing.
The $50 million in contract awards that NASA announced earlier this month will fund a number of approaches to commercial human spaceflight, including a new capsule and a small space shuttle. The space agency also spread out awards between newer, entrepreneurial companies and established aerospace giants.
Obama’s Move To End Constellation Prompts Industrial Base Questions
Space News
[Air Force Gen. Robert] Kehler said the president’s decision to do away with Constellation and foster new commercial space transportation services presents both opportunities and challenges for the Air Force.
“I’m not a glass-half-empty kind of guy on this one,†he said. “I think we’ve got some opportunity there to go work together with NASA and commercial to make sure that we are preserving the essential pieces of the industrial base we have to go preserve.â€
Derrick Pitts of the Franklin Institute discusses Obama’s new NASA human spaceflight policy with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.
NASA could be rocketing to United Launch Alliance’s sweet spot
Denver Business Journal
[CEO Michael] Gass also described a future for NASA that, without his quite saying it, sounded like the agency’s human space flight strategy is drifting into the ULA’s sweet spot as a business….
X PRIZE Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has written a defense of President Obama’s NASA budget for The Wall Street Journal:
Government agencies have dominated space exploration for three decades. But in a new plan unveiled in President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget earlier this month, a new player has taken center stage: American capitalism and entrepreneurship. The plan lays the foundation for the future Google, Cisco and Apple of space to be born, drive job creation and open the cosmos for the rest of us.
NASA cancels KSC contract leading to charge “Obama broke lawâ€
Orlando Sentinel
NASA on Friday cancelled its solicitation for the next generation ground services contract for Kennedy Space Center, leading to accusations that President Barack Obama broke the law.
Masten Space Systems flew its Xombie lunar lander in Mojave on Friday.
