OMB FACT SHEET – NASA BUDGET
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) drives advances in science, technology, and exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, stewardship of the Earth, and solutions to national and global challenges. The President’s Budget invests an additional $6 billion in NASA over the next five years – an overall $100 billion commitment to the agency.
NASA UPDATE
NASA will hold news conferences on Monday, Feb. 1, and Tuesday, Feb. 2, to discuss the fiscal year 2011 budget request and announce bold new developments in the nation’s civil space effort.
On Monday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Chief Financial Officer Beth Robinson will brief reporters about the agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget during a teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EST. This is a change from the previously announced 3 p.m. Monday news conference in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s other major venture, Tesla Motors, filed for an IPO last week in order to become a public company. The California-based electric car company has sold 937 of its Roadsters sports cars worldwide. The company, which has lost $128.2 million since its incorporation in 2003, plans to introduce a Model S sedan in 2012.
For those interested in an overview of Telsa’s plans, the relevant section from the registration statement is reproduced after the break.
Mockup of India's human spacecraft (Credit: ISRO)
India plans manned space mission in 2016
AFP
India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United States, a top official said Wednesday.
The government had already approved plans for a human space flight project by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and last year gave the go-ahead for funding of around 2.8 billion dollars.
Obama budget hits ATK, Bishop rips president
Standard-Examiner
On the day 420 of its workers were laid off because the space shuttle and Minuteman missile programs are ending, ATK Launch Systems got word that funding for the shuttle’s replacement, the Ares missile, has been cut from President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal. Ares is part of the Constellation program, designed to take humans back to the moon. Ares is the missile that would carry manned vehicles into space. The motor sections that drive Ares would be built at ATK in Utah.
NASA UPDATE NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will brief reporters about the agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget at 3 p.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 1. The news conference will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E St. S.W., in Washington. NASA Chief Financial Officer Beth Robinson will join Bolden. The news conference will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s […]
John Karas, Lockheed Martin’s vice president and general manager for human spaceflight, talks to Miles O’Brien.
NASA is considering developing a heavy-lift rocket based on existing space shuttle hardware.
To California, Moon Junk Is State Treasure
The New York Times
In one small step for preservation and one giant leap of logic, the official historical commission of California voted Friday to protect two small urine collection devices, four space-sickness bags and dozens of other pieces of detritus, all currently residing nearly a quarter of a million miles from the state.
WSJ: NTSB Seeks Authority To Probe Commercial Space Accidents
Wall Street Journal
The National Transportation Safety Board, which currently probes plane, train, ship and highway crashes, wants to expand its purview to cover the final frontier: investigating commercial spacecraft mishaps and accidents.
Jupiter Direct Launcher Variants
Rebel Engineers Sit With NASA to Chart Future of Manned Space
Popular Mechanics
When the e-mail from Doug Cooke, head of NASA’s Constellation program, blinked onto Ross Tierney’s computer screen a few weeks ago, he bolted upright. The two men sit on opposite ends of the debate over the future of NASA’s human spaceflight program, and the outreach signaled that something peculiar was happening in Washington, D.C.
HYDROGENICS PRESS RELEASE
January 7, 2010
Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today announced the award of a contract for the development of a next generation power system to be used for surface mobility applications on the moon.
