CSF PRESS RELEASE

NASA’s Deputy Administrator, Lori Garver, will be the opening keynote speaker at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference on February 18-20, 2010, at which scientists, engineers, educators, and vehicle developers will gather to discuss the research and education benefits of new commercial suborbital spacecraft.

The conference, co-organized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), will take place in Boulder, Colorado. Deputy Administrator Garver is scheduled to speak on the opening day of the conference on Thursday, February 18.

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NASTAR PRESS RELEASE

Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s (OTC Bulletin Board: ETCC) (“ETC” or the “Company”) the National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR(®)) Center congratulates today the winner of the NASTAR Student Patch Design Contest, Tatsuya Arai, a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Tatsuya’s design has become the new Official Patch for The NASTAR Center’s Suborbital Scientist-Astronaut Training Program, debuting this week, January 12-13th, 2010.

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Ex-top NASA official charged in Mississippi
Associated Press

A former high-ranking NASA official pleaded not guilty Monday to nine federal charges accusing him of steering a $600,000 contract to Mississippi State University, a client of his consulting firm.

Courtney A. Stadd had already been convicted of steering a different contract for almost $10 million to the university. Stadd was sentenced in November to three years probation.

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Russia earmarks $17 mln to research nuclear-propelled spacecraft
RIA Novosti

The Russian government will allocate 500 million rubles ($16.7 million) in 2010 on a project to build a spaceship with a nuclear engine.

In line with an order issued by the Cabinet on December 29, a total of 430 million rubles ($14.4 mln) will be given to the Rosatom state nuclear corporation, and the rest to the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.

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Peter Sage of Space Energy Inc. discusses his company’s plans to build space-based solar power satellites. Part 1 is above. You can watch Part 2 after the break.

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ROSKOSMOS PRESS RELEASE

The Cosmonaut Training Center was inaugurated on January 11, 1960 in Star City outside Moscow. In 8, it was named after Yuri Gagarin, the first man to fly in space. In 1968, the USSR Defense Minister ordered to celebrate GCTC birthday on April 12, to mark the date of the first human space mission as well.

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Monday, January 11, 2010, 2-3:30 PM PST: Dr. John Jurist discusses how our modern spaceflight technology has contributed not only to cutting edge women’s health care, but better health care for us all over several decades. Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 7-8:30 PM PST: John Vornie will discuss space investment and the private capital perspective for engineers. Friday, January 15, 2010, 9:30-11:30 AM PST: Dr. John Hunter of QuickLaunch LLP explains […]

A JAXA video explaining the mission of the Akatsuki Venus climate orbiter.

The Planetary Society has canceled a Jan. 23 luncheon with Stephen Hawking and Buzz Aldrin due to the former’s inability to travel to California.

You can send your name and a short message into space aboard two upcoming solar sail spacecraft.

Video of Team Selene of the Google Lunar X Prize testing a prototype hybrid lunar rover.

Crew members for the Mars-500 simulated Mars mission have been chosen.