NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA selected 152 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, or SBIR. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $91 million. NASA will award the contracts to 126 small high technology firms in 27 states.
The SBIR program works with NASA’s mission directorates to competitively select ventures that address research and technology needs for agency programs and projects.
Controversial Joe Story quits Andrews Institute
Pensacola News Journal
Dr. Joe Story, one of the driving forces behind Baptist Health Care’s $40 million Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, has resigned….
The Institute — and Story himself — also came under controversy over Project Odyssey, a space tourism program funded by state grant money.
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NASA AMES PRESS RELEASE
NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA) will be hosting an all-night event (October 8 and 9) featuring a real-time moment in space exploration as the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impacts the moon to search for water ice and vapor. The LCROSS Impact event will be held outdoors at NASA Ames Research Center from 5:30 p.m. Thursday, October 8 through 6:30 a.m. Friday, October 9, with impact occurring at 4:30 a.m. October 9. The special night of programming includes guest speakers (7:30-9:00 p.m.), feature films (9:30 p.m. – 2:30 a.m. – reserved tickets required), a special live performance by Kenji Williams (2:30 a.m.), and live mission coverage on a large, outdoor screen (3:15-5:00 a.m.).
Author Yann Martel to kick off Laliberte space show
CTV News
Acclaimed Canadian novelist Yann Martel says he didn’t know he had it in him to write a 14-stanza poem about water for a show that will be hosted in space this Friday.
The poem from the “Life of Pi” author, entitled “What the Drop of Water Had to Say,” sets the theme for the show, which will be hosted by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte from the International Space Station.
‘KSLV-II launch in 2019 will be difficult’
The Korean Herald
For Korea to launch a fully indigenous space rocket in 2019 as planned may be difficult because the country has yet to sufficiently secure core technology, a lawmaker said yesterday.
Shelby slams Augustine commission, touts Constellation
Orlando Sentinel
In a forceful floor speech, Alabama’s senior senator defended NASA’s current plan to return astronauts to the moon and jabbed the recent findings of a presidential space panel tasked with evaluating the agency’s troubled Constellation program.
Masten Space Systems has completed both flights in Level 1 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The X Prize’s William Pomerantz says that the second flight looks like it landed perfectly. RT @Pomerantz: Woooohooooooo!! Looks to be almost dead center Dave Masten: “We flew us a rocket ship!”
Unreasonable Rocket’s lunar lander goes head to head with a forklift – and loses!
“Orphans of Apollo” will screen in DC on Friday while The Space Show will air an interview with MirCorp founder Walt Anderson from his current residence, Fairton Correctional Facility.
