Masten Space Systems will attempt to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge tomorrow in Mojave, Calif.
Video of a press conference with Cirque du Soleil’s Guy Laliberte and the crew aboard the International Space Station.
Texas Delegation Seeks More Stimulus Money for NASA
Space News
The Texas congressional delegation is urging U.S. President Barack Obama to redirect $3 billion in unspent stimulus money to NASA, a cash infusion the group said is needed to support a robust human spaceflight program and save jobs in Texas and around the country.
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Guy Laliberte (first row, far right) aboard the International Space Station.
Final bill for Cirque founder’s trip to space could rise another $10 million
The Canadian Press
The final tab for Guy Laliberte’s visit to the International Space Station could rise to nearly C$50 million (US$47.2 million) after this week’s elaborate international show linking the Cirque du Soleil founder with his terrestrial counterparts.
International Space Station
BOEING PRESS RELEASE
The Boeing Company and Russian aerospace company RSC-Energia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Moscow on Oct. 2 to work together on a future common docking system for advanced space exploration vehicles.
The two companies will complement each other’s extensive knowledge in International Space Station (ISS) design, assembly and operation to produce an international standard for docking mechanisms.
ATK lays off 550 Utah employees
The Salt Lake Tribune
ATK laid off 550 of its employees, including 400 at its nearby plant. The pink slips didn’t come as a surprise — the company had announced in July layoffs were coming — but they were painful nonetheless.
ASTRIUM PRESS RELEASE
The partnership between Astrium and JSC NC Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary (KGS), the national company charged with the development of Kazakhstan’s space programme, has reached another major milestone with the signature of a contract for two Earth observation satellites, and the foundation documents to create a Joint Venture for the construction of an Assembly, Integration and Test Facility in Astana. (more…)
Obama may decide fate of New Orleans NASA jobs WVUE-8 TV President Obama may effectively decide how long most of the jobs at Michoud stay in place. A presidential commission will issue its final report in coming weeks and could recommend an extended life for the space shuttle program. Amidst that backdrop, Senator David Vitter, R-Louisiana, hosted a public forum at the NASA assembly facility in New Orleans East, a […]
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation issued a press release marking the fifth anniversary of the Ansari X Prize being claimed and reviewing the progress in commercial space since that day:
“Since the X PRIZE flights occurred in 2004, we’ve seen a drumbeat of steady growth in the commercial spaceflight industry: the creation of NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, hundreds of deposits put down for suborbital flights, the winning of NASA’s Lunar Lander Challenge prize money, over $1.2 billion of investment poured into this new industry, and now the Augustine Committee’s endorsement of commercial spaceflight,†stated John Gedmark, Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. “We are eagerly looking forward to many more exciting accomplishments to come.â€
Those are significant achievements. And the exciting accomplishments to come? I can think of a few that would be nice…
A computerized rendering of the passenger module for the proposed Skylon space plane.
SPACEX PRESS RELEASE
October 5, 2009
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces the successful completion of acceptance testing of both the Falcon 9 first and second stages in preparation for the first flight of Falcon 9. Acceptance testing took place at SpaceX’s Texas Test Site, a 300-acre structural and propulsion testing facility, located just outside of Waco, Texas.