JAXA will broadcast a live launch report through the Internet from 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 11th (Japan Standard Time) [12:30 p.m. ET Thursday, Sept. 10].
NASA and ATK have rescheduled the test of the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket for Thursday, Sept. 10.
Video of a test during the First Space Elevator Competition in Tokyo, Japan.
Guy Laliberte describes his upcoming space tourism flight to the International Space Station.
An op-ed by X PRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis about space tourism and an interview with William Pomerantz about the Google Lunar X Prize.
An interview with Billie Reed, executive director of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority.
Experiments in the field of materials science on board the A300 Zero-G, pictured here during DLR’s 12th parabolic flight campaign in April 2008.
DLR PRESS RELEASE
From 7–21 September 2009, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will perform, for the 14th time, a series of research flights to provide weightlessness conditions, using the Airbus A300 ZERO-G. The event will also celebrate ten years of activity for DLR’s parabolic flight programme for microgravity research. The largest flying laboratory in the world will take off from Cologne/Bonn airport for a total of five research flights. Scientists will use these flights for experiments in biology, medicine, physics, materials research and technology.
Island Britain: sleepy Isle of Man moves into the space age
The Times
In a nondescript building on a housing estate in Onchan a company called CVI made the laser optics with which Nasa’s Phoenix Lander spotted snow on Mars last year. Another Manx company, Odyssey Moon, is competing to win the $30million (£18.4million) Google Lunar X prize by putting a robotic landing craft on the Moon. A third, Excalibur Almaz, is developing space tourism.
Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center
Posey finds KSC workers “fearful” in closed door meeting
Orlando Sentinel
Congressman Bill Posey (R- Rockledge), fresh from his health care town hall gathering in Melbourne on Wednesday, made a quick visit to Kennedy Space Center on Thursday for a closed-door meeting with dozens of anxious workers facing layoffs next year when the space shuttle is mothballed.
Is Jupiter’s Bizarre Moon Our Best Hope for Finding Extraterrestrial Life?
Discover Magazine
Jupiter’s moon Europa is a forbidding world, yet NASA intends to devote billions of dollars over the next decade to getting there. At the center of this effort will be the most complicated orbital explorer ever built, each of its components carefully armored against the deadly stream of particles in Jupiter’s massive wake. The orbiter will require six years to reach its destination. Then, when it arrives at Europa, engineers will consider the mission successful if it survives for just three months of exploration before shorting out.
The Augustine Commission will transmit its recommendations for the future of America’s human spaceflight program on Tuesday, September 8.