White Label Space team leader Steve Allen discusses his group’s plan to win the Google Lunar X Prize.
PWR Offers Shuttle Engine Alternative
Aviation Week
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) says it could rapidly stand up an expendable space shuttle main engine (SSME) if the Obama administration decides to use a shuttle-derived throwaway heavy lifter as an alternative to the Ares I crew launch vehicle.
The company has told a White House panel reviewing human spaceflight options that it could have a sufficient number of SSMEs ready within a year using a combination of leftovers from the shuttle program and newly-built engines. It has also proposed developing a modified, lower-cost SSME as a follow-on, PWR President Jim Maser said July 14 at a Space Foundation roundtable in Washington.
Return to the Moon: Unless it’s profitable, it won’t be permanent
Ronald Bailey
Reason Magazine
The Apollo moon landings have often been compared to the explorations of Christopher Columbus and the Lewis and Clark expedition to Oregon. For example, on the 20th anniversary of the first moon landing, President George H.W. Bush declared, “From the voyages of Columbus to the Oregon Trail to the journey to the Moon itself: history proves that we have never lost by pressing the limits of our frontiers.”
But what boosters of the moon expeditions overlook is that the motive for pressing the limits of our frontiers in those cases was chiefly profit….
Live streaming coverage of NASA’s attempt to launch the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee will hold three public meetings July 28-30. The meetings are open to news media representatives. No registration is required, but seating is limited to location capacity.
Altair
Moon trip may wait until 2028
Florida Today
The Obama administration’s spending plan for NASA through 2020 would push back its current return-to-the-moon timetable to 2028, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday.
Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas
USA to lay off 240 at KSC
Florida Today
NASA’s prime shuttle fleet operator will lay off 400 people this October, including about 240 at Kennedy Space Center, as the nation’s space agency moves toward retiring its winged orbiters.
Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr
This just in from the In Case You Were Wondering Department….
Former N’Sync member Lance Bass is still eager to go into space seven years after his efforts to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz fell through. “I’m a trained astronaut, and it’s my time to go,” he declared.
Our poll of which rocket NASA should use is complete, and it looks like those anonymous rebel NASA engineers will be celebrating wherever they happen to actually work. The final vote tallies are: * DIRECT (30.0%, 27 Votes) * Falcon 9 (28.0%, 25 Votes) * Ares (23.0%, 21 Votes) * Delta IV (19.0%, 17 Votes) These results will be forwarded to the Augustine Commission, which I am sure will follow […]
eSpace Press Release
eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator for aerospace companies, today announced the first three companies participating in the eSpace incubator.
Selected from an applicant pool of more than 30 companies, the three participating companies have access to eSpace resources designed to maximize the probability of their business success.
A National Geographic video showing how future lunar settlers could find and use water on the moon.
How to Start an Aerospace Company
Inc. Magazine
Like countless entrepreneurial couples, Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum started their business from home. It was 1993, and home was Biosphere 2, the 3.14-acre terrarium in which researchers spent two years testing self-sustaining ecosystems.