International Space Station
NASA AMES PRESS RELEASE
News media are invited to join students who recently arrived at NASA’s Ames Research Center for the 2009 International Space University Space Studies Program as they interact with NASA’s Expedition 20 astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The live educational downlink event will be held from 10:10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at Building 3 on the NASA Research Park.
Boeing could face a charge of $478 million due to the bankruptcy of its Sea Launch subsidiary.
XCOR's Lynx suborbital vehicle
Fancy A Trip Into Space This Summer?
Female First
Underwater hotels, space tourism and London to Sydney in just two-and-a-half hours are set to become the must-have holidays of the future as uncharted areas of the globe become harder to find, according to new industry predictions…
Florida Senator Bill Nelson
Nelson inserts three NASA earmarks into spending bill
Orlando Sentinel
Three projects on Florida’s Space Coast would get $1.6 million in funding next year as part of an overall $18.7 billion budget for NASA approved today by a Senate spending committee.
The pet projects, or earmarks, were inserted by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, and would help build a testing facility and launch pad in Brevard County, as well as steer $100,000 toward helping local aerospace businesses.
NKorea vows nuke attack if provoked by US
Associated Press
Punching their fists into the air and shouting “Let’s crush them!” some 100,000 North Koreans packed Pyongyang’s main square Thursday for an anti-U.S. rally as the communist regime promised a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” for any American-led attack.
SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE
Singularity University (SU) — the new academic institution with the goal of preparing the next generation of leaders to address “humanity’s grand challenges†— today announced the selection of 40 students to represent the inaugural class for the Graduate Summer Program (GSP). Singularity University narrowed the final 40 students from a pool of more than 1,200 candidate applications around the globe. The summer program begins on June 29, 2009, based at its campus on the NASA Ames Research Park.
SU also announced that leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, ePlanet Ventures, joins SU as the newest Corporate Founder to support the institution.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA today announced that it has signed an agreement with the California Space Authority, Inc., (CSA) to collaborate on participatory science and public outreach using a simulated lunar surface environment.
Video of the Augustine panel’s first public hearing on the future of America’s human spaceflight program.
Senate to keep NASA funding safe
Florida Today
A key Senate panel approved a NASA budget Wednesday that would retain nearly every dollar sought by President Barack Obama in his $18.7 billion request for the agency.
NASA has produced a Star Trek themed poster for ISS Expedition XXI.
