SPACE FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE
Nominate yourself or someone else for induction into the prestigious Space Technology Hall of Fame® in 2010. The program honors innovations by organizations and individuals who transform space technology into commercial products that improve life on Earth. Nomination information, including online and downloadable nomination forms, is available on www.SpaceTechHallofFame.org.
SEA LAUNCH PRESS RELEASE
Sea Launch Company L.L.C. and Sea Launch Limited Partnership and subsidiaries (“Sea Launch†or “Companyâ€), a leading provider of launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has filed voluntary petitions to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington.
NASA MISSION UPDATE
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully entered orbit around the moon following a nearly five-day journey. Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft’s lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT on June 23.
The Obama Administration has criticized Congressional cuts in NASA’s proposed budget, including human spaceflight and incentive prizes.
Model of NASA's Orion spacecraft
NASA criticised for sticking to imperial units
NewScientist
NASA’s decision to engineer its replacement for the space shuttle using imperial measurement units rather than metric could derail efforts to develop a globalised civilian space industry, says a leading light in the nascent commercial spaceflight sector.
XCOR's Lynx suborbital vehicle
Ensemble, Rocketship Tours Partner for Space Travel
Travel Agent Central
If your clients are bored with the routine, take a look at the new program offered to Ensemble Travel Group agents with Ensemble’s new partnership with Rocketship Tours, a company dedicated to making space travel accessible and relatively affordable to those who aspire to such an out-of-this-world adventure.
NASA MISSION UPDATE
Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon — one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, the other will insert itself into lunar orbit to begin mapping the moon’s surface.
The Space Review this week includes reports on Spaceport America, NASA’s Constellation program, and the military’s spy satellite effort.
It’s a rap, with ‘moon man’ Buzz Aldrin and Snoop Dogg
USA TODAY
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, 79, who has had his share of rendezvous with pop culture, launches three projects today, including a rap video that features Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy and Quincy Jones.
DARPA’s Hypersonic Vulcan Engine Meld
Defense Industry Daily
It might not be a Vulcan mind-meld, but it’s pretty close. The Department of Defense’s technology brain trust, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has given 4 contractors the go-ahead to develop the advanced Vulcan combination engine system for hypersonic flight. The 8-month first phase features awards to: Alliant TechSystems, General Electric, Rolls Royce, and United Technologies.
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, Expedition 20 flight engineer, floats through the Zarya functional cargo block (FGB) of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
ESA PRESS RELEASE
A Europe-wide education event will link the International Space Station with hundreds of schoolchildren in several European cities. In a live link-up with the ISS, scheduled for 21 September, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will perform a simple experiment in space to demonstrate the effects of freefall.
The event is enabled by ESA’s Directorate of Human Spaceflight and its Erasmus Centre and will be co-hosted by four European science museums. The ‘Take your classroom into space’ activity is one of several education activities planned during De Winne’s ongoing six-month OasISS mission on the International Space Station (ISS).
AIAA PRESS RELEASE
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce that the third edition of the Handbook of Space Technology is now available through AIAA’s Library of Flight series.
