President Barack Obama met with former astronaut Charles Bolden today. No word on whether the president offered the post of NASA administrator to Bolden.
Report on the Google Lunar X Prize with information about Frednet and Synergy Moon.
Mike Griffin
Exclusive interview with former NASA Administrator
WAFF 48 News
Griffin says he turned down several better-paying university president positions to take the UA-Huntsville professorship because he wasn’t interested in fund raising.
NASA has selected 21 technology demonstration projects to fly on reduced gravity aircraft flights during the week of Aug. 10 through its Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training program known as FAST.
ASTRIUM PRESS RELEASE
Astrium CEO François Auque and Gavyllatyp T. Murzakulov, CEO of JSC National Company “Kazakhstan Gharysh Saparyâ€, a company reporting to the National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, have signed a technological and strategic partnership agreement that will allow Astrium to play an active role in the development of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s space industry.
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Atlantis astronauts released the Hubble Space Telescope after five days of upgrading the orbiting observatory.
Artists conception of WhiteKnightTwo and the SpaceShipTwo space tourism vehicle. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
Following a column last week in The Guardian that challenged Virgin Galactic to be more specific about its environmental claims for SpaceShipTwo, company CEO Will Whitehorn has responded with a piece that appears to be even more general:
The Mars Society today announces the selection of six crew members, chosen to take part in a month-long Mars simulation on Devon Island in the Canadian arctic.
Space Florida’s interim CEO draws praise
Orlando Sentinel
Space Florida’s board of directors on Monday selected Brevard County space consultant Frank DiBello to be acting president of the state’s troubled aerospace development body for the next 90 days while they organize a search for a permanent president.
The Space Review covers NASA’s future, space debris, and Utopian space colonies in this week’s edition.
President Barack Obama pushed back his meeting with Charles Bolden to Tuesday morning due to a scheduling conflict. Bolden is a front runner for the job of NASA administrator.
Artists conception of WhiteKnightTwo and the SpaceShipTwo space tourism vehicle. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
Hot on the heels of news that Virgin Galactic has signed up clients in (can you believe it?) Hong Kong, it seems that the company is targeting another nearby country where people might be able to spend $100,000 per hour on a vacation:
Virgin Galactic, an affiliate of the giant Virgin Group owned by Richard Branson, has begun promoting to Korean customers its future private space travel program that will hopefully start next year….