SPACE FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE
The Space Foundation has released the following statement from Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham regarding the FY2010 NASA Budget Request:
“The NASA budget proposal is disappointingly business-as-usual. Despite what appears to be an increase to the top line, the NASA budget continues a more-than-two-decade decline in real, inflation-adjusted dollars.
Sen. Bill Nelson has urged a nationwide search for the next president of Space Florida. He also has earmarked money in the NASA budget to encourage commercial space activities.
A new team, White Label Space, has entered the Google Lunar X PRize, bringing to 18 the number of competitors for the $25 million award for the first successful private landing of a rover on the lunar surface.
The Hawaii Legislature approved a bill to fund an application to the FAA for a spaceport license.
Artist's conception of WhiteKnight2/SpaceShipTwo in flight (credit: Virgin Galactic)
Moray space flights bid is backed
The Press and Journal
Moray MP Angus Robertson and MSP Richard Lochhead held talks in Edinburgh yesterday in an effort to secure the use of RAF Lossiemouth for the ambitious project….
Barack Obama’s proposed budget for NASA is drawing mixed reviews, as is his decision to conduct a three month study of NASA’s plan to return to the moon.
Former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine will head up a panel that will conduct a 3-month review of NASA’s human spaceflight program.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA announced Thursday an $18.69 billion budget for fiscal year 2010 to advance Earth science, complete the International Space Station, explore the solar system and conduct aeronautics research. The budget request represents an increase of $903.6 million, or 5 percent, above funding provided in the fiscal year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act. All totaled, an additional $2 billion has been added to NASA’s 2009 and 2010 budgets under the Obama administration.
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NASA's Altair lander - now with 100 percent fewer astronauts.
I know the NASA budget was released today, but it’s Thursday night, I’m really tired, and I just don’t have the stomach to plow through it. In it’s place, I hope you’ll enjoy this breaking wire story.
The Unassociated Press
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2009 — Citing severe budgetary pressures and insurmountable technical problems, the Obama Administration announced that it would eliminate all crew members from NASA’s Constellation program to return humans to the moon by 2020.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Space Florida President Steve Kohler, under fire for months for alleged mismanagement, has stepped down:
Space Florida’s president Steve Kohler has resigned his $175,000-a-year post and is walking the halls of NASA headquarters at Kennedy Space Center saying goodbye.
PRESS RELEASE
The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Enterprise Forum of Phoenix will host an extraordinary event, Rewarding Breakthrough Innovation, on June 4, 2009, at the Arizona Science Center where Arizona business leaders and community members will meet the key figure in the development of the personal spaceflight industry, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis. He will be sharing his experiences, vision and passion for having created many space-related businesses and organizations including the X PRIZE Foundation, the Rocket Racing League, Zero Gravity Corporation, Singularity University and Space Adventures, Ltd.
Alliant Techsystems 4Q beats expectations
Associated Press
Military contractor Alliant Techsystems Inc. said Thursday it lost more than $30 million in the first three months of this year, but it still beat analyst estimates and raised its fiscal 2010 outlook above Wall Street expectations.
