Mark O’Brien: E-mails undo whiz kid’s rise at Andrews
PNJ.com
No savvy government employee would write anything incriminating in an e-mail. He would know that government e-mail is open to the public, thanks to Florida’s public records law, and he would know that e-mails never die, thanks to technology.
A Naples, Florida travel agency is selling $200,000 rides into space for Virgin Galactic.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA’s Glenn Research Center is leading a team of industry and university partners in demonstrating a prototype of a commercial hydrogen fueling station that uses wind and solar power to produce hydrogen from water. This initial installation will produce hydrogen from Lake Erie water to fuel a mass transit bus powered by fuel cells.
Have space greenhouse, will travel
AzBiz.com
The moon’s first resident won’t be human but will still require a space suit, of sorts.
No probe of ex-director
PNJ.com
Gov. Charlie Crist will not file an ethics complaint against a former top-level Andrews Institute employee, because he has resigned his job.
Richard Garriott talked to school children about his trip to the International Space Station. Mark Shuttleworth was honored in Capetown.
Middle East supplement: UAE ready to enter the space age
Flight International
Spaceflight could be the next frontier for the United Arab Emirates’ burgeoning aerospace and aviation sector. The country is already building the world’s biggest airport. Now it could be home to one of the first spaceports from which suborbital trips will be launched early next decade.
Northrop Grumman Corp. officials would like to inspect Plant 5 in Bethpage, where the lunar landing modules that took astronauts to the moon 40 years ago was built by the old Grumman Corp., to see whether it could be used for an anniversary celebration in July of that historic event.
But there’s one problem: Angelina Jolie is at work in Plant 5.
The Florida House gave overwhelming approval late Thursday to a bill creating an institute that would coordinate space-transportation-related research and development and be led by Daytona-based Embry-Riddle.
The Orlando Sentinel reports: Gov. Charlie Crist decided today not to ask the Florida Ethics Commission to rule on whether a former employee within his office broke the law by setting up a $500,000 grant for a Panhandle “space tourist” business and then taking a job overseeing the program. “Gov. Crist has reviewed the Inspector General investigation regarding Mr. Bryce Harris (sic) and in light of his recent resignation from […]
PRESS RELEASE
Spaceport America and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium will conduct the first annual education launch from Spaceport America at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2009. This historic SL-3 mission will utilize a SpaceLoft XL launch vehicle provided by participating sponsor UP Aerospace and will include 11 multi-sensor experiments designed and created by students from New Mexico schools. The launch is open to the public by RSVP via coach transportation at $10 per person. No private vehicles are allowed to the launch site.
PRESS RELEASE
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK – News) announced today that James B. Armor Jr., Ret. Major General U.S. Air Force, former Director of National Security Space Office, has been named Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Spacecraft Systems and Engineering Services for ATK Space Systems. Armor will be responsible for all strategic direction, competitive intelligence, business development and proposals within Spacecraft Systems and Services.
