Could U.S. astronauts catch ride with China?
The Huntsville Times
Using the Chinese as a near-term solution for space station problems might not be possible, said Elliot Pulham, chief executive officer of the space advocacy group The Space Foundation, but America should begin to seek out China as a partner in space projects like lunar bases.
Southeast Valley becoming aerospace business hub
Azcentral.com
With a multibillion-dollar economic impact, the aerospace industry soars as the Southeast Valley’s payroll leader, one of the region’s largest employers and a workplace for some of Arizona’s top research talent.
Science reporter Paul Rincon has a detailed look at the problem of space debris in Standing watch over a crowded space. It takes a look at the risk, what military and civilian agencies are doing about it, and what we might do in the future to clean up the mess we’ve made in space.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA’s newest module for the International Space Station will get a new name on April 14.
The agency plans to make the announcement with the help of Expedition 14 and 15 astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” The program will air at 11:30 p.m. EDT.
The State of Florida’s Inspector General has urged the state Ethics Commission to sanction former state employee Brice Harris – who arranged for a space tourism grant to a Florida group and then resigned to head up the program.
Loretta Whitesides has this update on Odyssey Moon on the Google Lunar X Prize website:
We are pleased to pass on the news that Bob Richards and Odyssey Moon have both been nominated for World Technology Awards in the category “Space”- part of the World Technology Awards initiative held in association with TIME magazine, Science magazine/AAAS, and others.
Spaceport America offers job opportunities
Las Cruces Sun-Times
A near-capacity crowd Thursday of about 260 people filled Commission Chambers at the Doña Ana County Government Center to learn more about the construction of Spaceport America.
Our views: Drop the hammer
NASA’s next boss must stop cost overruns on moon program
Editorial
Florida Today
NASA officials now say it will cost $36 billion to start flying Ares and its companion manned Orion moonships on human missions by 2015 — $8 billion more than first estimated.
Kazakhstan Indefinitely Postpones Space Program
Xinhua News Agency
Kazakhstan has indefinitely postponed a plan of sending its own cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS) for lack of funding, Talgat Musabayev, head of the National Space Agency, said on Thursday.
Spaceport Efforts Gaining Ground
Las Cruces Sun-News
All along, the spaceport has had its critics. As the economy has tumbled in the past year, many of those critics have held the spaceport up as a boondoggle and a stress on an already strained state budget.
Launching the dream of civilian space travel
The Daily Breeze
The story is the topic of [Michael] Potter’s documentary, “Orphans of Apollo: The Battle of the Mir & the New Space Revolution,” which is making the film festival circuit.
O.C. Factory that put Men on Moon to Close
Orange County Register
The Capistrano Test Site, the historic aerospace and defense complex east of San Clemente where engineers helped perfect the engines that enabled 12 Apollo astronauts to safely land on the moon, will by phased out over the next two years by Northrop Grumman.
