ScienceInsider has a wide-ranging interview with presidential science adviser John Holdren, who heads up the Office of Science and Technology. Holdren touches upon a broad range of science and technology issues, including the space shuttle, International Space Station, and cooperating in space with China:
PRESS RELEASE
The Space Frontier Foundation urged NASA to respect the results of a nationwide contest to name a new waste re-cycling module for the International Space Station (ISS). The Foundation proposed using either the first or second place winners of the contest: “The Colbert†(for the popular comedian) or “Serenity†(for the popular sci-fi television and film) as the official name for the module, whose purpose is to re-cycle human waste products and is the first of its kind to be flown in space.
ARIANESPACE PRESS RELEASE
Following the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 in Evry, France, Arianespace announced 2008 sales of 955.7 million euros [$1.27 billion], with net income of 2.5 million euros [$3.3 million].
Space tourism depends on U.S. shuttle decision – Roskosmos chief Interfax The decision to resume tourist flights to the International Space Station (ISS) will be made after NASA decides on how long its shuttles can remain in service, said Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos). “We will consider space tourism in the context of the program of further missions. It is very important for us to know […]
Spaceport tax funds reserved for public schools
Las Cruces Sun-News
After a three-hour discussion about the fate of educational dollars that will come from a Doña Ana County spaceport tax, county commissioners decided Tuesday the money will go directly to the area’s three school districts.
ESA Press Release
Mars500 diary: settling in
7 April 2009
One week into their simulated Mars mission inside a special isolation facility in Moscow, the crew of six are reported to be in good spirits. ESA-selected crewmember Oliver Knickel sent the first diary entry since starting the 105-day stay for the Mars500 study.
Ex-Rep. Lampson not headed to top NASA job
Houston Chronicle
Former Rep. Nick Lampson said Tuesday he is no longer a contender for the $177,000-a-year NASA administrator post.
The changing face of aerospace
Press-Telegraph (Long Beach, CA)
Because major defense companies such as Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Raytheon have such large operations in the South Bay and Long Beach, the region’s economy has often reaped the benefits of federal spending on aerospace.
This week’s announcement by Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the Pentagon wants to shift priorities and stop spending billions on F-22 jet fighters and the C-17 Globemaster, however, was worrisome. Both those programs support thousands of jobs in Southern California.
Night with a Futurist Explores Space 2.0
Rocky Radar
Monday’s Night with a Futurist provided thoughts on “The Business of Space 2.0†and an overview of the 8th Continent Project designed to support this business. Burke Fort and John Metzger gave the presentation, with Fort opening by walking the audience through the four evolutionary stages of space-related business: Space 1.0, Space 1.5, New Space and Space 2.0.
Symantec Corp, makers of Norton security software, today announced the grand prize winner of its “Blast Off With Norton” sweepstakes. Jorge Patricio León López from Chile has been selected to take a suborbital flight to space, blasting out of the Earth’s atmosphere, experiencing weightlessness and seeing the boundary between Earth and space.
Russian Spacecraft Carrying Billionaire Space Tourist Lands Safely
Space.com
A billionaire space tourist and two professional astronauts returned safely to Earth Wednesday aboard a Russian spacecraft, bringing a successful end to their respective missions to the International Space Station.
American space tourist Charles Simonyi and the station’s returning Expedition 18 crew touched down on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT), their Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft parachuting to a pinpoint landing.
Study: Frequent space missions are harming “ozone layerâ€
TopNews.in
The frequent launches of space rockets are harming the protective ozone layer of Earth – that’s what the US atmospheric researchers have warned in their recent study. The scientists have cautioned and advised that the space missions should be restricted as rocket launches are damaging the stratospheric ozone layer.
