John Logsdon, writing at Space News, has a profound and truly excellent guest blog. The crux: Apollo was great, but can we put it behind us? Among the highlights: The administration’s incoherent defense of NASA’s current vision…whatever it is. You could go on to say this has been exasperated most recently by the Administrator’s comments [...]
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The Best Blog Entry Evah?
Posted: July 8, 2010 in Apollo, John Logsdon, Manned Space, NASA, NASA, Obama Administration, Post-Apollo, Space ExplorationTags: Manned Space
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Soyuz Docks With ISS
Posted: June 19, 2010 in ISS, LEO, Manned Space, NASA, Space ExplorationTags: Manned Space
This is the link which won’t show per normal methods…sigh. Interesting to be sure, but where’s the beef?! Tell me again just what we get from the ISS? It was supposed to be a one decade, $8 billion effort. It turned into a $100 billion 25-year effort. The idea of putzing around in LEO is [...]
Start-Ups Are Poised For Latest Space Race
Posted: August 24, 2009 in Commercial Space, International Space Station, ISS, Manned Space, NASA, Space ExplorationAndy Pasztor of the WSJ reports the administration is “leaning towards outsourcing major components of its space program.” This would mean some competition (or even cancellation!) for the planned NASA-sponsored Ares programs which (in six to eight years) will be used to resupply the International Space Station with materials and astronauts. To paraphrase Emil Faber, [...]
Time to Boldly Go Once More
Posted: July 16, 2009 in Manned Space, Space Exploration, space science, U.S. National Space PolicyFormer astronaut Buzz Aldrin makes an emotional plea for U.S. space leadership with a goal of establishing an American colony on Mars. The major shortfall in his plea is why we should do this. While Aldrin uses traditional space advocate language like “galvanize public support,” “inspire America’s young students,” and “renew our space industry,” that [...]
