Transition Team for NASA: Trump adds six more to NASA transition team A half dozen experts have joined the Chris Shank-led transition team for President-elect Donald Trump at NASA. They include Steve Cook, who worked on Ares rocket development for the George W. Bush administration’s now cancelled Constellation program, and Sandra Magnus, a former NASA… [Continue Reading]
Photos from ISS: NASA releases top 16 photos from the International Space Station from 2016 The whole world stars in an all-star lineup of the 16 best photos snapped from the International Space Station in 2016. Auroras over Australia are pretty amazing. Citizens for Space Exploration – a pro-space, taxpayer, grassroots advocacy group (http://www.bayareahouston.com/content/c_s_e/c_s_e) –… [Continue Reading]
Orion Highlights 2016 and Nov 2016: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2016_orion_overview_full.pdf andhttps://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/orion_monthly_newsletter_11-2016.pdf Orion Service Module: Orion service module engine shipped to Europe The NASA-furnished rocket engine that will fit onto the Orion capsule slated for a crucial late 2018 unpiloted test launch of the Space Launch System explorationrocket has been shipped to Europe. There it will be mated to Orion’s… [Continue Reading]
Commercial Crew: NASA has a new way to fly The U.S. has turned to Russia to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station since NASA’s space shuttle fleet was retired in 2011. But that’s changing with some important milestones ahead for Boeing and SpaceX, the two U.S. companies developing low Earth orbit astronaut… [Continue Reading]
· Buzz Aldrin on Exploration and John Glenn: Buzz Aldrin: John Glenn was a hero. We owe it to him to keep exploring space Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin recalls his long-running association with John Glenn, the Mercury astronaut and first American to orbit the Earth, in an op-ed. Glenn died last week in his native… [Continue Reading]
RUAG, a Swiss technology company announces plans to occupy space in the recently completed 240,000 sq. ft. Titusville Logistics Center; Hobby Lobby was welcomed to by a large crowd at its Titusville Grand Opening; A 52,000 sq. ft. manufacturing building available for purchase or lease has been added to the North Brevard property database. [gview file=”https://titusville.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Business-Review-Newsletter-NBEDZ-December-2016.pdf”] — The… [Continue Reading]
Lunar Space Station: This is NASA’s plan for humanity’s return to the moon, and beyond A lunar-orbiting space station, positioned in the 2020s, figures prominently in NASA’s strategy to reach the Martian environs with human explorers in the 2030s. Asteroid Mission: Smith, Babin question NASA assertion that scientists now support ARM Chairs of the U.S…. [Continue Reading]
Orbital ATK / Cygnus Resupply Mission: Destructive re-entry marks end to successful Cygnus OA-5 mission Orbital ATK’s latest and most innovative NASA contracted re-supply mission carried out a planned destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. Orbital’s Cygnus re-supply capsule departed the six-person International Space Station early November 21 for an extended,… [Continue Reading]
Funding for Orion/SLS: New CR funds government through April 28, protects SLS/Orion and JPSS A proposed budget Continuing Resolution, written by House appropriators and approved by the House, would keep government agencies operating through April 28 at 2016 spending levels. However, a special provision would enable NASA’s Space Launch System, Orion and new ground support… [Continue Reading]
ESA Supports ISS 2024: Europe commits to the space station and ExoMars as part of $11 billion in commitments to ESA The European Space Agency’s 22 member ministerial council ended a long range planning session in Switzerland late last week with an endorsement to extend operations of the International Space Station from 2020 to 2024…. [Continue Reading]