Space Awareness
The Space Report Chronicles Upcoming Missions
As NASA’s Curiosity rover explores the surface of Mars, scientists and engineers are hard at work on future planetary science missions. These missions provide insight into how planets and other celestial bodies are formed, the processes that shape their internal structure, land forms and atmospheres. Upcoming Missions The next mission to Mars, the Mars Atmospheric…
Watch Great Space Videos on YouTube
There’s lots of information in this issue of Space Watch about the new Space Foundation Northrop Grumman Science Center featuring Science On a Sphere®, but for something different, take a look at this YouTube video of Science off the Sphere, here. Here is a video of International Space Station Commander Suni Williams completing the 2012…
Pulham Featured Guest on "Space Talk" – Hear it Here
Last month, Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham was the featured guest on radio program Space Talk with Jim Banke, a weekly, one-hour radio program that originates on Florida’s Space Coast, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Pulham talked about top events at the Space Foundation, the importance of…
NASA Testifies about Industry Partnerships
At the House Science, Space and Technology Committee September hearing on “Recent Developments in NASA’s Commercial Crew Acquisition Strategy,” NASA testified that the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) will enable industry partners to advance the integrated critical design of their planned crew transportation systems. This includes the crew spacecraft, launch vehicle, ground systems and mission…
House Introduces Space Leadership Preservation Act
On Sept. 20, six members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Space Leadership Preservation Act (H.R. 6491), which is aimed at providing NASA with more stability and predictability. Among other things H.R. 6491 would do are: Create a 10-year term for the NASA administrator Establish a board of directors to provide a quadrennial…
Senate Committee Hearing Raises Beyond-LEO Concerns
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing last month on “The Path from LEO to Mars,” which examined NASA’s exploration portfolio, both robotic and human, beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO) to the surface of Mars. Steve Squyres, Ph.D., testified that there are two areas of concern regarding getting beyond LEO and eventually…
Industry Stresses Need for Continued SLS, Orion Crew Capsule Funding
The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing in September on “Examining NASA’s Development of the Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule” at which representatives from industry testified that Orion is currently advancing toward its Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014. EFT-1 mission…
Call for Papers: International Space University Symposium Seeks Abstracts
The International Space University (ISU) has issued a call for papers for its 17th Annual International Symposium, to be held March 5 -7, 2013, on the ISU campus in Strasbourg, France. The 2013 theme is “Space Technology and Tele-reach: Benefiting Humanity on Earth and Beyond.” The Symposium will address tele-reach, a term referring to technologies…
NASA Awards Dynetics Contract for Space Launch System Advanced Booster
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Oct. 1, 2012) – NASA has awarded Dynetics a contract to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of an advanced booster for the Space Launch System (SLS). Dynetics will demonstrate the use of modern manufacturing techniques to produce and test several primary components of the F-1 rocket engine originally developed for the Apollo…
ISU EMBA12 Participants Graduate on the Isle of Man
Douglas, Isle of Man (Oct. 1, 2012) – 22 participants from 11 countries took part in the graduation ceremony on 21st September 2012, with the majority of them receiving a degree in masters of business administration from the International Space University (ISU). This is the second cohort receiving this degree which was created by the ISU…