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06 May 2010
Successful Test for Orion Launch Abort System (Video)
NASA successfully tested the pad abort system developed for the Orion crew vehicle on Thursday morning at the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico. The 97-second flight test was the first fully integrated test of the Launch Abort System developed for Orion. "It was a big day for our exploration [...]
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15 April 2010
Obama Wants Mission to Asteroid by 2025, Mars by mid-2030's
Speaking at Kennedy Space Center, President Barack Obama discussed his plans for NASA which includes sending astronauts to a nearby asteroid by 2025 and going to Mars by the mid-2030's. "Let me start by being extremely clear," Obama said. "I am 100 per cent committed to the mission of NASA and its future because broadening [...]
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13 April 2010
Obama Compromises, Brings Back Orion Capsule; Allows for Heavy Lift Sooner
In what could be considered a compromise in his proposed budget for NASA, President Obama is reviving the Orion crew capsule concept that he had canceled with the rest of the Constellation program earlier this year, according to an article by Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press. This should mean more jobs and less [...]
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31 March 2010
3 Welds to Go for 1st Orion Pathfinder Vehicle
Just three crucial welds remain to complete the structural assembly of the very first pathfinder Orion manned capsule - the Crew Module – known as the Ground Test Article (GTA) at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The GTA is the first full-sized, flight-like test article for Orion. The Orion test capsule [...]
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30 March 2010
Astronaut Explains Why We Should Return to the Moon
The debate on why humans should or should not return to the Moon has been ongoing for years. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear astronaut Ron Garan speak eloquently on a subject he is passionate about, water sustainability on planet Earth. Subsequently, I read an essay Garan wrote about the importance [...]
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27 February 2010
KSC Workers Rally to Continue Constellation and Extend Shuttle
About 2,000 people turned out for a "Save Our Space Exploration" jobs rally in Titusville, Florida on Saturday. Organized by union leaders, the event focused on preserving jobs at Kennedy Space Center, vital to the economy on the Space Coast. "Canceling the Constellation program is a movement away from what we Floridians [...]
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06 February 2010
Tough Times Could Be Ahead for Kennedy Space Center
The cancellation of the Constellation program compounds an already bleak picture for the Kennedy Space Center and those who work there. 7,000 shuttle workers are expected to lose their jobs by the time the shuttle program comes to an end by late 2010 or early 2011. So far, NASA has not provided an [...]
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01 February 2010
NASA Budget Details: Constellation Cancelled, But Where To Next?
We've lost the Moon. But have we gained the solar system while boosting commercial space ventures? "The President’s Budget cancels Constellation and replaces it with a bold new approach that invests in the building blocks of a more capable approach to space exploration," states the Office of Management and Budget's Fact Sheet [...]
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28 January 2010
President Can't Cut Constellation Without Congressional Approval
With all the speculation currently making the rounds about Obama axing the Constellation program and ending the possibilities of humans returning to the Moon anytime soon, it was brought to our attention by a reader that under the 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.R. 3288, passed on September 17, 2009, Congress inserted a clause in the [...]
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27 January 2010
Where is NASA Going? Rumors Fly
The rumors are flying fast and furious as to details of NASA's budget and future path that will be officially announced on February 1, 2010. The Orlando Sentinel says the Constellation program is dead: Obama and Congress are going to pull the plug on the Ares rocket and nix returning to the Moon. [...]
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22 December 2009
Engineers Find Fixes For Potential Thrust Oscillation Problem on Ares
Will the Ares rocket stay or will it go? For now, no one knows, but NASA engineers have developed multiple options for "de-tuning" the Ares I rocket to prevent any problematic thrust oscillations that could potentially expose astronauts to dangerous levels of vibrations as the rocket climbs to orbit with the Orion crew vehicle [...]
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18 December 2009
Latest Buzz: NASA to Get Bigger Budget and New Launcher
OK, I guess I was wrong yesterday when I said nothing happened during the meeting between President Obama and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden. Science News has now published this: President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars, [...]
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12 November 2009
Time Magazine Names NASA's Ares-I As "Best Invention of 2009"
Whoa. As many people noted on Twitter: Didn't see this one coming. Time Magazine named NASA's Ares rocket as the 2009 Invention of the Year. Ares beat out the what has been billed as the world's best paper airplane, the bladeless fan, rubber made from dandelions, and, my favorite, teleportation. [...]
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04 November 2009
NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight
Just one week after the first test flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, NASA says it may decide to cancel a follow-up launch called Ares 1-Y, that wasn't scheduled until 2014. Reportedly, program managers recommended dropping the flight because, currently, there isn't the funding to get an upper stage engine ready in time. [...]
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03 November 2009
Chase Plane Footage of Ares I-X Flight
Here's some great additional footage from the Ares I-X flight taken from a chase plane, which shows the entire flight, including booster separation and parachute deploy — and the problems that happened with the parachutes. The video was taken from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned approx. 10 nautical miles away from the vehicle at [...]
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