Posts Tagged ‘Augustine’

Lawmakers produce Bill to extend shuttle to 2015, utilize CxP, advance HLV

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Senator Kay Hutchison – in conjunction with Representatives Suzanne Kosmas and Bill Posey – has produced a 37 page Bill that proposes major refinements to NASA’s FY2011 proposal, and NASA’s forward plan. The Bill is centered around a shuttle extension to 2015, in support of fully utilizing the International Space Station (ISS), along with saving [...]

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Bolden to review HLV study on Friday – Sidemount in doubt, In-line/SSME boost

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will review the findings of his “special team” – which he set up to evaluate all Heavy Lift alternatives to the current plan – on Friday. Pre-empting the overview, Exploration Project officials all-but ruled out the Sidemount HLV, whilst noting a couple of In-line heavy lifters – one of which appears [...]

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NASA’s Flexible Path evaluation of 2025 human mission to visit an asteroid

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

NASA managers have created an evaluation and roadmap for a potential human mission to visit the 1999 AO10 Near Earth Object (NEO) as early as 2025, as part of their options under the Flexible Path approach to the future of Human Space Flight. The mission would focus on using the International Space Station (ISS) as [...]

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