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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Tags: Augustine, Extension, HLV
Published in Commercial, Featured, Shuttle, SLS/Orion
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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Tags: ares, Augustine, HLV, SLS/Orion
Published in Featured, SLS/Orion
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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Tags: Augustine, NEO, Orion, SLS/Orion
Published in Featured, SLS/Orion