by David Todd | Aug 22, 2012 | Apollo, China, Constellation, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Technology
Two years ago, the space team at the Ascend consultancy (now part of Flightglobal) did an analysis on which nation was likely to be the first to return men to the moon. In the analysis notional odds were assigned to each which country as a measure of our estimation...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 27, 2010 | Constellation, NASA, Seradata News
The Hunstville Times isn’t giving president Barack Obama’s NASA plan a good write up with its latest article about the political reaction to the flexible path to asteroids and Mars from 2025 With the headline, NASA plan: ‘Cosmic bridge to...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 26, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion, Seradata News
When this blogger saw the headline of this 30 March article by Aviation Week’s senior space editor Frank Morring it seemed that the “program of record” that dare not speak its name had finally broken cover and spoken to the media after a self imposed...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 7, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
In that great tradition of immoveable objects encountering the unstoppable force it seems the force has won out and the object, the flexible path aka plan A, is succumbing to Congressional willCertainly if you believe what NASAWatch thinks is happening behind...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 4, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s bill for authorising human spaceflight does not differ markedly from the leaked 9 February dated bill text revealed by Hyperbola last weekThe Interesting changes are the following:Bolden must submit a National Space Transportation...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 4, 2010 | commercial launch services, Constellation, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle
Former US Marine Corp Major-General Charles Bolden must by now be reflecting upon the military axiom, no plan survives contact with an enemy. In this case Bolden’s enemies are the Congressmen and women hell bent on not accepting the president Barack Obama...
