Happy new year Constellation?

Aviation Week’s senior space editor Frank Morring has posted a story about NASA’s Constellation programme with some detail on developments its going through And this week Boeing won the Ares I crew launch vehicle (CLV) instrument unit (IU) contract. Useful...

As quiet as the dark side of the Moon

With the thanksgiving holiday in the US at the moment the English language spaceflight community of bloggers and mass media has gone very quiet but here is some detail on NASA’s Ares I crew launch vehicle (CLV) and Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV) care of...

A constellation of shooting and falling stars

Following Flight’s exclusive on NASA’s own reporting of ongoing problems with its Ares I crew launch vehicle in an internal emailed newsletter, NASAWatch.com has published detail about one difficult issue the Ares project office is having to wrestle with...