by Rob Coppinger | Oct 16, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA
On Monday 12 October Flightglobal reported that NASA administrator Charles Bolden said that a heavy lift vehicle was necessary for exploration and that a vehicle was being costedTalking to sources within the Ares V project and close to the Space Shuttle programme...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
NASA had told Hyperbola its administrator Charles Bolden was not going to be available here in Daejeon, Korea but a bit of persistence goes a long way and over a few minutes after the heads of agency plenary session Bolden gave away some interesting...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, History, NASA, Orion
Much of the media coverage (linked too here and here) about the Government Accountability Office report on NASA’s Constellation programme has focused on the funding angle and cost estimates but Hyperbola found buried on page nine the following:”We...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
The blogosphere is all abuzz with the outcome of yesterday’s final public meeting of the Review of US human space flight plans committeeHyperbola, despite being in Washington DC this week and the US for the past two and a bit weeks, has been somewhat hampered in...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 3, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola understands that the following will be options in the US Review of human spaceflight plans committee report that is to be about 100-pages long;A Space Shuttle extension with more flights beyond any “stretching out” of the current manifest The...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 3, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion
Hyperbola has learnt that in the course of the reviews for NASA’s return to the Moon Constellation programme, and its many avenues for meeting the new budget reality, the deletion of test flight Ares I-Y, an Ares I crew launch vehicle (CLV) with a...
