by Rob Coppinger | Jun 19, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, NASA, Orion
AvWeek’s Frank Morring has explained the above figure of $16 billion in his article about the 17 June Review of US human spaceflight plans commitee meeting. But he doesn’t detail why and so I am guessing that its a mixture of shutting down the solid rocket...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, NASA, Technology
Progress for the test flight vehicle Ares I-X has been the subject of a NASA release this week and in the above Ares I-X team 90-day timetable it looks like August will see stacking of the experimental booster, planned for high bay three of the vehicle assembly...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 11, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, NASA
There can be few objects whose alleged imminent death has been cheered by so many so vocally bar perhaps Saddam Hussein’s statue in 2003 or one of those boats they floated in the Coliseum where they apparently recreated ancient sea battles 20 centuries ago in...
by David Todd | May 8, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion, Technology
On 8 May 2009 former Lockheed Martin chairman Norman Augustine spoke to the media on a NASA teleconference about the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans he is going to lead with a panel of about ten that Augustine said is likely to include former...
by David Todd | May 7, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion
Go here for NASA’s fiscal year 2010 budget information
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2009 | Ares, commercial launch services, Constellation, exploration, Orion, Technology
But it is not because Florida Today’s The Flame Trench blog has not done its journalism properly, no, its because NASA’s public affairs office got it wrong – well everybody makes mistakes I guessNASA has told Hyperbola that The Flame...
