by Rob Coppinger | Feb 26, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, COTS, exploration, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Technology
Burt Rutan has released the following statement:To my friends in the Press…Since the WSJ chose to cherry-pick and miss-quote my comments to CongWolf and since the blogs have taken that to further mischaracterized mycomments, I am forwarding the Wolf memo in its...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 5, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Personal spaceflight
Tweeted yesterday by Hyperbola, below is the full text of Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan’s response to Associated Press science writer Alicia Chang:That is not a “NASA plan”; it is the proposed budget from the White House. It will likely...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 2, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion
NASA’s first foray into private spaceflight, the commercial orbital transportation services programme, also known as COTS, has seen a 60% hike in the agency’s investment with the fiscal year 2011 budget Originally planned to cost $500 million which the...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 1, 2010 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, COTS, NASA, Orion
Perhaps the big surprise of the NASA budget teleconference was the sudden announcement by agency administrator Charles Bolden of the winners for NASA’s $50 million Commercial Crew Development initiative This bloggers question, if selected during the...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 1, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion
US spaceflight website space.com has revealed that in a teleconference yesterday the US government’s Office of Management and Budgets’ director Peter Orszag and the White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer confirmed that president Barack...
by Rob Coppinger | Feb 1, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola is and will be working east coast time to cover the NASA budget publication and reactions to it
