by Rob Coppinger | Feb 16, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Technology
>Click here to go to the webpage to listen to the 3min 43s interview with Ad Astra Rocket company president and chief executive Franklin Chang Diaz, former NASA astronaut and inventor of the VAriable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR). Chang Diaz talks...
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 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
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 21, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
Is this going to see the big new vision annoucement? The State of the Agency:NASA Future Programs Presentation Sponsored by the NASA Alumni Leaguewith support from the AAS, AIAA and WIA Friday, February 12, 2010James E. Webb AuditoriumNASA Headquarters...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 13, 2010 | ESA, International Space Station
EADS Astrium has announced that ATV-2 Johannes Kepler is undergoing flightworthiness and functionality tests. Its press release says:”Johannes Kepler”, the second unmanned European cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS), is currently...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 8, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV) could be launched by the latest version of Europe’s EADS Astrium Ariane 5 rocket by 2019 according to a French government funded study. The Ariane 5 Mid-Life Evolution (ME) variant, planned to begin operations by...
