by Rob Coppinger | Jul 7, 2009 | exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Russia
My pals in the Kremlin (joke!) pointed me to this 6 July 2009 President of Russia statement (above) about the US Russia bilateral Presidential commission that includes a space cooperation working group. The working group is to be led by the head of Roscosmos Anatoly...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 6, 2009 | China, ESA, exploration, International Space Station
During a short conversation with European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain this morning here in Paris, at the 3rd European Conference for Aerospace Sciences, Hyperbola asked him about India, South Korea and China During the first public meeting of...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 19, 2009 | COTS, International Space Station, NASA, Technology
You can find the presentation the above slide is taken from on this webpage. I think I was on my back from the Paris air show on the Eurostar train when NASA exploration systems mission directorate associate administrator Doug Cooke showed this slide (the top half is...
by David Todd | May 26, 2009 | Constellation, COTS, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Soyuz
Poor Charles Bolden. If he does actually become NASA administrator he’ll have a flat budget, the job of retiring the world’s only reusable spaceplane (and a few thousand workers), preside over a divisive review of US human spaceflight...
by David Todd | Apr 29, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Technology
Blogosphere excitement at the prospect of $150 million, or $80 million depending upon the report you read, going directly to “commercial” development of crew transport to low Earth orbit is all misguided NASA has told HyperbolaThese are the facts:NASA is...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 16, 2009 | exploration, International Space Station
It seems NASA is not the first to develop a space exploration video game. While hunting around for new images or even video of NASA’s massively multiplayer game Astronaut: Moon, Mars and beyond I found this announcement by the US space agency’s MMO...
