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 budgetOriginally 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 initiativeThis 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 | 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 18, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion, Russia, Soyuz
As the first week of February edges closer it would seem that the fiscal year 2011 NASA budget request, which all and sundry expected to reveal the new US human spaceflight vision, will do no such thingThis re-tweeted tweet care of the well informed Jeff Foust... by Rob Coppinger | Jan 8, 2010 | Ares, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
credit: EADS Astrium / caption: Starting this year the Oriane-Ariane launch systems could be ready by 2019NASA’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...
