by Rob Coppinger | Oct 2, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, History, NASA, Orion
Much of the media coverage (linked too here and here) about the Government Accountability Office report on NASA’s Constellation programme has focused on the funding angle and cost estimates but Hyperbola found buried on page nine the following:”We...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 12, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion
The blogosphere is all abuzz with the outcome of yesterday’s final public meeting of the Review of US human space flight plans committeeHyperbola, despite being in Washington DC this week and the US for the past two and a bit weeks, has been somewhat hampered in...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 3, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola understands that the following will be options in the US Review of human spaceflight plans committee report that is to be about 100-pages long;A Space Shuttle extension with more flights beyond any “stretching out” of the current manifest The...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 3, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion
Hyperbola has learnt that in the course of the reviews for NASA’s return to the Moon Constellation programme, and its many avenues for meeting the new budget reality, the deletion of test flight Ares I-Y, an Ares I crew launch vehicle (CLV) with a...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 24, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, Orion, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
From 25 July to 14 August Hyperbola will be based in the US and working on the east coast and in Colorado and Utah, on Mountain time. From the public debut of Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnight Two at the EAA AirVenture air show at Oshkosh to the latest on...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 9, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, NASA, Orion
Notice anything different about the image of the slide above, compared to most other Constellation programme schedules? It is the complete lack of any milestone for the Ares V cargo launch vehicle and its Altair lunar lander, all the way out to 2020 This might seem...
