by Rob Coppinger | Jul 7, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Space Shuttle, Technology
So now we see that some parts of the media are getting all excited about the Shuttle derived Heavy Lift Vehicle. This presentation is, Hyperbola thinks, from the NASA technical team that is reviewing the original work carried out by the Space Shuttle Programme (SSP)...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 19, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, NASA, Orion
AvWeek’s Frank Morring has explained the above figure of $16 billion in his article about the 17 June Review of US human spaceflight plans commitee meeting. But he doesn’t detail why and so I am guessing that its a mixture of shutting down the solid rocket...
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 | May 8, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion, Technology
On 8 May 2009 former Lockheed Martin chairman Norman Augustine spoke to the media on a NASA teleconference about the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans he is going to lead with a panel of about ten that Augustine said is likely to include former...
by David Todd | May 7, 2009 | Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion
The $250 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 that is going to NASA exploration systems and not its commercial COTS work (which is getting $150 million) is being split in the following ways according to Exporation Systems Mission...
by David Todd | May 7, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, NASA, Orion
Go here for NASA’s fiscal year 2010 budget information
