by David Todd | Apr 29, 2009 | NASA, Space Shuttle
A much pilloried US institution the workings of Congress seem, to an outsider, to have become more popularised in recent years by the prism of television satire, than any actions by the politicians themselves but for Floridians political self-interest may have just...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 16, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle
NASA needs to increase its annual average funding by $5 billion to almost $24 billion for the next decade to achieve its 2020 Moon and International Space Station (ISS) goals and be able to fly the Space Shuttles to 2015The $5 billion prediction is from the NASA...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 8, 2009 | exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
Hyperbola has decided to throw a name into the ring for NASA administrator and that person is Walter Cantrell For those of you saying “who!?” Cantrell was appointed as NASA’s deputy chief engineer for the agency’s Independent Technical...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 6, 2009 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, ESA, exploration, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Orion, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Space Shuttle, Space tourism, Technology, Virgin Galactic
While the blogosphere has been twirling to the rumour mill of Obama inspired military NASA reports (alternate universe stuff as far as Hyperbola is concened) and alleged campaigns in favour of the US space agency administrator Mike Griffin I have written a 2009...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 19, 2008 | History, NASA, Space Shuttle
So this NASA RFI on sending Orbiter’s to museums has done the rounds on the internet but the reality is that the fleet won’t be retired in 2010. Why, you may ask?It is as simple as this The end of the Space Shuttle programme is going to see thousands lose...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 24, 2008 | exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Shuttle
On 16 November 2008 NASA astronaut Eric Boe, STS-126 pilot, is shown here sitting at the pilot’s station on the forward flight deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour during rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station. However the...
