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Down to Earth NASA administrator Charles Bolden and Buzz Aldrin laying a wreath at Arlington. You thought it was all over last month didn’t you? Well think again. The deal that the 112th Congress...
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Down to Earth The bad winter weather hasn’t been a problem down here in Texas, of course – but we’re all thinking of our friends in the Northeast that are snowed in. Here’s a NASA satellite timelapse...
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It has been a while since I have posted one of my weekly space news links posts. Part of the reason has been a whirlwind move that we (my girlfriend and I) made from our apartment into a new house. We...
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As I wrote about in my last post a week ago, ISS ops have been very busy lately. We were able to unberth and release the SpaceX Dragon capsule last Tuesday morning, as planned. It splashed down a few...
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Down to Earth Sally Ride is to be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Recently returned ISS Commander Chris Hadfield announced his retirement from the Canadian astronaut corps...
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Down to Earth The Russian space agency and their cosmonauts successfully completed their Olympics PR stunt last week. On Saturday, November 9th, cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy took the...
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It’s been a busy of December since my last post. A hectic week at work, following the thermal pump malfunction on December 11th, kept me very busy right up until my vacation to visit family around...
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This was not a good week for spaceflight, with two major mishaps. The first mishap, the loss of Orbital Science’s Antares rocket, with ISS cargo onboard, mere seconds after liftoff, was like a gut...
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Down to Earth Thankfully, this week was a bit quieter than last. However, speculation, discussion, and official press conferences and releases continue in the wake of the loss of both an Orbital...
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Down to Earth Last week, on Wednesday, March 11th, Orbital ATK conducted a successful static test fire of one of the solid propellant rocket motors that will be used for the SLS rocket. This is too...
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Down to Earth Russia recently made it official that they are willing to fund joint operations of ISS through 2024. Meanwhile, NASA sent Russia almost half of a billion dollars to renew the contract for...
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Down to Earth NASA has selected five new flight directors for manned spaceflight programs. Last week in Houston a new opera titled ‘O Columbia’ premiered for just two nights at the Houston Grand Opera....
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Down to Earth The joint Russian-European Mars mission, ExoMars, has been prepped for launch and is on the pad in Kazakhstan. Launch is Monday, March 14. Speaking of Mars, NASA’s delayed InSight lander...
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Down to Earth Buzz Aldrin has published a new book titled “No Dream is Too High.” United Launch Alliance and Bigelow Aerospace have announced a new partnership. Bigelow will launch their enormous...
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Down to Earth Caltech has announced that Michael Watkins will replace Charles Elachi as director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. New legislation in the US Senate, if passed, would...
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Down To Earth Some new videos from Blue Origin and SpaceX of their recent rocket successes were released this past week: The astronaut Kelly brothers, Mark and Scott, had their childhood elementary...
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Here’s your busy June update! Down to Earth Blue Origin launched their reusable New Shepard rocket for the fourth time, with a hosted webcast this time. Here is a video of the flight: A Saturn V first...
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Down to Earth Astronauts Mike Fossum and Mike Baker announced their retirement from NASA last week. NASA announced that it will be funding two new robotic missions to study distant asteroids. The Lucy...
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Down to Earth Sierra Nevada Corporation completed a successful free-flight landing test of their Dream Chase space plane. The test was the first free-flight since 2013, when they had a landing gear...
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Down to Earth In a spectacularly successful PR move last Friday, Elon Musk posted some provocative tweets (copied below) about the upcoming Falcon Heavy debut. The launch is hoped to be sometime in...
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