Back to the Future: Nuclear Power Is BackSeptember 29

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29 Sep 2007 | 9:49 pm | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments

Does It Really Matter What Mike Griffin Thinks - or Says?September 29

Does It Really Matter What Mike Griffin Thinks - or Says?

Space station partners bicker over closure date, AFP

“NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told space station partners that the US agency has no plans for “utilisation and exploitation” of the science research lab for more than five years after it is completed, Dordain said.”

Editor’s note: In situations such as this, I just have to say: who cares what Mike Griffin thinks or says? Seriously.

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29 Sep 2007 | 4:11 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments

When Students Become TeachersSeptember 29

When Students Become Teachers

Student of Challenger Center Founder To Fly Into Space (with photos)

“The Challenger Center’s Founding Chairman, Dr. June Scobee Rodgers, issued the following statement regarding Richard Garriott’s upcoming flight: “We at the Challenger Center for Space Science Education were overjoyed to learn of Richard’s future mission into space. This is especially exciting for me given that Richard was among the students I taught at Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas while his father and my husband Dick Scobee were astronauts.”

29 Sep 2007 | 2:39 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments

A new milestone in the GMES Space Component Programme successfully achievedSeptember 29

PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Friday, September 28, 2007
Source: A new milestone in the GMES Space Component Programme successfully achieved Yesterday ESA’s Member States participating in the GMES Programme approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Programme. (Read the full post about ‘A new milestone in the GMES Space Component Programme successfully achieved’…)

29 Sep 2007 | 12:03 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments

NASA Means BusinessSeptember 28

NASA Means Business

NASA Means Business Student Competition 2008 Program Announcement, Texas Space Grant Consortium

“The NASA Means Business Student Competition program invites undergraduate and graduate students to employ their skills to help NASA articulate the contributions of space exploration to everyday life. This year’s challenge is: Help NASA to increase the number of corporate researchers, university researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors who utilize the Nation’s investment in spaceflight to grow their investments in knowledge and commerce.”

28 Sep 2007 | 10:51 pm | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments

Hansen RespondsSeptember 28

Hansen Responds

The Exxon funded swift boating of James Hansen, Deltoid

“James Hansen replies to the deceitful IBD editorial: The latest swift-boating (unless there is a new one among seven unanswered calls on my cell) is the whacko claim that I received $720,000.00 from George Soros. Here is the real deal, with the order of things as well as I can remember without wasting even more time digging into papers and records. …”

28 Sep 2007 | 8:55 pm | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments

Keeping Jupiter Attack Probe Technology Away From Jovian TerroristsSeptember 28

Keeping Jupiter Attack Probe Technology Away From Jovian Terrorists

Editor’s note:I got this from a reader tonight. I give up. We’re talking about a 15 year old spacecraft - one which was destroyed years ago - of which high resolution images are readily available - and have been in the public domain for decades. And the drawings are ITAR-controlled?

Oh yea I forgot - we did attack the planet Jupiter with Galileo in 1997. OK. My bad. I guess that makes it a weapon.

Still, I wonder what would happen if more people made the same FOIA request.

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28 Sep 2007 | 8:44 am | Cosmoss Rus and Eng | No comments

The First - Second Generation AstronautSeptember 28

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28 Sep 2007 | 4:53 am | SPACE | No comments