August 2011
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How to beef up NASA's budget
Via a twitter by the name of sizemore:
“If NASA had an ounce of sense they’d ‘discover’ oil on Mars. Shuttle missions ready to go in 12 months. Armed to the teeth. Just in case.”
Water? Hmph, we all gotta step our games up on this one.
July 2011
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Guess who just went to the Space and Rocket Center and took over 90 pictures???
Ya’ll getting photo dumped on tomorrow or Monday, be prepared. Just have to see how long it takes to do 90 emails from my phone to the computer. (It’s times like these that I am tempted to finally upgrade to a smartphone)
Mars Rover Site Picked
NASA announced the site for the Mars Science Laboratory’s rover, named Curiosity, yesterday. It’s gonna be at a giant crater named Gale. Now, this crater has a friggin mountain rising out of it’s center. From the article:
“Gale crater is about 96 miles (154 kilometers) wide and has a mountain at its center that rises higher, from the crater floor up, than Mount Rainer...
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new-aesthetic:
“55,000 people watching the shuttle pilot’s HUD seconds before he makes the final landing of the shuttle program (in darkness).” — Matt O., with thanks.
Sweet Mother Mary of Jesus, that’s awesome.
On a far happier note
My company shipped me down to Huntsville, AL this week to do work on a proposal for Marshall Space Flight Center. This means I get to go the the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville for the first time since I was a kid! Whoooooooo wants some pictures this weekend?!
Text from a Proposal's teaming agreement that I'm...
The NASA space program, and MSFC’s role in that program, is in a state of flux as a result of cancellation of the Constellation/ARES program, increased emphasis on use of commercial vehicles for launching and servicing missions in low Earth orbit, and challenges associated with the federal budget, in general. This leads to very significant uncertainties regarding the types and levels of on-site...
“Nobody’s dreaming about tomorrow anymore. NASA knows how to dream about...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson on NASA (via the-green-chemist)
"As it turns out, Tuesday marked the 36th... →
inothernews:
Let’s get back. Quick.
Word.
Funding
We need ourselves a Dalek invasion immediately. Betcha Congress ponies up a few hundred billion for space things if it involves being able to shoot things. Then we can grab 50 billion of that and use it to take pretty pictures of friendly space things in the name of “reconnaissance”.
Side note: Yes, I’ve been holding back on posting original content in lieu of just reblogging...
Space And Stuff, IDK: We Fly →
postcardsfromspace:
Watching the final launch of Atlantis this morning, I finally put my finger on what bothers me so fundamentally about the privatization of space travel.
For fifty years, the accomplishments human spaceflight—all that brilliance and innovation and technology and sheer…
This times a thousand
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SPACE!: Panel Proposes Killing Webb Space... →
ifuckinglovespace:
NY Times:
The House Appropriations Committee proposed Wednesday to kill the James Webb Space Telescope, the crown jewel of NASA’s astronomy plans for the next two decades.
The telescope, named after a former administrator of NASA, is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, and…
This would be the proper time to call/write your congresspeople and yell NOOO!!...
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SVK by Warren Ellis →
Warren Ellis just put out his new, mailorder-only comic called SVK today. If you’re following this blog, this is definitely relevant to your interests. So order it, you’ll be happy. If your not familiar with the authors name, he wrote the Orbiter and Ministry of Space graphic novels. Which are more relevant to our interests than many other NASA things. So check it out and be happy.
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June 2011
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PAWLENTY: Yeah, I think the space program has played a vital role forward the United States of America. I think in the context…
KING: But can we afford it going forward?
PAWLENTY: In the context of our budget challenges, it can be refocused and reprioritized, but I don’t think we should be eliminating the space program. We can partner with private providers to get more...
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GINGRICH: Well, sadly — and I say this, sadly, because I’m a big fan of going into space and I actually worked to get the shuttle program to survive at one point — NASA has become an absolute case study in why bureaucracy can’t innovate.
Really you old fuck? Go to hell. Maybe I’m behind on this, but again, fuck off.
Via the Republican “debate“
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