Keith’s note: If the Administration really wants to win a new Space Race then these are the competitors – they were in Beijing today. They have a plan and stick to it. America – not so much. Indeed, we cut ourselves off at the knees and then complain about it. The post You Cannot Win A Space Race By Complaining appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Here is prepared testimony/statements for today’s Senate Commerce hearing on “bad moons”, China, etc. It was a long hearing and most of the senators ducked out early for lunch. Ted Cruz, Maria Cantwell, Allen Cutler, Michael Gold, Jim Bridenstine, John Shaw The post Today’s ‘Bad Moon Rising’ Hearing appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: According to “According to “There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise: Why Congress and NASA Must Thwart China in the Space Race“: there is a hearing on 3 September at 10:00 10:30 am EDT that “is an important opportunity to chart a course that reinforces American leadership in space, strengthens NASA, fuels our growing commercial space sector, and protects our economic and national security interests in the final […] The post Proclaiming A New Space Race Without A Plan To Win...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: How do these things make sense in the same universe? First the White House cuts NASA’s FY 2026 budget and guts Artemis – thus undermining NASA’s ability to compete with China. Meanwhile Congress also wants to beat China, increases NASA’s budget somewhat – but cuts critical things elsewhere. And now the White House wants to train vast numbers of Chinese students in American universities so as to better […] The post America Wants To Beat China And Help China Beat Us ...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
2024 Report on NASA’s Top Management and Performance Challenges Full report. Excerpts: The post OIG: NASA’s Top Management And Performance Challenges appeared first on NASA Watch.| SLS and Orion Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: this editorial by Mike Bloomberg “NASA’s $100 Billion Moon Mission Is Going Nowhere“ certainly does not mince words. “A celestial irony is that none of this is necessary. A reusable SpaceX Starship will very likely be able to carry cargo and robots directly to the moon – no SLS, Orion, Gateway, Block 1B or ML-2 required – at a small fraction of the cost. Its successful landing of […] The post NASA’s New Journey To Nowhere appeared first on NASA Watch.| SLS and Orion Archives - NASA Watch
“The program has made progress, but the Artemis schedule poses challenges. Artemis II and III launches (planned for September 2025 and 2026, respectively): EGS is making progress refurbishing the Mobile Launcher 1 – the structure used to transport and launch key systems – and modifying elements to support crew during these missions. New capabilities are taking longer than planned, and the program has only limited time to address potential issues. […] The post GAO Report On Artemis Mis...| SLS and Orion Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: According to a GAO report issued today: “Space Launch System: Cost Transparency Needed to Monitor Program Affordability“: “Because the original SLS version’s cost and schedule commitments, or baselines, were tied to the launch of Artemis I, ongoing production and other costs needed to sustain the program going forward are not monitored. Instead, NASA created a rolling 5-year estimate of production and operations costs to ensure that the costs […] The post Yet Another...| SLS and Orion Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: Last week two internal NASA directives dropped – except NASA has yet to officially release them: NASA Commercial LEO Space Stations Acquisition Strategy and Directive on Fission Surface Power (FSP) Development. The post NASA’s Random Policy Process appeared first on NASA Watch.| Commercialization Archives - NASA Watch
As of February 2025, NASA had allocated over $26 billion in government property to contractors in support of six Artemis programs. Although NASA has policies in place to manage its government property, the Agency can strengthen its oversight by ensuring consistent application of those policies to decrease the risk of unnecessary costs and potential loss, […]| NASA OIG
Following the loss of Ship 36 during its static fire test campaign at Masseys on…| NASASpaceFlight.com
There is a lot of public favor for the idea of the U.S. returning to the moon| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: According to a media advisory sent out on 22 July by NASA HQ “Senegal will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 24, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Brian Hughes, NASA chief of staff, will host Maram Kairé, director general of the Senegalese space agency (ASES), and Abdoul Wahab Haidara, ambassador of Senegal to the United States, along with other officials […] The post Senegal Visit Signals The Real NASA Management Structure appea...| Administrator Updates Archives - NASA Watch
Listen to this audio excerpt from Joe Pavicic, Artemis operations project engineer| NASA
In March 2019 the American Vice President Mike Pence surprised many people when he announced an extremely ambitious plan to put American astronauts on the Moon in 2024. NASA named its new crewed Mo…| Explaining Science
As humanity prepares to return to the lunar surface, Aaisha Ali is behind the scenes ensuring mission readiness for astronauts set to orbit the Moon during| NASA
Keith’s note: I just spoke with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio about the future of NASA, the Moon, China, Elon Musk, and Jared Isaacman, etc. [audio]. The post NASAWatch on Fox News Radio appeared first on NASA Watch.| Web Site News Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: I was on Deutsche Welle TV today talking about Astrobiology Mars, Europa Clipper, JWST, international cooperation, space stations, and the year ahead in space. [Audio]. What is always frustrating to me (and by now I unfortunately understand why) is how rarely NASA sends anyone to talk on TV – especially non-American TV – about space exploration in general – and talk about everything – human and robotic, Earth […] The post Talking Heads Talking Space On TV appeared fi...| News Archives - NASA Watch
HLS program manager Lisa Watson-Morgan is retiring at the end of the month - via an email to the HLS work force.| NASA Watch
Starship Flight 9 is in the books, and SpaceX reflew a Super Heavy Booster and,…| NASASpaceFlight.com
Keith’s note: The “skinny” FY 2026 White House budget proposal tells NASA to “reduce the space station’s crew size and onboard research”. In advance of an actual budget, NASA is already preparing to implement deep cuts. Soon. According to sources, NASA-funded ISS science will soon be hit with a 50% reduction. The JSC Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) and the MSFC Payload and Mission Operations Division (PMOD) are being asked to […] The post Large Space Station Cuts Are Planned...| Exploration Archives - NASA Watch
Now that NASA has been told to cancel Gateway what happens to all its pieces?| NASA Watch
According to "NASA, in surprise shift, may launch rockets to Mars next year" in Politico:| NASA Watch
Larger image First Reported Occurrence And Treatment Of Spaceflight Medical Risk On ISS, LSU “Ultrasound examinations of the astronauts’ internal jugular veins were performed at scheduled times in different positions during the mission. Results of the ultrasound performed about two months into the mission revealed a suspected obstructive left internal jugular venous thrombosis (blood clot) in one astronaut. The astronaut, guided in real time and interpreted by two independent radiologists...| Space Life Science Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: as we resume lunar exploration and then head out to Mars and beyond in search of life, we will need a different mix of skills in the humans that we send out on these long terms expeditions to distant, alien places. Dale Andersen is a prototype of those future explorers. This is what he has been up to – And here’s news about the award: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen […] The post Astrobiologist Gets Prestigious Explorers Club Award appeared first on NASA Watch.| Astronauts Archives - NASA Watch
The Iceland Space agency is now featuring them and will soon have links to both documents.| NASA Watch
in 2021 NASA issued the first of two interactive comic books/graphic novels] depicting young women dreaming of - and then training for - a future that would comprise the so-called "Artemis Generation."| NASA Watch
It has been declared inoperational.| PetaPixel
On Friday, with less than an hour's notice, David Dutcher, Boeing's vice president and program manager for the SLS rocket| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: According to a Blue origin posting: “New Glenn successfully completed an integrated launch vehicle hotfire test today, the final major milestone on our road to first flight. NG-1 will carry a Blue Ring Pathfinder as its first manifested payload and will launch from Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, FL.” Social media postings (as yet unconfirmed) cite a 6 January 2025 launch date target (again, unconfirmed). Soon NASA’s […]| NASA Watch
Rumors of the purported Codename: Sailor V anime have been with the fandom practically since the day Sailor Moon first hit the airwaves. And who could blame fans for the confusion? After all, even the Sailor Moon manga was confused about what its own title was in the lead up to the series debut. Considering what a massive success the Sailor Moon franchise was proving to be -- not only on TV, but in movie theaters, on stage, and in the manga as well -- it seems like a spin-off series should ...| Tuxedo Unmasked
‘Religion Hid in War’: The Revelation of the Whore and the Beast Introduction: The Twenty-Seven States or “Churches” of Human History The Twenty-Seven States, or Heavens, represent dogmatic Christianity in its successive aspects. They are to man’s spiritual life what the Mundane Shell (which contains them) is to his physical being: an enclosure which shuts him […]| thehumandivinedotorg
(image credit: Christopher Mick) By Christopher Mick There are are over 75 reporters crammed into the "bullpen" at the NASA Media Center on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center. This is the area where the press can plug in laptops, work on their stories and ask NASA Public Affairs Officers any technical questions they [...]| STAR Library Network
NASA supercomputers have helped several Mars landers survive the nerve-racking seven minutes of terror. During this hair-raising interval, a lander enters the Martian atmosphere and needs to automatically execute many crucial actions in precise order faster than radio signals can direct them from Earth. These tasks and other outer-space objectives benefit from NASA working […]| Exascale Computing Project
