Commercial Space to add 1,700 Florida jobs but figure may be high
SpaceX' Falcon 9 rocket could play key role in commercial human spaceflight from Cape Canaveral Sen. Bill Nelson is expected to announce in a speech on Thursday at the Kennedy Center Visitor Complex...
View ArticleObama’s budget kills moon rocket and shakes up NASA
President Barack Obama’s budget request next Monday will scrap the Bush administration’s Vision for Space Exploration and completely reorient NASA, especially in the area of human spaceflight....
View ArticleBolden: We weren’t headed to the moon until late next decade, if then
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has put out 10 pages of remarks over President Barack Obama’s budget request for his agency — and he’s predictably enthusiastic. He’s full of praise for the...
View ArticleCongressional critics condemn Obama’s shutdown of Constellation
By Mark K. Matthews Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — White House plans to remake NASA got a frosty reception at a U.S. House hearing Wednesday as lawmakers assailed President Barack Obama’s proposal...
View ArticleReps tell NASA’s Bolden: hands off Constellation funds
A group of 27 members of Congress, mainly Republican representatives from Alabama and Texas, two states with major NASA centers, wrote a letter Friday to NASA chief Charlie Bolden, demanding that he...
View ArticleNASA and White House push back against critics
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and President science advisor John Holdren wrote a letter that appeared in the Washington Post today, taking issue with columnist Charles Krauthammer for his Feb. 12...
View ArticleNASA’s Constellation: Closing down is hard to do
NASA is discovering that to terminate Constellation it has to navigate a political and financial maze largely of its own making. Administration officials acknowledge that $2.5 billion that the White...
View ArticleCharlie Precourt: ATK’s astronaut fights Obama space plan
Former astronaut Charlie Precourt at an Ares I briefing It was bound to happen sooner or later. Until now ATK, the rocket manufacturer that stands to be perhaps the biggest aerospace loser if the White...
View ArticleNASA’s future: Obama to come to Florida for ’space summit’
Breaking news tonight. The Sentinel has learned that President Barack Obama plans to hold another summit — like the one on health care — only this one will focus on the future of the space program....
View ArticleLyles: New NASA budget harms human spaceflight
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s new plan for NASA takes too much money from the the agency’s human spaceflight program to fix funding in other parts of the agency, said one member of a...
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