NASA will likely shut down its Institute for Advanced Concepts, which funds research into futuristic – and often far-out – ideas in spaceflight and aeronautics, officials say. The controversial move highlights the budgetary pressures the agency is facing as it struggles to retire the space shuttles by 2010 and develop their replacement.
It’s about time NASA did something right. I half expected them to send a shuttle armed with rockets to blast the thing out of the sky if only because it would be just about the dumbest thing to do.
From the article:
“CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Tuesday approved sending a space [...]
Air Show Acts
Gates open at 7 flying starts at 10:00 AM
Saturday and Sunday performances are identical.
Flying starts with the F-16 Sonic Boom commemorating Chuck Yeager’s breaking of the sound barrier.
Golden Knights Flag Jump
Opening Ceremonies
F-22A Demo Flight
P-51 [...]
Bush’s top goals, as stated in the document, are to “strengthen the nation’s space leadership and ensure that space capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security, homeland security, and foreign policy objectives” and to “enable unhindered U.S. operation in and through space to defend our interest there, and all without any additional [...]
<sarcasm>The following quote taken from The Planetary Society was Not predicted at all</sarcasm>
In spite of its great promises of a “Vision for Space Exploration”, the U.S. administration has submitted a shameful 5-year budget that will devastate NASA’s science efforts. It slashes over $3 billion from crucial science programs in favor of paying for unplanned and [...]
Total Solar Eclipse of March 29, 2006
From Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights:
The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral (ground) shadow cast by the Moon as it moved between the Sun and the Earth during the solar eclipse on March 29, 2006. This astronaut image captures the umbral [...]
I’ll pretend like we couldn’t see this coming.
I’m not sure how we’re going to reach some of Nutjob’s loftier proposals with NASA selling off everything it owns.
NASA is about to let something else burn up in our atmosphere. Stardust has been roaming around the system for seven years and has travelled 2.88 billion miles, costing the United States citizens (that’s you) an unknown amount (couldn’t find it quickly, though I’m sure its in the billions. If you know it, leave [...]