Global Exhibition for the Next Generation at the L.A. Convention Center May 8,9,10 Smarter Shows (www.smartershows.com) launches Spacecraft Technology Expo 2012 – a new global exhibition dedicated to spacecraft manufacture […]
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA launched a new high definition (HD) video program called “Destination Innovation” on Friday, Jan. 6 2012, that will air on NASA Television today at 1 […]
2011: The Year in Review
Between EchoStar’s $2 billion purchase of broadband provider Hughes, the space shuttle’s retirement after three decades of operation and the first launch of a Russian rocket from European soil, the space industry continued to demonstrate during 2011 that it is as diverse and dynamic as any global industry.
Henry Vanderbilt, Founder, Space Access Society
Although he is a descendant of one of the 19th century’s richest men — shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt — Detroit native Henry Vanderbilt did not have a trust fund to fall back on when he dropped out of the University of Massachusetts in the mid-1970s. Instead, he performed a variety of jobs, including driving a cab, grinding brake shoes, developing optical missile-tracking technology, building surgical lasers, overseeing computer programs for the space advocacy group the L5 Society, and writing computer gaming software.
Spotlight | Whittinghill Aerospace LLC
In May 2011, when NASA began looking for commercial suborbital launch vehicles to carry research payloads, George Whittinghill already was working under a NASA small business contract to design rockets capable of sending small satellites into low Earth orbit. After reading the solicitation, Whittinghill, the president and chief technical officer of Whittinghill Aerospace, realized that one of the modules that made up the first stage of his proposed four-stage orbital vehicle would meet the space agency’s requirement for a reusable rocket capable of providing a few minutes in microgravity for science and technology experiments.
Do NASA’s Missions Cost Too Much?
In recent years and particularly in recent months, NASA has been excoriated on two counts: Space science projects have become very expensive and, on top of that, they are overrunning.
NASA’s Swift Observatory Catches Asteroid Flyby
As asteroid 2005 YU55 swept past Earth in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, telescopes aboard NASA’s Swift satellite joined professional and amateur astronomers around the globe in […]
Video: Asteroid 2005 YU55 Flyby
Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from data collected […]
Video: NASA Releases Visual Tour Of Earth’s Fires
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002. The visualizations show fire observations made by […]
UCF Hires NASA Veteran Alan Stern to Lead Space Institu
A former NASA leader whose career has touched nearly every aspect of manned and unmanned space flight has been named director of the Florida Space Institute. S. Alan Stern will […]