Ten Years. According to NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun, that’s how long it will take to replace the shuttle after its retirement later this year. Ten years between now and the next time an American astronaut rides into space on a NASA machine. To some, this gap is an indictment of our own shortsightedness and... Continue Reading →
Where does a space hacker go to keep up and gear up? Here are our top sites to visit regularly: Parabolic Arc - Doug does a terriffic job of always having breaking a relevant news on this site. It's at the top of our feed readers. NewSpace Journal - The issues surrounding a brand new... Continue Reading →
The future of human spaceflight is in flux. Our current situation has left many wondering: “What happened to the days of Apollo?” There is some clamor for a similar grand-scale government project that would take us back to the Moon or to Mars in just a handful of years. Apollo was an astounding achievement. A... Continue Reading →
Human spaceflight is a project for all of humanity and we're going to introduce more international perspective. Since Evadot is in the United States, we've asked Ricardo J. Tohmé (from Argentina), Editor of AstroSpaceNow.com to give us his point of veiw on the NASA program as it stands today. What seemed to be a never-ending... Continue Reading →
This was originally written for the Google Lunar XPRIZE team Part Time Scientists as "Why we are a Google Lunar XPRIZE Team". There should be a version in German soon. The first 50 years of human spaceflight were marked by explosive growth, culminating with 12 men exploring the surface of the moon, followed by 40... Continue Reading →
You've probably heard that NASA is moving on from the Shuttle program. You may have also heard that they've spent most of 2009 coming to the realization that the plans to follow up the program with a system capable of getting us to the moon and beyond is not going well. We're on track to... Continue Reading →
We caught up with Beth Beck(@bethbeck) while she was working from home as a part of contingency plan operation in case of a major flu outbreak. She's a regular blogger in addition to being a huge asset to outreach for the US Space program at bethbeck.wordpress.com What's your role within NASA? I work in the... Continue Reading →
