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By John Goss ecoacres@rbnet.com As we go about our earthly business, we scarcely pay any attention to what’s going on above our heads. Outer space seems so very far away.
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Editor’s update: The solid rocket motor and microlander propulsion system notices have been cancelled. No reason has been given.

NASA to Partner With AirLaunch LLC on Small Satellite Development, NASA ARC

“NASA Ames will become a West Coast ’space portal’ for affordable small satellites and other scientific and commercial payloads,” said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames. “A small commercial launch vehicle may be a very attractive approach for providing affordable, responsive launch capabilities for bio-tech, lunar and other small spacecraft payloads of interest to NASA and commercial users.”

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Editor’s note: The Space Studies Board has been revising its membership. It is interesting to note that in light of NASA’s continued cuts to astrobiology and space life science that the SSB has added Jack Farmer from Arizona State University, an astrobiologist and James Pawelczyk from Pennsylvania State University, a Neurolab astronaut and physiologist. Also, former NASA Administrator Richard Truly has joined and Tom Young is now the vice-chair of the SSB. Of course Lennard A. Fisk retains his chairmanship.

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Unaffordable and Unsustainable: NASA’s Failing Earth-to-orbit Transportation Strategy – A Policy White Paper of the Space Frontier Foundation

“In developing this strategy, NASA has apparently ignored key elements of the White House’s Space Exploration Policy and several critical recommendations of the President’s Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy (“President’s Commission”). Instead of planning its exploration transportation in a way that maximizes economic (and national security) benefit, NASA is working with its incumbent contractors to develop a series of government-designed and owned space exploration transportation systems to service ISS as well as explore the Moon.”

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National Students’ Space Policy Proposal 2006

“On behalf of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, I am proud to announce our first ever National Students’ Space Policy Proposal. This document was created to inspire senators, representatives, companies and space enthusiasts to consider the future generation’s views and opinions on space development when supporting and implementing policy.”

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NASA Appoints Board to Investigate Injury at KSC’s Pad 39-A, NASA KSC

“NASA has formed an investigation board at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to review the circumstances surrounding the injury of a construction worker at Launch Complex 39-A July 19.”

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Hard drives on Deep Space missions: any idea why they are never used 4 x 100 Gb drives could store enough data such that it could take up to 6 months to trickle the data back at 24,000 kbs (assuming high power downlink and turbo codes). … The post has 11 replies so far. Read more and discuss here
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Off the island of Java, Indonesia, an earthquake rumbled under the ocean on July 17, 2006. The mo…
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