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Commercial Space Companies Scramble for ISS Missions
My family is a frequent visitor to The Museum of Flight in Seattle. Our favorite part about the museum is its fantastic collection of spacecraft—from a Viking Lander Flight Capsule to an Apollo Command Module. In May, a new addition arrived, the Charon—a vertical take-off, vertical-landing jet-powered vehicle—from private company Blue Origin. Blue Origin is a highly secretive startup funded …
Posted in Industry News
Tagged aerospace and defense, aerospace engineering, Blue Origin, NASA
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Pass It On: Knowledge Preservation in Uncertain Times
This week, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center—in Huntsville, Alabama—announced new plans to build a National Institute for Rocket Propulsion Systems (NIRPS). One of the core goals of the institute will be to preserve today’s technical expertise for future generations. July marked the final flight of space shuttle Atlantis, and with government funding cuts and an uncertain future for the manned …
Posted in Industry News
Tagged ISS, knowledge management, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
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The Top Big Ideas in Commercial Spaceflight
Business is booming for the commercial space industry. Yes, that’s right. NASA may have retired the Space Shuttle, but new life is growing amongst the debris. Private space companies with entrepreneurial spirit—and some with NASA funding—are leading the way in commercial spaceflight. SpaceX has launched a spacecraft called “Dragon” which has already orbited the Earth, and the company plans for a manned mission …
Posted in Innovation
Tagged Bigelow, Boeing, Dragon, ISS, NASA, National Space Symposium, space, SpaceX, transportation, Virgin Galactic
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The Final Frontier – Is America Still Boldly Going?
I recently attended the 27th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. As I sat through a recording of the Rice Stadium moon speech given by JFK back in 1962 and watched children clamber for astronaut Joe Engle’s autograph, I reflected on those glory days when Americans had the momentum and the luxury to “do things not because they are easy, …
Space Exploration: Designing a Future for Young Engineers
My 7-year-old son is always talking about what he wants to be when he grows up. “I want to build spaceships,” he tells me. So when I returned recently from a trip to the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs with piles of space related swag and a suitcase full of booklets and brochures, he was overjoyed. “I’m taking these …
Posted in Future Engineers
Tagged education, FIRST, NASA, National Space Symposium, STEM
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