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October 05, 2011

French News Service Slams Commercial Space

AFP Quotes NASA Critics In Weekend Feature Article

The French News Service AFP is reporting that a notable list of space exploration experts is critical of the Obama administration's initiative to shift the bulk of low-earth-orbit space work to commercial providers. Coincidentally, those experts quoted share in common years spent with NASA, or otherwise benefitting from agency largesse.

Is This The First Of A New Generation Of Airplanes???

If you wanted to see aviation history in the making this week, you needed to join ANN's Nathan Cremisino at the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, where the fine folks of NASA awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, competitors may end up in general aviation aircraft, spawning new jobs and new industries for the 21st century. The first place prize of $1.35 million was awarded to team Pipistrel-USA.com o

NASA Administrator Made The Assessment At The International Astronautical Federation's Annual Congress

With two companies planning demonstration flights of commercial cargo hauling capabilities to ISS, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said during a roundtable discussion with the heads of other space agencies at the annual congress of the International Astronautical Federation that the first deliveries of supplies by a commercial carrier could come within months, rather than years.