Administrator Charles Bolden Will Open The Session
NASA officials will meet with aeronautics industry, academia,
and government leaders August 25 to kick off a series of roundtable
discussions about future directions for aeronautics research and
technology. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will address the
participants. The roundtable is sponsored by NASA and organized by
the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
and National Academy of Engineering.
Hanging By The Single, Weak Thread That Is The Russian
Soyuz
At 9:00 EDT on the morning of Wednesday, August 24, 2011 the
Progress M-12M vehicle lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan on an unmanned supply mission to the International Space
Station (ISS). Boosted atop the Soyuz version of the basic R-7
rocket that has been flying from Baikonur since the late 1950s and
has lofted such spacecraft as Sputnik, Vostok and most recently the
manned Soyuz, the launch looked good- at least for the visible
portions.
Multi-Faceted Entrepreneur Will Discuss The Future Of Human
Space Flight
Elon Musk, CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX),
will discuss the future of human spaceflight in advance of his
company's planned Nov. 30 flight to the International Space
Station, the first private mission to ISS for NASA, at a National
Press Club luncheon on Thursday, Sept. 29.
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