From: "Peter M. Callahan" <pmcallah@gmail.com>
Date: February 16, 2017 at 6:43:31 PM CST
To: Bobby Martin <bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com>
Subject: H.R.870 - REAL Space Act
H.R.870 - REAL Space Act115th Congress (2017-2018)Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8] (Introduced 02/03/2017)Committees: House - Science, Space, and TechnologyLatest Action: 02/03/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.--Sent from Gmail Mobile
And those in Congress specializing in space are well aware that, had getting independent access to ISS for our nation really been Job #1 for NASA's leadership, then the Administration would have approved Boeing's proposal for the X-37B follow-on, the 5 crew X-37C. We are talking about a dependable spacecraft that can sit in orbit for over a year and NASA said no to making it a crewed vehicle. Why?
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/03/x-37b-expanded-capabilities-iss-missions/
What Congress does see is that if we had not gone through the nonsense of 2010, we would be much closer to our own capability to launch crews to ISS than we are today. Instead, Neil Armstrong was right–the Administration changed our nation's HSF course in secret, without consultation, and mucked things up.
When it comes to the Moon, Congress is funding $3.5B annually on the DDTE for Orion and SLS. Anything else will have to wait for a new Administration as there is zero trust right now in Congress of anything the White House or NASA HQ are selling about human spaceflight.
From: Jeff Foust <jeff@thespacereview.com>
Date: February 13, 2017 at 4:18:10 PM CST
To: <bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com>
Subject: This Week in The Space Review - 2017 February 13
Reply-To: Jeff Foust <jeff@thespacereview.com>
This Week in The Space Review - 2017 February 13
This Week in The Space Review
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This Week in The Space Review
February 13, 2017
Welcome to The Space Review's weekly newsletter!
During the development of the space shuttle in the 1970s, the National Reconnaissance Office examined how it could use the shuttle to do more than simply launch its satellites. Dwayne Day examines what is known about proposals to adapt the HEXAGON satellites for the shuttle, including servicing.
Black ops and the shuttle (part 1): On-orbit servicing and recovery of the HEXAGON reconnaissance satellite
Recalculating risk
NASA has grappled with the risks associated with human spaceflight for decades. Jeff Foust reports on how one top NASA official wants to reexamine how NASA calculates and communicates risk for crewed spacecraft.
Launch failures: new discoveries
For a while, it appeared that engineers had found all the ways a launch vehicle could fail. But, as Wayne Eleazer explains, new vehicles have created new failure modes, and even new categories of launch failures.
Presidential space leadership depends on the enabling context (part 1)
Space advocates continue to look back at President Kennedy as a model of presidential leadership in space policy. In the first of a two-part essay, Matt Chessen discusses what factors made Kennedy effective, and how they translated—or didn't translate—to later administrations.
Build a Moon mall and make the Moon pay for it
President Trump's preferred method of communication seems to be Twitter. Sam Dinkin provides ten tweet-sized recommendations on how to make space great again.
Review: Gravity's Kiss
It's been a year since scientists announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, opening a new window on the universe. Jeff Foust reviews a book that provides a look behind the scenes as the LIGO team works to interpret the discovery and make the historic announcement.
We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as any other questions, comments, or suggestions about The Space Review. We're also actively soliciting articles to publish in future issues, so if you have an article or article idea that you think would be of interest, please email me.
Until next week,
Jeff Foust
Editor, The Space Review
jeff@thespacereview.com
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