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Monthly Archive for January, 2009

These are my links for January 23rd through January 26th

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Life Science and ISS

Comment originally posted at NASAWATCH
Scientists are Obtuse?!?
Fact of the matter is that you cannot do without either! What’s the point of going to ISS if there is nothing to do up there but enjoy the view and fix things that keep breaking?
Tell us, how do you think the first long term missions are going to [...]

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Originally posted at OpenNASA
It was refreshing to read the previous post on OpenNASA that released a list of specific Participatory Exploration (PE) policy recommendations for NASA. The authors of the recommendations have witnessed first hand the problems with how NASA is managed, reacts, and is perceived by internal and external constituents. The hard lessons that [...]

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Comment originally posted at NASAWATCH

Anonymous “Me”
Having worked at KSC & CCAFS for different jobs, and having been denied access to the Atlas V launch area by Military, not SGS personnel, having had my photo taken at the launch-pad with the letters USAF at the top of the DELTA pad, being friends with Air Force folks [...]

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Comment originally posted at NASAWATCH

While it’s true that Atlas and Delta are not military owned vehicles, I’d argue that there are bigger points to be made.
The EELV program that spec’d out these rockets was developed by the Department of Defense in 1994 when they released the Space Launch Modernization Plan, aka the Moorman Study. Lockheed [...]

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