Highlights |
 ISS upcoming
golf promotion causes Keith
Cowing to cite lack of focus agency has for station; lacking big
picture outlook, safety organization |
| NASA
Constellation Program Moon vehicles named, according
to NASA
SpaceFlight.com:
CEV Altair, LSAM Artemis, CLV Ares 1, CaLV Ares 5 |
| Alan
Marty may fill new NASA venture capitalist position,
according to NASA
Watch;
currently with JP Morgan Partners; NASA JSC solicited
in Dec |
| Space
Foundation's
'The
Case for Space Exploration' released in Wash DC yesterday; '1% solution' proposed
for funding; complements NSS
'1% for space' campaign |
| NewSpace
News Issue
#9 (1
Mar) now
available; covers NewSpace companies and more
monthly |
| Apollo
reporter Walter
Cronkite receives Ambassador of Exploration Moon
rock award; says in 500 yrs, 1st human on Moon will be
celebrated as "most important feat of all time" |
Global |
| ISS agency heads meeting at
KSC in FL to discuss future; press
briefing follows today at 13:00 EST; NASA, CSA, JAXA, ESA, RKA participate |
| US
Pres Bush visiting India
PM Singh, Pres Kalam thru today; Chandrayaan-1
payload agreement expected to be signed |
| Russia
US$122M Air
Launch project receives approval of Roscosmos; Ruslan
aircraft could take
off from Indonesia island
of Biak |
| China,
Argentina cooperating on 60-cm aperture satellite laser
ranging telescope; installed in San Juan Univ, operational
soon; data to be shared |
| '57th Intl Astronautical Congress'
in Valencia,
Spain on 2-6 Oct; deadline for abstracts is
10 Mar |
| 'Intl
Lunar Conference 2006 / ILEWG 8' in Beijing,
China on 23-27 Jul; call for papers issued, abstracts due 20 Apr; coincides with 'COSPAR
Scientific Assembly' on 16-23
Jul |
