Highlights |
 Private
industry must change for space enterprise to survive, says
NASA head Mike
Griffin; not enough produced with workers' time |
| NASA
and Spaceward Foundation looking
for 2006 and 2007 climber
and tether Centennial
Challenges space elevator event volunteers |
| NewSpace
News Issue
#11 features SpaceX, 'ISDC 2006,' Virgin Galactic,
new piloted Pluto mission tech, 1st Rocketplane XP
passenger |
| SpaceDev Starsys
Div delivers 'Spacecraft-to-Spacecraft Separation Sys,'
'Orbital Express Capture Sys' to DARPA
Orbital Express for Boeing |
| X
Prize Founder Peter Diamandis receives 2006 Lindbergh
Award at public reception, 'Explore
Extreme Challenges,' on 19 May in St Paul MN |
| Space
Settlement Institute Chair Alan Wasser on The
Space Show today
at 19:00 PDT to discuss return to Moon, property
rights, settlement |
Global |
| ISS
E13 crew fires
engines to raise facility's orbit on 4 May; begins
tests of formation-flying SPHERES on 18 May - continues
for 8 months |
| Japan
to develop shoes to
help prevent loss of muscle strength in astronauts
living on ISS by next Mar; footwear will have two-toed
shape |
| China
visit by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin in fall getting
much attention by country's press; People's
Daily expresses
cautious optimism |
| Canada
to issue coin
on 15 May honoring 5th anniv of astronaut
Chris Hadfield's installation of Canadarm2 robotic
manipulator to ISS |
| 'ISDC
2006' on 4-7 May in Los Angeles CA; over 1,000
participants from private and govt space industries;
Pete Worden talks on Sun |
| 'Intl
Lunar Conference 2006 / ILEWG 8th Intl Conf on Exploration & Utilization
of Moon' on 23-27 Jul in Beijing, China; Moon
prog leaders |
