Step aside NASA; it’s time to let private enterprise take hold of the wheel. That’s the message US President Barack Obama delivered when he handed down NASA’s budget.The US President has put the brakes on the space agency’s ambition to return to the Moon – a goal set by his predecessor George W Bush – and set in train the biggest fundamental change in space exploration in half a century.
Read more at ABC The Drum.
Spoke to Richard Glover on ABC 702 about NASA’s plan to ‘auction’ off its excess artefacts.
It’s based on this story I published on our website.
As NASA prepares the move from using the space shuttle to renting space vehicles from private industry, artefacts of the nearly three decade-old program are being distributed online.
With the shuttle program ending this year after nearly three decades of flying, the agency is turning to an eBay-style online service to find homes for surplus and historically significant wares.
Read more at ABC Science or listen to the interview.
Want to travel to Mars in in the next year or two? Well maybe you can’t go, but NASA is happy to take your name there instead.
The Mars Science Laboratory rover will leave Earth in 2011 and landing on Mars, driving and looking for signs of life and water.
On board will be a microchip full of names of people from planet Earth. To add your name to the microchip, visit the ‘Send Your Name to Mars’ web page (http://bit.ly/martianname) and enter your name, country and postcode.
You can print a certificate of participation to put on your wall and look at a map showing where other names are from.
Spoke to Richard Glover on ABC702 Sydney about NASA’s LCROSS spacecraft is preparing a violent return to the moon later today as part of a mission to send a satellite and a rocket booster crashing into the lunar surface to look for water.
