Posted: 03/03/10 Author: Jeff Krukin
Do the new public and private sector partnerships in space infrastructure development require closer collaboration?
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Posted: 02/11/10 Author: Richard Mains
We're not ready! It's time for ISS research on human life support, development and testing of commercial space transport, robotic technologies, and lunar rovers as pathfinders.
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Posted: 01/27/10 Author: Richard Mains
What's really behind Obama's revised strategy for NASA? Why is Bolden solidly behind it and convinced that his team, with commercial space partners, can make it happen?
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Posted: 01/05/10 Author: Richard Mains
NASA will be the ideal "Collaborative Customer" for Commercial Space Services as they become available. But what will it require for the Agency to assume that role?
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Posted: 12/15/09 Author: Robert Talmage
Horizontal launch vehicles can utilize aircraft style flight safety characteristics. But risks in these emerging vehicles, especially during development and flight testing, due to rocket propulsion, extreme speeds/altitudes, and aerodynamic heating, warrant a real escape system.
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