Scott PowersAugust 20, 2019
7min512
'For too long America was content with lower-Earth orbit'
Tag: Mars
Scott PowersAugust 20, 2019Scott PowersMarch 11, 2019
9min474
'It's about having a sustainable human presence on and around the moon.'
Scott PowersFebruary 6, 2018
5min260
A couple hours late but still years ahead of the competition, SpaceX blasted off its Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday afternoon, staking his claim to any business the military and telecommunications industry may have for rocket companies that can carry very heavy loads. The huge rocket – three Falcon 9s together providing more than 5 million […]
Scott PowersFebruary 5, 2018
11min266
Tuesday afternoon is when SpaceX Founder Elon Musk finally gets to say to the world without any dispute: “Mine’s bigger,” he could say. If weather and technical matters allow, at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday SpaceX will launch its Falcon Heavy rocket from Complex 39A for its maiden flight, a blastoff sending the world’s biggest, most-powerful rocket […]
Scott PowersJuly 6, 2017
5min283
At the first major address by the administration of President Donald Trump on space policy, Vice President Mike Pence told a NASA gathering at the Kennedy Space Center that a new era is dawning of American leadership in space, and promised a return to the moon. But Pence stopped there, offering almost no specifics on […]
Associated PressMarch 21, 2017
4min192
President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday adding human exploration of Mars to NASA’s mission. Could sending Congress into space be next? Flanked at an Oval Office bill-signing ceremony by astronauts and lawmakers, Trump observed that being an astronaut is a “pretty tough job.” He said he wasn’t sure he’d want it and, among lawmakers he […]
Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2017
5min258
The 115th Congress and new administration of Presidential Donald Trump got its first public discussion Thursday of what should be the priorities for NASA, and Congressional leaders and expert witnesses all agreed NASA needs bold specific goals and funding stability to support them. That would mean Mars based on NASA’s current plans, but it also should […]
Scott PowersSeptember 21, 2016
3min242
NASA will be required to commit to putting people on Mars in the latest U.S. Senate NASA reauthorization bill, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday. The Bill, S. 3346, was unanimously approved by the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday authorizing NASA to spend $19.6 billion budgeted for the agency and setting a few new requirements, including that […]
Scott PowersJuly 27, 2016
8min243
With wars, terrorism, gun violence, economic problems, national debt, immigration issues and other national crises, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton might be excused for focusing on them, yet many Floridians — particularly Central Floridians — are eagerly waiting to hear what they aren’t yet talking about, space. The futures of NASA, commercial space initiatives, and defense […]
Scott PowersMarch 17, 2016
15min368
When NASA officials refer to their singular human-spaceflight program “Journey To Mars,” they’re not talking about the 800 to 1,000 days it will take for astronauts to get there and back. At Kennedy Space Center, indeed all of Cape Canaveral, and worldwide for that matter, spaceflight and human-spaceflight facilities and organizations are incubating private, commercial-space programs […]