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Scott PowersDecember 12, 2016

When the U.S. Senate passed a quadrennial NASA Authorization bill Saturday it was too late for it ever to get adopted, since the House of Representatives already had adjourned for the session, but the bipartisan bill with bi-cameral input was intended as a message to the Donald Trump White House about Congress’s priorities for NASA. […]

Scott PowersDecember 8, 2016

NASA has awarded a potential long-term contract to a.i. solutions that could be worth up to $388 million to provide end-to-end launch preparation services for payloads the space agency intends to blast into space on commercial rockets from Kennedy Space Center and from California. The space agency announced Wednesday evening it is awarding a.i. solutions […]

Scott PowersNovember 10, 2016

Cape Canaveral is getting back in the rocket-launching business next week with the blast-off of an Atlas V rocket carrying a new-generation weather satellite into space. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V is set for launch Nov. 19 from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with a one-hour launch window opening at 5:42 p.m. […]

Associated PressOctober 12, 2016

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center reopened for business Tuesday, relying on industrial air conditioners rushed in from around the country in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Director Robert Cabana said the damage – mostly ripped-off roofs – is still being tallied, but is in the millions of dollars. He said it would have been much worse […]

Scott PowersSeptember 21, 2016

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 PowersAugust 20, 2016

NASA is spending a billion dollars to send a spaceship on a wild, seven-year ride through the solar system to an asteroid and back with the hope of grabbing some prized molecular samples. The intention is for the OSIRIS REx spacecraft to reach the asteroid Bennu, study it for a couple of years, reach down and grab […]

Scott PowersJuly 27, 2016

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 PowersJuly 11, 2016

The Sweet Meteor of Death is not going to upstage this election season. That’s according to the NASA Near Earth Object Program that tracks roughly 15,000 asteroids, comets and gigantic pieces of space rock that pose any kind of threat to the Earth. That may be bad news for 13 percent of American registered voters, who told […]

Diane RobertsMay 31, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott recently convened a higher education summit. Minus the educators. The Commissioner of Agriculture was there. The COO of defense contractor Northrup Grumman was there. The head of the state Dept. of Economic Opportunism was there. So was the state university system chancellor, the Senate president, assorted business types and three head football […]

Scott PowersMay 25, 2016

Cape Canaveral’s launch manifest is filling fast for this summer with announcements of two more launches, including of one using America’s most powerful rocket, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy. ULA announced it will launch a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the world’s most powerful space vehicle now in use, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on […]

Tag: NASA

Senate passes NASA bill too late, but offers statement of Congress priorities

Maryland company gets NASA launch support contract worth up to $388 million

Next Florida rocket now set to blast off Nov. 19

Space center reopens after hurricane, damage in millions

Bill Nelson: NASA reauthorization bill requires feet on Mars

OSIRIS REx is NASA’s mission to see if life’s chemicals are everywhere

America’s future space policy still a mystery from Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

Sweet Meteor of Death campaign rolling on empty promises

Diane Roberts: Rick Scott’s higher education summit was missing one thing — educators

Launches of Delta IV Heavy, Falcon 9 rockets announced