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The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...

Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Photos: Space station in trouble?

Photos: Space station in trouble?Space Station follows SkylabGood ridance to the the station. As much as I find space science interesting, I also have no confidence that we will ever leave this planet in any permanent fashion. There are limits to the amount of radiation which space vehicles are...

Tags: Soyuz, Space Station, photograph

Discussion threads 2005-08-19

Discovery lands with its future up in the air

Discovery lands with its future up in the airDitch the eco foam.For some reason it is almost never mentioned in news stories that the foam problems started after NASA was conned into using a new type of foam that was thought to be better for the environment. It's backers...

Tags: NASA, shuttle, Soyuz

Discussion threads 2005-08-10

Additional Resources

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket FoundryResourceAn excellent resource on the Saturn program is "Stages to Saturn", by Roger E. Bilstein. It is part of the NASA History Series (NASA catalog number SP-4206), and is still available (US$50, + shipping) from the US GPO (http://bookstore.gpo.gov/subjects/sb-222.jsp).While being somewhat dry as...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Rocket Foundry, Boeing Co., Saturn, F-1

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

  Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...

Tags: Russia, Russian, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Russia, Georgia and NASA

So now that relations with Russia are taking a decided turn south, NASA's plan to depend on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to get to the space station isn't looking too sharp, warns one congressman, according to Daily Tech. "The new challenge we have is...

Tags: NASA, Russia, Transportation, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Virgin, RealMoney, Financial Accounting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-11

cp006927.exe 6.0.0.64 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Smart Array MERLION Controller Smart Array SOYUZ Controller Smart Array VANGUARD Controller Smart Array P800 Controller Smart Array P600 Controller Smart Array P400 Controller Smart Array P400I Controller Smart Array E500 Controller Smart Array E200 Controller Smart Array E200I Controller Smart Array SDK_Test_Board Controller...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-16

Blogging from space

I bet that many of you envy Anousheh Ansari, an American businesswoman born in Iran, who will become on September 18 the first female space tourist. As the previous male ones, Ansari had to pay about $20 million for 10 days in space. After a trip in a Soyuz spacecraft...

Tags: night sky, Anousheh Ansari

Blog posts 2006-09-16

NASA grounds shuttle fleet

NASA grounds shuttle fleetfuel tankWhy don't the rocket scientists just put a mesh over the foam on the tank? A gillnet should take carre of the problem.Maybe even a simple canvas sheath?Canvas is pretty light. And cheap. Treated, it could withstand the initial temperatures I'm sure. Strap one on,...

Tags: Shuttle, foam, NASA, HERE IS

Discussion threads 2005-07-27

Ubuntu: Is the new Linux distro for you?

I was talking to Doc Searls a few days ago and he told me about Ubuntu, a new Linux distro based on Debian. Ubuntu is the brainchild of Mark Shuttleworth, who probably best known as the guy who bought a ticket on Soyuz. Mark is...

Tags: Ubuntu

Blog posts 2005-04-20

Ubuntu: Is the new Linux distro for you?

I was talking to Doc Searls a few days ago and he told me about Ubuntu, a new Linux distro based on Debian. Ubuntu is the brainchild of Mark Shuttleworth, who probably best known as the guy who bought a ticket on Soyuz. Mark is...

Tags: Ubuntu

Blog posts 2005-04-20

Russia gets ready to gag online dissent

A Russian bill to impose wide-ranging restrictions on using the Net to oppose the government could receive final approval in the country's parliament this week. MOSCOW--Russia's parliament may give final approval this week to sweeping restrictions on using the Internet to oppose the government. At the request of...

Tags: Russia, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Declan McCullagh, Technology News

News items 2002-06-24