TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND: NASA ADMINISTRATOR MEDIA AVAILABILITY AT KENNEDY JUNE 28

Thursday, June 27, 2013

NASA ADMINISTRATOR MEDIA AVAILABILITY AT KENNEDY JUNE 28

Maybe the media will tell us what happens here.

- LRK -

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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/jun/HQ_M13-101_Bolden_Media_Availability.html

June 27, 2013

David Weaver
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
david.s.weaver@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-101

NASA ADMINISTRATOR MEDIA AVAILABILITY AT KENNEDY JUNE 28

WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will hold a media
availability at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida
at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, June 28.

Bolden, Kennedy Center Director Robert Cabana and officials from the
state of Florida will discuss NASA's future spaceflight programs and
initiatives. These include plans to launch astronauts from Kennedy to
study an asteroid and work with commercial companies to send crew to
low Earth orbit and the International Space Station from Florida's
Space Coast in the next four years. They also will provide updates
about ongoing progress to transform Kennedy into a multi-user
spaceport for both government and commercial clients.

The event will not be broadcast on NASA Television or online. Media
interested in participating in the availability and other events at
the visitor complex June 28 should contact Nancy Glasgow at
nancy@bitner.com or 407-375-2433.

For information about the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, visit:
http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com

For more information about NASA's missions and programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov

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"The event will not be broadcast on NASA Television or online."

I guess we won't watch this meeting.

Hmmm. - "Bolden, Kennedy Center Director Robert Cabana and officials from the state of Florida will discuss NASA's future spaceflight programs and initiatives"

Thanks for looking up with me.
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http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2318/1

Redirecting an asteroid mission

by Jeff Foust
Monday, June 24, 2013

When NASA released its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal two and a half months ago, a key element of it was a new “asteroid initiative” that called for $105 million for various asteroid search and technology development efforts. The centerpiece of that plan was a robotic mission to capture a small near Earth asteroid, no more than about ten meters across, and move it into cislunar space, where it could potentially be visited by astronauts on the first crewed Orion mission, slated for 2021 (see “To catch a planetoid”, The Space Review, April 22, 2013).

That proposed mission—called at the time the Asteroid Retrieval Mission, or ARM—raised more than a few eyebrows when NASA announced it in April. Some questioned the technical feasibility of the concept (which is based on a 2012 study by the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech) while others wondered how useful it would be for science or human exploration. Now, with some members of Congress making moves to block the effort, NASA is showing signs of subtly shifting the focus of the proposed mission, and the overall initiative, more towards the less controversial role planetary defense.

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http://americasuncommonsense.com/blog/downloads/

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By Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt. Prologue: (“Is there a path forward for United States’ space policy? When a new President takes office in 2013, he or she should propose to Congress that we start space policy and its administration from scratch. A new agency, the National Space Exploration Administration (NSEA), should be charged with specifically enabling America’s and its partners’ exploration of deep space, inherently stimulating education, technology, and national focus. The existing component parts of NASA should be spread among other agencies with the only exception being activities related to U.S. obligations to its partners in the International Space Station (ISS).” — HHS). The Foreword was written by Michael D. Griffin, noted physicist, aerospace engineer and NASA Administrator (2005-2009): (“Jack makes the case for space as no one else can, and he shows how and why we are on the wrong path— leaving the rest of us with the question: what can we do to obtain the leadership we need instead of the leadership we have?”— MDG).