A Time for Balance and Cooperation…and Action

This week Congress is expected to resume its deliberations regarding the future of NASA. Vying for attention are many powerful interests. Some urge passage of legislation to bolster R&D and the emerging commercial launch sector. Others want laws that protect endangered NASA workforce talent. Still others urge minimal government involvement on the notion that an [...]

Would I invest my money in this venture?

The answer is “Yes!” to Brigham Young University’s Altus Poles student start-up venture at the 2010 8th Continent Business Plan Competition. As Grand Champion, Altus Poles walked away with $40,000 in cash, support services, and a flight in zero-gravity and secured a spot in the Global Moot Corp Competition for the potential to win $100,000 [...]

AIAA To Explore ‘New Opportunities’ at Pasadena Conference

“Space: New Opportunities for a New Era” will be the focus of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Space 2009 Conference & Exposition, Sept. 14-17 at the Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, Calif. Topics include the rule that space technologies and space exploration will play in filling the need for better STEM education (science, technology, [...]

SpaceHack lets real people connect with space exploration

The News: SpaceHack.org was on Wired’s list of top 100 geeks to follow on Twitter. We checked it out and like it a lot. SpaceHack is a project of Ariel Waldman, a “digital anthropologist” in San Francisco who worked briefly as program coordinator for the NASA CoLab collaboration project at Ames. According to the site, [...]