DIY Space: Eyes On NASA

There are several great tools available online designed to educate the public about space discoveries. The best ones use data gathered by our space faring machines and help put it all into an understandable form. Which is why NASA has developed the “NASA’s Eyes” program. NASA’s Eyes is a program that can be used for […]

NASA Awards Two Space Capsule Contracts

By now, you may have heard about NASA’s awarding of two contracts to two US companies for space capsules. You haven’t? Then please go to my post on Clearancejobs.com to read more about it: Hope for the Space Program: NASA Awards Two Space Capsule Contracts.

SpaceX’s Own Spaceport Will Not Affect NASA or DoD Operations, Part 2

This post is the completion of a short analysis I started yesterday about why NASA’s and the DoD’s launch operations will not be affected by SpaceX’s choice to build and use a launch operations center in Brownsville, Texas. It was prompted because of a post The Space Review put up on their site Monday, which suggested […]

SpaceX’s Own Spaceport Will Not Affect NASA or DoD Operations, Part 1

Yesterday, I expanded on a Space Review post of the possible reasons Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) is moving launch operations to Texas. The company believes it will conduct about 12 launches a year from its own space launch complexes near Brownsville, Texas. Such a launch rate is more than triple SpaceX’s 2013 launch rate of 3 […]

Five Reasons SpaceX Wants to Launch from Texas

Edward Ellegood wrote a very good post on The Space Review yesterday about why SpaceX is moving launch operations to Texas. Back in August, I also posted some conjecture about SpaceX’s reasons for moving launch operations to Texas. But Ellegood goes into a bit more detail than I did, so it might be a worthwhile […]