by Michael Belfiore | Sep 8, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’m on a conference call right now with Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for Space Operations, and Bill Parsons, NASA’s senior official in charge of the hurricane relief effort, getting an update on the impact of Katrina on...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 7, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
I once knew a guy named Michael Dust. He had these business cards that looked like they were hand-cut from cereal boxes. They were stamped with Dust’s name, and the title “President,” along with the legend “Special Projects.” I...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 30, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
New Scientist says Lockheed Martin’s space shuttle external fuel tank factory got through Hurricane Katrina with only minor damage. That leaves the space shuttle program free to continue boondoggling along toward its next in-flight disaster. If it can ever get...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 29, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
The major hurricane that’s about to hit New Orleans also has a major space shuttle facility in its sights. If this facility is destroyed it will very likely spell the end of the shuttle, and perhaps NASA’s big-budget shuttle replacement as well.The...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 23, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized
That’s Eli Kintisch on the left, receiving the first annual Space Journalism Prize from founder Sam Dinkin at the International Space Development Conference in Washington last May.Sam had this radical idea that all the space journalists should band together to...
