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• A competitor for NASA, from inside the US and with some of their own designers

  H/T to Instapundit. An AP article here at space.com discusses an alternative rocket design for returning humans to the moon. According to the story, actual NASA engineers are also working on the program, secretly, frustrated by the primary program called... Posted Jul 16 2008, 10:45 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: NASA, high speed vessels, USS Monitor, Higgins Boat

• Welcome home to Pam Melroy and her crew of intrepid star voyagers

  STS Crew 120, dropping off one, picking up another crew member Welcome home and kudos to the Discovery crew led by Colonel Pam Melroy USAF (Ret.)! This crew had to do some innovative repair work at the International Space Station when two problems cropped... Posted Nov 07 2007, 02:31 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Space, ISS, NASA

• NASA and the Air Force to send UAV's to southern California

  It looks like the NASA and the DOD are starting to move. Defensenews.com is reporting that NASA will send a Predator and the Air Force will provide a Global Hawk. Once they decide to move, the defense juggernaut can get going. While I would say they were... Posted Oct 24 2007, 11:45 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: USAF, UAV, San Diego, fire, NASA

• Discovery on the way...Godspeed to Pam Melroy and her crew!

  I just watched the Space Shuttle Discovery launch on HDNet (Nothing like watching and listening to the HD launch) and it appeared flawless. Excalibur wishes best of luck to Colonel Pam Melroy (USAF Ret.) and her crew. I knew Pam years ago when we were... Posted Oct 23 2007, 12:05 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: ISS, NASA