From the Office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski: Appropriations Committee Chairwoman has fought to keep the Orion mission on track as a champion for American space science, discovery and jobs WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee that funds NASA, […]
Tang’s for the Memories: A Requiem for U.S. Spaceflight
Early one morning, I was shaken out of my hotel cot and shuffled out the door into the already-hot greater Orlando air. From my place on the hotel balcony, I watched as a space shuttle blasted into orbit dozens of miles away, a small dot on a fierce white plume. Forget Mickey—for me, at age […]
NASA Begins Low-Altitude Air Quality Flights Over Northeast Maryland; Flights Will Be Visible Along I-95 in Harford County
From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA will be conducting a month-long series of research flights beginning as early as June 27 with an aircraft flying at 1,000 feet above the Interstate-95/Baltimore-Washington Parkway traffic corridor. The flights will be visible from Baltimore southwest to the Washington Beltway and northeast to the Delaware State line. […]
Where There’s Water, There’s Life
Bob Pappalardo’s drive to work used to take about 20 minutes, and ran along the quiet, winding North Foothills Highway from Boulder, Colorado to the small town of Lyons and the sandstone buildings of the University of Colorado. It was a fine commute, except when it snowed. Today, Pappalardo, a senior research scientist at NASA’s […]
