November 27, 2012
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By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – A former space shuttle commander whose twin brother is married to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attempt the longest…
Continue reading US twin astronaut, Russian to spend year in orbit
November 19, 2012
For the first time since landing on Mars in August, NASA’s Curiosity rover has used its most powerful instrument to analyze soil, sifting for life-supporting chemicals with a labyrinth of…
Continue reading Spaceflight Now: Curiosity’s mini-laboratory tastes first Martian soil
October 11, 2012
By Amy Hubbard
October 8, 2012, 12:29 p.m.
It was just a scoop of dirt, but NASA scientists applauded more loudly than they had since the Curiosity…
Continue reading Los Angeles Times: Just a Scoop of Dirt, but NASA’s Celebrating Big-Time
September 18, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
About a month ago I wrote about legislation being developed to make NASA a more independent agency.
On Thursday the architects of that legislation, including U.S.…
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Legislators will introduce NASA reboot bill on Thursday
September 17, 2012
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/TXCongressman.html
Congressman John Culberson (R-Tx) has a personal passion for the sciences that he says is genetic. When he graduated from high school, he bought himself a telescope, a Celestron 8.
He…
Continue reading Congressman Asks NASA Langley: “What Can We Do to Help?”
September 04, 2012
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/name-asteroid.html
WASHINGTON — Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth.
Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission…
Continue reading NASA announces Asteroid Naming Contest for students
August 27, 2012
Published August 27, 2012
The news of the iconic astronaut Neil Armstrong’s death Saturday plunged American astronauts and spaceflyers around the world into mourning, with some expressing their sadness on Twitter.
Armstrong,…
Continue reading Fox News: Astronauts mourn Armstrong’s death
August 23, 2012
By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive on Wednesday, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for…
Continue reading Reuters: Mars rover Curiosity aces first test drive
August 13, 2012
Mike Coats keeps a list of about two dozen programs NASA has started – and then canceled – since he commanded a pair of…
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Congress mulls over space agency reboot
August 06, 2012
By Steve Gorman and Irene Klotz
PASADENA, California | Mon Aug 6, 2012 8:07am EDT
(Reuters) – NASA’s Mars science rover Curiosity performed a daredevil descent through pink Martian skies late on Sunday…
Continue reading NASA rover Curiosity makes historic Mars landing, beams back photos
July 20, 2012
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Forty-three years ago, Neil Armstrong moved slowly down the ladder. He was in no hurry. He would be stepping onto a small…
Continue reading Decades later, Neil Armstrong still chooses to go to the moon
July 16, 2012
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by Marc Boucher
On July 16th, 1969 Apollo 11 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on its historic mission to the moon. Onboard were Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot…
June 20, 2012
Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
June 20, 2012
If humans are ever to inhabit the Moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the…
Continue reading Researchers Find Evidence of Ice Content at the Moon’s South Pole
June 13, 2012
Posted June 11, 2012 3:09 PM
NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive…
Continue reading NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for More Precise Landing
June 01, 2012
By Keith Cowing
Space Ref
Posted May 31, 2012 4:30 PM
The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during the encounter, which is predicted to happen four billion years from now. It…
Continue reading Our Galaxy is Destined for a Head-on Collision
March 22, 2012
“Administrator Bolden, I’m sitting here listening to the testimony and am quietly grieving for our country. I’m a native Houstonian, grew up with the Apollo program and got my first telescope when I was 12 and have been an amateur astronomer since I was a boy. NASA has been an important part of my life and an important part of life for this country.”
- Rep. John Culberson, opening remarks
Continue reading Congress grills NASA chief Bolden over budget cuts
March 21, 2012
America must protect, preserve and defend the manned space program.
February 22, 2012
By U.S. Reps. Adam B. Schiff and John A. Culberson
For more than half a century, America’s space program has captivated the world’s imagination while expanding the frontiers of knowledge…
Continue reading Reps. Culberson and Schiff: Don’t Gut Planetary Science
February 09, 2012
“You don’t cut spending for critical scientific research endeavors that have immeasurable benefit to the nation and inspire the human spirit of exploration we all have,” Rep. John Abney Culberson (R-Tex.) said.
Continue reading Obama’s budget would cut Mars program, solar system exploration
October 14, 2011
Forty-two members of Congress — led by Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land – are pressing NASA to take a second look at a controversial decision to hand over the retired…
September 30, 2011
WASHINGTON — Texas lawmakers Thursday renewed their fight to wrest the retired shuttle Enterprise from New York City and bring it to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
They contend NASA’s…
Continue reading San Antonio Express: Texas lawmakers fight for shuttle Enterprise
September 20, 2011
Written by: Reps. Gene Green, Al Green, John Culberson and Pete Olson.
With NASA’s recent announcement of plans to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System (SLS), America…
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: A new era of space exploration
September 14, 2011
Earlier today, I was pleased to learn NASA officials have selected the next vehicle that will propel American astronauts into the depths of space. Developing the new Space Launch System…
July 21, 2011
Early this morning, the final flight of our legendary shuttle program landed at the Kennedy Space Center. The touchdown ended a 13-day mission to the International Space Station and marks…
Continue reading Congressman Culberson’s Response on Atlantis Return
July 08, 2011
Moments ago, space shuttle orbiter Atlantis embarked on its final mission into space. This mission marks the final launch in the 30-year history of NASA’s shuttle program. The accomplishments of…
June 28, 2011
Space shuttle Atlantis’ Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are scheduled to begin a 12-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 11:26 a.m. EDT on July 8, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-135 mission is the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program.
Continue reading NASA SETS LAUNCH DATE FOR FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
June 14, 2011
Two Houston-area Republicans known as vigorous advocates for NASA’s Johnson Space Center are demanding that NASA administrator Charles Bolden comply with congressional instructions to build a post-shuttle spacecraft capable of…
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Houston-area congressman ding NASA for delays
June 13, 2011
The International Space Station will be passing over Houston the next few evenings. With very little cloud cover to block the view, you should have no problem seeing it.
Here’s when…
Continue reading Weather Report from KTRK: Here’s your chance to see the ISS
June 01, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour and its six-astronaut crew sailed home for the final time, ending a 16-day journey of more than 6.5 million miles with a landing…
Continue reading SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR SAILS TO HOME PORT FOR FINAL TIME
May 20, 2011
NASA SETS LAUNCH DATE FOR FINAL SHUTTLE FLIGHT
NASA’s final space shuttle flight is targeted to launch July 8 at about 11:40 a.m. EDT from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center…
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May 09, 2011
News Conference Scheduled for May 9
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour’s launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16. After a meeting on Friday, they also…
Continue reading SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR TO LAUNCH NO EARLIER THAN MAY 16
May 03, 2011
SUNDAY CONVERSATION
Moonwalker deplores loss of shuttle program
April 30, 2011
Houstonian Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon, so he’s experienced the end of a NASA spaceflight program.…
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Moonwalker deplores loss of shuttle program
April 20, 2011
NASA SETS LAUNCH DATE FOR SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates are scheduled to begin a 14-day mission to the…
Continue reading NASA SETS LAUNCH DATE FOR SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR MISSION
April 12, 2011
The thought of an Orbiter not coming home to rest at Space Center Houston is truly tragic. It is analogous to Detroit without a Model-T, or Florence without a da Vinci.
March 30, 2011
November 29, 2010
NASA managers have targeted space shuttle Discovery’s launch for no earlier than Dec. 17. Shuttle managers determined more tests and analysis are needed before proceeding with the STS-133 mission.
As a…
Continue reading NASA Sets Shuttle Discovery’s Launch For No Earlier Than Dec. 17
November 18, 2010
NASA managers have postponed a launch status meeting and news conference planned for Monday, Nov. 22. The events were rescheduled after a Space Shuttle Program meeting Thursday determined more analysis is needed before proceeding toward the launch of space shuttle Discovery on its STS-133 mission.
November 08, 2010
NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery to no earlier than 4:05 a.m. EST on Nov. 30. The delay will allow engineers and technicians time to diagnose and repair a hydrogen gas leak detected while filling the external tank Friday morning.
Continue reading NASA Postpones Space Shuttle Discovery Launch
November 04, 2010
Shuttle managers met at 5:30 a.m. EDT and decided to postpone space shuttle Discovery’s launch 24 hours due to weather. The launch team will meet at 5 a.m. Friday to evaluate weather.
Continue reading SHUTTLE DISCOVERY LAUNCH DELAYED UNTIL AT LEAST FRIDAY
November 03, 2010
The shuttle Discovery’s launch on a space station resupply mission Wednesday was delayed at least 24 hours, to no earlier than 3:29:43 p.m. EDT Thursday, to give engineers more time to troubleshoot an apparent electrical glitch in circuitry associated with a backup main engine computer.
Continue reading Spaceflight Now: Space Shuttle Launch Delayed By Electrical Glitch
October 25, 2010
Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 4:40 p.m. EDT on Monday, Nov. 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-133 mission is Discovery’s final scheduled flight.
Continue reading Nasa Sets Launch Date For Space Shuttle Discovery Mission
October 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — A new NASA vision signed into law a week ago gives the agency four months or less to develop a dozen different plans for the future, including a detailed report on how it would replace the retiring space shuttle.
Continue reading Orlando Sentinel: Critics question Charlie Bolden’s focus on NASA’s new ‘vision’
October 18, 2010
Washington, DC – Congressman John Culberson (TX-07) and other Members of Congress sent the following letter to NASA Administrator Bolden requesting a full briefing on his trip to China…
October 14, 2010
Early on in the crisis, the Chilean authorities asked for advice from NASA, which has experience in keeping astronauts physically and mentally healthy. Doctors from NASA and Chilean Navy officers with experience in submarines were consulted on the strains of prolonged confinement.
Continue reading The New York Times: Defying Predictions, Miners Kept Healthy
October 14, 2010
NASA’s expertise in long duration space missions – which are similar in many respects to what the miners endured – as well as the space agency’s knowledge in specialized engineering and training for emergencies has been invaluable during the rescue operations.
Continue reading Universe Today: How NASA Helped Rescue The Chilean Miners
September 30, 2010
WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday officially abandoned nearly 50 years of pursuing manned moon missions — the galvanizing symbol of space exploration – to lay down a new roadmap calling for NASA to catapult astronauts to distant asteroids and Mars.
Continue reading Chronicle: House OKs new course for manned spaceflight
September 30, 2010
The House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to accept the Senate’s version of NASA’s $19 billion fiscal 2011 budget proposal, which would provide money for an additional shuttle flight, kick-start…
Continue reading CBS News: All Systems Go for NASA’s $19 Billion Budget
September 16, 2010
“Unfortunately, the American public is largely unaware that the U.S. space program faces a formidable challenge. The Obama administration is proposing to cancel the current government-run space exploration program…”
Continue reading The Hill: Space Exploration Remains Vital Issue Given Country’s Economic Woes
September 02, 2010
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications for the 2011 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 17, 2011.
“We want more students to pursue careers in…
Continue reading NASA Accepting Applications for Aeronautics Scholarships
August 27, 2010
HOUSTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden accepted the Spirit of Houston Award from the city’s Mayor Annise Parker on Thursday. The award was established in 2004 to honor Houstonians who motivated their fellow citizens with their everyday acts of leadership.
August 27, 2010
NASA is challenging high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station. The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites,…
Continue reading NASA Announces High School Competition for Future Engineers
July 23, 2010
NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Proposals are due by Oct. 27.
The…
Continue reading NASA Seeks Undergrads to Defy Gravity for Science and Engineering
July 15, 2010
Reps. Gene Green (TX-29), Frank Wolf (VA-10), and John Culberson (TX-07) today expressed strong support for the Senate NASA authorization bill’s inclusion of funding for a NASA-owned heavy lift vehicle…
July 09, 2010
“As in so many areas, it seems Mr. Obama’s space policies and programs are designed to “fundamentally transform” America from a pre-eminent world power to just another nation dependent on the goodwill and assistance of others to safeguard its interests.”
Continue reading The Washington Times: GAFFNEY: For NASA, an al-jeer-a
July 09, 2010
“For space veterans, the controversy is an indication of how far the Obama administration has strayed from NASA’s original mission, first laid out in the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.”
Continue reading The Examiner: NASA’s Muslim outreach – Al Jazeera told first
July 09, 2010
“Bolden seems quite intent on driving home this message of achievement equivalence — lauding, for example, Russia’s contribution to the space station.”
Continue reading The Washington Post: The selective modesty of Barack Obama
July 09, 2010
“Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation are moving toward an authorization bill that would reverse large swaths of President Obama’s proposed changes to NASA’s human space flight program, a ranking Republican involved in the talks confirmed”
Continue reading New York Times: Senate Panel Near Agreement on Bill to Roll Back NASA Changes
July 01, 2010
NASA is targeting approximately 4:33 p.m. EDT on Nov. 1 for the launch of space shuttle Discovery’s STS-133 mission and 4:19 p.m. EST on Feb. 26, 2011, for the liftoff…
June 30, 2010
“The unusual vote highlights the extent of bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill to President Barack Obama’s bid to reshape NASA.”
Continue reading Wall Street Journal: NASA Program Remains Uncertain After House Vote
June 14, 2010
Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan writes: “With the submission of his 2011 budget, Mr. Obama is either showing extreme naiveté or deliberately taking accountability for his calculated steps to dismantle America’s leadership in the world – “spread the wealth” internationally and turn our country into a second-class nation – economically, militarily, technologically, and politically. This ideology flows against the grain of over 200 years of our history and the will of all Americans.”
Continue reading NASA’s Human Spaceflight: “An Investment in the Future”
June 07, 2010
President’s NASA policy could haunt his party at the polls in Harris County
June 07, 2010
Officials request millions to help staff who could lose jobs in cutbacks of programs
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Help Sought for NASA Workers
May 26, 2010
Space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts ended a 12-day journey of more than 4.8 million miles with an 8:48 a.m. EDT landing Wednesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The…
Continue reading Shuttle Atlantis Returns Home After Final Flight
May 24, 2010
“Now we know where members stand,” Mitchell said. “We’re confident the information will help us fashion a compromise with the White House that will win back a majority of the Constellation program.”
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Citizen’s Lobby Group Goes to Bat for NASA
May 13, 2010
“A plan that was invisible to so many was likely contrived by a very small group in secret who persuaded the president that this was a unique opportunity to put his stamp on a new and innovative program,” Armstrong testified. “I believe the president was poorly advised.”
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: First, Last Men On Moon: Obama Plan Ill-Conceived
May 12, 2010
“This successful test is one more reason to support Constellation and oppose the administration’s plan to end the program. We must maintain America’s dominance in human space exploration.”
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Rep. Pete Olson Hails Milestone for NASA’s Orion Program
May 06, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to begin a 12-day flight to the International Space Station with a launch at 2:20 pm EDT on Friday, May 14,…
May 04, 2010
“My concern is this might possibly be the epitaph for the manned space program for the next decade”
April 28, 2010
“But if the new plan is an improvement over the original, it still comes up short on the question of what to do about a heavy-lift rocket that most experts agree is necessary to support astronaut journeys to destinations like asteroids or Mars.”
Continue reading Space News – Editorial: Latest NASA Plan Still Falls Short
April 28, 2010
“In terms of national security and global leadership, the White House’s budget plan all but abdicates U.S. leadership in exploration and manned spaceflight at a time when other countries, such as China and Russia, are turning to space programs to drive innovation and promote economic growth.”
Continue reading Space News – Frank Wolf: Don’t Forsake U.S. Leadership in Space
April 28, 2010
“Today, our nation’s space program stands at a crossroads. President Obama’s proposed cancellation of NASA’s Constellation program would destroy any chance that the United States will lead the way back to the moon and beyond.”
Continue reading Huntsville Times – U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby: NASA is on a mission to nowhere
April 20, 2010
“Obama’s ‘reliance on a promising, yet still fledgling commercial space industry’ combined with retiring the space shuttle and canceling the back-to-the-moon Constellation ‘will severely diminish the manned space flight program and provide the JSC with no true mission objective,’ the lawmakers cautioned.”
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Texas lawmakers invite President Obama to Johnson Space Center
April 20, 2010
Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 6.2 million miles with a 9:08 a.m. EDT landing Tuesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The…
Continue reading Space Shuttle Discovery Returns Safely to Earth
April 19, 2010
“The president seems to be targeting states that didn’t support him politically, not a scientific judgment, not a judgment based on human exceptionalism when it comes to space flight, but a political judgment based on what may serve his best interest in 2012.”
Continue reading FOX Houston: Are Johnson Space Center Cuts Political Payback?
April 19, 2010
The state’s congressional delegation today presented a united, bipartisan front in defense of NASA, saying President Obama’s compromise on his space budget doesn’t go far enough and calling upon him to visit Johnson Space Center.
April 15, 2010
President’s plan is akin to privatizing the Navy and simply renting out the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman any time we needed to defend ourselves.
Continue reading NASA Must Not Delay America’s Manned Space Program
April 15, 2010
“Shutting down Constellation sends the dangerous and irresponsible message to our children and grandchildren that education and progress no longer matter.”
Continue reading Houston Chronicle Op-Ed – Americans in Space: A Dream of the Past?
April 13, 2010
“Too many men and women have worked too hard and sacrificed too much to achieve America’s preeminence in space, only to see that effort needlessly thrown away”
Continue reading Astronauts Urge President to Continue Constellation Program
March 26, 2010
Continue reading NASA Sets Launch Date for Space Shuttle Discovery
March 25, 2010
Congressman Culberson joined his Texas House colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama expressing concern for his proposal to cancel NASA’s Constellation program.
The letter states that cancelling the program…
Continue reading Texas Delegation Supports NASA’s Constellation Program
March 19, 2010
President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget for NASA was soundly rejected by Congress. As a result, Rep. Culberson joined a bi-partisan group of House Members to call on NASA Administrator…
March 16, 2010
Obama NASA plans “catastrophic” says moon astronauts
Continue reading Apollo Astronauts Continue to Support Constellation Program
March 12, 2010
Houston-area House members from both parties are joining forces to persuade the Obama administration to rescue NASA’s back-to-the-moon Constellation program.
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Houston-area lawmakers try to rescue “Team B” at NASA
February 12, 2010
For the first time since John Glenn flew in 1962, the United States will have no access of its own for humans into space — and no prospect of getting there in the foreseeable future.
February 01, 2010
President Obama’s FY2011 budget for NASA puts our security and prosperity at risk by virtually eliminating the U.S. human spaceflight program. The president’s budget abandons the Constellation Program – a…
Continue reading NASA Budget Puts Human Spaceflight Program at Risk
