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NASA CHIEF TALKS MOON PARTNERSHIP IN ISRAEL: Jim Bridenstine is in Israel on his first trip abroad as NASA's director discussing how to expand the partnership with Israel Space Agency – including during a crewed mission on the moon, he tells us from Jerusalem.
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He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Brig. General Isaac Ben Israel, President of the Israeli Space Agency; Avi Blasberger, director general of the agency; and Ofir Akunis, Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
" They want to badociate to return to the moon.There is a strong interest in this," said the head of NASA . "The next steps are to determine exactly where they could fit into the architecture and take advantage of the great technology that they have."
Bridenstine learned more about AstroRad, a protective vest to protect astronauts from radiation in space. – Ready to perform NASA's first flight of the space launch system – and point to technical areas such as miniaturization of small satellites and remote sensing capabilities where Israel excels.
New agreement committing to cooperate on the International Space Station, earth and life sciences, and nanotechnology.
Bridenstine should also visit SpaceIL to hear about his plans to launch the first unmanned Israeli spacecraft on the moon in December
It's a mission that "could have implications for our own lunar objectives ", he said by telephone.
The head of NASA plans to meet high school students during a visit to the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem before traveling to London for the Farnborough International Air Show.
NEW NASA TEACHER. President Donald Trump went Thursday in a different direction than the one many were expecting when he appointed James Morhard, the US Senate Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms and former director of the Senate Credits Committee, deputy administrator of The NASA.
"It is telling that Bridenstine was openly campaigning for someone with research and operational experience, but unfortunately, like many things this administration, they named a friend of power who Has no relevant experience or expertise, "Phil Larson, a former space advisor to President Barack Obama, said in reaction to the announcement.
There was widespread speculation that Trump might choose former astronaut Janet Kavandi, director of the John Glenn Research Center who recorded 33 days in space. Bridenstine said last month that he was rooting for her.
Some senators wondered about the science and space expertise of Bridenstine, a former congressman, and during his long process of confirmation, he promised to command. Morhard would have been Trump's first choice.
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CENTER OF SPACE SPACE OPS TO GET NEW PARTNERS. The Air Force will expand Wednesday its Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to "improve coordination between the United States, allies, trading partners and civilians for defensive space efforts ". "Strong alliances are vital, and US space policy is clear about the importance of partnerships with countries that share US goals to promote the long-term preservation and sustainability of the space environment," Gen . John Raymond, chief of the Air Force Space Command, said in a statement. Among the key space missions of the center: missile warning; navigation; environmental monitoring; spatial intelligence; and the defense of space.
The Air Force reviews its space mission – including a major redesign of the acquisition process at the Space and Missiles Systems Center in Los Angeles scheduled for later this year – along with the Pentagon is studying the best way to organize space missions to Congress leadership and President Trump, who wants a separate army-driven ranch space.
NEGOTIATORS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE ON "MILITARY SPACE FORCE" The Last National Defense Licensing Act for the Fiscal Year begins on October 1 st , but an unresolved issue military space mission: how, or even if, lay the foundation for a new space branch.
Legislative and legislative versions of the House adopt very different approaches. Representatives. Mike Rogers of Alabama and Tennessee's Jim Cooper, the GOP chairman and the senior Democrat on the strategic forces subcommittee, have championed a new branch, which Trump called for last month. The House's bill calls for a new space command space unit and the Air Force as a "fundamental step" to pave the way for the creation of airspace. a full space force, perhaps as early as next year. It also requires a Pentagon report on the establishment of a separate acquisition system for the space. But the Senate remains largely opposed to the idea.
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BUILDING A "COMMERCIAL NASA" TO PROPULATE THE NEW AGE OF SPACE. This is the vision of Dallas Bienhoff, who last year founded the Virginia-based start-up company Cislunar Space Development Company, which seeks to build gas stations and "space tugs" for refuel satellites and other satellites in orbit.
"Once we put something in space, we should never get rid of it," says Bienhoff, who was previously "the architect of space" at Boeing. "We should continue to use it, we should make it reusable."
Bienhoff is looking to call on equipment manufacturers to advance his concept of "thrusters" that separate oxygen and hydrogen from water and then liquefy them. source to supply the spaceships. (This is a viable idea, according to the results of new research published this week in Nature.)
He argues that such a development would be a game changer for space travel and settlements on the moon , and could open new, more efficient
"We need a space transport, a space infrastructure, if we go somewhere, if we go permanently on the Moon, if we're definitely going to Mars, says Bienhoff. "The propellant is expensive. He takes half his mbad. "
He spoke to POLITICO about the next steps of his small business -" the concept is ready for an independent and critical review, "he says – and why there is no illusions about NASA and a few big ones space companies, but it is full of hope
"It's time to change", Bienhoff insists. " Reuse enters the launching sector. Reusability must be transferred to the space sector. There are many things that need to be transported to get where they are going. And it's probably the best environment – political and commercial – that we have to try to change. »Read the full interview here.
VIRGIN EXEC: NEW REGIONS SHOULD PLANNING FUTURE: Update of launching regulations to cover Sirisha Bandla, Head of Government Affairs and Business Development at Virgin Orbit, told a gathering of young leaders from the space industry Thursday: They must be flexible enough to cover rapid progress.
The current regulations were developed before anyone imagined satellites regularly placed in orbit by rockets carried on board aircraft or the advent of reusable space launchers returning to Earth, "she said. from an event sponsored by Future Space Leaders. We could find ourselves in the same situation if we update the regulations and write regulations that only correspond to the launch vehicles we have today, because we do not know what it is. the vehicles will look like. We need to reform the regulations so that they look more like a set of requirements … but do not describe how a vehicle meets that requirement.
Spatial technology is moving beyond spatial laws, putting innovation at risk.
REVOLVING AIRLOCK. NanoRacks hired Daris Meeks of Venable, former House House Republican Conference Policy Director and Senior Advisor to House Financial Services President Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), to lobby on "Space Travel Issues" commercial, "according to a new
The company, which stands as the" conciergerie of the stars ", has ceased to complete its list of lobbyists since 2013, according to public revelations. Earlier this year, he hired former members of the Air Force, NASA and Congress at Van Scoyoc Associates. In recent years, the lobby team included Capitol Hill veteran Paul Gay at Strategic Marketing Innovations and James Muncy at Polispace.
TOP DOC: More tickets to go up? NASA must determine how to send American astronauts to the International Space Station if commercially available spacecraft are not ready by the time it uses all the rides it has bought from the Russians, says the Government Accountability Office
. ] Certifications for Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew programs are likely to slide even further according to the report – until December 2019 and January 2020, respectively. But NASA bought seats on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft until November 2019.
NASA must also determine how to measure the loss or potential injury of astronauts – a measure that will be used to certify the capsules of l & # 39; crew. At the present time, there is "no consistent approach to badessing crew loss," says GAO
JALON: Aerojet Rocketdyne tested its AR-22 engine 10 time in 10 days this week, a major step in the development of Boeing's Phantom Express space plane that could eventually provide satellites to space. The goal was to pull the engine 10 times in 240 hours, and finally, it was a little over an hour after the last race, reported Jeff Haynes, the AR-22 program manager at Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Engineers used "some fairly innovative concepts" to reduce the build-up of engine moisture to dry at just six hours, he added. This effort is part of the Agency's Experimental Spaceplane program for Advanced Defense Research Projects, which aims to create a hypersonic aircraft the size of a business jet. for fast delivery and replacement of critical satellites.
MAKING MOVEMENTS: SpaceX, Amazon's veterinarian to lead Honeywell's supply chain. Torsten Pilz joins Honeywell as Vice President and Supply Chain Manager after holding a similar position at SpaceX and Vice President of Global Operations at Amazon, announced the company this week
. dozens of launches a year as well as the development and production of the Falcon and Falcon heavy rockets, the Dragon Spacecraft and the SpaceX satellite program ", he says. "He is the ideal person to help Honeywell continue its transformation into a leading industrial and software company by simplifying our manufacturing footprint and improving our ability to execute quickly and accurately in all our operations." Diversified technology company owns an important space branch. 19659046] ON THE BIG SCREEN: The biopic film of the late Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, arrives in theaters this fall but already stands out from the game of an important neighborhood: the family of astronauts d & # 39; # 39; Apollo. "They did not have to follow our advice, but they have almost everything," said his son Rick at Spacefest in Tucson, Ariz. "First Man", starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Damien Chazelle ("The Land") and Josh Singer ("Spotlight"), is based on the book of the same name by James Hansen in 2012. Do not miss the band -announce, but you will think that the first man on the moon have a thicker FBI file. [19659048] Neil Armstrong is photographed. | NASA “/>
Neil Armstrong makes a final check of his communications system before boarding the Apollo 11 mission on July 16, 1969. A new movie based on his life, "First Man," is very accurate, says his son Rick. | NASA
