Some captures from the presentation.NASA. We don't think we could have lost another one. We have contingency supplies. For CRS-2 its about the same. A little more oversight for reliability and launching on time. A lot of complaints of the delays which is a big cost expense for the payloads. Station was prepared. Commercial payloads hurt more. Redundancy in CRS2. We did not overbuy. Capability to add missions if we need to. Launch on need capability. Bring up another vehicle quickly. Right now go with the missions we have if everything went according to plan. Have an ability to surge.
UN News: UNOOSA is looking to launch the first UN mission to outer space. Tell us about that.Simonetta Di Pippo: We have started to understand that access to space is really important for developing countries to be part of this space community and to get more and more benefits from being part of this process. We are working with the Sierra Nevada Corporation, which has developed the Dream Chaser vehicle. This is quite an interesting spaceship because it goes up as a normal space object and comes back as a normal plane so it can land on a normal landing strip. What we are trying to do now is to put together a mission which should fly, we hope, by the end of 2021. The current baseline is for two weeks in orbit and it could bring between 25-30 experiments. So the announcement of opportunity, which I hope will be out in the second half of 2017, will be open essentially to developing countries, but also to others. The experiments will be selected with the main criteria being that they have to be in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Officials Mull Proposal for Manned Mission to Refurbish Hubble Telescope:https://www.wsj.com/articles/officials-mull-proposal-for-manned-mission-to-refurbish-hubble-telescope-1486927198
President Donald Trump’s advisers are considering an industry proposal to send a manned spacecraft to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope within the next few years, according to people familiar with the matter. The discussions are still preliminary [...]The Hubble repair proposal also has garnered administration officials’ attention because it appears to meet still other important White House criteria, according to these people. The goal is to put a lid on federal expenditures for space by fostering public-private partnerships, while devising projects that can be completed within the president’s current four-year term.[...]The company twice presented its proposal to transition officials, according to one person familiar with the details.[...]An administration representative declined to comment, except to say that transition officials lacked power to approve new projects and “it will be the responsibility of the NASA administrator to set NASA policy.” [...]
Dream Chaser at @NASAArmstrong for testing. The same hangar where the Shuttle Enterprise was housed! #SNCDreamChaser
Looking back at a gorgeous picture of Dream Chaser on its way to @NASAArmstrong!
[NAC slide on DC]