Space brains resign over efforts to attract ET attention
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Yoo-hoo! Primitive race here, ripe for conquest/harvest! A pair of noted space thinkers have resigned from an international body in protest at plans to send out powerful radio signals to alien civilisations. The two men feel that the risks of contact with extraterrestrials - who would need to be much more technologically advanced than humanity in order to visit us - have not been adequately considered.â¦
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The Hubble Space Telescope, arguably one of the greatest achievements of the space program, needs to be rescued. And astronauts should be sent to do the job.
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Tycho: You might have heard that NASA was trying to gin up an MMO. We just received a mail from a human being involved in the project, someone who wants to make sure they collect the best ideas from the best people. Naturally, she thought of the readership here. Her mail follows:I know how incredibly unpleasant this could end up being if we don'thave the right minds behind it, and would just like the chance to get itin front of as many potentially talented people as possible. Would youguys consider posting a sentence on this in the news section soon?"The purpose of this RFI is to solicit information from organizationswith proven immersive synthetic environments expertise who areinterested in potentially forming a MMO platform development partnershipwith NASA. We are currently targeting releasing a Request for Proposalin March 2008."Here's a couple of run-downs in English from people outside NASA:http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/nasa-seeks-inpu.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/would-you-play.html#previouspostAnd the NASA sites:http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=128415http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/submit.htmlNASA gets surprisingly tiny amounts of money (about $17B/yr) to go tofreakin' space and do a whole lot of discovering of varioushumanity-impacting things. And a lot of people just don't know theamount of awesomeness we do for that. We're working on many things totry and communicate to people better about what we do (that's part ofour forming mandates, actually), and this is one initiative.And I think it would be cool if it wasn't a big mess, or even just an"eh" thing. I'd like to see it be *good*.For the space program, guys?Oh, but darling: you had us at immersive synthetic environments.(CW)TB
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When a privately built rocket plane soared into space earlier this month, astronaut wannabes were giddy with the hope that they&#39;d finally make it off the planet.
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ONE of Americaâs greatest unsung heroes, an astronaut who touched the stars yet barely scraped the surface of public recognition, is to retire.
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NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe will resign this week, a government official said Sunday, and a spokesman for Louisiana State University said O&#39;Keefe is a leading candidate to become a chancellor there.
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS  Contact: Tabatha Thompson, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 3895; Whitney Clavin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-4673; both of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration   WASHINGTON, Feb.
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Cragg Hines welcomes the departure of NASA&#39;s chief but worries about the list of potential successors, especially Gen. Missileman.
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Sean O&#39;Keefe, who resigned Monday as the head of NASA to pursue his application to become chancellor of Louisiana State University, is credited with helping restore the space
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NASA administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe, who has led the US space program through one of its worst tragedies and into one of its most ambitious endeavors, will likely resign this week to take a $500,000
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will resign this week, a government official said Sunday, and a spokesman for Louisiana State University said O'Keefe is a leading candidate to become a chancellor there.
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Text of report by Russian Channel One Europe TV on 22 June  Personnel changes have been made at the Energiya [Rocket and Space] Corporation, the main enterprise in the rocket and space industry. The board of directors today suspended Nikolay Sevastyanov, president of the company.
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Pooh-poohs space agency pooh-pooh The US Air Force doctor who led an investigation which reported that NASA astronauts flew drunk has criticised the space agency's subsequent review, which concluded that he was wrong. Colonel Richard Bachmann also suggested that management attitudes indicated a culture of silence at NASA.â¦
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When Sean O'Keefe was sworn in as NASA administrator  Dec. 21, 2001, at the top of his agenda was to bring fiscal discipline to a  space agency that had recently allowed a &#36;5 billion surprise to swamp its key  program, an international space station already more than a decade behind  schedule.
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A flurry of space tourism milestones and announcements in recent days signals that human spaceflight is shifting from governments to the private sector, space experts say.
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When Sean O&#39;Keefe was sworn in as NASA (news - web sites) administrator Dec. 21, 2001, at the top of his agenda was to bring fiscal discipline to a space agency that had recently allowed a $5 billion surprise
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Sean O'Keefe, who has spent three tumultuous years running the nation's space program, is resigning, the White House said Monday.