The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Department of Defense (DOD) successfully completed the first recovery test for the crewed Artemis II s ..
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Hankamer, Texas-based bulk chemical transporter Anahuac Transport Inc. has been fined $275,000 for supplying the Johnson Space Center in Houston with “potentially tainted rocket fuel.” Anahuac must also forfeit the $251,401 in gross proceeds it obtained during the fraud scheme and serve three years of probation.
Anahuac will be banned from federal government contracting for three years.
From 2012 to 2020, Anahuac was subcontracted by NASA and the Department of Defense to transport rocket fuel...
International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women, began on March 8, 1911. Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society and has been observed annually in March in the United States since 1987.
To help celebrate Women’s History Month, FreightWaves Classics will continue to profile a number of women who made contributions to transportation during the month of March.
Women have made history...
Sydney Do, systems engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hopes to send humans to orbit Mars and come back in the late 2030s. Following a successful orbit and round-trip mission to Mars and back, the next missions would send astronauts to land on the surface of Mars for progressively longer amounts of time. Even though it may be more than a decade before humans set foot on Mars, the logistical planning has already started.
In a SpaceWaves Fireside Chat on Thursday, Do and Andrew Cox,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-what-it-takes-to-get-humans-to-mars
Private companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin are entering the space exploration industry with a bang.
Companies are now designing reusable rockets and offshore platforms, so the costs of launching rockets into space are based more on the prices of natural gas and liquid oxygen, according to Keith Cowing, the longtime editor at NASA Watch. And using rockets to transport cargo across the world is growing in popularity as the FAA decided to ease regulations for commercial space transport in...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-the-race-for-space-supremacy
In May of 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing an astronaut on the moon by 1970. Preparations to accomplish this amazing feat began soon thereafter. In addition to the actual rocket and space capsule, worldwide communication monitoring and tracking of the space shot were of major concern. This is where three laid-up World War II T-2 tankers supplied the solution.
The three were chosen from a class known as Mission tankers of the...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/maritime-history-notes-tankers-landed-for-apollo-program
Federal regulators have issued a final rule streamlining regulations for commercial operators in the growing market for space commerce.
The 785-page final rule, released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), streamlines and consolidates multiple regulations to make it easier for commercial operators to comply with licensing and safety requirements to ensure that the United States “remains the flag of choice” for the commercial space sector, according to the FAA.
“This rule paves...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/faa-eases-regulations-for-commercial-space-transport
According to independent analyses by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
Globally, 2019 temperatures were second only to those of 2016 and continued the planet’s long-term warming trend: the past five years have been the warmest of the last 140 years.
This past year, they were 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (0.98...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/nasa-noaa-2019-second-warmest-year/