Space Shuttle: December 2008 Archives

So this NASA RFI on sending Orbiter's to museums has done the rounds on the internet but the reality is that the fleet won't be retired in 2010. Why, you may ask?

credit: NASA/ caption: STS-61

Beyond these words NASA should continue to support commercial and European
development of crew and cargo alternatives, particularly for cargo return, during and after the gap the report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology space, policy and society
research group is pretty unimaginative and if I were a member of George W. Bush's administration or NASA's current leadership I'd be thanking the New England based-institute for the free positive PR

credit: NASA/Flight

Following on from this blog and this story Hyperbola has received more responses from NASA and the US government's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the issue of perchlorate

Just to recap the EPA has been rethinking the issue of perchlorate and its levels in water with the possibility of it deciding that limits need to be placed on this chemical

At the same time that EPA is considering this issue, with a possible decision later this month, NASA's Glenn Research Center (GRC) decided to procure technology from Sweden, of all places, to find an alternative to ammonium perchlorate (AP) called ammonium dinitramide (ADN)