Category Archives: Space Exploration

Five people I’d like to meet

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Kevin A. Barnes

This week BizTimes.com ran an article about the “10 People who are Changing Milwaukee” and it started me thinking about the various people I’d like to meet. Before creating my list, I set a few basic ground rules: Unlike the BizTimes … Read the rest of this entry →

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Last of the Original Rocketmen

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Kevin A. Barnes

Earlier this week I learned from the NASA website that Konrad Dannenberg died on Monday at the age of 96. Dannenberg was a key member of Wernher von Braun’s original engineering team that developed the hardware and processes which enabled … Read the rest of this entry →

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The next NASA chief

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Kevin

This past week, Mike Griffin announced he is stepping down on January 20 as NASA chief administrator, the politically appointed post that runs America’s space agency. As the Obama transition team accelerates its search for Griffin’s successor, here’s my modest proposal for … Read the rest of this entry →

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More clues about Obama Space Policy

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Kevin A. Barnes

During the last two weeks, there have been some tantalizing clues as to what the U.S. space exploration policy may look like during President Obama’s administration. First the Obama Transition Team submitted a series of questions to NASA, apparently to … Read the rest of this entry →

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Obama’s impact on the retirement of NASA’s Space Shuttle

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Kevin A. Barnes

NASA currently is developing the spacecraft and launch systems that will replace the aging U.S. space shuttle fleet. Unfortunately NASA’s current timeline leaves a gap of several years between when the last shuttle is decommissioned and when the new Aries … Read the rest of this entry →

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