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UAH may hire former NASA chief

By SHELBY G. SPIRES Times Aerospace Writer shelby.spires@htimes.com System trustees meet to consider Mike Griffin as eminent scholar Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin could be hired today as a tenured professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. A University of Alabama Board of Trustees committee was expected to meet today to consider Griffin’s appointment [...]

NASA fuels Discovery

NASA fuels Discovery for mission to space station. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.– Aiming for a Sunday evening launch, NASA began fueling space shuttle Discovery again in hopes repairs took care of a dangerous leak. Liftoff was set for 6:43 p.m. CDT, provided there were no more hydrogen leaks. Good weather was forecast. During the first launch [...]

SAIC, Oakwood join in NASA’s Mentor-

SAIC, Oakwood join in NASA’s Mentor-Protege program The Marshall Space Flight Center celebrated a major milestone recently – the first Mentor-Protege signing agreement between a NASA prime contractor and a historically black college or university. The three-year NASA agreement reached Feb. 18 is between SAIC and Oakwood University. Historically black colleges and universities are defined [...]

New Rocket Engine

HUNTSVILLE, AL. — Engineers and managers at Marshall Space Flight Center on Thursday completed a critical design review for NASA’s newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X. The J2-X, developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., is the first element of NASA’s Constellation Program aimed at returning to the moon and [...]

Moon Mission Delayed

LOS ANGELES — NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts. The moon craft is the first step in NASA’s program to send astronauts back to the moon and beyond. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was supposed to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., [...]

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