The NASA JSC Project Morpheus is out today for another tethered flight test of their vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle – Twitter / MorpheusLander:
Sporting a good luck halo this morning, so it must be a great day for a tether test! Follow along for updates! pic.twitter.com/VzYUc4tS5D
Follow updates throughout the day at Morpheus Lander (MorpheusLander) on Twitter.
Some NASA JSC intern humor:
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“This is JSC” is a satirical series created by students at NASA Johnson Space Center. This volunteer outreach project showcases different projects and features unique to JSC.
A list of recent space policy related items:
Update: On Thursday NASA released images and the video shown below about a mission to capture a small asteroid, bring it into the Earth-Moon system and send a crew on an Orion spacecraft to retrieve samples from it.
Here is the latest Curiosity Rover Report: “The Odometer Keeps Turning”
Here’s an announcement of an upcoming symposium in the Netherlands on private spaceflight:
Private Commercial Spaceflight in the 21st Century: Vehicles and Payload
Date: Sept. 5, 2013
Location: Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Symposium organized by AlphaSparks Space Transportation and NVR.
Preliminary Programme
12:45-13:10 Welcome
13:10-13:15 Introduction – AlphaSparks / NVR
13:15-14:00 SXC/XCOR Lynx I and Lynx II flights – H. van Hulten (SXC)
14:00-14:45 SpaceShipTwo suborbital flights – K. Stephens (Virgin Galactic)
14:45-15:30 Swiss Space Systems – P. Jaussi (Swiss Space Systems)
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Regulating commercial spaceflight in the EU – M. Gerhard (EASA)
16:30-17:15 Brokering payload for spaceflight – A. Wielders / R. Schonenborg (AS)
17:15-17:30 End of the symposium
Target audience: potential customers of commercial private spaceflight and space professionals in general
Registration fee: € 25,= (including 21% VAT)
Please register before August 30th by email to secretariaat@ruimtevaart-nvr.nl. You will receive payment instructions with your confirmation email.
With support from NSO and SpaceNed.
The venue of the symposium is the oldest museum of the Netherlands: The Teylers Museum.
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See also the Private Spaceflight Symposium flyer (pdf) at Dutch Dimensions | NASA – A Human Adventure Exhibition