OIG: Commercial Crew Program pushed to NET 2018 and other top stories.

• OIG: Commercial Crew Program pushed to NET 2018

  

  OIG: Commercial Crew Program pushed to NET 2018 Jason Rhian September 3rd, 2016 Image Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s efforts to send crews to the International Space Station (ISS) via commercially-produced spacecraft and launch vehicles are facing an array of challenges. This is according to a report issued by NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The findings were underscored by the recent launch pad explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 and the loss of the Amos-6 satellite it was t..

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• Plastic wrap? Clothing of the future could cool our bodies

  

  But what about those summer days when the sun beats down and the humidity ramps up and we find ourselves desperate to feel cooler? Stripping off can only achieve so much before modesty begins to suffer. So, we rely on adapting our environment, pumping up the air-conditioning or bathing in the breeze of a fan.Yet researchers at Stanford University in California have invented a fabric that would actively cool our bodies, were it woven into clothing, potentially reducing our reliance on energy-thi..

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• SpaceX says it can continue launching Falcon 9 rockets from two other launch pads

  

  The recent Falcon 9 rocket explosion badly damaged SpaceX's Florida launch pad at Cape Canaveral, meaning the company’s primary launch site is out of commission for the foreseeable future. But while that pad undergoes repairs, SpaceX says it can continue launching vehicles from its two other launch sites — one in California and another one in Cape Canaveral. That doesn’t mean the company will be getting back to its regular flight schedule just yet, though. SpaceX’s California launch pad can o..

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