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SpaceX VP Hans Koenigsmann, Elon Musk's fourth hire at the space company, plans to retire CNBC 2/2/2021 Michael Sheetz SpaceX vice president of build and flight reliability Hans Koenigsmann is retiring and has begun transitioning his role to former top NASA official William "Bill" Gerstenmaier, according to note to employees that was seen by CNBC. Koenigsmann, a German-born aerospace engineer, joined Elon Musk's company as its fourth technical employee in 2002. In the note, Koenigsmann said he will become a technical advisor for the company, working part-time to support Spac...

Will Biden continue NASA's Artemis program to return to the moon? Mark Whittington, opinion contributor © Getty Images Will Biden continue NASA's Artemis program to return to the moon? When President Biden moved into the Oval Office, he made it a point to bring out a moon rock that had been presented to the White House in 1999 in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and to place it on prominent display. NASA noted that the rock was collected by the astronauts of Apollo 17, the last human expedition to the moon. It was extracted from a large boulder at...

NASA decides to redo SLS Green Run Static Fire January 30, 2021 As expected, but now official, NASA has announced the decision to redo the Green Run Hot-Fire test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The Core Stage was fired for 67 seconds on January 16 in the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis before the test was ended early. The SLS Program, Core Stage prime contractor Boeing, and RS-25 engine prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne are continuing to refurbish their vehicle hardware and Stennis is recycling their ground systems for a second a...

NASA NASA was created largely in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957. It was organized around the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which had been created by Congress in 1915. NASA’s organization was well under way by the early years of Pres. John F. Kennedy’s administration when he proposed that the United States put a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. To that end, the Apollo program was designed, and in 1969 the U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person on the Moon. Later, uncrewed programs—such as Viking, Mariner, Voyager, and Gali...

Rolls-Royce runs first engine on its large, smart testbed Testbed 80 has been designed to test today’s jet engines and the hybrid or all-electric flight systems of the future. With an internal area of 7,500m 2, making it larger than a Premiership football [soccer] pitch, the testbed conducted its first run on a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine at the test facility in Derby, UK. This is a major milestone in the project which has been under construction for almost three years and represents a $123 million investment. Chris Cholerton, president, Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace, said: “Today is an im...