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Panel: NASA's strategy lofty, funding not
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
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Committee members were to meet with administration officials Friday, likely telling officials that under existing funding parameters, the United States can't realistically return men to the moon by 2020...Constellation program that would replace the existing...
Tags: human space, Mars, review panel, space program, space flight, plans committee, flight plans, White House
NASA probe set to swing past moon
Huntsville :: AL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Then they'll separate, and both will plunge toward a crater near the moon's south pole...It will spend a year mapping the moon is great detail to identify safe landing sites and interesting areas for exploration by astronauts. Comment: (optional)
Tags: moon, NASA Probe Beams Home, lunar orbiter, south pole, reconnaissance orbiter, lunar reconnaissance, water ice, Earth, LRO, space flight
Two Space-age Pioneers take Final Trek
Two Space-age Pioneers take Final Trek Bill Ernest, Jr. Last year, In Truth-Or-Consequences New Mexico, at Spaceport America--- the only known commercial “space-port" in our solar system --- actor James Doohan’s ashes were placed aboard...
Tags: Truth-Or-Consequences New Mexico, Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, Spaceport America, commercial spaceport, spaceport, solar system, launch, SpaceLoft XL, Star Trek, Mr. Scott, James Doohan, space capsule, Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Gordon Cooper, Gordo Cooper, 1965, Gemini V, Gemini, Mercury, Faith 7, Colonel Cooper, Apollo X, Apollo, space endurance record, space endurance, space, space flight, spaces launch, Houston, Houston texas, texas, space cadet, Wm. Shatner, William Shatner, shatner, kirk, spock, orbit, rocket, rocket launch, Virgin Galactic, Virgin, State of New Mexico, Richard Branson, Sigorney Weaver
Examiner.com: Anchorage, Alaska: NASA Announces Members of Human Space Flight Review Committee
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Norman Augustine (chair), retired chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corp., and former member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Dr. Charles Kennel , chair, National Academies Space...
Tags: human space, space flight
Administration to Review NASA Space Flight Program
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Constellation program, which features two new rockets, Ares I and Ares V, and a new capsule, Orion...Every aspect of human space flight -- including long-term goals -- will be on the table, Scolese said after a news briefing today. "This is a human space...
Tags: moon, Review NASA, space flight, John Holdren, human space, nasa space
Recession slows space industry
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The global space industry has suffered along with the rest of the world economy but still managed to grow nearly 2.5 percent last year, according to The Space Report 2009. The report was released Monday by the Space Foundation on the opening day of the...
Tags: U.S. Space Foundation, China, space industry, global space, manned space, achievement award, space program, space flight, space achievement
Plan panel okays ISRO manned space flight
New Delhi :: India | 9 months ago
Credibility Ahluwalia said the Human Space Flight project would be executed in two phases. In the first phase, an unmanned flight would be launched in 2013-14 and the second stage in 2014-15 would be a two-man mission...The Rs 12,400-crore expenditure would include...
Tags: Indian Space Research Organisation, AP India, space flight, plan commission, China
China awards outstanding people in spacewalk mission
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility China held a meeting Friday morning to award people who made outstanding contributions to the Shenzhou VII manned space flight. Chinese President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top leaders Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and...
Tags: Communist Party of China, manned space, space flight, china honored, Shenzhou VII, Zhai Zhigang, communist parties
When the Earth Is Not Enough
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sergey Brin , the 34-year-old president of technology for the search-engine company, has put down a $5 million deposit for a seat aboard a Russian spacecraft, tourism company Space Adventures said yesterday. With a launch date set for 2011, Brin will...
Tags: russia, space flight, used company, private space
Mini-black hole is smallest ever but still strong
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility But the mini-black hole, dubbed J1650, could still stretch a person into a "strand of spaghetti" with its pull, the researchers told a meeting in Los Angeles. "This black hole is really pushing the limits. Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Tags: black hole, goddard space, Greenbelt, flight center, space flight
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