Astronauts plan to ride in style on planned moon mission in 2020.
Archive for January 31, 2008
NASA Issues Environmental Impact Statement for Constellation
NASA issued an environmental impact statement for the Constellation Program Jan. 10.
Eyes on the skies
The room is deep red, shadowy, and chilled like a walk-in freezer. A rectangular hole in the ceiling above reveals a cue-ball-white half-moon and glittering stars: Cassiopeia, in its wispy, flatted “W;” the trio of bright blue orbs on Orion’s belt; and the dull, tiny cluster of the Pleiades.
February skywatch: planet pairing, lunar eclipse
Planet pairing The first day of the month starts off with a beautiful planet pairing in the eastern sky.
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Close encounters of the bright-planet kind
The first day of the month starts off with a beautiful planet pairing in the eastern sky. Early in the morning, the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, rise together before the sun with a small waning crescent moon in attendance.
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NASA Says New Rocket Might Shake Violently
NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
Middle schoolers part of broadcast on space program
Area middle school students sitting in on an interactive broadcast today will be able to probe the mind of a retired astronaut and a Saturn V rocket engineer, and talk to the Marshall Space Flight Center manager who is heading a program to build moon rockets.
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GenCorp stocks rise following Q4 growth
Sales were strong for GenCorp Inc., reflecting continued growth in its aerospace and defense business, for fourth-quarter 2007 and the fiscal year ended Nov. 30, the company reported Thursday. (GY)
NASA chief takes long view on new spacecraft
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin in remarks to the Space Transportation Association this week emphasized that the new system for space exploration that NASA is developing, including the Orion
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin’s Remarks to the Space Transportation Association
“Today’s topic is motivated by the inquiries I’ve had lately, in one forum or another, concerning various aspects of NASA’s post-Shuttle spaceflight architecture.”