A clear blue sky Tuesday was marked by the white smoke trail from a NASA rocket at Marshall Space Flight Center, and its world-renowned rocket boy – Homer Hickam – was on hand to watch the launch.
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Archive for January 16, 2008
NASA Wants Your Opinion on the Lunar Lander
NASA’s Constellation Program has released an announcement that they are looking for people to evaluate the design of the Altair spacecraft that will land on the moon. So if you work in the science community or in a related industry, NASA wants your opinion. What they are looking for are evaluations of [...]
High-flying telescope to seek out new stars, Milky Way’s black hole
A 30-year-old airplane that once flew passengers across the Pacific in high luxury is now carrying a 17-ton telescope that will soon scan the heavens in an international project to hunt for newborn stars in the Orion nebula and probe the violent black hole in…
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NASA builds flying telescope to explore stars and black holes
NASA has built its first flying observatory on the base of Boeing 747 airplane that used to fly passengers across the Pacific Ocean. The new observatory, named SOFIA, now carries a 17-ton telescope that will soon start to explore the Universe searching for new stars in the Orion nebula.
NASA Announces Study Proposal on Design of Human Lunar Lander
NASA’s Constellation Program has released a broad agency announcement for study proposals to evaluate human landing craft concepts for exploring the moon.
The Vision’s critical year
Four years ago today—January 14, 2004—President George W. Bush made the short trip across downtown Washington to NASA Headquarters to deliver a speech outlining his vision for the future of America’s space program . In that speech, Bush outlined the key elements of what came to be known as the Vision for Space Exploration: complete the International Space Station (ISS) and retire the shuttle by …
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Alliant to build solar panels for NASA
Alliant Techsystems Inc., whose Utah plant makes reusable solid-rocket motors for U.S. space shuttles, has won a contract valued at more than $50 million to build solar arrays for NASA’s new Orion spacecraft.
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Alliant gets $50M contract to build Orion solar arrays
Alliant Techsystems Inc., the sole maker of reusable solid-rocket motors for U.S. space shuttles, has won a contract valued at more than $50 million to build solar arrays for NASA’s new Orion spacecraft.
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Alliant gets $50M NASA solar-array contract
Alliant Techsystems Inc. won a contract worth more than $50 million to build the solar components for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the company announced Friday.
Bipartisan effort seeks funds for NASA
In a show of bipartisan support, Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Democratic Rep. Nick Lampson said Thursday they will try again this year to get an additional $2 billion in NASA funding.