Kibo: Japan’s space lab
March 27, 2008 – 12:59 am
Kibo, which is managed by a dedicated mission control centre in Japan , will need two more shuttle visits to the ISS before it is completed next year. Read More at Aljazeera…
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Space station to shine bright tonight
March 26, 2008 – 9:12 am
The brightest star in the Hampton Roads sky tonight might be a man-made object. Read More at Daily Press…
Moon, Mars, and Shuttle Transition – Featured Panel at 24th National Space Symposium
March 25, 2008 – 12:27 am
Moon, Mars, and Shuttle Transition – Featured Panel at 24th National Space Symposium Read More at SpaceRef…
NASA awards Johnson Space Center contracts
March 19, 2008 – 12:35 am
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected five companies to receive contracts for a 210-day study to evaluate the agency’s design concept for a lunar lander. Read More at Houston Business Journal…
NASA courts industry insight
March 18, 2008 – 10:11 am
NASA’s Constellation Program has selected five companies to independently evaluate NASA’s in-house design concept for a lunar lander that will deliver astronauts to the moon by 2020. Read More at the Engineer…
NASA awards lunar lander contract
March 18, 2008 – 10:03 am
The U.S. space agency has selected five companies to receive contracts for a 210-day study to evaluate the agency’s design concept for a lunar lander.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Constellation Program scientists produced the concept for the lander that will deliver four astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2020.The awards total approximately [...]
NASA Awards Contracts for Design Study of Lunar Landing Craft
March 18, 2008 – 12:50 am
NASA’s Constellation Program has selected five space-related companies to receive contract awards for a 210-day study to independently evaluate NASA’s in-house design concept for a lunar lander. Read More at SpaceRef…
Andrews Space among moon ship consultants
March 18, 2008 – 12:45 am
NASA has picked its early industry partners to help with the preliminary design of a spacecraft that it hopes will land four astronauts on the moon by 2020. Alongside The Boeing Co. and other heavyweights is Andrews Space of Seattle. Read More at Seattle Post-Intelligencer…
UT group receives grant for NASA vehicle research
March 17, 2008 – 9:31 am
A $17 million grant will allow UT researchers at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences to study vehicles re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. Read More at The Daily Texan…