I’m urging NASA to foster the development of what I call runway landers: a spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring shuttles, but glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway.
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Archive for February 23, 2010
In Detroit, Is There Life After the Big 3?
As parts makers add customers like NASA and solar power companies, they are helping to offset the tens of thousands of lost jobs in the auto industry.
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Obama ends Bush signature return-to-moon program on anniversary of Columbia shuttle disaster
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is redirecting America’s space program, killing NASA’s $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.
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Obama cancels Moon project
President Obama is set to abandon the US space agency’s “Moon rockets” according to reports.
NASA’s $100B moon program gets killed
President Obama is redirecting America’s space program, killing NASA’s $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon.
President Obama kills NASA’s moon mission plans
President Obama is redirecting America’s space program, killing NASA’s $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.
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This undated handout photo provided by SpaceX shows the DragonLab in orbit. In its new budget to be released Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, the Obama administration will propose spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and opera
Obama scraps NASA’s moon mission
President Obama is dramatically revamping America’s space program, killing NASA’s $100 billion plans to return man to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket research. The moon plan, which NASA had already spent $9.1 billion on, was based on old technology and revisiting places astronauts had already been, officials said. The previous NASA chief, in selling the old moon plan, had …
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