Archive for March 31, 2010

How should the war on drugs be fought?

Hillary Clinton has pledged a broader effort to help Mexico fight drugs gangs. Is this a shift in tactics?

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Prognosticating NASA’s future

What are the prospects for NASA’s proposed new exploration plan? Bob Mahoney brackets the range of potential outcomes to see what the most likely scenarios are.

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A Half Century of TIROS

TIROS 1, the first weather satellite, was launched 50 years ago.

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Prepared Statement by NASA Administrator Statement of Charles F. Bolden before the House Subcommittee on Commerce …

Before I discuss the details of the NASA budget request, I would like to talk in general about the President’s new course for human exploration of space. With this budget, the United States has positioned itself to continue our space leadership for years to come.

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ATK Orion Launch Abort Offers Unmatched Crew Safety For Human Space Flight

Alliant Techsystems has completed the second of two ground tests of a full-scale attitude control motor (ACM) for the launch abort system (LAS) of NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle.

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Escape Rocket Motor for NASA Moon Ship Passes Test

The motor for the planned Orion crew module’s abort system just passed its second ground test.

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‘Hubble 3D’ a far-out experience

Remember those jokes about the Hubble telescope needing a blind man’s cane and dark glasses when it went into…

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Heavenly trek into wonders of deep space in ‘Hubble 3D’

Remember those jokes about the Hubble telescope needing a blind man’s cane and dark glasses when it went into orbit 20 years ago and immediately proved nearsighted?

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Buzz Aldrin: Why We Should Keep Flying the Space Shuttle

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

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New IMAX film ‘Hubble 3D’ offers a space trek

Glorious pictures created from the data collected by Hubble, along with closer-to-home footage of NASA’s final nursemaid mission to the telescope last year, are presented in “Hubble 3D,” narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

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