The new version of the Orion spacecraft would be launched unmanned to the International Space Station to serve as an escape ship for American astronauts, giving NASA more flexibility from its reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, White House officials said. The president was making a trip to the heart of the U.S. space industry, seeking to explain why he aborted former president George W. Bush’s …
Hillary Clinton has pledged a broader effort to help Mexico fight drugs gangs. Is this a shift in tactics?
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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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.
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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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.
3/17 5th Annual Canadian Blast BBQ at SXSW at Brush Square Park from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Born Ruffians, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Hollerado, Radio Radio, Plants and Animals and Justin Rutledge and The Beauties
For my farewell from the Cape (for now) and STS 130 coverage, please check out this cool video of the STS 130 Night Landing which took place exactly 1 week ago on Sunday night, Feb 21. It?s been a pleasure and an honor to work as a team for Universe Today; Nancy Atkinson and Ken [...]
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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President Obama is set to abandon the US space agency’s “Moon rockets” according to reports.
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