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WASHINGTON - NASA Administrator Mike Griffin said his agency would abide by the restrictions the U.S. Congress has imposed on the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, a $500 million demonstration project aimed at fostering private-sector solutions to NASA’s space station re-supply quandary.
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NASA has selected Altair as the name of the lunar lander the Constellation Program will use to put humans on the moon.
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PlanetSpace, a Chicago-based firm engaged in niche commercial space business and co-founded by Indian American entrepreneur Chirinjeev Kathuria, is at the forefront of the race to build US space agency NASA’s new cargo and crew spaceship.
WASHINGTON - NASA could be forced to delay its selection of a new contender for space station resupply contracts if the $516 billion domestic spending measure approved Dec. 17 by the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law.
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NASA is mulling whether its shuttle successor will land on water or dry land.
NASA should keep flying the shuttles past 2010 to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts to the space station, a US congressman says
NASA has awarded a contract for Orion Project integration services to Barrios Technology Ltd. of Houston. The small business contract has a potential value of $49 million with options.
DarkNemesis618 writes “A US Representative has proposed that NASA keep the shuttle fleet flying past its planned 2010 retirement date. The move would help NASA avoid reliance on Russian rockets during the gap between the Space Shuttle retirement and the start of the Orion program. One proposal would keep the shuttle fleet flying from 2010 to 2013 while another would keep the fleet alive until …
U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon is seeking to inject an extra $10 billion into NASA’s budget over the next five years to eliminate the gap between the space shuttle and its proposed replacement.
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