“Thank you for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the President’s FY 2009 budget request for NASA. The President’s budget request for NASA is $17.6 billion, a 2.9 percent increase over the net budget authority enacted for 2008.”
WASHINGTON — Several thousand NASA contractors in Florida and Louisiana could be out of work once the space shuttle flies its last mission in 2010, the head of the U.S. space agency told a Senate panel Feb. 27.
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This notice is to apprise interested parties of the current planning schedule for competition of the Constellation ground processing, provide high level information on the potential requirements, acquisition approach, and solicit industry input.
The U.S. space agency has awarded SGT Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., a contract for support services for the Constellation Program.
NASA’s administrator dropped a bombshell on the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday afternoon. He said thousands of workers will lose their jobs when the shuttle is retired.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has awarded SGT Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., a contract for support services for Constellation Program, which is developing new spacecraft to travel beyond low Earth orbit.
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Washington, Feb 27 : NASA’s Swift satellite has captured images of a nearby galaxy 2.9 million light years from Earth, which is ablaze with star formation.
With a tight NASA budget and political uncertainty on the horizon, space officials and industry leaders are trying to get public support for their mission for astronauts to return to the moon and eventually head to Mars.
Combining 39 individual frames taken over 11 hours of exposure time, NASA astronomers have created this ultraviolet mosaic of the nearby “Triangulum Galaxy.”
GREENBELT, Md. – Combining 39 individual frames taken over 11 hours of exposure time, NASA astronomers have created this ultraviolet mosaic of the nearby “Triangulum Galaxy.”
