Aiming for the stars
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Jim J. Zebrowski knows a thing or two about whipping up his own comet.
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Archive for July, 2008
John Glenn pushes for funds to extend shuttle operations
Thursday, July 31st, 2008The legend, who was the first American to orbit Earth, warned that the five-year gap in manned U.S. spaceflight could be extended if problems arose producing the Orion moonship by 2016.
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Future Moonwalkers Will Have High-Tech Maps
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Future moonwalkers could become high-tech surveyors whose lunar navigation system gets updated on the fly.
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NASA turns 50 today [60-Second Science Blog]
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established 50 years ago today by the aptly named National Aeronautics and Space Act. NASA began operations on October 1, 1958, with a staff of 80 spread among four laboratories. The agency now consists of 15 facilities that employed more than 17,000 people in 2006, according to Best Places to Work. [More]
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Spirent Federal GPS Simulator Selected by Honeywell for NASA’s Orion Project
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008YORBA LINDA, Calif.—-Spirent Federal Systems, Inc., the leading provider of GPS/GNSS satellite simulators, announces today that Honeywell has selected a Spirent GPS/Inertial simulator to develop, integrate and verify the navigation system for NASA’s Orion project.
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NASA Sets Briefings for Hubble Space Telescope Shuttle Mission
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 – 9 to preview the space shuttle’s fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Lockheed Martin Takes Students and Teachers on a Virtual Journey to the Moon With the Orion Spacecraft
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Lockheed Martin, the Space Foundation and SpaceClass announced today the launch of a strategic online education collaboration called Orion’s Path.
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NASA Awards Contracts for Concepts of Lunar Surface Systems
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008NASA’s Constellation Program has selected 11 companies and one university to independently develop concepts that contribute to how astronauts will live and work on the moon.
The COTS conundrum
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program has emerged as one of the most interesting experiments not just in the tenure of administrator Mike Griffin, who kicked off the effort shortly after becoming administrator in 2005, but perhaps in the agency’s fifty-year history.
Read More at The Space Review…
Space exploration comes to the classroom
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Hoping to spur more youngsters to seek a career in space exploration, Lockheed Martin Corp. is launching an online program for students and teachers to learn about NASA’s mission to the moon and Mars.
Read More at Rocky Mountain News…