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STS 130: Cool Night Landing Video from the Shuttle Strip

Jimmy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:45:38 +0000

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 [...]

Buzz Aldrin: Spaceships Worthy of the Name

Jimmy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:22:08 +0000

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.

Spaceman

Jordan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:20:20 +0000

America ponders the options for a big rocket

In Detroit, Is There Life After the Big 3?

Jordan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:17:57 +0000

As parts makers add customers like NASA and solar power companies, they are helping to offset the tens of thousands of lost jobs in the auto industry.

One giant leap backwards as human space flight axed

Jimmy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:35:51 +0000

FOUR decades after humans first set foot on the Moon, and five years after Nasa was tasked with returning them there, President Barack Obama was condemned for taking one giant

The Shoulders of Giants

dylan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:45:08 +0000

America`s ambition to explore space has not come without a human cost. The decisions being made today about our future in space depend on lessons learned from past tragedies.

Endeavour may be among last manned flights as NASA mission shifts

Jordan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:22:41 +0000

Endeavour may be among last manned flights as NASA mission shifts

Obama ends Bush signature return-to-moon program on anniversary of Columbia shuttle disaster

DMarie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:34:20 +0000

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is redirecting America’s space program, killing NASA’s $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.

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Obama cancels Moon project

Jimmy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:22:51 +0000

President Obama is set to abandon the US space agency’s “Moon rockets” according to reports.

NASA’s $100B moon program gets killed

Jimmy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:22:26 +0000

President Obama is redirecting America’s space program, killing NASA’s $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon.