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NASA Launches Private Firms into Space Race

NASA is seeding the development of commercial orbital passenger spaceships. NASA's budget proposal includes $6 billion over five years for commercial crew spaceships. "Fly commercial" advocates expect first flights by 2014. NASA may be getting ready to ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  9 Feb 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  Barack Obama,  Boeing,  Peter Diamandis,  NASA Langley Research Center

Space Station Realities Ground Moon Mission

Space shuttle Endeavour is due to launch Sunday with the last major pieces of the space station. The station's cost overruns and delays will not be repeated in moon program, which the Obama administration wants to ax. Private firms are eager to join ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  5 Feb 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  Barack Obama,  Ken Bowersox,  Peter Diamandis,  White House

Aircraft Gets Personal With NASA's Puffin

NASA has unveiled a new concept for a personal aircraft vehicle. The technology is part of initiative to bridge gap between cars and planes. The aircraft, called a Puffin, is quiet enough for neighborhood flights. What takes off like a helicopter, ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  2 Feb 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NASA Budget Request Released

This just out: Pres. Obama's budget request for NASA for the year beginning Oct. 1. Please share your thoughts. *Adds $6 billion to NASA’s budget over five years and draws upon American ingenuity to enable us to embark on an ambitious 21st Century ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  1 Feb 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  Barack Obama

Shuttle Artifacts: Going Once, Going Twice

Thousands of items from space shuttle program are up for grabs online. The items are available only to public institutions, such as schools and museums. The eBay-style screening is first-of-its-kind for dispensation of U.S. historical artifacts. Fancy ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  1 Feb 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  eBay Inc.,  Barack Obama

NASA Former Administrator Weighs in on Obama No-Moon Plan

(Mike Griffin, in the shuttle launch control center, may be gone from NASA, but he's still weighing in. Credit: NASA)  Officials from NASA have been namelessly warning that NASA should expect some radical changes when the president's budget is released ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  29 Jan 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  University of Alabama

Spirit's New Mission? Survive the Winter

NASA is giving up trying to get its stuck Mars rover moving again, though it hopes Spirit will have a new life as a stationary science probe -- if it survives winter. The rover, which landed on Mars six years ago, has been mired in a sand pit since ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  27 Jan 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  Cornell University

Location Made Twin Moons Different

Comet showers likely account for surprising differences between the moons, Ganymede and Callisto. Jupiter's gravity dealt Ganymede a heavier blow when it came incoming comets. The explanation offers a new way of thinking about planetary ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  26 Jan 2010

NASA's New Asteroid-Mapper Finds First Target

NASA's new infrared telescope, called WISE, has spotted its first near-Earth asteroid, a .6-mile (1 kilometer) rock recently designated 2010 AB78. The asteroid, located about 98 million smiles (158 million kilometers) from Earth, was tracked for about 1 ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  25 Jan 2010

Related Topics: NASA,  University of California, Los Angeles

Pluto's Little Sister Found?

An icy body one-third of a mile wide is the smallest known object ever found in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is a vast, icy ring just beyond Neptune that encircles the solar system. The discovery links solar system formation to planet-forming ...

From IRENE KLOTZ, Discovery Channel,  25 Jan 2010

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