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Members of the Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee said recently that the United States could fulfill the objective of taking astronauts back to the Moon by 2020, but also mentioned that this couldn't be done with current funding. In addition, the same panel also reviewed NASA's decision to stop... |
31 July 2009
16:31 GMT |
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A panel of Air Force safety experts has recently shown in a memo that NASA's newly developed rocket escape system, destined for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, might not work in the event of a failed landing, and that, subsequently, the crew and craft could easily die in the process. The space agency has rep... |
9 June 2009
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On Sunday, NASA's engineers managed to successfully move the space shuttle Endeavor from one Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch pad to the other, in an eight-hour trek that marked the beginning of preparations for the craft's June 13th planned spaceflight to the International Space Station. Until yesterday, ... |
1 June 2009
02:38 GMT |
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In an unexpected turn of events, the Obama administration seems intent to launch a full review of NASA plans for the future, this week. The report will assess whether the Constellation Project, which involves the ARES array of delivery systems, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, and the Altair Lunar Lander, is the b... |
7 May 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Policymakers in the United States are currently struggling to pass legislation that would ensure the operation of the nation's shuttle fleet even beyond 2010. More specifically, US House and Senate representatives are struggling to eliminate the deadline for the retirement of the shuttles, currently scheduled fo... |
30 April 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The American space agency may not be able to bring the new ARES rockets and the Orion Crew Exploration vehicle online by 2015, as original plans predicted, a new report by the Congressional Budget Office watchdog states. According to the paper, the date could be pushed back to late 2016, under the current funding sch... |
21 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The successful completion of the Orion spacecraft is paramount for NASA, on account of the fact that, as soon as it has a working prototype, the shorter the time span it will have to wait until it can resume spaceflights. With the three-shuttle fleet due to be retired at the end of 2010, the Americans find themselves... |
10 April 2009
03:17 GMT |
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The National Mall in Washington is currently the host of a more unusual exhibition. NASA has placed on display a mock-up of the future Orion capsule, the craft that is supposed to be the American space agency's main vehicle after 2015. Following the withdrawal of the shuttle fleet next year, the agency will be l... |
1 April 2009
02:49 GMT |
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NASA representatives have announced that the American space agency has postponed a decision on whether a mission to repair the Hubble space telescope in May will be authorized or not, after learning that the schedule of the launching conflicts with that of the ARES I-X Crew Launch Vehicle test flight, planned for Jul... |
27 January 2009
03:57 GMT |
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A team of renowned scientists from the US National Research Council (NRC) were asked by NASA last year to assess which new missions would be better suited for their next-gen spacecraft built as a part of the Constellation program. The NRC report, called "Launching Science: Science Opportunities Provided by NASA'... |
25 November 2008
06:21 GMT |
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A mixed team of NASA experts and technicians from their contractors has recently performed a full-scale test of the launch abort system for the future Constellation program set to replace the current space shuttles by 2015. The abort operation is aimed to save the lives of the crew of Constellation's Orion capsu... |
24 November 2008
03:29 GMT |
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NASA's independent Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its yearly assessment related to the agency's most difficult situations to be addressed in the future. They are all related to money at some point. The most important is, as probably expected, concerns the space shuttle retirement program ... |
19 November 2008
05:33 GMT |
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The newly-elected president of the United States will have to come up with a thorough but quick decision related to the fate of the space shuttle retirement program, which, in turn, will also affect the remaining missions, as well as a part of NASA's “Constellation” program referring to the replaceme... |
7 November 2008
08:18 GMT |
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The latest of NASA's crafts, the Orion space capsule unveiled at the space agency's Dryden Flight Research Center from the Edwards Air Force Base, is currently undergoing first tests. If all goes well, this will serve as a prototype for the actual spacecraft, perfectly identical but including all the improv... |
1 November 2008
08:10 GMT |
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As we already told you a couple of weeks ago, ASUS is planning to release a new desktop computer system designed to provide the necessary computing power to run the newest releases in desktop PC gaming. The new system is said to be built using the latest in technology hardware, providing high amounts of computing pow... |
18 June 2008
10:22 GMT |
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Anyone who will be able to arrive at this year's Computex show held in Taipei, Taiwan between June 3-7 will have a "first look" at ASUS' new lineup of gaming-ready products, which is part of the company's ROG (Republic of Gamers) series and will display a wide range of products, including portable and ... |
30 May 2008
06:13 GMT |
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The space launchers expected to take astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station by 2015 and to carry a manned mission to the Moon and Mars by 2020, as part of NASA's Constellation Program, have completed on Thursday their first series of tests in the early development program. The Ares I rocket alon... |
12 May 2008
02:52 GMT |
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