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I've always viewed NASA's move, of relying on the Russian Federal Space Agency for access to space once it retires its shuttles, with suspicion. Relaying on private space companies is even crazier, and the recent delays in the Soyuz launch scheduled proved my point yet again.
Space analysts are now beginn... |
6 February 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Recently, the American space agency unveiled its newest rocket design. Dubbed the Space Launch System (SLS), the new heavy-lift vehicle was bound to cause controversy among experts. Now, scientists weigh in on the specific capabilities the SLS will deploy to the field.
The new rocket will include both Space Shutt... |
22 September 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Engineers at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, reported on Wednesday, September 14, that the mobile gantries and the iconic towers that adorned the Launch Pad 39B facility have all been removed. The process started back in 2009.
At the time, US President Barack Obama had not yet ordered the independ... |
17 September 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Engineers at the Lockheed Martin Corporation announce that the NASA Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) has just started another round of harsh tests. The trials are meant to assess the vehicle's compliance with the guidelines the American space agency put forth for its next spacecraft.The MPCV is an essenti... |
19 August 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Officials at prime contractor Lockheed Martin announce that engineering teams at the Denver, Colorado-based Waterton space systems facility have finished assembling the first flight-worthy Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. With this tremendous milestone achieved, the company is now ready to move further to the next s... |
4 July 2011
05:04 GMT |
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On April 8, the US Congress and the White House managed to reach a compromise on how the 2011 budget should look like. In a statement posted on the House Appropriations Committee website on April 12, the official budget for the American space agency was $18.485 billion.This represents a 1.3 percent decreased from 201... |
14 April 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Officials with Lockheed Martin announce that the company has just sent out the first Orion spacecraft structure today, out of the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. The vehicle is headed for Lockheed facilities situated in Denver, Colorado, where it will be put through a wide series of tests me... |
10 February 2011
09:45 GMT |
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According to US congressmen, the American space agency would do good to follow the directions set forth in the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, as passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama.At the same time, the lawmakers said that the President is making attempts to see the agency waver from the path it ... |
2 December 2010
03:24 GMT |
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According to officials at Lockheed Martin, the corporation is currently developing an action plan that would see the first Orion space capsule being launched as soon as 2013. The test would see the Crew Exploration Vehicle taking off unmanned, so that experts can test all of its systems.At this point, Lockheed Martin... |
1 December 2010
02:44 GMT |
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NASA is organizing a cross-country trek for a full-scale mock-up of the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS), the segment of the rocket that is supposed to ferry astronauts to safety in case of an emergency.As part of the canceled Project Constellation, the LAS was supposed to sit atop the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, ... |
18 October 2010
03:26 GMT |
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The NASA authorization bill, a three-year, $50-billion effort to set the United States on a path to continue space exploration, was not taken up by the US House before recessing on September 24.This basically means that measure will not be voted on before the midterm elections, which are now scheduled to take place N... |
27 September 2010
11:01 GMT |
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A four-month review of the options currently available for the American space agency has revealed that the bill proposed by Senate appears to be the best way to go. Some key tenets of the proposals US President Barack Obama made a the beginning of this year are unfeasible, the reports further states. The group that c... |
14 September 2010
01:35 GMT |
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Even if theoretically this should not happen, a Senate bill gives NASA precise instructions on how it should construct its next generation of heavy-lift delivery systems.Experts with various panels and committees in the US Congress have taken a deep interest in the American space agency's future, ever since US P... |
26 August 2010
02:43 GMT |
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In a letter sent to four congressional subcommittees, representatives of the Planetary Society call for new space exploration plans to be drawn up for NASA and the United States. The group is not satisfied with the existing plans, and with the fact that some congressmen do not agree with the approach to space explora... |
21 August 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Even though if the American space agency has yet to decide the faith of its manned space exploration plans, Project Constellation is continuing onwards undisturbed, officials at NASA say. Even if the plan set forth by US President Barack Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden get approved, the agency will not st... |
19 August 2010
05:36 GMT |
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As part of Project Constellation efforts, NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) will soon conduct a new series of test fires with an experimental motor, designed to power up components of America's new space plan.This will be the first full-sized test of a very large solid rocket motor, a device that foll... |
19 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Though space agencies have carried out the procedure successfully many times, docking to the International Space Station (ISS) is no easy task. Still, both manned and unmanned spacecraft need to do it once every couple of months, in order to sustain the six-astronaut crew currently in orbit. In order to address this ... |
27 July 2010
06:08 GMT |
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US Congressmen on Wednesday approved a bill setting the budget of the American space agency at around $19 billion for 2011. The document also cuts the amount of money President Barack Obama wanted to make available to the private sector. Instead, politicians decided to award about $3 billion to research and developme... |
24 July 2010
03:24 GMT |
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On Monday, members of the House Science and Technology Committee released the draft text of a new bill, that sets new directions for NASA and the American space program as a whole. The new approach aims to pretty much keep Project Constellation intact, while also agreeing to fund the private sector. Admittedly, this ... |
23 July 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Even though the faith of Project Constellation is in doubt, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are still continuing their investigations on how to make the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle safer. At this point, the space capsule is destined to serve only as an escape pod on the International Space Station (ISS)... |
21 July 2010
03:59 GMT |
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Representatives of the American space agency announce that two new top officials have been appointed in charge of Project Constellation. The initiative is NASA's long-duration plan of taking humans back to the Moon by 2020, in a host of new vehicles and rockets. After five years in development, and more than $9 ... |
15 June 2010
06:03 GMT |
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The American space agency has been given a week to come up with new documents detailing cost estimates and possible schedules concerning the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Originally a part of Project Constellation – the ambitious initiative to return humans to the Moon by 2020 – the capsule is currently... |
12 June 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Since the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) was first built, the facility has been more often than not focused on fulfilling a single project. First, it was the Apollo Program, then the Space Shuttle Program, and the Project Constellation. But officials at the Center say that the days when this has been the norm nee... |
10 June 2010
04:02 GMT |
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During former US President George W. Bush's Administration, the United States adhered to a bold plan for sending back humans to the Moon within our lifetimes. Dubbed Project Constellation, the initiative was to include two new rockets (ARES I and ARES V), a space capsule (the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle), a l... |
28 May 2010
06:01 GMT |
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When US President Barack Obama forwarded his 2011 budget proposal to Congress, he made a lot of people very angry with the provisions regarding NASA's future. Under the new plans, the agency is to give up on Project Constellation, its multi-billion dollar, five-year effort to construct new spacecrafts and rocket... |
18 May 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Under US President Barack Obama's new budget proposal, NASA is to spend the next five years searching for alternatives to the ARES V heavy-lift delivery system. The massive rocket was a part of the now-proposed-for-cancellation Project Constellation, but a review panel found it to be insufficiently advanced and ... |
13 May 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Arguably the most important part of any spacecraft – as far as crew safety goes anyway – is the Launch Abort System. This is the mechanism that ensures astronauts stand most chances of survival in case something goes awry during the launch sequence, and when reaching orbit is no longer possible. As part o... |
6 May 2010
10:17 GMT |
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A few days ago, Denver, Colorado-based corporation Lockheed Martin Space Systems, the main contractor to build NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, sent out a letter to its subcontractors, announcing them that funding for their efforts will cease on April 30. According to a letter Orbital Sciences Corporation ... |
3 May 2010
02:45 GMT |
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Project Constellation is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious space programs ever devised. It was set up under then-President George Bush and aimed at developing new spacecrafts and delivery system to return humans to the Moon. But President Barack Obama proposed that the initiative be canceled, in favor of supporti... |
14 April 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Speaking recently at a conference, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that critics to the changes proposed by the 2011 budget proposal for the space agency should not be afraid of the future. The official explained that change was not necessarily a bad thing, and that the new vision for space exploration should a... |
14 April 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Initially, the vision NASA had of space exploration was to retire the shuttles this September and then replace them with a new generation of space vehicles, called Project Constellation, as soon as the latter became available. But a review panel US President Barack Obama convened last year determined that the space a... |
12 April 2010
02:24 GMT |
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Under current plans for the American space agency, Project Constellation is due to be shut down next year, and the space shuttles are to be retired this September. This abrupt termination of two of the most important programs NASA has ever conducted came as a shock to many, and not a few in Congress still oppose Pres... |
9 April 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Although Project Constellation, the American space agency's approach to returning human astronauts to the Moon, appears to have failed, NASA says that space exploration will not only continue, but also accelerate in the near future. For this very purpose, engineers are currently working hard on developing a new ... |
7 April 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Under the 2011 budget proposal, the American space agency would need to cancel its Project Constellation approach to go back to the Moon. Instead, it would invest about $6 billion in private companies, for developing space-bound space capsules and delivery systems. The plan was heavily criticized for lack of vision, ... |
24 March 2010
03:40 GMT |
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About a week ago, on March 12, 16 members of the US House of Representatives signed a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), asking it to investigate whether the new plans to abandon Project Constellation are breaking the law or not. Under the 2011 budget proposal set forth by President Barack Obama, N... |
20 March 2010
04:25 GMT |
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On Thursday, March 18, NASA contractor Alliant Techsystems (ATK) tested a new escape rocket motor at one of its facilities. The device was originally developed for integration on the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, which was a part of the larger Project Constellation. However, under the budget proposal that US Presid... |
20 March 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Participants at the Tenth Annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate agreed in principal that the new plan for space exploration that the Obama Administration set forth is lacking a clear principal. Speaking at the meeting, which was hosted by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), in New York, the experts said that... |
17 March 2010
03:57 GMT |
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In his budget proposal for 2011, US President Barack Obama has proposed that the course of NASA be changed. The document argues that the burden of delivering astronauts to low-Earth orbit, such as, for example, to the International Space Station (ISS) should be passed down to private companies. At the same time, Obam... |
12 March 2010
03:16 GMT |
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According to an announcement made on Tuesday by the NASA Space Shuttle Program manager John Shannon, the American space agency could theoretically fly the three orbiter beyond their September 2010 retirement date. He explained that everything needed to do this is for US President Barack Obama and other lawmakers to g... |
10 March 2010
02:55 GMT |
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According to an announcement the White House made on Match 7, US President Barack Obama will be making a visit to Florida on April 15 to discuss the impact that his Administration's space plans will have on the community here. Florida stands to lose most if the shuttles are retired, with hundreds of the best-qua... |
9 March 2010
04:02 GMT |
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According to an email obtained by Space, it would appear that officials at NASA are developing a new plan for space exploration that would most likely include a host of compromises. Opposition for the new budget proposal is fierce in Congress, especially as far as the space exploration program goes. Representatives a... |
5 March 2010
02:30 GMT |
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In a move that could severely stifle US President Barack Obama's plan for the American space agency, a senator from Texas has recently introduced a new bill that aims to keep the space shuttles flying for an additional two years. At this point, the new approach to space exploration dictates that NASA retires its... |
4 March 2010
04:41 GMT |
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When rumors of the Obama Administration's intentions of shutting down Project Constellation first appeared, many representatives vowed not to let that happen, no matter what. They are now sticking to their word, as evidenced by the recent congressional committee hearings, which saw the NASA Administrator, Charle... |
2 March 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Though the American Administration is proposing to shut down Project Constellation in 2011, when the new fiscal year begins, funding continues to be supplied for the current approach to space exploration. As if to show White House officials that the Project is the way to go, experts at Lockheed Martin, one of the mai... |
2 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Everyone in the space industry knows that the private company Blue Origin is working on a new vertical liftoff and landing rocket, called New Shepard. However, official details of the space vehicle are being kept under wraps as work is progressing. But unofficial sources have published several of the functions and ca... |
26 February 2010
20:01 GMT |
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Speaking yesterday, February 24, in front of senators, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that sending astronauts to Mars was even at this time the agency's primary objective. Despite the fact that some of the basic technological capabilities for this are missing, and that the objective is at ... |
25 February 2010
03:53 GMT |
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With the new budget proposal released by the Obama Administration on February 1, NASA's Project Constellation has been abandoned. Members of this new space program included the ARES I launch vehicle, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the Altair Lunar Lander, the Earth-Departure Stage (EDS), and the ARES V heav... |
8 February 2010
03:47 GMT |
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With President Barack Obama's proposal to cut funding for Project Constellation, the way is cleared for private space corporations to step in and approach space exploration their way. The 2011 budget proposal allots more than $6 billion to NASA for fostering innovation within the private sector, by funding priva... |
5 February 2010
03:38 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced in a press conference yesterday that rebuilding the space agency's vision for exploration might take up to several months. Up until this point, engineers had Project Constellation to work on, but this initiative has been shelved u... |
3 February 2010
01:28 GMT |
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Not one day after Project Constellation was officially sacked, the American space agency has granted private companies a total of $50 million for research programs into developing new crew-transportation concepts and technology demonstrations for human spaceflight. The measure is aimed at boosting the nation's s... |
2 February 2010
04:46 GMT |
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