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Lori Garver, the Deputy Administrator at NASA, said during the NewSpace 2011 conference that the American space agency will continue to support the private spaceflight industry despite the hard time NASA itself is going through.
The meeting – held on July 28, in Mountain View, California – was organiz... |
1 August 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Spaceflight has been a source of pride for United States and its population for more than 50 years, but now there appears to be no more drive to achieve groundbreaking performances in this regard. Many believe that the nation is slacking, and falling behind in the space.
While it is true that NASA was the most te... |
15 July 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Officials at the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) have brought Herndon, Virginia-based Valador Inc. to court, over claims the latter made that the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket experienced a malfunction during its second flight. Valador Inc. and its vice president, Joe Fragola,... |
22 June 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Scientists have studied the effects of staying in outer space for prolonged periods of time, and thus far they managed to derive some pretty worrying conclusions. A new research adds to the growing body of evidence indicating the spending a lot of time in microgravity can harm the human immune system.These connection... |
2 June 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Scientists have recently found a correlation between the fact that the Sun is undergoing a period of solar maximum and the chance that space junk in low-Earth orbit (LEO) has of becoming even more dangerous to spacecraft and astronauts leaving Earth.
In more than 50 years of spaceflight, people have put massive am... |
6 April 2011
01:41 GMT |
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Charles Bolden, the Administrator of the American space agency has just returned home from an official visit he made to China, where he says that he and his counterpart set the stage for successful cooperation in the future. The official explains that he did not travel to China to make actual propositions to the coun... |
26 October 2010
02:47 GMT |
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In the coming decades, soot released by the exhaust of rockets flying to space could contribute significantly to global warming, In this regard, the private space industry may become a large contributor to climate change. Recent ads by the companies developing orbital and suborbital technologies say that, in a decade... |
23 October 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Space industry analysts believe that we may be heading for another space bubble, as it happened before in the 1990. And they have the official statistics to prove it.At this point, private spaceflights are considered to be the future of space travel. Companies that aim to provide affordable seats on flights taking pa... |
15 September 2010
05:04 GMT |
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A team of researchers announces the development of a new instrument, that is capable of simulating the experience of reentering Earth's atmosphere by using electrical currents.Willing participants or pilots are subjected to small electrical zaps in a special area behind the ears, and the scientists who created t... |
25 August 2010
02:50 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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With the retirement of the aging shuttle fleet inevitably scheduled for September 2010, scientists around the world, seeking to conduct experiments in orbit, will receive a heavy blow. Though unsafe according to recent standards, Endeavor, Discovery and Atlantis had a massive cargo bay, that could fly large numbers o... |
10 February 2010
18:51 GMT |
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The American space agency is currently in a very tricky spot. Funding for its newest approach on space exploration – Project Constellation – is coming under increased attack, and a panel commissioned by President Obama to analyze its activities pushes for more private involvement with space flight. As we ... |
23 January 2010
04:50 GMT |
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For a long time, the European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it plans to gain orbit-to-Earth capabilities, meaning it wants to develop a system that would serve the same function as the American shuttles, which are able to take cargo to the International Space Station, but to return materials as well. The European ... |
23 June 2009
06:41 GMT |
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This time, the main justification lawmakers turn to in order to ask NASA to postpone the retirement of the shuttle fleet is an economic one. Congressional delegations from Florida and Texas, two states that have been particularly affected by the economic crisis, say that when the space agency closes down the shuttle ... |
17 April 2009
14:01 GMT |
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ESA is planning big for the next decade, its recent actions show. It envisions and supports the construction of a groundbreaking project meant to yield a spacecraft capable of behaving both as a jet airplane and as a rocket. Basically, the new system will be capable of lift-of from an airfield, deliver up to 12 tonne... |
20 February 2009
05:22 GMT |
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The American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has received $600 million from the US House of Representatives, as part of an economic stimulus plan passed on January 25th. However, the Senate version of the bill is a bit different and grants NASA in excess of $1.5 billion, of which $500 million are... |
3 February 2009
04:07 GMT |
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On Monday, the international contest whose goal was to find a suitable emblem for the Soyuz TMA-14 spaceflight mission patch ended, with 12-year-old Anna Chibiskova from Moscow as the winner. Her drawing, depicting two hands holding the Earth against a colorful background, will be worn by all three crew members of th... |
5 January 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Laika preceded the first manned spaceflight; why can't macaques preceed the first manned flight to Mars? According to Russian scientists, they can and they will. The first living being to the Martian system will most likely be a monkey, not a man. The reason is very simple and easy to guess; radiation poses too ... |
14 April 2008
10:14 GMT |
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There are possibly thousands of commercial air flights being carried out every day on Earth, however not even one commercial spaceflight. This is merely because there is no commercial spacecraft available at this moment capable of conducting more than one flight into space each day. To be more accurate, even the spac... |
26 March 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered why airplanes can't be used for spaceflight? Escaping the Earth's gravity is somehow tricky even with the current technology and keeps most of us stranded on the surface. Even NASA has sometimes problems getting its shuttle into space.The first attempt to put a man into space was not ... |
26 November 2007
06:45 GMT |
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