WASHINGTON, D.C. – NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today sent a response to House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert’s (R-NY) and Ranking Democrat Ralph Hall’s (D-TX) October 21st letter, expressing their […]
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Space Station Incident Highlights Need For NASA Reorganization
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) today told the House Science Committee that organizational changes at NASA proposed by the CAIB would have helped […]
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Titan II blasts its way into history
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) — As the final Titan II rocket streaked skyward from here Oct. 18, it left in its wake a 40-year history that included a transformation […]
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NASA Awards Testing & Space Research Service Contract
Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., has been awarded a contract by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Ala., to provide propellants, pressurants and calibration services at the center. The […]
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NASA-KSC Grants Four New Technology Patent Licenses
NASA-Kennedy Space Center’s Technology Transfer Office recently granted patent licenses on four of NASA’s technologies, developed at KSC, for application in several commercial/industrial markets. Two of the license agreements are […]
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NASA Administrator Addresses City Club of Cleveland
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe will address members and guests of The City Club of Cleveland on Friday, October 31 at 12:30 p.m. EST. Administrator O’Keefe will be talk about NASA’s […]
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Boehlert and Hall Urge O’Keefe to “Defer the Current” Orbital Space Plane Program
Lead Members on Science Panel Express “…deep concern with NASA’s current approach…” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Democrat Ralph M. Hall (D-TX) recently sent […]
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NASA KSC Contractor Awards Announced at Business Expo 2003
Kennedy Space Center Contractor Awards for Fiscal Year 2003 were announced during the Business Opportunities Expo 2003, Oct. 21, at Port Canaveral, Fla. KSC Director James Kennedy spoke during the […]
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Let gravity assist you…
‘Fly-bys’, or ‘gravity assist’ manoeuvres, are now a standard part of spaceflight and are used by almost all ESA interplanetary missions. Imagine if every time you drove by a city, […]
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ATK Successfully Conducts First Five-Segment Space Shuttle Motor Test
ATK (Alliant Techsystems) yesterday successfully conducted the first static test firing of a five-segment Space Shuttle reusable solid rocket motor (RSRM). The test conducted by ATK Thiokol Propulsion, Promontory, Utah, […]
