Florida is expanding its footprint at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, which is shedding excess shuttle-era facilities in an attempt to cut costs and remake itself into a hybrid spaceport supporting civilian government, military and commercial programs.
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Flight Marks 100-year Anniversary of First Crossing of Lake Michigan
July 1, 2013, Tucson, Ariz. – Faith Vilas successfully made a water landing near Chicago’s Navy Pier this morning, recreating the flight her grandfather and pioneer aviator Logan A. (Jack) […]
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Draft U.S. Export Rules Raise Concerns Among Suborbital Firms
While the U.S. satellite industry has largely welcomed a space export control reform proposal released by the U.S. State Department in May, the emerging commercial suborbital spaceflight industry is raising concerns about a provision that could restrict their ability to export such vehicles.
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Media Invited to View UP Aerospace SpaceLoft 7 Launch for NASA
News media representatives are invited to witness the first research flight on a suborbital rocket funded by NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program when UP Aerospace Inc.’s SpaceLoft 7 vehicle lifts off […]
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Citizen Science and Space Exploration in the Lone Star State
Space Hacker Workshop to Take Place in Dallas Space isn’t just for governments and large corporations. Citizen scientists and hardware hackers will learn how to do “space on the cheap” […]
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NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments
NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft. This latest selection represents the sixth cycle of NASA’s continuing […]
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NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments
NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft. This latest selection represents the sixth cycle of NASA’s continuing […]
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NASA Willing To Fund Flights of Suborbital Researchers
NASA officials said this week that, for the first time, they are open to funding flights of people, and not just experiments, on commercial human suborbital launch vehicles expected to enter service as early as next year.
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NASA Efforts To Revamp KSC Get $20 Million Boost from Florida
In its quest to downsize the KSC, NASA has found a friend in Florida, which intends to spend $20 million over the next year to help shift shuttle-era facilities into private sector hands.
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Herschel Space Observatory Finds Galaxy Mega Merger
A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. Follow-up studies […]
