The Federal Aviation Administration issued a commercial spaceport license Sept. 17 to an airport in Midland, Texas, the first such license issued to a facility that also hosts commercial passenger airline flights.
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Audit Finds NASA Asteroid Search Program Needs More Structure
The NASA’s Office of Inspector General report found that the Near Earth Object Program Office lacked the plans and contracting oversight typically used on agency programs, leaving many decisions on awarding grants in the hands of the program executive even as the program’s budget grew tenfold over the last five years.
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CSF Elects Frank DiBello as Group’s New Chairman
DiBello’s election is part of a larger leadership transition at the organization, which promotes commercial human spaceflight.
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U.S. Dismisses Space Weapons Treaty Proposal As “Fundamentally Flawed”
A U.S. review of an updated Chinese-Russian treaty proposal to ban weapons in space finds that it suffers from the same problems that made the original version unacceptable, an American diplomat said.
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Remembrance | Noel Hinners Knew To Save Hubble, NASA Had To Be Willing To Kill It
It was 1976, America’s bicentennial, but the nation’s celebratory mood did not extend to big-ticket astronomy projects — at least not as far as Congress was concerned.
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Special Report | NASA Budget Fundamentals Supercede Campaign Rhetoric
WASHINGTON — NASA will continue to face a mismatch between available funding and programmatic mandates regardless of who wins the White House in November, space policy experts here said.
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Young Engineer Leads Effort To Make Space a Topic of Presidential Debate
WASHINGTON —
Have space policy geeks managed to hijack the upcoming CNN/Politico.com presidential debates? In the week
before the Jan. 31 debate between the remaining Democratic presidential candidates, 20 of the 25 most popular viewer-submitted questions were about U.S. space policy. On the Republican side, space questions accounted for 11 of the 25 top spots, edging out questions about the economy and Iraq.
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Web Entrepreneur Eyes Small Launcher Market
WASHINGTON – Elon Musk, a 31-year old Internet entrepreneur who amassed a sizable fortune during the dot.com boom, has set his sights on building a rocket. The rocket Musk is building […]
