NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. As part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities […]
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NASA Invites Media To A Two Shuttle Move Photo Opportunity
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Media are invited to a photo opportunity as shuttles Endeavour and Discovery switch locations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 10, starting at […]
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Rocket Launch Completed From NASA Wallops
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket was successfully conducted at 7:58 a.m. EDT today from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch […]
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Moon Express Announces Dr. Alan Stern as Chief Scientist
Internationally recognized planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern becomes Chief Science Officer of commercial lunar enterprise Moon Express Mountain View, CA (July 20, 2011) – Moon Express, a Google Lunar X […]
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NASA Rocket Launch From Wallops Scheduled for July 21
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – Four university developed experiments will fly July 21 on a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The experiments […]
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Rocket Launches From NASA Wallops Postponed
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – NASA is postponing the launch of two suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on July 15 to no earlier than 2012. The […]
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Photo Release — Globalstar Announces Successful Second Launch of Six New Satellites
Globalstar Completes Launching the First Half of Its Second-Generation Constellation, Which is Designed to Restore Industry Leading Mobile Satellite Voice and Duplex Data Services Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT), a leading provider […]
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NASA’s Shuttle Discovery Moves From Processing Hangar To VAB
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Media are invited to cover shuttle Discovery’s move from its processing hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), on Wednesday, July 13, at NASA’s Kennedy Space […]
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Former NASA Astronauts Request Stay of Execution for Shuttle
WASHINGTON — Several high-profile former NASA officials and a half-dozen astronauts made an eleventh-hour plea to save the space shuttle fleet from becoming museum artifacts, even as NASA Administrator Charles Bolden publicly touted the agency’s plans for crewed exploration after the orbiter’s retirement.
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NASA Sends Phones, Cells, Spores and More to Space on Last Shuttle
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. NASA’s Ames Research Center will send a variety of life science experiments and technology demonstrations aboard the final space shuttle to better our understanding of how robots […]
