WASHINGTON — Draft appropriations legislation circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives would give NASA a slight budget boost in 2011, including funds to begin building a heavy-lift launch vehicle, continue development of the Orion crew capsule and nurture commercial crew and cargo delivery services for the international space station.
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SpaceShipTwo Conducts Third Gliding Flight Test
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo on Nov. 17 was released from its WhiteKnightTwo mothership high above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, marking the suborbital spacecraft’s third successful gliding flight test in just over a month.
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ILS Proton Successfully Launches LightSquared Satellite
International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the SkyTerra 1 satellite into orbit today on an ILS […]
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Aerojet Joins the Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 9, 2010 – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce that Aerojet has joined the Federation. With over 3,000 employees nationwide including locations in California, […]
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Burt Rutan To Retire in April From Scaled Composites
Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., announced Nov. 3 that the company’s founder and chief technical officer, Burt Rutan, will retire in April. Following his retirement, Rutan will assume the title of founder and chairman emeritus, Scaled said in a press release.
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Spaceport America Runway Named After N.M. Governor
The roughly 3-kilometer-long runway that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo will use when it starts flying paying passengers to suborbital space was officially named the “Governor Bill Richardson Spaceway” during an Oct. 22 dedication ceremony at New Mexico’s Spaceport America.
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Astronomers discover most massive neutron star yet known
Discovery has broad implications for astrophysics, nuclear physics Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered the most massive neutron star yet found, a discovery with […]
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Astrobotic Technology receives $10 million Moon mission contract from NASA and announces Alliance
PITTSBURGH, PA – October 15, 2010 -Astrobotic Technology today was awarded a NASA contract worth up to $10 million for a robotic expedition to the Moon in April 2013. Astrobotic […]
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Bolden Heads to China Amid Lawmaker Concern
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden left for Beijing Oct. 15 amid mixed congressional reaction to Bolden’s plans to meet with Chinese officials to discuss the potential for cooperation in human spaceflight.
