Washington, D.C., October 10, 2010 – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to congratulate Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic, and the SpaceShipTwo team for successfully conducting today’s first-ever glide flight of […]
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Europa’s hidden ice chemistry
The frigid ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa may be hiding more than a presumed ocean: it is likely the scene of some unexpectedly fast chemistry between water and sulfur dioxide […]
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NASA Speaker Questions Relevancy of NASA In Today’s World
VHS tapes, record players and other gadgetry have been declared “outdated” due to the advent of more robust and efficient technology. Now that NASA has reached middle age, is it […]
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NASA Selects High Schools To Compete In New Challenge; Winning Software Designs Will Program Satellites on the International Space Station
WASHINGTON — NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., have selected 24 high schools to participate in a new science, technology, engineering, and math education program. […]
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NASA Rocket Launch From Wallops Scheduled for September 14
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – A test of several new rocket technologies will be conducted September 14 on a Terrier- Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket from NASA’s Launch Range at the […]
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Ping-Pong Balls to Float Crew Capsule Simulator
If ping-pong balls can float a sunken boat, they should be able to keep an uncrewed space capsule simulator from sinking. Right? That’s what a team of summer students and […]
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Time to Reload in the Battle for the Frontier
There is something very American about the idea of a few patriotic heroes fighting off a massive and established foe bent on crushing their new ideas into the dust of history. Always in such tales there is a moment when the heroic band tastes its first victory — usually in the form of simply holding off a devastating defeat — and just in the middle of celebration the true extent of the forces arrayed against them becomes apparent as the enemy armies regroup and return to fill the horizon.
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NASA Rocket Launch Scheduled for 4 August From Wallops Island
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – A three-stage Black Brant X suborbital sounding rocket is schedule for launch August 4 from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The […]
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NASA Selects Sounding Rockets Operations Contractor
WASHINGTON — NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp.’s, Technical Services Division in Greenbelt, Md., for the agency’s Sounding Rockets Operations contract. The total value of this indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity cost-plus incentive fee […]
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SpaceShipTwo Drop Test Could Happen This Fall
The SpaceShipTwo spacecraft VSS Enterprise, which the space tourism company Virgin Galactic has been flying on test flights attached to a huge mothership, could make its first drop flights this fall over California’s Mojave Desert for glide and landing tests, according to a company official.
