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Scott Seymour, President and Chief Executive, Gencorp, and President, Aerojet
Depending on how it ultimately shakes out, U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed new direction for NASA could work out well for Sacramento, Calif.-based Aerojet, the only U.S. company still active in both solid- and liquid-fueled rocket propulsion.
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Apollo Legends Pan Obama Space Plan Before Congress
WASHINGTON — Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, told U.S. lawmakers May 12 that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently confided that the federal government may need to fund a “bailout” of entrepreneurial space firms if a commercial market fails to materialize for the crew taxis they are developing under the agency’s new plan.
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United Technologies’ Hamilton Sundstrand Unit a Member of 2009 Collier Trophy-Winning Team
A space consortium that includes Hamilton Sundstrand has won the 2009 Robert J. Collier Trophy for its work in the design, development and assembly of the International Space Station. Hamilton […]
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Human Spaceflight is a Tough Business
Launching humans into space is difficult, dangerous and expensive — and we do it anyway, for good reason.
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University of Colorado Conducting Experiments in Space
Two University of Colorado based experiments will be launched in May aboard NASA rockets from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The first experiment, called EVE for Extreme Ultraviolet […]
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SES WORLD SKIES’ SES-1 Satellite Successfully Launched on Board ILS Proton
SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG)(LuxX:SESG), today announced that the SES-1 satellite successfully roared into space on board a Proton Breeze M booster from the Baikonour Cosmodrome […]
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Huntsville Hosts International Space Operations Conference
Experts and innovators in the global space operations community will “deliver on the dream” at the SpaceOps 2010 conference April 25-30 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala. The […]
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Commercial Spaceflight Seen as a Potentially Lucrative, but Long-term, Investment
SAN FRANCISCO — A flurry of new commercial space activity is attracting interest from investors seeking to profit from the fledgling suborbital tourism trade and cargo transportation business. Space industry executives and financial analysts caution, however, that some of those opportunities are best suited for patient, long-term investors.
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NASA Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Earth Day Nationwide
WASHINGTON — NASA centers across the nation invite journalists and the public to see and hear about the agency’s contributions to exploring and protecting our home planet during this year’s […]
