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Lockheed’s Orion Plan Spreads Work Across the Country
WASHINGTON — As Lockheed Martin gets to work designing NASA’s next manned spacecraft, the Bethesda, Md., firm’s choice of industry teammates ensures that the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) will be a nationwide effort.
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Planet or failed star? Hubble photographs one of the smallest stellar companions ever seen
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass […]
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NASA Places $500 Million Bet on Two Very Different Firms
WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Mike Griffin does not mince words when he calls the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration effort a gamble, albeit one with the potential to pay off big time if the entrepreneurial sector delivers.
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Personal Spaceflight Federation Expands Membership and Announces Officers
Alex Tai of Virgin Galactic Elected Chairman The Personal Spaceflight Federation (PSF), comprised of private, public and non-profit organizations working to make commercial human spaceflight a reality, has announced new […]
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NASA Nixes Microlander Proposal, Keeps LRO at Head of the Line
WASHINGTON — A fter nixing a proposal to send a series of tiny spacecraft to the Moon starting in mid-2008, NASA recommitted late last month to keeping the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the head of the line — followed by a still-to-be-defined lunar lander mission run by Alabama’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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NASA and COBE Scientists Win Top Cosmology Prize
The 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to John Mather and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) science team for their groundbreaking studies confirming that our universe was born in […]
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AirLaunch-NASA Deal Could Pave Way for West Coast Launches
A broad agreement signed July 26 by AirLaunch LLC and NASA Ames Research Center could lead to the start-up company conducting small satellite launches from the heart of California’s Silicon Valley.
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Discovery of the Nearest L Dwarf: The Intrinsically Faintest Object at Visual Wavelengths Known Beyond Our Solar System
As part of an ongoing search for Earth’s nearest stellar neighbors, astronomers have determined the distance to a stellar-like body known as DEN 0255-477 and discovered that it is the […]
