WASHINGTON — NASA on April 18 awarded a combined $269 million to four companies designing spacecraft capable of ferrying passengers to and from low Earth orbit on a commercial basis, but snubbed industry proposals to develop rockets that could launch the spacecraft.
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NASA Awards Next Set Of Commercial Crew Development Agreements
The selectees for CCDev2 awards are: — Blue Origin, Kent, Wash., $22 million — Sierra Nevada Corporation, Louisville, Colo., $80 million — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), Hawthorne, Calif., $75 million […]
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NASA Announces CCDev 2 Awards
WASHINGTON — Boeing Co. garnered the largest of four NASA Space Act Agreement awards designed to nurture the development of commercially operated astronaut transport systems, landing a deal worth $92.3 million to refine the design of its CST-100 crew capsule, the U.S. space agency announced April 18.
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Key Quotes from Today’s Hearing on Realizing NASA’s Potential: Programmatic Challenges in the 21st Century
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a full committee hearing today titled Realizing NASA’s Potential: Programmatic Challenges in the 21st Century. Witness List: Dr. Woodrow […]
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Educational Balloon Provides Space Shuttle Launch Images and Video From Over 110,000 feet
Orlando, FL — Last week a balloon with a student-oriented payload shot high resolution photos and video from an altitude of over 110,000 feet of Space Shuttle Discovery as it […]
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Challenger Center and Quest For Stars Chase Discovery At The Edge of Space
The LA Basin from the Edge of Space during August 2010 Launch. Credit: Quest for Stars If all goes according to plan a balloon with a student-oriented payload will photograph […]
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18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Set for April 1-2
Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon’s surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual […]
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The Trouble with Tall Ceilings
The current NASA appropriations struggle highlights a problem with our approach to the challenges of growing a sustainable human spaceflight industry. Using a singular approach centered on NASA missions, our solutions seem much like building ladders to reach a very tall ceiling. Each time we decide to change where we want to go, or what we want to do when we get there, we must start from the ground again and build anew. Worse, our current inability to dismantle one program and start another is creating an untenable situation where we risk spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a spacecraft to nowhere.
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A New American Space Agenda
It is, of course, that time when some more prone to grandiose visions of what is possible roll out their concepts for a more perfect tomorrow. I, being one of these, shall not hesitate from doing the same.
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Bombardier Hosts the Official Kick-Off of the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition in Quebec
Also kicks off year-long celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Bombardier’s entry into the aerospace industry During a special event held at its manufacturing facility in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Bombardier Aerospace […]
