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Private industry in space a risky, slow business: expertsWashington (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 NASA's plan for the private sector to build spacecraft to fly astronauts to the International Space Station is a high-risk undertaking that won't show results for years, experts said. The abrupt shift "harnesses our nation's entrepreneurial energies, and will create thousands of new jobs," the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said in a statement issued as the budget for the fiscal year that begins October 1 was unveiled Monday. It also reflects a key recommendation made by the ... read more |
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Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it will extend the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to at least 2017. NASA said its fiscal 2011 budget provides a $60 million-per-year extension for continued study of the ringed planet. "This is a mission that never stops providing us surprising scientific results and showing us eye popping new vistas," said Jim Green, directo ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2010NASA has issued a follow-up Request for Information, or RFI, for ideas from education institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display orbiters after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. The original RFI in December 2008 noted that a potential shuttle recipient would have to pay an estimated $42 million ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2010During the first three weeks in January, the latest in the series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites also known as GOES-P is being processed and prepped for launch. Meanwhile, the first and second stages of the Delta IV rocket that will carry it into orbit, are being assembled on the launch pad. The GOES-P spacecraft is currently being processed at Astrotech Space Operat ... more |
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Obama trims US space ambitionsWashington (AFP) Jan 30, 2010 Facing budgetary constraints, President Barack Obama will scale back US space ambitions, abandoning plans to return to the moon by 2020 and confining NASA to lower orbits for years to come. The shift will be unveiled Monday when Obama presents his 2011 budget blueprint to Congress, according to an external White House advisor. "Constellation is dead," the advisor told AFP on Friday, referring to a program that envisioned using Earth's nearest neighbor as a base for manned expeditions to Mars. ... read more |
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