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US lawmakers urge Obama to save NASA moon programWashington (AFP) March 11, 2010 A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space travel. "Space exploration has been the guiding star of American innovation," the lawmakers - 10 Republicans and five Democrats - said in a letter to the NASA administrator Charles Bolden. "It is imperative that the United States remain the world's leading spacefaring nation," they added. They urged Bolden to assemble a t ... read more |
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London (UPI) Mar 13, 2009 Former NASA astronauts who have been on moon missions told the BBC they are unhappy with U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to delay future such missions. Obama last month canceled NASA's Constellation Moon landings program, approved by former President George W. Bush. The space agency still plans to send astronauts to the moon, but the BBC said it would likely take decades or never ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2010Opportunity has finished its circumnavigation campaign around "Concepcion" crater. Numerous targeted images were taken of rocks around the crater but no new rock targets were chosen to be analyzed using the in-situ (contact) instruments of the rover's robotic arm (IDD). During the last leg around the crater on Sol 2172 (March 4, 2010), the third and final checkout for the AEGIS automated t ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 12, 2010A Soyuz-TMA-16 space capsule carrying two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to land in central Kazakhstan on March 18, Russian Mission Control said on Wednesday. The undocking of the Soyuz TMA-16 from the ISS is scheduled for 11:03 Moscow time [08:03 GMT]. "At the present moment, the work of Expedition 22 at the ISS is coming to an end. Russian Maxim ... more |
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Russian Launch Issues Delaying China's First Mars ProbeBeijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2010 The launch of China's first Mars probe "Yinghuo-1", originally scheduled for October 2009 on a Russian carrier rocket, has been postponed until 2011 due to Russia's "technical reasons", a Chinese space exploration official said here Wednesday. Ye Peijian, chief designer of Chang'e-1, the country's first moon probe, told Xinhua about the delay on the sidelines of the ongoing annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, China's top political ad ... read more |
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