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NASA chief says space agency positioned to growWashington (AFP) April 8, 2010 NASA chief Charles Bolden has sought to reassure his staff that the US space agency remains well positioned for the future despite the cancellation of a program to return Americans to the moon. The change of course away from former president George W. Bush's vision of manned space exploration comes at a time when NASA is about to retire its three space shuttles with no replacement in sight. After this year, US astronauts will rely on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to travel to the International Space ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2010A newly discovered asteroid, 2010 GA6, will safely fly by Earth this Thursday at 4:06 p.m. Pacific (23:06 U.T.C.). At time of closest approach 2010 GA6 will be about 359,000 kilometers (223,000 miles) away from Earth - about 9/10ths the distance from to the moon. The asteroid, approximately 22 meters (71 feet) wide, was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey, Tucson, Az. "Fly bys of n ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 07, 2010Arianespace's upcoming dual payload flight has been rescheduled to the evening of Friday, April 9 following additional checks performed on the launch vehicle at Europe's Spaceport. The heavy-lift Ariane 5 - together with its ASTRA 3B and COMSATBw-2 passengers - will be transferred Thursday from the Final Assembly Building to the ELA-3 launch complex. The final countdown will then beg ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2010If mankind ever does receive a signal from extraterrestrials, one of our first decisions may be what to write back. As director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, psychologist Douglas Vakoch has thought a lot about this question. "The challenge of constructing any interstellar message is trying to anticipate what you and your recipient have in common," Vakoch said. ... more |
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Cost And Weight Key Factors In Manufacturing Space HardwareHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 06, 2010 On Tuesday, March 30, NASA and their industry partners unveiled a revolutionary new manufacturing process that could lower the cost of producing a tank dome - the end piece of a fuel tank - as much as 25 percent by using commercial materials and state-of-the-art technologies in an innovative application. Manufacturing a traditional tank dome requires welding eight curved, pie-shaped pieces of metal together, and a fitting on the top and bottom. This requires several costly manufacturing and ... read more |
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