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Rockets, doughnuts could face ax in US budget cutsWashington (AFP) Feb 10, 2011 Hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars have been wasted on everything from doughnuts to rockets, auditors told Congress Thursday as budget-minded lawmakers prepared to slash science funding. For example, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent each month on a NASA program to return Americans to the moon, even though the US space agency, Congress and President Barack Obama have agreed not to proceed with it. Old, rundown buildings are draining 300 million dollars a year from the US s ... read more |
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  NASA readies Discovery shuttle for launch NASA says it is stepping up countdown preparations at Kennedy Space Center for the planned Feb. 24 launch of space shuttle Discovery. ... more | .. |
  ATK And Astrium Unveil Liberty Rocket For NASA CCDev-2 Competition ATK and Astrium are working together in response to NASA's Commercial Crew Development-2 (CCDev-2) procurement. The team is offering NASA launch services with the Liberty rocket. This new launch veh ... more | .. |
 SpaceX shows off its blackened 'Dragon' craft Bearing brown and black scorch marks from its fiery tour in orbit in December, the Dragon spacecraft built by US company SpaceX went on display in the US capital on Thursday. ... more | .. |
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  Asteroid's near hit changes its orbit An asteroid passing Earth at just 3,400 miles was the closest near miss on record, and Earth's gravity sent it into an entirely new orbit, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Cosmonauts To Perform 28th Russian Space Station Spacewalk For the second time in less than a month, two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Feb. 16 to install a pair of earthquake and lightning sensing experiments, an ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Ships Out First Orion Spacecraft The Lockheed Martin Orion team shipped out the first Orion crew module spacecraft structure from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. The spacecraft is headed to Lockheed Marti ... more | .. |
 Astronaut's space tales aim to inspire When NASA astronaut Leland Melvin thinks back on his 12-year career, he estimates he must have read to a half million children, sometimes in classrooms, sometimes via videolink from space. ... more |
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North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined'
ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent
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 Second Last Shuttle Launch Campaign Grinds On During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4. Stev ... more | .. |
 LightSail-1 On NASA Short List For Upcoming Launch NASA announced this week that the Planetary Society's LightSail-1 solar sail mission is on their short list for upcoming launch opportunities. The missions selected are Cubesats destined for piggyba ... more | .. |
  For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog. Or at least that's not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bonga ... more | .. |
  Mars 500: Landing On The Simulated Red Planet 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at t ... more |
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US space shuttle unharmed after tool accident Inspectors found no damage to the Space Shuttle Discovery or to its external reserve tanks after a thin multi-piece measuring tool fell during repair work, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Renewed Call For Competitive US Spaceflight Marketplace The Competitive Space Task Force, a coalition of fiscal conservatives and free-market leaders, has unveiled its strategy for creating a free and competitive market for spaceflight and space services ... more | .. |
 Tool Makes Search For Martian Life Easier Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published onlin ... more | .. |
 Experiment volunteers 'to land on Mars' A group of volunteers will on Saturday reach a key stage in an unprecedented one-and-a-half year experiment to study the effects of a mission to Mars when they "land" on the Red Planet's surface. ... more |
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New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
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 Azorean Station To Track Ariane Launch When ATV Johannes Kepler is lofted into space on 15 February, an ESA tracking station on Portugal's Santa Maria island will watch closely, gathering crucial data as Ariane 5 streaks overhead. ... more | .. |
 Rocket Team Hot Fire AJ26 Flight Engine For Taurus II Aerojet, a GenCorp company, along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, conducted the acceptance hot-fire test of the second AJ26 flight engine that will power the first stage of Orbital's Tau ... more | .. |
Car-size asteroid nears Earth Wednesday A car-size asteroid will pass near Earth Wednesday, U.S. scientists said, while one bigger than two football fields might hit Earth in 18 years. ... more | .. |
Astronauts simulate Mars landing A crew of astronauts successfully simulated a landing on Mars inside a large hangar in Moscow, officials said. ... more |
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  Iran claims 'nuclear fusion mastered' Iran's atomic body claimed on Thursday it has mastered the technology of nuclear fusion, in a declaration on the eve of the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic revolution. ... more | .. |
  LRO Could Have Given Apollo 14 Crew Another Majestic View Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful - it met all its science goals - the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing ... more | .. |
 Astrobotic Technology Annouces Lunar Mission On SpaceX Falcon 9 Astrobotic Technology has announced it has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9. The expedition will search for water and deliver payloads, ... more | .. |
 Charles Bolden's Story: "From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit" It's a long way from the segregated south to low Earth orbit. But I am fortunate to have made the journey and to have had many opportunities to serve my nation in a 34-year career with the U.S. Mari ... more |
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'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change
Durham scientists validate superconducting wires for ITER fusion project
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 'Astonishing' Chinese patent growth marks world recovery Asia led a recovery in international patent applications last year, as "astonishing" growth in filings by innovative Chinese companies left US firms by the wayside, the UN patent agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Dropped tool halts shuttle repair NASA said Wednesday it was checking the space shuttle Discovery for possible damage from a metal tool dropped during repair work at the Florida launch pad. ... more | .. |
  Iran Unveils Homemade Satellites And Carrier Iran unveiled four domestically- manufactured satellites on Monday, two years after it launched the first self-developed satellite into orbit, the local satellite Press TV reported. Four natio ... more | .. |
 NASA And Worcester Polytechnic Institute Are Challenge Partners NASA has signed an agreement with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of Worcester, Mass., to manage the Sample Return Robot Challenge, one of the agency's new Centennial Challenges prize comp ... more |
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 Asteroid Busting Imagine it is June 30, 1908 and you are in Siberia. The time is just after seven in the morning. Suddenly a pressure wave knocks you off your feet and a few moments later a blast of heat is so inten ... more | .. |
 Mars Express Puts Craters On A Pedestal ESA's Mars Express has returned new views of pedestal craters in the Red Planet's eastern Arabia Terra. Craters are perhaps the quintessential planetary geological feature. So much so that early pla ... more | .. |
  U.S. wary of China space weapons Senior Pentagon officials are sounding concern over China's development of weapons designed to shoot down satellites or jam communication signals. ... more | .. |
Euro-US partners eye 'low-cost' space launcher: report European technology firm Astrium is teaming up with US company Alliant to make a "low-cost" space rocket launcher that could one day take tourists into orbit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. ... more |
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