News tagged with apollo program
Romney sees starships fueled by private enterprise
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney tried to boost support on Florida's "Space Coast" Friday ahead of next week's key primary, promising business would play a bigger role in future missions.
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Jan 28, 2012 |
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NASA says it's working to resolve items' ownership
(AP) -- The head of NASA met Monday with former astronauts to discuss who owns space artifacts from moon shots and other missions, saying afterward that the agency will work cooperatively with them to resolve what's recently ...
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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Missions that weren't: NASA's manned mission to Venus
In the mid-1960s, before any Apollo hardware had flown with a crew, NASA was looking ahead and planning its next major programs. It was a bit of a challenge. After all, how do you top landing a man on the ...
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Dec 20, 2011 |
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Ancient lunar dynamo may explain magnetized moon rocks
The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a novel mechanism ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Obama under fire over space plans
High-profile critics fear President Barack Obama's commercial overhaul of human spaceflight is going nowhere and could mark the end of half a century of US supremacy among the stars and planets.
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Oct 03, 2011 |
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Neil Armstrong says US space program 'embarrassing'
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an "embarrassing" state.
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Sep 22, 2011 |
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Happy 40th anniversary, Apollo 15!
This month is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 15 launch. This mission was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fourth to the Moon. The Apollo 15 mission is important because it was another ...
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Jul 27, 2011 |
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Shuttle Atlantis coming in for one final landing
Atlantis began its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere Thursday ahead of a final homecoming that brings down the curtain on NASA's 30-year space shuttle program.
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Jul 21, 2011 |
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NASA fends off tears with shuttle end in sight
NASA astronauts and engineers fought off tears Wednesday as Atlantis made its final approach toward Earth, bringing an end to the 30-year shuttle program and closing a chapter in human spaceflight.
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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Future of U.S. manned spaceflight looks bleak
When Atlantis takes off from Kennedy Space Center, it will be the last time NASA launches astronauts aboard a government-built spacecraft for perhaps the rest of this decade.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2011 |
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NASA needs new 'breakthrough,' says Obama
NASA needs new technology breakthroughs to revitalize its mission to explore the universe, President Barack Obama said Wednesday as the shuttle Atlantis was preparing for its final mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Space shuttle program: Triumphs and tragedies
When NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is shuttered following the Atlantis mission in July, the University of Colorado Boulder will look back at a rich relationship filled with triumph and tragedy and ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Fla.'s Space Coast feels pain of shuttle's end
(AP) -- Workers at the Kennedy Space Center always knew the end of the shuttle program would bring hard times to Florida's Space Coast.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 04, 2011 |
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JFK's 1961 speech led space exploration to new heights
Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the ...
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May 25, 2011 |
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Apollo 8: Christmas on the moon
Christmas Eve, 1968. As one of the most turbulent, tragic years in American history drew to a close, millions around the world were watching and listening as the Apollo 8 astronauts -- Frank Borman, Jim Lovell ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2010 |
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