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Senator may have won fight over private rocket manufacturing
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Jul 03, 2009 |
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For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international ...
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NASA proposes $17.6 billion budget
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Feb 05, 2008 |
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U.S. space officials proposed spending $17.6 billion next year with a focus on the International Space Station and space shuttle programs.
Firm out of NASA shuttle replacement plan
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Sep 16, 2007 |
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An Oklahoma company's development of a commercial U.S. spacecraft sustained a setback when NASA decided to quit financing the company's project.
AIAA recommends actions for implementation of lunar settlements
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Feb 13, 2007 |
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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Colonization Technical Committee (SCTC) has developed a position statement which recommends specific research, development, technology and engineering goals ...
Japanese government plans powerful information-gathering satellite
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Aiming to drastically beef up the performance of the nation's intelligence satellites, the government of Japan will embark on a research and development program in fiscal year 2009 to develop an optical information-gathering ...
University of Leicester scientists funded to design concepts for NASA microgravity
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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Two University of Leicester scientists have recently been awarded 10,000 to design concepts for scientific experiments which would fly on the upcoming new generation of manned suborbital spacecraft, such as ...
NASA adds technologies Web feature
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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The U.S. space agency has added an interactive program to its Web site, allowing users to discover some of the space technologies that now impact daily life.
The adventure of space enterprise in the 21st century
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Sep 02, 2008 |
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For over a half century, human activities in outer space have increased, but the high point was the Apollo Moon landings from 1969 – 1972. Now the United States has set forth a national space policy to return permanently ...
ESA to help Europe prepare for space tourism
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Jul 21, 2006 |
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With summer here, many people are thinking about their holiday destination. At the European Space Agency, this means thinking about a holiday in space! ESA is planning to help up to three private companies develop business ...
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship
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(AP) -- A spacecraft designed to rocket wealthy tourists into space as early as 2011 was unveiled Monday in what backers of the venture hope will signal a new era in aviation history.
Transforming medical diagnosis with new scanning technology
Mar 26, 2009 |
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A new technology which dramatically improves the sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance techniques including those used in hospital scanners and chemistry laboratories has been developed by scientists at the University of York.
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