News tagged with space program
Father of China's space tech program dies at 98
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Oct 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98.
A woman in space
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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In the early years of the "space race" (1957-1975) two men sought to test a scientifically simple yet culturally complicated theory: that women might be innately better suited for space travel than men. In ...
China picks first female astronaut candidates
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- China's military-backed space program has selected 45 astronaut candidates, including its first women hopefuls, for a training program less than a year after the country completed its first spacewalk.
NASA embraces pop culture on next shuttle flight
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Aug 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When Discovery flies to the international space station this week, it will deliver a new treadmill named for a TV comedian and pick up a Buzz Lightyear toy.
Space flight panel can't fit lunar mission into NASA budget
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Aug 16, 2009 |
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When President Barack Obama named a panel to review NASA's manned space program, his aides said privately they were hoping the group would recommend scrapping NASA's troubled Ares I rocket program and finding ...
Funding threatens US return to moon by 2020
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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US ambitions of returning to the moon by 2020 and then heading to Mars risk being grounded because of "unrealistic" funds allocated to NASA, said Senator Bill Nelson, a former space shuttle astronaut.
Panel to evaluate NASA's manned spaceflight program
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Jun 17, 2009 |
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A 10-member committee of former astronauts, aerospace executives and academics kicks off an 11-week evaluation of America's manned spaceflight program Wednesday - and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Uncertain NASA gets familiar former astronaut boss
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May 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nation's turbulent space program will be run by one of its own, a calming well-liked former space shuttle commander.
NASA faces deadline for tough decisions on shuttle
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA is facing a critical deadline to make its biggest decision in a generation: whether to go forward with plans to retire the space shuttle fleet and replace it with a new mode of space travel. ...
Discovery to launch Wednesday as Florida braces for end of shuttle era
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Mar 10, 2009 |
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Shuttle Discovery is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center at about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, leaving only eight more scheduled missions before NASA retires the fleet in 2010 - and devastates the Space Coast ...
