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Backers of a failed mission to launch the world's first solar-sail spacecraft unveiled plans on Monday to try again five years later with a smaller, swifter satellite to test the limits of sunlight propulsion.
A new Russian room that doubles as a docking port for the International Space Station is ready for a planned Tuesday launch toward the orbiting laboratory.
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Launch scrubs are nothing new at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. In fact, there have been 116 space shuttle scrubs; 72 for technical reasons and 45 for inclement weather. During the summer, bad weather, particularly lightning, seems to strike as the countdown clock nears zero. Maybe it's because Kennedy and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are well within what meteorologists call, "Lightning Alley."
NASA has selected C&C International Computers and Consultants Inc. of Hollywood, Fla., to provide institutional support services at the agency's Kennedy Space Center.The new indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with time and material type task orders begins Dec. 1, 2009.
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HOUSTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- NASA says the six STS-129 astronauts scheduled to lift off next week to the International Space Station are ready to begin their quarantine period.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- NASA says it has selected C&C International Computers and Consultants Inc. to provide institutional support services at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Challenger Center for Space Science Education announced today that former astronaut Scott Parazynski, MD has been named Chair-Elect of its Board of Directors.
NASA's recent launch of the Ares 1-X was billed as the prototype of a crew launch vehicle, a fancy term for a manned space booster. In fact, the much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
( University of Houston ) A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with UK-based start-up QuantaSol for the development of the next generation of super efficient solar cells.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Something invisible could be putting some space shuttles at risk during launches. NASA engineers spent Monday installing extra microphones at the launch pad to listen for something very important when Atlantis lifts-off next week.
Before Food TV even existed -- with shows about gravity defying cakes and elaborate sugary creations -- there was Miss Virginia Moore. Moore is the owner of Pat a Cake in Owens Crossroads. She's been providing custom cakes for her customers here in the valley for more than 30 years -- thanks to God's Grace.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators.
Fort Collins High School graduate Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger will be the first Lambkin in space, and Clyde, a stuffed lamb in a handmade spacesuit, will be right there with her.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has been lobbying President Barack Obama on space issues since the 2008 campaign. This fall is no different. President Obama soon will determine NASA's future course and Nelson again is lobbying the White House and colleagues in Congress.
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