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Lawmakers on Wednesday said NASA must continue to improve astronaut crew safety on its new shuttle-replacing rocket, as well as on promising commercial vehicles that could ferry crews to orbit.
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.
Managers in charge of the Ares 1-X test flight told reporters on Thursday the $445 million October mission confirmed NASA's concept for the Ares 1 crew launch vehicle will work as designed.
For Whom Do You Plan To Vote For In The 2010 Governor's Race? This is more than just a tree planting. The Dothan City School System hopes this symbolizes the planting of knowledge in students.
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station. These "butterflynauts" are part of an educational experiment that was launched Nov. 16 on space shuttle Atlantis and transferred to the Space Station.
A crowd of several hundred including Congressman Pete Olson and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee were on hand Monday afternoon to welcome the STS-129 crew home at Ellington Field.
NASA says Kennedy Space Center technicians are testing space shuttle Endeavour's systems, preparing for its move to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station.
When Eastern Washington University started its computer science program, the boxy little Macintosh was making waves and personal computers were still exotic. A quarter-century later, things have changed a bit. Most of us carry hundreds of times more computing power on devices in our pockets than the original Mac had. And the EWU program has trained hundreds of computer scientists, programmers ...
WASHINGTON — A congressional hearing on astronaut safety turned into a pep rally for NASA's troubled Constellation moon-rocket program, with lawmakers and witnesses endorsing it as the best replacement for the space shuttle even as critics complained the hearing was one-sided.
House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Examines Ways to Make Human Space Flight Safer
A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away that outpost's two-man crew did not have to strap into their lifeboat to wait out the close shave, NASA officials said.
Image Caption: This is a comparison of NOGAPS synoptic weather fields for 82 km for 18 UT (Universal Time) on June 13, 2007. Shown are maps of (a) temperature, (b) abundance of water vapor (parts per million by volume) and (c) resultant saturation (proportional to relative humidity). Values greater than 1 represent super saturated air. The three red dots are locations of ice clouds observed by ...
NASA spent roughly $570 million of its $1 billion in stimulus funds, with nearly half of those dollars going toward its embattled Constellation program.
A piece of space debris is not expected to pose any danger to the two crew members aboard the international space station, a NASA spokesman said Tuesday.
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