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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:26:59 GMT

US lawmakers urge Obama to save NASA moon program (AFP)

A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space travel.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space travel.




International Space Station Could Fly Through 2028, NASA Partners Say (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - MUNICH, Germany - The International Space Station (ISS) partners have begun reviewing their on-board hardware with the goal of certifying it for use until 2028 even as they seek ways to reduce the annual operating costs of the orbital complex, the partners said in a joint statement Thursday.

Space station could operate until 2028, says consortium (AFP)

In the grasp of the Canadarm2, the cupola was relocated from the forward port to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's newly installed Tranquility node in this NASA image obtained in February 2010. The consortium of agencies building the ISS wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.(AFP/NASA/File)AFP - The consortium of agencies building the International Space Station (ISS) wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.




First American woman in space promotes careers in science (Reuters)

Former shuttle astronaut Sally Ride (R) is congratulated by former Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell (L) after being inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Florida on June 21, 2003 file photo. REUTERS/Charles W. LuzierReuters - American physicist Sally Ride achieved lasting fame in June 1983 when she became the first American woman to travel in space as a crew member of the Space Shuttle Challenger.




SpaceX Aborts Test Firing of New Rocket's Engines (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) aborted the Falcon 9 medium-class rocket's first static fire test March 9 just as the vehicle's nine main-stage engines were about to ignite for a planned 3.5-second burn.

SpaceX aborts rocket engine test (Reuters)

The Falcon 9 vehicle undergoes final integration in the hangar at the SpaceX launch site in Cape Canaveral, in an undated photo. The vehicle's nine Merlin 1C engines are at far left, and second stage is at far right. REUTERS/SpaceX/HandoutReuters - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station.




Space shuttle can fly beyond 2010, if money is there: NASA (AFP)

The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, according to Space Shuttle Program Manager John Shannon (pictured in 2006).(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel)AFP - The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, a US space agency official told reporters Tuesday.




Fastest Orbiting Stars Circle Each Other in Mere Minutes (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - After a decade of mystery, astronomers have now shown that a pair of white dwarf stars spin around each other in just 5.4 minutes, making them the fastest-orbiting and tightest binary star system ever found, the researchers claim.

NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights (AP)

The crew of space shuttle Discovery, from left, pilot James Dutton, mission specialist Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, commander Alan Poindexter, mission specialists Rick Mastracchio, Stephanie Wilson and mission specialist Clayton Anderson, leave the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to board the shuttle at pad 39a during their prelaunch training, called the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, March 5, 2010.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month.




NASA: Space Shuttles Could Fly Longer With Extra Funds (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON – The chief of NASA's space shuttle program said Tuesday that the agency could technically continue to fly its three aging orbiters beyond their planned 2010 retirement if ordered to do so by President Barack Obama and lawmakers. All it would take would be the extra funding needed to pay for it.

Congress tries to alter Obama's plans for NASA (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Pushback on President Obama's plans for NASA's human spaceflight program is moving out of testy congressional hearings and into Capitol Hill's legislative inbox.

Space Station Wins Prestigious Collier Trophy (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - The International Space Station program has won a prestigious aviation award — the 2009 Collier Trophy — in recognition of its strides in advancing aeronautics.

Buried alive: Half of Earth's life may lie below land, sea (McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.

Court to consider NASA employee background checks (Reuters)
Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether NASA background investigations, required of scientists, engineers and all other employees at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, violated their privacy rights.

Obama to push White House vision for NASA in April (Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama will outline his administration's vision for space agency NASA and an eventual trip to Mars during a conference in Florida in April, the White House said on Sunday.

Former head of Johnson Space Center dies in Texas (AP)
AP - Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79.

NASA Uses Fish to Fight Space Sickness (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - Astronauts love doing zero-G stunts on the International Space Station, but only after the urge to vomit from space sickness has faded. Now fish, snails and other animals could help understand whether living in space can create long-term or even permanent damage in the inner ear.

NASA Launches New High-Tech Weather Satellite (SPACE.com)

This image provided by NASA shows a Delta IV rocket with a new GOES weather satellite aboard lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Thursday night, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/NASA)SPACE.com - NASA launched the newest in a series of high-tech weather satellites Thursday that will help forecasters predict sunshine and showers alike.




NASA's high-tech GOES-P weather satellite lifts off (AFP)

This NASA handout photo shows the mobile service tower at Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a solid rocket booster for the Delta IV rocket, slated to launch NASA's GOES-P satellite as it is lowered toward the base of the rocket. NASA on Thursday launched the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites.(AFP/NASA/File/Jack Pfaller)AFP - NASA on Thursday launched the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites, adding to a constellation of spacecraft that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth.




NASA launches nation's newest weather satellite (AP)

This image provided by NASA shows a Delta IV rocket with a new GOES weather satellite aboard lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Thursday night, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - NASA has launched the nation's newest weather satellite.

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