All Space articles – Page 40
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This Week briefings
The Royal New Zealand Air Force's Red Checkers display team has been grounded following a 1 March mid-air collision...
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Opinion
Comment: Is Obama boxing clever on NASA?
As a former Marine Corps general and Space Shuttle commander, NASA administrator Charles Bolden is well-equipped to take fire. That's good, because he needed all the grace under pressure he could muster last week when senators tore into him and his boss, Barack Obama, for killing off US human spaceflight.
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NewsCongress to dump Obama NASA plan
White House plans to axe NASA's return-to-the-Moon Constellation programme and ground the Space Shuttle have sparked unified opposition from Congress...
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Space station finally gets its window
The International Space Station crew now have a better view of the station's exterior after the installation of the cupola window and the last major habitable...
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NewsUK could use plutonium in space nuclear power demonstration
The European Space Agency Harwell site will research nuclear power for spacecraft, but who provides the plutonium?
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NewsObama's commercial spaceflight incurs political wrath
President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget has ended NASA’s 2020 Moon programme while privatising manned spacecraft, incurring the wrath of politicians even before the agency...
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NASA gets $500 million for commercial crew
NASA is to get $500 million for its commercial crew transport programme under President Barack Obama's fiscal year 2011 budget request for the agency of...
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NewsNASA's new budget cancels Constellation programme
NASA's return to the Moon Constellation programme has been cancelled under president Barack Obama's fiscal year 2011 budget request after billions of dollars...
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NewsBig birds and high flying
Telecommunications satellites are heavyweights and getting heavier - can Europe's rockets handle the load?
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Opinion
Comment: In space, it's best not to go alone
Next year could be a milestone for space exploration. The world's major spacefaring nations should be fleshing out plans for a new era of collaborative missions...
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News
This Week Briefing
F-35 PROGRESS WORRIES KEY US SENATORS FIGHTERS The US Senate Armed Services Committee chairman and ranking member Carl Levin and John McCain expressed...
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Glitter leads to grindstone
Hard work of testing follows celebrity launch for Virgin Galactic's suborbital ambitions
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Virgin Galactic reveals VSS Enterprise
Nascent suborbital space ride company Virgin Galactic unveiled its six-passenger prototype, the VSS Enterprise, at a star-studded roll-out ceremony at the...
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NewsVIDEO: Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic has released images and video of its completed SpaceShipTwo prototype vehicle attached to its WhiteKnight Two carrier aricraft hours before...
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NewsSoyuz to go west in 2010
Next year sees Russia's most successful rocket launch from the Americas, but competition may emerge in the Far East
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DARPA re-thinks aircraft acquisition and operations with Vulture
An aircraft that stays airborne for five years - that is the plan for the US defence research department, and one that could change operational outlooks forever
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Magnetic heat shield test could use Russian launcher
European researchers developing a magnetic heat shield that could augment or replace the traditional ablative materials hope to make a test flight in the...
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HiFire partners plot hypersonic course
March 2010 could see the second suborbital ballistic flight to test materials survivability, sensors and avionics for the Hypersonic International Flight...
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Working Week: Fast track on the dream path
Pam Melroy was a USAF pilot and instructor and Space Shuttle commander who helped investigate the Columbia disaster. Since August, she has been deputy space programme manager at Lockheed Martin