Benefits of Space Exploration
July 28th, 2010
Increasingly U. S. national security depends on a healthy commercial space sector, a report entitled, National Security and the Commercial Space Sector, released this week by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, concludes. The 88-page report exposes vulnerabilities to the nation’s economic well being as part of the security concern. […]
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July 28th, 2010
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Wednesday’s CSExtra includes reports from Washington and elsewhere revealing the toll on jobs and momentum as the debate over the nation’s future course in space […]
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July 27th, 2010
The NASA Advisory Council’s Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense is grappling with a set of recommendations – one of which could have the space agency set up a coordination office to help protect Earth from Near Earth Objects (NEOs). A special seven-person task force includes former astronauts, Russell Schweickart and Tom Jones. The […]
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July 27th, 2010
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Tuesday’s CSExtra finds Congressional auditors convinced NASA has done nothing wrong in its Constellation Program spending this year. However, NASA’s Kepler mission has touched off […]
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Constellation Program
July 27th, 2010
The investigative arm of Congress sided with NASA on Monday in a report sought by lawmakers over concerns the agency had slowed 2010 spending on the Constellation Program, while they reviewed White House plans to cancel the six-year-old, back-to-the-moon initiative. The General Accountability Office’s 13-page legal opinion made public on Monday was in response t […]
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July 26th, 2010
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Monday’s CSExtra features several reports on the winding down of NASA’s shuttle program from a Houston perspective as well as a calendar of space policy […]
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