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U.S. Senate Hearing: Video, Testimony on Human Exploration Goals, Commercial Space

February 25th, 2015

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, convened a hearing on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. The hearing was entitled “U.S. Human Exploration Goals and Commercial Space Competitiveness.” Former NASA astronauts that testified were Walt Cunningham, Buzz Aldrin, Mike Massimino, joining leaders in space industry. The hearing was called to […]

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The Next Giant Leap

January 30th, 2015

What are the next steps in space exploration? Scientists and engineers are making steps every day towards the future of space exploration.

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Atlantis Exhibit Makes Weekend Debut

June 28th, 2013

  Orbiter Atlantis, a veteran of 33 NASA shuttle missions, goes on public display in Central Florida on Saturday as the centerpiece of a $100 million Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex exhibit.   More than 40 astronauts, including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, will be among those participating in […]

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Asteroid Exploration

2014 NASA Budget Starts Ambitious Asteroid Mission

April 11th, 2013

President Obama seeks steady NASA budgets of $17.7 billion through 2018 in the funding request he presented to Congress on Wednesday, enough to start the space agency on an ambitious mission to identify and maneuver an asteroid into lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts could explore it as soon as 2021. The spending plan would […]

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Asteroid Exploration

Congress Ponders Space Leadership Provision

March 10th, 2013

    Congress is considering some substantial changes in the way NASA is led, managed from the outside and funded, as policy makers attempt to give the nation’s civil space program a sharper focus as well as the stability to ensure the sustained political, public and financial support to advance human exploration and address other […]

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NASA’s Orion Available for Public Viewing in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama

January 16th, 2012

  A test version of NASA’s Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle will go on public display in the coming weeks as it is transported from White Sands, N. M., to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., The spacecraft that NASA has chosen to transport astronauts on a range of deep space missions will go on […]

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