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NASA’s budget outlook — along with that of most federal agencies — is in new flux. And the search for clarity and consequences is not for the impatient. On Monday, President Obama will unveil the administration’s proposed budget for 2012,...NASA IG briefs House Appropriators on Space Agency’s Top Concerns
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Russia’s 41st Progress supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station late Saturday, the latest in a series of unmanned global cargo vessels headed for the six person orbiting science laboratory. The Progress capsule linked to the...NASA, Congress Clash Over Heavy Lift, Crew Capsule Funding, Timing
NASA began the New Year with a stir last week, when it furnished Congress with a legislatively required blueprint for a Space Launch System, a new heavy lift rocket, and a Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle — essentially a combination of rocket launcher and capsule...Safety Panel Urges U. S. Policy Makers to Settle on NASA’s Future Course
The White House, Congress and NASA must work quickly to resolve the space agency’s future exploration and transportation strategies, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel concludes in the committee’s latest annual report. The Congressionally-chartered panel...What’s Up? SpaceShipTwo Takes to the Air in Fourth Glide Test
The privately-backed SpaceShipTwo has taken wing again, chalking up its fourth drop test on January 13 after being released from its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, high above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is capable of...Follow Us
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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