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| NASA And ATK Successfully Conduct Ground Test Of 5-Segment Ares Motor |
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Tuesday, August 31 2010 @ 05:57 PM MST
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Despite the fact that the Obama Administration is pushing to cancel NASA's Constellation program and its Ares rockets, today NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the solid rocket booster that's being designed to power the first stage of the Ares I launch vehicle. The test, named Development Motor-2 (DM-2) was the second successful static test Ares five-segment reusable solid rocket motor derived from the four-segment boosters used in the space shuttle program.
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| NASA Extends Contract With United Space Alliance |
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| Monday, August 30 2010 @ 04:58 PM MST
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WASHINGTON, DC - NASA has extended the Space Program Operations Contract with United Space Alliance, LLC, of Houston to March 31, 2011. The $909,593,590 contract extension supports flight operations for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs. The contract provides mission design and planning, astronaut and flight controller training, system integration, flight operations, vehicle processing, launch and recovery, vehicle sustaining engineering, and flight crew equipment processing. This is a cost reimbursement contract with award and performance fees.
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| NASA, Internet Archive And Flickr Launch Historic Image Collection |
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| NASA Selects Two Firms For Experimental Space Vehicle Test Flights |
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| Astronauts Linda Godwin And Scott Altman Leave Nasa |
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| NASA Asks Public For Final Shuttle Missions' Wakeup Songs |
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| Space Coast Task Force Delivers Economic Strategies Report |
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WASHINGTON, DC - Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons.
WASHINGTON, DC - NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR) has awarded a total of approximately $475,000 to Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas and Masten Space Systems of Mojave, Calif. The awards will allow the two companies to perform test flights of their experimental vehicles near the edge of space.
HOUSTON, TX - NASA astronauts Linda Godwin and Scott Altman have announced plans to leave the agency. Godwin will retire and Altman will take a job in the private sector.
HOUSTON, TX - If you like music, the space program and are a little nostalgic, NASA has the perfect opportunity for you. For the first time, the public can help choose songs to wake up the astronauts during the last two scheduled space shuttle missions.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ??? U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM, to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation. The center is a partnership of academia, industry, and government, developed for the purpose of creating a world-class consortium that will address current and future challenges for commercial space transportation.
WASHINGTON, DC - The President's Task Force on Space Industry Workforce and Economic Development, co-chaired by NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, today released its report to President Barack Obama with recommendations to enhance economic development strategies along Florida's Space Coast.
WASHINGTON - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement Tuesday about the plane crash in Alaska that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and injured former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and his son, Kevin:
On Wednesday, August 4, Arianespace orbited the NILESAT 201 direct broadcast satellite for the Egyptian operator Nilesat, and the RASCOM-QAF1R communications satellite for the pan-African operator RascomStar-QAF. Both satellites were built by Thales Alenia Space.
