Space
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CongressNASA Might Not Be Able To Complete Space Station Before Critical Space Shuttle Fleet Retires In 2010, GAO Report Warns
Weather, Technical And Logistics Problems, Could Prevent NASA From Finishing International Station By 2010 Deadline NASA faces a daunting challenge in completing the International Space Station (ISS) by the October […]
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Business/FinancialKey Senators See Missile Defense Agency Programs Succeeding, So Lawmakers Likely To Provide MDA Solid Fiscal 2009 Funding
Lawmakers who control the purse strings for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) see the emergent multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield proceeding well, meaning the legislators are likely to […]
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Business/Financial
Pentagon Needs To Take Added Steps On Operationally Responsive Space; GAO Finds, However, That Department of Defense Is Making Progress
The Department of Defense (DOD), while making progress in its operationally responsive space (ORS) programs over the past two years, needs to take additional steps to ensure that ORS requirements of […]
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InternationalSoyuz Carrying Record-Breaking U.S. Astronaut, Russian, Korean, Has Fast, Rough ‘Ballistic’ Reentry With High-g Forces; Spacecraft Lands 295 Miles From Target Touchdown Site
Peggy Whitson, Space Station Expedition 16 Commander, Breaks Record For Cumulative Time In Space For Any U.S. Astronaut, Male Or Female, With 377 Days Aloft Russian Cosmonauts Still Hold World-Wide […]
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Business/Financial
FAA Report Sees Boom In Tiny Commercial Space Ventures: Huge Opportunities Seen For Private Firms Developing Vehicles To Haul Astronauts, Cargo, Food And Much More
Are Private Space Transport Firms Today Where Microsoft Was When It Sold Stock In 1985? Broader, Established Space Transport Industry Sees Revenues, Profits Soar More Than 40 Percent Over Two […]
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Air ForceAllied Nations Interested In Buying THAAD Ballistic Missile Defense Systems
Space Based Radar Needed Because Ground Radars Blind In Some Spots Europeans Would Welcome Mobile Kinetic Energy Interceptor Missile Defense Some nations are interested in buying the Terminal High Altitude […]
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SpaceObering Sees Aegis, THAAD Interceptor Production Rate ‘Roughly’ Doubling In 2010-2015, But Funding Wouldn’t Double
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will seek approval to roughly double the production rate of new Aegis and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile interceptors in fiscal years […]
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Congress
Small, Primitive Nuclear Weapon Detonated In Washington Would Wreak Destruction Over Wide Area, Two Studies Show
Total Destruction Of Buildings Near Blast Would Be Followed By Widespread Fatalities In Radioactive Fallout Over Many Miles Even a small, primitive nuclear bomb detonated on the National Mall in […]
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Air Force
Missile Defense Makes War Less Likely, Rather Than Precipitating Conflict: General
Another Minuteman Overhaul May Be Needed U.S. moves to form a multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield help to avert conflict, much as the vast U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons […]
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Air Force
Congress Short-Changes Defense; Huge Funding Increases Needed To Support Existing, Future Programs Including Procurement Of Major Weapons Platforms: AIA Report
The federal government needs to step up to the challenge and fully fund myriad defense programs, specifically including procurement of ships, tanks, planes, missiles and more, the Aerospace Industries Association […]