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Business/FinancialAfter NASA Is Grounded As Shuttles Retire, Russian Soyuz Flights To Transport American Astronauts Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers $306 Million
The United States will pay Russia $306 million to transport American astronauts to the International Space Station and back. That taxi service will be needed after NASA loses the ability […]
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Augustine Committee Opens Website
The committee President Obama ordered to review NASA space hardware procurement plans has opened a Web site. NASA is inviting the public to make its voice heard as the panel […]
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Document Setting The Task For Augustine Committee In Its Review Of NASA Hardware
Below is the document setting forth what a committee reviewing NASA space exploration programs must do, including its review of what hardware shall be procured for manned space missions. The […]
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Critics Of Missile Defense Delight In Gates Comments
Long-time foes of missile defense programs have found new friends in an unlikely place: top-tier offices in the Pentagon. Comments that Department of Defense leaders have made to argue for […]
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Air ForceSOCOM: Precision Fire Need Fuels Modified Gunship Plan
By Emelie Rutherford U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is seeking funding to quickly convert up to a dozen MC-130W Combat Spear support-and-tanker planes to gunships partly because of the need […]
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House NASA Budget Plan Would Slash Constellation Program; Cuts Would Be Provisional, Awaiting Report Of Augustine Panel
While some lawmakers and other critics say President Obama’s budget plan leaves NASA underfunded, his proposal may be far better than what the space agency ultimately will receive from Congress. […]
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Space Forum New York: Commercial Firms Will Perform Missions For Less Money Than NASA, Space Tourist Richard Garriott Says, And NASA Could Operate For Half The Money It Now Receives
Commercial Space Industry Poised For Launch, Lifting Investors On A Ride To Success, Garriott Predicts; New Uses For Space Seen NEW YORK — Private commercial space firms will be able […]
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Space Forum New York: Air Force Space Buyer Says Contract Protests Can Be Avoided By Making Requirements Precise, Measureable
Payton Says If GPS III Contract Award Had Been Protested, Air Force Still Was Set To Let Winner Commence Work On Critically Needed Satellites NEW YORK — The Department of […]
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CongressSpace Forum New York: Space Station Shutdown After 2015 Makes No Sense, NASA Advisor Says; Station Just Now Nearing Completion, Full Use
NEW YORK — It would be incomprehensible to shut down the International Space Station after 2015, even though that is what current law envisions, a senior NASA figure said. Alan […]
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Navy To Take Littoral Ship Cost-Cap Concerns To Hill
By Emelie Rutherford The Navy will meet with all of the defense-oversight committees about possibly modifying a $460 million-per-vessel cost cap on the next batch of Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), […]