Space
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CongressSenate Adds $1 Billion To $17.5 Billion NASA Funding
Bush Threatens Veto Of Spending Measure The Senate added $1 billion to the roughly $17.5 billion NASA portion of a funding bill for fiscal year 2008 that began a week […]
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SpaceObering Says $85 Million Cut Won’t Severely Damage European BMD Program
Moves in Congress to cut $85 million in funding won’t greatly delay a planned Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program that would be installed in Europe, Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” […]
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Space
NASA Finds Weight Savings With Fewer Backup Systems In Next Spaceship
NASA is shaving weight on the next-generation U.S. spaceship, the Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV), by cutting back on backup systems, according to Skip Hatfield, project manager for the CEV […]
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Space
The Space Age At 50: Does American Glory Lie Ahead, Or Mainly In The Past?
Moon Mission Not Until End Of Next Decade; Mars Is Three Decades Away The space age reaches the half-century mark Thursday surrounded by the same questions that marked its beginning: […]
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InternationalJapanese May Contribute Technology To ABL; Purchase Might Be Considered
Japanese firms might contribute components to the U.S. Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense platform, an executive with The Boeing Co. [BA] said. But there have as yet been no […]
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Space
A Movie To See: In The Shadow Of The Moon
It was a time of worry and wonder, tension and transformation, fear and fulfillment. That was the 1950s and 1960s, living in the United States not only under the threat […]
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Space
Hubble Mission To Go On Big IMAX Movie Screen
Movie makers plan to make a telescope in the heavens into a star – a movie star.?IMAX Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures announced with NASA that the IMAX 3D camera […]
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Air ForceAir Force Mulls Path Ahead For Protecting Satellites
By Michael Sirak and Dave Ahearn The Air Force continues to grapple with how to protect its on-orbit space assets in the wake of China’s successful test of an anti-satellite […]